The World's Creepiest Unexplained Sounds
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Regarding the hum, one way to rule out background noise from machines or other man made devices would be to come to Bali on Nyepi, the day of silence. For 24 hours there's no traffic, no lights, no one leaving their homes or running any machines. The power grid is still active but no humming. You can hear a fan or even a refrigerator running from the neighbor's house if they've forgotten to turn off everything. It's an incredible experience to sit outside in a relatively heavily populated area such as the city of Denpasar at two o'clock in the morning and its totally dark and silent. Inside your house it feels like being inside a sensory deprivation tank. My favorite day of the year in Bali.
This sounds like an incredible experience. Plan to travel to Bali one day anyway, so now I know when to go.
That sounds like a beautiful and inspiring experience. I wish we did something like that here in the US. Thanks for sharing that. I'd love to experience it some day.
That’s cool. It’s kinda like the desert. No sound, no artificial light….there’s just nothing.
Just go into a negative decibel room
does this mean excess of crime or no ?
In regards to the “Wow!” signal, we always expect an alien civilisation to repeat a message, and yet we humans have only sent non-repetitive signals.
We are not inteligent civilization tho if we really sended tweets.
Good point.
While our messages don’t repeat, the source remains constant, nothing else was heard from the source of the wow signal, “as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced” 😉
@@1988dgs a key difference is that most of our day-to-day activities might degrade such that by the time they cross the interstellar medium they’re indistinguishable from background noise. The Arecibo message - vapid though some of its contents may be - was extremely powerful.
It was also sent once. No repeats. Our own olive branch intended to say to another civilisation “you are not alone” doesn’t meet our own standards to be accepted.
@@RealBelisariusCawl I'm glad we didn't meet that standard. Broadcasting our location is extremely dangerous
If Simon continues making new channels we're gonna need an extra couple of days added to the week
He'll do a Top Tenz of his top ten channels.
@@seanj3667 And I can't wait!
At some point Simons gonna make a channel about Simon
Watch faster
You cannot escape. He'll become the Channel Dominator.
2:25 - Chapter 1 - Number stations
4:55 - Chapter 2 - The Buzzer
6:45 - Chapter 3 - Havana Syndrome
10:30 - Chapter 4 - The hum
12:25 - Chapter 5 - WOW
God's work
thanks champ
I'm an older person and remember the first time I heard about the hum. It was in the late sixties and there were reports of a low frequency sound being heard off the coast of San Diego, California. It created different results in people who heard it. Some reported nausea, depression and there were suicides. The government investigated and a Russian submarine was located off the coast. It was escorted away from the country with little repercussions and or reporting. The hum was no longer heard after that.
Active acoustic masking I would guess. Low frequency is pretty much omnidirectional. Empty tankers will resonate pretty loud.
Wrong, we hear the hum here every day. It's horrible and getting louder.
I heard it today
I was playing with my shortwave radio a couple of years ago, randomly spinning the tuner, when sure enough I found a numbers station with a female voice speaking numbers in Spanish. I did not immediately burn my radio as per Simon, but I was pretty geeked out to have found something spooky I had heard about for years but never actually heard for myself until then.
Probably from Cuba.
@@Vares65 I figured as much. I don't speak Spanish so I can't distinguish the accent.
It's a numbers station. Simon explains it pretty accurately. I live in Florida we get all kinds of weird broadcasting out of Cuba, they really blast out on the shortwave band.
So...there are Cuban spies in Florida?
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I frequently hear 'the hum' in otherwise silent environments.
I first noticed it in my 20s when living near the Thames in NW Kent, and the low rumble reminded me of the background hum when on a big ship, and because of my locality to the river, thought it might be such a noise meandering through the silence toward my ears.
Now, I'm living in Cornwall, I've learned to still hear the noise when I focus, whether it's silent or not, and almost feel it as much in my chest and head as in my ears/mind.
I think of it as the underlying hum of the Earth.
That helps me sleep at sleep time.
(not always night)
i noticed something similar when i was 22 (i'm now 24). A low frequency hum with no specific rhythm. And i would only hear it while relaxing and in very quiet places, so basicaly when i was trying to sleep. I didnt enjoy it though and it certainly didnt help me sleep. After a short research i came to 2 possible sources of the sound: tinitus or magnesium deficiency. As i would only be able to treat the latter, i took some magnesium suplements for a week (the ones you desolve in water with all sorts of fruity tastes) and the hum is now gone for 2 years. Magnesium seems to play a critical role in our nervous system, espacially in everything regarding our senses. So if you are looking for a possible way of getting rid of it, this might well be an easy solution. Stick to low dosing though as overdosing on Magnesium is not very pleasant for your stomach (you get the shitts)
I think of it as the sounds of the cosmos
That's your brain trying to find sound. The sound of silence can be quite loud.
The hum in my area IS coming from the earth. There’s no doubt.
@@isthattrue1083 Possibly. Usually that would be high frequency (tinnitus). Low frequency is probably a real stimuli. Low frequency is low energy, and could be geological. Could be atmospheric. Could be mechanical, road noise, industrial, or just about anything above 18Hz. Could even be the Earth vibrating something lighter, like a wall, so making the infrasound audible. Elephants can hear earthquakes.
The purpose of the song was to identify which sheet you were to use specifically. Also the sheets were made of nitrocellulose or flash paper. They would erupt violently when lit on fire into an almost indiscernible pile of ash. Essentially untraceable and too quick to set off all but the most sensitive of smoke detectors.
Wow, interesting! Thanks for the info
I feel like The Hum is an amalgamation of hundreds of low frequencies combined into one distinct tone. Considering that low frequencies seem to travel the furthest and can pass through almost every medium, it makes sense to me.
If I can hear the bass in the EDM some guy listens to down the street from me at 2 AM, I'm sure there are some people who can hear the humming of every electronic device in their neighborhood.
