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22 Nov 2019, 4:09 pm

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I have never heard this "Global Hum" nor even the "Taos Hum" when I was in New Mexico, so I suspect that what people are hearing has more to do with the power of suggestion than with any actual sound.
It is definitely an actual sound. It is not power of suggestion. I have been hearing this long before I ever heard about it.


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22 Nov 2019, 4:11 pm

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At about what frequency range?

Human hearing is only good down to about 17 Hz, which is too high to detect the Schumman frequency of 7.83 Hz.
I don't know the range but it sounds like a humongous truck or generator


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22 Nov 2019, 4:17 pm

Although some sources say the Taos Hum wasn't first reported until 1991, there appears to be a legend of the hum dating back many decades before that. Here is an interesting article on that.

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/nm-taoshum/


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22 Nov 2019, 4:18 pm

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Here is my theory.

If a sound is travelling away from you the pitch goes lower, right? Doppler effect.

Well. If you think about it there must be millions of phones ringing around the world right now at this precise moment. Chances are more of them are moving away from you than towards you.

Add up the noise from all those phones ringing and dopplering to a lower frequency and there is your hum.

On the other hand it could just be distant traffic noise. The multitudinous thwack of vulcanised rubber on a pothole edges.
I don't think so otherwise it would be all the time or much more often. This noise comes, lasts a couple of months and then leaves. Then it comes back for a couple of months and leaves again. It stops for a long time, like several months to a year before it comes back again.


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22 Nov 2019, 4:20 pm

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Although some sources say the Taos Hum wasn't first reported until 1991, there appears to be a legend of the hum dating back many decades before that. Here is an interesting article on that.

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/nm-taoshum/
I think it is something happening within the earth itself. 2% of the population can hear it.


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22 Nov 2019, 4:23 pm

When I hear it, it makes life particularly challenging because I never get a break from it and nothing I do will stop it or quiet it and it just compounds the already massively sensory overload challenges that I have to deal with every single day. It really is unbearable. I feel like I am losing my mind, like every moment of my life I am going to snap.


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22 Nov 2019, 4:27 pm

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When I hear it, it makes life particularly challenging because I never get a break from it and nothing I do will stop it or quiet it and it just compounds the already massively sensory overload challenges that I have to deal with every single day. It really is unbearable. I feel like I am losing my mind, like every moment of my life I am going to snap.


Do you're neighbors hear it too?



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22 Nov 2019, 4:39 pm

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... If a sound is travelling away from you the pitch goes lower, right? ...
Wrong.  If the source of a sound is moving away from you, then the pitch of the sound it is producing will seem lower than if the source had remained stationary.  Conversely, if the source of a sound is moving toward you, then the pitch of the sound it is producing will seem higher than if the source had remained stationary.  THIS is the Doppler Effect.

Your theory fails on first principles.


That's what I meant...... :? :(

People are walking away from you when their mobiles are ringing.



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22 Nov 2019, 4:56 pm

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I don't know if I am hearing the actual global hum now or if it is something else but I can't stop hearing this low pitched hum and it has been going on for days. Nothing I do is able to stop it. It is making me so overwhelmed to the point of incapacitation. I know that a couple of you said that you can also hear the global hum. Do you hear it right now?


I don't hear it right now... I will PM.


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22 Nov 2019, 5:03 pm

harry12345 wrote:
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harry12345 wrote:
... If a sound is travelling away from you the pitch goes lower, right? ...
Wrong.  If the source of a sound is moving away from you, then the pitch of the sound it is producing will seem lower than if the source had remained stationary.  Conversely, if the source of a sound is moving toward you, then the pitch of the sound it is producing will seem higher than if the source had remained stationary.  THIS is the Doppler Effect.

Your theory fails on first principles.


That's what I meant...... :? :(

People are walking away from you when their mobiles are ringing.


Folks walk at about three miles an hour. Sound travels at about 760 mph at sea level. So a walking pace is not going to cause much of a doppler shift in sound.



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22 Nov 2019, 5:11 pm

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Folks walk at about three miles an hour. Sound travels at about 760 mph at sea level. So a walking pace is not going to cause much of a doppler shift in sound.
Given those values, a 1 kHz source moving away from a listener at about 3 mph will sound like 0.995 kHz -- a 4 Hz (or 0.50%) difference. That isn't even a semitone, so it's doubtful that anyone but a well-trained musician would detect it.



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22 Nov 2019, 5:39 pm

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At about what frequency range?

Human hearing is only good down to about 17 Hz, which is too high to detect the Schumman frequency of 7.83 Hz.

Some autistic people may have a hearing range that's a little different from most other people's.

I have a large range. I used to be able to hear bats and they were so loud! Then a few years ago I noticed I could no longer hear them. But my hearing was effected with this humm. Our whole house was vibrating with it. This is not unusual as we live in a weapons testing area so we have had this a few years before other people have..


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22 Nov 2019, 5:51 pm

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When I hear it, it makes life particularly challenging because I never get a break from it and nothing I do will stop it or quiet it and it just compounds the already massively sensory overload challenges that I have to deal with every single day. It really is unbearable. I feel like I am losing my mind, like every moment of my life I am going to snap.


Do you're neighbors hear it too?
I don't think so. None of my friends here do.
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22 Nov 2019, 5:56 pm

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Ten years ago they called it "The Taos Hum" because folks were hearing it in Taos New Mexico. Then they began to hear it in the UK, and in all sorts of spots on the globe.

Havent heard about it much of late, so I didn't realize that its now called "the global hum".

No.

I haven't heard it yet. Havent had the privilege.

Whereabouts do you live? I think that you have said that you live the mountains of western Pennsylvania.

Is this thing low pitched? Do you feel through your feet as well as hear it?

It is a low pitch vibrating hum. It vibrates the walls of the house and my bed. It also vibrates one of my eardrums.


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22 Nov 2019, 6:04 pm

skibum wrote:
glider18 wrote:
Although some sources say the Taos Hum wasn't first reported until 1991, there appears to be a legend of the hum dating back many decades before that. Here is an interesting article on that.

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/nm-taoshum/
I think it is something happening within the earth itself. 2% of the population can hear it.


It is man made. Sound weapons. While testing it we heard music imposed on top of the humm. They abandoned the music later. It is a directable sound weapon, hence why only certain people can hear it.


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22 Nov 2019, 6:08 pm

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When I hear it, it makes life particularly challenging because I never get a break from it and nothing I do will stop it or quiet it and it just compounds the already massively sensory overload challenges that I have to deal with every single day. It really is unbearable. I feel like I am losing my mind, like every moment of my life I am going to snap.


I tried aluminium foil to a limited effect. Eventually my hearing for the range they were using became damaged so I more feel the vibrations of it today. It makes one feel ill with it.
I noticed specific people were targetted. I understand targeting me because I am hyper aware of my surroundings. I may not say it, but I notice things that other people do not.


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