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TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 12, 2012 - 11:45am PT
This is another one of those topics that seems to attract posters who attack anything that isn't sanctioned by the media approved view of reality. I would really like some help in understanding something that I have been observing for years; not just another string of the insulting comments that obscure many ST discussions.

Since we already know who you are, and how brilliant and clever you are, I ask politely and with all due respect, please go find another thread.


I like the quiet places. I grew up exploring Idaho wilderness areas and spoiled by the beauty of environments that are not impacted by modern human hands. I seek out places to rest and meditate that are not overwhelmed by the sounds of traffic and city voices and emf signals from radio, tv, cell phones, etc. It is increasingly challenging to do that.

In recent years, whenever I settle down in such places, my attention is drawn to some low frequency humming sounds that seem to emanate from the earth. In the city these are commonly masked by other sounds

This is particularly noticeable every night at my home in the relative quiet of the Santa Cruz Mountains. For a number of years it sounded to me like a large motor generator set running somewhere nearby, a deep humming sound modulating slightly in frequency under load. More recently the sound is stable at one frequency, but starts and stops like a very slow Morse Code. These sounds are distracting or disturbing to someone trying to be in tune with the sounds of nature, or meditate, or just resting.

I have explored various possible sources of these sounds; turning off the master electrical breaker, turning off and draining the water pipe system, getting to know my neighbors (many of us have generators up here), talking to the water company people who pump water up to the supply tanks above the neighborhood. Many people are not so aware of background sounds, however most people seem to be able to hear these same sounds if they can stop talking long enough to listen for a few minutes in a quiet place.

For a while I thought perhaps that highway traffic was causing the earth to resonate. However that was before it started the on/off pulsing patterns.

I thought perhaps this could be some unusual form of Tinnitus, as I have certainly spent enough time in noisy computer floors and concert orchestras and factories and driving motorcycles, ships, airplanes and race cars before we became aware of the hazards of chronic exposure to loud noises. However Tinnitius usually involves the high end of the auditory range, not the low end. Plus these sound I am hearing demonstrate clear patterns that are not affected by head position or other such factors. And I do am not to my knowledge experiencing any significant hearing loss, quite the opposite, as I usually hear things before most people who are with me.

Tinnitus is not a disease, but a condition that can result from a wide range of underlying causes: neurological damage (multiple sclerosis), ear infections, foreign objects in the ear, nasal allergies that prevent (or induce) fluid drain, or wax build-up. Withdrawal from benzodiazepines may cause tinnitus as well. In-ear headphones, whose sound enters directly into the ear canal without any opportunity to be deflected or absorbed elsewhere, are a common cause of tinnitus when volume is set beyond moderate levels.

Tinnitus may be an accompaniment of sensorineural hearing loss or congenital hearing loss, or it may be observed as a side effect of certain medications. However, the most common cause is noise-induced hearing loss.

As tinnitus is usually a subjective phenomenon, it is difficult to measure using objective tests, such as by comparison with noise of known frequency and intensity, as in an audiometric test. The condition is often rated clinically on a simple scale from "slight" to "catastrophic" according to the practical difficulties it imposes, such as interference with sleep, quiet activities, and normal daily activities.[1]

Tinnitus is common: about 20% of people between 55 and 65 years old report symptoms on a general health questionnaire, and 11.8% on more detailed tinnitus-specific questionnaires.[2]

Tinnitus can be perceived in one or both ears or in the head. It is usually described as a ringing noise, but in some patients, it takes the form of a high-pitched whining, electric buzzing, hissing, humming, tinging or whistling sound, or as ticking, clicking, roaring, "crickets" or "tree frogs" or "locusts (cicadas)", tunes, songs, beeping, sizzling, sounds that slightly resemble human voices or even a pure steady tone like that heard during a hearing test.[3] It has also been described as a "whooshing" sound, as of wind or waves.[4] Tinnitus can be intermittent, or it can be continuous, in which case it can be the cause of great distress. In some individuals, the intensity can be changed by shoulder, head, tongue, jaw, or eye movements.[5]

Most people with tinnitus have some degree of hearing loss,[6] in that they are often unable to hear clearly external sounds that occur within the same range of frequencies as their "phantom sounds".[7] This has led to the suggestion that one cause of tinnitus might be a homeostatic response of central dorsal cochlear nucleus auditory neurons that makes them hyperactive in compensation to auditory input loss.[8]

The sound perceived may range from a quiet background noise to one that can be heard even over loud external sounds. The term tinnitus usually refers to more severe cases. Heller and Bergman (1953) conducted a study of 100 tinnitus-free university students placed in an anechoic chamber and found 93% reported hearing a buzzing, pulsing or whistling sound. Cohort studies have demonstrated damage to hearing (among other health effects) from unnatural levels of noise exposure is very widespread in industrialized countries.[9]

For research purposes, the more elaborate Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) is often used.[10] Persistent tinnitus may cause irritability, fatigue, and on occasions, clinical depression[11][12] and musical hallucinations.[13]

As with all diagnostics, other potential sources of the sounds normally associated with tinnitus should be ruled out. For instance, two recognized sources of very high pitched sounds might be electromagnetic fields common in modern wiring and various sound signal transmissions. A common and often misdiagnosed condition that mimics tinnitus is Radio Frequency (RF) hearing,[14] in which subjects have been tested and found to hear high-pitched transmission frequencies that sound similar to tinnitus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus

None of these pan out as a source of the sounds. So I started seeking elsewhere for answers.

I experienced the same phenomena with somewhat different sound patterns at other remote locations, in various mountain ranges and deserts throughout the Western USA, on South Pacific islands, out at sea, etc. Similar phenomena were experienced, with somewhat different frequencies and pulse patterns.

It is easy to speculate about all sorts of unusual phenomena as a source. But first I would like to see if this phenomena is being experienced by others in the community of people who frequent the quiet places in the wilderness.
can't say

Social climber
Pasadena CA
Sep 12, 2012 - 11:53am PT
My father is 95% deaf and yet he still hears a "motor" running somewhere nearby. It's a very hap-hazzardly kind of thing, yet he's very sure it's humming along somewhere.

Sometimes when I'm in big banquet style halls, with a multitude of folks talking, I hear nothing but white noise. I can't differentiate individual voices or words.

But then again I have more cones and rods then most folks;)
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 12:00pm PT
As a trained musician, I am pretty good at focusing in on hearing just one instrument in an orchestra or one voice in a crowd. My challenge in listening to people talking is that I tend to hear the emotive content in their voices as a distraction to the word content.

Another factor is that the humming sounds seem to be distinctly different in one local vs another; such as the South Pacific vs Santa Cruz vs the Pacific Northwest area.

I have tried hard to eliminate any likelihood of a subjectively induced perception before bothering people on this forum to consider the subject.
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:02pm PT
if you can hear it
and the sound is external
then you should be able to measure it with appropriate low frequency microphones

a spectral analysis of the result would be a good starting point to identify its origin

Srbphoto

climber
Kennewick wa
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:08pm PT
it seems you are so focused on hearing the "sounds of nature" that you are missing the sounds of nature. Don't focus on your preconcieved notion of what nature sounds like. Try tuning into the sound, something may be revealed.





TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 12:09pm PT
if you can hear it
and the sound is external
then you should be able to measure it with appropriate low frequency microphones

a spectral analysis of the result would be a good starting point to identify its origin

Yes, certainly true Ed. You would think I would have access to a spectrum analyzer, but short of buying one myself, don't happen to have access to one.
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:11pm PT
you can make an audio file on your computer...

then spectrum analyze it with freeware, like Audacity

only need to locate a microphone with low frequency response
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 12:14pm PT
... posters who attack anything that isn't sanctioned by the media approved view of reality.

This is not a fair characterization, to say the least. Some people, for some peculiar reason, really like to have some kind of credible evidence. Go figure. In this case direct personal observation leads me to believe that "something" is happening.

I like to think of myself as one of those people who demand credible evidence before being convinced of anything. I understand that my interests in unusual phenomena make some people question that.

And I think we have plenty of demonstrations of media sanctioned views of reality that are frequently not based upon credible evidence.
steveA

Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:14pm PT
I think Ed hit the nail on the head.

Interesting Topic
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 12:21pm PT
you can make an audio file on your computer...

then spectrum analyze it with freeware, like Audacity

only need to locate a microphone with low frequency response


Thank you very much, Ed. I was not aware of that capability. I do have access to high quality microphones and can check their published frequency ranges. I think the sounds in question are in the range of 20 to 40 cycles.

The lowest note on a double bass viol is either 41 or 31, about an octave above the lowest tone usually audible to the human ear
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:23pm PT
you should also check (calibrate) the band pass of your computer's ADC
they're usually pretty good

but some of them are susceptible to onboard noise

TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 12:24pm PT
it seems you are so focused on hearing the "sounds of nature" that you are missing the sounds of nature. Don't focus on your preconcieved notion of what nature sounds like. Try tuning into the sound, something may be revealed.

This poster clearly doesn't know anything about the nature awareness training available from The Tracker School, where i have been a student for decades.
MH2

climber
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:28pm PT
A related question is: What information might there be in audio frequencies below 40 cycles/sec? Do any animals have good hearing at low frequencies? I believe that low frequency sounds carry further, and remember speculation that if birds could hear the rumble of waves on the beach, they could know which way to the coast when they couldn't see the ocean.


http://www.dosits.org/science/soundmeasurement/soundsanimalshear/
Srbphoto

climber
Kennewick wa
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:32pm PT
This poster clearly doesn't know anything about the nature awareness training available from The Tracker School, where i have been a student for decades.

if you accept Tom Brown as the end all of nature awareness then I accept your statement.
cliffhanger

Trad climber
California
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:40pm PT
Nada Yoga means union (yoga) with the Self, the nadam, that primordial energy which is the source of all that is. In the rigveda, the oldest text of the 4,000 year old vedic scriptures of India, sound is called nada brahma (sound of the creator god brahma). The great Sufi teacher, Hazrat Inayat Khan, said: "Creation is the music of God." In other words, the universe arose/arises out of the music of God, that resounds and manifests itself in all of nature. Sound plays a vital role in all mystical traditions, as it is the bridge between the lower and higher worlds, the unconscious and the conscious, the form and the formless. In India many forms of Nada Yoga are found. The two main paths are the practice of the renunciant and the practice of the householder. The goal is the same: Self-realization through sound or nadam, i.e. to realize that the I AM is neither body nor mind, that "I am That". The renunciant nada yogi meditates on the inner sound current, thus traveling into the more subtle realms of his being by shifting his focus from the gross sounds heard in the body to the more and more refined sounds until merging with the unstruck sound, the anahata nada. The householder who lives in the world focusses on singing or playing the outer pure sound on an instrument to connect with the inner sound current, i.e. the unstruck sound or anahata nada.

http://www.shantishivani.com/NadaYoga2.html
The Call Of K2 Lou

climber
Squamish
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:41pm PT
It, um, sounds like (sorry) someone may be running a grow op near you. Just one possibility.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 12:48pm PT
In this case direct personal observation leads me to believe that "something" is happening. But I'm not going to conclude that it's a secret government mind control program or a soviet plot left over from the cold war era. Again, go figure.

I am specifically not saying that I have any understanding of what is the source of these sounds. I am simply asking about other members of our community who may have experienced them. It is easy to speculate various mundane or wild concepts, and much more difficult to verify.

TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 12:51pm PT
if you accept Tom Brown as the end all of nature awareness then I accept your statement.

No I don't. But he knows a lot more than most, including you and me.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 12:55pm PT
I would love to think that I have been hearing the whales, but don't think so for purposes of this discussion...

Song of the Humpback Whale
Spectrogram of Humpback Whale vocalizations. Detail is shown for the first 24 seconds of the 37 second recording Humpback Whale "Song". The ethereal whale "songs" and echolocation "clicks" are visible as horizontal striations and vertical sweeps respectively. Spectrogram generated with Fatpigdog's PC based Real Time FFT Spectrum Analyzer.

Humpback Whale "Song"
Recording of Humpback Whales singing and Clicking.
Problems listening to this file? See media help.

Two groups of whales, the Humpback Whale and the subspecies of Blue Whale found in the Indian Ocean, are known to produce a series of repetitious sounds at varying frequencies. This is known as whale song. Marine biologist Philip Clapham describes the song as "probably the most complex in the animal kingdom".[13]

Male humpback whales perform these vocalizations only during the mating season, and so it is believed the purpose of songs is to aid sexual selection.[6] Whether the songs are a competitive behavior between males seeking the same mate, a means of defining territory or a "flirting" behavior from a male to a female is not known and the subject of ongoing research.[citation needed] Males have been observed singing while simultaneously acting as an "escort" whale in the immediate vicinity of a female. Singing has also been recorded in competitive groups of whales that are composed of one female and multiple males.[citation needed]

Interest in whale song was aroused by researchers Roger Payne and Scott McVay after the songs were brought to their attention by a Bermudian named Frank Watlington who was working for the US government at the SOFAR station listening for Russian submarines with underwater hydrophones off the coast of the island.[14]

The songs follow a distinct hierarchical structure. The base units of the song (sometimes loosely called the "notes") are single uninterrupted emissions of sound that last up to a few seconds. These sounds vary in frequency from 20 Hz to upward of 24 kHz (the typical human range of hearing is 20 Hz to 20 kHz). The units may be frequency modulated (i. e., the pitch of the sound may go up, down, or stay the same during the note) or amplitude modulated (get louder or quieter). However the adjustment of bandwidth on a spectrogram representation of the song reveals the essentially pulsed nature of the FM sounds.

A collection of four or six units is known as a sub-phrase, lasting perhaps ten seconds (see also phrase (music)).[citation needed] A collection of two sub-phrases is a phrase. A whale will typically repeat the same phrase over and over for two to four minutes. This is known as a theme. A collection of themes is known as a song.[citation needed] The whale will repeat the same song, which last up to 30 or so minutes, over and over again over the course of hours or even days.[citation needed] This "Russian doll" hierarchy of sounds has captured the imagination of scientists.[weasel words][citation needed]

All the whales in an area sing virtually the same song at any point in time and the song is constantly and slowly evolving over time.[citation needed] For example, over the course of a month a particular unit that started as an "upsweep" (increasing in frequency) might slowly flatten to become a constant note.[6] Another unit may get steadily louder. The pace of evolution of a whale's song also changes—some years the song may change quite rapidly, whereas in other years little variation may be recorded.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_sounds

k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:55pm PT
Music of the spheres, I say.
Srbphoto

climber
Kennewick wa
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:58pm PT
No I don't. But he knows a lot more than most, including you and me.

no argument there!

When I lived down there, I would do a lot of photography in the winter. I spent most of my time off trail in the farther reaches of the Peninsula. I would head out at 4 or 5 am. I heard exactly what you are talking about. I always wondered if it could be a result of the sesmic activity of the area. There is so much earth movement going on that we cannot feel.
Vegasclimber

Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
Sep 12, 2012 - 12:59pm PT
Back to the topic at hand...interesting, Tom.

I know that the military had the ELF Project, which transmits at extremely low frequencies...could something similar to that cause an audible hum?

Edit to add, I remember hearing odd humming in the Sierra in the area of Walker, CA. when I was a kid. I haven't heard anything similar to that lately, but I'm totally deaf in one ear now.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 12:59pm PT
Hey folks! My real question is: are other people hearing this in the wilderness???


And thanks as usual for Ed's contribution to the discussion. I appreciate that a good spectral signature could be used to trace sources.
Tony Bird

climber
Northridge, CA
Sep 12, 2012 - 01:10pm PT
i wish i could help, but my tinnitus dates back to shooting a shotgun as a teenager. i can ignore it for days at a time, but all i have to do is think about it, and the ringing is there. seems to resonate around D major.

as ed said, you ought to be able to measure this with instruments. a google of earth-sounds-resonate yields a happy hunting ground of speculation.
cintune

climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
Sep 12, 2012 - 01:12pm PT
Dingus nails it. Don't know how far you are from a big highway, but I've seen stories about the sound of traffic propagating over long distances and balancing out to a low hum. Admittedly not very spiritualized, but one possible explanation anyway.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 01:12pm PT
Many years ago I had access to an anechoic chamber. This can be sort of frightening as in the otherwise dead silence you can hear air molecules clashing and your heart pumping and breath rushing and joints creaking constantly...


don't recall any deep humming at the time...

TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 01:14pm PT
Dingus nails it. Don't know how far you are from a big highway, but I've seem stories about the sound of traffic propagating over long distances and balancing out to a low hum. Admittedly not very spiritualized, but one possible explanation anyway.

Yes, for some number of years, I thought that was probably what was causing me to hear it at my home. Then it started pulsing like Morse Code...hmmm...
perswig

climber
Sep 12, 2012 - 01:29pm PT
^^
Would a steady source of low frequency noise (highway, pump station, whatever) develop oscillations if carried across changing pressure micro-gradients (altitude, weather front variations)?

Dale, wondering
Sagebrusher

Sport climber
Iowa
Sep 12, 2012 - 01:32pm PT

I know that the military had the ELF Project, which transmits at extremely low frequencies...could something similar to that cause an audible hum?

I thought that was electromagnetic waves (radio) not sound?
SalNichols

Big Wall climber
Richmond, CA
Sep 12, 2012 - 01:44pm PT
Did the pulse modulation happen to correlate with your heart rate?

The earth itself does happen to emit in the LF range, and USGS scientists have been seeking to correlate changes in these emissions with seismic activity. One of the test sites is or was near Loma Prieta...which might not be that far from you, though I seriously doubt the human bodies ability to detect these signals without an HP/Agilent Spectrum Analyzer.
cliffhanger

Trad climber
California
Sep 12, 2012 - 01:44pm PT
Electromagnetic energy can be heard when strong enough. Check out Strange Energy:

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=133615&tn=0

The aurora generates sounds:

“Our research proved that, during the occurrence of the northern lights, people can hear natural auroral sounds related to what they see. In the past, researchers thought that the aurora borealis was too far away for people to hear the sounds it made. This is true. However, our research proves that the source of the sounds that are associated with the aurora borealis we see is likely caused by the same energetic particles from the sun that create the northern lights far away in the sky. These particles or the geomagnetic disturbance produced by them seem to create sound much closer to the ground,” said Professor Unto K. Laine from Aalto University.

http://planetsave.com/2012/07/10/sounds-of-the-aurora-borealis-confirmed/
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 01:53pm PT
Schumann resonances - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances

Just as a tuning fork has natural frequencies for sound,
the planet Earth has natural frequencies,
called Schumann resonances,
for electromagnetic radiation.

The Human Brain also has natural frequencies
for electromagnetic radiation.

It turns out that the Earth's Schumann resonances are
"in tune" with the Human Brains's Alpha States and Theta States.

Animation of Schumann resonance in Earth's atmosphere. ... It has been speculated that extraterrestrial lightning (on other planets) may also be ... Tesla discovered that the resonant frequency of the Earth was approximately 8 hertz (Hz). In the ... to be the primary natural source of Schumann resonance excitation; lightning ...

TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 01:59pm PT
Interesting, but doesn't seem directly related:

Jerry Dodrill

climber
Bodega, CA

Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 22, 2005 - 01:22pm PT
Have you experienced this?

A few years ago I was on a corniced ridge nearing the summit of a virgin peak in NW China with friends, when a big ominous cloud enshrouded us. Soon it was white out conditions, fog, driving corn snow, and super high winds. Suddenly there is a strange sound, louder than the wind, like an old radio tuner between stations. It fluctuated in pitch as you turned your head, higher to the right, lower to the left. I thought I was hallucinating (It’s day two of what was supposed to be a one day climb, turned out to be three days) and zoned out on my ice axe for a minute which also changed the pitch as I raised it and plunged it into the snow. I looked up the rope. Doug, 50’ away, pointed to his ear and shrugged his shoulders. He heard it, and below, Jed heard it too. Something slapped me in the back of the head. I raised a hand to head and received a strong static shock. Realizing we are in an electrically charged cloud I note the amount of metal on me and fear electrocution. I yell to Doug, but my words are taken by the wind. He gets shocked also, and we all start running back down the ridge. Half an hour later we are a good way down, the storm cleared as quickly as it came in and we could see that we had been spitting distance from the summit. We never heard thunder or saw lightning. Instinct said “get the F- down now” but I’ve always regretted not tagging the top.


Here the peak is hiding in cloud again, shortly after a long descent.

So far I haven’t found documentation of this strange radio sound and no clear condition reports surrounding lightning during snowstorms. We were near 18,000’ on the border of Kyrgyzstan near the Taklimakin desert, so the air was pretty dry, all things considered. We figured the snow was blowing over the cornice in a circular manner, building static between corn snow particles, it felt like we were about to be zapped. I’ve had close calls in the Sierra, but this was different. Would love to hear if anyone else has experienced it and/or can explain the physics.

