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House is humming, literally

lola1
18 years ago

Hello everyone. I'm a new poster to this forum although I've enjoyed reading and learning from many a post here for quite a while.

I have a weird situation. Last summer, my fiance and I moved into a Fresno home built in '52. A few months ago, I noticed a humming noise in the center of the house, which would be where the furnace unit and hot water unit is. Both items are actually in separate 'closets', across from each other in a rather long hallway. It seems as though it's coming from the attic and I can definitely hear it when I press my ears against the walls of the hallway. I can also hear the noise through the vent in the master bath, a ways away. Some days I don't hear it at all. Some days I can hear it change pitch and 'waiver.' It seems that wind does not play a factor. Some days it seems slightly louder than others, but that could be my imagination. It's not loud. It's not as though company comes over someone says, 'Hey, what's up with that hum?!' However, if you mention it to somebody, they stand in the hallway, they always say, 'yeah, I hear it!'

Last night I couldn't take it anymore. So, one-by-one we switched off the circuits to see if this hum was connected---literally-- to any part of the electrical circuit. We turned everything off and the house still hummed.

Has anyone had a house hum? This is driving me crazy!!!

Comments (368)

  • kudzu9
    last year

    And what is your evidence that cell towers are causing it?

  • HU-251938516
    last year

    “There is a humming I hear in my house also (UK based) its definitely not electric, as turned off all the power, but it's constant, like 3 buzzes, dumm dum dum”


    this is exactly the same for me! the first one longer, then two slightly shorter ones

  • Jonathan Fitzsimmons
    last year

    Hi all

    so - wife and i have both had our ears checked and its not us! We’re averaging about 3 hours sleep though a night so both really tetchy and irritable.

    we were wondering whether the smart meters in our new house could be causing it. @jaime did you get anywhere investigating that in your situation? in the uk all the utility companies promote smart meters all the time so hard to find anything negative about them. We are trying to get the local utility company to come out and check but it all takes time and effort (things we find hard to give right now!) We should also be getting an electician out on the 20th to do testing on our fuse board in case that has anything to do with it.…

  • Debbie
    last year

    @kudzu9

    I called the cell phone company and they said they were turning off their 3G towers. While it was turned off the noise went away. Then on a Monday it started back up so I talked to her again and she said they had just boosted their 5G tower. So, that is why I tend to think it is cell towers causing the sound.

  • anton morris
    last year
    last modified: last year

    Moved into a new build house, noticed this hum, deep humming, that not everyone can hear, feels like your in a box, you feel the bass noise in your head. But also noticed the same hum in my car other side of town. Not pinned it down, but now I work on the docks not even a mile away, and it sounds very similar to the idling cargo ships engine low bass warbling humming, whum whum whum whum

  • HU-663315888
    last year
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    I live in Australia, country Victoria and noticed the hum about 5 years ago. It gives me migraines and seems to kill my working memory and leaves me feeling fatigued so sometimes it's back to bed to try to escape it. A fan or fan noise masks it somewhat. I also hear it 2 or 3 hundred metres from my house, and at a house in a different town about 6 km from here. I believe that it's a high tech weapon that the intelligence community use to keep people from being able to live a normal productive life. The hum is often used on journalists, political dissidents, alpha males, and attractive people (because they are seen as a potential threat by the gov. ...people tend to vote for attractive people). I'm an ex political activist (protester), and I believe that the Chinese govt. is involved, along with the Masonic people.

  • peggy davis
    last year

    Not only a humm but the house shakes

  • M Griff
    last year

    Oh my gosh. ive been researching this for about 2 years! I reside in western Washington- my house was built in 2007, never any issues until… At first I heard this JUST in the summer of 2019 but then it was gone- at that time, I was also getting bees in my bedroom; i have not since. Anyway, I’ve heard it off and on over the years but it has been nonstop for months. Same kind of rattling, hum, and consistant. i don’t live by any cell towers, trains, or industrial area- i live in a rual community.

