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The Hum



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The Hum is what people have called a phenomena that occurs in some places in the world. It is a low-frequency humming noise that sounds not unlike a distant running engine. However, the source can never be found. Even with microphones and all sorts of audio technology

The source of the Hum has yet to be found.

The most popular location to hear the Hum is in Taos, New Mexico. Only some can hear it as well as feel it. They can hear it throughout the day and into the night. The Hum does not stop. It has never stopped.

Taken from Wiki:
“Many people hear the Hum only, or much more, inside buildings as compared with outdoors. Many Hum sufferers can also perceive vibrations that can be felt through the body. Earplugs are reported as not decreasing the Hum. The Hum is often perceived more intensely during the night.
…Common consequences include a lack of sleep, as the Hum can keep some sufferers awake or wake them in the middle of the night.

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…During the last decade, the Hum phenomenon has been reported in many other cities and regions in North America and Europe and in some other regions of the world.”

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What will happen when the Hum reaches you? Will you hear it at night when you don’t expect it? Maybe it is already there.

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56 thoughts on “The Hum”

  1. This to me seems a little boring. I mean I’m not sure if your talking about the ringing in your ears when there’s a large amount of silence. I would appreciate a bit more detail.

  2. Hang on, I did a tiny bit of looking around on Wikipedia, found a sound byte of the hum, and goddamn, I daresay I have been having this for quite a while. I simply got used to it. Not a very intense version of it, but simply a humming, almost always. It’s kinda fun…. A nice companion when I have nobody to talk to. It’s never really loud, or quite as low as the byte, but in the background. And, sometimes I hear the extremely high buzzing of electronics, but not nearly the same thing. I’ve asked others if they hear it too, but nobody ever hears it.

  3. This is a real thing. Its not paranormal, its not scary, its simply annoying.
    Some people, like my mother, have superstitions that; “If you hear a hum or buzz in your ear, it means someone somewhere is talking about you.”
    You’re the only one that can hear it around you, and its because it is happening inside your ear.
    Sorry if I ruined this for some people, I enjoy science.

  4. I heard a sound while listenong to this,
    Lopked it up
    Now i know it is the hum and its really annoying

  5. CabooseIsTheBest

    I hear it all the time. I asked my science teacher and he said it has something to do with your eardrums or some shit.

  6. To be honest sometimes I do here a faint Humming sound if my mind is not completely occupied with a task. But the second I pay attention to it, it turns in to a long beep like a heart monitor dying.

  7. I hear this noise almost every night. But only when I close my eyes and put my head on my pillow….. ~twilight zone theme song~

  8. My great grandmother heard it all the time. Everyone didn’t take her seriously until my grandmother and me moved into the house and heard it one night.

    Now my grandmother hears it almost every night.

    It sounds like an airplane or helicopter.

    I hear sometimes before I go to sleep but I usually can ignore it.

  9. oh this is the hum that never ends yes it goes on and on my friend this critter started humming not knowing what it was and now he will go on humming it forever just because (repeat over and over) i just had 2 do that.

  10. FaerieInCombatBoots

    The strange thing about this pasta is, that in parts of Vermont, people have actually heard a low hum. They say that those hard of hearing can hear it, but those who have good hearing can not. Seriously, read Strange New England by Joseph A. Citro, it covers this and also provides great creepypasta ingredients.

  11. I just visited Santa Fe with my family and when they suggested to go to Taos, I agreed just because I’d read about the hum and wanted to see if I could hear it. But I’m not sure if I can. I thought I heard it a few times but I think I really was hearing a distant engine.

  12. this IS creepy. But i think I’ve heard this hum before. Low, sort of like a machine? Yeah, I’ve heard it, mostly when i try to go to sleep. I can NEVER sleep when there’s no noise. I get the hum in my ears. But I live in the Philippines…

  13. Maybe the surrounding environment does some fingle and your brain creates fangle and a dangle as a reaction to the fingle?

  14. OMMMMMMMMMMMMMINOUS HUMMMMMMMMMMMMM…

    @EGF, #8: If that were true it would be especially common around tectonically active regions. It’s not.

