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The Controversial Sound Only 2% Of People Hear (Benn Jordan, YouTube/Piped/Invidious, 32m38s): Since the early 1960's, an increasing number of people have been hearing (and feeling) a sound causing everything from annoyance to psychosis to death. We have a deeply objective look at what could be causing it.
Is a summary available that is in text, rather than video? I’m already sensitive to sound and no one has described what’s in the video as it makes the rounds.
posted by Callisto Prime at 10:34 AM on March 5 [4 favorites]
posted by Callisto Prime at 10:34 AM on March 5 [4 favorites]
My bet is a caffeinated squirrel on a skateboard.
posted by seanmpuckett at 10:35 AM on March 5 [1 favorite]
posted by seanmpuckett at 10:35 AM on March 5 [1 favorite]
Is the sound vocal fry? People get mad about that.
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:37 AM on March 5 [5 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:37 AM on March 5 [5 favorites]
For a content preview, the video has a TOC with the following terms:
Intro, History, Taos Hum, The Outbreak, ELF Transmitters, Natural Causes, Infrastructure, HPNG Pipelines, Methodology, Conclusions, The Mental Health Toll, Wrap Upposted by Nelson at 10:39 AM on March 5 [4 favorites]
The TL;DR of the video is that it (a creepy low humming noise, heard by 1 out of 50 people) is definitely no one single thing, and may just be in the heads of the hearers, but - and this is important - it doesn't make it any less real, since sound as we perceive it is a mental process that is just interpreting the real world in a specific way.
posted by grumpybear69 at 10:44 AM on March 5 [11 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 10:44 AM on March 5 [11 favorites]
so is the sound playing at 3s into the video audible to everyone? cuz i hear it plain as day and it sound like a minimalist protodubstep subbass sample but i do have a subwoofer.
posted by glonous keming at 10:46 AM on March 5
posted by glonous keming at 10:46 AM on March 5
same grumpybear69, same ever-present EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
why E? I'm guessing that's the highest E I'll ever hear again /S?
posted by djseafood at 10:50 AM on March 5 [1 favorite]
why E? I'm guessing that's the highest E I'll ever hear again /S?
posted by djseafood at 10:50 AM on March 5 [1 favorite]
so is the sound playing at 3s into the video audible to everyone? cuz i hear it plain as day and it sound like a minimalist protodubstep subbass sample but i do have a subwoofer.Yeah, I can hear it (with my bluetooth over-ear headphones). It's also a sound I hear a lot during film trailers or Christopher Nolan films!
posted by Xoder at 11:05 AM on March 5
may just be in the heads of the hearers, but - and this is important - it doesn't make it any less real
To be a little more specific, "may in some cases be perceptual, but in many cases was clearly a real phenomenon visible on instrumentation even though it was undetectable to listeners."
posted by mhoye at 11:23 AM on March 5 [5 favorites]
To be a little more specific, "may in some cases be perceptual, but in many cases was clearly a real phenomenon visible on instrumentation even though it was undetectable to listeners."
posted by mhoye at 11:23 AM on March 5 [5 favorites]
I definitely heard it for the nanosecond they played it. Not sure if hearing that constantly would be worse than the constant tinnitus.
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 11:42 AM on March 5
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 11:42 AM on March 5
Just got to the part of the video mentioning the phenomenon's occurrence in Philadelphia and immediately wondered if that was what David Lynch and sound designer Alan Splet were trying to replicate on the Eraserhead soundtrack.
posted by Strange Interlude at 11:42 AM on March 5 [5 favorites]
posted by Strange Interlude at 11:42 AM on March 5 [5 favorites]
For those who don't believe the YouTube to right-wing pipeline is real - the next video this wants to show me (logged in on my work Google account where I never use YouTube) is Lex Friedman (the bad one) interviewing Tucker Carlson. :-(
As for the sound, it kind of reminds me of the "sound" I hear when wearing a really good pair of earplugs.
posted by jferg at 11:58 AM on March 5 [12 favorites]
As for the sound, it kind of reminds me of the "sound" I hear when wearing a really good pair of earplugs.
posted by jferg at 11:58 AM on March 5 [12 favorites]
As for the sound, it kind of reminds me of the "sound" I hear when wearing a really good pair of earplugs.
That, or a faint version of the sound you hear when you 'rumble' your eardrums (for those of us who can do that).
posted by praemunire at 12:09 PM on March 5 [5 favorites]
That, or a faint version of the sound you hear when you 'rumble' your eardrums (for those of us who can do that).
posted by praemunire at 12:09 PM on March 5 [5 favorites]
TIL that not everyone can rumble their eardrums!
posted by grumpybear69 at 12:15 PM on March 5 [12 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 12:15 PM on March 5 [12 favorites]
I found the pipeline explanation a little chilling (err...I'm talking about the gas pipelines in the video, not the youtube fascist pipeline jferg points out above) because these things are EVERYWHERE. While I don't seem to have this hum in our area, I'm really sympathetic because our house basically acts as an amphitheater for road noise--my office in particular--and the extremely low, skull-shaking hum does make you feel a little crazy after a while, especially if you step outside and can't hear anything.
posted by mittens at 12:18 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
posted by mittens at 12:18 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
Is a summary available that is in text, rather than video?
You can use the AI summarizer Summarize.tech to produce a summary of the video.
The summary of the whole thing includes this:
(A lot of Youtube videos have transcripts these days, but I couldn't find one on this video.)
posted by kristi at 12:19 PM on March 5
You can use the AI summarizer Summarize.tech to produce a summary of the video.
The summary of the whole thing includes this:
The video presents theories regarding ELF waves, military communication systems, wind turbines, and hydroelectric dams, among others. Despite extensive research, the origins of The Hum remain largely unexplained, leading to questions about mass hysteria, tinnitus, or mental health as potential causes.It also summarizes each 5 minute chunk.
(A lot of Youtube videos have transcripts these days, but I couldn't find one on this video.)
posted by kristi at 12:19 PM on March 5
What is rumbling your eardrums?
