UPDATE 1/6: Mike has posted the unedited footage below. Thanks Mike!
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This “strange sound” in the video below was recorded January 31, by Mike Helms. It was witnessed at 4:00am, in a little town called Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Mike and his wife were vacationing in a hotel outside Peninsula State Park in Door County Peninsula. The recording was from their balcony facing the park. Fish Creek is on Fish Creek Harbor.
While looking for “strange sound” videos I initially dismissed this one. The reason was because it has title screens, doesn’t show the surroundings and has stereo sound (perhaps enhanced when edited). Mike left this video in the comments under my historical Yellowstone post here. He was interested in the article because it describes metallic sky sounds that occurred in 1893 in Yellowstone park. I theorize in the article that perhaps the sounds were related to small earthquakes. The area of Yellowstone where the sound events occurred is one of the most seismically active in the US. The sounds heard in 1893 were over a lake just as the Fish Creek incident was over a harbor. Both are large bodies of water.
Mike Helms from SongsofJesus.com describes what he heard in Fish Creek:
It sounded like super giant machinery in the sky and had an eerie ”metallic” sound that faded in and out. Like some spooky movie soundtrack! It was massive in the sense of being expansive and seemed to fill the air, as if whatever was causing it stretched from east to west.
Mike left a link to his video in the comments. He says:
I’ve been trying to find info on metallic sounds (which is what we heard) and the article you found about Yellowstone is really, really interesting!… What’s really interesting is that we heard metallic sounds 6 hours after the quake at McHenry, IL. But even more so that we heard it in Fish Creek WI, which is in the Door County Peninsula – the Niagara Escarpment runs right through there and ends at the Wisconsin-IL border where the quake took place. (See the article about the McHenry, Illinois earthquake here.)
MORE AFTER THE JUMP…
250 Miles from McHenry, IL to Fish Creek, WI
Could it be related to seismic activity in McHenry, Illinois? Perhaps, but it’s 250 miles away. I looked back at the Yellowstone account by Edward Linton and found a description of the sound as follows:
As I heard it at this time it seemed to begin at a distance, grow louder overhead where it filled the upper air, and suggested a medley of wind in the tops of pine trees, and in telegraph wires, the echo of bells after being repeated several times, the humming of a swarm of bees, and two or three less definite sources of sound….
What stood out to me is the reference to bees swarming. That’s what this sounds like to me, except it’s like they’re echoing in a large cavern. I listened to this video carefully and aside from the buzzing there is a distinct metallic clink at one point. Since he chose to provide an edited version without surroundings I looked for other clues. At one point I can hear camera movement, which is good. To me the sound doesn’t seem like an overlay. It has a nice echoing, atmospheric quality.
I dug a little deeper by visiting Mike’s website. He has a post describing in detail what happened here. Now normally I get a little suspicious when religious people post videos and start screaming about the Trumpets of the Apocalypse. Not so in this case.
Yellowstone Swarming Bee Description
Mike doesn’t want people to think this is supernatural. He reminds Christians and says:
As Christians we have the Word of God- and the Word of God is the final word of authority and final truth for us- not our speculations, experiences, or ideas. All we have to do is read what it says in Revelation about the trumpets, and what happens when the angels blow them, to know that these strange sounds heard in the sky are not angelic trumpet blasts!
Try to imagine me standing, cheering and applauding. Mike has chosen to calmly research this without making any conclusions. He came to this blog seeking an answer and found the article about Yellowstone here. He made the connections between the earthquake in McHenry, the Niagara Escarpment, the incident location and some historical evidence. Bravo Mr. Helms.
Fish Creek, WI
Now lets look at the possibilities. We have already made the seismic and historical connections. Because Fish Creek has a harbor, they thought it might be an ice breaking ship. They ruled this out the next morning when they saw the harbor was frozen solid. I did a little Googling and found there are no trains, wind farms or industry nearby.
Train Tracks in Menominee, MI
My initial reaction was that it sounded like a train. In his blog, he says the sound stretched east to west. Fish Creek is on the west side of the peninsula. If you look at Google maps you’ll see Menominee, Michigan is directly across Green Bay from Fish Creek, Wisconsin. In Menominee, there appear to be train tracks going almost right up to the water. Could it have been a train?