  • HU-804984282
    last year

    Use an Infrasound or Low Frequency Sound Detector App on your smartphone. These sounds will have a source and you can likely track down where they're coming from by following the frequency amplitudes as you move around to where they're highest. The best thing about this is that we now have a way to prove there is a sound that's disturbing us and it's measurable and proveable by anyone, but there's still a way to go to get legislation and regulations caught up to the point where they properly take into account the health impacts of LFS, and authorities, companies and buildings maintenance have better measurement standards, given that much lower amplitude low frequency sounds can cause equal if not more disturbance than higher ones.

    They can be from underground gas and water mains or underground rivers and those are going to be very difficult to get much done about them, but if they come from machinery, powerplants or railway tranformers and things like that you can usually get local authorities to do something about it if you can find a group of affected people and complain enough. If you hear or feel it, it's very likely that several other people do to but just probably also don:t know what to do about it.

    The ventilation unit in the roof of my block of flats causes a Low frequency hum and vibrations that disturbs my sleep, affects my memory and basically zombifies me, gives me headaches, heart palpatations and on past occasions tinnitus so loud I couldn't hear someone talking to me from 10 feet away.

    Thankfully my building maintenance company seems to be taking the complaint seriously now, and hopefully is able to do something to resolve it soon, but it has not been easy and a two year ordeal of being told they're in perfect working order and nothing can be done and having to force the issue until I got an appropriate response, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

  • HU-935917904
    last year

    Hi, HU-804984282, which app(s) do you suggest? Thank you.

  • M Griff
    last year

    Hmmm. i looked in App store, there are 2 for Low Frequency Sound Detector. l’ll look into this more & update.

  • HU-738409787
    last year

    Yes your house could be resonating from the older acoustic fatigued major high pressured natural gas pipelines everywhere that has become an epidemic of it world wide as claim by man on internet named Steve Kohlhase. He has a YouTube video called "The Hum: The unexplained Noise that only 2% of People can Hear!" Once you hear it and feel it's vibrations that means it is on your frequency that your body and ears, eyes resonate at! Not everybody will hear it or feel it but it can still affect them in their health or mentally and not know it. everyone can see the water in plastic bottles or jugs or rain water puddles or swimming pool water surface vibrate subtly at fast pace pattern and sometimes it will cause bad light fixtures in house or outside to flicker! It will even cause digital t.v., cell phone screens, computer screens to have a subtle flickering or more snow but will not distort the image on the screen! It will also be heard on some radio stations when turning the dial in the static noise! The noise can be heard coming through refrigerators, furnaces, desk home computer towers causing them to sound subtly, louder, work harder or break down older models! You can use a volume boost recording app on cell phone to hear and record the noise with headphones it will sound like a diesel engine noise but the noise is actually everywhere in house coming from outdoors through walls and floors because the whole house and environment is resonating with the Infrasound low frequency gas pipeline noise! It is vibrating everything but only those sensitive to it both human and animal will be aware to feel it and hear it! The noise can cause ear drum pressure, ear aches, headaches, blurry vision, insomnia, drowsiness, pressure on internal organs, muscle twitches, spasms, dizziness, loss of balance, heart palpitations, fast heart rate, anxiety, depression, fear and depression, anger! Infrasound low frequency noise is used in scary movies soundtrack to make audience react and feel fear watching the movie. It is a crime to let these major pipelines do this to the public but authorities are not doing anything about it! Infrasound intrusion has to be block coming into the house using fan turned on or listening to music on certain frequencies like 256 Hertz to drown it out, white noise or pink noise, get out of house more, sleep with ear plugs

  • Matthew Webley
    last year

    Oh man, Im getting this too. Low frequency whirring/hum noise. What @Debbie has explained it as seems the most similar to what Im experiencing. I have tinnitus too. Seems to come and go. But avoiding alcohol and caffeine seems to help. Trying the blueberry trick tonight, but I can still hear it. Can't figure out if it's a real noise or not! Any further news?

