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People all across the planet have reported hearing a strange humming/droning noise at the dead of night usually in their bedrooms like my wife and myself heard last evening.

This is a bit off topic but as I am in an industry that makes a living out of recording sound and vision I feel obliged to report this weird phenomena that has occurred a second time over the last two years.

I was in the edit suite which is right next door to our bed room when my wife came in and asked me what the humming noise was, it was about 1.30am. I switched off all the equipment and could still faintly hear a low, almost mains hum in our bedroom, it is officially reported to be between 40-80 Hz.

I decided to see if the noise was only in the house or outside so we drove round the local area in Burnside, Rutherglen stopping and listening, strangely the noise could also be heard a quarter of a mile up the hill from my house facing south but going the same distance north, nothing.

I looked for the obvious train line maintenance or any kind of construction but once again nothing, the same happened about a year and a half ago and we went through the same exercise.

This strange low frequency hum has also been reported from Canada and England all with the same story only noticeable at night, we don’t have any overhead pylons anywhere near us so it remains a mystery.

Is mother earth being mined under our very feet ?

A recent question… “Anyone have any ideas why it’s mostly heard at night and in the bedroom?”

Editor : Night time is simple…a lot less noise from cars, birds etc its probably in every room but you are more in tune with your bedroom as you spend a third of your life in it and more importantly in the same place i.e.. your position in your bed remains a constant so your ears are highly tuned to that particular space.

“The Hum is a mysterious and untraceable sound that is heard in certain locations around the world by two to ten percent of the population. Historically, the area that has been most affected by the Hum is the United Kingdom, where reports have been frequent since the early 1970s. In the United States, Hum reports date from the early 1990s, with the two most publicized locations being Taos, New Mexico, and Kokomo, Indiana. The source of the Hum has never been located. The Hum does not appear to be a form of tinnitus and may not be an acoustic sound. More than just a noise, the Hum is also capable of manifesting as vibrations felt throughout the body and is often accompanied by a suite of physical symptoms that includes headaches, nausea, and pain in the ears. Analysis of the largely anecdotal data that are available at the present time suggests that the most probable explanation is that some people have the capability to interpret radio transmissions at certain wavelengths as sound. It is well established in the scientific literature that people can hear electromagnetic energy at certain frequencies and peak power levels. Previous studies have found that a subset of the population has an electromagnetic sensitivity that is significantly greater than the mean. Several hypotheses are considered and discussed as possible sources of the Hum. These include cellular telephone transmissions, LORAN, HAARP, and the TACAMO aircraft operated by the US Navy for the purpose of submarine communications. “

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_18_4_deming.pdf

Here is a BBC radio program on this topic…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07nmqtq

Glenn Marden “Anyone wishing to create the exact tone/frequency as to what they hear, can create and download an MP3 file here: http://onlinetonegenerator.com/

Maybe show to others. Have one headphone in, and use slider on tone generator to align sound until you then hear the hum equal in both ears. For me it was 36Mz.

Taken from the Largs and Millport news 30th December 2020

A Largs (A seaside town in the West of Scotland) history buff believes he has found a credible explanation for the infamous hum that has plagued the town for more than 40 years.

Robert Cathcart believes the electrification of the local railways line and how it interacts with the surrounding landscape is to blame.

He says he made the discovery, which he believes has never been put forward before, while researching the Largs hum for a timeline project.

Robert said: “I was trawling the net in recent weeks to find when the hum started as I wanted to add it to the town’s timeline we are creating from the Largs History Group, which I run.

“When I went to put it in I noticed that Largs railway was electrified at the same time and I thought it was a bit of a coincidence.

“So I looked into the description of the hum as measured by university studies, the frequency of the current and where it’s been heard from.”

Robert believes the noise comes from the hum of the railway tracks bouncing off the hills and echoing, creating a small noise only in certain areas of the town.

He said: “I believe that the noise is an interference pattern resulting from an almost inaudible electric hum interfering with its own echo from the hill behind Cathcart Road.

“This creates pockets where the crests of sound are doubling up and becoming audible, even though you cannot hear anything when you stand beside the railway.

“Poor shielding, cable problems and proximity to magnetic fields cause hum, which may be inaudible at source but when crossing its echo every second wave doubles in volume.

“The people hearing it are mainly between the hill and the railway line, which also supports the electrification theory.”

Although there have been other ideas put forward by locals over the years, Robert believes his explanation stands up to scrutiny.

