"The Hum"

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moparmat2000

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I know I'm not crazy, but I hear a constant hum inside my house. First time I really became aware of this was when we lost power for days last february. I heard it then too. Never payed it much attention until then. With no power available there were no appliances operating in the home. So that rules any of that out as a source. It's at that time I also heard it outside. I just figured people were running generators to keep their heat on. However I still hear it. It's a low pitched thrumming kind of noise like a generator continuously running at a steady speed. Wife told me its tinnitus. I say bullshit. My 9 year old hears it too. He actually came to me this morning and mentioned hearing this. He says it sounds like a truck just sitting and running. I wouldent think a 9 year old would have tinnitus. I looked it up online and apparently I'm not the only one. Anybody else here this?
 
No, I don't hear this here at my home, but .. can I ask if you have a low to moderate breeze outside?
My son was hanging doors in a new speck home (small three bedroom single bath and went in early one morning (4am) and heard a num low ringing sound , they covered the 4 inch vent pipe on the roof and found out it was ringing and it gets vibration from a slow 5 to 7 mile an hour wind .
 
I hear this every night, and right now as a matter of fact. No breeze, light breeze, heavy wind, it doesnt matter. When we had no power from the polar vortex coming through and shutting off our electric, it was super cold, but no wind at all.
 
This is what I found online

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Get your hearing checked. I'm sure I have tinnitus. I have a constant hissing noise that doesn't go away. (I have not been diagnosed though)
I hear a engine running noise at night. Only in my bedroom. I went outside one night to see if I could figure out where it comes from. As I neared the crest of the hill by my driveway I could hear it. A engine running for sure. Further investigation and I found out the railroad idles a few of their older locomotives all night. That was it!
 
I have tinnitus. It's a faint high pitched squeal in my ears. Years of working in aviation sheetmetal. Thing is my 9 year old hears it a deep humming like a diesel idling in a driveway. I only heard it outside when we had no power during the power outage last february. I dont hear it outside anymore. Typically at night only.
 
how close is the nearest wind farm? low pitch sound can travel quite a ways
 
Any drilling/fracking natural gas in the region? That was common all over this region, and yeah, it's 24/7.
 
AC or heat pump unit. Go check if compressor is running. The relay probably stuck from the power bounce on/off. Happened to mine.
 
I hear it also in my home and only at night.
I build houses and I sit in houses with no power and don't hear it ever. The only place I hear it is at my home at night. In a small city.
 
What state are you located ?
Shows Grand Tetons on your location.

Thought you were out of Calif, or even Texas , , not sure.

If Grand Teton that is near the Continental Divide by jackson Wyoming. I know the weather moves in there from the West to East and can totally change in 1/2 hour. Pushing constant Air currents creating the hum up there on the peak of the mountain range, although the change of seasons you would think the hum would change too.

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Here is another theory found on the internet. Lightning Strikes daily charging the air mass creating a resonating low pitch contiunual hum:

Yet another theory points to the nearly 8m lightning strikes that hit Earth every day. These strikes build up a massive electromagnetic charge which, in turn, causes the air between the surface of the Earth and the ionosphere to resonate – much like the inside of a bottle when one blows across its top.

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Resonating low humming sounds need some sort of input to create them, like the drone sound coming into the interior of a person's car from having crappy flow through mufflers on. Some have said that just pointing the rear exhaust tip straight out the back will eliminate the drone vs them being turned down at the back, resonating back up off the ground back up into the car. (just as an example of the humming phonomenon)

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Possibly the heart beat of mother earth as you are in a global position to witness it the most.

Electromagnatism washing over the earth from the solar winds of the sun. Just never know, would be nice to find someone's generator running or some Farmer's irrigation pump running 24/7 close by.

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Have you killed power to the house? Do you hear it anyplace else, such as a quiet area away from "city" noise?
 
When the whole neighborhood lost power for 4 days is when I heard it the loudest inside and out, so that blows the theory it's coming from electrics in the house making the noise.
 
Where are you located?
I know I'm not crazy, but I hear a constant hum inside my house. First time I really became aware of this was when we lost power for days last february. I heard it then too. Never payed it much attention until then. With no power available there were no appliances operating in the home. So that rules any of that out as a source. It's at that time I also heard it outside. I just figured people were running generators to keep their heat on. However I still hear it. It's a low pitched thrumming kind of noise like a generator continuously running at a steady speed. Wife told me its tinnitus. I say bullshit. My 9 year old hears it too. He actually came to me this morning and mentioned hearing this. He says it sounds like a truck just sitting and running. I wouldent think a 9 year old would have tinnitus. I looked it up online and apparently I'm not the only one. Anybody else here this?
 
Sump pump/well pump running? on backup power? Radon fan in the basement? exhaust fan in attic?
 
There was a story in the media many years ago about people hearing it. It was traced to something regarding the Navy. I remember it well.
 
Ok....All you need to do is get a young person (they have great hearing). People's hearing starts out super excellent at birth and slowing deteriorates as you age. Get on your PC and Google sounds or frequencies, find the sound or frequency that you're hearing, let the youngster hear that sound and ask the youngster if he/she hears that sound in your house when you're hearing it.
Here's an example of a frequency, the internet has every frequency that exits. This way you can determine whether or not you're going crazy.


I have tinnitus...I found the frequency that I hear on the internet. When I play it on my PC everyone in the house yells at me that the sound is excusciating!!! Even the people in the back room of the house 50 ft from my PC scream at me. I tell them....this is what I hear all day so it's not like I'm making them hear something that I don't hear 24/7, day and night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
No sump pump, no well pump, no basement. I hear it slightly through the day in my house, but louder at night.
 
Do you take opiates? I had a friend that heard low hums, high pitches and things that the rest of us couldnt hear, we could only separate the difference that he was on px killers as a result of breaking multiple things in the military including his neck. I remember in my teens when there was experimentation or even later in life when recovering from surgery that the oxy had effects on my hearing.

#spitballen
 
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