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Public Forums => Around the TriCommunity => Topic started by: NX on May 22, 10, 06:56:56 AM
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Does anyone hear this buzzing noise? I live by the Methodist Church, (for only a month) and it happens quite often.. like right now... late at night, etc. No real pattern, but it's driving me nuts.
It reverberates through the house at a frequency level that almost hurts my ears. It's not loud by volume though. I want to say it's the bass from hip hop/rap music, but it's lower frequency than i've ever heard before. I've walked around the neighborhood several times, but it's harder to hear outside.
I'm actually thinking of moving again as it bothers me so much. >:(
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I don't have an answer for you, but I feel for you! When I lived near the ONT airport, maybe 3 miles south, I used to hear the same thing at night. I went outside too, always louder in the house. Never figured out what it was, and after a few months it stopped. Sometime last month, I heard a pretty strange radio show, Coast to Coast, coming home one night, and they had this guy on saying the gov't is tunneling underground, making a faint but annoying low frequency noise, from one end of the nation to the other, for when life on the surface is destroyed in any number of manners. . . ::)
But, you know, living near an airport. . . kinda an obvious place to build a tunnel. . . :o
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My neighbor now has a generator (I think) and an air compressor that makes a low frequency rumble every now and again (tho not as low as the Ont. one). Good luck with your quest in finding an answer. You have my sympathy!
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I feel bad. I caught a gopher a month or so ago, and the rest of them must be heading for the hills your way!
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2006/285/1/b/Rolling_on_the_Floor_Laughing_by_Xikaze.gif)
Seriously, if you stick your ear next to the plumbing do you hear it more or if you hold a pipe can you feel it?
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One thought that was just passed along is that a person who once lived in Pasadena said that a PA system had been left on and did a similar thing. It's a shot in the dark but you might want to check with the Methodist Church.
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When I first moved to Wrightwood several years ago I had a reveberating low frequency hum that would keep me awake at night and drive me crazy. I asked my friends and neighbors in the village about the noise and they all thought I was nuts. I often thought the noise was caused from secret activity (laser testing) at the JPL site on Table Mountain. The other thought I had was the sound could be emitting from the San Andreas Fault. After several years I moved into a new house near the LA/San Berdo County line and I thought the noise associated with the old house was gone for good. I still hear the noise at night in my new house and have just learned to tolorate it over the years. I travel often and have noted that I do not hear this noise anywhere else except in Wrightwood.
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Hey, I wonder if its a form of tinnitus? We think of it as more high pitched sounds, but maybe. . . ?
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We had a faint sound of a noise like water running through the pipes in our cabin. I checked the water meter and the needle was not moving at all. It was driving me batty. I finally decided to call CFord and the water company and have them come out to check.
CFord threw a pressure gauge on the plumbing system and discovered we were getting over 100lbs pressure on the interior pipes. Our pressure regulator had failed. Coincidentally, while CFord was here working on the regulator, the water company guy showed up. I was about to send him away when he noticed water starting to bubble up in the corner of my yard. Turns out that the water main for my neighborhood runs through my backyard and the leak was on the city side of the meter. The water company had to bring a back hoe into dig up and patch the pipe.
Bottom line: new water pressure regulator and patched leak in the water main and the weird noises and vibrations were completely eliminated.
HTH
Randy from Burbank
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Thanks for the ideas and experiences. I also heard the noise in a building near Big Pines for a couple hours today as well. Not the first time I've heard it up there, either. Just really weird. There's got to be an explanation. I already know I'm a little nuts, but this is not one of the things I'm crazy about. ::)
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I've noticed a little very low humming sound lately in my living room. Doesn't bother me, cuz I spend very little time in there. That's the only room I hear it. That's where my main TV is, and where all the audio equipment is. For instance, right now I have a country music channel (809) playing on DirecTV, very low volume, and I hear nothing undesirable. I don't know enough about anything electronic to know if having the TV plugged in has anything to do with it or not. I don't hear the hum if any other sounds are playing.
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Time to change the batteries in your hearing aid ::)
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I live in Big Pines and I also hear a low pitch hum periodically. I have always thought that it was coming from the trains that run through the desert.
