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rrlund

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Don't start thinking that my little choo choo has gone chugging around the bend,but do any of you hear a humming sound where you live? I really don't think it's tinnitus. I get a ringing in my ears now and then,but this isn't it.

I wouldn't even notice,but when it stops,it stops me dead in my tracks. It's like when you're in the house with the radio and TV off,thinking it's quiet,then the refrigerator shuts off.

It happened again this morning. I was walking out of the tool shed and something went silent. It was as if the bulk tank compressor was running in the milkhouse and then shut off. Trouble is,there isn't a bulk tank in the milk house. Last time I heard it go silent was four of five years ago. I was out in the hay barn and when it happened,it stopped me. I had considered that it was the big power line south of me buzzing,but they wouldn't shut that whole cross state power line down would they?

When I got done with chores and shut the tractor off,it was still quiet. This is just one heck of a mystery.
 
Yes I hear it at times,,,, seems high up to me and not coming from the ground,,, and no I have not lost my cookies either,, google it others hear it too or there used to be posts about it, I have a idea what I think it is but zero proof,,yet lol
cnt
 
About the only "natural" thing I can think of would be cicadas/locusts.

Maybe you or your neighbors have a power transformer acting up?
 
happens all the time right now it sounds like a dozen cicades buzzing in my head. sometimes it sounds like a air hose leaking, never stops. good luck with it
 
I had a friend ask me a couple of years ago if I had ringing in my ears. He was kinda' taken aback when I said it sounds like a freight train running thru there. Mine has been going on forever, kinda' got used to it unless I can't get to sleep then it bugs the bajeesus (heck) outta' me.
 
Sure it isn't some sort of tinnitus? I used to get a high pitched tone to kinda a hum. I'd yawn or move my jaw just right and it'd go away sudden. Now I years later I have a definite tinnitus. It ranges from a very high pitch to a million crickets chirping. It can be just barely there to quite loud and it never goes away, always there.

When you can hear it can you turn your head to locate a direction? Seems like if it an actual sound it would be in one place like a transformer or at least along a line like a power line, but not all over.
 
The high power lines near my uncles house would hum if the conditions were just right. Certain temp and humidity. Once either changed it would stop. Would sometimes last a few minutes, sometimes a few hours. He lived on 140 acre farm in the thumb of Michigan. Couldn't tell where it was coming from till you got real close. Just kinda filled your head with the hum.
 
I have tinnitus (about 14,000hz) and every month or so it will suddenly stop. then slowly come back. Sometimes it seems only one ear does it, sometimes both. From firearms to Farmalls to industrial machines, I have managed to do it to me. Jim
 
All the time. I live a couple miles from the railroad tracks and I think it comes through about 2 or 3 times a day and you can hear it for miles and hours at a time. A very low pitched vibration and sound that goes on for hours. Also the semis on the highway can do that for miles. I haven't experienced real silence since I moved out on the highway. Very tempeted to move waaaaaay up north away from this chaotic noisey area. Constant exposure to noisey people can torture your soul. I can't even look up anymore when a Harley goes by because I have nothing good to say about them. They top the hate noise list!
 
Sounds crazy, Randy, but years ago on TV I saw something about people who "hear" a hum that they think is coming from the earth. No one can explain it but the people, called "hearers", swear it's there. Like sensing some power from the earth. Maybe you're one of them. Look into it.
 
Darndest thing is,I asked the wife several times over the years if she heard it. She always said no,but then one day without being asked,she said she did. I don't know if it's the same sound I've always heard or not.

I remember an episode of The X Files one time though that dealt with it. Got so bad people's heads were exploding. I hope that doesn't happen to me,but if I just all of a sudden stop posting......... lol
 
"I can't even look up anymore when a Harley goes by because I have nothing good to say about them. They top the hate noise list!"

You don't even know the half of it. I'm a mile from the Hog's Head biker bar. I'm on top of a hill with an S curve at the bottom between here and the bar. They come thundering from the bar around those curves and get on it coming up the hill,or back off going down hill and get on it again in the curves,one right after another. I like to sit on the porch on Saturday nights and listen to the radio,but most summer nights,it's a futile attempt. Enough to want to do something drastic. Makes me glad to see rain or see winter coming on.