I noticed that a spectograph on my phone is picking up a peak at 120 hz, and I have no idea where it comes from. Can't be mains power, as that is 50 Hz, can't be any monitor, as there is none running at 60 or 120 Hz either and the sound stays even if I turn them off. The noise is around 20-30 dB over ambient.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Power is actually three 50Hz sine waves out of phase with each other. But it could be cooling fans in street cabinets.
I remember reading some people noticed the lack/reduction of the Hum or something like that during the aftermath of September 11th attacks. It is suggested that the Hum could be the low rumble of passenger aircraft and grounding of all passenger aircraft reduced the noise. I personally have never experienced the Hum, but one day I did notice a rumbling that I spent a couple days trying to find the source, turned out to be my water heater burner, which is audible clear across the house.
@@ROMAQHICKS That is possible. It could be that the sound of airliners is ducted along the surface of the Earth or reflects from tall buildings.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Notes are pretty never single notes, and frequencies generally imply certain other frequencies related by something called the harmonic series or overtone series. Since sound is just pressure waves they can constructively or destructively interfere as well, and two notes might end up implying even more notes (in higher frequencies) due to the interaction. Phone might have been hearing the interference of two low slightly out of phase frequencies that constructed partials that seemed to overlap the overtone series implying a fundamental of 120 hz. Or just the hum of something really high pitched that similarly implied the 120 fundamental.
One of the problems with the electrically caused idea for "the Hum" is that not all countries use 50Hz (EG 60Hz in the USA, Brazil, and South Korea to name but 3) but it seems to be the same frequency everywhere.
It's definitely aliens.
The Hum frequency is not always the same for different sufferers (I know because I am one and have been studying it for many years). For me it is around 70-75 Hz. It appears to be sound emanating from structures, such as your house, in the form of structure born sound, resulting from low frequency noise or vibrations in the ground around the structure. The sound is usually not present when in certain types of buildings, such as concrete block structures and is mainly heard at night, when the temps are cooler, due to the refraction of sound waves.
Hey Simon, I wanted to let you know that all of your UA-cam channels are awesome!!! I've found myself watching hours of your content over the years, and have never been disappointed! Keep up the great work!
Thank you :)
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Yes i 10000000% agree Simons videos are some of the best he's my favorite UA-camr that talks about neice subjects
I can tolerate the Hum signal but damn I hate it when it's accompanied by the Dinger signal.
I admit, that took me a second...😁
Noice
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Alright that was brilliant 👏
If you want to hear a sound related ghost story, here's one from my dad's alma mater. There was an elevator for YEARS in Brown University that would make people sick whenever they went on it. They'd get headaches, nausea, anxiety. It got its nickname "the Elevator to Hell." It turns out the entire thing was caused by a ventilation fan that was only SLIGHTLY bent the wrong way. Like a milimeter give or take. It was so tiny, you wouldn't have been able to tell for sure just by looking at the elevator mechanisms.
Edit: OKAY SINCE EVERYONE DOESN'T GET IT AND I WAS HALF ASLEEP WHEN I WROTE IT, THERE WERE NO GHOSTS, THERE WAS NO OPENING TO HELL, IT GOT THAT NICKNAME BECAUSE A SINGLE BENT FAN MADE PEOPLE SICK AND THEY COULDN'T FIND A REASON WHY SO THEY MADE UP THE MOST RIDICULOUS ONE POSSIBLE. I'M SORRY I TRIED TO SHARE SOMETHING RIDICULOUSLY MYSTERIOUS WITH A REPRODUCABLE SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION...
God this must be what Simon feels like EVERY SINGLE TIME he does a video about something mysterious.
Can you elaborate? What could a defective fan do to cause those symptoms?
I don’t follow…?
Maybe it messed with the inner ear, causing vertigo-like symptoms? Or it didn’t circulate the air well enough so they were breathing more CO2 the longer they were in there.
@@KristenRowenPliske actually it was something called infrasound. :) sound below the range of human hearing. Infrasound and ultrasound can be used to repel pests and the former can have a detrimental effect on humans though the "Brown Note" the Mythbusters sought to find has not yet been discovered. However, its ability to make humans near it ill has been verified. The UN highly frowns upon the development and use of infrasonic weapons, though I don't remember to what degree.
Fun fact, the Game Theorist featured information on Infrasound and its effects in a video they did on the "Indoctrination Theory" of the game Mass Effect 3. Though I highly doubt something like this could be used for the brainwashing the fictional Reapers would have been using it for.
@@notDonaldFagen vibration. it created infrasound, see my reply to Kristen below. :3
I’m so happy you covered this. I’ve been inexplicably obsessed with numbers stations and aquatic sounds for a long time.
A fart in the bath is always entertaining. lol
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Numbers stations in particular. We pretty much know what they're for and who uses them but the denial alone lends a very mysterious ait to them. I always think about being on a boat out at sea at night, and picking up a particularly creepy numbers station, the gongs is pretty spooky sounding.
It seems quite likely that The Bloop was an underwater volcano having a bit of an eruption, but yes the rest of this is quite freaky. Especially The Hum driving people mad worldwide
When I was in the USAF, I worked in Combat Comm. We would have to update our crypto equipment every night a Zulu time. This happened on every secure communication encryption devices in use across the entire USAF Forces. If you were deployed in any fashion, whether real world or exercise, it was the same encryption code.
The way you loaded the equipment was to pull a specific strip of paper with holes in it, like reverse Braille, off a roll that looks like a large modern Label Maker cartridge and then you would roll it thru a reader connected to the equipment.
If by chance someone pulled the next days paper out early, even if it wasn't loaded, the entire AF Comm personel would have to update their equipment again to the next update tape. You had from 00:00 til 00:05 to have everyone verify via radio or other means that their tapes were right so everyone was on the same tape.