    The Hum is sort of… vaguely interesting, in a “it’s some process that we don’t understand yet” way.

    The Bloop is much more interesting.

  15. ok i am serious when i say this. I only heard the hum once…last night. I thought i should tell my mom but it stopped after awhile. It seemed to move from one ear to the other…..its either that or i am going deaf.

  16. i heard the hum myself,in my room,i was sitting cleaning out an old art breifcase,and,it was jsut like a buzzing right in my ear,at first i turned because it sounded as though some otherworldly entity was trying to speak into my ear,and i heard a click,then i went downstairs to find my house empty,it was wierd because their were no noises indicating that anyone left to pick up dinner,hmmmmmmmm,WATSON,I need my breifcase immediately.

  17. I went on Wiki and listened to the noise… I couldn’t hear anything, but as soon as it started playing, my eyes got extremely watery and it felt like my head was going to explode… hmmm…

    I remember reading about this early sometime last year, but I had never heard it before… ah, that’s horrible.

  18. Man this one freaked me out!

    I, too, hear the humm, but only in a specific place, which is near a little creek on my way home from school when I’m riding the bike.

    It does Stop the Moment i turn my head, for some reason, and i spent some time a week ago, trying to locate a source.

    It does sound like machinery, but theres no roadworks or anything being done near my location.

    Gz from Germany, and thumbs up m8: Really nice blog, i enjoy working my way through this stuff :)

  19. I can sometimes hear the hum.

    It is a queer sound, so very whimsical, as it seems to seep out of the very soil itself.

    It could possibly have something to do with the earth’s magnetic waves, most probably.

    Or it could be something else.

  20. @audiologist – I think that this is supposed to be different than tinnitus, which is more of a ringing/pounding in the ears, right? The Hum is supposed to be more along the lines of a low, almost engine-like sound.

    I dunno, I’ve never heard anything like what is described in the wiki article on The Hum, and I do get tinnitus from time to time/hear electricity (I have really sensitive hearing, it makes sleeping very hard).

  21. This is a disorder called tinnitus. Nearly everyone has it but usually is drowned out by background noise. It is more common in males just like noise induced hearing loss. It is a disorder of the brain and has nothing to do with you “hearing” anything but is caused by the Eighth cranial nerve and its connection with the brain. To find out for yourself try to find a place with no sound such as a sound proof room, and listen hard.

  22. Random Passerby

    I once heard this low himming/buzzing sound when I was in Japan a little while ago. I had read this creepypasta, and was freaked out by it. Then I realized that it was a grasshopper…

  23. Somethin like this happened to me a couple nights ago. It was this low humming noise that shook my whole body. But I live in Colorado.

  24. what was weird was reading this article I began hearing some kinda pulsing noise. It’s like a humming noise like something is operating underground or under the house and I’m hearing the machine pulsing.
    This is creeeeepy.
    I’m going to go to wiki and see if i can hear the sound byte.

  25. So i went on wiki, originally to see if this really was on there, but then i saw the comment about the sound byte and so I went to go listen to it, I played it over and over, with my sound all the way up, and i can’t hear it, my computer says something is playing and my boyfriend and my dad can both hear it. The wiki article said it was most commonly heard by men…

  26. OMFG! I went to Taos to stay in the mountains for christmas and COULD NOT SLEEP because I heard a humming noise. And I was the ONLY one in the cabin that could hear it. Ugh…..Officially freak out now..

  27. The wiki article has a recording for those of you that want to hear it.
    In my opinion it sounds like an airplane. Or even a lawn mower. This could probably end up being debunked.

    1. squidgy squidgy falalalala

      Actualy it still hasn’t been debunked and now its being reported in areas of Canada.Obviouslly if earplugs don’t muffle the noise it’s a mental thing but phycoclogists can’t seem to figure out what it is. The lawn mower/ airplane thing has been looked into but this humming is being reported as sounding off in a large area mostly rural where everyone in places as big as cities can hear it so that rules out lawn mowers. Skies have been monitered in Canada during the humming periods and no airplanes were near the area during the time but the Wiki article could be wrong and that sound could be a fake. The humming still occurs and it has not yet been debunked

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