  • Debbie
    last year

    My Tinnitus went away as it always does at this time of year but the noise remains. I have been wearing my mouth guard to see if somehow the TMJ is producing this noise but so far I am still hearing it. It has gotten a little less loud. But I am having some teeth issues and some major inflammation which I am taking antibiotics for, however before I got the antibiotics the noise was very loud and constant. So, if no one else can hear it then I think it could be connected to inflammation. Either that or it is towers but so far I haven't found anyone else that can hear it. I asked the receptionist at the doctors office to come out to my car and she couldn't hear it. SIGH. I will update as time goes on. TMJ they say can take 3 months to resolve so we will see. I gave up gum chewing too.

  • HU-738409787
    last year

    I don't think tinnitus is the culprit! According to Steve Kohlhase who is a mechanical engineer and has the same noise/vibrations in his house since 2009 he says it is the acoustic and metal fatigued old major high pressured liquid natural gas pipelines where many of them have been modulated at the gas compressor stations causing the problem. I have this same low frequency noise/vibration in my house too it sounds like a diesel engine in the walls and floors day and night! I live right next to a major gas Pipeline running down my street like a great leviathan snake creature that is under the street and you can see all of it's gas pipeline markers above ground! These monster pipelines everywhere are so long they go through more than one state! These gas pipelines even connect to other countries for example united states gas pipelines to Canada gas pipelines traveling underground and under rivers and many people that are resonating with it living on or near those gas pipeline routes hear the low frequency diesel engine noise/vibrations in their homes being disturbed giving them ear aches, ear drum pressure, headaches, nausea, sleep disturbances, anxiety, fear, anger, depression, etc. But the gas pipeline companies are in denial that the problem is their fault and epa or local ,federal authorities will not investigate the noise because everyone don't hear or feel it but it could still make them sick. It basically makes you sick indoors when exposed too long to the noise and vibrations that are resonating with you and everything around you so it best to go outdoors to feel better! However if you feel the vibrations alot you will probably still feel them outdoors too but not hear as much the noise attached to it! Outdoors will give you time to clear your head of the noise interferences! If you can't feel the vibrations use water in water bottles near windows, tables, bed, floor, in car, in yard to see water vibrating at subtle fast pace! Make sure you are up close on bottle to see subtle tiny fast pace vibrations on surface of water in bottle. This will let you know your property is being invaded with this low frequency noise/vibration pollution!

  • Matthew Webley
    last year

    It's very odd. Why are only a certain group of people hearing it? And why only now?

  • peppersd
    last year

    HU-738409787 - I might have agreed with you re "the older acoustic fatigued major high pressured natural gas pipelines" except that 1993-present, I have lived in 2 communities that were brand new - not just a few blocks but entire communities averaging about 5 miles in each direction - so all the utilities were new infrastructure, including the gas pipelines, sewer lines, water lines, electricity. Both homes were brand new as well. No vibrations in either of the two homes I lived in but the low diesel 'humming' was in both homes - and not every room, and as someone who did vacation home checks for neighbors, not every home. The noise was not outdoors as well.

  • HU-738409787
    last year

    Hi Peppersd! It is the interstate high pressured natural gas pipelines that I am referring to not your local gas Pipeline companies in the area! You should check YouTube "Gas Pipelines noise and Ground Vibrations" to see the diesel engine noise in action coming from gas pipeline that was heard by hikers in a national park! Check Steve Kohlhase YouTube video about his home being invaded by the hum since 2009 called "The Hum: The Unexplained Noise that only 2% of People can Hear!"

