A little background first.
In spring of 2011, residents of Windsor, Ontario, Canada began hearing and feeling unexplained humming and vibrating noises. Currently the source can’t be positively located.
It’s described as an idling diesel engine that keeps people awake at night. Some people have claimed it can cause physical symptoms. The noises is said to happen mostly late at night or early morning.
Here is a great video of tormented residents.
An older interview is here. A woman describes it as rattling the picture on her wall.
An earlier government study claimed the vibrations were coming from Zug Island, an industrial area right across the US border from Windsor. See here. Zug Island is a highly secure and guarded island protected by the US government. Some Youtube videos that someone made showing a sound meter pointed toward the island have been removed. I would imaging it’s illegal to point anything at a government protected facility. In certain places in the US you can’t even take pictures of bridges.
According to this article here, The University of Windsor is now doing a government funded study using something called a pentangular array. The device will concentrate on tracing the low frequency of the hum. The study will take 10 months to complete. Since a previous study suggested Zug Island, what will be done if the array proves it to be the source. I seriously doubt anything will be done at all.
Toronto filmmaker Adam Makarenko is producing a documentary about the Windsor hum. See here.
He describes the difficulty of filming around the island. From the article:
He describes the area as a “zombie apocalypse.” He’s never set foot on the island, though. ”Homeland Security is everywhere, I mean everywhere. You have to be very careful when you’re over there. It’s heavily guarded. Why that is, I don’t know,” Makarenko said.
This video called “Windsor Hum Rattling my Windows” supposedly recorded the noise.
Fascinating stuff.
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I have heard this myself several time in Dallas TX. Just this morning woke me up.
Lasted for three hours then faded.
While some videos are obviously fake these sound are real.
Texas is nowhere near this
I have commented on this as I have felt the hum first hand. I grew up near this area and was out at a pub having a beer and looked at the glass and could see vibration from the hum in my glass. I felt the wall and you could literally feel the hum in the wall. While outside i could not here it, touching the concrete and pavement in the parking lot you could feel it. I really hope they find a way to help these people out especially if it is something new.
i have the same type of noise recorded in my room i don’t remember hearing it until i reviewed the video the next day at the end of the noise you can hear me wake up or snap out of some kinda trance instantly as the noise stops http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gxJawQbMRL4
It’s April 16, 2013. I am hearing this same rumbling in Brights Grove ontario. I can hear it over lake
These sounds are real. I am experiencing this strange pulsating humming sound in Redding, Ca. I hear it in the house, outside, everywhere. Finally, I decided to eliminate all sources, turning the main power off and shutting down the water supply. No difference. Then I drove westbound beyond the Igo village and got out of the car. Green Pastures, cows, no houses around, but the same sound. I got in the car and slammed the door. Same sound even in a car. I put on my aviation headset with noise canceling feature, the intensity of the humming was unchanged. I turned the noise canceling feature on and it cancelled nothing. I wouldn’t hear my fingers tapping on the table but I heard the humming.
Then I Finally stumbled over a scientific article and figured out what is happening. These are not acoustic sounds, but electromagnetic waves of extra low frequency that can be perceived by some individuals as a sound, which it is not. Therefore, there is no way to get rid of it, it is everywhere and you can’t determine a direction it is coming from. This is also the reason why it can’t be taped with acoustic recording equipment. In other words, the sound is in your head, but you are not crazy. There are other people who can detect it as well. If this electromagnetic field resonates with EM brainwaves of some people, they begin to feel it as a humming sound which pulsates, as a sound of a twin aircraft propellers running out of sync. Yet the beat is irregular, with a frequency maybe 3 to 4 per second. It feels like a strange pressure in the ears or in the head. My wife feels it as well. But I asked and electrician if he heard that, we were both standing by my house and listening, but he couldn’t pick it up. I was afraid that he would think that I “hear” things base on how he was looking at me.
Now I am getting serious and slightly annoyed, because it is man made and there are people who know what they are doing. I understand that the ELF frequencies are used for communications with submarines, but this was here even before and didn’t bother anybody. But this particular thing seems to resonate with bio currents to the point of generating a sound perception feeling and I am not too happy about that.
By the way, my 89 year old mother who can hardly hear any more asked me one evening when she was laying in bed … “What car is running that engine outside? Did somebody come over?” No mom I said, there is no car outside. This surprised me, she was very sensitive to it.