I know about this because I was standing next to the Sergeant that actually did that. It required an After Action Report but it was cool to have been there when the once in a blue moon event occurred.
I think they use electronic keyfill devices now.
@@engineeringvision9507 Oh...I'm sure they do!! I'm an old dude and that was the 90s. Hell, they've changed uniform designs 5 times since then and retired my AFSC (job).
😂😂😂😂😂😂
That's actually pretty damned interesting. Also, vis-à-vis your uniform comment... I think the brass just gets bored, doodles on some paper, and wants everyone to be confused. I know I'd design new officer's uniforms every year if given the chance. 😉
This brings back memories. I also served in an Air Force Combat Comm (@ 3rd Herd, Tinker), probably about a decade before you. I remember those tapes breaking or tearing at times, then we'd have to fix them with scotch tape, and re-try pulling them through the reader. I was on a TSC-102 van (the 102 was a pickup overloaded with way too much stuff, and a real POS, tbh, but it was supposed to be even faster to set up than a QRP to provide initial satellite/radio comms - when it all worked. It wasnt unheard of to be up and running via satt link within 7 to 10 minutes) (again, when it worked). The encryption was originally via a KG-13, which you or may not remember. It was the size of a small refrigerator and took cardboard crypto cards. That system was later replaced by the KYK-13/KG-84/KIV-7 configuration (Im sure you probably remember those) when they figured out that a flaw in the KG-13 algo/math meant the Russians could potentially break our code. We never knew if they did or not, but it was apparently pointless, as we learned later that several traitors were providing loads of our stuff to the Russians anyway. - Mostly good times in the Herd, but I was glad to cross-train after Desert Storm. Retired in 2007 after 24 years.
@@MrDlt123 1st Combat Comm. Tech Control. Best tour of my life. Served in JCSE in FL after that. 11 years. 85-97
And yes, We used the KYK-13 to load. At 1st Comm, we had the QRP bread truck and then we swapped to a a mobile crash box tech control. Worked a TSQ 111 CNCE van in DS.
Good times....good times
Jesus man, how many channels do you plan to have?
Its amazing how much content you put out without dropping quality, cheers!
I used to hear "the hum". Would keep me awake at night and even penetrate the ear buds I'd wear. Checked everything in and around my house but couldn't find the source. After a good few years I started taking my dog for a walk round an industrial estate, which has production plant for vaccines. The vaccines were kept in refrigeration trucks, that intermittently turned on and produced a humming noise. These trucks were parked in the estate at all hours of the day and although it was 1 mile from my home, when the wind blew in the right direction or it was deadly quite at night, I could here the noise.
While this was the answer to my own hum problem, if you're suffering from the hum, you may need to look a bit further afield than your immediate surroundings to solve yours, but I guess it's likely that there are multiple probable causes for this phenomenon. Good luck.
that isn't what the "hum" is, but sure lol. Those trucks were not causing you brain damage.
Low frequency sound waves can travel a long distance and bend around objects. I think buildings and the shape of the land itself can magnify them. There's a spot along some rail road tracks that cut through a wetland in some kettle ponds here where I swear I can hear a train coming. I'm familiar with the diesel throb as it climbs the grade out of town. But, there's no train. Move a dozen or so yards either way along the track and the sound goes away. I think it's just the ambient sound of the city that the landscape, wind, humidity, etc. focus there. Vibrations are another wave similar to sound waves. Before I retired, I ran a very large stamping press. Sometimes we'd pierce steel blanks nearly a half inch thick, but typically .375" We started getting complaints from ONE house about half a mile away. I thought it crazy, as no other house was experiencing vibration. Plus, they were right along the CN mainline, you'd think the trains would be the source. But they had us run the press, shut it down, run it and shut it down and the vibrations correlated perfectly. We fixed the press (shock absorbing material on the feet had compacted over the years) and the vibrations went away. We never did figure out or look into the why of it. I figure it probably had to do with subsurface "streams" of water or some other underground feature.
@Grilled Leeks. The hum has been around for a long time. When people started talking about it there was no mention of brain damage, but it did cause distress and in some cases depression. It was an unexplained, highly annoying and sleep disruptive noise. The more conspiracy theory/horror film aspects got tacked on as time passed.
@@jimstewart8122 I think ours is a freight train a couple miles away. It gets louder, then quieter, then stops. Then I hear the train horn. Always in the exact order.
Mine turned out to be Mole People.. the little buggers wont stop digging!
Regarding The Hum, I’m surprised he didn’t mention the Taos Hum. Taos New Mexico is considered by some to be a place of unexplained phenomena, including paranormal. A video about the Taos hum had interviews with residents who heard it that echoes my own experience. I live in Northern California & I myself have been hearing AND feeling a low grade hum/vibration for at least 8 months. What’s more, it sometimes has a pulsing effect where it increases & decreases in strength. I’ve polled my neighbors & most do not feel/hear it but some actually do. I’ve asked my kids. They don’t feel/hear it…but I feel/hear it constantly. It is not electrical or mechanical because I live in an area prone to fire so we have continual & long lasting (48 hrs) stretches with no power. The hum/vibration continues. It comes from underground. I’ve heard theories about magma moving, mole people, underground mining, etc. I found that site by that scientist & was going to report this hum but it wants to know the frequency & I don’t have a way to measure that. I also found another UA-cam video with an audio recording which is EXACTLY what I hear/feel only it’s been amplified so it’s much louder than what it is normally. But it’s an exact match. This is real folks, and I believe it is some sort of planetary phenomenon. At times it resembles an idling motor in your driveway! Something else I noticed, when I go outside to listen, it’s very very faint , almost non existent BUT, I feel it up thru the floor of my modular home. Modular homes, like mobile homes must be on a “permanent foundation “ which is really cement pillars strategically placed under the home. Now the interesting thing is, on plain earth, or the street, I don’t hear or feel it. But when I’m standing on the cement pad where The neighborhood mailboxes are located, I hear/feel it again! So I think concrete or cement is a conductor of this vibration!