  • HU-738409787
    last year

    In dealing with the low frequency noise I myself was wondering if the acoustic fatigued interstate high pressured liquid gas pipeline noise is making a standing sound wave that resonates with certain frequencies (As Steve Kohlhase claims) better in side buildings, homes, cars, human and animal bodies creating noise/vibrations pollution indoors like sick building syndrome but is called gas pipeline syndrome by Steve! A standing sound wave is created from a traveling sound wave that is reflected back upon itself creating 2 traveling sound waves but the second one is trapped creating a third stationary (standing) sound wave! Maybe pressurized movement of liquid gas through pipeline at certain bends and angles causes acoustic fatigued and metal fatigued issues in pipeline! I can hear in my house the Infrasound low frequency diesel engine noise of two traveling sound waves quiet in background fades out some into a hum which is the stationary sound wave that takes over and that's the one that gets in your ears causing ear drum pressure and ear ache, head ache the longer you are exposed to it sitting still you should move around and go out doors! This is also affecting cell phones to I have it video recorded where there was a white blank screen flickering in same pattern as diesel engine noise and bad light fixtures indoors and outdoors too will flicker in same pattern! Digital tv screen will have subtle interference/ but will not distort the picture on the screen!🤔🤔🤔🎶🎶🎶

  • HU-299014561
    last year

    Ok people, this might come as a shock to some. This phenomenon started on a specific date for me, end of 2021. The same morning I woke up hearing the low frequency hum I was ill with you know what! The noise hasn't stopped since. It's not tinnitus because I've had that for years. Completely different noise and here's the kicker. The noise is very local to my immediate area and incredibly loud indoors. If I go to a friend's house or a little further away I can't hear it. So what ever is causing it is unique to certain localities. I live on the NW coast of the UK. Its either new wind farm technology or the 5g network both of which have gone online in recent months to a year. If its 5g its targeted if its wind farm/power grid then its likely circumstance. There's also another possibility and that's satellite technology. The world has changed a lot in recent times so anything's possible. Highly recommend speaking to neigbour and building some knowledge around potential sources. Check out UK hum reports on Twitter for a comprehensive list of news reports. Speak to people around you find out as much information as you can. Havana syndrome is another topic. Bring in a sound specialist. Guarantee there'll be able to measure it. But not locate it. Educate yourself.

  • Kim Olsen
    last year

    Interesting thread. A humming started in our manufactured home Feb this year. Not so bad at first but it has increased. Barely notice it during the day but at night when trying to sleep it is awful. First thought it was our heat pump, but no. My heating and cooling guy came for maintenance and said hey, it is the ground transformer. So been researching transformers. PUD came and said there are no issues with it even though we can now hear it humming 50' from our house. The noise/vibrations can be heard all though the house but it loudest on one side, closest to the green monster. Not sure what our next step is. They refuse to come when we are home so that they can come into our home to listen. There are two empty homes that are being renovated for sale and the park manager allowed me inside and I can hear humming in both those houses. I am hoping that the future home owners will also complain with me so there is more than just me.

  • HU-663315888
    last year
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    HU-738409787quote " This is also affecting cell phones to I have it video recorded where there was a white blank screen flickering in same pattern as diesel engine noise and bad light fixtures indoors and outdoors too will flicker in same pattern! Unquote

    That points to an electromagnetic wave in my opinion, possibly coming from the cell towers, or maybe the weather/airport radar fixtures/radio station towers (or maybe a combination). I have noticed that after hitting around 50 years old that my nervous system is more sensitive than what it used to be. Sudden unexpected loud noises give me the feeling of getting an electric shock through my nervous system, I'm wondering if our nervous systems are being degraded by the electro-pollution that surround us. Maybe it's by design to cull off the people who are approaching retirement age.......

  • HU-663315888
    last year

    A short video on ELF waves and tinnitus and how they are connected to the weaponised shuman resonance and the vibrations that we feel/hear

    https://youtu.be/wyCqzvLTAtE

  • HU-663315888
    last year

    Another video from the same guy. In this one he reckons that the waves are riding in on the power grid, I'm not sure if that's the case though, maybe the waves are interfering with the current.

    HU-738409787 When your white screen on your cell phone was flickering was it plugged into the charger?

    Anyway, here's the link- https://youtu.be/OhkLLQuFIB4

  • HU-738409787
    last year

    HI HU-663315888 I liked your comments Yes my cell phone white screen was flickering when I was charging! Thanks for the link I have seen his videos before but not that particular one. I believe it is piggybacking on the power linee had a fire

  • HU-659716251
    last year

    Thankyou HU-663315888 for you comments and especially the video, which explains so well what I was trying say 12 months ago. The polluting of the Schumann Resonance is causing great harm to life on our planet.