I do it by pulling my ears back (wiggling both at the same time, essentially) and then closing my eyes and frowning. It also happens naturally when I yawn.
posted by grumpybear69 at 12:23 PM on March 5 [5 favorites]
I do it by pulling my ears back (wiggling both at the same time, essentially) and then closing my eyes and frowning. It also happens naturally when I yawn.
posted by grumpybear69 at 12:23 PM on March 5 [5 favorites]
I can do it by "yawning" with my mouth shut. It's hard to describe. I didn't realize not everyone could do it until a few years ago--it's not so interesting that one randomly chats about it!
posted by praemunire at 12:27 PM on March 5 [6 favorites]
posted by praemunire at 12:27 PM on March 5 [6 favorites]
rumbling your eardrums
I had no idea that was a thing that other people could do.
posted by mittens at 12:28 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
I had no idea that was a thing that other people could do.
posted by mittens at 12:28 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
I also just tested it and reminded myself that squinting while yawning can get it done, too.
Sorry to everyone who now has yawn contagion.
posted by praemunire at 12:32 PM on March 5 [5 favorites]
Sorry to everyone who now has yawn contagion.
posted by praemunire at 12:32 PM on March 5 [5 favorites]
Is the sound at the beginning of the video a legit sample of the actual sound or an artists rendition?
Also, why did he say "listen to this" and then give us a third of a second before the music starts?
I remain skeptical that this is anything other than normal ambient noise. 1 in 50 is not very many, and I've known at least one person who was middle aged when they noticed that they could hear themselves swallow.
posted by Horkus at 12:51 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
Also, why did he say "listen to this" and then give us a third of a second before the music starts?
I remain skeptical that this is anything other than normal ambient noise. 1 in 50 is not very many, and I've known at least one person who was middle aged when they noticed that they could hear themselves swallow.
posted by Horkus at 12:51 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
I watched this the other day and was impressed at the relative thoroughness and the conclusion. My favorite Jordan video is about the "refresh rate" of different creatures (ie, how often their brain updates them on what's going on in the world) and how that likely informs their view of the world.
posted by maxwelton at 12:54 PM on March 5 [4 favorites]
posted by maxwelton at 12:54 PM on March 5 [4 favorites]
I'm confused. I'm on the autism spectrum & like many on the spectrum, I have hyper-acute hearing that can make ambient noises sound louder to me than for a neurotypical person, but it's just something I recognize and mentally tune out. I don't necessarily experience it as this ominous hum following me around. Is this like that? Or is this supposed to be different?
posted by jonp72 at 12:55 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
posted by jonp72 at 12:55 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
Now do a video on where the WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE in my left ear is coming from!
it's not tinnitus? Because that's exactly how my tinnitus sounds.
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 12:56 PM on March 5 [5 favorites]
it's not tinnitus? Because that's exactly how my tinnitus sounds.
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 12:56 PM on March 5 [5 favorites]
Except less joyful.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:10 PM on March 5 [7 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:10 PM on March 5 [7 favorites]
Is this like that? Or is this supposed to be different?
From what I understood from the video, this is different. This would be a low-pitched, rumbling ambient sound that is not associated with, say, the high pitches offered by electronics or fluorescent bulbs; or plumbing; or the internal sounds of tinnitus, ear-drum pressure shifts and wiggles, vertebral artery noise, or heartbeats; or the thing some sounds do where the brain picks up voices in random noise; or any one of the million other little noises that absolutely plague you if you can't stop noticing them. It should be low enough that you feel it as much as hear it, depending on how loud it is.
posted by mittens at 1:10 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
From what I understood from the video, this is different. This would be a low-pitched, rumbling ambient sound that is not associated with, say, the high pitches offered by electronics or fluorescent bulbs; or plumbing; or the internal sounds of tinnitus, ear-drum pressure shifts and wiggles, vertebral artery noise, or heartbeats; or the thing some sounds do where the brain picks up voices in random noise; or any one of the million other little noises that absolutely plague you if you can't stop noticing them. It should be low enough that you feel it as much as hear it, depending on how loud it is.
posted by mittens at 1:10 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
What is rumbling your eardrums?
I think they're referring to flexing the muscles that open your eustachian tubes to equalize pressure around your eardrum. When I do that, it trembles and I hear a low-pitched rumbling sound.
posted by The Tensor at 1:15 PM on March 5 [8 favorites]
I think they're referring to flexing the muscles that open your eustachian tubes to equalize pressure around your eardrum. When I do that, it trembles and I hear a low-pitched rumbling sound.
posted by The Tensor at 1:15 PM on March 5 [8 favorites]
it's not tinnitus?
Narrator: it was tinnitus.
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:15 PM on March 5 [8 favorites]
Narrator: it was tinnitus.
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:15 PM on March 5 [8 favorites]
Not only am I surprised that not everyone can rumble their ear drums, I am also surprised that it seems to take some of you specific tricks to do it. I can do it easily without any visible movement of my face. Internally, it feels a bit like I just 'blinked' my ears.
posted by jacquilynne at 1:25 PM on March 5 [15 favorites]
posted by jacquilynne at 1:25 PM on March 5 [15 favorites]
"Blinking my ears" now, super easy, can do the left, then the right or both at the same time. After blinking, sound is clearer. I never thought about it. It's an internal muscle flex (I guess) and I don't think it causes any external visible motion.
The sound in the video? Is this a joke that I'm not getting. It was extremely loud and very noticeable. Mostly in my right ear. We're supposed to be able to hear it surely. This is a bit right?
posted by Wetterschneider at 1:31 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
The sound in the video? Is this a joke that I'm not getting. It was extremely loud and very noticeable. Mostly in my right ear. We're supposed to be able to hear it surely. This is a bit right?
posted by Wetterschneider at 1:31 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
Internally, it feels a bit like I just 'blinked' my ears.