He said: “My theory definitely explains why it’s heard in certain locations and measured loudest just to the east side of the main road.

“I’ve never read any of the theories where people have mentioned windmills and activity at Hunterston.

“To me any source of sound could be pointed to, walked towards and pinpointed, except of course an interference pattern.

“It beats me how 10,000 people could wonder and debate it for 30 odd years and still not agree on the cause. I just wanted to throw this theory out there.”

https://www.largsandmillportnews.com/news/18962465.history-buff-believes-may-solved-largs-hum-mystery/?fbclid=IwAR3wUrZmdVzn3ZFgiGFYvoHlWnA0jCc319wMnO95h8oZEOe_6KpBjBU-R1s

Hope this maybe useful to others. 

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710 thoughts on “Where is that strange humming noise coming from…UPDATED January 2021

  1. It’s comforting to know so many people are experiencing this, and very surprising that it appears to be worldwide. One of my neighbours has heard it intermittently, but not as often as I have. It started only about 6 weeks ago and was about 3 to 4 times a week. Now it’s every night mosly in the wee small hours. I do hear it in the daytime occasionally also, when it’s very quiet in my area. Same description as everyone else – very low drone-like vibration more than noise and really disturbing.

  2. I live in Sutton Surrey (UK )and I have been hearing this whatever it is noise / sound since Autumn 2010, my partner cannot hear it but I am glad about this because he is such a delicate little flower he would not be able to cope…

  3. I have heard this noise for almost 4 yrs. Sounds like diesel. Vibrates too. Thought it was neighbors pool pump. Still not sure it isnt. I live in Southern Oregon and have for 12 yrs.at the same house. No neighbors hear it nor does my husband. At 1st it caused extreme anxiety. It usually goes from 7pm to 7:30am. But in the last few days it seems to be 24/7.I am trying very hard to put it in Gods hands!

  4. This is driving me nuts. The sound started about 4 weeks ago and it is only me that can hear it. I thought it was some kind of tinnitus but realised I only hear the droning noise when I am home. I moved into a new property approximately 6 months ago and really feel like moving. I have tried earplugs but can still hear it and I am having a terrible time of trying to actually get to sleep. Does anyone have any solutions? I live in Cranbrook Devon.

  5. The only kind of solution I have found are what are called tinnitus blockers. These are what look like old fashioned NHS hearing aids. They have an on/off switch and a volume. The produce a white noise sound and this blocks the hum and the vibration it causes. Its not perfect in that you get disturbed sleep but its better than nothing..

  6. Amazed to discover that this is a world-wide problem seemingly! Makes me feel a little better however knowing I’m not “alone”. My drone-hum started early in March, so has been going about 7 weeks now. I’ve been in this flat for 11 years and no noise until now. The first few weeks it was approx 3 or 4 times a week. However for the past couple of weeks it’s been every night and I’ve also heard it in the daytime, mainly mornings, but of course it doesn’t bother me then, as there are other sounds and events happening and I’m not “tuning in” so to speak. I have a call into my Electricty Dept and hope to get them out to my place tomorow evening to measure and see if it registers. I know others have done this and the vibe appears to be coming in at too low a frequency to be measured, but hey, gotta have a go! As you and I both know when it started, it SHOULDN’T be a problem for Phone Companies and Power Companies to check what equipment was fitted around that time or what changes occured – right?? Good luck. Music near me helps a little and headphones are the only real thing that works.
    Forgot to say. I’m in New Zealand. Approx 45 mins drive north of Wellington City.

  7. Mostly everyone on this site is from UK. I wonder if anyone is having my problem in US? It is recently brought to my attention that it could be gas pipes underground. I am going to call on that. It would explain why neighbors dont hear it as gas pipes are closest to our house and not every neighbor has gas powering their stove;we do. Thanks for this site. My husband now believes me!

  8. I live near Tarpon Springs in FL and have heard this since at least 1999 … no gas pipes nearby, and I’ve heard it from two different homes, and at work (12 miles away).

    It’s not water, gas … I think it’s low RF or all the wireless signals in the air … or some combination of these. I used to think it was a vibration from traffic, but it’s worse at night, when traffic is less. Very very irritating. Drives me nuts and I’m the only one who hears it at my house.

  9. I live in Toronto, Canada and have heard this noise for the first time 5 minutes ago (it lasted about 10-15 minutes) at 4 AM Eastern Time. Super disturbing!!!