I ususally hear this noise in the evening between 7:00p and 10:00p.
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Does it sound like this?:
http://www.eskimo.com/~bilb/freenrg/taos.wav
Some interesting reasons for it found here:
http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/appliances/mysterious-humming-noise-house-55517.html
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I couldn't hear anything on that recording. ;D
I don't think the Taos noise is it.. it sounds nothing like a distant idling diesel engine, as often described on the Taos website.
I'm certain the noise is not coming from the house, as it is noticeable outside and in other areas.
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So far NX and myself are the only ones to acknowledge that we hear this noise but, based upon the hundreds of views to this site in the last twenty four hours I am sure there are more people in the village who hear it too. Thanks RobertW for your post and the connection to the Taos Hum. I checked it out on the internet and there is lots of good information. I found a link to a military program called "haarps" which is the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program based in Alaska. You might want to check it out on the internet.
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Does the low hum go away when you turn your computer off? ;D
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Ok... I'll fess up....I'll turn my amplifier down ;D
Seriously, I've heard it also but only outside of the house and only during the spring-summer. I notitced the low frq. noise changes direction and figured it was just insect activity... bees etc. I have tinnitis pretty bad and the low frq. noise doesn't bother me near as much as the constant 24-7 ringing that I have. I just tune it out the best I can and have to live with it, as there is no cure. Yea there are pills that are available that "claim" to reduce (not remove) the ringing but they are pricey and must be taken for the rest of your life which doesn't appeal to me and insurance does not cover the medication.... if that's what they want to call it.
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Well that does make sense sense it seems to be directional and varies with time.
I see so many lines cutting into trees that aren't either reported for trimming or lack of desire by the power company to tend to them that could have exposed insulation.
Good detective work WW ;)
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a few things to add, neighbors bathroom fan, powered fans in someones attic, bad ballast going bad in light fixtures like light poles, and flouresnat lighting, neighbors water use heard in your pipes, if you have guy wires for old antennas they will vibrate in very ltttle wind or bids land on them, battery power clocks.
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The hum has gotten loud in the last 30 minutes, even with the strong winds tonight.
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great, I think I just saw Bigfoot walking down the street blowing on a harmonica. Problem solved! Now we are all doomed for sure! ;)
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NX,
I don't live in that area now, but I did have power lines that made a low frequency hum at a previous property. It was very inconsistent. Sometimes they would even crackle.
Since there was a lot of moisture in the air last night and given the sounds you describe, it sounds to me like it is a power line issue.
HTH
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really loud this morning and now. been walking around outside, and can't pinpoint anything. >:(
so.. is there anything to do to have someone check out this noise? ???
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Are any of the tranformers on the power poles creating this hum?
How about any of the cable tv equipment mounted nearby?
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I have heard a noise similar to this which is caused by jets. Planes from northern California that are landing at Ontario turn east at Bakersfield and fly over Pinon Hills while descending using their flaps. The flaps cause a low pitch rumble sound when under power descending. Look over the north ridge to see if there is a jet there...
Y-Sam
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I went over by the Methodist Church yesterday and wasn't surprised once I observed the potential RF mess that exists. The houses on the North side of Barbara are surrounded by SCE lines. One set of lines is the main underground feed that goes above ground at Ross & Walnut and heads West. I'm far from an expert by any means but I could see the potential of harmonics occurring between hi tension power lines and even cable TV lines that surround these houses.
In addition, there are (illegal) un-terminated cable TV antenna drops everywhere I looked. In fact one of them on Ross is wrapped around a wooden power pole and looks like an oversize coil.
There are wires running back and forth across streets and properties and doesn't surprise me at all that there is humming being heard in that neighborhood.
I'd start with the Cable TV company as they have already been informed by the FCC about issues in Wrightwood.
http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/forum/index.php?topic=9604.0
http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/forum/index.php?topic=2936.0
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nice work, WW. I'll give them a call and see if we can get somewhere.
I'm really not looking to cause problems, (I have plenty of other things I need to waste my time on) but it really is causing sleeping problems, not to mention affecting my mental stability. ;)
Thank you
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That very low frequency noise is the sound of the Langoliers coming...
