What Am I Hearing, Taos Hum?

I live in New Mexico south of Taos and this is one of those things we locals know about quite well...

One of the little reported facts is the Hum can... I said can but not always... be a precursor to an earthquake/Tremors...

Yes we get earthquakes here just not big ones... like a 3.0 the biggest one I remember us getting, here that's newsworthy...

Now the hum can start months/years before an earthquake and the hum doesn't mean the quake will occur under your feet...

we had a hum here in Albuquerque that was driving people crazy then some hundred miles south in Socorro they had a small earthquake and the hum stopped...

I'm not saying this is what's happening where you are but that's what happens here, sometimes...

[edit on 24-4-2009 by DaddyBare]

I hear it often, and it's really disturbing. There's something about
the way the pitch, duration and volume randomly changes that
makes me feel quite unsettled.

It's usually not so much a noise as a vibration that the whole body
resonates to - can't even call it a sound because the ear can't pin
down a direction for it.

Doesn't help to wrap your head in a pillow or to stuff earplugs in.

At first I thought it was my imagination or perhaps blood pulsing
through arteries, but now I think that it may be a pump at a local
reservoir; running off and on all of the time and more noticeable
at night when there is less road noise to cover it.

Whatever it is, it's enough to drive ya crazy!

Sorry for the waaaayyyy late reply. No, I or was living near Rome N.Y.




reply to post by Anonymous ATS

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I rarely hear low toned things, so I don't hear that sort of noise. I ruled out Taos for myself based on the tone for it being low.

You can teach yourself to ignore things. If you ever go to an area with sulfur smell, you'll be overwhelmed for quite a while. Then your brain will stop "noticing" it after a bit.

The trick seems to be in first acknowledging the thing that is disturbing your senses, then "putting it away" so that your brain can stop bringing attention to it.

You can drive yourself crazy with paying attention to your breathing to much too, until your body won't breathe on its own properly and your brain does something drastic like makes you faint so that the correct part of your brain can reassert control over your breathing.

Besides the earthquake The Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) the frequency range between 300 hertz and 3 kilohertz. (Felt not heard)
there is something called "Earth Mode Communications" ULF has been used by the military for secure communications through the ground. NATO AGARD publications from the 1960s detailed many such systems, although one suspects the contents of the published papers left a lot unsaid about what actually was developed secretly for defense purposes. Communications through the ground using conduction fields is known as "Earth Mode" communications

Sometimes my computer speakers pick up radio or some other noises without anything plugged in, are there speakers in your room? could be the same thing

tracer, have you investigated the possibility that you suffer from tinnitus?

I got this. Sounds like a generator, low_ish humming noise. I usually hear it at night when everything is quiet. As soon as another dominant source of sound presents itself it goes away and returns as soon as it gets quiet again. Usually i get this pretty bad when i´m under a lot of stress. Sometimes when there´s too much going on at work i can feel it like a pressure inside my head and i know that if it were quiet it would hum really loud.

Reading through the various replies, most likely there are different things going on here.

Any specific reason why you think this is military/government project related?

I'm just thankful that I don't hear it around here any more, it really set my nerves on edge.

How far away are you from the nearest road with traffic?
Also as stated above, tinnitus is a valid hearing disorder. Check it out.

[edit on 27-4-2009 by GriffinRD]

This post is most similar to my own experiences. I can only hear it in a localized closed environment such as a house or my car (if parked near the house). Mostly I hear it at night, but not every night. I think it is caused by the walls or shielding of the glass in my car reflections vibrations from either above or below. I'm not sure which method would be more efficient, but this seems to be a result of man-made devices because let's face it: man is responsible for all the problems we see in the world, wrecking havoc everywhere on everything he touches.

Aside from the hum noise in my left ear mainly (it is more sensitive), I also have experiences physical vibrations in my head and extremities. Physical shaking nearly. I drink excessive amounts of alcohol so I can sleep at night, and sometimes I wake up wondering how bruises got on my legs. There is no pain associated with the bruises. I cannot explain this at all. I wonder if I have been abducted somehow. It's hard to remember with the alcohol getting in the way of my memory.

I can only hope it goes away or gets better or else I'll have to move away or just drink myself to death, assuming alcohol causes liver failure. Ah well, if I'm meant to do well, then things will change for me if I intervene to help myself somehow. That's how I see it. One more thing though, I got to say this seems to be a sign of some of the crazy things going on in the world, and I think most people are getting fed up with the lies...