There aren't any rail road tracks around here anymore,but that big steel tower power line that runs a half mile south of me runs right over there your way too. It kind of parallels 57 all the way across the state.
 
I also have tinnitus, a high pitched sound virtually all the time. Less noticed when I get focused on something else

As far as the power line, yes, the "grid" may have changed flow paths for any number of reasons and changed or stopped flow on your particular lines. We in electricity generation, especially the base-load plants, like to keep our options open. We have two units producing power at different voltages (345kV and 765kV) and the switchyard on site has switches to send either in several directions, or transformers to convert one to the other and use those lines for load.
 
For the last couple of months I have been heard a high pitch chirping sound. I asked wife she said no. I have tried to find the source, no luck so far. It's can be inside the house sometimes and outside in the yard. My mom bought a high frequency rodent deterrent. I was only one who could hear it.
 
It's probably all those gigantic boring machines constructing bunkers to house the elites preparing for when TSHTf. TDF
 
You not alone Randy. Low frequency noise comes and goes. Not often, but. Often have a high frequency sound in my ears too, but that's something different.
 
Don't cut your ear off like Van Gogh did....experts have guessed that he suffered from tinnitus.
I think your wife is a nurse, ask her about hypo-thyroid, it can cause some of the same hearing issues you describe. Also, the early onset of hearing loss can cause dirty noise. I know my hearing has gone down hill, if there are background noises, I'm out of luck. Years of the straight piped tractors and yes, Harley's with drag pipes, it's a wonder I can hear at all.
 
Some people can pick up radio station broadcasts if they have a silver based filling in their teeth....that combined with the acidity in saliva will act as a receiver and amplify high frequency radio based wavelengths. Turn your head the right way, and you may pick up a signal.....just don't tell the broadcasters or they might send you a bill..... . Ben
 
I went to the doctor a while back with ringing she prescribed a nose spray and it helped. Apparently there is the drainage tube from the ears down it wasn't quite plugged up but somehow the sinus is all connected. When I ran out i thought it was good a couple days later it started again and I was back to the pharmacist.
 
lot of stuff on the net about the "hum". people all over the world hear it. very low frequency. my best guess is some type of military early warning system. lot of navy's use high power acoustics underwater for detection and other tin foil wearing secret stuff. they do cause a lot of whale strandings. heres a link to the hum
hum here
 
Railroad tracks can carry vibrations and sounds for a long distance. Whatever equipment they use to work on the tracks can make noise for miles.

Also you never know what Uncle Sam is up to underground. Not far from where I live the guvment supposedly has something going on down there. Years ago there was a time when my windows would rattle about the same time every night for weeks.
 
I'd heard at one time that there was some submarine communications system spread out across Michigan. Makes me wonder if that's what we're hearing?
 
I have had ringing ears for 61 years now so I am used to that. It picks up and calms down some but always there. Some years ago, I picked up this humming sound. Thought it was something running in the house. Checked all appliances, stuck my head out doors etc. Finally went into the closet closed the door, still humming. It was in my head. Would go hmmmmmmmmmmm, hmmm. Hmmmmmmm hmmmm. Haven't heard it now for a while but still ringing all the time. Makes a guy wonder. One good thing, I haven't heard a cricket in those 61 years either.
 
No. It isn't specific to one spot on the place. It's a real low hum. Like I said,most evident when it stops though. Most of the time,if I'm paying attention and looking for it,it's there. Like a ringing in the ears,it's not noticeable unless you're paying attention.
 
Randy,I too,like others who have posted have tinnitus,sounds like crickets,or cicadas all the time.But I have read,and seen you tube videos about the the hum noise.In some locations almost everyone can hear it,like Taos,New Mexico,for example.In other places,it's more selective who can hear it.The you tube videos kinda creep me out-I watched a bunch when I was laid up awhile back.Mark
 
Maybe we could blame it on the unorthodox contender for the presidency. He has stimulated such controversey in this country over how things are done, That everything now is buzzing.
It's about time.
Loren
 
I keep my little pointy aluminum hat on and THEY don't bother me no more.Give me your hat sie and Ill send you one. Hoss
 
(quoted from post at 10:03:13 09/09/16) Sounds crazy, Randy, but years ago on TV I saw something about people who "hear" a hum that they think is coming from the earth. No one can explain it but the people, called "hearers", swear it's there. Like sensing some power from the earth. Maybe you're one of them. Look into it.
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I remember that back in the 60s some of the hippies that I ran into used to say that if you got up above timberline and sat still where there was no sound that you could 'hear the earth turn'.............I was a doubter and figured that they musta got hold of some bad dope but who can tell?
 