I think that might be different? I can do a quick "blink" (sounds internally like a crinkle, or crunch) without any visible action, but the sustained, ongoing "rumble" is a different sound that requires me to close my eyes, and some strain/tension that's probably visible (but I can't see, because my eyes are closed)
posted by Roommate at 1:34 PM on March 5
I think that might be different? I can do a quick "blink" (sounds internally like a crinkle, or crunch) without any visible action, but the sustained, ongoing "rumble" is a different sound that requires me to close my eyes, and some strain/tension that's probably visible (but I can't see, because my eyes are closed)
posted by Roommate at 1:34 PM on March 5
I can rumble my ears flexing some muscle internally without noticeably moving my face, but I can't rumble one at a time, only both at once.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 1:35 PM on March 5 [4 favorites]
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 1:35 PM on March 5 [4 favorites]
Oh, instead of blinking them closed and then open again, I can just keep them closed as long as I like. That feels a bit different than closing my eyes because it requires active effort to keep them that way.
posted by jacquilynne at 1:36 PM on March 5
posted by jacquilynne at 1:36 PM on March 5
We're supposed to be able to hear it surely.
Yes, it's not so much can you hear this--in terms of your ability to hear--but do you hear this--that is, is this sound out there in your environment driving you crazy, whether it's from pipelines, wind turbines, weird infrasonic mating calls or what have you.
posted by mittens at 1:37 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
Yes, it's not so much can you hear this--in terms of your ability to hear--but do you hear this--that is, is this sound out there in your environment driving you crazy, whether it's from pipelines, wind turbines, weird infrasonic mating calls or what have you.
posted by mittens at 1:37 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
I just will my ears to rumble and they do with no other activity involved.
The process is not really distinguishable from willing a hand to raise — with the exception that it's hard to will my ears to rumble individually: I can make my right ear rumble a tiny bit on its own while the left is silent but not the other way around. I can only rumble continuously for about 40 seconds or so, though, and after that I have to relax the effort and start again, but can only manage short burst of a few seconds until my ears recover in some way.
There were four hypothesized causative factors that really stood out to me:
1. The ibuprofen connection.
2. The gas pipeline and other infrastructure connection.
3. The autism and ADHD connection.
4. The fact that “fully ambidextrous" people are overepresesented among hum hearers by a factor of 5 or 6.
To me, that all adds up to a conclusion that the sound is real, but when 'immunotypical' individuals experience it, their immune systems soon come along and edit out their ability to perceive it, very similar to the way that many people can hear the 15 kHz flyback transformer whine as children but have lost the ability by the time they reach adulthood with the exception, among others, of asthmatics, who retain the ability much more often than the general population.
posted by jamjam at 1:38 PM on March 5 [3 favorites]
The process is not really distinguishable from willing a hand to raise — with the exception that it's hard to will my ears to rumble individually: I can make my right ear rumble a tiny bit on its own while the left is silent but not the other way around. I can only rumble continuously for about 40 seconds or so, though, and after that I have to relax the effort and start again, but can only manage short burst of a few seconds until my ears recover in some way.
There were four hypothesized causative factors that really stood out to me:
1. The ibuprofen connection.
2. The gas pipeline and other infrastructure connection.
3. The autism and ADHD connection.
4. The fact that “fully ambidextrous" people are overepresesented among hum hearers by a factor of 5 or 6.
To me, that all adds up to a conclusion that the sound is real, but when 'immunotypical' individuals experience it, their immune systems soon come along and edit out their ability to perceive it, very similar to the way that many people can hear the 15 kHz flyback transformer whine as children but have lost the ability by the time they reach adulthood with the exception, among others, of asthmatics, who retain the ability much more often than the general population.
posted by jamjam at 1:38 PM on March 5 [3 favorites]
I wish this had not had a click bait title and presentation. I am made uncomfortable when I find posts that present this way when scrolling metafilter and their number is increasing. I was originally thinking that it was just because the person who made the post was so enthusiastic about their subject they forgot that other people would not automatically know what they were talking about when they used a click bait title, but I think it is a cultural media trend that is spreading into MetaFilter.
posted by Jane the Brown at 1:39 PM on March 5 [6 favorites]
posted by Jane the Brown at 1:39 PM on March 5 [6 favorites]
Hey all you eardrum rumblers, you have voluntary control of your tensor tympani muscle. Just thought you should know.
posted by seanmpuckett at 1:48 PM on March 5 [20 favorites]
posted by seanmpuckett at 1:48 PM on March 5 [20 favorites]
I had no idea that was a thing that other people could do.
With me, I'd stop short of saying it's something I can do, rather than it's something that happens.
very similar to the way that many people can hear the 15 kHz flyback transformer whine as children but have lost the ability by the time they reach adulthood
This may be less " editing out ability" than plain old hearing degradation that typically comes with age. That's the case with me, someone who's lost significant hf hearing as the decades have passed.
posted by 2N2222 at 2:08 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
With me, I'd stop short of saying it's something I can do, rather than it's something that happens.
very similar to the way that many people can hear the 15 kHz flyback transformer whine as children but have lost the ability by the time they reach adulthood
This may be less " editing out ability" than plain old hearing degradation that typically comes with age. That's the case with me, someone who's lost significant hf hearing as the decades have passed.
posted by 2N2222 at 2:08 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
I also did not know until recently that the voluntary control is relatively unusual. I'm like jamjam - I just... tell the muscles in my ears to tense up, and they do and I get the rumbling. It's sometimes nice to be able to close your ears the way you can your eyes.
posted by tavella at 2:11 PM on March 5
posted by tavella at 2:11 PM on March 5
ok, you are all so weird /jk
I don't have great hearing. I definitely didn't seem to hear anything in the split second between listen and blam! a bunch of people talking.
but I don't have great hearing so who knows.
TIL...that rumbling your ears is A Thing (not that I really have a sense of understanding what that thing is...)
posted by supermedusa at 2:13 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
I don't have great hearing. I definitely didn't seem to hear anything in the split second between listen and blam! a bunch of people talking.
but I don't have great hearing so who knows.
TIL...that rumbling your ears is A Thing (not that I really have a sense of understanding what that thing is...)
posted by supermedusa at 2:13 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
Hey all you eardrum rumblers, you have voluntary control of your tensor tympani muscle. Just thought you should know.
Ha! I learned how do this accidentally, when I was 8 or 9 years old. I really wanted to figure out how to wiggle my ears, and I spent several afternoons in the bathroom, staring at myself in a mirror while I tried to work out how to get my ears to wiggle. That was the first time I heard the "rumble", but I didn't think much about it (I just wanted to wiggle my ears).