I was in the Upper Saddle of the Grand Teton with my brother in 1986 when we were hit by a horrendous thunder and lightning storm with many hits occurring on the nearby Enclosure point. Just about every imaginable noise going on...

but that's a different sort of story...
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 02:03pm PT
Interesting posts that do seem relevant, shamelessly plagiarizing the old 'Strange Energy' thread:

cliffhanger

Trad climber
California

Dec 31, 2005 - 11:53am PT
An article I read in Science in the early 70’s told of a researcher trying to find the cause of the crackling sounds heard under very high voltage transmission lines in the interests of improving efficiency. He tried recording the sounds to no avail. There was no sound. Intense electromagnetic radiation (radio waves or microwaves) was inducing currents in the brain that were perceived as sound. The effect was reproduced in their lab


cliffhanger

Trad climber
California

Jan 1, 2006 - 02:16pm PT
From a Google search of: electromagnetic sound brain - I found a lot of info on the electromagnetic stimulation of the brain. It can cause sound, mood, and vision effects. Some research claimed almost any sound could be conveyed on radio or micro waves, even speech:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frey_effect

http://homepages.tesco.net/~John.Dawes2/ingalls.htm

http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/mindnet/mn159.htm

http://www.rhfweb.com/hweb/shared2/Newrad.html


1. Sounds (Pings, Clicks, Other), Acoustic Messages, & Buzzing Noises my be felt near and on the human body as created by microwave pulsed adiograms or microwave synthetic telepathy being broadcasted at a human target.

2. Images, holographic images, virtual reality images,synthetic telepathic images may be felt near and on the human body as created by microwave pulsed holography or microwave synthetic telepathy being broadcasted at a human target.

http://www.datafilter.com/mc/c_controlOfChoiceAbstract.html

http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/electrowarfare.html

http://www.mk-resistance.com/ecm_apps.html

http://www.sumeria.net/tech/emfwar.html


Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Sep 12, 2012 - 02:06pm PT
In the past I've heard a low, deep thrum with no discernible source.

I was hiking with a USGS hydrologist and we both heard it. I asked her if it was subsurface water. She thought not, but was interested and asked around.

Turns out that's exactly what it was.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 02:15pm PT
Microwave auditory effect
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The microwave auditory effect, also known as the microwave hearing effect or the Frey effect, consists of audible clicks (or, with modulation, whole words) induced by pulsed/modulated microwave frequencies. The clicks are generated directly inside the human head without the need of any receiving electronic device. The effect was first reported by persons working in the vicinity of radar transponders during World War II. These induced sounds are not audible to other people nearby. The microwave auditory effect was later discovered to be inducible with shorter-wavelength portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. During the Cold War era, the American neuroscience Allan H. Frey studied this phenomenon and was the first to publish[1] information on the nature of the microwave auditory effect.

Dr. Don R. Justesen published "Microwaves and Behavior" in The American Psychologist (Volume 30, March 1975, Number 3).

Research by NASA in the 1970s[citation needed] showed that this effect occurs as a result of thermal expansion of parts of the human ear around the cochlea, even at low power density. Later, signal modulation was found to produce sounds or words that appeared to originate intracranially. It was studied for its possible use in communications. Both the United States and USSR studied its use in non-lethal weaponry.[citation needed]

Pulsed microwave radiation can be heard by some workers; the irradiated personnel perceive auditory sensations of clicking or buzzing. The cause is thought to be thermoelastic expansion of portions of auditory apparatus.[2] The auditory system response occurs at least from 200 MHz to at least 3 GHz. In the tests, repetition rate of 50 Hz was used, with pulse width between 10–70 microseconds. The perceived loudness was found to be linked to the peak power density instead of average power density. At 1.245 GHz, the peak power density for perception was below 80 mW/cm2. The generally accepted mechanism is rapid (but minuscule, in the range of 10−5 °C) heating of brain by each pulse, and the resulting pressure wave traveling through skull to cochlea.[3]

The existence of non-lethal weaponry that exploits the microwave auditory effect appears to have been classified "Secret NOFORN" in the USA from (at the latest) 1998, until the declassification on 6 December 2006 of "Bioeffects of Selected Non-Lethal Weaponry" in response to a FOIA request. Application of the microwave hearing technology could facilitate a private message transmission. Quoting from the above source, "Microwave hearing may be useful to provide a disruptive condition to a person not aware of the technology. Not only might it be disruptive to the sense of hearing, it could be psychologically devastating if one suddenly heard "voices within one's head".

The technology gained further public attention when a company announced in early 2008 that they were close to fielding a device called MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) based on the principle.[4]

Electroreception has also been studied in the animal world. Ritz et al., in Biophysical Journal,[5] hypothesize that transduction of the Earth's geomagnetic field is responsible for the magnetoreception systems of birds. Specifically, they propose that this transduction may take place in a class of photoreceptors known as cryptochromes.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2012 - 02:19pm PT
Did the pulse modulation happen to correlate with your heart rate?

No, the pulse modulation does not seem to correlate with anything going on relative to my body, other than being able to hear it.

The pulses range in length from 1/4 second to several seconds with quiet periods ranging from 1/2 second to several seconds in a pattern that seems to be random and/or coded.

Incidentally I have been hearing it all morning and am listening to it now.


I normally am never subjected to head aches. My feeling currently is that if I were sensitive to headaches, this sound could induce a headache and other related feelings...sort of like spending too much time in front of a CRT (i am using flat screens)

Primary Cold War-era research in the US

The first American to publish on the microwave hearing effect was Allan H. Frey, in 1961. In his experiments, the subjects were discovered to be able to hear appropriately pulsed microwave radiation, from a distance of 100 meters from the transmitter. This was accompanied by side effects such as dizziness, headaches, and a pins and needles sensation.

Sharp and Grove developed receiverless wireless voice transmission technologies for the Advanced Research Projects Agency at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in 1973. In the above mentioned journal entry to The American Psychologist, Dr. Don Justesen reports that Sharp and Grove were readily able to hear, identify, and distinguish among the single-syllable words for digits between 1 and 10 . Justesen writes, "The sounds heard were not unlike those emitted by persons with artificial larynxes. Communication of more complex words and of sentences was not attempted because the averaged densities of energy required to transmit longer messages would approach the [still] current 10mW/cm² limit of safe exposure." (D.R. Justesen. "Microwaves and Behavior", Am Psychologist, 392(Mar): 391–401, 1975.)

Hmm..obviously completely unrelated to this thread, but it is intriguing to me that three unusually interesting and influential people that I knew personally have died of brain tumors

cliffhanger

Trad climber
California
Sep 12, 2012 - 04:36pm PT
Advanced microwave weaponry & Senator Johnson

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=294905&msg=294940#msg294940
ELM !

climber
Near Boston
Sep 12, 2012 - 05:31pm PT
You are describing the symptoms of a Vibrating eardrum. It is not tinnitus and some people cannot feel the vibration they just hear it as a low frequency hum. It is worth getting an ENT to check you out just to make sure.
I ,years ago, had one patient who actually could pick up radio in her fillings. It was not a station but interferance and humming. The oral surgeon she ended up seeing explained that a metallic filling, reacting with saliva, can act as a semiconductor to detect audio signals. Once he did some work she was fine.
aguacaliente

climber
Sep 13, 2012 - 05:01am PT
Once while hiking in the San Gabriels above Pasadena/Altadena, I was on a trail that moved through a draw/gully. In the vee of the gully, I could hear a definite low hum. It was not obvious on the section of trail that was entering or exiting the gully, only when I got toward the center. I am certain that it was simply the noise of the city being collected by the shape of the terrain, as if I was in the focus of a natural dish microphone. Probably mostly cars' engine and road noise, but could include the low hum of machinery, air conditioning, and so on.

That was a pretty obvious case since I was only perhaps 1000-2000 vertical feet above the end of the pavement and houses, but in general I have been impressed by how far a low hum, car noises, or even voices can travel upward and still be audible in still air.
Tony Bird

climber
Northridge, CA
Sep 13, 2012 - 10:07am PT
try jotting down the dots and dashes. maybe the earth is trying to send you a message.

let's see, three dots makes an S, three dashes for an O ...
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Sep 13, 2012 - 11:26am PT
I used to hear pulsing low frequency sounds a lot when I was outside in relative peace and quiet. I haven't noticed this at all for a few years, and forgot about it 'till I saw this thread.

Two things happened in 2007 which might offer an explanation. I had an AVM removed from inside my brain (AVMs have been known to cause hearing anomalies) and I quit spending 4 to 5 days a week working in a recording studio.


we have instruments that can detect a spectrum of sounds and wave lengths that is hard to imagine. Your ear is only capable of picking up a ridiculously small fraction of those wave lengths- we cant hear microwaves, radio waves, etc, etc, etc..So anything your ear could possibly pick up can be picked up probably millions of times easier by instruments.

FWIW limited bandwidth is not the only reason we cannot hear radio and microwave frequencies. These forms of radiation are not sound. Electromagnetic radiation even at frequencies comparable to audio frequencies will not be detectable by a human ear. They cannot cause the eardrum to vibrate because there is not compression and rarefaction (movement) of air.

But as you say, are the low frequency sounds real or is the OP's hearing apparatus or brain the source? In my case either exposure to loud music or an anomaly in my brain were the cause - the sounds I heard were never there.
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Sep 13, 2012 - 11:41am PT
Sound is vibration of the air molecules. It behaves as a wave. Sound can also travel through other materials, such as water or even wood or a steel beam. When we hear sound through a wall, for example, the vibrating air in the other room has enough energy to cause the wall to vibrate, which in turn transmits some of the remaining energy into the air in your room in the form of vibration. The vibrating air molecules cause your eardrum and inner ear parts to vibrate in kind. The rest is neurology.

Radio waves are electromagnetic radiation which are energy in a different form.

MH2

climber
Sep 13, 2012 - 11:42am PT
One example of low-frequency sound in nature is the drumming call of the ruffed grouse. These can go below 40 Hz. Oddly, the literature mentions that low-frequency sounds attenuate less over distance than higher frequencies 'in complex environments' (trees?), yet at the same time points out that people often over-estimate the distance to ruffed grouse drumming, not realizing that the bird is only a few feet from them.
Mustang

climber
From the wild, not the ranch
Sep 13, 2012 - 11:53am PT
If you have a sudden urge to beach yourself while swimming it might just be this,,,,:>)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program

and
http://www.haarp.net/

and
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/

if you hear voices and think they are coming to get you, well, that's another thing altogether...


Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Sep 13, 2012 - 12:00pm PT
yet at the same time points out that people often over-estimate the distance to ruffed grouse drumming, not realizing that the bird is only a few feet from them.

You touch on an interesting point. Humans are not as good at locating the distance and direction of lower frequency sounds when compared to mid frequencies. A lot of this has to do with the way we process sounds we hear to determine the direction of the source. The speed of sound in air varies somewhat due to temp, humidity and barometric pressure / elevation etc., but lets say it is about 770 mph. A sound which comes to the listener from a direction other than straight ahead or behind will arrive at one ear before the other. Our brain is capable of sorting this delay, one ear to the other, to tell where the sound came from. Other factors such as relative loudness (secondary) and ambience play a role as well for example when a sound is from directly behind.

Anyway in the case of very low frequencies the increased length of the wave renders our ability to distinguish the arrival time at each ear less effective and suddenly we cannot tell where the grouse is. This is also why we can get away with putting the subwoofer off to the side of the room and it still sounds like its part of the stereo.

At low enough frequencies we can hear the sound but we are not good at telling where it is coming from or from how far away.
Mustang

climber
From the wild, not the ranch
Sep 13, 2012 - 12:08pm PT
From a 2008 Stanford research paper on HAARP/ELF/VLF

http://www-star.stanford.edu/~vlf/publications/2008-03.pdf


Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Sep 13, 2012 - 12:19pm PT
Dingus, are you deaf in one ear then?

from the link:

[1] ELF/VLF radio waves (300 Hz– 30 kHz) are difficult
to generate with practical antennae, because of their
extraordinarily long (10 – 1000 km) wavelengths

Relatively, audio wavelengths are of course much shorter due to their slow speed. A 100 Hz audio wave has a length of app. 3.5 meters.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Sep 13, 2012 - 07:41pm PT
hey there say, my mom about 40? years back, was talking to me about this, as, she'd hear humming a night many times when trying to go to sleep...

could have been ear thing from the aspirin, or who knows...
but then, too, we were in san jose and the huge powerline deal/things
were all around too...

then, me, in the last few years at times just have the ear noise
from back when i had bad teeth trouble and took aspirin a lot...


yep, as everyone say, very interesings...

one gal that i shared this with mention:
power dams...

i am asking my twin buddies and will see what esle they have to share, shoulod be interesting, as well, as, there is two of them...

but then, they are identical...

but then again, they are mirror identicals, so
who know who they process stuff ;))


edit:
as to the 'possible' powerdam, they DID both hear that hum,
MikeL

climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
Sep 13, 2012 - 07:48pm PT
High on Shasta in an approaching storm a party of 6 of us all heard low-pitch, pulsating humming--later crackling. We suspected electrical charges forming, and we beat a quick retreat. It probably doesn't apply to your situation--especially since your phenomena continues to reproduce itself.

I've taken a 30-day private retreat in the Santa Cruz mountains a couple of years ago and can't say I heard anything like you describe. (I'm pretty sure I have tinnitus.)
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2012 - 08:02pm PT
Thank you very much to all the contributors to this thread! I have already learned more than I might have imagined from several of you.

I am very familiar with many of the sounds of nature, and have spent many years learning to recognize bird calls, but still get surprises from time to time. The latest one was last weekend near Mt Shasta when a Ruffed Grouse opened up at dawn right near my tent. I didn't have any trouble locating him, because after a while of sounding off, he jumped up and flew right through the campsite area!!

Note that some of the masters of audio location are the owls, who have demonstrated catching mice in a darkened lab with all light sources obscured. They have ears located similar to ours on the sides of their heads, but with one ear lower than the other for audio locating in the vertical plane as well as the horizontal. This also explains why some birds and animals will turn their head sideways to better locate a sound source.



I have certainly considered there might be some sort of damage to my receptors and have experimented extensively for some number of years to try and isolate that possibility. I wouldn't have troubled the members of this forum if I thought a medical condition was a likely consideration. I have also consulted medical practitioners and been given a clean bill of health. Note that I am capable of carrying an Airman's Class I Medical Certificate. I also have several years of experience in designing and building audio studios and labs and have worked as a sound technician and editor on motion pictures. So I may be more attuned to unusual sounds than most would be.

The sounds that inspired this thread do not at all seem like anything generated in nature. The sounds are very simple notes that could easily be generated in a lab with an audio generator or electronic key board. There are few sounds in nature that are a steady monotone sine wave.

Incidentally I am hearing the sounds in question here at my house right now, a low monotone hum slowly pulsing on and off in an irregular sequence.

Earlier today I was at another rather quiet location several miles south of Santa Cruz, an hour's drive from my house. I was appreciating the absence of this low hum. Then I began hearing it again, but only in brief pulses that were widely spaced by several minutes in between them.

As mentioned above, the pattern and/or tone that I hear varies notably at different locations and times, by pitch, patterns, and timing. At a given location and period of time, it seems to follow a simple steady pattern with little variation.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 13, 2012 - 08:43pm PT
Elephants 'hear' low-freq 'sound' sent by other elephants 20 or more miles
away through the fatty deposits in the soles of their feet.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2012 - 08:47pm PT
Earlier today I had occasion to mention this thread and share some of the information with a friend who is a very knowledgeable medical doctor. She was immediately very interested and was already very familiar with Schumann resonances as a result of the medical problems of one of her long term patients.

It happens that the man in question owned a home in Bonny Doon, a small town in the Santa Cruz Mountains up on the first main ridge above the Pacific Ocean, on Empire Grade. He was also hearing these low humming sounds and attributed them to drilling machines at the nearby Bonny Doon Limestone and Shale Quarries. Apparently he did not consider the large Lockheed rocket testing facility located further up the same ridge of the mountains, which was one of my first guesses until I began hearing similar sounds in other parts of the world.

This man became so obsessed and stressed by these sounds that he couldn't sleep and had constant head aches. Then his heart became arrhythmic and he needed a pace maker. As a result he sold the house and moved his family.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2012 - 08:54pm PT
Elephants 'hear' low-freq 'sound' sent by other elephants 20 or more miles away through the fatty deposits in the soles of their feet.

Deer are able to sense through the ground in a similar fashion. If you look at their feet, they have a hard hoof rim and a soft inner callus through which they can sense vibrations in the ground. 'Heel pounding' city-walking humans can be sensed at a considerable distance.

Deer warn each other of danger by slowly stamping one front foot until all in the group get the message, then they retreat or bolt all together.

I once sat on a hill top watching deer retreat from a hunter who was 'stalking' into the wind towards them from nearly a mile away. The deer were long gone by the time he got anywhere near where they had been grazing.

Researchers use hydrophones (often adapted from their original military use in tracking submarines) to ascertain the exact location of the origin of whale noises.[citation needed] Their methods allow them also to detect how far through an ocean a sound travels. Research by Dr. Christopher Clark of Cornell University conducted using military data showed that whale noises travel for thousands of kilometers.[23] As well as providing information about song production, the data allows researchers to follow the migratory path of whales throughout the "singing" (mating) season. One important finding is that whales in a process called the Lombard effect adjust their song to compensate for background noise pollution.[24] Moreover, there is evidence that Blue Whales stop producing foraging D calls once a mid-frequency sonar is activated, even though the sonar frequency range (1–8 kHz) far exceeds their sound production range (25–100 Hz).[2]

Prior to the introduction of human noise production, Clark says the noises may have traveled right from one side of an ocean to the other, agreeing with a thirty-year-old concept blaming large-scale shipping.[23] His research indicates that ambient noise from boats is doubling with each decade.[23] This has the effect of reducing the range at which whale noises can be heard. Environmentalists fear that such boat activity is putting undue stress on the animals as well as making it difficult to find a mate.[23]

Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 13, 2012 - 10:10pm PT
Perhaps you are hearing your own circulatory and/or nervous system . . . these are not silent mechanisms.
graniteclimber

Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
Sep 13, 2012 - 10:20pm PT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13752688
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2012 - 02:30am PT
Thanks GraniteClimber! Good articles.

So it really is possible to learn things on ST without a big exchange of insults...Thanks to all!

Wiki

The Hum is a generic name for a series of phenomena involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming noise not audible to all people. Hums have been reported in various geographical locations. In some cases, a source has been located. A Hum on the Big Island of Hawaii, typically related to volcanic action, is heard in locations dozens of miles apart. The Hum is most often described as sounding somewhat like a distant idling diesel engine. Typically, the Hum is difficult to detect with microphones, and its source and nature are hard to localize.

The Hum is sometimes prefixed with the name of a locality where the problem has been particularly publicized: e.g., the "Bristol Hum", the "Taos Hum", or the "Bondi Hum".[1]

Description

The essential element that defines the Hum is what is perceived as a persistent low-frequency sound, often described as being comparable to that of a distant diesel engine idling, or to some similar low-pitched sound for which obvious sources (e.g., household appliances, traffic noise, etc.) have been ruled out.

Other elements seem to be significantly associated with the Hum, being reported by an important proportion of hearers, but not by all of them. Many people hear the Hum only, or much more, inside buildings as compared with outdoors. Many also perceive vibrations that can be felt through the body. Earplugs are reported as not decreasing the Hum.[2]

On November 15, 2006, Dr. Tom Moir of the Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand made a recording of the Auckland Hum and has published it on the university's website.[3][4] The captured hum's power spectral density peaks at a frequency of 56 hertz.[5] In 2009, the head of audiology at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, Dr David Baguley, said that he believed people's problems with hum were based on the physical world about one-third of the time and the other two-thirds stemmed from people focusing too keenly on innocuous background sounds.[6]
History

In Britain, the most famous example was the Bristol hum that made headlines in the late 1970s.[6] It was during the 1990s that the Hum phenomenon began to be reported in North America and to be known to the American public, when a study by the University of New Mexico and the complaints from many citizens living near the town of Taos, New Mexico, caught the attention of the media. However, in the 1970s and 1980s, a similar phenomenon had been the object of complaints from citizens, of media reports and of studies. It is difficult to tell if the Hum reported in those earlier cases and the Hum that began to be increasingly reported in North America in the 1990s should be considered identical or of different natures.[citation needed]

On June 9, 2011, it was reported that residents of the village of Woodland, England were experiencing a hum that had already lasted for over two months.[7]

This phenomenon has also been reported since 2010 throughout Windsor and Essex County in Ontario, Canada,[8] where some residents claim it to be correlated with the time of day, or week, while others seem unaffected or unable to hear it.[9] On April 20, 2012 the Canadian Government decided to officially investigate. Current suspicions are that the noise originates on Zug Island [10]

The Hum has also frustrated residents in County Kerry, Ireland.[11] This led to it being raised in the Dáil by Michael Healy-Rae, who personally heard The Hum.[12] The phenomenon was also recorded in 2012 in Seattle.[13]

BBC News:

A village in Durham is the latest place to report a strange vibrating noise - known as "the hum". Why is it such a mystery?

According to sufferers, it is as if someone has parked next to your house and left the engine running. The Hum is a mystery low frequency noise, a phenomenon that has been reported across Britain, North America and Australia in the past four decades.

There is a range of theories from farm or factory machinery to conspiracy theories such as flying saucers. And yet, "the hum" remains an unsolved case.

Woodland, a village in county Durham, is the latest place to fall victim to the noise. Some residents have reported hearing a buzzing noise like electricity or a car engine that won't go away.

"It sounds like an overhead power line with this constant humming buzz," says Kevin Fail, a 53 year-old bathroom installer who lives in the village.
Continue reading the main story
The answer

Despite research, no-one has conclusively proved the source of The Hum, although farm or factory machinery is most commonly cited
Not everyone appears to be able to hear it
Recording equipment is sometimes unable to pick it up

He said that he and his wife hear it in bed, downstairs in the house and outside in the garden, but some residents have heard nothing. Fail believes it may have something to do with a disused mine shaft in their garden.