I guess I'd better get enough for RayP too if he's hearing it up at the north end of the county. I feel a little better to know he's hearing it up there too.
 

Who knows...I can't..too many explosions and gun fights in VietNam..I hear a strong ringing ALL of the time...there IS no "Quiet time" for me...

Wish I could tell when it really is "Quiet"...!!

Ron.
 
Been there - done that.
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I have heard that current and future owners of the Essex
Tri-Directional will hear them start and stop at odd times.

Wish I could help but I can't hear anything over the voices. ;)

Ok, joking aside, I don't hear a humming here at my place.
I do, however, hear every dang thing that isn't normal.

When I was in the Navy a diesel powered generator running
a few hertz off would wake me in the middle of the night.

I can hear when my electric water heater needs the elements
cleaned because it makes a different sound than "normal".
Joan cannot hear when it turns on to heat. No one else can either.
But I hear the difference in the noises it makes.

Might not be a bad idea to have your hearing checked.
Better to be safe than sorry.
 
I just told dad the other day I can't wait for a rainy day or winter because it gets rid of all those damn Harleys on the highway. It's beyond ridiculous. I think they leave the bar by your place and head straight east and go by here all day long! They're not going to get a very warm reception if they ever need any roadside help or gas from this place.
 
Funny how we get used to a noise there is a rotating radar tower on the mountain on the farm next to mine and it kinda hums 24 hrs a day the few times its quit working
I noticed the sound was gone but pay no attention to it when its running.Same with airplanes I live about 3 miles across the field from a fairly busy airport never pay any attention
to the noise the planes make unless I'm running a piece of equipment and the airplane noise over rides the usual noise coming from the equipment or tractor.
 
Do you have an underground pipeline near?
I often wonder when they are compressing (pumping) the
gas/oil thru the line, would it induce a vibration into the line?
 
I meet weekly with a group of 25, lot's of agent orange/PTSD issues. Recently got a hearing aide from VA, doesn't really help much.
 
Can you borrow a good sound meter? That would tell you the level and frequency of the noise. You might also use it to find the source.
 

Any of you folks who are old enough to remember when the telephone lines were overhead instead of buried?

It was not unusual at all to hear the wires sing from time to time.
 
"Any of you folks who are old enough to remember when the telephone lines were overhead instead of buried?"

They are still overhead here. Along with the power lines.
There is no cable TV here either. I'm good with that.
 
Decided 'bout 2 yrs ago to come outa' the closet & wear a Nam cap everywhere. Never miss an opportunity to talk to other Vets. 3 of my class mates recently made a return 12 day guided tour to Nam & made a slide presentation to our group.
A good friend became a platoon leader of 12 men as an E4 on Hamburger Hill - some serious stuff for lots of fellows. 3 of my group has died in the past year of internal "agent orange" cancers.
Hope you & yours are blessed. Thanks, Sam
 

& Yours, Too...

When we Die, we WILL go to Heaven...because we have BEEN to HELL....and bought the T-shirt...

We had a "VietNam reunion" at the Fairgrounds...I wore my Bret for the 1st time in 30 yrs..either they were all phone wanna-bees or they never were Inserted OR Extyracted by a "Slick"..saving there arse...
Got fed up and left...It don't mean Nothin....


Ron..( alias Ronbo, by my crewman)..
 
Hey Ron- thanks for your service. I wish there was a way to stop having to have people go through those things. Good buddy of mine just lost his Dad (career jarhead) to AO-related issues as well. WE did a lot of you guys a terrible disservice.

That said, try not to look down too hard on the folks who did not have the same experiences as you, please. Often times they were just doing their duty as well. My Uncle spent the whole era in the Corps, never saw Asia until the 1980s. Not his choice, just we have people everywhere. They were and are still serving our great country in the way they are best able. I like to think not everyone could handle what you and others like you saw (especially me), but I am damn glad you were there and could handle it for me.

Just another way to look at the issue.

Tom
 
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