Can I get a link to the sound/recording of this hu;m? I heard/felt a loud, deafening, pulsating 'thrum' when I was a child and it woke me up and scared the bejeezus out of me. I looked out the window and saw nothing unusual and then ran for my parents' room. When I got there, I couldn't hear it anymore. I've been trying to discover what it could have been as I have never, EVER heard this sound again even though we've been in the same house since 1970. I can still hear it in my head and will absolutely recognize it if I can hear it again.
You forgot too write: Or it's an anomaly no one can figure out.
Illuminati and/or 5G mind control devices, obviously
Very interesting! I live a little over a mile from a freeway in one direction, and a bit less from a cement plant in the other, which has its own quarry. And two railroads run through town. Even during shutdown, it was never totally quiet. So if there were unusual hums, I missed them!
Sounds like it's more of a depth thing than a concrete thing. Go find a flagpole and see if you get it there too.
Skeptics: "If there are aliens, why don't they come here?"
Me: "If they are looking for intelligent life forms, then they would certainly pass us by." 😂
I've always thought that Aliens once inhabited the earth alongside humans at around the same time the Egyptians were building the pyramids and helped them to do so, and once their task was done and they felt we were evolving to a state where we didn't need their help they left and have been watching us ever since. I don't know its just my theory and for me explains why Egyptian hieroglyphics depict such strange humanoid creatures amongst humans and why there are no records of how the pyramids were actually built
Asking why aliens don't come here is like asking why we don't visit them
I like to believe aliens checked in on us in the 50s and said okay stay the hell away from this place.
I grew up in Germany in the late 80’s. I remember playing with a short wave radio and stumbling into a number station. There was a serious if pops and clicks in a pattern. After about 10 min of this there was a serious of numbers read by a slightly female voice with zero accent. After the short set of numbers the pops and clicks picked up and repeated for about an hour.
My house resonates to a lot of low sounds, and does that even if the source is more than half a mile away. If I go outside, the noise is definitely not that loud, but if I walk in the direction of said noise and come closer, it sounds the same way as it did in my house. Looks like my family chose a rather inconvenient spot to place our home on.
My place does that, very quietly. It turns out there is an underground pump to boostvwater pressure to the houses at the top of the hill.
I live in a parabolic valley. My neighbors are half a mile away on the opposite side. There's a spot in their driveway and my front porch where we can clearly hear each other's conversations. It's pretty bizarre.
I have a similar phenomenon. When I’m on the porch, cars driving by a considerable distance away are barely noticeable background noise. When I lay in bed, day or night, every car sounds like it’s pulling up to my house. First few nights I was pretty wigged out and it kept me from going to sleep. Now I hardly notice it.
@@nobody8328 i used to live in a place like that here. one of my friends lived two streets over. both of us were on a hill but had near line of sight between my apartment and her house. we could just go out into the front yards and talk to each other.
I'm just SO grateful no one came up with ghosts as a reason for this phenomenon. MY people
Isn't that noise weapon similar to what they use on ships against pirates or in crowd control? I think they're called long-rance acoustic device (LRAD)?
It is indeed.
No, the LRAD uses high frequency sound at extremely loud volumes and the effects are different.
sure those exist, but they don't do what that story is talking about.
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I saw this on 60 Minutes and they speculate that it is microwaves. We’ve had weaponized microwave tubes for over 50 years now.
It has been said that the last thing we want is someone out there to take note of us, as they are likely to be so advanced of us, that if they did decide to come and investigate it would be akin to the Spanish meeting the Maya. The most benign result could be they wipe us all out by accident, or add us to their interesting intergalactic butterfly collection!
Resistance is futile
There are basically two kinds of advanced aliens that would come here.
The first are the Vulcans. The nice guys. They have united their world in peace, solved all their problems with combined effort and are cruising through space looking for other civilizations to help with their problems.
The other guys are the Empire. The not so nice guys. They united their world by force, and are looking for other worlds to take over. Only problem with earth is that nasty indigenous fauna that needs to be removed first. But at least there is already infrastructure, so they don't have to build their own cities and roads and stuff before taking over.
So far we humans have shown to be of the empire type.
Zoo Hypothesis and Dark Forest are both terrifying.
I should first say that I have that tinnitus where I always hear those high pitch noises that sound like natural gas flowing through a pipe. I don't notice it all the time, but its there whenever I focus on it. Having said that, I used to routinely go walking in the NJ pines. I noticed on several occasions that while walking I would often hear a low frequency rumble that seemed to stop when ever I stopped moving. At first I thought it was a jeep because it sounded like a jeep moving slowly a few hundred feet away. Almost always there whenever I walked. I would describe it as a 10-20Hz rumble. It was different from the tinnitus in that it never seemed to get louder when I focused on it. The tinnitus ringing ALWAYS gets louder when I focused on it.
Have you seen a doctor about it?
@@sherlockwatson101 No. 1.) It doesn't cause me pain and 2.) it only gets loud when I consciously focus on it. I can still hear very faint sounds. I just ignore it like it's the background noise of the sound system in my head.
@@Robert08010 pain isnt the issue. Ever heard of people randomly smelling stuff like bacon coooking or toast when no one is cooking it & it turns out to be some sort of brain tumor?
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 Well, actually no. I've heard of people having a stroke saying they smelled burnt toast. But I have never heard of that being related to tumors or tinnitus. Have you heard tinnitus is related to having a stroke or tumor?
Meditate on that sound. Give it your undivided attention. As the sound dilates, reality will disintegrate.
The closest thing I might relate the experience to, is an exploded technical drawing, except the disassembly of parts becomes infinitesimal.