Durham County Council says it is planning to send someone with sound monitoring equipment to the village to investigate.

There are "crackpot theories" doing the rounds about UFOs, and Fail says his daughter, whose hobby is ghost hunting, hasn't ruled out the possibility that the mine is haunted. But unlike some residents, Fail says he's not worried. "This has been happening all over the world for decades. Whatever's out there is not going to hurt you."

Another resident of the village said they had received media interest from all over the world.

"The hum" is an international phenomenon. The beach front neighborhood of Bondi in Sydney was afflicted by it two years ago. One local resident told Australia's Sunday Telegraph at the time: "It sends people around here crazy, all you can do is put music on to block it out. Some people leave fans on.''

One case that was partially solved was in Kokomo, Indiana. The source of "the hum" was located to a fan and a compressor on an industrial site, and yet even after these were turned off some people complained the noise had not stopped.

The Largs Hum in Scotland and Bristol's mystery noise in the 1970s are two of Britain's most famous cases. Often the source of the noise is never found but disappears unexpectedly.

The truth is no-one really knows the cause of "the hum", says Geoff Leventhall, a noise and vibration consultant who has advised the government on the issue.

A part of BBC News Magazine, Who, What, Why? aims to answer questions behind the headlines

Despite years working in the field, he has never heard the hum himself and has only rarely been able to pick it up on recording equipment. In one case, his recording equipment picked up a 200 hertz signal at a complainant's house that was detectable in the lab. He managed to trace the buzz to a neighbor's central heating. But this, he says, was an exception.

"Some experts say if you can't measure a noise the presumption is tinnitus," he says. "It all gets rather fraught because people say there's nothing wrong with my hearing."

"The hum" is sometimes heard in cities but is more likely to be audible in the countryside and at night, when there is less background noise. Most complainants are people aged 50-60. The most plausible causes are industrial compressors and fans or farm machinery, Leventhall says.

In the 1970s he worked with the News of the World on their campaign to discover the mystery behind "the hum". They received 800 letters from readers complaining of the phenomenon - some of them citing UFOs. But no specific explanations emerged.

In 2009, Dr David Baguley, head of audiology at Addenbrooke's Hospital told the BBC that in about two thirds of cases no external noise could be found. He believed that sufferers' hearing had become over-sensitive. "It becomes a vicious cycle. The more people focus on the noise, the more anxious and fearful they get, the more the body responds by amplifying the sound, and that causes even more upset and distress."

In the end, the solution for sufferers may be to adopt a more accepting mindset, Leventhall argues. He prepared a report for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs that suggested cognitive behavior therapy was effective in treating the symptoms. "It's a question of whether you tense up to the noise or are relaxed about it. The CBT was shown to work, by helping people to take a different attitude to it."

As for the source of "the hum", don't expect a breakthrough anytime soon, he says.

"It's been a mystery for 40 years so it may well remain one for a lot longer."
Spider Savage

Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
Sep 14, 2012 - 08:17am PT
Even in the quietest places you are only a few direct miles from the potential roar of the upper atmosphere jet stream.
MikeL

climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
Sep 14, 2012 - 12:06pm PT
Toward the beginning of this thread, Ed said that if a hum exists, it could / should be able to be measured.

I don't want to dredge-up old arguments from past threads about whether all of existence is material (and all of non-existence is immaterial), but my personal practice this morning got me thinking about this thread. I sit in contemplation underground in a closed room in total darkness with my eyes open for 35 minutes before daybreak, and there is almost always a period during my contemplation when thoughts and recognizable images leave me, and I get a colored, pulsating, somewhat repeating patterned (but not from time to time), fractal lightshow that's difficult to describe or to represent artistically. It's simply been a curiosity.

Where do those come from? Why are they patterned at all? How do I see any light at all in total darkness? Why doesn't the lightshow continue or are not available at any time to me in that situation? If they are purely subjective, do they really exist? Am I "making them up?" Am I taking random inputs or errant sense data and intrinsically patterning them myself?

What's doing what?

The analytical, scientific approach to reality distills salient factors in phenomena in order to assign causality. In doing so, it pares away what are considered minor or insignificant for parsimony (Occam's Razor) and articulation (modelling) purposes. I'd argue that much tends to get overlooked or categorized as meaningless, but which is not.

In general, do we find true patterns, do we make patterns, or is it a dance?

Is Tom hearing "some thing," is he making something out of errant / random sense data, or is it some kind of interaction between the two? If it is #2 or #3, are either "real?" And if so, in what sense?

(Just some musings on my part.)
Brunosafari

Boulder climber
OR
Sep 14, 2012 - 12:27pm PT
Interesting thread Tom C.. thought I'd mention I once guided a young couple who had been involved in religious sect/movement dedicated to meditating upon the "vibrations /ringing " in the atmosphere. The summit of Mt. Shasta was identified somehow as a prime location for this. Sorry I don't know more about it.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2012 - 01:18pm PT
So it seems this unusual phenomena represents a genuine mystery of some sort, and appreciate learning about not being alone in observing this.

So the obvious next challenge is to understand or solve the mystery; whether a single cause or multiple causes, outside the body, or produced inside the body or mind, or induced inside the body or mind by some outside influence(s)

This thread has moved in directions I had not anticipated.

At my house today it has been unusually quiet with just an occasional pulse of sound to remind me of its presence. The fixed monotone frequency and clarity of the pattern makes it really difficult for me to imagine that this has any sort of natural cause.
Jingy

climber
Somewhere out there
Sep 18, 2012 - 10:21pm PT
Hey Tom,

you said
As a trained musician,

Is there any chance you have the necessary equipment on hand to attempt a reproduction of you tone?

Also, do you have any kind of log of locations you have heard the tone in?

Curious as to what you might be hearing


Found this just now…

Kind of new-agey

http://www.crystalinks.com/taoshum.html



Also a more scientific 'splanation

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast19jan_1/

Our planet is a natural source of radio waves at audio frequencies. An online receiver at the Marshall Space Flight Center is playing these songs of Earth so anyone can listen.


Interesting things people are doing with low frequency receivers…
http://library.thinkquest.org/2784/

Participants build their own VLF radios and they can join a global network of monitoring stations that includes more than 1500 schools. "Almost anyone who can learn to solder can build one of these receivers," says Gallagher.
Taylor, Pine and others frequently organize experiments for members of the network. For example, in 1994, listeners across North America monitored terrestrial VLF radio waves during a solar eclipse. The observations revealed how a temporary decline in solar ultraviolet radiation affected Earth's ionosphere. In 1999 and 2000, an INSPIRE receiver floated to the stratosphere on a weather balloon to listen for plasma wave emissions from Leonid meteors. Students monitored the meteor shower from ground stations at the same time.
snowhazed

Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
Sep 18, 2012 - 11:03pm PT
Spontaneous autoacoustic emissions

sometimes i think my ears are running through certain frequencies. You notice it in quiet places and it's as though your ears are operating on a more primal mode and straining to pick up something

Imagine being in a dead calm- the kind that can happen in a secluded desert canyon on a windless night- The Hum is damn loud at that particular place and time

whether or not this is in the real world or merely the patterning of errant data by our neural structures? They both exist in a perpetual feedback loop carried on for genetic and cultural millenia. The metaphysical musings are fun, but not functional

zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Sep 18, 2012 - 11:45pm PT
humbug!!!
11worth

Trad climber
Leavenworth & Greenwater WA
Sep 18, 2012 - 11:51pm PT
Tom,
I first heard the hum in Alaska in 1980 when we were in the Ruth Gorge.
After about a week climbing in the area my partner said he has been hearing a hum for the last few days. That's when I knew it was not just me.
Since then I have heard it many times in the mountains in other areas.
Years ago I saw a special on TV about the "Taos Hum". It was a little far out there, but interesting. I did some research on the subject a few years back. No positive answers for me. I am convinced that it emits from the earth and especially in the mountains.

If we ever meet in person perhaps we can discuss this subject at length.
Jim
paganmonkeyboy

climber
mars...it's near nevada...
Sep 19, 2012 - 12:06am PT
"So it really is possible to learn things on ST without a big exchange of insults...Thanks to all!"

Oh F*#k Off. :-)


so there is also this thing I call the sub-audible cosmic hum...this isn't just the frequency of the earth, more what k-man was alluding to...anyone else ever hear/touch it ? prolly one of the closest things to a 'god' I've ever experienced...
Jan

Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
Sep 19, 2012 - 12:43am PT
It makes sense to me that our senses were more finely attuned and in some people developed, during the 99.9% of our time on earth when we lived as hunters and gatherers. Some people retain these heightened senses and many people can regain them through meditation in quiet places or just spending time in very isolated places outdoors.

I think it would be interesting to catalog all the various extraordinary senses that people experience. When I was very heavily into meditation and sleeping on the floor, I went through a period when I could feel earthquakes thousands of miles away which would then be reported in the newspapers a couple of days later. Living on a small island I'm sure magnified the effect. Once I felt what I knew to be a an underwater nuclear explosion that rumbled on for 5-6 minutes and was never reported in the papers. Afriend in Navy intel confirmed for me that it was not an earthquake, though he couldn't discuss it further.

I am also very sensitive to barometric pressure changes and can predict typhoons forming up before the U.S. Navy weather service notes them. Animal behavior has also been very successfully used in China to predict earthquakes to within 48 hours in populous areas the government cares about (not southwestern China) and evacuates. Both typhoons and earthquakes put large electromagnetic charges in the air. Sensitivity to magnetism may also be why some people have a better sense of direction than others, as do migrating birds.

Another phenomena I noticed as early as 10 months before the great earthquake and tsunami, was that the ocean temperatures in the Pacific along the east coast of Japan were much higher than normal, bright red on ocean temperature maps. I noted to friends that Fuji which is overdue for an eruption, was probably going to blow. Instead an entire slice of tectonic plate, the length of the red streak, slid under the mantel of the earth.

Maybe a good anthropology project would be to ask modern hunters and gatherers in the Amazon or New Guinea what they can feel and hear. Probably large numbers of them have these sensitivities.
matlinb

Trad climber
Albuquerque
Sep 19, 2012 - 09:08am PT
Sounds like a project for someone from the Society for Amateur Scientists (SAS) http://www.soamsci.org/index.html
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Sep 19, 2012 - 10:35am PT
Yes, for some number of years, I thought that was probably what was causing me to hear it at my home. Then it started pulsing like Morse Code...hmmm...

Very interesting Tom... I've been hearing something similiar all my life, even as a little kid.

Generally it's in the very early AM or at night if I'm awakened by something else. It varies but it's a very low tone and will often pulse with slightly different tones. Not loud or obtrusive in any way and it's not always there. Maybe a few days a month. I've often thought there was some kind of muffled machinery operating outside my house.

For me I think it's something internal/biological but I've never been able to figure it out.

I will get a decent microphone though... I'm curious now if it's a real sound or not.
the kid

Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
Sep 19, 2012 - 06:41pm PT
Very interesting. It seems like you could find a scientist who might have some machine that could locate the frequency and its source.
Might be the planet telling us to f*#k off..
KS
Mike Bolte

Trad climber
Planet Earth
Sep 19, 2012 - 07:10pm PT
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/19/finally-quiet-for-man-who-could-hear-workings-of-his-own-body/?hpt=hp_c2
steveA

Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
Sep 19, 2012 - 07:51pm PT
Tom,

I didn't read every post here, but perhaps what your hearing is a form of tinnitus.

I know in most cases, Tinnitus is a high pitched ringing sound, but there are other sounds like chirping birds, and a quite audible low humming noise.

I know this because I have a severe case of tinnitus, going back for over 30 years- 24 hours a day. It never leaves me.

I had a hobby of explosives as a young kid, then shot high powered rifles for years, and ran a chainsaw for 30 years as well- all without hearing protection, ( stupid me). In any case, I'm paying for it now.

At times I hear a LOW HUMMING NOISE.

Could be tinnitus.
graniteclimber

Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
Sep 19, 2012 - 08:08pm PT
If you hear it and it exists, its real noise. If you hear it and it doesn't, its tinnitus - but it will sound real to you either way.

I think one way to try to determine if it is real noise is to take sound measurements using audio equipment at various time and places, and also have a randomly selected group of people report whether they're hearing a "hum" each time. Then try to see if there is a correlation between humming heard and that picked up by the sound equipment.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus

"Tinnitus ( /tɪˈnaɪtəs/ or /ˈtɪnɪtəs/; from the Latin word tinnītus meaning "ringing") is the perception of sound within the human ear in the absence of corresponding external sound. Tinnitus is not a disease, but a condition that can result from a wide range of underlying causes: neurological damage (multiple sclerosis), ear infections, foreign objects in the ear, nasal allergies that prevent (or induce) fluid drain, or wax build-up."

"As tinnitus is usually a subjective phenomenon, it is difficult to measure using objective tests, such as by comparison with noise of known frequency and intensity, as in an audiometric test."

"Tinnitus can be perceived in one or both ears or in the head. It is usually described as a ringing noise, but in some patients, it takes the form of a high-pitched whining, electric buzzing, hissing, humming, tinging or whistling sound, or as ticking, clicking, roaring, "crickets" or "tree frogs" or "locusts (cicadas)", tunes, songs, beeping, sizzling, sounds that slightly resemble human voices or even a pure steady tone like that heard during a hearing test.[3] It has also been described as a "whooshing" sound, as of wind or waves.[4] Tinnitus can be intermittent, or it can be continuous, in which case it can be the cause of great distress. In some individuals, the intensity can be changed by shoulder, head, tongue, jaw, or eye movements.[5]"
nick d

Trad climber
nm
Sep 19, 2012 - 10:47pm PT
I have lived in Northern New Mexico all my life, spent plenty of time in Taos and have never heard "The Hum". Maybe not coincidentally, I have protected my hearing from loud noises from a very early age.

I'm not saying there can't be noises of unkown origin, but I think damaged hearing plays a large part of it for many people. To me, if you cannot measure or record something, it probably isn't real.

I can always hear the inner workings of my body in extremely quiet places, I think people for whom real quiet is a rarity often misidentify their internal noises when they only very rarely hear them.

I know that there are geologically produced noises, but I think they are usually short lived. An example of one that would go on and on though would be a geologically active fault, and of course there are uncountable millions of those. Maybe they could be a source for a noise that would meet my reality standard of being measurable and recordable.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Sep 19, 2012 - 11:20pm PT
I have severe tinnitus from a year in a 5" gunmount in Vietnam. It wreaks havoc on the high end of things, but I've never 'heard' or been aware of any low frequency effects that I can recall.

But I did spend a year doing Humpback recording in Maui for the UofRI back in the late seventies and agree with Ed - get mic responsive to low frequencies and you're in business. Get a directional mic with the appropriate response, a watch, and a camera panorama head and you'll have a bearing. If that comes up negative you have a hearing problem which could be in you ears or, more likely as with tinnitus, in your head.
WBraun

climber
Sep 20, 2012 - 12:34am PT
All the dead guys in the ground from all the illegal wars are humming to make life miserable for the ones that put them there ......

:-)
nick d

Trad climber
nm
Sep 20, 2012 - 02:30am PT
No Shee Werner,

That noise would drown out every other sound in the world if it could be heard.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 20, 2012 - 03:03pm PT
Recently played around with an online tone generator and identified the frequency at about 110 Hz.

Then happened to attend a university organizing dinner, and the man sitting next to me does a lot of research with using RF/EMF/audio equipment to project focused effects at a distance. I happened to mention The Hum to him. He was very familiar with it, saying it was often at 111 Hz. He seemed to know more about it than he wanted to talk about. (I may get a chance to know him better...)

Then flew over to Bishop and spent the night sleeping on the ground at Keogh Hot Springs. The Hum was apparent, but a very different sound pattern.

Then in Kingman AZ (visiting Layton Kor) The Hum is also apparent, but again the pattern is different. (A bit more tricky to analyze, as everyone here has their air conditioner running...LOL)

Hmmm...???

Edit: Note that at the free sections of Keogh Hot Springs there are high tension power lines directly overhead. Several of us were there at night watching for meteors, with the power lines humming and sparking dramatically just above us. The sound of the power lines is a steady 60 cycle note with the additional zapping sounds of the sparks. This sound is quite distinctly different from what I have been observing elsewhere, including at the campground further up the hill from the power lines. At the campground The Hum was turning on and off in irregular patterns, as if by a light switch, not at all like the power lines.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 20, 2012 - 03:08pm PT
I have also participated in formal meteor watch and aurora watch programs.

On two or three occasions I have heard sounds from an exceptionally bright meteor (that we term a fireball, i.e. brighter than 1st magnitude).

I have watched lots of auroras, but haven't noticed sounds from them.
ionlyski

Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
Sep 20, 2012 - 04:05pm PT
Tom,

You should still be able to measure it however. I think this all really boils down to either an external sound source or internal. Both are the same as far as the brain is concerned; in other words both are just as real, so I hope you don't take any offense to the possibilities of an internal source.

It seems to me that measurement tests would at least answer that question. There's no way you can hear something that a sensitive condenser mic cannot. Either amplify the signal from the mic with a good full range monitor or look at it visually on a scope.

Arne
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Sep 20, 2012 - 04:31pm PT
Well it appears that there is not an answer yet. Once one is found, it will probably explain why no one is detecting a high frequency hum in the earth.

healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Sep 20, 2012 - 06:10pm PT
110 is well within the range of the iPhone microphone's frequency response and if you buy Performance Audio's $1.99 'Audio Tools' app you'll have the tools in hand to sort it out - a recorder, scope and a tone generator are all included in the app.
ionlyski

Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
Sep 20, 2012 - 07:03pm PT
110 what? Hz or decibels? Tom's talking low freq so if you mean cycles I'd be looking in the 40hz to 60 hz range.

I don't know Healy but I'd go outside the realm of an Iphone on this one. Just my opinion though.

Arne

Edited-maybe I was hasty. I didn't realize you guys were already talking about 110hz. In my busisness we don't call that low freq. and I let my bias interfere.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 20, 2012 - 09:42pm PT
Thank you to everyone who is helping to work this out!

It seems to me there are about four basic possibilities:

1. We are hearing some unusual naturally produced phenomena such as magma movements, groundwater movements, fault line movements, jet streams in the air, or auroras. I find these very difficult to believe based upon the constant steady tones and well differentiated on/off patterns being observed at widely separated locations.

2. We are hearing internally produced perceptions similar to tinnitus. I would find this to be likely if there were not such discrete and precise variations that do not change with body position or movement.

3. We are hearing actual sounds produced by some artificial electro/mechanical means in the earth environment. Several people have correctly suggested that we should be able to detect and record these.

As part of making a movie, I have recently been making hours of recordings with sophisticated professional equipment in quiet outdoors environments below water and above water. These sounds (The Hum) are not appearing on the sound track. Other very small sounds have been picked up, such as the shifting of desiccant grains in a paper envelope inside the underwater camera housing.

We have been diving as deep as 120 feet in a quiet lake with no outboard motors allowed. It is very quiet down there except for the sounds of our breathing apparatus. When I hold my breath, it all goes quiet enough to hear even very tiny sounds...but not The Hum down there. This is part of the reason I decided to start this thread.

By the way, we are working on a big aerator suspended vertically in the water column. We sometimes leave it running while working on it. While running it 'sings' at a very low steady rumble that is easier to feel than to hear. The underwater recording equipment does pick up this sound.

We are also using underwater sound equipment (Aga Masks) that allow us to talk to each other under water. There are two types. One uses wires direct to the surface, attached to our surface-supplied-air umbilicals. The other uses sonar principles. Neither one seems to pick up The Hum underwater.

I was diving without either one of these on some occasions while trying to listen carefully down deep.

4. We are hearing sounds induced in the body/brain by some broadcast radio frequency. This seems possible to me, but I don't have the equipment to test this.

I happen to know that the very extensive secret research done for mind control weapons and used in recent wars by psych ops teams are operating at radio frequencies in the range of 400-425 Hz. That would be closer to the audio range of a violin A-string (440 Hz); not the approx 110 Hz audio patterns we have been discussing. It is unclear to me whether a radio signal broadcast at one frequency could induce an audio signal at another frequency, based upon some natural resonance in the body/brain system.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Sep 20, 2012 - 10:21pm PT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect
ionlyski

Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
Sep 20, 2012 - 10:30pm PT
Tom,
Do you mean roughly 425 Mhz for the radio freq. or 425 hz? I've never heard of radio freq at 425 hz but much of my wireless radio equipment operates in that MHZ range.


Arne
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 20, 2012 - 10:45pm PT
Do you mean roughly 425 Mhz for the radio freq. or 425 hz? I've never heard of radio freq at 425 hz but much of my wireless radio equipment operates in that MHZ range.

I do mean 425 Hz. This requires an exceptionally large antenna, about the size of a football field.

I don't imagine the field portable psych ops systems use anything like this big. I don't know much about antenna arrays and am not privy to information as to whether there is some way to synthesize a large antenna array across multiple helicopters or anything like that.

Whatever they used certainly produced dramatic results in getting fanatical battle-hardened Iraqi troops to stream out of their deep bunkers waving white flags.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Sep 20, 2012 - 11:38pm PT
We drove Iraqis out of bunkers with the standard North American dial tone?
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 12:52am PT
We drove Iraqis out of bunkers with the standard North American dial tone?