I found this from Georgia State University here. It’s the explanation of the refraction of sound. From the page:
Early morning fishermen may be the persons most familiar with the refraction of sound. Consider that you have gone out to a lake before dawn. Just as the sun rises over a cool lake, you may hear someone speak to you, saying “Good morning!”. You look around and can’t see anyone. You are just about at the point of questioning your sanity anyway, being out at this time of the morning, so you decide to ignore it. But the voice comes again, “Good morning”. Finally you locate the other nut who has gotten up at this hour, far across the lake — much further than you could normally hear a voice. That fisherman is aware of the early morning lake’s effect on sound transmission. The cool water keeps the air near the water cool, but the early sun has begun to heat the air higher up, creating a “thermal inversion”. The fact that the speed of sound is faster in warmer air bends some sound back downward toward you – sound that would not reach your ear under normal circumstances. This natural amplification over cool bodies of water is one of the few natural examples of sound refraction.
18 1/2 Mile from Menominee, MI and Fish Creek, WI
According to this article from BBC news here, an oil depot explosion back in 2005 was heard two hundred miles away. There has to be special circumstances for that to happen. From the article:
He says a strong “temperature inversion” on Sunday will have been one of the reasons the sounds of the blast travelled so far. This happens when there is a layer of warmer air at altitude rather than air cooling as it goes up. This bends the audible energy back down to earth and the sound can be heard miles from the source.
Could this Fish Creek incident be related to seismic activity or perhaps sound carried over a large distance. It certainly is very loud in the video and seems like it was very close. It would be nice to see the unedited raw footage. Mr. Helms might also ask the locals in Fish Creek if they had heard this sound before. Mike mentions that it’s like what’s supposedly being heard around the world. To my ear it doesn’t sound like any Kiev sound type. Perhaps the sound of squealing train tracks was distorted as it bounced across the bay.
The train theory is only a theory. The sound is very intriguing and extremely loud for that distance. I can’t say for sure what it is but I can certainly understand why Mike and his wife were disturbed by it. I believe this video is real but not necessarily unexplainable. Until more evidence surfaces, this one is still a mystery but not conclusively a true sky noise.
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Yep. I want to see raw footage. I do think its probably real but not necessarily a sky noise.
Hi Jay Man,
Another interesting post! Your research into the train tracks along the shore of Menominee, MI is something that never entered my mind as it’s so far away, but it does offer a possible rational explanation to what we heard. The weather conditions may very well have been similar to what the BBC described for the 2005 blast incident you mentioned. You would have to check the weather reports as I know nothing about reading those, but a man at the Peninsula Park Rangers office that we talked to that morning suggested it might be ice shifting due to weather fluctuations the area had been experiencing- so your theory is fascinating!
About the video itself… I didn’t include the actual video portion because in my mind it was a distraction since the point of it was the sound we heard and not anything visual. Since the video was shot at 4AM on the balcony facing Peninsula State Park it was completely dark except for a security light in the yard below. Frankly, my wife and I thought people would focus on the dimly lit area of the video and that it would only fuel people’s imaginations like they were watching some clip from the Blair Witch Project or something like that. Since the visual aspect had nothing to do with it I removed it, but have posted the original for you here as you requested in your post:
If you’d like me to send you a copy of the actual clip let me know. (It’s HD so it’s about 100mb.)
The stereo sound is due to the fact that we shot it on a Panasonic TM900 and it records in stereo. Honestly, I wish it had been set on the 5.1 surround sound setting at the time- maybe it would have captured it even better! As to the volume, it was raised in level from the original file- not in any attempt to deceive, but simply to make it easier to hear- just as one would turn up the volume on an ipod. There were no enhancements made to the sound other than rolling off the extreme high end with EQ to get rid of camcorder hiss. There was no compression, limiting, clipping, or any other type of enhancement made to the sound whatsoever. The recording accurately captures the sound that we heard.
As far as the relative volume of the sound that we heard that night in our hotel room- it was loud enough to be clearly heard in our room without going out on our balcony. I’m not entirely sure if it woke me up or I just woke up on my own and heard it, but once awake you could clearly hear it. I woke my wife, and that’s when she began hearing it. Neither of the videos posted truly represents the actual volume of the sound we heard in our room. In the video where the volume is turned up it gives the impression that the sound was overwhelmingly loud, in the original footage it gives the impression that sound was soft and distant. The reality is we could clearly hear it in our room without going outdoors and it was even louder, of course, once I stepped out on the balcony.
When I describe the sound we heard as “massive” it is not really the volume that I’m talking about, rather it was the extraordinary expansiveness of it that was the main captivating feature. It was literally something that seemed to be dimensionally huge spreading as far as you could imagine- THAT was the compelling feature, and something I’m sure I’ll never forget. When I talk of it being from “east to west” I’m speaking figuratively as something that fills the entire sky. (This in no way changes the possibility as you postulated concerning it being trains along the shore of Menominee, MI as our room was indeed facing that direction- toward the village of Fish Creek.)