You’ll instinctively pull attention back from that unknown experience, before you get lost. It’s like deliberately unfocusing you eyes, then if something moves in your field of view, you instinctively refocus your eyes. It’s tricky to keep your eyes unfocused for long. This is like reality itself coming apart and losing all definition at the time scale we are accustomed to, and we instinctively recoil from the experience.
With practice you can linger outside of reality as we know if though, and then when you allow your attention to reassemble you perception of reality, you can easily return to a different version of reality. The longer you wait to return to your senses, the less likely you’ll be to return to the reality you’re familiar with. Better not fool around with this, if you have friends, families, lovers, whom you care about and don’t wish to leave behind…
I am reading Plutarh, the Roman historian, who writes that during the civil war between Sula and Gaius Marius " the biggest of these indications was that when in a clear sky day a sound of trumpet was heard with such a lenght and piercing and sorrow tone that the whole world got terrified from it's deafening sound" * i translated it from my language, but i'm sure it says the same in Latin from which it originated. This dates to ~100 BCE.
Plutarch (ΠΛΟΥΤΑΡΧΟΣ or Πλούταρχος) was a Greek biographer, a priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi in Central Greece, author and historian born in the 1st century CE. He was not Roman. (sources: Global History, Wikipedia, Britannica, Smithsonian, Oxford Academic)
@@clapiotis lapsus, i was diving into Roman history, Plutarch, among others is a source for Roman history, but thanks for the correction. He was a Greek historian but he was granted Roman citizenship by Vespasian probably, thus, he is also Roman 😂
@@yazziminator You are right. He was very involved with Roman History. That's for sure.
The hum was sometimes like an idling old four cylinder diesel car in front of the house, and when the window was opened it was dead silent outside. Haven't heard it in years though.
Yes! At times it does resemble an idling motor in your driveway! Something else I noticed, when I go outside to listen, it’s very very faint , almost non existent BUT, I feel it up thru the floor of my modular home. Modular homes, like mobile homes must be on a “permanent foundation “ which is really cement pillars strategically placed under the home. Now the interesting thing is, on plain earth, or the street, I don’t hear or feel it. But when I’m standing on the cement pad where The neighborhood mailboxes are located, I hear/feel it again! So concrete or cement is a conductor of this vibration for some reason!
@@irishgrl oh that's fascinating, great insight
@@irishgrl I read some articles, stating that the hum would come from a rare kind of tinnitus, but that doesn't explain why it seems to be a phenomenom experienced by multiple Individuals at the same time.
A rare kind of Tinnitus isn't a satisfying answer, because even if the Tinnitus itself would make us perceive vibrations that are not real, why does it appear to be like an event, wittnessed by more than one person ,sometimes even over a certain amount of time and on a regional scale.
For those investigating Numbers Stations, look up 'The Conet Project'. They released 4 full CD's worth of shortwave recordings with a handy PDF guide to what's being played and when it was recorded. Neat stuff.
Why?!!
I have beginning to think Simon is a AI that is slowly taking over all youtube with so many channels, like Skynet but wants you to learn some stuff instead of wiping us out :)
*an AI
The stick figure guy gained sentience, eh?
5:54 Did anyone else laugh hysterically when the saw the three tiny red fire extinguishers on the bumper of the truck carrying an enormous fucking bomb?
I'm surprised 'Upsweep' wasn't included in this list! Very interesting topic to dig into. Great video as always :)
Have you ever looked into the “trumpet” or “horns” sound that randomly happens around the world? Different places all over the world randomly will have a ridiculously loud sound that sounds like harmonic horns coming from the sky.
now i need to know more about this
Isn't that the Hum? I've seen recordings people have made of the "hum" or "horns" and yeah, it's pretty freaky.
It’s a hoax. The original sound was made by bulldozer scraping it steel blade on a concrete pad. The sound was taken from the audio of a video showing the bulldozer making that screeching resonate horn like sound.
This sound is an example of how some individual creates a myth and other people believe it without question.
@@shinjisan2015 I think they are two different things. Everyone can hear the horns sound but only like 2% of people can hear the “Hum”
@@peterresetz1960 no it wasnt
When it boils down to it, in layman's terms.......everything is a vibrational frequency.
String theory
That powerstrip story is wild. Gonna watch that one next.
Great video. Numbers stations have always fascinated me. However, I'm surprised he didn't cover The Seneca Guns, loud unexplained booms heard in Cape Fear, NC.
Seneca Guns haven't been heard much in recent years. Maybe related to the land and lake raising after the ice age which formed the Finger Lakes. But it's odd most have been from just Seneca Lake when there are so many lakes in N.Y...
The U.S. Navy played us ( Sonar Technicians) a weird hauntingly terrible sound from somewhere beneath the ocean, presumably from the Mariana Trench that sounded like a Banshee wailing and raised the hairs on my arms as well as most of the others that attended. There are some strange things out there.
I had a friend who ran sonar in a nuclear sub and he was always really stoked to talk about his crazy stories. He likened it to being in control of the best sound system in the world.
I am not alone!! I have only ever heard silence twice in my entire life; under 9 feet of water and up in a hot air balloon.
Tinnitus?
Cave exploring.
I've heard the hum. It definitely feels alot different than tinitus
In one week, Dark Docs will plagiarize this content and post it as their own
The "loneliest whale" is misnomer. Other whales CAN hear its call. It's just the only one if its kind.
As far as the hum goes. I think it would make sense as machinery, at least in North America if we could demonstrate that it is 60 hertz or a resonance of it. With our power grid running at 60 hertz all electrical machinery and electric motors will have some level of hum at that frequency.
I also find the idea of entering a silence room interesting. If it doesn't go away in there and it is not picked up by the equipment, we know it internal to the person or it is a non-sonic source somehow being processed by the brain as sound.