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This morning, I came across an article on Yahoo News and remembered seeing this thread . . .
Mysterious Hum Driving People Around the World Crazy
http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-hum-driving-people-around-world-crazy-115259328.html (http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-hum-driving-people-around-world-crazy-115259328.html)
excerpts from the article:
It's known as the Hum, a steady, droning sound that's heard in places as disparate as Taos, N.M.; Bristol, England; and Largs, Scotland.
Reports started trickling in during the 1950s from people who had never heard anything unusual before; suddenly, they were bedeviled by an annoying, low-frequency humming, throbbing or rumbling sound.
Most of the people who hear the Hum (sometimes referred to as "hearers" or "hummers") describe the sound as similar to a diesel engine idling nearby. And the Hum has driven virtually every one of them to the point of despair.
Most researchers investigating the Hum express some confidence that the phenomenon is real, and not the result of mass hysteria or hearers' hypochondria (or extraterrestrials beaming signals to Earth from their spaceships).
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That's weird -- I clicked on the video to hear the Taos Hum and my dog didn't like the sound one bit. He's asleep but started to growl.... as soon as I stopped the video he was perfectly quiet. Maybe it IS alien communication! :o (Or just an incredibly annoying sound.)
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If we were to get aliens here, they probably will send the dumb ones.
Im wondering if these humming sounds might be from radars or satellites beaming stuff back to earth or maybe someone is using a cheap microwave for their popcorn.
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Well, I've never heard that sound before. Just experimented with the dog. Dog was sound asleep.. played the video.. dog lifted up head for a few seconds. .. dog went back to sleep. And, I really wouldn't call it a 'hum noise.' It's closer to a flag flapping in the wind to me. My electrical wires here used to 'sing.' I think that was mostly related to when it rained. Obviously, no singing lately here.
cheryl o7o
p.s. My old antennae used to 'thwack' in the wind. I few well placed nails and that puppy doesn't move at all.
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I think WW is on the right track with the RF. Especially living in a relatively narrow valley ... we probably have our own little inversion layer as cold air plunges off the Blue Ridge, so sound could be bouncing off that as well, and creating a perfect little triangular box to build up standing sound waves inside. Just a theory. But with all the electricity we have flying around these days, I think that's probably the source of the hums. Every time I've seen a hum story it's always been someone's town, not backpackers in the middle of nowhere.
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I hear the "Wrightwood Hum" on differnet occasions ever since I have lived in the village. The Hum comes and goes sometimes it will last for several days and then go away for months. I always hear the hum at night and it caused severe insomnia which disrupts my health the following day due to sleep deprivation. I never thought about Tim G's suggestion that it might be weather related due to air bouncing off the sides of the Swarthout Valley at night. From now on I will start to collect data on when the hum occurs. The date, time, high and low temperature for that day and wind speed and direction. I have heard the hum in all four seasons so I do not think snow load plays a very big part in producing the hum. I have made previous comments on this post about possible sources for the mysterious hum that so many people have talked about on the forum. Maybe we could form a group of individuals who experience the hum here in Wrightwood and start collecting data as a group. We could use my recommendations of data collection as mentioned above or as a group decide what information we think may be important. For those of use who hear the hum it can be very disturbing to ones well being and constitution when it occurs. Other than reports of the hum on the forum we really do not have any specific information about it.
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The muffled buzzing of underground power cables? Trains heading up or down the pass?
BTW...no one I know hears as well as I do. I can track down sounds no one hears. I almost want to challenge myself to find this for you guys.