  10. I live in Leyland, Lancashire, UK. I began hearing this noise around four years ago, usually between three and six in the morning. Hear it mainly in the bedroom, and faintly upstairs in the house, not downstairs nor outside. Now I know I’m not alone, nor imagining it I can stop stressing out about it; maybe now I can get some sleep!

  11. I live on Long Island, New York and I hear this humming every night. I thought it was a loose wire somewhere deep in my house, but I turned all of the electric off and it was still doing it. So, it’s coming from outside my home. I recently got rid of my tv cable boxes, but kept the internet. It could be low frequency waves of some kind. I only hear it at night and only from my bedroom. It sounds like a low hum that goes off and on intermittently. It’s a little annoying.

  12. I hear it in the Detroit suburbs. Sometimes I hear it fade in and out during the day but I hear it right now.

  13. Was talking to tow of my friends today and found out that they too hear this noise. I here it both day and night. Often getting up and going out side to see if a car stopped and the motor is running or maybe a plane. Nope neither.been hearing it over a year now. I live in upstate New York.

  14. I was just in Syracuse and heard it bad, I thought maybe it was traffic (I was near the Thruway) but it was 3 AM and there were very very few cars, trucks ….and I’ve heard it for years in Florida … bad. So hard to block it out. It’s frustrating. I just want to know the source.

  15. I live in Northern CA, near Santa Rosa and I’ve been hearing this horrible humming sound for a year and a half. It’s driving me insane. I hear it during the day and night, but at night it’s the worst. I’ve read that this sound has been around for a long time, but I think these Smart Grids must have intensified the sound, because so many more people are hearing it. I dream for the day I can sleep in peace.

  16. I have been hearing a drilling sound (thump/thump, thump/thump) that goes on and on 24/7 (might stop or pause for a time then resume, like the operators went on a lunch or dinner break) accompanied by this droning noise that sounds like there’s a car parked out front with one of those annoying base speakers blasting, and I keep waiting for it to drive away, but it never does! It’s vibrating my head and my insides, and won’t go away! It’s been going on for several months now at least. I live in Palatine, Illinois. I’ve had 2 other people hear it in my house. It sounds like it’s coming from underground, and I can hear it from most rooms in my house. I mostly hear it at night when all other sounds are quiet, of course, and I’m trying to sleep. I’m a 49 yr old woman. My husband has a hard time picking up the sound, but I can hear it/feel it clearly. It’s driving me mad! I’m ready to move! What’s going on?

  17. I live in Kenwick, Western Australia and have heard this noise on and off since I moved in a year and a half ago. Also heard it at my old house about 3km away from where I live now. Was 24/7 but now seems to be between 3am and 6pm. Would be nice to be able to sleep a full night. I am 46 and my 18 year old could hear it faintly

  18. Im 48 ,i live in Kalgoorlie and i hear the same noise ,i find the colder it gets the louder it becomes and in the winter ,if its real cold i can hear it outside thru the day ,in the middle of the summer ,i cant hear it at all.
    The only think that can get me thru a good nights sleep are ear plugs.

  19. I live in St louis Mo. Every night at around 12:00am and again at 1:00 am there is low pulsing hum noise outside of my home. There’s no outright thing that could produ ce this noise. If anyone else have heard this please fell free to email me so we can chat about this.

  20. I live in Eastbourne on the south coast of England and every now and then I am awoken by a low pitched electromagnetic humming sound seemingly from outside my flat….this is usually around 3 or 4am in the morning. Having studied electricity principles as an electrician apprentice I know that it is a generator sound…..but I’m facked if I know where its coming from..

  21. I get this noise every night l early morning and live in the bush in South Africa so it cannot be a distant factory when I shake my head or take breath abruptly it stops for a minute or two but when I put my ear to the light on the pillow it’s really loud but when I y left I have to tilt my head to my chest to try to make it stop for a minute or so in order to try to drop off to sleep I do not hear this noise anywhere else except for at home and mainly in the bedroom between 2a.m and 8 . a.m

  22. I’ve been hearing it for quite some time. But I only notice it when I lay down to go to sleep A very low pitched humming sound. I live in the mountains of Utah. But I went to visit in central Utah and heard the exact same thing there when I laid down at night to go to sleep. Usually around midnight. It’s crazy. I have to fall asleep with the TV on to drown out the annoying humming/buzzing