Now I'm an old, and after seeing all these comments about ear rumbling, I realized that I too can voluntarily flex my tensor tympani. I can do it without visible signs, but only for about half a second. I can't really get it to go longer than that, though.
posted by Doleful Creature at 2:19 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
Ha! I learned how do this accidentally, when I was 8 or 9 years old. I really wanted to figure out how to wiggle my ears, and I spent several afternoons in the bathroom, staring at myself in a mirror while I tried to work out how to get my ears to wiggle. That was the first time I heard the "rumble", but I didn't think much about it (I just wanted to wiggle my ears).
Now I'm an old, and after seeing all these comments about ear rumbling, I realized that I too can voluntarily flex my tensor tympani. I can do it without visible signs, but only for about half a second. I can't really get it to go longer than that, though.
posted by Doleful Creature at 2:19 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
If I “rumble my ear drums” (never heard that term for it, but very useful to equalize pressure on flights) and lift my glottis, I can hear my pulse.
Now! To learn to wiggle my ears.
posted by rubatan at 2:19 PM on March 5
Now! To learn to wiggle my ears.
posted by rubatan at 2:19 PM on March 5
The idea that an infrasonic vibration will survive YouTube's compression algorithm and then be playable on the average person's headphones or speakers is pretty silly. The demo sound is somewhere around 40hz.
posted by betaray at 2:28 PM on March 5 [4 favorites]
posted by betaray at 2:28 PM on March 5 [4 favorites]
I had to put the phone right up to my ear to hear it; it sounds like the purr of a microscopic cat.
posted by CynicalKnight at 2:43 PM on March 5 [3 favorites]
posted by CynicalKnight at 2:43 PM on March 5 [3 favorites]
I went from being faintly alarmed that some people can “rumble ear drums” to realizing, yes this is what happens whenever I yawn and I didn’t know it had a name and I guess not everyone can do it?
posted by TWinbrook8 at 2:56 PM on March 5
posted by TWinbrook8 at 2:56 PM on March 5
To learn to wiggle my ears.
I learned how to wiggle my ears by paying attention to what happened when I was scared or startled. I could feel my ears perk up, physically. And so I tried my best to isolate that sensation until I identified the muscles, and from then on wiggling my ears was really easy.
Before that it was me standing in front of my mom, not doing anything, and asking her if I was flapping my ears like Dumbo.
posted by grumpybear69 at 3:01 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
I learned how to wiggle my ears by paying attention to what happened when I was scared or startled. I could feel my ears perk up, physically. And so I tried my best to isolate that sensation until I identified the muscles, and from then on wiggling my ears was really easy.
Before that it was me standing in front of my mom, not doing anything, and asking her if I was flapping my ears like Dumbo.
posted by grumpybear69 at 3:01 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
Well I have never heard of rumbling your eardrums. Fascinating. I can pop them, but...
I also have major hearing loss in one ear, but lately, when I cover my good ear up to try to sleep, (too noisy otherwise), I am essentially hearing radio baseball play-by-play. Even though I can't tell what is being said. But the same cadence, crowd response, mumble mumble. Very odd.
posted by Windopaene at 3:15 PM on March 5
I also have major hearing loss in one ear, but lately, when I cover my good ear up to try to sleep, (too noisy otherwise), I am essentially hearing radio baseball play-by-play. Even though I can't tell what is being said. But the same cadence, crowd response, mumble mumble. Very odd.
posted by Windopaene at 3:15 PM on March 5
ah yes, The Hum.
When I was living in Seattle, I started hearing a Hum. My partner couldn't hear it, but I could. It started abruptly one day. This deep, insistent noise down at the bottom of my hearing range. And it was loud. I could feel the pressure of it. Everywhere I went in the neighborhood I lived, it was there. Go elsewhere in town and it was gone. Leave town and it didn't follow me.
I had trouble sleeping because it was so damn loud. I'd put in earplugs and they'd cut it some but I could still hear it. I started sleeping in different rooms in my apartment because it was slightly less loud.
I still started gaslighting myself, wondering if it was all in my head. Wondering if it was a symptom of anything. This shit really fucks with you.
It was still going when I left Seattle in 2019. I wonder if I'd hear it if I went back to visit? In the unlikely event that I end up there again I'll have to go make sure down to the University District at night and find out.
Thanks for reminding me that's not in my life any more. I'm really thankful it's gone. And kind of heartened to know that apparently about 1/50 of the rest of the neighborhood was also silently sharing my misery.
posted by egypturnash at 3:41 PM on March 5 [8 favorites]
When I was living in Seattle, I started hearing a Hum. My partner couldn't hear it, but I could. It started abruptly one day. This deep, insistent noise down at the bottom of my hearing range. And it was loud. I could feel the pressure of it. Everywhere I went in the neighborhood I lived, it was there. Go elsewhere in town and it was gone. Leave town and it didn't follow me.
I had trouble sleeping because it was so damn loud. I'd put in earplugs and they'd cut it some but I could still hear it. I started sleeping in different rooms in my apartment because it was slightly less loud.
I still started gaslighting myself, wondering if it was all in my head. Wondering if it was a symptom of anything. This shit really fucks with you.
It was still going when I left Seattle in 2019. I wonder if I'd hear it if I went back to visit? In the unlikely event that I end up there again I'll have to go make sure down to the University District at night and find out.
Thanks for reminding me that's not in my life any more. I'm really thankful it's gone. And kind of heartened to know that apparently about 1/50 of the rest of the neighborhood was also silently sharing my misery.
posted by egypturnash at 3:41 PM on March 5 [8 favorites]
My hum's beginning coincided with the end of the work on the new transit tunnel for the neighborhood. For a while I suspected something from that as a source. I dunno what the fuck it was. It sure wasn't tinnitus though. Not with it being out of my life ever since the moment I moved out of there.