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So after all this talk about the low frequency hum, I heard something last night. However, I am certain what I heard was caused by wind chimes. Someone near me has some of the lower range wind chimes. There was just enough of a breeze last night to not make them hit against each other, but to hum. I could hear them occasionally softly hit together and also hear the chime vibrate and then stop. It was quite annoying actually and hurt my ears even. Kind of like the buffeting you get when some car windows are open, but not others. I could feel the vibration. I'm not a fan of wind chimes, especially wind chimes that are not mine. What sounds melodic to you, is clanking to others. I even looked at some at Lowes the other day and almost bought them. Then I remembered that I HATE THEM. lol Wind chimes are for people with NO NEIGHBORS for at least a mile. lol
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I think it's just someone playijng their Didgeridoo every night ;)
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To start the Wrightwood Hum/mysterious vibrations sound group I would propose that I will volunteer to lead the group and research (Unless someone else wants to) and we could pm each other or share information on the phone if you would like to remain anonymous. The minimum reporting requirements would be date, time and location of when the hum is heard.
I like some of Joe Schmoe's thoughts, The muffled buzzing of underground power cables? Trains heading up or down the pass?
What about the high pressure natural gas pipeline leading into the village and where is it located? These are all great starting points to consider but, individuals reporting real occurrences either on the forum or anonymously would be extremely helpful for establishing a perimeter.
I know that some of these issues with the hum will be easily identified due to electrical lines, transformers and SCE equipment located in certain sections of the village.
The reports of the low frequency sounds emitting in other areas where a direct connection to utilities cannot be made might require that we have some outside professional help.
Joe Schmoe seemed sincere when posted " BTW...no one I know hears as well as I do. I can track down sounds no one hears. I almost want to challenge myself to find this for you guys.
Thanks Joe Schmoe for offering to volunteer your time and help us possibly solve this mystery.
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Have you tried to determine what direction it is coming from? A megaphone or a highway cone held (small end) to one ear with the other ear blocked, rotating slowly around. The loudness would give you a sense of which way it is coming from. It should be much louder when the listening device is pointing toward the source, Then drive in that direction for a distance and repeat. This is somewhat similar to a Ham Radio transmitter hunt. You might be able to determine the approximate location of the source. Could be a satisfying exercise even if you don't fully succeed. If you do succeed, "GOTCHA" is a beautiful word!
Maybe some of the other Hams with RDF experience would have some helpful suggestions.
Marking direction lines on a map would help to zero in on the source.
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Hi Snow, I do not appreciate you making fun of real noise that effects several people in the community. Obviously, you have never heard the hum and do not know what we are taliking about. Please do some research on the internet before you make stupid uninformed comments like your last one on the forum. Maybe you could get the highway cone and stick it up to your ear or someplace else. I thought all you rednecks lived somewhere else I am sorry that you might live here near me.
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What did I miss? I thought the suggestions were good ones with no antagonism...the megaphone is a good idea to try as long as your neighbors can't see you ;D. You may have misread some of what he/she was saying, Tall Trees.
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Maybe radiation coming from the Smart Meters?
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Geez Tall Trees, that response was uncalled for. I thought Snow was being sincere. Wow.
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Whether Snow's comment was sincere or not..."you are an idiot"?? Completely unwarranted. Someone has a temper problem, and no sense of humor.
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Also, I saw this article in the news recently. I've never heard "the hum" but it seems that you all are not alone!
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/mysterious-hum-driving-people-crazy-around-world-6C10760872
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Tall Trees,
Verbal attacks on fellow forum members are unacceptable.
Your abusive comments have been removed.
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Hmmm. I think someone is being kept awake by the 'hum' and getting a bit short-tempered. I thought Snow was trying to be helpful.
I suggest you guys that want to work on this consider calling yourselves "The Humdingers." Sounds like a fun project and a good cause. Do you only hear the noise at night?
I recall some residents in Santa Monica were being driven crazy by a noise at night. Then one day there was a fire in a nearby restaurant and the fire department turned off the rooftop a/c. Voila.. the source of the noise was discovered.
Good luck guys.. and if you all opt for cones... do get a picture and post it here. cheryl o7o
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I apologize for my previous post. I tried to delete it last night but It was too late and the modify time had passed. I think I will just keep quiet for awhile.
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Perhaps there is someone in the area attempting to play a Aboriginal Didgeridoo? At first attempt all one can do is make a very low hum with the instrument.
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The more I think about this, the more I bet it's something electric. Either transformers or tranducers or condensers or something like that. Have you ever noticed how eerily quiet it gets when the power goes out? Just the constant hum of the refrigerator is surprisingly loud, but we tend to tune it out.