I have to say, when we found the article that you posted about Yellowstone my wife and I were glued to the screen as we read the account. I had not come across anything mentioning these sounds as sounding like bees before, and that’s what some of the sounds remind me of. As described in the article about Yellowstone we also heard a collage of sounds melded together for the hour or so that we listened- sometimes more distinct, other times less focused and reverberating- many of them being metallic, and so that grabbed our attention as well as being similar to the Yellowstone account. I’m not really sure what we heard- like the author of that article found, it’s very difficult to actually describe the experience- I can say it reminded us of a train, giant machinery, an eerie movie soundtrack, rushing sounds, bee sounds, and all of that, and yes, those are all good descriptions, but they fail to really convey what we heard. The sounds were something that really captivate the imagination- not like something you hear everyday. If it had sounded like a regular train I would have rolled over in bed and probably never even given it another thought. But it sounded more like ghost trains (I don’t actually believe in ghosts) or a Pirates of the Caribbean movie ghost ship the way it reverberated across the sky. It was eerie and not like any regular sound you’re used to hearing. And I say that not to provoke fear in people- I don’t believe it’s trumpet blasts from heaven heralding the end of the world, or tormented groans and sounds from hell or anything like that. In my opinion, it’s simply a very curious phenomena that appears to have happened before and for some reason is happening again. I appreciate your thoughtful post and research to try to find out what this and the other sounds that are occurring actually are.
Mike
Thank you Mike for this comment. I’m a bit jealous and would like to actually hear “the sound”. I’ll be keeping an eye out for other videos that might pop up with this particular noise. Often they do with with other witness vids.
*sigh* Well, without any context except a map and some comments about trumpets of Revelation there isn’t much to say. Can he explain why there are no pictures with the sound and text? Even if the video was just a dark hotel room it would be a little more believable. As it is, the sound could be anything from a loud movie soundtrack coming from a TV in another hotel room to a convoy of trucks passing by on a freeway. I play around with Windows Movie Maker sometimes – so I know that you can put two different soundtracks into a video – people breathing in the dark with the sound of the camera being turned on (click) alongside some other apocalypse-now soundtrack. I’m not calling it a fake, but just pointing out that there are ways anyone could fake those sounds.
I think you have it exactly right about the train. The mystery video sounds like a heavy train going around a curve in a track – hence the metallic squeak. When I first moved into my house 20 years ago in a small town between two railroad tracks, we weren’t accustomed to the sound and it would wake us up at night. But eventually you tune it completely out and it doesn’t seem strange at all.
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This sound reminds me of what we hear when we hold a large sea shell to our ear. The containment of an echo within the natural configurations of the geophysical area.
Yes…this sound is very different from what we have recorded. Now if a “twin” shows up it will be really intriguing.
Hi Jay Man,
Just to clarify …the sounds we heard that morning actually are very much like what we have heard on so many of the YT videos. When my wife and I first heard the metallic sounds in the other YT videos we instantly identified with them. You have to remember that most of what’s being recorded out there is just a small fraction of time in comparison to the duration of the event. During the hour or so that we heard the sounds the main feature was the metallic nature of most of them and that they faded in and out. The freight train like sounds that we recorded happened sporadically and not continously. In my video I mention it sounding like giant machinery- there were sounds of metal rubbing against metal, you could imagine giant metal ship hulls bending- stuff like that, as well as assorted other sounds that blended in and out (rushing sounds,manufacturing type noises) that make the whole thing hard to describe. But I think this is where eyewitness accounts are possibly better than recordings in some cases unless the recordings encompass the duration of the event- because a recording only captures a very small slice of the whole.
Also of interest, I heard from someone this morning on YT who lives in an area near to Fish Creek who mentioned taking a daily walk/run with their dog from 4:30-6AM and said they too heard the sounds that morning, saying, “I could hear the metallic and grinding noises for almost my entire trip, I would stop to listen but could not identify the sound. I’m positive I heard what you did that morning, your location was roughly 6 miles to the west of me. Very creepy!!”
I’ve also heard from 2 people now who reported hearing the sounds in Milwaukee, and one from Bolingbrook IL.
I don’t think my train theory holds up in retrospect. Maybe we will get lucky and another video with the same sound will pop up. Be on the lookout.
The train theory sounds very viable now thinking about it and listening to it. The weather patterns are certainly different to recent years, also in Europe, which may have a lot to these noises. Perhaps, not only do train noises get conducted more, but other noises as well and that is why there are so many different versions and reports of strange sounds.