  23. I’ve been hearing it for quite sometime. I live in the mountains near Park City, Utah. I only notice it when I lay down at night to go to sleep. A low toned humming, like a loud truck in the distance… That fluctuates mildly in tone and loudness. It’s weird. I have to fall asleep with the TV on to drown out the annoying low tones.
    It only happens when I lay down though

  24. Exactly the same in the Roslin area near Edinburgh. Also in Longniddry and Niddrie. I have been keeping a diary which shows a non regular pattern so you cannot tell when it is likely to happen. So loud that the house and bed vibrates and sleep is impossible. The noise is all around, direction is impossible to pinpoint. The noise department at the Council seem unable to help and have to date (after a series of complaints sine 2011) not put in equipment to determine the exact frequency of the noise. Suggest we get the noise we hear defined as to frequency and decibel and send in the results to create a UK map of the noise. Like yourselves, it may make it easier to bear if we know what is causing it!

  25. Sue I am soo glad i am not the only one in Edinburgh that is hearing this noise.. I too have had the environmental health people out they can hear it but do NOT know where it is coming from…I have had to go and sleep at my sisters to get a decent nights sleep as i am soo tired all the time with sleep deprivation due to the hum 🙁

  26. Hello Dee, have the environmental people put equipment into your house to record the noise? I would be interested in contact details and any hertz readings that they managed to get. I have times and sates when it is really bad and would be happy to share the information with your council if that would help to pinpoint the company or machines which are making this noise. It’s definitely man made, there are times when it is completely silent. I would very much like to find the source of it. Very best Sue

  27. With regards to those affected by low frequency noise in the Edinburgh area, if they click on the Daily Telegraph interactive map of UK wind farms they’ll find that there are a number in operation in the surrouding area, and since wind turbines are known to produce low frequency hums I think it’s more than likely that this is the source.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/9645593/Interactive-map-every-wind-farm-site-in-the-UK.html

    Also google: wind farms and low frequency noise.

  28. I live in Finland and i can also hear this weird humming noise, at night. For me it’s wavy and really low. Only i can hear it and only in my bedroom. It’s freaking me out cause i don’t know what it is. Ususally the sound disappears about 10-15 minutes later and sometimes it comes back again. I’m not sure does the sound come from outside, cause i’ve been checking it by listening the sound windows open. I haven’t heard anything from outside when i do that.

  29. Heidi

    That is the exact same experience that I had, I began to think I was losing it as every time I tried to communicate it I got a look of patronised disbelief! I eventually worked out that the ‘hum/vibration’ was diagonal across my bedroom, cutting right through where I slept, I could seemingly step in and out of it and I believe it is on a lay line as the trajectory would travel straight through to the 11th century village church (always on a place of power) ironically since then it seems to have stopped but this has happened periodically in the past.

  30. Hello Heidi, Ley lines are not that thin. They are apparently linked to the earth’s magnetism which doesn’t start and stop in a few feet of distance. It is more likely that there is a high voltage power line under your house. Best to check it out with the power companies. If the reading on the oscilloscope is 50mHz then it is electricity which is causing it. Other causes are fans, pumps, fridges, dishwashers, central heating. Try shutting off all power to your house at the mains and see if that makes a difference. Failing that, ask the council to put in a Low Frequency Noise recorder to see exactly what the noise is. The only way to determine the frequency/decibel level is with a scientific approach using recording equipment to get a reading.

  31. Am in Cockfosters Hertfordshire and hearing the Hum exactly as descibed by many at the moment and have done so on and off for at least a year. Is constant at mo at my home and neighbours house and also heard in Essex , not in Cornwall tho. Does at times wake me and can feel vibration at times, night time is worse purely because quiet. Any ideas anyone for this area?

  32. I live in Victoria Australia and for about 3 months now I am slowly going insane I think!!The drone, pulsing, hum sounds like a diesel tractor working off in the distance but never coming or going, or a truck coming up the road but never arriving, a plane flying high above the clouds but never going away. We live by the sea but I have lived here for 20 years and have spent all of my 51 years by the sea, I can walk out the front of my house and hear the sea. But inside my home and on the other side of our house I can hear this dull drone and it is 24/7. Often at night I just have to get up because it is so intense, I feel like I have something drilling into my ears. My husband who suffers badly with Tinitis is getting tired of my complaining, as he explains he has screeching crickets in his ears 24/7 so is unable to hear the drone. We do live only a few kilometres from a wind farm but the turbines have been there for many years now and I have never heard this before.

