Taos Hum, Brummton Phänomen, Zurich-Switzerland

Please also read my general statements at the end of this text.
If you just want to hear the hum I recorded jump to position 00:42.
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This sound is a real recorded sound of the Taos Hum - not synthesized!

Date: 22.01.2009, 01:14 am
Recorded outside of the city (urban region), inside a room, door and windows closed, microphone inside the room with a cable to recording gear outside of the room,
outside house temp max 2°C, humidity more than 80%, wind 0-1m/s, no rain

My girlfriend hears it regularly. There are periods she doesn't hear it at all and then again she hears it many nights after another being kept awake.

We tried to find the origin of the sound. We checked the heating in the whole house, did tests with winter/summer settings, switched on and off the refrigerators, closed the water pipes- ours and the ones from the neighbour, checked the environment around the house for running machines, ventilating systems etc. We let come the service technician and told him the story. He first didn't believe us until I showed him the record of the hum sound. Then he was dumbfounded, too.

But we couldn't find anything that produced a similar sound. Perhaps the sounds from the environment change when traveling through the ground and then hit the house. Perhaps the bedroom is located at an interference point (?) Or perhaps the whole house acts as a resonator (?)... We don't know

I usually don't hear the sound, but sometimes can hear it, when the environment is completely silent and me lying in the bed for some time being completely relaxed.

Anyhow, when I recorded the Hum sound in January 2009, at Zürich-Höngg (Zurich-Hoengg) Switzerland, I could clearly hear the sound. It was more a pressure than a direct sound. The analysis of the recorded sound showed me a peak around 100Hz plusminus some Hertz. So the origin of the sound may be the power lines (we have 50Hz).
The microphone cable I used is not shielded. Also the amplifier may not be shielded well. I also could see peaks between 8 and 12 Hertz (Schumann Frequency ?), there were strong noise signals in the range of 10 kHz (fluorescent lamps?). My system mic-filter-amp is capable of registering pressure changes down to 0.1Hz. But I set the corner frequencies at 8Hz and ca. 21kHz, samplerate 44.1kHz (the Nyquist theorem was not broken)

I believe it is an acoustic sound rather than electromagnetic waves. But honestly, I don't really know...
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General statements

After some interesting discussions I decided to write these statements that should explain my standpoint to the Taos Hum and the recording.

1. This (Taos) Hum exists
2. I heard it, I recorded it
3. The hum's origin still is unknown, even to scientists
4. It may be caused naturally
5. It may be caused by human technology
6. It may be a pure acoustical sound
7. It may be electric/electromagnetic induced into matter causing acoustical phenomena, or in my case, induced into the electronics
8. Signal sampling/processing may increase nuisance factors or even produce new artificial signals, important are the kind of signals resp. the relations in amplitude, phase, periodicity / randomness and distribution over the frequency spectrum
9. If you write absolute statements you just show how little your knowledge about science and scientific thinking is
10. If you write absolute statements you just show that you haven't read this text

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[MRiveraSchneider]

Wow, last month I've been able to hear something kinda similar to this. Today a friend of mine told me about all these videos pointing out this kind of sounds here in youtube. Once I got home tonight, I was able to record and upload a clip of what I hear, and I don't know if it's just me but I find it very similar to this hum, not that loud of course, since it's not edited. You can watch the video in my channel and tell me what you think if you're curious.

[dugall1]

@MRiveraSchneider

Hi, I watched your video. For me the sound of the first part definitely is a machine made sound. I wonder about the sound of the second part of your video. There the sound seems to be modified somehow stretched or so. It could be everything, so no chance to tell anything. :)

[Hienonen]

I've been hearing this voice occasionally for 3-4 years now, at night times. Here in the Helsinki city area, where I live, I thought it'd be some environmental noice. But then I heard it also on the countryside cottage which is apprx 8 km from a bigger country road and about 35 kilometres from a motor road and nearest (small) city - every night for two weeks. So then I assumed it must be tinnitus in my ear. But now... I don't know.

[dugall1]

@Hienonen

Hi, thank you for this information. I find it very interesting, that people also at the countryside(s) around the world can hear it . It means, that this is a phenomenon on a large scale.And no, it definitely is no Tinnitus. Human beings have Tinnitus, but electronic devices cannot have Tinnitus. And this sound is a real recorded one.

[LechuCzechu]

Sorry for interviewing you so much but I've got couple of more questions: 1) do you or your relatives hear it also outside the house? 2) Is it heard by other people from other parts of town?

[dugall1]

@LechuCzechu

No, only me and my gf heard it. At least there's no one else I know that could have heard it. I heard it also outside the house once. My gf only inside.

[JosephHuntington]

Global Tinnitus, according to Saint Garth of Cebu. The aftermath of hyper-control, an overdose of vanity or inconsequential genocidal ratcheting.

[MisterFusion113]

With speakers on max, this is EXACTLY what I hear, strictly at night. This gave me goosebumps. I'm glad other people hear this (not crazy) and I'm glad it can be recorded and measured (that's the first step in solving it and tinnitus and SOE are eliminated) Ontario Canada for anyone that might be charting.

[ken0077g]

Very close to what i hear . day and mostly night : ( alberta canada .

[kegi112]

It sounds the same at our place - close to Göppingen in Germany south - i could record it and it is the same noise, just a bit deeper - a deep C'

[kowihawk]

@NekoLuNa26 Last but not least there are more germans all over the country, who hear this noice in the night, so that they wrote some articles about it

[NekoLuNa26]

I'm living in Germany and I've been hearing this sound once for about 3-4 month in the night too. First I've thought it would be a truck driver or any other car, but it hadn't stopped. I surely know that it was really annoying, so I looked outside the window, but there was nothing. It was a very hard night, because I couldn't sleep or maybe some hours... =___=

Now I'm happy that I'm not crazy, because it's the same noise in the video like I've heard in this night.^^

[gio4fun]

I live in Bucharest , Romania and I've been hearing this sound for about 2 years. First I thought it's the city's background noise and later I suspected I have problems with my ears and consulted even a doctor. I am really glad to know that other people from around the world are experiencing this phenommenon. This proofs that I am not crazy, or maybe that we are all crazy! :-))

[NicolasNarvaez16MFC]

i heard this normally before slepping and it is a bit diferent from what you recorded, i visualize it in a pink shape and it is like a spatial bubble, it is more like the sound you can make with a glass and your finger, i use it for entering the hipnagogic state of awarenes, i speak on this way because i beliebe human hear it in a diferent way that machines, maybe we dont use ears for it :S