Have just got back from Canada and they had a thing on the telly about this woman in NZ who can hear this pulsating hum. Thing is, no-one else can hear it, not even with the latest gizmos. But now they are getting calls from all round the world from people who can hear this hum. One man apparently, deliberately started his chainsaw next to his ear so as to damage his hearing in that ear so the hum wouldn't get on his nerves so much. Scientists are at odds to explain this msterious sound, although they beleive it's at the 53Khz range. Has anyone else heard this and what are your thoughts on the subject?

Hmmm, not heard that. I'm guessing they exhausted the possibility it's tinnitus lol

I do hear sonic cat scarers or whatever they're called. I was sitting in my dad's garden one summer and just sitting there saying 'what IS that noise?!' It was driving me barking. Turns out it was a cat scarer that's supposed to be inaudible to humans - no one else heard it but since then I’ve met loads of people who say 'oh yeah, I can hear those'. That's a pulsating sound.

Best wishes,

Marion.

PS - got any links to the story?

Ok, have found 2 links. The first is from the programme I watched, the second is something else I trawled up.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story....jectid=10407822
http://www.nysun.com/article/33683

Here in Germany there has been a long standing issue about people sensitive to microwaves. There is a vast number of complaints about annoying pitches heard by such people close to telecom microwave masts. Though Deutsche Telecom insists that the emissions are within "safe limits" it doesn't alter the fact that some even suffer persistent migranes within close proximity of these masts.

Oh dear, I may have to trawl back my previous and that would take ages - so here's the gist of my notions on weird sounds. Again!
There's a phenomenon called the "hummadruz". Type the word into Google and get the site/s.
This isn't a wind up.
It exists.
It is intriguing.
(I posted more on 2 previous threads, think one was begun by Lumi.)

Hmmm, just viewed a site on the subject, called Northernearth. Despite the associations made to "UFOs" a different phenomenon comes to mind re: microwave emissions. Large masses of granite with a fair amount of quartz are known to emit microwaves. In fact, people who worked in Grand Central Station of New York City for a duration of +30 years were found to be suffering the long term effects of such radiation. After much research into this, it was found the emissions were actually coming from the massive granite stonework of the building!

What do you know, it's an earth mystery!

Thanks for that Tas, hadn't heard (lol) of it before.

Marion.

Perhaps the lady is hearing noises made by electrical items? Other people may not hear as their hearing has degraded so they can't hear that frequency. It could be a local industry that uses electricity if not from appliances in her own home?

I can hear humming from the tv. Quite high pitched but only gets annoying when watching a quiet tv programme or when the tv is left on standby. The freeview box was even worse. It gave me a really bad headache and I actually had to unplug it to stop the noise (have stopped using it now anyway as too annoying). I also get it from the stereo system when hubbie has forgotton to turn it off. He can't hear it at all. I assumed it was just to do with the electrics. Needless to say I don't leave the tv or other appliances on standby! Saves electricity too

becca
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Bill Bailey..on ...WEIRD HUMS!


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod....4/huntforthehum

you have to wait about 2 mins for the last prog to finish.

LUMI

I dont know if its related but I hear something like a hum. Although i wouldnt say the hum comes through my ears it almost arives at my brain bypassing the ears.

It happens when there is electrical equipment running near me, so I know if the television is on upstairs without hearing it or seeing it. I can just feel it through this buzz. Same goes for the computer and other bits and pieces.

as I said dont know if it is related or not, but nobody else i know can 'hear' this buzz.

temps

p.s. sorry for typo's and spelling weirdness but i am super tired and the fingers are no longer taking orders from the brain.

I love that man, he is brilliant

Yay Manny.

Marion.

I always experience a subsonic droning in my head prior to a major earthquake. When the droning stops, that's when I brace myself! Quite a useful form of precognition, considering that I live in an earthquake zone.

Back in the late 70's it must have been, the UFO group was in started getting a lot of reports of a low pitch humming being heard from various places around Nottingham.
It turned out to be a new piece of heavy machinery working on the surface, at one of the coal mines in the area and the sound was carrying for upto 15 miles or so on the wind.

I don't know if anyone has been keeping track of recent space missions, but it appears that the past few days we've been seriously bombarded by cosmic radiation from solar eruptions akin the one in January a couple of years ago!