Next time you hear it, maybe you should try turning off your circuit breakers and see if it goes away (for those who've said it's louder in the house than outside).
Also, I'm not sure but I believe sound waves propagate faster and farther the lower the air density (S = elasticity / density?), because it takes less energy to push the wave forward, basically, so that might be a factor in the hum up here, too. Maybe even carries more when a low-pressure system passes over head?
Been a long time since I took a physics class, but it feels like it carries more up here when I hear those darn dogs barking at 3am.
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Hey.. Tall Trees... thank you for apologizing. I kind of think Snow deserves a p.m. on that as well. I leave that to you. But, I don't see why you should go away from the discussion. Not that I have a dog in this hunt. But, I'm loving the posts about the hunt and how you guys are determined to figure it out. Goodness,, this thread has been going on for several years now. It is time to get to the bottom of it. And, then it will just be barking dogs that annoy you guys. best of luck... keep us all posted. This one is better than TV. cheryl o7o
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Just something of note. I was up on Mount Wilson today overlooking the San Gabriel Valley. We were right at about the level of the main temperature inversion @ 5700 feet - it was easily visible. From my vantage point, I could hear a constant low rumble...something similar to a jet taking off from an airport in the distance, yet constant and not moving. The sound came from "everywhere" in the direction of the populated area (6 miles away horizontally, about 5000 feet vertically) , and was absent in the direction of the wilderness. Best guess was that this was accumulated noise from vehicles on roads and freeways below and may have been helped due to my proximity to the inversion layer. Anyone who has ever played with home theater knows that low frequencies are amplified if you sit near a wall because the sound waves bounce back off the wall and combine with the incoming sound waves. The sound waves add up and make for a louder sound. The geometry of my position may help because we would be hearing the noise at an angle...and maybe it is more likely to reflect than if we were directly above the traffic.
And yes, I did a sound recording. I haven't listened to it yet.. :o
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Well, the camera caught the rumble for sure, but it's certainly nothing I'd call a hum. In person and on the recording it sounds like the noise from a jet in the distance....but it didn't move and didn't vary. I'm not convinced this is what people are claiming to hear (so I'm not gonna upload it to youtube) but given the distances and maybe weather conditions involved it was interesting to hear nonetheless.
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Any 0ne look for pump cavitation? The water pipe from the pump makes a good wave guide to the tank which is a good base drum.
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Does everyone that is experiencing this live near the Methodist Church or is anyone hearing it in another location they'd like to disclose ? I'm intrigued. Have a friend that lives in Taos NM that has experienced the Taos humm and I told them I could have sworn the same type of humm has kept me up some nights in the East Canyon area. Now I always have a fan on so don't hear anything at night but still think I hear something during the daytime every now and then. TimG had a great point about how quiet it gets when the power goes down. Maybe a power issue but still something else to talk about that makes Wrightwood so cool. Unusual things tend to get noticed more in less populated areas.
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I'm convinced the Langoliers are coming.
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Or the Tommyknockers.
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Back in 1990 I was on the Sunset Ridge Truck Trail above San Dimas with the LA Basin to my south and Wolfskill Canyon of The Angeles National Forest to my north. We were conducting owl surveys at night and this particular call point was located at 3600' elevation. I was working with Bill King and during the survey he asked me if I could hear the hum of the city below us and I said no because I was not aware of it. As soon as Bill mentioned this to me I listened and could hear the hum of the city. Thanks for reminding me of this Joe Schmoe as I think you might be on to something since you heard the low constant rumble while on Mt. Wilson. The constant low rumble noise emitted from 12 million people in the LA Basin may be a contributing factor to the hum some of us hear in town. Since we do not hear the hum all the time you may be correct Joe Schmoe that weather patterns may play an important role in sound transportation and distance distribution. One time I was conducting an owl survey on a dirt truck trail at the Colby Ranch and the sound of the steam below us in the canyon bottom made it impossible to hear anything at night. I stepped back from the edge of the road to the otherside and the sound of the stream dissapeared and I could hear the owls we were surveying for in the distant canyons. It is really amazing how sound travels especially at night.