Perhaps it was calls from their girl friends...
Jan

Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
Sep 21, 2012 - 01:05am PT
I think it would be worthwhile to plot the places The Hum has been heard in regard to military bases. I'd be interested to know if it corelates with beached whales and dolphins in maritime areas also.

I'd be interested in knowing in particular if the surrounding military bases were listening posts. I have been told in the past that there are places on the earth where the ionosphere is different and sound is better received and sent than others. Our listening posts are of course located in those places. Their locations are known to other countries as well. You may be hearing efforts to jam reception or experiments by ourselves at masking communications.

On top of that, I think some people are more sensitive than others, Tom being a prime candidate because of his training as a tracker.

And finally, I know Okinawa is a center for ELF transmissions and bristling with military antenna, and I've felt faraway earthquakes here, yet I've never heard the hum. It certainly makes one wonder.
rockermike

Trad climber
Berkeley
Sep 21, 2012 - 01:29am PT
Personally, I think it is secret underground boring machine building tunnels from one secret underground base to another. Either aliens or new world order guy ( who are actually aliens too) ha
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 02:08am PT
Personally, I think it is secret underground boring machine building tunnels from one secret underground base to another. Either aliens or new world order guy ( who are actually aliens too) ha

The Hum switches on and off too quickly for it to be caused by heavy machinery.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Sep 21, 2012 - 02:12am PT
Well, if you don't have an iPhone, it sounds like as good an excuse to get one as any. You can also get an iRig Pre if you want to use your own mic.

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigpre/
katiebird

climber
yosemite
Sep 21, 2012 - 10:42am PT
I have heard thus hum! The first time was last year in the Needles - it drove me a little nuts. No one else could hear it and they all told me it was my inner ear. But, if I plugged my ears I couldn't hear it. It was a different frequency than the high pitch ear thing. This was different. I heard it almost every night while we were there, the first night it woke me from my sleep. I had tuned into this very low sound that seemed to be off in the distance somewhere. Like some massive generating station by Bakersfield or something. I also just heard this while up in the Yukon this last month.
ionlyski

Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
Sep 21, 2012 - 11:03am PT
Italic TextWhatever they used certainly produced dramatic results in getting fanatical battle-hardened Iraqi troops to stream out of their deep bunkers waving white flags.Italic Text

Yikes!
katiebird

climber
yosemite
Sep 21, 2012 - 11:11am PT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
cliffhanger

Trad climber
California
Sep 21, 2012 - 07:32pm PT
"Energetic particles in the magnetosphere emit radio waves that are audible to humans. The NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission's (RBSP) instrumentation captured an instance of the event. The 'chorus' phenomenon is well known by scientists.
Credit: NASA / SPACE.com "

http://www.space.com/17708-weird-sounds-picked-up-by-space-probes-in-earth-s-magnetosphere-video.html
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Sep 21, 2012 - 07:49pm PT
Still no answer. This is proving to be more difficult than anyone would have imagined.

I am still concerned about high frequency and ultra high frequency "humming" that could be going on and of which we remain unaware, unless alerted by ours dogs.

Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Sep 21, 2012 - 08:05pm PT
Energetic particles in the magnetosphere emit radio waves that are audible to humans

The only way I know that a human can hear radio waves is with a radio receiver. We have ears, not antennas.
cliffhanger

Trad climber
California
Sep 21, 2012 - 08:35pm PT

Researchers from the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) team at the University of Iowa have released a new recording of an intriguing and well-known phenomenon known as “chorus,” made on Sept. 5, 2012. The Waves tri-axial search coil magnetometer and receiver of EMFISIS captured several notable peak radio wave events in the magnetosphere that surrounds the Earth. The radio waves, which are at frequencies that are audible to the human ear, are emitted by the energetic particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere.

“People have known about chorus for decades,” says EMFISIS principal investigator Craig Kletzing, of the University of Iowa. “Radio receivers are used to pick it up, and it sounds a lot like birds chirping. It was often more easily picked up in the mornings, which along with the chirping sound is why it’s sometimes referred to as ‘dawn chorus.’”

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/rbsp/news/emfisis-chorus.html

http://www.spaceweathersounds.com/sndbites.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_chorus_%28electromagnetic%29

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%27chorus%27+phenomenon+radio+waves&btnG=
Spider Savage

Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
Oct 2, 2012 - 04:23pm PT
Another tidbit:

http://blog.chron.com/hottopics/2012/10/if-the-earth-could-speak…well-it-can
hossjulia

Social climber
Eastside (of the Tetons)
Oct 2, 2012 - 07:28pm PT
30 days in the Sierra this summer. I kept hearing what I thought were cars or motors and just figured it was my brain used to hearing those background noises. I sat still and just WAS for many, many hours on this trip. Kept hearing motors. Hum.

Super funny at Muir Trail ranch, I woke up both mornings and just expected to see a bunch of trucks and campers when I got out of my tent. Like I was at a roadside campground. By the time my hand touched the zipper, I knew where I was and was laughing at my self. (But they did have a generator at the ranch, maybe my sub conscious heard that.)

Anytime I TRY to hear this hum, I don't, then when I DO, I think it's just my mind playing tricks on me.

No reason why it couldn't be the Earth. It's one HUGE electromagnetic generator after all!
cliffhanger

Trad climber
California
Oct 3, 2012 - 02:26am PT
Unusual goings on in the sky:


http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121003.html
LithiumMetalman

Trad climber
cesspool central
Oct 3, 2012 - 02:32am PT
Lodestone generator
Tony Bird

climber
Northridge, CA
Oct 3, 2012 - 07:10am PT
the boring machines use liquid radioactive lithium. it cycles through the rock, melts it, and leaves a glass-lined tunnel. you guys gotta read a little more unpopular science.
afj

Social climber
churchville, pa
Dec 29, 2012 - 10:45pm PT
@TomCochrane 9.12.12 (HUMMING NOISE POST)
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 12, 2012 - 08:45am PT

YOUR DESRIPTION BELOW
a deep humming sound modulating slightly in frequency under load. More recently the sound is stable at one frequency, but starts and stops like a very slow Morse Code

Ok, I have just started hearing this, and it is quite accuratly decribed by you, attached above. I, as well approached this like you did, sort of scientifically via process of elimination; turning the main breaker off, stepping outside (where I usually do not hear it, similar to the majority of persons who hear this noise according to the internet), and doing rather extensive research onlinE (leading me here, one of many).

All of this started for me IRONICALLY JUST AFTER DEC 21, 2012. Which made me initally wonder if it had something to do with the planetary alignment with the center of the milky ways black hole which only takes place every 26,000 years. But apparently others have been hearing this for quite some time. And your description is the first detailed one I have found that matches exactly how I defined what I am hearing, a sort of morse code, deep subsonic (pulsing) sound with long and short lengths regarding the tones. I as well figured this was a sound eminating either from the earth itself, or possibly from space, and assuming both were natural occurances. As well I have previously saw some information on "HAARP" and pondered that as well.

Anyway, glad I have someone else who defines their unfortunate burdensome HUMM the same as mine.

Let me know if you have any additional info by email please: afj.facebook at gmail dot com .... Thank you! afj

As well check out this "IMPORTANT EVIDENCE" link, which rules out some common explanations regarding the origin of this HUMM ... once there if you click the "go back to index page" it will take you to the main site where there is much more information.
Well I will attach that "INDEX PAGE" as well:
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INDEX PAGE**

http://johndawes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/page1.htm

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IMPORTNT EVIDENCE**

http://johndawes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/berlin.htm

Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Dec 29, 2012 - 10:54pm PT
We drove Iraqis out of bunkers with the standard North American dial tone?


According to my kid brother the Tank Commander in Gulf War I - what he used to get the Iraqis out was an armor piercing shell to blow the bunker door followed by four or five rounds of incendiaries down the open hallway.

Actually, they really didn't get out more than they got fried in place which made it easier for the SeaBees to bury them.
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 30, 2012 - 01:13am PT
thanks for the reminder moosedrool.

do we have an answer yet?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
graniteclimber

Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
Jul 26, 2013 - 03:58pm PT
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/mysterious-hum-driving-people-crazy-around-world-6C10760872
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Jul 26, 2013 - 04:44pm PT
Is this nonsense still going on? Hey, There are no shortage of high-performance microphones and oscilloscope apps for the iPhone which can be had for under $500 bucks - put it together, turn it on, and you have a record of any environmental sound happening that isn't just in your head. If there is a real human-perceptible audio phenomena you'll have a record of it in your hand.
Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
Jul 26, 2013 - 08:14pm PT
you need special equipment to pick up low level-low frequency sound, such equipment has been used since the early 50's for geophysical prospecting, it involves transformers made with special alloys and copper shielding that is good to 100 db and humbucking coils which adds another 45 db of noise rejection, and specially designed coils that start to roll off at about 1000 hz,

otherwise you will not be able to hear what you are after due to the s/n ratio being too low.

Triad used to make Geoformers for this application, they can sometimes be found on evilbay.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
Jul 26, 2013 - 08:19pm PT
I could be wrong, but I think the hum is from the air conditioners at the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel. At least that's what Warren Zevon told me before he died.

Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
Jul 26, 2013 - 08:24pm PT
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Jul 26, 2013 - 08:43pm PT
If you need a infrasound microphone like this to pick up the hum then you aren't hearing it as a human being:

Capacitance 18 pF
Diameter 1/2 inch
Dyn. Range 19 - 162 dB
Freq. Range 0.07 - 20000 Hz
Inherent Noise 19 dB A
Lower Limiting Frequency -3dB 0.05 Hz
Optimised Low Frequency
Polarization Ext. polarized
Polarisation Voltage 200 V
Preamplifier Included
Pressure Coefficient -0.005 dB/kPa
Sensitivity 12.5 mV/Pa
Standards IEC 61094-4 WS2P
TEDS UTID
Temperature Coefficient -0.002 dB/ºC
Temperature Range -30 - 300 ºC
Venting Side
Input Type Classic

And it jacks up the price, but still all entirely doable for an average human being if you're at all serious about looking into it. There are also plenty of DIY Geophone kits out there, but again, you aren't hearing it at those frequencies.
kev

climber
A pile of dirt.
Jul 26, 2013 - 08:51pm PT
oscilloscope apps for the iPhone

Excuse me while I vomit.

Sure - fast digital oscilloscopes are great but using an iphone?
NOT.
Deekaid

climber
Jul 27, 2013 - 11:33am PT
underground missle silos
Lennox

climber
just southwest of the center of the universe
Jul 27, 2013 - 02:48pm PT
Morlocks
Jon Beck

Trad climber
Oceanside
Jul 27, 2013 - 03:04pm PT
I read this thread, now i am hearing sh#t, high frequency steady noise
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Jul 27, 2013 - 08:00pm PT
Excuse me while I vomit.

Sure - fast digital oscilloscopes are great but using an iphone?
NOT.

For the infrasound / geophone purposes of this thread I believe products like Oscium's would work fine.
SrirachaSource

Mountain climber
Ben Lomond, CA
Nov 25, 2013 - 03:33pm PT
I moved to the Santa Cruz mountain area about 8 months ago. Some time about 3 weeks ago I started hearing this humming noise and its been very annoying, it sounds exactly as you described, steady for a few moments and then pulsing and then steady and so on. I have described it to others as the sound a speaker makes when you turn the volume on a stereo up real high but no music is playing.

On whim I did a Google search and saw your post I was surprised at how your experience matches mine - I too was afraid it might be tinnitus, I still haven't ruled that out. I figure if I can record it than it's not tinnitus, but I feel like the sound is due to the locale; I work in Silicon Valley but I never hear the sound there even on quite nights.

It seems to get louder in smaller rooms - probably because slight pressure changes are more noticeable - if it is a vibration the walls and floor of the house are basically then speakers that are surrounding you on all sides. It seems like I could get a recording but I haven't tried yet.

PS I like the poster who said it might be growers - I can imagine an underground bunker with huge generators used to power the operation :)
couchmaster

climber
pdx
Nov 25, 2013 - 05:09pm PT
HMMM, time to get a recording ?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread334682/pg1 has an interesting bunch of posts.

"I'm curious to find out if anyone knows anything about the enormous Lockheed Martin manufacturing facility on Ben Lomond Mountain in Santa Cruz County. The purpose of the facility has been shrouded in secrecy since it opened, and the facility director has refused to allow even limited public tours of the grounds. The US Navy, Lockheed Martin's largest client, has a base of their own within the facility. The facility director's name is Byron Ravenscraft, which seems to me to be a rather obvious pseudonym. I have been able to find very little information on him or his career. There have been suspicions raised among concerned members of the public that LM is manufacturing nuclear components for Titan missiles on the grounds. Exacerbating the suspicious nature of the facility is the fact that LM has refused to allow groundwater and soil toxicity on and around the facility to be tested. I lived in Santa Cruz for a year and spent quite a bit of time in Boulder Creek, just down the mountain from the facility, and frequently saw unusual military vehicles rolling through town, as well as those unexplained-but-certainly-existent unmarked black helicopters moving through the sky to and from the vicinity of the base. To me the whole business reeks to high heaven. If anyone has any information regarding this facility or what may happen there, I would appreciate it very much if you would make it public. Thank you! "


labrat

Trad climber
Auburn, CA
Nov 25, 2013 - 05:10pm PT
I'm certainly hearing something.......
Dick Danger

Trad climber
Lakewood, Colorado
Nov 25, 2013 - 05:39pm PT
It's Bigfoot. Seriously. He hums because he's shitty at remembering the words. Fact.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 25, 2013 - 05:48pm PT
It seems to get louder in smaller rooms

So does tinnitus, trust me. It gets deafening in the confessional.
covelocos

Trad climber
Nov 25, 2013 - 08:29pm PT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAVE_PAWS
ionlyski

Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
Nov 25, 2013 - 09:49pm PT
I read this thread, now i am hearing sh#t, high frequency steady noise

That is funny!
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 10, 2014 - 08:28pm PT
'Curiouser and curiouser', said Alice...

http://www.haarp.net/

The Military's Pandora's Box

by Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning

This article was prepared to provide a summary of the contents of a book written in 1995 which describes an entirely new class of weapons. The weapons and their effects are described in the following pages. The United States Navy and Air Force have joined with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, to build a prototype for a ground based "Star Wars" weapon system located in the remote bush country of Alaska.

The individuals who are demanding answers about HAARP are scattered around the planet. As well as bush dwellers in Alaska, they include: a physician in Finland; a scientist in Holland; an anti-nuclear protester in Australia; independent physicists in the United States; a grandmother in Canada, and countless others.

Unlike the protests of the 1960s the objections to HAARP have been registered using the tools of the 1990s. From the Internet, fax machines, syndicated talk radio and a number of alternative print mediums the word is getting out and people are waking up to this new intrusion by an over zealous United States government.

The research team put together to gather the materials which eventually found their way into the book never held a formal meeting, never formed a formal organization. Each person acted like a node on a planetary info-spirit-net with one goal held by all -- to keep this controversial new science in the public eye. The result of the team's effort was a book which describes the science and the political ramifications of this technology.

That book, Angels Don't Play this HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology, has 230 pages. This article will only give the highlights. Despite the amount of research (350 footnoted sources), at its heart it is a story about ordinary people who took on an extraordinary challenge in bringing their research forward.


HAARP Boils the Upper Atmosphere

HAARP will zap the upper atmosphere with a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam. It is an advanced model of an "ionospheric heater." (The ionosphere is the electrically-charged sphere surrounding Earth's upper atmosphere. It ranges between 40 to 60 miles above the surface of the Earth.)

Put simply, the apparatus for HAARP is a reversal of a radio telescope; antenna send out signals instead of receiving. HAARP is the test run for a super-powerful radiowave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything -- living and dead.

HAARP publicity gives the impression that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program is mainly an academic project with the goal of changing the ionosphere to improve communications for our own good. However, other U.S. military documents put it more clearly -- HAARP aims to learn how to "exploit the ionosphere for Department of Defense purposes." Communicating with submarines is only one of those purposes.

Press releases and other information from the military on HAARP continually downplay what it could do. Publicity documents insist that the HAARP project is no different than other ionospheric heaters operating safely throughout the world in places such as Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Tromso, Norway, and the former Soviet Union. However, a 1990 government document indicates that the radio-frequency (RF) power zap will drive the ionosphere to unnatural activities.

" ... at the highest HF powers available in the West, the instabilities commonly studied are approaching their maximum RF energy dissipative capability, beyond which the plasma processes will 'runaway' until the next limiting factor is reached."

If the military, in cooperation with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, can show that this new ground-based "Star Wars" technology is sound, they both win. The military has a relatively-inexpensive defense shield and the University can brag about the most dramatic geophysical manipulation since atmospheric explosions of nuclear bombs. After successful testing, they would have the military megaprojects of the future and huge markets for Alaska's North Slope natural gas.

Looking at the other patents which built on the work of a Texas' physicist named Bernard Eastlund, it becomes clearer how the military intends to use the HAARP transmitter. It also makes governmental denials less believable. The military knows how it intends to use this technology, and has made it clear in their documents. The military has deliberately misled the public, through sophisticated word games, deceit and outright disinformation.

The military says the HAARP system could:

Give the military a tool to replace the electromagnetic pulse effect of atmospheric thermonuclear devices (still considered a viable option by the military through at least 1986)

Replace the huge Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) submarine communication system operating in Michigan and Wisconsin with a new and more compact technology

Be used to replace the over-the-horizon radar system that was once planned for the current location of HAARP, with a more flexible and accurate system

Provide a way to wipe out communications over an extremely large area, while keeping the military's own communications systems working

Provide a wide area earth-penetrating tomography which, if combined with the computing abilities of EMASS and Cray computers, would make it possible to verify many parts of nuclear nonproliferation and peace agreements

Be a tool for geophysical probing to find oil, gas and mineral deposits over a large area

Be used to detect incoming low-level planes and cruise missiles, making other technologies obsolete

The above abilities seem like a good idea to all who believe in sound national defense, and to those concerned about cost-cutting. However, the possible uses which the HAARP records do not explain, and which can only be found in Air Force, Army, Navy and other federal agency records, are alarming. Moreover, effects from the reckless use of these power levels in our natural shield -- the ionosphere -- could be cataclysmic according to some scientists.

Two Alaskans put it bluntly. A founder of the NO HAARP movement, Clare Zickuhr, says "The military is going to give the ionosphere a big kick and see what happens."
The military failed to tell the public that they do not know what exactly will happen, but a Penn State science article brags about that uncertainty. Macho science? The HAARP project uses the largest energy levels yet played with by what Begich and Manning call "the big boys with their new toys." HAARP is an experiment in the sky, and experiments are done to find out something not already known. Independent scientists told Begich and Manning that a HAARP-type "skybuster" with its unforeseen effects could be an act of global vandalism.

HAARP History
The patents described below were the package of ideas which were originally controlled by ARCO Power Technologies Incorporated (APTI), a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Company, one of the biggest oil companies in the world. APTI was the contractor that built the HAARP facility. ARCO sold this subsidiary, the patents and the second phase construction contract to E-Systems in June 1994.

E-Systems is one of the biggest intelligence contractors in the world -- doing work for the CIA, defense intelligence organizations and others. $1.8 billion of their annual sales are to these organizations, with $800 million for black projects -- projects so secret that even the United States Congress isn't told how the money is being spent.
E-Systems was bought out by Raytheon, which is one of the largest defense contractors in the world. In 1994 Raytheon was listed as number forty-two on the Fortune 500 list of companies. Raytheon has thousands of patents, some of which will be valuable in the HAARP project. The twelve patents below are the backbone of the HAARP project, and are now buried among the thousands of others held in the name of Raytheon. Bernard J. Eastlund's U.S. Patent # 4,686,605, "Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere; and/or Magnetosphere," was sealed for a year under a government Secrecy Order.

The Eastlund ionospheric heater was different; the radio frequency (RF) radiation was concentrated and focused to a point in the ionosphere. This difference throws an unprecedented amount of energy into the ionosphere. The Eastlund device would allow a concentration of one watt per cubic centimeter, compared to others only able to deliver about one millionth of one watt.

This huge difference could lift and change the ionosphere in the ways necessary to create futuristic effects described in the patent. According to the patent, the work of Nikola Tesla in the early 1900's formed the basis of the research.

What would this technology be worth to ARCO, the owner of the patents? They could make enormous profits by beaming electrical power from a powerhouse in the gas fields to the consumer without wires.

For a time, HAARP researchers could not prove that this was one of the intended uses for HAARP. In April, 1995, however, Begich found other patents, connected with a "key personnel" list for APTI. Some of these new APTI patents were indeed a wireless system for sending electrical power. Eastlund's patent said the technology can confuse or completely disrupt airplanes' and missiles' sophisticated guidance systems. Further, this ability to spray large areas of Earth with electromagnetic waves of varying frequencies, and to control changes in those waves, makes it possible to knock out communications on land or sea as well as in the air.

The patent said:

"Thus, this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth's atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art, particularly by detonation of nuclear devices of various yields at various altitudes... "

"...it is possible not only to interfere with third party communications but to take advantage of one or more such beams to carry out a communications network even though the rest of the world's communications are disrupted. Put another way, what is used to disrupt another's communications can be employed by one knowledgeable of this invention as a communication network at the same time."

"... large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high altitude so that missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant destruction."

"Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device.

... molecular modifications of the atmosphere can take place so that positive environmental effects can be achieved. Besides actually changing the molecular composition of an atmospheric region, a particular molecule or molecules can be chosen for increased presence. For example, ozone, nitrogen, etc., concentrations in the atmosphere could be artificially increased."

