The Controversial Sound Only 2% Of People Hear

Since the early 1960's, an increasing number of people have been hearing (and feeling) a sound causing everything from annoyance to psychosis to death. We have a deeply objective look at what could be causing it.

0:00 - Intro
2:32 - History
4:37 - Taos Hum
8:01 - The Outbreak
14:09 - ELF Transmitters
15:50 - Natural Causes
17:34 - Infrastructure
19:12 - HPNG Pipelines
26:06 - Methodology
27:38 - Conclusions
29:00 - The Mental Health Toll
31:15 - Wrap Up

[BennJordan]

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[jonathanlapointe]

I'm an electrician and I was called out to a house we're a lady heard a humming she believed it was her smart meter. At first I thought she was crazy, when I got there she was walking around the street with a geiger counter, you know one of those radiation meters... So anyway after about 2 hours of looking over the electrical system I asked her if she hears it right now? She said do you hear it right now? Nope.. she clearly still did. So I asked her if she ever thought it might be in her head? not like imagining it, but I said sometimes people can have a tumor pushing on a certain part of the brain and they'll experience auditory hallucinations. So I went on my way disappointed I couldn't solve the problem, I've always prided myself on my diagnostic abilities but I had to accept defeat as I was unable to solve that particular problem, until about a month later when she called me back. She took my advice and went to a doctor, she had a brain tumor.. Most memorable diagnostic I've ever done.

[mikemcconnell]

A long time ago, maybe 40 years ago, a sound engineer told me a story where he did a dance club install. After the club opened, they started getting a complaint from someone who lived about a quarter mile away from the club. He went to their house and sure enough at 9pm when the club started to play music the person's house started to shake. Things were shaking off of shelves. They found out that the club was on one end of a shale slab and the house was on the other end. The club had the shale blasted apart at the club side and it took care of the problem. Ya never know.

[willissudweeks]

I truly hate people who just automatically dismiss what others are experiencing because they aren’t experiencing it.

[altissima]

I dont hear the hum, but energy. When the resonance is higher, I get really bad headaches, I become irritable, and drained all in the same feeling. My ex-husband a few years ago had told me about the resonance. How interesting we all are.

[corsetedwasteland]

There's a noise at my parents house. It's not a hum but more of an infinite beep. It bothered me for months until I finally went out into the fields and neighbors backyards to find the source. It was coming from an elecrical fence that a neighbor had. He had it turned up to some ungodly amount, way past illegal. It's way outside of city limits so the cops wouldn't do anything (I didn't even bother calling them) so I paid him a visit and had him come sit on my dad's back porch and listen. After just a few minutes he said, "Wow. That's very loud. I can't even think straight." I'm like yeah try going to sleep listening to that. He went back and turned it down. Haven't had an issue since.
Edited to include that I DID NOT call the police

[EduardQualls]

I suffered from this intermittently about 30 years ago, a couple of years after I had moved into my first house. It was so bad, I called the city health department who, of course, came out only during the day and were no real help. Then, one night out of frustration, I got out and drove around, following the noise/feeling, like an elephant tracking a thunderstorm. I traced it to semi trucks that were parked illegally (with diesel engines left idling all night) behind a new department store about a mile away. Once I called the cops, the trucks—and the noise—went away. I had discovered that it's actually illegal to leave a semi idling over night within the city limits. (The "foundation" of North Texas is several solid, extensive horizontal layers of rock, which transfer low-frequency energy quite easily, sometimes even amplifying it.)

[joehogan]

I love when industries know of a problem and their solution is to not acknowledge it.

[cassence]

Really wish you could have made this a feature documentary. You clearly have the investigative skills and it was amazing seeing the interviews with the people you found. Incredible work.

[coeal]

there was a town in Canada that had a Hum. for over 60 years, an entire generation suffered from the hum. however, suddenly, many middle aged people reported that the hum disappeared one day and never came back. someone looked into it and found a coincidence. the exact same day that people said the hum stopped, was the very last day a steel factory worked before being shut down permanently.

[FaerieQueen]

Whenever my power goes out, I always feel the most soothing sense of peace.