In the late late 70s or early 80s my mother reported that she was hearing thumps -- and sometimes double-thumps -- that made it sound like somebody had landed on the roof! When I came back from university I got to hear the sounds too. They weren't quite that loud, but definitely something that our sensitive ears would notice. After a few days I realized that the thump sounds often came at the same times of day, within minutes of each other! I started noting the times on my calendar. I asked neighbors if they had heard the sounds but they said that they hadn't. A couple of months later there was an article in the local paper that talked about people living in the state of Rhode Island in the USA being able to hear sonic booms from the Concord as it was getting up to speed. They mentioned the times and they were all consistent with the times that I had recorded on my calendar! It was nice that the mystery was solved!
Can I hug the lonely whale too?
Of course but make sure he watches his flippers. They can get fresh.
@@christopherengel7436 Honestly, of all the ways to go that sounds pretty great.
Chapter 3 is easy enough to explain: Mass hysteria. Living in embassies on "hostile" territory, with long term fear and suspicion, real and imagined ailments were attributed to hostile actions. Once the imagined mechanism was widely publicized, anyone with a headache and a need to feel important imagined themselves targeted by ultra secret, sonic weapons. The fact is, though, that there's no possible motive for any government to torture embassy staff in this way. There's absolutely nothing to be gained from it. Since nothing is done without a motive, such attacks have never been carried out.
That the Wow-signal has never been picked up again isn't very strange, as the total telescope time listening for it during the 45 years since then amounts to minutes, rather than hours. There are many scenarios, in which it might originate with intelligent aliens, yet never be heard by us again. Like we assume that anyone trying to contact us would transmit 24/7, they might assume that anyone wanting to hear a signal would listen 24/7 -- certainly once they picked up a good candidate in a specific location. If so, they might find it sufficient to send a single, five minute signal per month. Their assumption would be far more reasonable than ours, as transmitting is expensive, while listening is cheap. Another possibility is that it wasn't intended for us, or wasn't intended as a signal. It may have been a targeted radio signal to someone else (spaceship, planet), which we just happened to be in line with, or it might be incidental noise from some other activity.
I live in Finland And My family is from Lapland, which means i Have seen Aurora Borealis Many Times. I bring this up because: Aurora Borealis has a sound, a very low humming sound. Although you really cant hear it, its hard to explain but you can feel it with your stomach as some sort of vibration. Theres Also Sami beliefs of Aurora Borealis snatching people away that were out in The open while there is Aurora up on The sky.
Great video, but please consider reducing the music volume. It is much too loud, and makes listening more difficult, especially over the second half.
*I was a U.S. Navy Ocean Systems Technician, and in 1973 Westinghouse and GE were offering $100,000 to anyone who could prove the source of a sound permeating the world's oceans at a frequency around 20 Hz deemed the "Jez Monster". The concern was that ruskie subs could capitalize on the noise to mask the sounds of their sub's to elude detection by the underwater hydrophone arrays used to track and ultimately triangulate their exact position.*
Very interesting
I hear a hum quite often, I describe it as sounding a bit like a kitchen exhaust fan. I assume it is tinnitus but as it isn't always there and I sometimes hear short spikes in the volume I also think maybe I can hear the blood flowing through vessels close to my ears.
You may want to research that last statement & see a doctor…
“That’s comforting?” Brilliant
The hum is caused by the movement of power wires in response to the high peak current drawn by switch mode power supplies.
It’s more like a muffled clicking at 50 or 60 hz per phase and that goes to 150jz across the three phases.
We need reports of how the level changes during wide spread blackouts.
Personally I hear it louder inside than out and closer to the mains entering a building than at the end of the run.
I have a lot of experience with the Hum. The best description is - diesel engine idling in distance or maybe better - a big fan in distance.
It is not a sound, at least, not in the spectrum we can hear. So, it is more like a vibration that only few people can feel.
It is not internal because few people can feel the same thing at the same time and place.
It is everywhere in the air around us, even outside. People report that it is only inside because outside there are other sounds that cover the Hum.
People also report that it starts when they put their had on a pillow. That is quite normal because the vibration can be felt better when we are at peace.
The air outside vibrates, it vibrate walls and windows and the vibration probably amplifies on that shallow and big plain surfaces.
I do want not say that neighbour's ceiling fan could not sometimes produce similar effects. But, that is another problem.
The worst scenario is frantically trying to find the source or to accuse the neighbours.
The source of the Hum can not be found (we do not have senses or tools to measure it).
So, what to do? If you can accept that some vibration exists and that it would eventually even pass - that's nice. It could pass with weather change, temperature change or maybe without a observable reason. Air plugs or similar devices are of no much help because we do not cope with a sound. Attitude towards the vibration could be useful.
Maybe even some kind of mindfulness meditation could help. Like this: Notice not the vibration but your reaction to it.
You could be lucky if you will be able to keep the vibration mostly out of your focus/attention.
If that does not help, one shortcut is to cover that vibration with another vibration (some music, white noise ...). I do not like that approach because even that sound could start to be annoying, especially in the night.
If you start loosing your mind, think seriously about moving far away from that place. Otherwise, bad state of the mind would just amplify negative effects. From my experience, I felt the Hum more annoying when I was in some stressful period. The nerves were probably more sensitive at those times.
We can consider the situation in a spiritual way. Maybe the Universe is sending us a signal to move somewhere else.
Anyway, we can not see the whole light spectrum, we can not feel or hear all the frequencies. Who knows what else we can not notice because we do not have senses or sense are not developed. So, next time when someone tells you that he or she can communicate with spirits do not think it is impossible. Maybe she or he can really do that.
I heard the hum in a fairly remote spot in the eastern French Pyrenees, remote enough for a stargazing club observatory anyway. I mentioned it to my host who replied by asking if I was psychic. Before I had a chance to answer the daughter of the house ran in and said "Quick, Dad's in a coma" (her father had one of those wasting neuro diseases). An ambulance was called and set up some equipment which ran with the same humming sound.
