The Taos Hum
This page is going to be part of a new section where I will show some of the neat stuff that I've come across. The first site I'd like to link to is written about a phenomenon called The Taos hum. I have my own theories about what causes this Taos Hum, and I'm not really sure what it is, but I have personally experienced it while at a friend's cottage in eastern Manitoba. It is kind of scary.
My friends have a cottage on a remote lake (Beresford Lake). There is not much activity in this place. The only industry I know of in the area is an abandoned gold mine about 25 miles away, near the town of Bisset. There isn't even any electricity at this lake, so it is super quiet.
After being there a few days, I noticed there was a droning type of sound that seemed to be coming from somewhere in the distance. I thought it was a diesel generator and was wondering why the person running this generator was never shutting it off. I remember asking my wife about it, and she not only couldn't hear anything, but reacted as if I was a few bricks short of a load.
Its really bizarre when you hear a continuous sound everywhere around you. No matter where you go, no matter what building you are in, this sound eventually creeps up when things are quiet. But no one else hears this sound, and you cannot locate the source of the offending noise. This "sound" would always be in the background and came more to the forefront when things got really still, whether it be day or night. I remember that whenever I was reading or laying down, it was quite loud. It never sounded like it was really close, always like it was somewhere external to where we were. I would describe it in the same way as others have, which is sounding like some kind of an engine that was idling somewhere in the distance. It was pretty annoying if you were trying to concentrate on something. The sound appeared to be local to the area, because when we left the general area of the lake to travel home, the noise would also be left behind.
I really thought I was cracking up and was quite worried the first time this happened. In my case, the effects were not bad, all I experienced was a humming sound in my head that wouldn't go away during the time we were at the cottage. Others have experienced nosebleeds, headaches, and have even committed suicide to escape it.
At the time, I didn't know this was a widespread thing. Since then, I have found out that it has been reported in great numbers since the 1940's (and possibly earlier) and is well known in England, Germany, and many others countries, as well as the US. There are known hotspots where you can go to hear it, if you happen to be one of the 2% of the population that has the ability to hear the sound. The humming occurs at approx. 50 to 300 Hz, and may be a composite signal made up of harmonics (multiples of 50Hz: 50Hz + 100Hz + 150Hz +...).
The most publicized location of this hum is a town in New Mexico (Taos), where a congressional hearing and investigation were undertaken to determine it's source and/or cause. This investigation did nothing to determine what the hum was, but it did help to spread the word and generate interest in the phenomenon. We now know that the Taos Hum occurs in many locations around the globe. It is especially prominent in England. The Canadian Eskimos say that you can hear the Northern Lights. Could this also be the Taos or Bristol Hum that they hear?
There are a few theories about what people may be hearing. The most popular ones are: 1) Some people may have the ability to hear non acoustical (radio) energy; or 2) People are hearing the resultant "vibrations" from energy passing through the earth or our atmosphere, which are being transmitted (most likely through the earth) using some type of Tesla transmitter.
The first theory is pretty straight forward. The second theory requires a bit of explanation and has been formed after many people have studied what is going on and have decided that this phenomenon could be related to effects observed during some of Tesla's experiments. Here is some related info about the second theory:
Tesla pioneered a process where an electrical current could be passed through the earth itself. Some suspect that something like this may be what they are hearing. It may be occurring either naturally or could be the result of man made activity. For those researching the Taos Hum, and related information, you can get the original papers Nikola Tesla has written on using the Earth as an electrical conductor, which are pretty interesting. Here are a few links to sites dedicated to this strange phenomenon:
The Elusive Hum In Taos, New Mexico
A final theory on the Taos Hum: Others propose a theory that the hum may be the result of energy transmissions blanketing the earth in an unseen storm of wireless signal communications, airborne radio waves, microwave energy, and just any type of energy floating around out there. The hum may be no more than some kind of pollution (a microwave smog, as some people call it) that is left over from all of this wireless activity. But what I don't like about this theory is that: wouldn't you hear the hum more in large cities and populace areas, if this was the case ? The hum is being reported in isolated, desolate locations and not in large population centers, so the facts seem to contradict this popular theory.
At any rate, the effects of electrical currents passing though the earth itself, and the large amounts of airborne wireless signal bombardment are presently being carefully scrutinized and are thought to be in some way related to the Taos hum, and others like it around the world.