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Hi Snow, Thanks for coming by the house and dropping off the listening device and ear plugs today. You have so many good ideas on how to locate the source of the low frequency noise and I will contact you directly when I hear it next. That way you might be able to come over and hear it for yourself. It usually lasts for three to five days and then disappears for months but it always returns and I have only heard this sound in Wrightwood.
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I am so jazzed that Snow and Tall Trees have gotten together to track down the "Wrightwood Hum." Now they just need a few more people that hear it to help map it. Joe Schmoe: You had some good ideas too. So, did other folks. It has to be some innocuous cause or there is an outbreak of tinnitus in WW. Have fun. If I lived closer I'd pitch in to help. And, do keep us all updated. cheryl o7o
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There is a condition known as Low Frequency Tinnitus. However, that several people in the same general location would have it at the same time is a somewhat remote possibility. I do believe that the low frequency sound is present from time to time. If I could get a recording of it, I would like to view the waveform on a scope and attempt to determine the approximate frequency.
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Interesting interview with a geophysicist reminded me of this thread. Talking about various effects of acoustic waves bouncing off an inversion layer. Which would support the idea that when the inversion layers moves over a certain part of town, noise from far off becomes distorted and amplified -- I still think that's the explanation.
http://youtu.be/SIJDVFdh3Dc?t=1h27m48s
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Bump
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The Wrightwood hum is back today since this morning after being absent for months.
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Cardinal & Hwy 2 or other areas of town?
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Cardinal and Hwy 2. Someone else mentioned to me yesterday that they were hearing the Wrightwood Hum at this same location. Noise can be something that you never pay attention to until someone points it out. Maybe this is what happened and after a few days I will forget and the noise will go away.
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I can't tell you how disappointed I was when I moved to WW over a year ago and heard the constant hum at night when they were doing the road construction. I lived with the same sound in Riverside for over 12 years once the freeway construction started...24 hours a day, in addition to the house movement because of the constant heavy equipment being used: bang, bang, bang. I thought I'd "lose" the sound here, but no. At first I was told it was the snow making at Mt. High, or "Are you sure it isn't the pipes or appliances?" But it has the same pattern as what we endured down below and they are still going through that. I've concluded that, as the crow flies, the rock crushing and I-15 construction is not far off. And the way the sound carries up the pass and canyons it's a spit away. It's worse in the house than outside. There is far too much construction, all going on at the same time, on every major freeway. The sound, the constant hum, is very disruptive to me, and of course, worse at night because that's when the real road work is currently being done. Will we ever get a quiet night's sleep again?
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Good morning! This is completely off subject. Can someone please tell me what "bump" means? I see it used often. "Bump"= "fist bump? head bump? speed bump? unsightly rash bump? disco dance? Please fill me in. I am not hip to your groove yo'?...word up.....sha-zizzle....twenty-three skidoo.... ???
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I'm "bumping" this thread or conversation back up to the "front of the line", so we can get this conversation going again, because it was so far back in the timeline, it was disappearing...
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Thanks, I believe I considered every definition of "bump" except that. Didn't occur to me. So, if a discussion goes stale & is not pursued, it just kind of "dies on the vine". A "bump" revives it. Thanks again!
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I live on Snowbird and the other night as I was going to bed, I heard a humming sound. I walked through my entire house and outside trying to isolate it, but finally gave up and went to bed. Have not heard it again. Now that I know others are hearing it, I will try to note dates and times.
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Snowbird Street is about a mile from Cardinal Street and I heard the hum yesterday but not today. Sagespirit like you it is louder inside the house than out side but this on and off again humming noise has been going on since I moved here well before any construction started in the Cajon Pass.
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I wonder if it could be vibrations from the high pressure gas line that runs from Phelan over the mountains north of Wrightwood and terminates near Rivera.
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This happened last year same area. The people called a plumber and found out that it was a pressure regulator
at the well head. Once that was fixed the noise went away. Makes your pipes hum.
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I think that it is a wandering didgeridoo player with too much time on her/his hands.