Begich found eleven other APTI Patents. They told how to make "Nuclear-sized Explosions without Radiation," Power-beaming systems, over-the-horizon radar, detection systems for missiles carrying nuclear warheads, electromagnetic pulses previously produced by thermonuclear weapons and other Star-Wars tricks. This cluster of patents underlay the HAARP weapon system.

Related research by Begich and Manning uncovered bizarre schemes. For example, Air Force documents revealed that a system had been developed for manipulating and disturbing human mental processes through pulsed radio-frequency radiation (the stuff of HAARP) over large geographical areas. The most telling material about this technology came from writings of Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Advisory to U.S. President Carter) and J.F. MacDonald (science advisor to U.S. President Johnson and a professor of Geophysics at UCLA), as they wrote about use of power-beaming transmitters for geophysical and environmental warfare. The documents showed how these effects might be caused, and the negative effects on human heath and thinking.

The mental-disruption possibilities for HAARP are the most disturbing. More than 40 pages of the book, with dozens of footnotes, chronicle the work of Harvard professors, military planners and scientists as they plan and test this use of the electromagnetic technology. For example, one of the papers describing this use was from the International Red Cross in Geneva. It even gave the frequency ranges where these effects could occur -- the same ranges which HAARP is capable of broadcasting.

The following statement was made more than twenty-five years ago in a book by Brzezinski which he wrote while a professor at Columbia University:

"Political strategists are tempted to exploit research on the brain and human behavior. Geophysicist Gordon J.F. MacDonald, a specialist in problems of warfare, says accurately-timed, artificially-excited electronic strokes could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the earth ... in this way one could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions over an extended period"

" ... no matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages, to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades."

In 1966, MacDonald was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee and later a member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality. He published papers on the use of environmental control technologies for military purposes. The most profound comment he made as a geophysicist was, "the key to geophysical warfare is the identification of environmental instabilities to which the addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of energy." While yesterday's geophysicists predicted today's advances, are HAARP program managers delivering on the vision?

The geophysicists recognized that adding energy to the environmental soup could have large effects. However, humankind has already added substantial amounts of electromagnetic energy into our environment without understanding what might constitute critical mass. The book by Begich and Manning raises questions:

Have these additions been without effect, or is there a cumulative amount beyond which irreparable damage can be done?
Is HAARP another step in a journey from which we cannot turn back?
Are we about to embark on another energy experiment which unleashes another set of demons from Pandora's box?

As early as 1970, Zbigniew Brzezinski predicted a "more controlled and directed society" would gradually appear, linked to technology. This society would be dominated by an elite group which impresses voters by allegedly superior scientific know-how. Angels Don't Play This HAARP further quotes Brzezinski:

"Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Technical and scientific momentum would then feed on the situation it exploits," Brzezinski predicted.

His forecasts proved accurate. Today, a number of new tools for the "elite" are emerging, and the temptation to use them increases steadily. The policies to permit the tools to be used are already in place. How could the United States be changed, bit by bit, into the predicted highly-controlled technosociety? Among the "steppingstones" Brzezinski expected were persisting social crises and use of the mass media to gain the public's confidence.

In another document prepared by the government, the U.S. Air Force claims: "The potential applications of artificial electromagnetic fields are wide-ranging and can be used in many military or quasi-military situations... Some of these potential uses include dealing with terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling breaches of security at military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in tactical warfare. In all of these cases the EM (electromagnetic) systems would be used to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation. In addition, the ability of individuals to function could be degraded to such a point that they would be combat ineffective. Another advantage of electromagnetic systems is that they can provide coverage over large areas with a single system. They are silent and countermeasures to them may be difficult to develop... One last area where electromagnetic radiation may prove of some value is in enhancing abilities of individuals for anomalous phenomena."

Do these comments point to uses already somewhat developed? The author of the government report refers to an earlier Air Force document about the uses of radio frequency radiation in combat situations. (Here Begich and Manning note that HAARP is the most versatile and the largest radio-frequency-radiation transmitter in the world.)

The United States Congressional record deals with the use of HAARP for penetrating the earth with signals bounced off of the ionosphere. These signals are used to look inside the planet to a depth of many kilometers in order to locate underground munitions, minerals and tunnels. The U.S. Senate set aside $15 million dollars in 1996 to develop this ability alone -- earth-penetrating-tomography. The problem is that the frequency needed for earth-penetrating radiation is within the frequency range most cited for disruption of human mental functions. It may also have profound effects on migration patterns of fish and wild animals which rely on an undisturbed energy field to find their routes.

As if electromagnetic pulses in the sky and mental disruption were not enough, T. Eastlund bragged that the super-powerful ionospheric heater could control weather.

Begich and Manning brought to light government documents indicating that the military has weather-control technology. When HAARP is eventually built to its full power level, it could create weather effects over entire hemispheres. If one government experiments with the world's weather patterns, what is done in one place will impact everyone else on the planet. Angels Don't Play This HAARP explains a principle behind some of Nikola Tesla's inventions -- resonance -- which affect planetary systems.

Bubble of Electric Particles
Angels Don't Play This HAARP includes interviews with independent scientists such as Elizabeth Rauscher. She has a Ph.D., a long and impressive career in high-energy physics, and has been published in prestigious science journals and books. Rauscher commented on HAARP. "You're pumping tremendous energy into an extremely delicate molecular configuration that comprises these multi-layers we call the ionosphere."
"The ionosphere is prone to catalytic reactions," she explained, "if a small part is changed, a major change in the ionosphere can happen."

In describing the ionosphere as a delicately balanced system, Dr. Rauscher shared her mental picture of it -- a soap-bubble-like sphere surrounding Earth's atmosphere, with movements swirling over the surface of the bubble. If a big enough hole is punched through it, she predicts, it could pop.


Slicing the Ionosphere
Physicist Daniel Winter, Ph.D., of Waynesville, North Carolina, says, "HAARP high-frequency emissions can couple with longwave (extremely-low-frequency, or ELF) pulses the Earth grid uses to distribute information as vibrations to synchronize dances of life in the biosphere." Dan terms this geomagnetic action 'Earth's information bloodstream,' and says it is likely that coupling of HAARP HF (high-frequency) with natural ELF can cause unplanned, unsuspected side effects.

David Yarrow of Albany, New York, is a researcher with a background in electronics. He described possible interactions of HAARP radiation with the ionosphere and Earth's magnetic grid: "HAARP will not burn holes in the ionosphere. That is a dangerous understatement of what HAARP's giant gigawatt beam will do. Earth is spinning relative to thin electric shells of the multilayer membrane of ion-o-speres that absorb and shield Earth's surface from intense solar radiation, including charged particle storms in solar winds erupting from the sun. Earth's axial spin means that HAARP -- in a burst lasting more than a few minutes -- will slice through the ionosphere like a microwave knife. This produces not a hole but a long tear -- an incision."

Crudely Plucking the Strings
Second concept: As Earth rotates, HAARP will slice across the geomagnetic flux, a donut-shaped spool of magnetic strings -- like longitude meridians on maps.
HAARP may not 'cut' these strings in Gaia's magnetic mantle, but will pulse each thread with harsh, out-of-harmony high frequencies. These noisy impulses will vibrate geomagnetic flux lines, sending vibrations all through the geomagnetic web. "

"The image comes to mind of a spider on its web. An insect lands, and the web's vibrations alert the spider to possible prey. HAARP will be a man-made microwave finger poking at the web, sending out confusing signals, if not tearing holes in the threads. "
"Effects of this interference with symphonies of Gaia's geomagnetic harp are unknown, and I suspect barely thought of. Even if thought of, the intent (of HAARP) is to learn to exploit any effects, not to play in tune to global symphonies. "

Among other researchers quoted is Paul Schaefer of Kansas City. His degree is in electrical engineering and he spent four years building nuclear weapons. "But most of the theories that we have been taught by scientists to believe in seem to be falling apart," he says. He talks about imbalances already caused by the industrial and atomic age, especially by radiation of large numbers of tiny, high-velocity particles "like very small spinning tops" into our environment. The unnatural level of motion of highly-energetic particles in the atmosphere and in radiation belts surrounding Earth is the villain in the weather disruptions, according to this model, which describes an Earth discharging its buildup of heat, relieving stress and regaining a balanced condition through earthquakes and volcanic action.

Feverish Earth
"One might compare the abnormal energetic state of the Earth and its atmosphere to a car battery which has become overcharged with the normal flow of energy jammed up, resulting in hot spots, electrical arcing, physical cracks and general turbulence as the pent-up energy tries to find some place to go."

In a second analogy, Schaefer says "Unless we desire the death of our planet, we must end the production of unstable particles which are generating the earth's fever. A first priority to prevent this disaster would be to shut down all nuclear power plants and end the testing of atomic weapons, electronic warfare and 'Star Wars'." Meanwhile, the military builds its biggest ionospheric heater yet, to deliberately create more instabilities in a huge plasma layer -- the ionosphere -- and to rev up the energy level of charged particles.

Electronic Rain From The Sky
They have published papers about electron precipitation from the magnetosphere (the outer belts of charged particles which stream toward Earth's magnetic poles) caused by man-made very low frequency electromagnetic waves. "These precipitated particles can produce secondary ionization, emit X-rays, and cause significant perturbation in the lower ionosphere."

Two Stanford University radio scientists offer evidence of what technology can do to affect the sky by making waves on earth; they showed that very low frequency radio waves can vibrate the magnetosphere and cause high-energy particles to cascade into Earth's atmosphere. By turning the signal on or off, they could stop the flow of energetic particles.

Weather Control
Avalanches of energy dislodged by such radio waves could hit us hard. Their work suggests that technicians could control global weather by sending relatively small 'signals' into the Van Allen belts (radiation belts around Earth). Thus Tesla's resonance effects can control enormous energies by tiny triggering signals.
The Begich/ Manning book asks whether that knowledge will be used by war-oriented or biosphere-oriented scientists.

The military has had about twenty years to work on weather warfare methods, which it euphemistically calls weather modification. For example, rainmaking technology was taken for a few test rides in Vietnam. The U.S. Department of Defense sampled lightning and hurricane manipulation studies in Project Skyfire and Project Stormfury. And they looked at some complicated technologies that would give big effects. Angels Don't Play This HAARP cites an expert who says the military studied both lasers and chemicals which they figured could damage the ozone layer over an enemy. Looking at ways to cause earthquakes, as well as to detect them, was part of the project named Prime Argus, decades ago. The money for that came from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, now under the acronym ARPA.) In 1994 the Air Force revealed its Spacecast 2020 master plan which includes weather control. Scientists have experimented with weather control since the 1940's, but Spacecast 2020 noted that "using environmental modification techniques to destroy, damage or injure another state are prohibited." Having said that, the Air Force claimed that advances in technology "compels a reexamination of this sensitive and potentially risky topic."


40 Years of Zapping the Sky?

As far back as 1958, the chief White House advisor on weather modification, Captain Howard T. Orville, said the U.S. defense department was studying "ways to manipulate the charges of the earth and sky and so affect the weather" by using an electronic beam to ionize or de-ionize the atmosphere over a given area.

In 1966, Professor Gordon J. F. MacDonald was associate director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee, and later a member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality.

He published papers on the use of environmental-control technologies for military purposes. MacDonald made a revealing comment: "The key to geophysical warfare is the identification of environmental instabilities to which the addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of energy. " World-recognized scientist MacDonald had a number of ideas for using the environment as a weapon system and he contributed to what was, at the time, the dream of a futurist. When he wrote his chapter, "How To Wreck The Environment," for the book Unless Peace Comes, he was not kidding around. In it he describes the use of weather manipulation, climate modification, polar ice cap melting or destabilization, ozone depletion techniques, earthquake engineering, ocean wave control and brain wave manipulation using the planet's energy fields.

He also said that these types of weapons would be developed and, when used, would be virtually undetectable by their victims. Is HAARP that weapon? The military's intention to do environmental engineering is well documented, U.S. Congress' subcommittee hearings on Oceans and International Environment looked into military weather and climate modification conducted in the early 1970's. "What emerged was an awesome picture of far-ranging research and experimentation by the Department of Defense into ways environmental tampering could be used as a weapon," said another author cited in Angles Don't Play This HAARP.

The revealed secrets surprised legislators. Would an inquiry into the state of the art of electromagnetic manipulation surprise lawmakers today? They may find out that technologies developed out of the HAARP experiments in Alaska could deliver on Gordon MacDonald's vision because leading-edge scientists are describing global weather as not only air pressure and thermal systems, but also as an electrical system.


Small Input - Big Effect

HAARP zaps the ionosphere where it is relatively unstable. A point to remember is that the ionosphere is an active electrical shield protecting the planet from the constant bombardment of high-energy particles from space. This conducting plasma, along with Earth's magnetic field, traps the electrical plasma of space and holds it back from going directly to the earth's surface, says Charles Yost of Dynamic Systems, Leicester, North Carolina. "If the ionosphere is greatly disturbed, the atmosphere below is subsequently disturbed."

Another scientist interviewed said there is a super-powerful electrical connection between the ionosphere and the part of the atmosphere where our weather comes onstage, the lower atmosphere.

One man-made electrical effect -- power line harmonic resonance -- causes fallout of charged particles from the Van Allen (radiation) belts, and the falling ions cause ice crystals (which precipitate rain clouds). What about HAARP? Energy blasted upward from an ionospheric heater is not much compared to the total in the ionosphere, but HAARP documents admit that thousandfold-greater amounts of energy can be released in the ionosphere than injected. As with MacDonald's "key to geophysical warfare," "nonlinear" effects (described in the literature about the ionospheric heater) mean small input and large output. Astrophysicist Adam Trombly told Manning that an acupuncture model is one way to look at the possible effect of multi-gigawatt pulsing of the ionosphere. If HAARP hits certain points, those parts of the ionosphere could react in surprising ways.

Smaller ionospheric heaters such as the one at Arecibo are underneath relatively placid regions of the ionosphere, compared to the dynamic movements nearer Earth's magnetic poles. That adds another uncertainty to HAARP -- the unpredictable and lively upper atmosphere near the North Pole.

HAARP experimenters do not impress commonsense Alaskans such as Barbara Zickuhr, who says "They're like boys playing with a sharp stick, finding a sleeping bear and poking it in the butt to see what's going to happen."

Could They Short-Circuit Earth?
Earth as a spherical electrical system is a fairly well-accepted model. However, those experimenters who want to make unnatural power connections between parts of this system might not be thinking of possible consequences. Electrical motors and generators can be caused to wobble when their circuits are affected. Could human activities cause a significant change in a planet's electrical circuit or electrical field? A paper in the respected journal Science deals with manmade ionization from radioactive material, but perhaps it could also be studied with HAARP-type skybusters in mind:

"For example, while changes in the earth's electric field resulting from a solar flare modulating conductivity may have only a barely detectable effect on meteorology, the situation may be different in regard to electric field changes caused by manmade ionization... " Meteorology, of course, is the study of the atmosphere and weather. ionization is what happens when a higher level of power is zapped into atoms and knocks electrons off the atoms. The resulting charged particles are the stuff of HAARP. "One look at the weather should tell us that we are on the wrong path," says Paul Schaefer, commenting on HAARP-type technologies.

Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology is about the military's plan to manipulate that which belongs to the world -- the ionosphere. The arrogance of the United States government in this is not without precedent.

Atmospheric nuclear tests had similar goals. More recently, China and France put their people's money to destructive use in underground nuclear tests. It was recently reported that the US government spent $3 trillion dollars on its nuclear program since its beginnings in the 1940's. What new breakthroughs in life science could have been made with all the money spent on death?

Begich, Manning, Roderick and others believe that democracies need to be founded on openness, rather than the secrecy which surrounds so much military science. Knowledge used in developing revolutionary weapons could be used for healing and helping mankind. Because they are used in new weapons, discoveries are classified and suppressed. When they do appear in the work of other independent scientists, the new ideas are often frustrated or ridiculed, while military research laboratories continue to build their new machines for the killing fields.

However, the book by Manning and Begich gives hope that the military industrial academic bureaucratic Goliath can be affected by the combined power of determined individuals and the alternative press. Becoming informed is the first step to empowerment.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 11, 2014 - 07:39pm PT
to be quite candid, i had no idea when starting this thread, that it would be heading off in this direction...
Delhi Dog

climber
Good Question...
Apr 23, 2014 - 01:01am PT
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27117669

It's all the whales fault.
MisterE

climber
Apr 23, 2014 - 01:31am PT
It's got a groovy beat


I can bug out to it!


Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Apr 23, 2014 - 09:32pm PT
I didn't wade through the responses but this seems simple to figure out. The next time that you hear these sounds, ask another person to verify or deny it's existence. You claim that the sounds vary. That fact will help with getting verification or not. If other people hear the same sounds then it is real. If they don't hear the sounds that you hear then they are in your head. Did you hear that?
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 23, 2014 - 11:39pm PT
yes, other people hear them


and yes, you didn't read the thread
madbolter1

Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
Apr 24, 2014 - 02:22am PT
It IS the whales!

So, I'll quote a bumper sticker I used to see around Cali in the 80s at the height of the "save Mono Lake" ferver:

NUKE the whales and throw their radioactive bodies into Mono Lake!
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Apr 24, 2014 - 02:48am PT
And so did you put together a rig to measure it or what? It shouldn't be rocket science...
overwatch

climber
Apr 24, 2014 - 02:56am PT
I am convinced many people here read the first and last post then belch out a pre-formed opinion based on the thread title
overwatch

climber
Apr 24, 2014 - 11:55am PT
Nothing I posted said I have read the whole thread. I did comment on knee jerk posters.

But it may have something to do with HAARP.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Apr 24, 2014 - 12:03pm PT
It's just the music of the spheres. The universe is so far beyond our understanding in so many ways.

I try not to worry my pretty little head over it. I just sit back and marvel.

Edit: Tom, the second post on this page is way too big. Sh#t, no wonder people don't have time to read the thread.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Apr 24, 2014 - 12:06pm PT
Mister E, NICE cockroach collection dude!
McHale's Navy

Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
Apr 24, 2014 - 01:07pm PT
I read most of this thread this morning and did not see any mention of the beautiful vibrations frozen lakes can put off, although I have experienced that only once, while on Steamboat Rock above Banks Reservoir in eastern Washington. It was even obvious on my video recorder. I did find that some people could hear the recorded sound more easily than others, over the noise the camcorder actually made! If a frozen lake can make a noticeable sound, there have to be many geological features that do so also.

We were very lucky to be able to hear the ice that day. There was no wind and a fog had just lifted. It was dead calm. It would have been easy to miss. It's one of the coolest things I've experienced...right up there with the arcing Moon-Bow I saw near Mt Shasta once. I'm not talking about a moon halo, but a shape like a rainbow, and at night. I had just come out of an intense rainstorm while driving and saw what looked like a bent beam of light through the windshield. At first I thought the curve of the glass was playing tricks. Beams of light don't bend, so I stopped and stuck my head out and sure enough, it was a moon-bow.

Oh, and I heard on NPR yesterday, maybe related to the Malaysian plane search, that there have been many unidentified sounds picked up in the ocean in general. Can't remember exactly what I heard out the corner of my ear while working, but it was there on NPR.
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Apr 24, 2014 - 02:44pm PT
I just stumbled upon this thread.
My first point:
During the messy breakup of my first marriage I moved onto my sailboat in a Sausalito harbor. A strange humming sound coming through boat hulls had been reported by many live-aboards. There were of course the usual weird phenomena and conspiracy theories. Finally it was traced to the Singing Toadfish.
Yes, that's the common name. It male buries himself in the soft mud and then attracts a mate by humming.
The conspiracy theorists had to find another horse to flog.
[quote]http://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0812/ahum.html[/quote]

Now for my own "conspiracy" concept. The Lockheed Martin facility on Ben Lomond Ridge is a well known highly secret development facility. I can see the neighboring abandoned fire observation tower from my deck. When I first moved up here I saw 2 or 3 late night rocket launches. They were developing one of the Trident missile stages.
I drive up to the gate every now and then because it's at the end of a fine motorcycle riding road. Last summer I noticed a higher "situational readiness" than in my previous stop a couple of years before. Additional cameras at the gate and more well armed personnel giving me the eye. I waved at the cameras, turned around and enjoyed the rest of my ride.
The site is so secretive that when a very large forest fire started on their property 4 years ago CalFire was refused entrance up the back fire road. The couldn't get onto the fire until it had "escaped" the facility.
It is entirely possible that they are testing/developing equipment that is generating a low frequency "hum" or oscillation. However, if this were the case some of Tom's neighbors would also hear it and there would be a lot of public "chatter" about it.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 23, 2014 - 11:41pm PT
http://mic.com/articles/91091/a-mysterious-sound-is-driving-people-insane-and-nobody-knows-what-s-causing-it



A Mysterious Sound Is Driving People Insane — And Nobody Knows What's Causing It
By Jared Keller June 19, 2014

Dr. Glen MacPherson doesn't remember the first time he heard the sound. It may have started at the beginning of 2012, a dull, steady droning like that of a diesel engine idling down the street from his house in the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. A lecturer at the University of British Columbia and high school teacher of physics, mathematics and biology, months passed before MacPherson realized that the noise, which he'd previously dismissed as some background nuisance like car traffic or an airplane passing overhead, was something abnormal.