[CT-hosi]

I had a phantom hum in my bedroom that was driving me NUTS because it could only be heard in those especially quiet moments before sleep. If I got up to search for it, even the noise of me moving around masked it. One night i spent about 10 minutes hunting it, moving around and being perfectly still in the dead quiet of the night. I probably looked like a crazy person. Finally I narrowed it down to an old HP printer/scanner. Despite being powered off if still made a tiny hum, had to unplug it and I was finally freed of the torture...

[lukehunt]

I used to work in sound & vibration testing for an electric motor company. It gave me just enough exposure to common causes of electromechanical causes of these types of noises to usually be able to hunt them down without going crazy. I'm very sensitive to the hums, whines, and oscillating tones of stuff around the house. Not to the point that I have to throw things out, but I need to know what it is. The router making a small whines, the light beep leds for the blinking colons on the microwave, and the resonant hums of the refrigerator downstairs as it goes through cooling cycles. Most of these things are caused by cheap electronic components or resonance frequencies transferring through materials in very specific locations. I think knowing that most weird sounds are pretty benign makes me feel better that it can be expained even if we don't find those explanations. Thank you Benn for putting science in the superstition. Detective more, worry less.

[babalonkie]

It's the opposite end of the spectrum that physically bothers me. The high pitch quiet squeal of electrical wires receiving current, a speaker receiving a minor amount of electrical energy or a old TV tube being powered... THAT is what gives me anxiety and stress. Like nails on a chalkboard.

[eagleeye]

I live on a farm in South Africa. I hear this low hum for most of the time in my bedroom. No wind, no machines going and I have to leave music on or hum myself to sleep at night. I don't sleep until 3 to 4 in the morning. I am so glad I found this video because I have 5 grand children and 3 of them can hear it too.

[Downhuman]

One thing you probably should have touched on in your last point is that it's scientifically proven that certain low frequencies trigger an emotional reaction in some people. Almost an instinctual thing, like a primal fear. Filmmakers have actually used these frequencies in their movies when they want to trigger dread or anxiety in their audience.

[ji]

People with adhd and autism being overrepresented in this makes so much sense due to our inability to filter out certain stimuli

[atom_zero]

Not as dramatic, but as a kid and up to my late teens, I could definetly know if a CRT was on, even muted, while everyone around me couldn't. I even had a friend that would blind test me on it and I had it right all the time. Later someone told me it was coil whine. This to say, I do believe some people may be more attuned to some frequencies than others.

[tardismole]

21:02 THAT is the sound. Thank you. I grew up near E71 on the map at 21:32. Signed off as insane at the age of thirteen, despite several hundreds of other people reporting the sound. I now live in "silent" zone, but finally I have an answer. I am not insane, but psychologically affected. My deepest thanks. You have brought me peace.

[spulgelanderlein]

I may have found a solution to lower low-frequency tinnitus/hum perception
I have been almost hum-free for a few days now after this exercises

Exercise 1 – Pressure Equalization:
Like when diving, regularly equalize the pressure by gently holding your nose and carefully pressing.

Exercise 2 – Müller Maneuver:
Create negative pressure by trying to inhale with your nose closed, creating a suction effect.

I attribute the positive effect particularly to the Müller maneuver. While performing it, I experienced a sound in my Eustachian tube that resembled a "farting" noise, as if the tube was releasing trapped air. (By the way, this works especially well in a steam bath with eucalyptus!)
Of course, if the tube is too clogged, this could be an issue, and the positive effect may not occur.

My hypothesis about the hum and its elimination through these two exercises is supported by the well-known travel effect, where the hum disappears for a few days in many people after air travel. This is likely because, during the journey, the Eustachian tube is naturally "trained" due to pressure changes from altitude differences. This leads to a natural pressure equalization, similar to the simple exercises I do! So, it is probably not the duration of the journey that matters, but rather the altitude differences experienced.

Additionally, one of my tinnitus sounds, particularly a ringing tone (I used to have a whole orchestra of sounds), has also disappeared when I perform these exercises.

I hope this information will help others. I am convinced that the Eustachian tube and its ventilation in both directions are closely connected.