Loud Booms are Back.....North Carolina Shakes and Nobody Knows the Cause

"The Johnston County Sheriff’s Office said their phones have been ringing off the hook. They sent deputies out to search for the source of the noise, but they do not have any idea where it came from."

North Carolina is not a stranger to the phenomena of mysterious booms. They seem to come and go, but lately they seem to be returning. Some folks say they are frost quakes, but not in an area that has not seen any snow, and when temps have remained above freezing for a month....

WRAL NEWS

a reply to: Starwise

Military jets? Red necks shooting too many guns all at the same time?

a reply to: Starwise

I live in Kentucky near Fort Knox so I hear it all the time but recently they've been hearing it in other areas further away. Sounds carry further in the winter and maybe they have changed rounds or trajectory, I imagine it's something similar happening there. You can hear and feel the sound concussion from far away, but they're not picked up by ground monitors.

originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: Starwise

Military jets? Red necks shooting too many guns all at the same time?

Rednecks know what gunshots sound like, it's part of the prerequisites.

originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: Starwise

Military jets? Red necks shooting too many guns all at the same time?

I actually find this remark very amusing coming from a Yankee.

Military jets fly over my area all the time since they use the mountains for training. Clayton is closer to the coast but I've never heard any loud booms in western NC

originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: Starwise

Military jets? Red necks shooting too many guns all at the same time?

Rednecks in North Carolina? I don't know about that. But shooting tannerite is a good possibility.

originally posted by: LSU2018

originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: Starwise

Military jets? Red necks shooting too many guns all at the same time?

Rednecks in North Carolina? I don't know about that. But shooting tannerite is a good possibility.

Would need a lot of tannerite to grab that much attention

a reply to: LSU2018

I vacation a lot in North Carolina. There are several lakes I visit for going fishing. It's all quiet and peaceful except every 5 to 7 minutes we hear gunfire. All day, everyday. It's amazing how many guns get shot off everyday in NC!!!

I've seen a lot of military jets flying around NC. So my guess is the big booms are military jets breaking the sound barrier boundaries.

a reply to: dfnj2015

I vacation a lot in North Carolina. There are several lakes I visit for going fishing. It's all quiet and peaceful except every 5 to 7 minutes we hear gunfire. All day, everyday. It's amazing how many guns get shot off everyday in NC!!!

Maybe you shouldn't fish next to a shooting range if you don't like gunfire.

Other than that, I've lived in the region for years and regularly visit NC.... There's no way you go a few times and "hear gunfire all day, everyday".

A friend of mine lives in clayton, I'll message her and see what she heard.

Of course she heard nothing lol. Figures, the one time i know a local with boots on the ground.
She is hoping its aliens comming to take her some place warmer. Shes tired of 50 degree weather. Bless her heart.

a reply to: Starwise

Its really too bad that many so called OPS are simply useless pranksters and offer little or no help. I lived in Newnan, Georgia in 2014; zip 30263 and in the late summer of that year we were hearing huge booms. So did our neighbors. We heard several booms over several weeks at random times throughout the day. We thought that it could be Tectonic Plates or earth Fault(s) shifts that run from the NorthEast down through NC and towards Alabama. They were not a sonic boom as I have heard them before nor were they Hillbillies. Since moving to South Carolina some of the Hillbillies that I hear shooting have AUTOMATIC .243 Winchester weapons. I can tell by the sound and the percussion. I called SCDNR on that back in 2017 and they seem to be aware of it. SENECA GUNS?

Here's some links

usgs.maps.arcgis.com...

www.coastalreview.org...

Just beatin my drum again.

a reply to: dfnj2015

Hey they gotta eat especially when the Turkey and Black vultures beat them to the daily road kill!

a reply to: CriticalStinker

I agree. Bullets cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Dental plans? Hell. The women don't even use makeup or get their hair done. They just jump in the truck bed and drive the pickup over to the nearest ROBO wash for a shower once a month. Yikes

Oh and before I forget, the annual migration down from the Mountains begins in February. You call tell because they are quite crusty and their stench will kill weeds in the front lawn.

BADABOOM

originally posted by: Waterglass
a reply to: CriticalStinker

I agree. Bullets cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Dental plans? Hell. The women don't even use makeup or get their hair done. They just jump in the truck bed and drive the pickup over to the nearest ROBO wash for a shower once a month. Yikes

Oh and before I forget, the annual migration down from the Mountains begins in February. You call tell because they are quite crusty and their stench will kill weeds in the front lawn.

BADABOOM

So far from this thread I found out I'm crusty and smell and also a gun loving redneck who fires my gun all day.

We're never gonna figure out this mystery

originally posted by: JDmOKI

originally posted by: Waterglass
a reply to: CriticalStinker

I agree. Bullets cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Dental plans? Hell. The women don't even use makeup or get their hair done. They just jump in the truck bed and drive the pickup over to the nearest ROBO wash for a shower once a month. Yikes

Oh and before I forget, the annual migration down from the Mountains begins in February. You call tell because they are quite crusty and their stench will kill weeds in the front lawn.

BADABOOM

So far from this thread I found out I'm crusty and smell and also a gun loving redneck who fires my gun all day.

We're never gonna figure out this mystery

I'm from the Blue Ridge Mountains in VA, I know the truth bud.... I know the truth.

Truth is, we've got it made. We should let the people who call us flyover country keep thinking that... Don't want us mucking up what we got.

a reply to: Starwise

There is a theory that these booms are caused by cryoquakes, as in the breaking of a large body of ice. I understand it's bloody cold in the US, maybe a nearby body of water froze over and the sheet of ice fractured, but as I said it's just a theory.

LOL Can confirm!!!!! it's a 4 ft home made cannon extremely loud and because its been cold the sound carries a lot further Scaring the more populated area's hahha i cant believe this made it to ATS lol ill have a chat with with him .... He knows better!! he's gotten called out on it before lol this made my day its a small world

Rednecks and their toy's lol

a reply to: TheJesuit


It was all over the morning news today!

a reply to: CriticalStinker

Did laural and hardy do a tune about that place?.