Weird how anytime something strange happens to civilians it’s always blamed on mass hallucinations, yet when it’s government officials it’s always the worst thing possible.
Speaking of crickets. Where I use to work, our boss was a real piece of work. But he would only get to work at about a minute before the official time. One of my coworkers would come in the building and slip a few crickets under his locked door before he got there. He did this a lot and the boss never caught on. He’d catch the crickets eventually and put them outdoors.
Speaking of sound, the audio was very sharp and all over the place in this video
I accidentally came across the Big Ear while walking my dogs (Delaware, Ohio near the Perkins Observatory). It was just this huge cement pad with two backstops. It was amazing that it was actually a radio telescope. They destroyed it soon afterwards for a golf course and housing.
Of course they would. It's only one of the greatest discoveries in human history. But a golf course is profitable. Nobel Prize in Golf is very important to society.
My high school in Marion took a field trip to the Big Ear. It was incredible.
Simon your selection of background music is interesting. Made the video!!!
The Ontario Windsor hum is no more. It was thought to be coming from wind blowing over the smoke stacks from a steel plant. Similar to blowing over the top of a bottle. After the steel plant started closing down the plant, the hum stopped when the blast furnaces shut down. However now that the hum has stopped the screams and cries from Detroit are deafening. I know I scream every time I have to drive through Detroit. "0_o"
The 72 seconds is the minimum length of the WOW signal. Big Ear wasn't tracking so could only pick up signals from a localised source for about 72 seconds.
I first heard your pleasantly resonant tones on the Casual Criminalist, Mr. Whistler, and I was thrilled to find that you have several channels presenting intriguing content in a manner that is never dull or dry. Many thanks for your hard work.
This man is just out here giving us a free education with all his videos and channels. Solute to you good sir.
The world is groaning with the amount of BS we accumulated on to the earth and it’s crying “my back”
That's why we are taking the ice off. Ease the burden
When I was working in Midland TX there was a distinct very low frequency sound. I suspect it was some sort of resonance from the oil pumps, but was a constant sound at about a quiet conversation level. When I went on to Pecos it didn't have the same sound.
The thing about the microwaves is a thing. It was a military weapon called the active denial system. Now a lot of police departments use them. When they talk about using "sound abatement" that's the microwave weapon. You did an episode on it before and you laughed about people believing it because , you said, before the sound bothered you it would kill you from the heat. This is true. This is what it's used for, they can target the heat. So far there has been one death by heart attack from a guy in a front line at a protest who got hit by it for too long. Seizures, head aches, plain old burns, organ damage, and tissue damage from the microwave gun. It's been perfected to the size of a rifle.
It's very real, and terrifying. The fact they use it on us is even worse. But that's their goal, to make us fear them so we always lick the boots.
@@rich3083 Yes, I don't know where his writer gets his information, because it's not like it's some secret that "they don't want you to know this." It's talked about on the news, and a smaller gun is being made, to make it easier for deployment. It's really worse than a Taser because it causes lasting damage and is used indiscriminately.
0:04 are there any channels you DON’T run, Simon?
This isn't Vsauce
Ikr
Did you come here expecting to see the Vsauce dudes? Because I have some terrible news for you if you did.
Anyone suggesting the "WOW" sinal "isn't alien because they would keep broadcasting" doesn't understand the power required to send a signal burst. You can't "broadcast continually." It isn't your local radio station.
Why would you keep calling someone who never calls you back?
People don't understand the energy required for radio signals, they can't transmit continuously at that level without being plugged directly into a black hole or star (in which case your power cord would likely melt).
Of course it didn't continually repeat. Inverse Square Law. If it was technological, they likely used much of their yearly energy budget to make contact via few second radio signal. There is very little chance of picking up a signal at all, and we haven't had the technology long either. The fact that one was recorded is remarkable, and means it has likely been sent a great many times. We just happened to have an instrument pointed in that direction at that time, shortly after inventing one. (If it's indeed a techno-signature. A big but non-zero "if".)
But in addition: if it DOES repeat between 1 time per year and 12 times per moth, we would still have a 1/50 chance of missing it. Any longer cycle than 1/year would make even the 1 detection unlikely.
We don't look at much of the sky in any given time, and the Earth rotates. In addition, the expolanet this likely came from likely rotates. The pattern of transmission is unknown. The signal to noise ratio (S/N) is extremely high, too high for any known natural source by many orders of magnitude. And it was narrow band, meaning it was focused on just one specific frequency, missing all the other detectors "Big "Ear" had for them.
Additionally, the signal was picked up by only 1 of 2 array detectors. This means it either stopped or started within the 3 minutes it takes for the Earth rotation between those 2 detectors "ears". The signal lasted 72 sec, which rules out a traveling satellite which would only manage 1 second of signal duration.
So is it a genuine technological signal? Probably. Does it repeat? We don't know. It may repeat 1/year or less, and we wouldn't pick it up.
As far as the Hum, you didn't mention ELF (Extremely Low Frequency used to communicate with Subs around the world) as a possible cause, seeing how the first time the Hum was heard was in 1970 the same year the US navy started testing ELF, and seeing as of the 90's the US, Russia, and China all started using a similar system this explains why the Hum went global in the 90's and early 2000's.
My wife says I appear to be much more of a wealth of knowledge now on many different subjects. Thank you Simon. These channels are my man cave on the internet.
ANOTHER CHANNEL SIMON?! I'll be there right after this.
Good video 👍
Interesting and worthwhile video.
The hum has also be recorded on Mars.
Those aliens deleted our fucking number.