  • HU-942397938
    last year

    I started hearing a "hum" out of the blue several years ago. We had recently had a new roof installed and I thought maybe that had something to do with the noise I was hearing. It did sound like maybe a shingle or siding was rattling with the wind, or that I had a hive in the walls. However, I noticed that I could hear it on calm days. It was more than annoying, it often kept me awake and made it difficult to watch TV. I should mention I can often feel the noise too. I really believed it was something in my house that was causing the hum and vibration until I experienced it in the cabin we rent for our summer fishing trips. I also experienced it in a house we purchased and flipped. I would like to add that I have had migraines most of my life and sometimes experience a phantom smoke smell too. We do not live near any businesses, highways, or powerplants. It also seems to be coming from a north west direction. It is definitely not a neighbors truck, a generator,, or tinnitus. Weird, annoying, and terribly frustrating!!!

  • HU-663315888
    last year

    HU-942397938 All I can suggest at this stage is to boost your nervous system with a good brand of vita b complex, some cholesterol and a few of the mushroom extracts available on the net. For the migraines, try taking some milk thistle to boost your liver cleansing capabilities and see if you notice any improvement.

  • catherinet (5IN)
    last year
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    HU-942397938, I feel your pain. One question I have is: Have you had a bout with a virus recently? I had a bad virus back in the 1990s and lots of strange things have happened to my body.........one of which is it wrecked my sense of smell and taste. For many years, I smelled smoke all the time, when there was none around. All the stuff in our heads (smell/taste/hearing/vision/and our entire brains) can/might be affected by various viruses. The constant hum/rumble I get, I hear mostly in winter. That makes me wonder if it's worsened by the dryness my body might have. It IS disconcerting that so many people have come here with a very similar complaint. I hope you and the rest of us can find some peace eventually (hopefully sooner than later!)

  • N Bundy
    last year

    My husband I have a cabin out in the middle of nowhere in northern Wisconsin. When we returned from Florida this past May we noticed a strange low frequency hum noise, both inside and outside of this house. It’s 24x7. Not sure exactly when it started but most definitely within the last year. We have asked a few neighbors if they hear it and they do not. It sounds like a heat pump or some type of commercial fan running. We have no industry around us and are not close to any busy highways. We thought is was coming from a research facility that harvests and studies potato seedlings a few miles north of us (thinking it was some type of heater or humidifier fan) but I contacted them and they said yes we have this type of equipment but it’s all off for the winter. During the day it’s not as noticeable since there are other noise distractions such as cooking, cleaning or having the radio/TV on, but if you are just sitting still and the only one home you can hear it and at night when laying in bed it’s the worse since there no noise then. We even turned off all the power in the house and could still hear it. I tried ear plugs at night to help with the hum noise, but oddly enough I could still hear the hum. I do not have tinnitus nor does my husband. But we both hear it all day and night long.

  • Diana Shanti Rose Wilks
    last year

    Hi all, I live on the west coast of the south island New Zealand, this same droning, humming , pulsing sound louder inside and especially at night started around beginning december 2022. I could feel the sofa vibrating one morning. A post on the local page got several likes and with other people hearing it too. I have some good ideas from reading all the comments and will check with my immediate neighbours after new year and see with other people if it started for them at the same time. My active noise cancelling headphones that I bought in despair seem to block out 70% but sleeping with them on is not pleasant. I am planning a night time walk around to check transformers and just see if I can locate any source. The council have had no other complaints. We do have a lot of mining activity within a 40 km radius but I even heard it loudly on christmas day and I would be surprised if anyone was working then. Good Luck everyone!


  • HU-663315888
    last year

    Hi, it seems to be a weapon that is used against anyone who might speak out against gov/big business. You can run a cooling fan in your bedroom to mask the noise, or maybe a music player with some white noise playing on a loop. The noise persists here even when the power is out due to thunderstorms, but have a listen to your local transformers anyway because you have to find these things out for yourself rather than believe some stranger on the net.