"Once I realized that this wasn't simply the ambient noise of living in my little corner of the world, I went through the typical stages and steps to try to isolate the sources," MacPherson told Mic. "I assumed it may be an electrical problem, so I shut off the mains to the entire house. It got louder. I went driving around my neighborhood looking for the source, and I noticed it was louder at night."

Exasperated, MacPherson turned his focus to scientific literature and pored over reports of the mysterious noise before coming across an article by University of Oklahoma geophysicist David Deming in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to exploring topics outside of mainstream science. "I almost dropped my laptop," says MacPherson. "I was sure that I was hearing the Hum."

"The Hum" refers to a mysterious sound heard in places around the world by a small fraction of a local population. It's characterized by a persistent and invasive low-frequency rumbling or droning noise often accompanied by vibrations. While reports of "unidentified humming sounds" pop up in scientific literature dating back to the 1830s, modern manifestations of the contemporary hum have been widely reported by national media in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia since the early 1970s.

Regional experiences of the phenomenon vary, and the Hum is often prefixed with the region where the problem centers, like the "Windsor Hum" in Ontario, Canada, the "Taos Hum" in New Mexico, or the "Auckland Hum" for Auckland, New Zealand. Somewhere between 2 and 10% of people can hear the Hum, and inside isolation is no escape. Most sufferers find the noise to be more disturbing indoors and at night. Much to their dismay, the source of the mysterious humming is virtually untraceable.

While the uneven experience of the Hum in local populations has led some researchers to dismiss it as a "mass delusion," the nuisance and pain associated with the phenomenon make delusion a dissatisfying hypothesis. Intrigued by the mysterious noise, MacPherson launched The World Hum Map and Database in December 2012 to collect testimonies of other Hum sufferers and track its global impact (he now also moderates a decade-old Yahoo forum along with Deming).

MacPherson quickly discovered that what to him was a strange rumbling was actually having pernicious effects on hundreds of people, from headaches to irritability to sleep deprivation. There are reports that weeks of insomnia caused by the Bristol Hum drove at least three U.K. residents to suicide. "It completely drains energy, causing stress and loss of sleep," a sufferer told a British newspaper in 1992. "I have been on tranquilizers and have lost count of the number of nights I have spent holding my head in my hands, crying and crying." Thousands of people around the world have shared similar experiences of the Hum; some, like MacPherson, are devoting their time to finally uncovering its source.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Jun 24, 2014 - 12:23am PT
...some, like MacPherson, are devoting their time to finally uncovering its source.
And how is that happening? It doesn't say.

Again no shortage of quite reasonably priced technical gear for analyzing ambient low frequencies. How come we can read all about the 'hum' in that post and nothing about cogent aural monitoring? Hell, you have the requisite know-how and are a gear junkie extraordinaire who is more than up to the task. How about simply ruling out any actual sound using 'sound' methods before the headlong rush to the paranormal.
Jan

Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
Jun 24, 2014 - 12:46am PT
I have heard an ice lake making what sounded like the high pitched screaming of a woman running away from me. It was quite eerie. I believe on another thread eKat reported something similar.

As for a low hum, I'd bet either the military which already projects an array of sounds through the oceans, or else the sound of rock grinding along a fault line. The Japanese have reported noises and blue light above the earth before quakes. They've also noted that candle flames dip downward just before a quake.

Lightning storms, typhoons and earthquakes are the biggest natural earth bound disturbers of the electromagnetic fields which could account for people feeling bad during them.
Jan

Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
Jun 24, 2014 - 06:50am PT
Perhaps, or people with more acute hearing than the rest of us?

Base104 who is a geologist and definitely committed to science, has described on another thread how he has heard it also, but only after some weeks in the wilderness in Alaska. Meditation instructors note that a person will hear different inner sounds as they progress.

It may be when a person is not distracted by the usual sounds of life, they are able to tune in on different levels of their own metabolism, or the sounds of the earth's metabolism.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 24, 2014 - 08:54pm PT
None of you clicked the link provided, where there is in fact some serious scientific inquiries being pursued. I don't want to post the entire article here.

Forget your obsession with the paranormal and please don't paint me with that brush. You need to pay better attention.

So what's behind the Hum? After nearly four decades, Hum investigators may finally have some idea. The general consensus among sufferers is that the Hum is comprised of very low frequency (or 'VLF', in the range of 3 kHz to 30 kHz and wavelengths from 10 to 100 kilometers) or extremely low frequency (or 'ELF', in the range of 3 to 30 Hz, and corresponding wavelengths from 100,000 to 10,000 kilometers) radio waves, which can penetrate buildings and travel over tremendous distances.

Both ELF and VLF waves have been shown to have potentially adverse affects on the human body. While the common refrain about ELF radiation in popular culture normally involves your cell phone giving you cancer, research by the World Health Organization and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers has shown that external ELF magnetic fields can induce currents in the body which, at very high field strengths, cause nerve and muscle stimulation and changes in nerve cell excitability in the central nervous system. And VLF waves, like other low-frequency electromagnetic radiation, have also been shown to have a direct impact on biological functions

Finally, there's a body of empirical evidence that makes this theory more appealing. A study funded by the Canadian government and led by University of Windsor mechanical engineering professor Dr. Colin Novak spent the last year listening to the "Windsor Hum" that's been torturing residents in the Windsor area of Ontario since 2011. A previous study had confirmed the existence of the low frequency noise in the vicinity of Zug Island, a highly industrialized island located on Michigan side of the Detroit River. The researchers used specialized equipment to capture and develop a sonic "fingerprint" of the mysterious sound. The study concluded that not only does the Windsor Hum actually exist, but its likely source was a blast furnace at the U.S. Steel plant on Zug Island, which reportedly generates a high volume of VLF waves during its hours of operation. "It sounds like a large truck or a train locomotive is parked outside your house, buzzing away, causing the windows to shake," Novak, himself a Hum sufferer, told Canada's CTV News. "It can be quite uncomfortable at times."

Dr. Novak's study caps off decades of Hum theories, but given the inconsistent experience of the phenomenon around the world, cataloguers of the Hum still aren't quite sure if it has a single, definitive source. While ELF and VLF waves may cause people to experience the incessant droning, not every local Hum appears to have an easily traceable source. What about the Aukland and Taos Hums? And why does the Hum seem to appear and disappear for months at a time?

Some Hum investigators suspect that there's a global source responsible for the Hum worldwide. Deming's research, considered close to authoritative in the Hum community, suggests that evidence of the Hum corresponds with an accidental, biological consequence of the "Take Charge and Move Out" (TACAMO) system adopted by the US Navy in the 1960s as a way for military leaders to maintain communications with the nation's ballistic missile submarines, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, and long-range bombers during a nuclear war. As part of TACAMO, military aircraft use VLF radio waves to send instructions to submarines: Because of their large wavelengths, VLF can diffract around large obstacles like mountains and buildings, propagate around the globe using the Earth's ionosphere and penetrate seawater to a depth of almost 40 meters, making them ideal for one-way communication with subs. And VLF, like other low-frequency electromagnetic waves, have been shown to have a direct impact on biological functions. (Strategic Communications Wing One at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, which is responsible for the manning, training and equipping of aircraft utilized as part of the TACAMO system, did not respond to requests for comment.)

And there are other theories. While Moir agrees with MacPherson that the disturbance is occurring at a very low frequency, he's convinced that the source of the Auckland Hum is primarily acoustic rather than electromagnetic, partially because he claims his research team has managed to capture a recording of the Hum.

Go to the site and you can hear their recordings of The Hum. This corresponds to some, but not all of what I have heard around the world.
Loose Rocks

Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
Jun 25, 2014 - 08:32pm PT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances
jstan

climber
Jun 25, 2014 - 08:39pm PT
I gave you folks the answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8HBuDjgc

It's the kakapo.
ionlyski

Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
Jun 25, 2014 - 10:48pm PT
Seems like it's gotta be either measurable or originating from the inner ear. One or the other. Measuring would be easy provided you could rule out interference from civilization.

Arne

Tfish

Trad climber
La Crescenta, CA
Jul 7, 2014 - 09:56pm PT
I've heard it twice. Once in the Sierra by McGee Creek and once in the Desolation Wilderness in Tahoe. The first time 3 of us all heard it and the second time me and my gf heard it. So it's not some inner ear sh#t. And we'd hear it from different directions.
Spider Savage

Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
Jul 7, 2014 - 10:05pm PT
I've never heard it.


Would someone PLEASE answer that phone!
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Jul 7, 2014 - 11:21pm PT
http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_18_4_deming.pdf

I wouldn't interpret Demings paper or 'conclusions' that way and I suspect Deming, being a fair skeptic himself, would scoff at the notion of being "considered close to authoritative in the Hum community", particularly given he doesn't present his work as [scientific] 'research' but rather more of a survey:

Analysis of that anecdotal evidence available at the present time tentatively
suggests...

He also deliberately didn't publish in a mainline science journal, but rather a journal devoted to giving air to what most consider fringe or paranormal 'science'. And in his paper, he is also fairly critical of the lack of scientific rigor in the "hum community" and even casts skeptical doubt on his own [anecdotal] conclusions vis-a-vis TACAMO which were:

2. The source of the Hum is unknown. However, a comparison of several
different sources of radio transmissions with the time and place of Hum reports
seems to tentatively exclude several possibilities. Unlikely sources include
cellular telephone transmissions, LORAN navigational stations, and HAARP.
The hypothetical source that can be best correlated in time and space with Hum
reports is the TACAMO aircraft operated by the US Navy for purposes of
submarine communications.

But that conclusion is immediately preceded by the last sentence in the body of the paper, to wit:

One difficulty with attributing the Hum to VLF transmissions from TACAMO
aircraft is that there are no Hum reports near the Navy’s stationary VLF
broadcast stations at Cutler, Maine, and Jim Creek, Washington.

So Deming is quite explicit in stating his work and analyses are speculative and anecdotal in nature and the hum community should consider following his advice they stick to the science,
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 15, 2014 - 07:30pm PT
Turns out the comet has its own hum:

Comet 67P/Churumov-Gerasimenko's weak magnetic field seems to be oscillating at low frequencies in the 40-50 millihertz frequency range. This “comet singing” was first detected in August 2014 and has continued as Rosetta's Philae is making touchdown. Signal illustration by ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM. Hot link to ESA blog was working until 8:45 AM this morning. For more, see Discovery.com.

So perhaps The Hum that is the subject of this thread is the resonance of Mother Earth...
jgill

Boulder climber
Colorado
Nov 15, 2014 - 07:38pm PT
So perhaps The Hum that is the subject of this thread is the resonance of Mother Earth...

The Hills are Alive with Song!
Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Nov 15, 2014 - 09:11pm PT
Hmmmm ?
sickofthehum

climber
Nov 23, 2014 - 04:03am PT
Cute dry humor, can use it!

Its 655 a.m. and the hum is no inner ear thing.

This freakin noise hasn't stopped for like 3 hours now. Its so loud. Sooooo loud, my bedroom window is rattling. This is no hulicination. I wish I can yell outside and say knock it off already and it'd go away. I called police years ago, they have no clue what it is or they're lying. I put tissues in my ears, put radio on to help me fall asleep. Its on and off, maybe get two days of normalcy. Otherwise hum is there, low or freaking loud like now. Please, if you live in East Hartford, CT and hear it too....please type here, I feel no one is chiming in on internet. I just want an answer, no more theories!!!!! I'm sure govt is involved.
karen roseme

Mountain climber
Bishop
Nov 24, 2014 - 09:32am PT
I haven't looked at this thread before today.
I have been experiencing the hum for the last four or five months.
I have never heard it before. I live in Bishop and have investigated in the middle of the night when it is very quiet. I have been unable to find the source.
I am so glad to be able to read about others who are experiencing the same things and finding out
about how it varies for different people and places.
Thank you Tom for starting this thread and providing all this information.
ElF sounds like the most likely source but who knows for sure.
It is pretty scary!
McHale's Navy

Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
Nov 27, 2014 - 01:54pm PT
I watched an hour long NOVA show last night about a form of lightening newly discovered - SPRITES - that happens above the stratosphere up into the ionosphere. This is just a 13 minute section. Earlier in the show (earlier than this clip ) an MIT researcher at an isolated research building in the Northeast actually uses the words HUM, low frequency, and et., in describing the electric energy envelope that surrounds the Earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSCwiQWzMa0

TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 29, 2014 - 08:48pm PT
yes, i looked into sprites...not what i hear...

also not quite the following:

5 Most Mysterious Sounds Ever Recorded Published on Jan 3, 2014 From mysterious sounds in the sky to strange sounds in the sea, unexplained sounds have been reported worldwide. These are the top strange noises reported around the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c7hCWwTlrY






November 29, 2014 - Saturday Night Across U.K. —
Mystery “Explosions and Loud Bangs.”- Dave Reed, Fareham, England, Twitter.
“Dogs went crazy for a couple of minutes here in Fareham.”
Between 10 - 10:30 PM, Twitter users from southern England to Glasgow, Scotland, reported “mystery bangs that shook windows,” according to U. K. media, but the Ministry of Defense said no jets were scrambled and flying during that half-hour. Loud explosive bang sounds were being reported at the same time more than 100 miles apart. Many people on social media reported that their pets were “spooked” by the strange booming, banging sounds.

fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Nov 29, 2014 - 09:38pm PT
Cute dry humor, can use it!

Its 655 a.m. and the hum is no inner ear thing.

This freakin noise hasn't stopped for like 3 hours now. Its so loud. Sooooo loud, my bedroom window is rattling. This is no hulicination. I wish I can yell outside and say knock it off already and it'd go away. I called police years ago, they have no clue what it is or they're lying. I put tissues in my ears, put radio on to help me fall asleep. Its on and off, maybe get two days of normalcy. Otherwise hum is there, low or freaking loud like now. Please, if you live in East Hartford, CT and hear it too....please type here, I feel no one is chiming in on internet. I just want an answer, no more theories!!!!! I'm sure govt is involved.

I'm in CT here... heard it again a few times last week early in the AM. It really sounds like a rock crusher, machinery or something industrial a few hundred yards away. Rythmic almost but not loud enough to "rattle windows".

No idea... I really think in my case it's something internal I'm hearing or some kind of post-dream phase as my brain reboots from sleep since it's always upon waking now.

If you're hearing it regularly what about a change of venue? Same sound 100+ miles away in a hotel?

And the gov't can't be involved. You'd only hear it from 9AM to 4PM and never on Sundays. :)



Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 29, 2014 - 11:02pm PT
We Irish have been trying to tell you people about this stuff for yonks.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 30, 2014 - 09:26am PT
First rule of ELF is do not talk about ELF.
If your diet includes all of the crap in processed and packaged foods the theory is that you do not notice a lot of world changes. For the people in touch with the energy that was once far more elusive, it now some times roars loudly.
Some people with plates and screws can tell you of sensations. Surgical hard ware in hands and feet can be placed in what I call a stream of energy that is strongest at 8 to 12 inches above the ground.
This phenomena and the change in regularity of detectable events is noticeable as in evidence here in the response. How crazy are you? who is that crazy and who is not??

When the still of the night in diverse places,
All suffer from some sort of Hum
and I can go and experience the feeling myself,
and still with all my ability to blather not be able to clearly describe:
the low volume base note
pins and needles / tummy rumble
Slow growing in intensity from sound to feeling
Slight pulsing in piercings and surgical hardware
has changed in level of detectably or become constant since 1994?!
Seems like something is going on.
Any medical inquiries to at least one trusted still reading and learning MDPhd
Has been met with the
We do not talk about the reason that you are awake can we give you strong pills to make you sleep thru the High Low Energy Pulses?
That I know it sounds
Crazy but I can, in the quiet, still hear/feel a low Hum !!
Too, Also What Some One Already Said Going Back To Bed Does not work!
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2015 - 10:23pm PT
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/have-you-heard-the-hum-mystery-of-earths-low-droning-noise-could-now-be-solved-10182111.html


Have you heard 'the hum'? Mystery of Earth's low droning noise could now be solved

It was often blamed on phone masts, submarine communications and pipes

Lamiat Sabin Author

Thursday 16 April 2015

Scientists have confirmed the cause of a strange humming noise that emanates from the Earth and has baffled people for more than forty years – and was even a factor in one reported suicide.

The noise has been talked about worldwide and also made local newspaper headlines in the UK. It is often referred to as a “phenomenon” and “the hum”, usually prefixed with the location of where it is heard.

In Britain, the most famous example was the “Bristol hum” that made the news in the late 1970s. One newspaper asked readers in the city: “Have you heard the Hum?” and at least 800 people said they had – according to the BBC – and some had suffered headaches and nosebleeds from it.

It has been described like “a diesel car idling in the distance” by a BBC interviewee and the maddening sound has driven people stir-crazy in trying to figure it out. Especially when they can only hear it at home and during the night.

People living on the south coast have complained this week of a constant and low-pitched sound for which they have found no cause – as reported by Plymouth Herald.

It has been mistaken for leaking pipes, phone masts, wind farms, low-frequency submarine communications and even mating fish.

“For the first few years I lost sleep, couldn’t concentrate and was unable to do anything. I was constantly in tears, which put a great strain on my husband. It has changed me from an active, creative person to a stifled, angry pessimist,” a woman told The Independent back in 1994.

Doctors blamed patients’ abilities to hear it on tinnitus, until Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge had confirmed sometime in the 1990s that the cause is external.

Submarines, as well as phone masts and gas pipes, were blamed for the hum Submarines, as well as masts and gas pipes, were blamed for the hum However, the search for the truth could now be over as researchers claim that microseismic activity from long ocean waves impacting the sea bed is what makes our planet vibrate and produces the droning sound.

The pressure of the waves on the seafloor generates seismic waves that cause the Earth to oscillate, said Fabrice Ardhuin, a senior research scientist at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France.

The continuous waves produce sounds lasting from 13 to 300 seconds. They can be heard by a relatively small proportion of people – who are sensitive to the hums – and also by seismic instruments.

“We have made a big step in explaining this mysterious signal and where it is coming from and what is the mechanism,” Ardhuin said of the study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Waves impacting the sea bed have been found to be the cause Waves impacting the deep sea bed have been found to be the cause Understanding the ringing could also help researchers gain a better knowledge of the Earth’s structure, he added.

Microseismic waves penetrate through the Earth’s mantle so recording these waves could give scientists a much more detailed picture of what lies beneath.
Read more:
In search of the thing that goes hum in the night
Mysterious hum keeping people up all night ‘could be mating fish’
What's that terrible noise?

Discovering fainter seismic signals could also allow scientists to better detect small or faraway earthquakes.

http://www.thehum.info/



THE WORLD HUM MAP AND DATABASE

A scientific inquiry into the source of the Worldwide Hum

ENTER YOUR LOCATION AND DATA

Most people find this website because they are searching for the source of an unusual low frequency sound. The sound is called the Worldwide Hum, The classic description is that it sounds like there is a truck idling outside your home. For some people, it is a deep and distant droning bass tone. Some people perceive the sound as a rumbling noise. The sound is louder indoors than outdoors, and louder late at night than during the afternoon. People who can hear the Hum are very often in their 40s or older. In the more serious cases, the Hum can affect quality of life; in a number of documented cases, the torment of the noise can be life-altering. To date, more than 4000 people have entered their locations and data.

This website aims to document for research purposes the locations and self-reported data on this phenomenon. Moreover, we are fundraising to conduct some critical experiments that will point to the source of the Hum. This is a scientific investigation, and not a place for wild speculation or pseudoscience.

Dr. MacPherson can be reached at glen.macpherson@gmail.com.
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Sep 9, 2015 - 08:23am PT
Just buy a few good microphones and triangulate it. If it's real the microphones will pick it up. If they don't ..it has a physiological source.

Of all the simple things to determine we gotta go all these posts over a noise that is not even documented to be real? Especially if it's something so powerful that our weak ass ears supposedly can pick it up?

My hearing has been tested and is normal. Never heard an unsourceable persistant low frequency hum. Kinda resolves the issue in my mind..but I wouldnt say it's conclusively disproven. Just very likely disproven.
Splater

climber
Grey Matter
Sep 9, 2015 - 11:45am PT
Are there any elephants in your area?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0303_040303_elephants.html
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jul 12, 2016 - 08:01am PT
Facebook is the ultimate mind control weapon. People pay to be controlled.
clifff

Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
Jul 12, 2016 - 08:06am PT
If you've been reading up on electromagnetic warfare, some of Massie Munroe's (US senator candidate - CA) analysis might ring true:

"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."