Thanks for your great research! Much appreciated!
Thanks Sara
The train explanation is nice but if the sound lasted more than an hour and judging from its frequency it must have been a really long train (about a mile long) “running” with no more than 2 miles per hour…
That is a bit of a problem for the train explanation unless that was a train entering a station.
Yes I agree. Also if you look at the train tracks in the map I can’t see a long expanse of track along the water and the tracks terminate there. I’m not sure my theory is the answer but it’s important to point out that a railway is actually nearby, sort of, at 18 and half miles.
haha yes i thought this too! no train would be running for so long lol
I listen to it over and over…I kinda like it…anyway, I agree. But hey it was worth a guess
What happened to the post “I’ll put this site down if I have to”? It has disappeared. Was it taken down by the owner or was it some mysterious thing? After watching that video that was posted, it is kind of eerie that the whole post disappeared!
I just moved it down one. The more important post is the Giant Bee one and not my griping.
I think this is the best aproach that we can get about the phenomenon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBtzvudqQko
Nice video.
Also, the last video presented in that gives the most definite clue that the sounds are of electric origin.
In that video you hear the sound, then you have a flash (a lightning actually) and the sound stops.
So, the sound is from some type of electrostatic discharge in the clouds, and when there was some sort of breakdown, the sound stopped.
Jay, this video (the one shown at the end of Paulos video) needs an article of it’s own. Or even a category, electrostatic discharge sound.
Yes, if you look at “about this blog” in my statement. That video is the reason i started this blog.
I’m not sure if they all are of electric origin, but it’s interesting thoughts though.
Viewing the Florida video isolated I kind of was thinking the same regarding the flash of light before the sound stops. That is, if the sound indicated some sort of discharge, that would discharge rapidly during the flash in the end. But if the flash was some sort of discharge I would expect that the flash itself would make a noise, like a loud boom or thunder. In the video from Florida I cannot hear this – only that the sound which have been going on is stopping. If there is some sort of discharge, then at least I haven’t understood it yet
Hello I live in Sao Paulo – Brazil and I heard a strange sound coming from the sky on 18/01/2012 …. q was 2:30 a.m. seemed something was standing on top of my house that was so strong that sound …. I think sometimes be a sign of God …. fact is that I shiver from head to toe ….
On first listen, it does sound quite creepy. However, to me, this sounds exactly like a car race around a track of some sort. A quick google search does show that there is a local raceway in the vicinity of Fish Creek. Of course, being located on a large body of water this sound could be traveling a long distance as well.
I heard sounds described exactly like this last night over Calgary, Alberta at approx. 0330 until 0430 when I fell asleep.
Wish you had recorded it.
Mike, one person on here said what it sounds like and it struck a chord with me. She thought it may be the sound of the shofar that preceeds the judgements of God. interesting, huh?
Interesting comment! I personally haven’t connected the “strange sounds” to what a shofar sounds like, but I know many have. I respect the fact that people hear things differently and may make that association though. To my ear the shofar has a very distinct “call to attention” sound to it- not exactly like a modern trumpet, but certainly a definite “call”.
To me, the “strange sounds” don’t have that characteristic- they just sound strange! They remind me more of movie sound effects than a shofar. I wonder if it’s the “otherworldy” aspect of the unusual sounds that makes people think of Revelation and angelic trumpets and end of the world judgments?
If we’re going to get into tying together these sky sounds with end time events written about in the bible, then I think it’s important to actually set the sound itself aside, and look at what the bible says will actually happen when the trumpets [shofar] are blown. That’s a far better indicator of whether these sounds are truly “biblical”. Remember that the bible also tells us that in the last days there will be lying signs and wonders that many will be taken in and deceived by.
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders”. (2 Thessalonians 2:9)
Since this is the case, it’s best to test everything like this by the scriptures- if we don’t see the specific biblical events that are supposed to happen when the trumpets are sounded, it’s a pretty good indication that the “trumpet and sky sounds” that are being heard aren’t the actual trumpets the angels blow in Revelation chapters 8-11.
Still, very fascinating stuff though!
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Just came across your post tonight. I have been doing some information gathering myself, and have also come to the same conclusion about the Niagara Escarpment = a geologically active fault zone. Runs from New York through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois. I am referencing these unusual sounds being recorded in these areas. At first I thought it might be the New Madrid fault zone but the tip of that fault doesn’t come as far North as Wisconsin. Some of these noises could be also caused by the active sun and it’s impact on the earths core….electromagnetic energy and many years of built up pressure on these faults being released – - just theory. Enjoyed your blog.