According to this article here, residents of Kerry, Ireland are being plagued by a nocturnal noise that’s disrupting their sleep. The noise started in April 2011 and hasn’t subsided since. They seem to be experiencing a low-frequency hum not unlike the Windsor hum here. The residents are begging the government to investigate but the sound can’t be pinpointed. There is no obvious source such as windmills or generators in the area. The complaints have spanned a 7km radius.
From the article:
“It’s absolutely wearing us down and we are crying out for a good night’s sleep before our health starts to give,” said Mr Lynch.
Of course we can’t help but make the connection between Kerry and Derry. I recently posted about a similar situation in Derry, which is 350 miles away on the opposite south side of Ireland. In this article here from February 22nd, residents are experiencing the exact same problem. The noise in Derry is described as a buzzing noise and it too is keeping the folks awake.
From the article:
“I have received a number of calls from concerned residents who have been unsettled and whose sleeping pattern is being affected by what can only be described as a relentless and disturbing buzzing noise in the Derry sky over recent days,” he says.
Derry, Kerry, Waterford City and County Armagh
I found a chat board called Boards.ie from Ireland that has some interesting comments in the Waterford City section. This town is 100 miles from Kerry.
From the comments:
It was like a continuous roar of air with high pitched whine. it lasted about 5 minutes. started quiet, then got louder and louder until it sounded like it was overhead, then quieted down and seemed to be moving away. We couldn’t see any lights or plane or anything. It is headed towards the town.
Calling all insomniacs! Would you mind sticking yer heads out the window and see can you see anything? Really freaked out here! o_O
And another commenter says:
Have just heard that they said on 2fm that an army helicopter would be flying over Ireland tonight. They said it would sound like a humming noise. This sounded like a roar of pressurized air, or a really loud powerhose. Only really really loud.
The government is claiming, as it did in Derry, that it’s related to helicoptors. Why would a radio station (2fm) tell people a helicoptor was going to fly over and would sound like a humming noise? Since when does a helicoptor sound like a hum?
MORE AFTER THE JUMP…
And just to make it all the more interesting, here is a video from January about a noise in County Armagh, which is about 50 miles from Derry. The Derry residents say their cursed sound is a buzzing noise. Is this the buzzing they’re referring too? The post is here.
Could it be stealth helicopter technology?
http://vodpod.com/watch/3134193-super-silent-stealth-helicopter
Not very stealthy, if it’s making so much noise. Keep up the great work, Jay!
have you heard about HAARP
Not what I heard, the noise I heard was like something out of War of the Worlds I think. I first thought that it were the boats coming into the Docks (I’m in Liverpool y’see), then thought it was coming from the train station. It woke me up at 3am!
The sounds was in 2 pitches, one slightly higher than the other, but they were low tones, nothing like on the video. I think it went on for a good 10 minutes or longer, but I didn’t think much of it apart from “Please stop I have Uni at 9am today!!!!” lol
I live on the east coast of ireland and for the last few weeks in particular I have been hearing a low rumbling hum which also seems to rise in pitch at times . It sounds like an idling engine in the distance . some cannot hear it but can feel a pressure in the ears which seems to get more intense at certain times.Its very annoying as the source cannot be found.
Rachel, you experience seems like a possible vacume cleaner truck. Sometimes here in Seattle when the utility company is working on the sewer line, they will bring a truck to drain the area they are working in, and it will have like 6 HUGE vacume tanks on it (each about the size of a refrigerator) and when it is running it is VERY lound, but the pitch is so low that it’s almost out of the normal range of human hearing. I can tell it actually is quite high amplitude (as I said VERY loud) by the fact that even though it sounds about the same as ordinary “people talking” volume, I feel a pressure in my ear (like I do from rapid changes in elevation like going through a mountain pass), and especially by the fact that all other sounds begin to sound much quieter. Basically even though it doesn’t sound particularly loud, your ear performs “automatic gain control” on the signal and the result is it lowers the apparent sound of all sounds, so when you actually do hear someone talking it sounds like a whisper. That is how I know the sound is actually VERY loud, even though it doesn’t sound very loud. Trust me, you can still hear it like a mile away! It sounds the same volume at 100 feet as it does 20 feet from it though, because of the fact that the farther you get the weaker the sound and the ear does less “automatic gain control” as the signal gets weaker, so the result is the volume of the vacume truck still sounds about the same at 100 feet, but the volume of other sources (like someone next to you talking) begin to sound louder. After about 100 feet it audibly decreases in volume until about a mile away when it fades out altogether. But this is definitely a high intensity sound source, even if it doesn’t SOUND all that loud.
And let me tell you something else, a low frequency, high amplitude sound like this also has another interesting property, in that it sounds like it is coming from every direction at once (like a “sky noise” or an “earth noise”), so unless you can visually sight the source of the sound (or notice in what direction you have to walk to make the sound volume increase), you have no idea where it’s coming from.
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i live in waterford and heard a sound like an airplane engine in the sky but like it was higher in the athmosphere and alot louder.