I sure wondered if it was tinnitus. That's part of what was driving me crazy. I could see it driving me to suicide if I stayed. Not that the grey winters weren't doing that already, but the Hum sure wasn't helping.
posted by egypturnash at 3:49 PM on March 5
I sure wondered if it was tinnitus. That's part of what was driving me crazy. I could see it driving me to suicide if I stayed. Not that the grey winters weren't doing that already, but the Hum sure wasn't helping.
posted by egypturnash at 3:49 PM on March 5
"it feels like a resonant frequency of a much deeper sound", he describes it as - yes, very yes. I so do not miss that sensation.
posted by egypturnash at 4:00 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
posted by egypturnash at 4:00 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
there's a database for reports of this thing, damn I wish I'd tried looking for other people hearing this when I was living in it, it would have helped so fucking much to know I was very not alone.
posted by egypturnash at 4:05 PM on March 5 [3 favorites]
posted by egypturnash at 4:05 PM on March 5 [3 favorites]
USA Pipelines, look them up by your Parish or County:
https://pvnpms.phmsa.dot.gov/PublicViewer/
posted by eustatic at 4:06 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
https://pvnpms.phmsa.dot.gov/PublicViewer/
posted by eustatic at 4:06 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
look them up by your Parish or County
Wait. There is one a block from me? And I've been blaming freaking road noise for it?
posted by mittens at 4:14 PM on March 5 [4 favorites]
Wait. There is one a block from me? And I've been blaming freaking road noise for it?
posted by mittens at 4:14 PM on March 5 [4 favorites]
A medical person washed the wax out of my ears and, unexpectedly, my tinnitus was resolved. If I had known this was a possible solution I could have gotten peace years ago.
posted by llc at 4:22 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
posted by llc at 4:22 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
It's a shame the well's been poisoned with paranormal/conspiracy crap when it comes to the mysterious hum(s). My feeling is that one of the worst aspects of hearing a persistent hum may be the inability to explain what it is. I can see how it might drive some people batty. And I think that might be compounded when those persons have been primed to think there's something paranormal or conspiratorial. And made worse when nobody else can hear it (or cares to try hearing it). I suspect under similar circumstances, the issue might take me to some dark places.
I've been absolutely amazed at how well sound/vibration can carry and be heard. That seems like a weird thing to say, but over the last 20 or so years, the longest I've lived anywhere, in my house, I've been able to notice how remarkable it can be to notice low level, and absolutely mundane, sounds travel. And sometimes only be heard under odd circumstances. I've never dedicated much time to figuring out why I sometimes can hear distant sounds that can't be heard as easily when closer to the actual source. But it seems resonating surfaces/cavities can be remarkable amplifiers under the right circumstances.
Actual hum, though, isn't present at my house. I do sense hum/vibration two places: both while parked in a non-running car, at my place of employment, and also at my wife's place of employment. For a while, I thought it was something in the car that was still running, even though nothing was running. Then I noticed it in a different car. I have a general sense of what may be happening, but I'm not that motivated to find out or let it get to me.
Perhaps living in a fairly noisy city, between I-10 and an airport, keeps me from obsessing over ambient noise in general. Every few months, I take a trip out to a very remote spot in the desert for the night, to enjoy the stars and nighttime sounds. When the wind dies down, it gets deathly quiet, and if I lived in such a place with a persistent, unidentifiable hum, it would probably affect me much differently than the traffic and aircraft always surrounds me, where I live.
posted by 2N2222 at 4:23 PM on March 5 [4 favorites]
I've been absolutely amazed at how well sound/vibration can carry and be heard. That seems like a weird thing to say, but over the last 20 or so years, the longest I've lived anywhere, in my house, I've been able to notice how remarkable it can be to notice low level, and absolutely mundane, sounds travel. And sometimes only be heard under odd circumstances. I've never dedicated much time to figuring out why I sometimes can hear distant sounds that can't be heard as easily when closer to the actual source. But it seems resonating surfaces/cavities can be remarkable amplifiers under the right circumstances.
Actual hum, though, isn't present at my house. I do sense hum/vibration two places: both while parked in a non-running car, at my place of employment, and also at my wife's place of employment. For a while, I thought it was something in the car that was still running, even though nothing was running. Then I noticed it in a different car. I have a general sense of what may be happening, but I'm not that motivated to find out or let it get to me.
Perhaps living in a fairly noisy city, between I-10 and an airport, keeps me from obsessing over ambient noise in general. Every few months, I take a trip out to a very remote spot in the desert for the night, to enjoy the stars and nighttime sounds. When the wind dies down, it gets deathly quiet, and if I lived in such a place with a persistent, unidentifiable hum, it would probably affect me much differently than the traffic and aircraft always surrounds me, where I live.
posted by 2N2222 at 4:23 PM on March 5 [4 favorites]
Oh Hey! the video features the US DOT map I have linked above about 23 minutes in.
Feeling conspiratorial about the Oil industry, lol. Well, they don't do themselves any favors, with their secret plans to destroy the world and all. The company that the author rags on is Kinder Morgan.
Here's a Louisiana Map, where you can view them all at once, although it's a private dataset with some errors.
Texas Railroad Commission has a pipeline viewer that is less kludgy than US DOT's, here:
https://gis.rrc.texas.gov/gisviewer/
posted by eustatic at 4:25 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
Feeling conspiratorial about the Oil industry, lol. Well, they don't do themselves any favors, with their secret plans to destroy the world and all. The company that the author rags on is Kinder Morgan.
Here's a Louisiana Map, where you can view them all at once, although it's a private dataset with some errors.
Texas Railroad Commission has a pipeline viewer that is less kludgy than US DOT's, here:
https://gis.rrc.texas.gov/gisviewer/
posted by eustatic at 4:25 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
I've heard the hum since 2020. I appreciate this post a lot. And I'm really glad the video takes a rational, scientific approach, because there's a lot of nonsense conspiracism around this phenomenon on the internet. I've read Glen MacPherson's writing on the topic (he's interviewed in the linked video) and I've put an entry into his Hum Database. My experience of the hum is exactly as he describes it: a very low frequency that I hear and feel. It is mostly drowned out by ambient noise during the day, but sometimes in the stillness of night it seems so loud. Playing a tone generator alongside what I'm hearing, I've measured it at 75 Hz (going up or down by 1 Hz gives me 1 Hz beats), though it may be 1/2 or 1/4th of that. It certainly feels lower than 75 Hz. It really annoyed me when I first started hearing it, but now I'm sort of used to it.