  33. Sue – that is stating the real obvious which, if you read through past comments, it is evident that the majority who are experiencing this have been through every possibility. I live in a house built in 1850 in a rural environment. Having dowsed for key lines over many years I can report that the energy bandwidths can be quite narrow and if ‘someone’ is using them for other purposes then the ‘intrusion’ would probably be on a narrow band. Science is always changing and is only every relative to the current thinking – science doesn’t always have the answers although I think a few scientists know a lot more of what is really going on. Best to accept that we are conveniently treated like mushrooms on some levels!

  34. I’ve been hearing this since Jan, Glasgow UK. It’s slowly but surely destroying me. I’ve tried all sorts of things to ignore it. It now seems constant. Not just a few hours here and there. Only way I found to escape it for a while is to go elsewhere for a few hours, but none the less you need to go home. Tried turning all electricity off from the box, going into para modes unhooking the battery from phone, changing light bulbs even circling a frying pan around my head to see if it’s some sort of beam to the brain! Still to no avail. Booze loud music an when trying to sleep a house fan in the bg, with the TV on helps a bit, or the noise from the fan in the xbox with a dvd in spinning helps to. I have noticed that if a plane flys by or a loud car, van etc travels along my street the sound seems to die out a bit till it passes then then the hum returns to its full gain. I also noticed it pulses a lot it’s not always constant. I’m out para ideas of what this is, but it surely can’t be a naturally occurring sound. If that’s true why is so unnatural? It’s driving me fxxking crazy. I’m in my mid 20s and I know it’s not a sign of loss of hearing and I’ve looked into tinnitus too its none of those. Just wish it would stop…

  35. I’m also in Glasgow and can totally empathise with Jim. This noise is so insidious yet nobody seems to take it seriously. I’ve heard it since about late-2011; predominantly at night, and similar to Jim it is ‘relieved’ temporarily by cars passing by (albeit this brings a different kind of disturbance!). It is sometimes a constant low rumble, almost more of a vibration, but at most other times is more wave-like and pulsating as others have described. I think it was worst around spring 2012, when I contacted the noise complaints people at the council. The man who eventually attended came with nothing but a notepad and refused to come up to my flat because it was on the second floor, so nothing was done.

    I have also had the reprieve of an occasional couple of nights off, where there’s total silence and it’s utter bliss, but recently I’ve noticed the noise getting worse, to the extent that I can’t believe others can’t hear it! Earplugs, white noise, switching the power off… Nothing seems to block this out – I fear that once you hear and attend to the noise, there’s no escaping it.

  36. Dear Glasgow, I am in Edinburgh and Roslin and the noise is very loud, supercedes the TV amd Radio. May I suggest you keep a diary of dates and times and what level of noise you can hear. Mine varies between a buzzing (like a pump which is gulping for air or liquid) and a hum which fills the air and makes the house vibrate. Sometimes, as you say there is pure silence which is a joy. By everyone keeping a diary of times and dates, my hope is that we can co-ordinate peoples’ noise and build up a picture of where and when it is worse. Someone may have already started or done it, if so I would be most grateful for details, to add my information.

  37. Jim I know just what you mean. It does drive me to go out of the house to escape it. Please please keep a diary of times dates and the level of noise you hear, we really need to co-ordinate this hum and get some idea of when and where it is happening. It is definitely man made. Just to support your case, get a hearing test at Boots the Chemist, for free, and get a copy of the sounds you can hear, ask the technician to test for LFN Low Noise Frequency so you have proof that you can hear this. I think that if enough people get together to record this, we will have evidence. Does your local university have a sound department with students researching Low Frequency Noise nuisance. Very best Sue

  38. Hi everyone,

    I reside in Melbourne, Australia (South East) and have been hearing this incredibly loud (to me, atleast) low pitched hum, mainly at night after 1am…except tonight. Tonight, I heard it as soon as I hit the sack at around 9-9:30pm. Some of the time, the hum seems to increase in loudness and then decreases again, to the point where it’s barely undetectable by human ear. I keep asking my partner if he can hear it. His response is always, “No,” with a look on his face, implying that I’m going crazy. I’m glad to know I’m not. I’ve been hearing it far more often lately.