The so-called 'Havana syndrome' has been given much simpler explanation: Aging. The people affected tend to be in middle age, many in late middle aged, and many of the symptoms fit what are natural effects of aging. The idea that a foreign power would hold technology that is beyond what United States can produce, or could produce even in the immediate near future, also makes it suspect. The technology needed for this might not even be viable at all. After the idea of a syndrome became known, people then started to connect their own symptoms to it, as commonly happens.
I double majored in Astronomy and Physics at OSU. I've been to the Big Ear (it's not on campus, it's a bit of a short drive away). I do remember seeing either the original piece of paper with "wow" on it or a copy (it was decades ago, I don't remember for sure).
How can we search for intelligent life, we currently have zero samples to compare with.
Yeah. Look at how many people thought ivermectin was useful to fight covid. Mainly because it was cheap.
It disturbs me to hear about the pulsed microwave radiation because I believe I have experienced something extremely similar myself when I was younger. I didn't know what it was at the time but the pain at the time along with the symptoms experienced afterwards (some of which I experience to this day) sounds disturbingly similar! There is also the fact that my family nearby never experienced hearing anything which sounds like what happened to some of these.
Speaking of sounds, the sound of your voice in this video was pretty low, Simon. Especially compared to the end tune which almost made me jump out of my chair. Otherwise a cool episode, as are most. Thank you!
The hum is from power transformers. Combination of air density, and resonance over a large area.
4:49 that transition almost went full swastika mode
Everybody Gangsta until the Buzzer stops Buzzing.
So the German Numbers Station is so iconic it has spawned a lot of Horror myths in fiction inspired by it. There is an SCP that uses it for inspiration and also there was a part in one of the Sinister movies that explained the demon used a radio station that sounded like a numbers station to possess new children.
Also just since you mentioned the Windsor Ontario Hum mass report: I'm from Windsor and reports of said reports are far more sensationalised then the actual event was. It didn't even make local news as a big story and most of the people reporting it to authorities weren't reporting a mysterious hum so much as checking to make sure there wasn't a major accident at the Salt Mine or Power Plant that are both in the same part of the city where all the reports came in from. They do daily blasting (or used to) in the mine since that part is still active and you can pretty much set your watch to it that is how well scheduled it is to not freak out the locals. If you are sitting in your basement and live in this part of the city you will actually hear the blast make a small burp and might see your light fixtures move a little bit. The reason urban legend hunters sensationalise this report is because Windsor has a history of people in that area of the city also occasionally reporting a low dull roaring hum they say they can hear all the time (but there are only a handful of these reports and they mostly come from the lower income people living in the area that tend to have other untreated mental and physical health problems) and also live in a section of the city that is again right near both Windsor's industrial zone and across from Detroit's industrial zone where there are factories, trains, and barges making noise 24/7 in that part of the city. Living in West Windsor/Lasalle and complaining about a strange humming you can't figure out the source of would be like living in Devonshire Heights (another part of Windsor) and complaining about these loud metal birds that keep flying over your house during the day and you can't figure out what they are or where they are coming from... but Devonshire Heights is located just on the edge of the denser parts of the city and beyond that is the airport. The "hum" is just a fact of life if you are in the "right" part of West Windsor and East Lasalle close enough to the river and with the wind carrying all the industrial noise your way, the people that hear it all the time are just more sensitive the frequency the hum rings so they hear it clearer than other people. University of Windsor is actually just near that area and until just recently a lot of the students coming from abroad would find cheap student housing in neighbourhoods where the hum was reported and unless they were told about so they knew to listen for it or had really good hearing; almost none of them would report it. It was always locals and not the most balanced or credible locals that would report it as some kind of mystery or injustice they thought could be a conspiracy, the rest of us just knew it was all the factories, massive industry, and flow of industrial traffic. Reports of the hum only start when the area started to become a Manufacturing hub and have started to subside as Manufacturing in Canada in the USA becomes less and less viable and the factories shut down.
I've encountered a numbers station in the late-1970s. It was on the extreme low end of the AM dial - this was an ordinary AM radio receiver. It was in English with a British accent. I didn't burn my radio down.
I do love your videos! Thank you for making these
Imagine wanting to make sure the aliens dont attack us but then send a message from Colbert
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The sounds coming from Simon's basement. I swear I can hear a faint "help me, Fact Boy" in these videos.
#Allegedly
Imagine finding out the 'Wow' signal was put out by a flickering installation from a long dead species.
Most people who hear a hum that isn't caused by nearby machinery are not going to report the same frequency. Because of this, it is most likely a sound created by their own ears, which is pretty common, which is why so many people report hearing it.
Humanity trying to attract aliens: "Yes, we're weird!"
Yes we have created those micro wave signals. Us military will always test on wavelength that are not usually considered " communication" freqs...frequently.(every 10 to 20 years)... also also what we can't see ( vis wavelengths) can be used to communicate.
NO THEY WOULD USE LIGHT. rf grows weaker over time/ space
I live in Puerto Rico. The "Havana Syndrome" is literally just cicadas/crickets, you hear them all the time where there is a lot of vegetation.
I like how he explains most of these unexplained phenomena.
As Hawkwind sang all those years ago, "In case of sonic attack on your district, follow these rules..."
Thanks
Regarding the "Wow!" signal, the assumption that aliens would continuously transmit in the hopes that we'd pick them up is faulty, as we ourselves have sent out only bursts when attempting to send signals into the cosmos.
The "Windsor hum" was solved. when I steel mill in Michigan shut down the noise stopped
I always said the hum was me hearing electricity flowing through the power lines making that rhythmic hum. I thought anyone could hear it lol
Aryna Sabalenka playing tennis is one of the undisputed most annoying sounds known to humankind. lol
I'm a hum hearer. 50 kilometres inland on the east coast of Australia. On a rural property, with dead silence at night. Thought I was going mad! It's intensity changes, and sometimes can't be heard. WOW.
I have been hearing this here in San Diego, too!!!