At first, I must have seemed a bit mad to my wife. I was doing things like walking around the house in the dark, listening keenly, with the power to the house shut off. I have lots of speculation: Is it vibration from nearby interstate 90? Is it the throb of ship engines at the Port of Seattle? Why does it seem louder in cold, clear weather? Is it entirely in my head? Why don't I hear it while sitting in my car in the driveway? Etc.
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 4:30 PM on March 5 [5 favorites]
At first, I must have seemed a bit mad to my wife. I was doing things like walking around the house in the dark, listening keenly, with the power to the house shut off. I have lots of speculation: Is it vibration from nearby interstate 90? Is it the throb of ship engines at the Port of Seattle? Why does it seem louder in cold, clear weather? Is it entirely in my head? Why don't I hear it while sitting in my car in the driveway? Etc.
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 4:30 PM on March 5 [5 favorites]
A medical person washed the wax out of my ears and, unexpectedly, my tinnitus was resolved.
Yes, I had extremely irritating "typewriter tinnitus." I didn't really expect an ear-vacuuming (by an ear doctor, mind you!) to help, but...it did! Also the weeeeeeeeirdest sensation.
posted by praemunire at 4:39 PM on March 5
Yes, I had extremely irritating "typewriter tinnitus." I didn't really expect an ear-vacuuming (by an ear doctor, mind you!) to help, but...it did! Also the weeeeeeeeirdest sensation.
posted by praemunire at 4:39 PM on March 5
Back for more. Yes "blinking" my ears makes a crinkle noise. But when falling asleep at night, I can totally hear a rumbling if I'm even the slightest bit tense around my jaw/ears/side of my head... There is a low rumbling. I notice it, relax, and it stops.
Okay onto the hum - there's a big honking iron ball in the middle of the Earth that is spinning very, very quickly. I have finished the video yet, nor am I smart enough to understand the scale of masses we're dealing with. But is it possible our spinning iron core is causing extremely long wave subsonic vibrations?
posted by Wetterschneider at 4:54 PM on March 5
Okay onto the hum - there's a big honking iron ball in the middle of the Earth that is spinning very, very quickly. I have finished the video yet, nor am I smart enough to understand the scale of masses we're dealing with. But is it possible our spinning iron core is causing extremely long wave subsonic vibrations?
posted by Wetterschneider at 4:54 PM on March 5
Jane the Brown, the title of this FPP is a reference to the song "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield, which is about the paranoia and conspiracy-theory mindset of the 1960s. The chorus is "It's time we stop / Hey, what's that sound? / Everybody look what's going down." I think it's a very clever title for a MetaFilter FPP that humorously situates the content into context in at least two different ways (the textual level of being about a mysterious sound, and the contextual level of being about conspiracy thinking), and is the sort of thing I particularly enjoy seeing here. Personally, I don't think it's clickbaity at all. Tastes and perceptions may differ.
posted by biogeo at 4:56 PM on March 5 [11 favorites]
posted by biogeo at 4:56 PM on March 5 [11 favorites]
First get an app for your phone to check ambient noise levels and attempt to isolate actual environmental cause like fridge compressor. It f it isn’t then it may be a spasm in the tempor tensi or tinnitus.
posted by interogative mood at 5:22 PM on March 5
posted by interogative mood at 5:22 PM on March 5
good luck to all hearing a hum. I have to second getting an ear vaccuuming, if you can manage it. apparently those machines, and the training for them, is rare where I am. the urgent care will only scrape, i had to be sick for weeks to get access the real machine...
posted by eustatic at 5:44 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
posted by eustatic at 5:44 PM on March 5 [1 favorite]
When I was dealing with this, about 5 years ago at my old apartment, I did a series of late night walks and eventually tracked it down to the firehall 6 blocks away. I think it's the crazy HVAC systems they have for sucking exhaust when the trucks idle in the bay.
posted by mannequito at 6:57 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
posted by mannequito at 6:57 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]
> My bet is a caffeinated squirrel on a skateboard.
Gonads and strife? In this economy?!
posted by genpfault at 7:08 PM on March 5 [6 favorites]
Gonads and strife? In this economy?!
posted by genpfault at 7:08 PM on March 5 [6 favorites]
Oh, a low sound. From the title and FPP text I was assuming a high-pitched noise, which in younger days I managed to identify by turning my parents' new LED TV off from its fancy new standby mode.
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 7:49 PM on March 5
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 7:49 PM on March 5
Huh, that kind of describes what I've been hearing for years. It's a bit like the hum of the ST:TNG Enterprise, but louder and a bit louder in my left ear.
I had assumed it was some weird form of tinnitus, something produced by the inner or middle ear itself. Or maybe my faulty auditory nerves. In my case, I don't think it's an outside sound as I have moderate hearing loss, and don't really pick up on such things.
posted by Soliloquy at 9:53 PM on March 5
I had assumed it was some weird form of tinnitus, something produced by the inner or middle ear itself. Or maybe my faulty auditory nerves. In my case, I don't think it's an outside sound as I have moderate hearing loss, and don't really pick up on such things.
posted by Soliloquy at 9:53 PM on March 5
I don't know if it's the same thing, but my wife and I both experienced a sound that would pass through our room at night, usually around the time we were going to sleep. Which sounds like it might be caused by a dreamstate or something, but again my wife and I both heard it at the same time. A low hum sound would start on one end of our apartment and move through the room, east to west I believe, and move on west, fading out eventually. It was very deep and I felt it almost like a vibration. Very strange. This happened maybe a dozen times at the most over a few years' timespan, the last happening maybe 2019 or so? Haven't heard it in years now, but it was genuinely strange, and I have no possible explanation for what it was.
posted by zardoz at 10:05 PM on March 5 [3 favorites]
posted by zardoz at 10:05 PM on March 5 [3 favorites]
I lived about a hundred feet from a fairly large gas pipeline for half a decade and didn't notice a thing. Of course, I'm really good at tuning out noises, but even when it was super quiet out and I was standing on top of the right of way I heard/felt nothing.
When I say good at tuning out noises, I mean after the first month living next to a freight line I'd hardly notice the trains going by despite it literally shaking the house.