  39. I am now in France near Tours and can hear the exact same noise since 5pm uk time I thought I had escaped it as I am deep in the country away from large cities sigh

  40. So I’ve been hearing theses hums almost like when u first turn on or your computer it starts up then settles down so it more to that effect. I also hear this every night when I settle down into my bed but I could just be the ac. Sorry if this was confusing just thought I’d make a comment.

  41. We hear it too in south Florida. I heard it once about 3 weeks ago, and now tonight. It just suddenly started, a loud hum. It is very difficult to locate. I walked around the house, middle of the night. I thought it might be my neighbor’s pool pump or air conditioner compressor, it was not. It is most pronounced in our bedroom, but can be heard faintly throughout the house. It’s loud, but somewhat subtle and varies a little in pitch very slowly. I’m glad I found this website discussing it, it is the same or similar to what we suddenly started hearing. This is only the second time this has happened. I hope it’s the last. It’s a jarring and disruptive sound, but so subtle at the same time, like very low frequency background noise.

  42. This is exactly the hum I am hearing that is posted in this thread by “Jimmy says:
    March 28, 2014 at 2:35 am” Thanks for posting this!

  43. IT’S THE POWERLINES TRANSFORMERS WHICH CAN BE ABOVE OR BELOW GROUND OR IN BOXES, AND THE CELL TOWERS AND SMART METERS; WHEREVER THESE ARE THERE WILL BE LOUD BUZZING RINGING WHICH AINT TINNITUS.

  44. Just heard an amazingly low frequency hum and vibration to the east. Like a giant trombone is the best way to describe it….a steady tone. It was so intense it made my eardrum feel like it contracted. I am in upstate NY, east side. Interestingly happened at exactly 1:30 AM …
    Same time mentioned in the above post.

  45. I can hear it Somerleyton Suffolk. It has got louder this year. Went looking for the source of it but no no avail. had thought it was pumping stations on the marsh but no. Very annoying. I don’t hear it everywhere I go.

  46. Hi there in Somerleyton,the humming noise is so much louded this year, i first picked up on it about 18 months ago, i called environmental health in to investigate, i was living in Southtown ,Great yarmouth at the time, i thought that perhaps what i was hearing was coming from the ship yard! It was a low frequency noise wave that he detected,i like yourself can hear this, where many people i speak to cannot hear it at all.
    I moved to Caister just over a year ago, i thought i had left the noise behind….but no !! within weeks i began to hear it again and it continues to be with me most days & nights , the vibration it causes when it is at its loudest is most disturbing, i cannot sleep & as i also suffer from tinitus i never have any much neeeded quiet time! I thought it was caused by high pressure ,but i now rule it out.I can only think its deep within in the Earth, perhaps to do with the faults , seismic waves ? So wish we had some answers, or peaceful sleep !!

  47. I live in Alabama in the SE United States and I have been hearing this exact same hum for about two years now. It is exactly how most everyone else that has posted on here has described, a low droning, humming sound that sounds just like an engine running outside at a distance. there are times when the frquency seems a bit higher. These times sound more like a prop plane idling on a nearby runway. I’m do hear occasional “sputters” as I call them, about every second or two. kind of like a generator that it just slightly missing on its timing or something. other times the sound is very steady without the sputter effect. I also mainly notice it only at night and mainly in my bedroom and bathroom. I have heard it also at my neighbors house and also at a relatives house that lives nearly 100 miles away. we have tried everything we can to trace the source. we have shut off our main power for over an hour at a time, no difference.. also shut off water main, in ace it had to do with pressure in pipes in the walls, this did nothing to stop the him either. this is what is really weird though, we has a major power outage that affected a large area for several hours (basically the whole city was without power due to a Tornado), but during this time the noise was even more noticeable than ever! It’s funny because just about everyone on this. Forum mentions that their partners can usually not hear the hum as well as they do. that is the case with me as well. Most of the time my husband says he can’t hear it, but when it’s really loud to me, he can.

    the video link someone just posted of the 5 minute hum from your tube sounds just like what I hear (or at least almost identical). mine sounds just a bit more like an engine or fan/prop plane than an electrical sounding hum (if that makes sense). btw, we do not have any high pressure gas lines nearby, nor do we have a smart meter on our house. There is a factory/mill very close by that runs 24/7, but if this is the cause of our hum, then why can I still hear it when the power is out and also nearly 100 miles away?

    A major mystery to say the least..

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