~ J. Edgar Hoover, Director, FBI

Human society is undergoing a metamorphosis of epic proportions by being contaminated and made seriously ill by a new form of slavery, namely, “Mind Control” driven by satellites and GWEN Towers among other platforms. The technical terms for these mind control technologies are Remote Neural Monitoring, Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) technologies, weather modification technologies such as HAARP that is able to be used as a mind control weapon and Voice To Skull (V2K). They operate by tuning into human brain wave frequencies to adversely affect physical health and selective neurological sensory systems and to influence or modify human behavior. It is non-consensual and imposed in violation of Americans' constitutional rights. The Electromagnetic (EM) Warfare capabilities of these weapons include the burning of pinpoint radiated brain and skin cells resulting in the invisible torture of victims for experimentation 24/7, biological systems stimulation and manipulation through electromagnetic access to the human brain and nervous system, targeted and controlled electromagnetic physical body radiation causing visible physical burns, holes deeply penetrated into the skin, deformations of the human body, etc. Victims are used for statistical purposes to measure the results and effectiveness of targeted EM radiation on human beings and their behavior for overall social engineering. Some of the minutia of EM Mind Control capabilities include the use of controlled electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of targeted victims able to combine pollutant molecules in the air surrounding the victim into unseen toxic substances capable of causing the illness, or death of the victim; Voice to Skull (V2K) Beta state audible voice NOT heard by anyone else except the victim who may hear threatening and/or personally degrading comments such as, "The only way out is suicide" followed, by, perhaps, a racial epithet or extreme ponographic language for example; dream intrusion whereby the sleep state dream of a victim is altered as well as sleep deprivation. Victims experience commensurate and coordinated COINTELPRO operations in which COINTELPRO operatives engage in workplace mobbing emotional abuse; internet character assassination; telephone calls or V2K communications to victims telling them that their only way out is suicide and/or communicating to victims in sexually degrading language that the victim will be fired, that the victim's only financial alternative is prostitution ............

http://www.massiemunroe4ussenator.com/political-agenda.html
EdwardT

Trad climber
Retired
Jul 12, 2016 - 08:34am PT
Random tangential post:

An equatorial bulge is a difference between the equatorial and polar diameters of a planet, due to the centripetal force of its rotation. A rotating body tends to form an oblate spheroid rather than a sphere. The Earth has an equatorial bulge of 26.58 mi. Its diameter measured across the equatorial plane (7,926.38 mi) is 26.58 mi. more than that measured between the poles (7,899.84 mi.).
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 12, 2016 - 08:37am PT
A mere couple of hundred posts is all?

What is the current tally and growth rate in the evolution of these monster mags?

Are these things protected by the First and/or Second Amendments. There seems to be absolutely no regulation.



Mysterious Hum Driving People Crazy Around the World


Only about 2 percent of the people living in any given Hum-prone area can hear the sound, and most of them are ages 55 to 70, according to a 2003 study by acoustical consultant Geoff Leventhall of Surrey, England.

There's some speculation that the Hum could be the result of low-frequency electromagnetic radiation, audible only to some people. And there are verified cases in which individuals have particular sensitivities to signals outside the normal range of human hearing.


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clifff

Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
Jul 12, 2016 - 09:07am PT
Get a microwave detector to assess your possible exposure:

http://www.google.com/#q=microwave+detector

Microwave Mind Weapons

http://www.google.com/#q=maser+weapons+mind
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jul 12, 2016 - 11:38am PT
If you've ever spent any time in Taos you would know that the hum is
being generated there.
jgill

Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
Jul 12, 2016 - 11:42am PT
Harley-Davidsons.
TWP

Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
Jul 12, 2016 - 12:14pm PT
When I lived in Taos, I was told the Taos hum was the sound of all the woman's vibrators in town (the joke teller was an old woman commenting on the paucity of suitable males in Taos).
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Jul 12, 2016 - 12:22pm PT
It's Trump's inaudible true meaning escaping whenever he speaks.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2016 - 09:00pm PT
By Nicholas Jones

This article is an overview of how we are controlled by technology – from having our brainwaves deliberately changed en masse by transmitters regulating our state of consciousness, to how we are victims of electromagnetic waves disrupting the state of our health and finally how many of us will die, as decided by our global masters.

Earth is wrapped in a donut shaped magnetic field. Circular lines of flux continuously descend into the North Pole and emerge from the South Pole.


The ionosphere, an electromagnetic-wave conductor, 100 kms above the earth, consists of a layer of electrically charged particles acting as a shield from solar winds. Natural waves are related to the electrical activity in the atmosphere and are thought to be caused by multiple lightning storms.

Collectively, these waves are called “The Schumann Resonance,” the current strongest at 7.8 Hz.

These are quasi-standing extremely low frequency (ELF) waves that naturally exist in the earth’s “electromagnetic” cavity, the space between the ground and the ionosphere. These “earth brainwaves” are identical to the spectrum of our brainwaves.

(1 hertz = 1 cycle per second, 1 Khz = 1000, 1 Mhz =1 million. A 1 Hertz wave is 186,000 miles long; 10 Hz is 18,600 miles. Radio waves move at the speed of light.)

The Creator designed living beings to resonate to this natural frequency pulsation in order to evolve harmoniously. The ionosphere is being manipulated by US government scientists using an Alaskan transmitter called HAARP, (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) which sends focused radiated power to heat up sections of the ionosphere, which bounces power down again.

ELF waves from HAARP, when targeted on certain areas, can engineer weather and create mood changes effecting millions of people.

The intended wattage is 1,700 billion watts of power. A former govt. insider deduced they want to flip the world upside down. Sixty-four (64) elements in the ground modulate, with variation, the geomagnetic waves naturally coming from the ground. The “earth’s natural brain rhythm” above is balanced with these.

These are the same minerals as the red blood corpuscles. There is a relation between the blood and geomagnetic waves. An imbalance between Schumann and geomagnetic waves disrupts biorhythms.

These natural geomagnetic waves are being replaced by artificially created very low frequency (VLF) ground waves coming from GWEN Towers.

WHAT ARE GWEN TOWERS?

GWEN (Ground Wave Emergency Network) transmitters, placed 200 miles apart across the USA, allow specific frequencies to be tailored to the geomagnetic-field strength in each area, allowing the magnetic field to be altered.


They operate in the VLF range, with transmissions between VLF 150 and 175 KHz. They also emit UHF waves of 225 – 400 MHz.

The VLF signals travel by waves that hug the ground rather than radiate into the atmosphere. A GWEN station transmits up to a 300-mile radius, the signal dropping off sharply over distance. The entire GWEN system consists of, (depending on source of data), from 58 to an intended 300 transmitters, spread across the USA, each with a tower 299-500 ft high.

Three hundred (300) ft. of copper wire fans out in a spoke like fashion from the base of the underground system, interacting with the earth like a thin shelled conductor, radiating radio wave energy for very long distances through the ground. The USA bathes in this magnetic field which rises to 500 ft, even going down to basements, so everyone is subject to mind control.

The whole artificial ground wave spreads out over USA like a web. It is easier to mind-control and hypnotize people who are bathed in an artificial electromagnetic wave.

Covering the entire floor with aluminum and buying a CET (Cosmic Energy Transformers ) cylinder from various places -one of them, Nordic Living Water Systems – can help.

GWEN transmitters have many different functions, including controlling the weather, mind, behavior and mood control of the populace.

They are also used to send synthetic telepathy disguised as infrasound to those victims of US government mind-control implants.

These towers work in conjunction with HAARP and the Russian Woodpecker transmitter, a system similar to HAARP. The Russians openly market a small version of their weather-engineering system called Elate, which can fine-tune weather patterns over a 200 mile area and have the same range as the GWEN unit. One such system operates at the Moscow airport.


The GWEN Towers shoot enormous bursts of energy into the atmosphere in conjunction with HAARP.

The internet website: www.cuttingedge.org, published an expose on how the major floods of 1993 in the Mid-Western United States were instigated by these systems. How does this happen?

Flood waters inundated parts of Jefferson City, Missouri, and threatened the Missouri State Capitol during the "Great Flood of 1993".
Flood waters inundated parts of Jefferson City, Missouri, and threatened the Missouri State Capitol during the “Great Flood of 1993”.
Invisible, enormous rivers of water, consisting of vapors that flow, move towards the poles in the lower atmosphere. They rival the flow of the Amazon River and are 420 to 480 miles wide and up to 4,800 miles long.

They are 1.9 miles above the earth and move 340 lbs of water per second. There are 5 atmospheric rivers in each Hemisphere. A massive flood can be created by damming up one of these massive vapor rivers, causing huge amounts of rainfall to be dumped. The GWEN Towers positioned along the areas north of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers were turned on for 40 days and 40 nights, probably mocking the Flood of Genesis. (This was in conjunction with HAARP).

The damming of the vapor rivers creates a river of electricity flowing thousands of miles through the sky and down to the polar ice-cap, manipulating the jet-stream. Again, these two major rivers flooded, causing agricultural losses of $12-15 billion.

HAARP also produces earthquakes by focusing on the fault lines. GWEN Towers are positioned on the fault lines and volcanic areas of the Pacific Northwest.

In 1963, Dr. Robert Becker explored effects of external magnetic-fields on brainwaves, showing a relationship between psychiatric hospital admissions and solar magnetic storms. He exposed volunteers to pulsed magnetic-fields similar to magnetic storms, and found a similar response. In the United States, sixty (60) Hz electric-power ELF waves vibrate at the same frequency as the human brain. In the United Kingdom, fifty (50) Hz electricity emissions depress the thyroid.


Dr. Andrija Puharich (in the 1950 & 60s), found that a clairvoyant’s brainwaves turned to 8 Hz when their psychic powers were operative. In 1956, he observed an Indian Yogi controlling his brainwaves, deliberately shifting his consciousness from one level to another.

Puharich trained people via bio-feedback to do this consciously, that is, creating 8 Hz waves with the technique of bio-feedback.

A psychic healer generated 8 Hz waves through a hands-on healing process, actually alleviating that patient’s heart trouble; the healer’s brain emitting 8 Hz. One person, emitting a certain frequency, can make another also resonate to the same frequency.

Our brains are extremely vulnerable to any technology that sends out ELF waves, because they immediately start resonating to the outside signal by a kind of tuning-fork effect.

Puharich further experimented, discovering that,

7.83 Hz (earth’s pulse rate) made a person “feel good,” producing an altered-state
10.80 Hz causes riotous behavior
6.6 Hz causes depression.
Puharich made ELF waves change RNA and DNA in the body, breaking hydrogen bonds to make a person resonate at a higher vibratory rate.

He really wanted to go beyond the psychic 8 Hz brainwave and attract psi phenomena.

James Hurtak, who once worked for Puharich, also wrote in his book The Keys of Enoch that ultra-violet caused hydrogen bonds to break and this raised the vibratory rate.

Puharich presented the mental effects of ELF waves to military leaders, but they would not believe him. He then gave this information to certain dignitaries of other Western nations. The US Government burned down his home in New York to shut him up, whereas he then fled to Mexico. However, the Russians discovered which ELF frequencies affected what portion of the human brain; it was on July 4, 1976, that they began zapping the U.S. Embassy in Moscow with electromagnetic-waves, varying the signal, also focusing on 10 Hz. (10 Hz puts people into a hypnotic state).

Russians and North Koreans use this in portable mind-control machines to extract confessions. (This system can also be found in some American Churches to help the congregation believe!)

This Russian “Woodpecker” signal was traveling across the world from a transmitter near Kiev. The US Air Force identified 5 different frequencies in this compound that the harmonic Woodpecker was sending through the earth and atmosphere.

In 1901, Nikola Tesla, Nobel prize winner in Physics (shared with Einstein) revealed that power could be transmitted through the ground using ELF waves. Nothing stops or weakens these signals. The Russians retrieved Tesla’s papers when they were returned to Yugoslavia after his death.


In Mexico, Puharich continued to monitor the Russian ELF wave signal and the higher harmonics (5.340 MHz) in the MHz range. He was somehow induced to work for the CIA and he and Dr. Robert Becker designed equipment to measure these waves and their effect on the human brain.

Puharich started his work by putting dogs to sleep. By 1948/49, he had graduated to monkeys, deliberately destroying their eardrums to enable them to pick up sounds without the eardrum intact.

He discovered a nerve from the tongue could be used to facilitate hearing. He created the tooth implant that mind-control victims are now claiming was put in by their dentist, unbeknownst to them, and causing them to hear “voices in their head.’ These were placed under caps or lodged in the jaw.

Implants are now smaller than a hair’s width and are injected with vaccine and flu shots. Millions have had this done unknowingly. These “biochips’ circulate in the bloodstream and lodge in the brain, enabling the victims to hear “voices’ via the implant. There are many kinds of implants now, and it is estimated that 1 in 40 people are recipients of these tiny implants due to alien abductions.

However, others have suggested that one in 20 might just be a more accurate statistic.

The fake alien abduction – these revealed by many victims – are actually engineered by the U.S. military, using advanced technology to create holograms (4th dimensional pictures) or holographic spaceships outside.

This holographic, advanced technology can actually create a scenario whereas the person believes he/she is going into a spaceship. However, once inside, the aliens are in masquerade; they are actually military personnel outfitted in full costumes, masks et al..

Certainly real abductions occur, however, the “alien abduction” scenario has been most useful to the military in confusing the over all issue. This clouding tends to halt any further investigation into a government participation and inevitably absolves them of any accountability.

They are banking on the poor helpless victims feeling too intimidated to reveal such a shocking episode, lest ridicule be visited upon them.

Are the global masters forcing us to respond to an artificially induced vibratory rate?
Those power mongers who want this planet to have a sudden leap in evolution, populated only by the psychically aware and therefore superior class of human?
What about the billions of people who are commonly referred to as “useless eaters”; are they to be conveniently disposed of by electro-magnetically-induced cancers and diseases?
It certainly causes one to stop and ponder this catastrophic situation.

The physics and engineering behind electromagnetic disease transmission are frightening. Diseases can be reproduced as “disease signatures” in that the vibration of a disease can be manufactured and sent on to be artificially induced. (The brainwave pattern of hallucinogenic drugs can also be copied and sent by ELF waves to induce “visions”).

Once diseases are sprayed in the air, electromagnetic waves attune to the disease by using harmonics and sub-harmonics, which in turn make them even more lethal and infectious; actually a more apt description would be deadly, as in inducing death.

The skies are filled daily with chemtrails, those crisscrossed white patterns that are sprayed out across the heavens in the United States and other countries.

Chemtrails

Are these like contrails that jets emit behind them? Not exactly… contrails dissipate rather quickly, but the chemtrails – those feathery streaks that linger – are deliberately being sprayed and contain insidious chemicals (retrieved, analyzed and proven) which affect the state of consciousness, producing apathy.

This is only one “program” that has been initiated to keep the populace in a continual apathetic state. Add to this, the fluoridation of the drinking water, aspartame nutri-sweet, etc., and other highly-questionable drugs.

Fluoride disables the willpower section of the brain, impairing the left occipital lobe. Both fluoride and selenium (in additional amounts) can produce strange effects; one common symptom is that of “hearing voices’.


ELF waves create disturbances in the biological processes of the body, activated on a large scale once the body has been exposed to the aforementioned disease-causing chemtrails.

Some chemtrails have been analyzed under laboratory conditions, the elements shown to cause cleavages in spatial perceptions, blocking the interaction of various amino acids that relate to higher-consciousness. Some were also shown to increase dopamine in the brain thereby producing a listless, euphoric state of lower reactive mind.



This is done to basically create confusion, rendering a person unable to differentiate between the real and illusionary. In addition, some of these chemtrails could be connected with the many UFO abductions occurring on a global massive scale.

Many victims, some recalled under hypnotic regression, have witnessed other abductees laid out on tables (in a sort of assembly line operation) and in the process or being implanted.

Intelligence agencies are in league with each other, behind this disablement of the masses to such a degree where they can’t even fight back. In order to implement their plans, that of total control of the populace, they need the overall “frequency” of each victim to function at a specific rate, below the threshold of awareness.

Could this be part of a greater plan with mind-control transmitters covering the whole of USA and England, cleverly disguised as cell phone towers and trees? The power from microwave towers may be turned up to such a level that people will die.

A brain functioning at beta-level (above 13 Hz) is agitated and cannot change the perceptions if it is artificially stabilized to that frequency by technological methods. This frequency may also increase body electricity in others, giving them psychic powers. Is this linked to the new-agers claim of a 12-14 Hz Schumann Resonance, inching us towards the 4th dimension?

Stimulants ingested globally from higher-caffeine, genetically modified plants, may also make an impact on the “global-brain” in the ionosphere that is collecting our brainwaves.

New-age channelers say we are going into a 4th dimensional frequency. They “heard’ the voice of some “ET” who informed them of this.

However, some “ETs” are just plain earthians in disguise. Using Tesla Technology, Prisoners in the Utah State Prison were bombarded with voices from a “purported” ET, each prisoner receiving the same identical message. Curious, indeed. Today, it is relatively simple to produce these “voices in the head.” Implants/microchips are no longer necessary.

In 1988, an inmate in Draper Prison, Utah by the name of David Fratus wrote:

“I began to receive or hear, high-frequency tones in my ears. When I plugged my ears, the tones were still inside and became amplified. It’s as if they had became electrified echo chambers with the sounds coming from the inside out.

I then began to hear voices, right in my inner ears and just as vividly as though I were listening to a set of stereo headphones. The end result is that I am now having my brain monitored by an omnipotent computerized mind reading or scanning machine of some sort.”

Hundreds of inmates at the Gunnison Facility of the Utah State Prison and the State Hospital were subjected to this brand of mind-control, used as test subjects like rats in a lab.

In the early 1970s, this was revealed in the Utah U.S. District Court.

While incarcerated, these inmate test subjects, having been subjected to this Tesla-wave mind-control, tried to seek restitution in the courtroom. Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful.

The University of Utah researched how Tesla-waves could be used to manipulate the mind into hearing voices, overriding and implanting thoughts into the mind, in addition to reading thoughts. They also went about developing eye-implants. Cray (The Cadillac of computers, ultra sophisticated) computers, using artificial intelligence, monitor the victims of government produced implants, sending pre-recorded sound bytes or occasional live messages.

They are picked up by satellite and relayed to whatever large TV broadcasting antenna, GWEN tower or other antenna that is nearest the victim. It is believed that some types of implants pick up the signal and broadcast the correct Tesla-wave pattern to create voices within the victim.

The tracking implant keeps the staff and the satellite system informed every few minutes as to exactly where to send the voice signals. The master computer and central HQ for this is reported to be Boulder, CO. It is thought that transponders are being made there.

The central cellular computer is in the Boulder, CO National Bureau of Standards building. AT&T is also cooperating; several agencies work together on this.


Tim Rifat of UK wrote that “this inter-cerebral hearing” is used to drive the victim mad, as no one else can hear the voices transmitted into the brain of the target. Transmission of auditory data directly into the target’s brains using microwave carrier beams is now common practice. Instead of using excitation potentials, one uses a transducer to modify the spoken word into ELF audiograms that are then superimposed on the pulse modulated microwave beam.

On March 21, 1983, The Sydney Morning Herald published this by Dr. Nassim Abd El-Aziz Neweigy, Assistant Professor of Agriculture, Moshtohor Tukh-Kalubia, Egypt.

This article stated:

“Russian satellites, controlled by advanced computers, can send voices in one’s own language, interwoven into natural thoughts.

They can target the population of choice with this diffused artificial thought process. The chemistry and electricity of the human brain can be manipulated by satellite and even suicide can be induced.

Through ferocious, anti-humanitarian means, the extremist groups are fabricated, the troubles and bloody disturbances are instigated by advanced tele-means via Russian satellites in many countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.”

Another source says that these have been fed with the world’s languages and synthetic telepathy will reach into people’s heads making people believe God is speaking to them personally to enact the Second Coming, complete with holograms!

The Russians broke the genetic code of the human brain.

They worked out 23 EEG band-wave lengths, 11 of which were totally independent. So if you can manipulate those 11 you can do anything. NSA’s (U.S. National Security Agency) Cray computers can remotely track people just by knowing the specific EMF waves (evoked potentials from EEGs in the 30-50 Hz, 5 milliwatt range) of a person’s bioelectric-field.

Each person’s emissions are unique and they can remotely track someone in public.

Now if this isn’t a horrifically frightening thought, I don’t know what is.


Evoked potentials officially do not exist in physics, but in 1873 a Scotsman, James Clerk Maxwell, discovered that electromagnetic waves have 3 components. He discovered waveforms that exist at a certain number of right-angled rotations away from the electromagnetic field. These are hyper-spacial components, not subject to constraints of time and space.

He claimed that electromagnetic radiation waves were carried by the ether and the ether was disturbed by magnetic lines of force. The hidden component is called only “potential’ now and not normally used except for covert hyper-dimensional physics and to manipulate consciousness itself via electromagnetic-waves covering vast areas of the planet.

Approximately one person in 3000 is sensitive to this magnetic waveform component, the telepathic types, (according to a writer called “Majix”), and we are all capable of tuning into this magnetic component by tuning our subconscious to it. Maxwell’s successors thought potentials were akin to mysticism because they believed fields contain mass which cannot be created from nothing.

This is what potentials are – both literally and mathematically – an accumulation or reservoir of energy, consequently this hasn’t been taught in mainstream physics.

Subliminal words (in the correct electromagnetic-field and attuned to the human brain) that express human consciousness can enter our minds at a subconscious level. Apparently, our brain activity patterns can be measured and stored on super-computers. If a victim needs to have subliminal thoughts implanted, all that is necessary is to capture that brain activity pattern, (saved on the mega computer) and target or match up that person’s pattern.

The targeted or specified person is then sent low frequency subliminal messages that they actually think are their own thoughts.

The researcher Majix says our brains are so sensitive, that they are like liquid crystal in response to the magnetic component of the earth. We are sensitive to earth’s magnetic changes, changes in the ionospheric cavity and resonate those frequencies ourselves. We are incredibly complex entities, beyond the layperson’s comprehension. Our brains are indeed a type of bio-cosmic transducer.

Physicists in Russia have conducted in-depth studies on the effects of the mean annual magnetic-activity, electro-magnetic and electro-static fields on human behavior and the physical body.

