Mysterious sound in Brooklyn driving people crazy

No one seems to know what's causing a strange humming in Fort Greene, CBS2's Kevin Rincon reports.

[Survivor-ngte]

When people in New York complain about noise, you know it’s serious

[thawhiteazn]

I love how the man on the street was so knowledgeable about harmonic resonances.

[rebeccaschultz]

A lot of people really don't know just how much noise and vibration effects our bodies. It's really incredible.

[nattamused]

We’ve had very weird noises out here in Texas too. The way these people have described it is exactly what my impression was. We also have had loud BOOMs along with the screeching and humming. I thought it vaguely reminded me of some kind of underground construction, but somehow it seemed to be coming from the sky, even though the sky looked normal.

[IanDarley]

We had this exact same noise happening in Manchester UK, it could be heard for miles. It turned out to be a resonance in a brise soleil type of feature on top of the Hilton Beetham skyscraper (caused by wind). They eventually fixed it by adding additional structure to it. The noise actually sounded like it was coming through the ground.

[loganpost]

I've encountered this noise before as an industrial HVAC technician. We completed an upgrade on a schools boiler plant last year and shortly there after neighbors began to complain about a harmonic hum. It ended up being the exhaust off of the new high efficiency boilers we installed. If the exhaust venting is too short mufflers need to be installed. After the mufflers were installed the noise went away.

[dairms]

I’m experiencing this very frequently. I live in the Northeast suburbs of Chicago, closer to Kenosha, Wisconsin. The sound is very unsettling and eerie. Always late at night.

[mehmetkaplan]

In Istanbul, Turkiye, I had the same experience a couple of years ago. It was exactly the same sound. It was so loud that it woke me up at night. Lots of people said that they had heard it too.

[malifax]

When I lived in Japan as a child this particular sound would start at night. It sounded exactly like the sound of the disney logo segment in every older Disney movie. Before the orchestra would start. It would last for hours and my family never mentioned it and since I was a very quiet child I never brought it up either. It's something I've never forgotten.

[thugmonk]

I live in the UK and certain cities and towns here are experiencing the exact same humming sound. And nobody knows what's causing it. How strange

[Wulfjager]

I honestly find that fascinating. Makes me wonder if a building was built just right to emit harmonics due to the other noises in the city or something. Gotta get an acoustician on that

[mochas]

This needs to be on an episode of unsolved mysteries

[OCEANS]

We had this in my neighbourhood down town Toronto. I tracked it down personally—right out of my bed at 4 am. I figured it out after several trips and exhaustive research to be a massive air conditioning unit on a rooftop of a condo. Called the fire department and they took it from there. No one knows… but I am the Batman. Be well NY.

[oletomfoolery]

This is a worldwide phenomenon. It's also been going on for years. I'd be willing to bet that, at least in the more urban areas, it has something to do with the wind/pressure and the buildings/streets acting like a musical instrument being played. Especially this case.

[yamatokawa]

Nothing more soothing to the soul than life in the metropolis. Nothing ever was better...

[professional.commentator]

I'm hearing it right now. It kind of sounds like when a radio is off but not unplugged. Like it's got that static resonance to it.

[nomaticors]

When I lived in the desert - literally in the desert in a van away from society - I would hear wind chimes. Very spooky. I loved it.

[aclaypot]

This also happened in San Francisco a couple years ago . It occurred after adding a new feature on the Golden Gate bridge. Depending on the direction of the wind and wind speed, the noise would be created which was audible for miles in each direction. It would come and go much like this instance. In this instance, I would think it's possible that this could also be the result of a new architectural feature of sorts on a building or a bridge 🤔. The Golden Gate bridge issue was eventually mitigated after over a year of spooky/eerie sounds heard throughout all of the surrounding cities. The issue gained so much traction that an artist created a musical album with the sounds, which is on Spotify to this day.

[fredamariebrown]

This was a sound that aggravated and puzzled me when I first moved to Baltimore County, MD. Still don't know what I heard off and on for 3 years.

[tealsnake]

There is a resonance sound I hear only inside my home in Dallas that comes and goes, usually lasts a few days then silence. It sounds like an idling train, even with noise canceling headphones the sound persists. It’s like a low frequency resonance that seems to emit from the ground. Drives me insane. I went to a friends house several miles outside the city and could hear it there too. Not sure what the hell it is. It’s not my hearing, or some kind of tinnitus, it’s a real sound you can feel. Has to be industrial related.