  • Christiane Schwartz
    last year

    We also live in Wisconsin and we started hearing a noise about seven weeks ago. It is driving us crazy. We live in Deforest, Wisconsin. We also turned off all of the electric in our house, but the humming sound ist STILL here. We have had sleepless nights. We tried music in the background but it does interfere with sleep because we like a quiet.

  • HU-251938516
    last year

    When i went to try and find the source of the hum near us, which seemed really localised (by the yard even), it would be incredibly loud in some areas but then moving a few yards further would completely disappear! As if no source… wonder if others have found the same

  • HU-771494878
    last year

    I started hearing the hum in my house in July 2022. The noise I hear is consistently of two different frequencies both low, but one lower than the other. It occurs in a three part phase with the lower frequency first, then the other one, this repeats, then there is a double pulse of the lower frequency with the slightly higher frequency then pulsing to finish it off. It goes LOW, HIGH, LOW HIGH, LOW LOW HIGH. Each noise lasts roughly a second with the full phase lasting around 7 seconds. Can't hear it outside and it is more pronounced in the bedroom I sleep in but can be heard in all rooms in the house. It does appear to be sporadic although I may be more sensitive to it at specific times. My wife doesn't hear it and I have asked a neighbour but they can't hear it either .

  • Diana Shanti Rose Wilks
    last year

    I am rather embarrassed to admit that I have tinnitus, of the low droning hum kind. I found this out after using the well documented tapping technique on my occiput, base of skull bones and was amazed that after 2 days the sound went. Now it appears occasionally but not for long and I know I can remove it or ignore it knowing what it is. Also I am starting to not be able to tell which direction a sound is coming from. So, it was me all along!

    I thought it may help someone else if I shared this.

  • HU-663315888
    last year

    Snowden reveals HAARP’s Global Assassination Agenda

    Going by the mind numbing effects of this hum, it wouldn't surprise me if they were literally killing us by damaging our brainstems....more info-

    https://cairnsnews.org/2013/07/15/snowden-reveals-haarps-global-assassination-agenda/

  • A Nonymous
    7 months ago
    last modified: 7 months ago

    Over a year ago, I said here that I thought my neighbor's generator was causing the hum. This is because I was still hearing it even during a series of power outages, and my neighbor had their generator going during at least one of those outages.


    Now I think it's coming through the satellite dish on our house. From what I've read, you can still get a satellite signal even if the electricity is off.


    In recent days and weeks the hum has been particularly bad. It's always really noticeable in certain areas, such as the downstairs bathroom. Well, tonight, we had a really heavy rainstorm that seemed to last for at least 20 minutes or longer. During that time, I walked into the bathroom and noticed that the hum was completely gone. It couldn't be heard in the other locations either.


    After the rain stopped, I went and checked the bathroom and other locations, only to find that the hum had returned.


    Whatever is causing the hum is cancelled out by rain. We know that rain, especially heavy rain, interferes with satellite signals. But rain wouldn't interfere with engine or motor vibrations from a distance, would it? I don't see how it would have much affected strong sound vibrations from a distance. So the generator theory is out.


    (Also, I've re-checked several times, to see if the neighbor's generator is on whenever I hear the hum. It hasn't been since the power outages last summer.)


    I didn't have time to read much, but it looks like they're at least in the testing phase for satellite-5g and satellite-mobile phone connections.


    Sometimes the hum goes away for days, weeks, or months. I had been hearing it every day since it began in late summer 2021. Then in July 2022, about 3 or 4 weeks after I began writing on this thread, the hum suddenly stopped for about 2 months. We had been getting a good amount of rain, but not that consistently. Every so often, the hum will stop again for a good while.

  • Debbie
    7 months ago

    It might be from the 5 G towers because I wasn't hearing it until then. Like you mine goes away for weeks at a time only to return. I need to buy a noise canceling device for my bedroom. Last night I couldn't sleep due to the hum. It is supposed to rain this week so hopefully I will get a break.