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Call the local water company
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I haven't gone back through all the posts to see if water pipes have been listed as a possible cause.
A leaking water pipe generates noise (sound and vibration) which is transmitted for long distances both inside the pipe and in the soil close to the leak
http://www.aticourses.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/07/home-low-frequency-hum-house-is-literally-humming/ (http://www.aticourses.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/07/home-low-frequency-hum-house-is-literally-humming/)
Also these article are worth taking a look at:
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/aug98/899153575.Bp.r.html
http://amasci.com/hum/hum1.html
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I was told it has something to do with one of the wells that area
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I entered my data for zip code 92397 today on the World Hum Map and Database Project web site.
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The web page said it could take several weeks for my data to show up on the World Hum Map.
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I did a 923 (zip code) search and had 17 hits. Of those 17 hits there were reports from Colton, Victorville, Hesperia, Fontana and Crestline. Also found Palmdale and Lancaster on separate searches.
Yours is most likely the first for Wrightwood.
It appears that the last entry on the database is 6-3-16 so it does take 2-3 weeks.
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Thanks Wrightwood, I hope that people who have heard the hum input their data as it would be helpful to compare notes.
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I have also heard this hum. It has been a few months, but I remember getting out of bed, walking around the house, and then going outside trying to figure out what it was. I then went back to bed and forgot about it until I read this posting. I will listen for it and if I hear it again, I will post it on the website. Interesting articles.
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I hear this usually in the mornings. Not every single morning, but many early mornings. It drives me nuts. I even shut off the power thinking it may have been electrical. The noise was still there. We are on Table Mountain in Big pines.
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Does anyone think it could be seismic?
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It could be? Perhaps it is just that the low frequency noise is produced by civilization and metropolitan areas. Look at the world wide map and some similarities quickly are apparent. The low frequency noise is heard all over the Earth in metropolitan areas and along Earthquake faults. Perhaps Humans and their activities and movements results in a change of the natural vibrations of nature and causes those that are sensitive enough to hear it.
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Well said tall. Or it could be our imagination. Sometimes it's so quite here, our minds fill it with noise.
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The Hum is a phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
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I think you guys are hearing traffic on 138
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I heard the Windsor Hum turned out to be a blast furnace on that island between Windsor and Detroit. Infrasound can pool, especially given all the hard rock around here. There are a few surface mines near here down in the desert, could be something along those lines.
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The hum seems very strong and persistent today. I have not heard for a while until today.
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Has anyone ever checked and heard it at the bottom of Lone Pine Canyon?
Just thinking about the high pressure gas lines down there.
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There is skepticism as to whether it exists as a physical sound. In 2009, the head of audiology at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, David Baguley, said he believed people's problems with the hum were based on the physical world about one-third of the time, and stemmed from people focusing too keenly on innocuous background sounds the other two-thirds of the time. His current research focuses on using psychology and relaxation techniques to minimise distress, which can lead to a quieting or even removal of the noise.[12]
Geoff Leventhall, a noise and vibration expert, has suggested cognitive behavioral therapy may be effective in helping those affected.[13] "It's a question of whether you tense up to the noise or are relaxed about it. The CBT was shown to work, by helping people to take a different attitude to it."[14]
"It also may be a manifestation of tinnitus."
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Anyone experiencing new or recent high frequency issues near Spruce and Apple?
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I had a resident contact me about a month or two ago complaining of health issues that started immediately after Edison put up all the new transformers. He lives on the corner of Apple and Spruce.
I asked Susan Drake from Supervisor Lovingood's Office about what the resident should do and she said to contact the California Public Utilities Commission and that they would come out with monitoring equipment to check things out. I relayed this info back to the resident and have not heard anything since.
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OMG...this is me too! Corner of Basel and East Canyon, brand new transformer within yards of my deck and I can hear it. It drives me crazy and I have severe Tinnitus...(that's a whole different subject) Having extra noises, pings, rings, buzzing, high pitch sounds is driving me nuts. I didn't think there was anything I could do. I'm so mad at this placement of this transformer...so incredibly close to my home. :(
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ET IS REAL.