The closest thing I've heard to the Hum was the sound that signaled the arrival of minor earthquakes in Oklahoma. That was more like a rumble to my mind, but also in that weird place between hearing and feeling. Moments later, at least in the particularly large (for Oklahoma, we're talking magnitude 4 here) ones, there would be a little bit of ground motion that could be felt, but beforehand it was just the not-quite-a-sound. Sometimes that's all there was.
I feel for anyone who has to hear a sound they just can't escape, no matter what the source. On the bad days, tinnitus can really drive me batty. Thankfully, those are pretty rare for me. A long "attack" for me is a couple of hours before it fades into the background. Only a few times has it gone on continuously for days. Well, after the death of CRTs anyway.
As much as I loved screens back in the day, there were many occasions where I wasn't consciously hearing the noise or the feeling of pressure from that goddamned whine until I finally turned off all the TVs and monitors in the house and felt the sweet relief. It felt like my head had stopped being crushed, but I didn't notice that it was being crushed in the first place.
posted by wierdo at 1:42 AM on March 6
When I say good at tuning out noises, I mean after the first month living next to a freight line I'd hardly notice the trains going by despite it literally shaking the house.
The closest thing I've heard to the Hum was the sound that signaled the arrival of minor earthquakes in Oklahoma. That was more like a rumble to my mind, but also in that weird place between hearing and feeling. Moments later, at least in the particularly large (for Oklahoma, we're talking magnitude 4 here) ones, there would be a little bit of ground motion that could be felt, but beforehand it was just the not-quite-a-sound. Sometimes that's all there was.
I feel for anyone who has to hear a sound they just can't escape, no matter what the source. On the bad days, tinnitus can really drive me batty. Thankfully, those are pretty rare for me. A long "attack" for me is a couple of hours before it fades into the background. Only a few times has it gone on continuously for days. Well, after the death of CRTs anyway.
As much as I loved screens back in the day, there were many occasions where I wasn't consciously hearing the noise or the feeling of pressure from that goddamned whine until I finally turned off all the TVs and monitors in the house and felt the sweet relief. It felt like my head had stopped being crushed, but I didn't notice that it was being crushed in the first place.
posted by wierdo at 1:42 AM on March 6
I had a hum in the 1990s. Turns out you can hear a steel rolling mill from a surprisingly long distance at night.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 2:34 AM on March 6 [3 favorites]
posted by GallonOfAlan at 2:34 AM on March 6 [3 favorites]
If you are hearing a hum and are not sure if it is real, download any of the many sound spectrogram apps for your phone and play with it.
There is this new high pitched noise that goes on for days at a time here. The spectrogram shows a very bright line centered at 3.5 kilohertz and about 2 kilohertz wide. This looks just like the the Steam Deck fan hum that was controversial some time ago, but is too loud to be it.
The low end of my spectrogram is red hot from the nearby highway.
I have yet to give a serious try to locating the origin, but waking around and giving the app 20 seconds to sample ambient noise I know that the hum is loudest to the north of my house.
posted by Dr. Curare at 4:48 AM on March 6 [1 favorite]
There is this new high pitched noise that goes on for days at a time here. The spectrogram shows a very bright line centered at 3.5 kilohertz and about 2 kilohertz wide. This looks just like the the Steam Deck fan hum that was controversial some time ago, but is too loud to be it.
The low end of my spectrogram is red hot from the nearby highway.
I have yet to give a serious try to locating the origin, but waking around and giving the app 20 seconds to sample ambient noise I know that the hum is loudest to the north of my house.
posted by Dr. Curare at 4:48 AM on March 6 [1 favorite]
I wasn't consciously hearing the noise or the feeling of pressure from that goddamned whine until I finally turned off all the TVs and monitors in the house and felt the sweet relief. It felt like my head had stopped being crushed, but I didn't notice that it was being crushed in the first place.
Persistent noise is like that. The bathroom exhaust fan is one that reliably does it for me, but it's really surprising just how pleasantly shocking a sudden silence can be, and in how many circumstances that's noticeable both in literal and metaphorical senses once primed to look for it.
The few times I've heard The Hum have involved lying on my back in deserts in the Pilbara while staring straight up at the stars. Both times, it got louder when I rested the back of my head on the comfy cobble put there for that purpose.
I do recall wondering about the source of it at the time, but not seriously; it seemed only natural that lying on my back in the dead quiet of the desert night would give me the opportunity to perceive all kinds of stuff that usually hides below all kinds of noise floor. But now I'm wondering how close I actually was to a gas pipeline, of which the region has several.
Finding out that gas pipelines can do that is kind of hilarious to me. I can just picture the glee of the first fossil fuel PR flack to realize just how effective it would be to pin all the blame on wind turbines.
posted by flabdablet at 5:02 AM on March 6 [2 favorites]
Persistent noise is like that. The bathroom exhaust fan is one that reliably does it for me, but it's really surprising just how pleasantly shocking a sudden silence can be, and in how many circumstances that's noticeable both in literal and metaphorical senses once primed to look for it.
The few times I've heard The Hum have involved lying on my back in deserts in the Pilbara while staring straight up at the stars. Both times, it got louder when I rested the back of my head on the comfy cobble put there for that purpose.
I do recall wondering about the source of it at the time, but not seriously; it seemed only natural that lying on my back in the dead quiet of the desert night would give me the opportunity to perceive all kinds of stuff that usually hides below all kinds of noise floor. But now I'm wondering how close I actually was to a gas pipeline, of which the region has several.
Finding out that gas pipelines can do that is kind of hilarious to me. I can just picture the glee of the first fossil fuel PR flack to realize just how effective it would be to pin all the blame on wind turbines.
posted by flabdablet at 5:02 AM on March 6 [2 favorites]
I heard this when I lived in rural Oregon, nothing around to explain it. I even turned off the main breaker to make sure it wasn't something electric in the house. It drove me absolutely nuts. I especially heard it when laying down to sleep, which is the worst time to hear it. It was like there was so little background noise to drown it out so it was so clear to me. My husband thought I was imagining things.