  • A Nonymous
    7 months ago
    last modified: 7 months ago

    @Debbie

    It would make sense that 5g is part of it. The satellite dish has been there for many years but the hum is recent. Maybe the 5g is using the satellite system...I don't know of any 5g towers nearby and haven't been able to find maps for 5g towers. Even then, I wouldn't know when any towers were put in...I did some reading. From what I understand, 5g wouldn't likely be affected as much by a heavy rainstorm. That's mainly because cell tower signals are well below cloud level or usually they are. Lightning striking the tower could matter. But it's usually ground-level objects that really interfere with cell tower signals. Satellites have to penetrate both heavy rain and dense rain clouds, so the signal is more easily broken in those events. But if the 5g is using the satellite system, then it would have the same obstacles.

  • A Nonymous
    7 months ago

    Tonight we had a rainstorm almost as intense as last night's. This time the tv was on and I actually saw the signal fail. When I checked the bathroom and other locations, the hum wasn't completely gone but it was barely detectable. After the storm, the hum was back to regular strength. For now, it's looking like the satellite dish is it.

  • Debbie
    7 months ago

    I don't know if this matters but I don't own a satellite dish nor do any of my neighbors.

  • HU-738409787
    7 months ago

    No it doesn't matter I don't have a satellite dish on my home and I have the diesel engine hum in my home since 2019! According to a bachelor degree mechanical engineer name Steve Kohlhase that has suffered from the hum and vibrations in his home since 2009 and did resear research with investigation claim it is the interstate high pressured natural gas pipelines see YouTube" the hum unexplained noise that only 2% of people can hear!" See Facebook group The Real World Hum wherewhere he everyone is discussing questions and answers about The Hum. Infrasound Low Frequency Noise Pollution.

  • A Nonymous
    7 months ago
    last modified: 7 months ago

    @HU-738409787

    I'll look further into it. But for now, maybe different mechanical sources can cause the hum. Maybe there is no single mechanical cause for all cases. I get the same sound that you and others here have described, so it is the same phenomenon. As I understand it, the theory you're talking about is that acoustic fatigue from old, natural gas pipelines is causing the Hum. Maybe that theory explains some or even many cases. But it wouldn't explain my case; it wouldn't explain why the hum is eliminated or almost eliminated when there is a strong rainstorm and the satellite signal goes out...It also wouldn't explain why there are times when the hum goes away for long periods -- sometimes many weeks or even months -- and then comes back. People don't just stop using natural gas for several weeks or months. At least we don't. I doubt that Debbie and I are the only ones who experience those long time-gaps...Another problem with the theory is: why is there very recently a major increase in hum reports, if this thread is any evidence of that? We're getting people from North America, like myself; from the UK; from Australia, etc who are reporting this in seemingly record numbers. Did the natural gas pipelines in those areas coincidentally get old at the same time and in great numbers? Unlikely it seems...Also, why is the Hum so disproportionately heavy in the Anglosphere compared to almost the entire world? The World Hum Map (which I use to be able to get on my computer) shows that. The only exceptions, if I remember right, are parts of western, continental Europe such as the Netherlands (and maybe Belgium) and parts of western Germany. (Notice the black clusters on the map.)...I'm not suggesting (or ignoring) conspiracy theories, but those questions need to be asked...Another reason that I think I have finally found my source of the humming is that it explains why I originally thought it was my neighbor's generator. The hum sound is, overall, stronger in the northwest section of the house. That neighbor is northwest of my house. But the satellite receiver is in the house's northwest section; and in the northwest section, the hum is strongest a few feet from the receiver and at an angle that is roughly perpendicular to it...HU-738409787, no disrespect. I'm just giving my 2 cents so that we can get to the truth...The satellite dish is the source of my hum, but not necessarily the cause. The cause might be something that can access different vehicles and isn't dependent on a satellite dish. So, whatever is coming through the satellite dish could also be what's causing the hum for some other people.