These electromagnetic and electro-static fields can be likened to what is popularly known as biorhythms. These magnetic frequencies can be manipulated from a very simple piece of equipment operated at extremely low power levels; our brain waves can mimic magnetic frequencies.

From half a second to 4 seconds later, the neurons and brain waves are driven exclusively by this device; power levels almost nonexistent.

All one needs is a circularly polarized antenna, aimed up at the ionospheric cavity and they can then manipulate the moods of everyone within a 75 sq. mile area. The body picks up these “new” manipulated waves and begins to correspond immediately. What is known as the “sleep” frequency will make everyone become tired and sleep.

In Let’s Talk MONTAUK, Joyce Murphy presented data that showed that experiments on the 410-420 MHz cycle have been done which could affect the “window frequency to the human consciousness” as a whole.

The Montauk Project was a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero and/or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island. It was claimed to be secretly developing a powerful psychological war weapon.
The Montauk Project was a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero and/or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island. It was claimed to be secretly developing a powerful psychological war weapon.
Preston Nichols, previously mentioned herein, learned from his experimentation with his radio equipment that whenever a 410-420 MHz cycle appeared on the air, a psychic’s mind would be “jammed,” finally tracing the signal to Montauk Point and the red and white radar antenna on the AF Base there.”

In Encounter in the Pleiades by Peter Moon and Preston Nichols, Nichols wrote that,

Dr. Nicholas Begich, an expert of HAARP, has picked up 435 MHz signals connected to HAARP and that a mind control function is currently being employed. He claims that 400-450 MHz is the window to human consciousness because it is our present day reality’s background frequency.

Tim Rifat wrote in his Microwave Mind Control in the UK article that cellular phones use 435 MHz.

Cell-phone-radiation

The United Kingdom police use 450 MHz exclusively. Dr. Ross Adey used this frequency for CIA behavioral modification experiments. Police have a vast array of antennae to broadcast this frequency all over UK.

Adey used 0.75mW/cm2 intensity of pulse modulate microwave at a frequency of 450 MHz, with an ELF modulation to control all aspects of human behavior. 450 MHZ radar modulated at 60 Hz greatly reduced T-lymphocyte activity to kill cultured cancer cells.

A study in the USA of their 60 Hz power lines repeated this.

Through much study and analysis on this varied topic, independent scientists have concluded that HAARP is slicing up the ionosphere – the world-brain – like a microwave knife, producing long tear incisions and destroying the membrane that holds the reservoir of data accumulated of all earth’s history.

Did a Possible First Contact Event Trigger HAARP?
HAARP Mount Sanford, Alaska
However, there can be hope if we are aware of all the possibilities that exist. A healer called Mr. A claimed to have received “Ancient Wisdom” from the earth’s protective Magnetic-Ring of energy which stores within it all knowledge since time began.

Ruth Montgomery wrote about this healer in Born To Heal.

He claimed that if our energy flow is cut off from this magnetic field, (the protective atmospheric magnetic-ring) then the Universal Supply is obstructed and we are no longer in tune with these advantageous frequencies, therefore we begin to get sick.

The Power from this travels in split-seconds around the world and is available to anyone who is capable of receiving and handling it.

The waves from The Ring were automatically translated into words in the healer’s mind and interpreted as wisdom to diagnose and heal others; this ability coming from the storehouse of knowledge that has been present since the beginning of time. By tapping into this storehouse, he produced instant miracles, knitting broken bones and removing arthritis.

A photo was produced that displayed forked lightning emitting from his fingers.

That which we term “reality” – as understood mentally by our thinking processes – is being altered and changed into different expressions to allow complete control of our personal reality – a complete absolution of that which has been normally operative in a divinely ordained, natural frequency.

We must not allow them to succeed because of the global masses’ ignorance of this very advanced technology.

These elevated scientific methods have been suppressed for many years and only those very few people in power have been privy to this information and obviously used it with no “good intention” in mind.

Do you want to be turned into a zombie, a robotic, controlled entity walking around in an apathetic state, or do you want to live life as a vital, vibrant human being… as the Divine Creator intended for you?

We, as united peoples, can turn the tide…

“Awareness is the Cure.”

Originally Published September 2001

Source: Biblioteca Pléyades
Via: Prepare for Change


http://www.theeventchronicle.com/study/gwen-towers-elf-scalar-mind-control-weapons/#
jgill

Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
Oct 6, 2016 - 09:11pm PT
Here in southern Colorado it's either Blackhawks or troop carriers from Fort Carson or Harleys in the neighborhood. I've tried a tinfoil hat to no avail.

;>(
feralfae

Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
Oct 6, 2016 - 09:25pm PT
Hum.
Out here, places on the Divide, I have been hummed to sleep a few times. Also at a few other elevated places. I just assumed it was Mother Earth singing me to sleep, as I fell into the stars.

I am sure it has some mechanistic connection to the torsional forces of rotation of the Earth, or perhaps the subtle shift of the plates. Or perhaps has to do with geological composition features added to the above factors..

It is still a nice way to fall asleep into the stars.

From just east of the Divide,
feralfae
i-b-goB

Social climber
Wise Acres
Oct 6, 2016 - 09:30pm PT
Can you hum a few bars? Ta da boom!



[Click to View YouTube Video]



healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Oct 6, 2016 - 09:46pm PT
They are also used to send synthetic telepathy disguised as infrasound to those victims of US government mind-control implants.

This sh#t just keeps getting 'dumb and dumber''. Are you guys so bored stupid you'll consume any form of mental pablum??
jonnyrig

climber
Oct 6, 2016 - 10:01pm PT
Are you guys so bored stupid you'll consume any form of mental pablum?

What... you haven't been following the election?
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 5, 2016 - 10:29am PT
The plot thickens!

Canada military probes mysterious Arctic pinging noise

http://www.bbc.com/news/37875609
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 5, 2016 - 11:26am PT
I have tinnitus from years of working in a noisy environment. There is so much background noise living in the city of Seattle here that I don't notice much. When I go to a quiet place I really start to notice how much my ears ring. I think that noise pollution of many kinds make it difficult to sort out all the sources of stuff we hear.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2017 - 07:18pm PT
https://egyptexperience.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/abdul-hakim-aywan-mystical-wisdom-keeper/
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Feb 10, 2017 - 07:57pm PT
Fwiw a lot of our perception of low frequency sounds is not via our ears, directly that is. The bones of our face, orbital bones etc. carry the sounds to our inner ears. This is the main reason it's harder to identify the direction low freq sounds are coming from.
couchmaster

climber
Feb 10, 2017 - 08:55pm PT
Quote from upthread:
"Oct 6, 2016 - 09:11pm PT
Here in southern Colorado it's either Blackhawks or troop carriers from Fort Carson or Harleys in the neighborhood. I've tried a tinfoil hat to no avail.
"

NO NO NO!!!!! THE TINFOIL ATTRACTS AND CONDUCTS THE MIND CONTROL WAVES BETTER. IT'S A MYTH THAT TINFOIL PROTECTS YOU PERPETRATED BY OUR OVERLORDS AND MASTERS TO BE ABLE TO BETTER CONTROL MORE SHEEPLE. DO NOT USE TINFOIL!!! IT DOESN'T REPEL THESE WAVES, IT ATTRACTS AND CONDUCTS THEM DEEPER INTO YOUR SKULL. TESLA KNEW THIS.

Sheesh, rookie.... and now, back to humjobs.

jgill

Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
Feb 10, 2017 - 09:48pm PT

Alpha Centauri Earth Hum Generator. A threat from Deep Space.
chainsaw

Trad climber
CA
Feb 11, 2017 - 11:50am PT
What you perceive as sound that noone else hears makes sense if you are musical. But the hum you describe sounds like the 60Hz signal of the worlds powergrid. Most people dont notice their heads resonating with EMF and RF signals that are everywhere. Musical ability is more than hearing. Musicians brains are wired to analyze oscillation. These oscillations which other peoples brains ignore, are deleted from perception. Their concious mind doesnt even get the signal. However, musical brains are wired to perceive subtle overtones and interpret harmony. It is possible that musical and other specialized brains can detect and interpret "signals" and sounds or other vibrations that most people dont even "hear." I put hear in quotes because while the signal is perceived as sound, its origin could be other. You may notice that dogs, horses and other animals can detect vibes too.
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Feb 11, 2017 - 02:04pm PT
Nice, we're getting perilously close to a discussion of psycho-acoustics...

You know how if you record a meeting in a conference room, for example, when you listen back the sound has much more echo, more reverberation than you heard at the meeting? Well, the recording is much closer to the real sound, our brains process what we hear for improved intelligibility.

This applies to linguistics too. Different people around the world speak different languages and their vocalization centers on different formant frequencies. This is why an English speaking person might have difficulty understanding a Portuguese person, even if they can read and speak the language.

What this has to do with lo freq hum I don't know. I do hear the hum though if it's quiet.
Daphne

Trad climber
Northern California
Sep 19, 2017 - 10:36pm PT
https://newrepublic.com/article/132128/maddening-sound

interesting article, made me think of this thread
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 19, 2017 - 11:32pm PT
Thanks, Daphne ... good article:
https://newrepublic.com/article/132128/maddening-sound

"...[trolls] Deming sees as the main problem standing in the way of understanding the Hum and other scientific anomalies. “They are inexorably attracted to anomalies of all types, but their behavior is fundamentally irrational,” he wrote in a 2007 paper. “On internet discussion forums, these people relentlessly drive out good posters and ruin everything they come into contact with. They need to be condemned swiftly and mercilessly.”
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 20, 2017 - 12:21am PT
Reality is all about vibration and frequency, as pointed out by Nicola Tesla with implications and techniques long kept secret.

(Einstein was supported and promoted by the Rothschilds to obscure some of the core issues from the general scientific community.)


Light behaves as waves in 'empty' space, until bent by magnetic fields.

When the light waves are bent by magnetic fields, the interference between the bent light waves produces interference fringes between the conflicting wave patterns.

So that the nodes between interfering wave forms become what we understand to be particles of physical matter.

It seems what we perceive as the physical universe is constructed of frozen light ... analogous to a hologram.


Our minds can not directly perceive the physical universe, but depend upon our senses.

And our senses are not nearly good enough to build the internal visual world that we perceive as reality (i.e. The Matrix).

Our senses transfer electromagnetic signals along nerve bundles into our brain. These EM signals are transformed within the brain to guide the creation of our holographic world of thought that we relate to as reality.

Thus is a complex pattern of light waves that are conveyed electro-magnetically into our brains by our senses and translated into holographic realities within our minds. We relate to these holograms as if they are real ... which they are to us.


However there is no solid physical reality out there. There is light and magnetism and our perception of it as hologram patterns.
clifff

Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
Sep 20, 2017 - 09:02am PT
Surprising that the article didn't mention the Frey effect:

https://www.google.com/search?q=frey+microwaves+hearing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

The microwave auditory effect, also known as the microwave hearing effect or the Frey effect, consists of audible clicks (or, with speech modulation, spoken words) induced by pulsed/modulated microwave frequencies. The clicks are generated directly inside the human head without the need of any receiving electronic device. The effect was first reported by persons working in the vicinity of radar transponders during World War II. During the Cold War era, the American neuroscientist Allan H. Frey studied this phenomenon and was the first to publish[1] information on the nature of the microwave auditory effect.

Pulsed microwave radiation can be heard by some workers; the irradiated personnel perceive auditory sensations of clicking or buzzing. The cause is thought to be thermoelastic expansion of portions of the auditory apparatus.[2] Competing theories explain the results of interferometric holography tests differently.[3]

In 2003–04, the WaveBand Corp. had a contract from the U.S. Navy for the design of a MAE system they called MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) intended to remotely, temporarily incapacitate personnel. The project was cancelled in 2005.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 20, 2017 - 09:07am PT
Since 81% of Merricans are urban I aver that only 19% have any chance of hearing anything.
Jan

Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
Sep 20, 2017 - 12:57pm PT
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the strange case of seeming sound warfare against our embassy in Cuba and some Canadian diplomats.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/14/mystery-of-sonic-weapon-attacks-at-us-embassy-in-cuba-deepens
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Sep 20, 2017 - 02:12pm PT
Jan, when I just saw the post about "Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio", well Cuba was the first thing I thought of.
Jan

Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
Sep 20, 2017 - 02:32pm PT
Yes, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
L

climber
Tiptoeing through the chilly waters of life
Sep 20, 2017 - 04:07pm PT
However there is no solid physical reality out there. There is light and magnetism and our perception of it as hologram patterns.

So whenever someone dismisses your concerns with "it's all in your head", well, actually they're correct.

We are all creating our reality moment by moment, and the only people who truly understand this are yogis sitting on mountain tops and perhaps a crazy physicist or two, huh?

TomCochrane

Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 24, 2017 - 11:08pm PT
Stanford University SLAC has a whole building full of cosmologists studying this stuff. And that's just one corner of the cosmologists community.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 8, 2017 - 10:14pm PT
Alex, that is an interesting WaPo article.

However it doesn't explain the topic of this thread, for several reasons. One, it is talking about frequencies well outside human perception. Two, they are talking about relatively continuous sounds. Three, the patterns they are talking about don't vary abruptly. Four, I don't think they explain dramatically different patterns at widely separated geographical locations.

What I persist in hearing will turn on and off frequently and abruptly with no consistent pattern and often with varying frequencies.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 8, 2017 - 11:21pm PT
What I persist in hearing will turn on and off frequently and abruptly with no consistent pattern and often with varying frequencies.

With all due respect,how can you dismiss tinnitis? It comes and goes with me all the time.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Dec 8, 2017 - 11:31pm PT
Well, as someone who lives with serious tinnitus from having spent a year in a five inch naval gun mount I can testify it can turn on or off in an instant. Most of the time I've adapted to it and it exists in sort of a mental 'background', but every now and then it jumps to the fore and suddenly seems like a siren going off. Nine time out of ten it then just gradually fades to the back, but every now and then it just clicks off which is almost as weird as when it clicks on.

Not particularly happy stuff, but I can see how if you a mild case of it you might not necessarily recognize it for what it is.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 8, 2017 - 11:39pm PT
Healy, I would wager being on a twin 3”-50 mount without a turret and a rate of fire of 100 rounds/minute might be louder. Doubt the Navy did any studies back then. Your tinnitus sounds (pardon the pun) way worse than mine as I wasn’t on it long during my midshipman cruise. ;-)
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 22, 2018 - 10:26am PT
There’s a Persistent Hum in This Canadian City, and No One Knows Why
By CHRISTOPHER MELEFEB. 19, 2018 New York Times

A persistent noise of unknown origin, sometimes compared to a truck idling or distant thunder, has bedeviled a Canadian city for years, damaging people’s health and quality of life, numerous residents say.

Those who hear it have compared it to a fleet of diesel engines idling next to your home or the pulsation of a subwoofer at a concert. Others report it rattling their windows and spooking their pets.

Known as the Windsor Hum, this sound in Windsor, Ontario, near Detroit, is unpredictable in its duration, timing and intensity, making it all the more maddening for those affected.

“You know how you hear of people who have gone out to secluded places to get away from certain sounds or noises and the like?” Sabrina Wiese posted in a private Facebook group dedicated to finding the source of the noise.

“I’ve wanted to do that many times in the past year or so because it has gotten so bad,” she wrote. “Imagine having to flee all you know and love just to have a chance to hear nothing humming in your head for hours on end.”

Windsor Hum Clip - Windsor resident discussing the Windsor Hum issue Video by Adam Makarenko

Since reports of it surfaced in 2011, the hum has been studied by the Canadian government, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Windsor.

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Activists have done their own sleuthing.

Over six years, Mike Provost of Windsor, who helps run the Facebook page, has amassed more than 4,000 pages of daily observations about the duration, intensity and characteristics of the sound and the weather conditions at the time.

He has had to fend off skeptics and theorists who believe that the hum is related to secret tunneling, U.F.O.s or covert government operations, he said.

Mr. Provost, a retired insurance salesman, said his work was a blend of obsession and hobby. “I’ve got to keep going,” he said in a phone interview. “I’m not going to quit this.”

The hum is not limited to Windsor, a city of about 220,000 people on the Detroit River. Mr. Provost said he had received reports from McGregor, Ontario, 20 miles to the south, and from east of Cleveland, about 90 miles away.

Tracey Ramsey, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, said in a phone interview that she regularly gets calls from constituents about the health effects of the hum. Residents have complained of headaches, sleeplessness, irritability and depression, among other symptoms.

“It’s something they are desperate for an answer to,” she said.

Tracing the noise’s origins is complicated by who hears it, and when and where.

Tim Carpenter, a retired consulting engineer who specialized in geotechnical engineering and machine vibrations and is an administrator of the Facebook page, says not everyone can hear it.


“It’s as if you had a fire hose moving back and forth and the people who have the water falling on them hear the noise, and if you’re outside that stream, you don’t hear the noise,” he said.

Researchers have found no trends related to gender or age for the “hearers.”

Dr. Darius Kohan, the director of otology and neurotology at Lenox Hill Hospital and Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, said that the low-frequency hum was unlikely to cause long-term hearing damage but that it could be as debilitating as tinnitus, a persistent ringing in the ears.

Scott Barton, an assistant professor of music at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, said in a phone interview that infrasound, which is below 20 hertz, can create a sense of unease because it is unintelligible to human hearing but still detectable. While it is possible to be accustomed to certain noises (the hum of an air-conditioner, for example), this low-frequency noise is challenging because it has been so inconsistent, he said.

Seeking intervention by government regulators for the hum is difficult because regulations typically address decibel levels that can lead to hearing loss or damage, not those that can affect quality of life, Rebecca Smith, a sound engineer and doctoral student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who researches urban noise, wrote in an email.

“Think about the sound of a dog barking,” she said. “It doesn’t need to be loud enough to physically damage you to be really annoying and distracting.”

The University of Windsor report said the hum’s likely source was blast furnace operations on Zug Island on the Detroit River, which is densely packed with manufacturing. Activists complained that United States Steel, which operates the furnaces, has been uncooperative and secretive. A company spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment.

A principal investigator on the study, Professor Colin Novak, told CBC News in 2014 that researchers needed more time and cooperation from the American authorities to pinpoint the source. “It’s like chasing a ghost,” he said.

Hums similar to Windsor’s have been reported in at least a dozen communities worldwide, including in Australia, England and Scotland, the study said. In the United States, high-profile hums have been reported in Taos, N.M., and Kokomo, Ind.

Researchers studied the Taos hum in 1993 but did not pinpoint a source. Karina Armijo, the town’s director of marketing and tourism, said in a telephone interview that complaints had subsided.

“I have never heard the Taos hum, but I’ve heard stories of the Taos hum,” she said. “There’s not been a lot of buzz about it in the last few years.”

A 2003 study in Kokomo by the acoustics and vibration consulting company Acentech prompted two industrial plants to install silencing equipment, providing relief to some residents but not all, a 2008 paper about the study said.

“In fact, one affected resident had become so disturbed that she moved more than 700 miles away to relieve her symptoms,” it said.

Mr. Carpenter said it was possible a major source of the Windsor hum could be eliminated and other mechanical sources would replace it, entering the “heard spectrum.”

“It’s possible that no matter what is done to relieve or attenuate the noise, it might never be enough,” he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/world/canada/windsor-hum.html
Lennox

climber
in the land of the blind
Feb 22, 2018 - 10:41am PT
Low Frequency Hum in the Earth and "surface humans" equals Morlocks?

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=3056887&msg=3060244#msg3060244
ground_up

Trad climber
mt. hood /baja
Feb 22, 2018 - 12:41pm PT
Xcon ... i have done that too , it does work. Why?
There are still things mankind has not figured out.
Maybe someday we'll know.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Feb 22, 2018 - 02:42pm PT
Your tinnitus sounds (pardon the pun) way worse than mine

What worries me is going deaf. I read that people with tinnitus who go deaf still hear the tinnitus.
zBrown

Ice climber
Feb 22, 2018 - 03:42pm PT

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Neil Young, Toronto, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
madbolter1

Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
Feb 22, 2018 - 06:13pm PT
As I age, I'm finding that I more and more often detect a low frequency hum in the seat of my pants. I hope that it's only me detecting it. But there are other evidences as well. Those are more olfactory than auditory, so I suspect that the hum is objectively detectable.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Feb 22, 2018 - 07:26pm PT
^^I figure when I start leaving skid marks it's time for the Depends.
madbolter1

Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
Feb 22, 2018 - 10:32pm PT
^^^ No doubt!

Of course, by then, the low frequency hum will probably have turned into an inaudible "flut... flut... flut" sort of, uh, fluctuation. But I guess that that's an off-topic discussion.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Feb 23, 2018 - 06:38am PT
I consider it power assist on uphill approaches.
madbolter1

Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
Feb 23, 2018 - 10:56am PT
^^^ Excellent!
Reegz

Gym climber
Dallas, tx
Mar 17, 2018 - 09:48am PT
I've had this "problem "for years. It actually keeps me up at night sometimes so I need to use ear plugs to drown out the hum. There seems to be almost a Morse code pattern to it, it'll be interesting to see if there is any method to the madness so to speak. So you are definitely not alone ... FYI, there's a website devoted to the small percentage of people who can detect this hum and a map to allow input to see if there are patterns to the location, time of year it shows up, etc.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Mar 17, 2018 - 09:51am PT
I heard it this morning. Then La Femme rolled over and it stopped.
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Mar 18, 2018 - 11:49pm PT
^^^ Hilarious
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