I've heard it other places too, but nowhere as strong as those four years in the Oregon Coast Range.
posted by biblioPHL at 7:32 AM on March 6 [1 favorite]
I've heard it other places too, but nowhere as strong as those four years in the Oregon Coast Range.
posted by biblioPHL at 7:32 AM on March 6 [1 favorite]
Tensor tympani flexing referred to as "Brain Thunder" previously on AskMe.
posted by quintessence at 9:06 AM on March 6
posted by quintessence at 9:06 AM on March 6
Turns out you can hear a steel rolling mill from a surprisingly long distance at night.
It's amazing how different sound can be depending on environmental factors. Wind, inversion layers, seasons changing the amount of foliage, etc. There are some train tracks not particularly close to where I live, and 99 percent of the time I don't hear a thing, but on certain evenings I will hear the horn as clear as a bell. Or planes going over -- usually the traffic in and out of San Jose airport doesn't cause any issues, even though I can see the planes, but occasionally it must bounce off an atmosphere layer, because then it will be thunderous.
posted by tavella at 9:07 AM on March 6 [1 favorite]
It's amazing how different sound can be depending on environmental factors. Wind, inversion layers, seasons changing the amount of foliage, etc. There are some train tracks not particularly close to where I live, and 99 percent of the time I don't hear a thing, but on certain evenings I will hear the horn as clear as a bell. Or planes going over -- usually the traffic in and out of San Jose airport doesn't cause any issues, even though I can see the planes, but occasionally it must bounce off an atmosphere layer, because then it will be thunderous.
posted by tavella at 9:07 AM on March 6 [1 favorite]
Correction: 20 hertz wide, not 2 kilohertz.
Now I just went and set up 3 microphones on the roof to see if I can do any triangulation with non calibrated mics and a continuous tone.
posted by Dr. Curare at 10:09 AM on March 6 [2 favorites]
Now I just went and set up 3 microphones on the roof to see if I can do any triangulation with non calibrated mics and a continuous tone.
posted by Dr. Curare at 10:09 AM on March 6 [2 favorites]
So... I have this. It's been going on for about 5 years.
I first noticed a low hum at night, usually around 11pm-5am, when the world outside was quiet. For a long time I thought it was something in our house. But then I could hear it outside, but not all nights. Other people on Nextdoor said they heard it. We even almost started a nighttime detective hum-finder team.
We moved to the country where it is dead quiet. And I still hear it there!
Ultimately, what I figure out is that the sound is coming... dun dun dun... from INSIDE MY HEAD. Since I only hear it in one ear, and it stays in the ear if I turn my head, I think it's clear that it's just some sort of rare low frequency tinnitus.
posted by CharlesDeP at 11:01 AM on March 6 [3 favorites]
I first noticed a low hum at night, usually around 11pm-5am, when the world outside was quiet. For a long time I thought it was something in our house. But then I could hear it outside, but not all nights. Other people on Nextdoor said they heard it. We even almost started a nighttime detective hum-finder team.
We moved to the country where it is dead quiet. And I still hear it there!
Ultimately, what I figure out is that the sound is coming... dun dun dun... from INSIDE MY HEAD. Since I only hear it in one ear, and it stays in the ear if I turn my head, I think it's clear that it's just some sort of rare low frequency tinnitus.
posted by CharlesDeP at 11:01 AM on March 6 [3 favorites]
When I say good at tuning out noises, I mean after the first month living next to a freight line I'd hardly notice the trains going by despite it literally shaking the house.
When I was in college, there was a set of four apartments within spitting distance of a train track (almost literally). We had some study groups there and I was amazed when the residents would just stop talking when a train went by and start right back up as soon as it was quiet(er).
Then, I moved into the apartment the next year. Like you, it was maybe a month before I didn't notice the train. I also didn't notice that I, too, had formed the habit of not talking when train nearby. It just... happened!
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 12:10 PM on March 6 [1 favorite]
When I was in college, there was a set of four apartments within spitting distance of a train track (almost literally). We had some study groups there and I was amazed when the residents would just stop talking when a train went by and start right back up as soon as it was quiet(er).
Then, I moved into the apartment the next year. Like you, it was maybe a month before I didn't notice the train. I also didn't notice that I, too, had formed the habit of not talking when train nearby. It just... happened!
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 12:10 PM on March 6 [1 favorite]
nope. little college in iowa.
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 1:31 PM on March 6
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 1:31 PM on March 6
I can voluntarily 'rumble' my ears, since I was a teenager - I've always thought of it as a "click" - others can hear it when I do it - it's great when you go underwater, or are on a plane, you can equalise the pressure in my ears, I'm told frequent scuba divers try to learn how to do it.
It has nothing to do with my tinnitus, as an electronic engineer, I always assumed I was just hearing the noise that's in any circuit, until it suddenly got louder last year ....
posted by mbo at 9:30 PM on March 6
It has nothing to do with my tinnitus, as an electronic engineer, I always assumed I was just hearing the noise that's in any circuit, until it suddenly got louder last year ....
posted by mbo at 9:30 PM on March 6
Hey all you eardrum rumblers, you have voluntary control of your tensor tympani muscle. Just thought you should know.
Like other ear rumblers, I just thought everyone could do this. Now, I have a name for it. Cool!
posted by eekernohan at 6:28 PM on March 7
Like other ear rumblers, I just thought everyone could do this. Now, I have a name for it. Cool!
posted by eekernohan at 6:28 PM on March 7
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn...
posted by y2karl at 12:07 PM on March 9 [1 favorite]
posted by y2karl at 12:07 PM on March 9 [1 favorite]
If anyone was following, I managed to locate the hum to an empty house two doors down, which is interesting since the house has not had power or water for about 6 weeks. Got the neighborhood association involved and they contacted the owner, who sent someone to investigate.
It was the low battery alarm for a large UPS. The hum is gone. I can finally rest to the soothing sound of distant 18 wheeler air brakes and dogs howling in the neighborhood.
posted by Dr. Curare at 12:03 PM on March 15 [4 favorites]
It was the low battery alarm for a large UPS. The hum is gone. I can finally rest to the soothing sound of distant 18 wheeler air brakes and dogs howling in the neighborhood.
posted by Dr. Curare at 12:03 PM on March 15 [4 favorites]
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