  • marianned88
    7 months ago

    So an update on my situation that I posted about quite awhile ago.
    Recap - NW suburbs of Philadelphia hum-vibrations started for me terribly Thanksgiving 2021. Looking back I however may recall vibrations as early as that summer. I’ve gone crazy trying to figure out the source with no luck. Talked to my family, visitors, electricians, neighbors. No one hears it but me. I turned off all electrical in my house one fuse at a time - not electrical. Also had electricians come out to double check. Nope. Had roofers remove curved PVC pipe from roof vents that had gotten installed. Nope. Thought maybe I had tinnitus. Went to ENT and found out my hearing is excellent- like the best hearing of an 18 year old and I’m in my 50s. Ruled out tinnitus because it’s house specific. If I go outside I can’t even hear it. It seems to me it’s the NW corner of my house. And I’ve tracked when it’s bad and it seems to be worse at the end of each month.

    Thoughts on what i have considered it might be -neighbors’ pools, roof vents, gas lines, nearby businesses, compost business nearby with gas vents, roads made from new materials, covid shot side effects, military sonic weapon (ie. Cuba diplomats), nuclear power plant nearby, atmospheric sounds….heck even aliens lol

    Currently I am in a very quiet period since getting back from vacation two weeks ago. I want to cry it’s such a relief. I’m hopefully optimistic but it’s gone away before and come back. As I’ve said it’s worse at the end of the month.

    One theory I’m heavily considering besides the gas lines or maybe 5g towers -
    I live very close to a school. I’m wondering if there is something that’s happening at the building when students aren’t there which explains why it’s suddenly stopped and was terrible over Thanksgiving break. Wondering if anyone else lives near a school.

    In addition right before I went on vacation, down the road from me crews had dug up the road and someone’s front yard, obviously pipes of some sort - water or gas idk - and I haven’t heard the sound (yet) since. Maybe points towards gas lines being the issue. I pray it’s the case because I’ve spent years now thinking of selling the house to get away from it.

    This is a club I (and everyone else) don’t want to be a part of.

  • Debbie
    7 months ago

    I do live near a school. Not next door but fairly close about 6 minutes is the closest one.There is another one about 8 minutes from my house. I have seen several people mention this sound as a low hum like a truck idling but the sound I hear is higher pitched. I have listened to youtubes "Hum" and that is not the sound I am hearing. I have also questioned neighbors and even asked the bug guy that sprays my house. No one hears it but me. I just know when it rains it stops. It might go away for weeks at a time or play constant for weeks at a time. I will start to pay attention if it is better when school is out.

  • HU-713914452
    3 months ago

    Me too. It wavers between 1.98Hz and 372Hz with a pattern of repeating spikes at several different frequencies between.Feel it hear it inside ofofofoofofofoofofofoofofofofoofofofoofofofoof






    LLOllolLLOllol being messed with as I type this so sorry 6th attempt mom lives down the street and hears it too I record the same thing as my house but not exactly because it varies from the size of rooms and ceilings we don't hear it outside but we are wondering if its the electric transformer or something like that. Several houses share it at moms house there is also a distinctive pulse coming from a wall I also wonder about these new meters especially the water ones because when they did mine it took 2 and halve days yet I could use water at night that's super sketch and oddly there's a new tower behind the cemetery that went up at the same time about600 feet away its surrounded by cameras it is not a ham or a repeater or a commercial radio or cell tower I call weird but do the dots connect? Could it be a bad neutral line from the repeater mine is air but moms is buried I don't know does anyone want to post back ? Appreciate d Thanx! Sorry for typos high strangeness trying to post this for some reason!





  • HU-713914452
    3 months ago
    last modified: 3 months ago

    I could only read mymy previous post after it finally sent. Gawd. I meant to say bad neutral line from a power line transformer, mom's line is buried while mine is straight off the pole from the omg here we go TRANSFORMER again tortexetts⚠ INSTEAD of sayinsayin REPEAter


  • HU-663315888
    3 months ago

    HU713914452, the power went off here last night (as it has several times in the past 2 years), and the hum continues to vibrate my brain. It isn't coming from the powerlines, it must be the cell towers/radio/tv towers.