Posted on 05/01/2012 1:58:30 PM PDT by rawhide
WINDSOR, Ontario – Last month, Bob Dechert, a senior aide to Canada's foreign minister, was dispatched to Detroit with an important diplomatic mission: to stop a highly-annoying noise.
The so-called Windsor hum, described as a low-frequency rumbling sound, has rattled windows and knocked objects off shelves in this border community just across the Detroit River from the Motor City. Locals have said it sounds like a large diesel truck idling, a loud boom box or the bass vocals of Barry White.
Residents in Windsor, Ontario, have blamed the hum for causing illness, whipping dogs into frenzies, keeping cats housebound and sending goldfish to the surface in backyard ponds. Many have resorted to switching on their furnace fan all season to drown out the noise.
Even weirder, Americans cannot seem to hear it. Canadians find that suspicious -- especially since their research suggests the hum is coming from the Yankees' side -- and accuse US officials of staying silent over the noise.
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Sorry for the confusing post, Former Proud Canadian—comment #27 was about the video in comment #12, posted by Lucky9teen, not by Rawhide. My mistake.
The old couple she rents from says that noise has come and gone for decades but she still says she can’t hear it..
The best thing to come out of Canada in a very long time was “Corner Gas”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5eOe_pXt8v4
You’d be quiet too if you lived in their neighborhood
It’s just Emineim rapping to the sound of jobs leaving Detroit.
That’s the noise emitted by the National Debt Clock. The numbers are spinning so fast they are sending out a continuous sonic boom.
It’s even peeling paint off of houses in Texas.
Paging Major Jeff Cummings.
Closest thing I've heard to it was a near-subsonic (window-rattling) vibration in a residential area in Texas city , Texas. The source was a long, slab-floored building in the nearby Union Carbide plant that held over a dozen, huge, natural gas-fueled reciprocating (piston) air compressors that supplied "process air" to the plant.
The compressors ran at similar, but not identical, RPMs -- and the ever-present "beat frequencies" created and transmitted through the marshy coastal soil would have made it hard for me to live in that neighborhood.
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I was on the crew that replaced that whole bank of reciprocating compressors with a single, (vibrationless) gas-turbine powered turbo-compressor.
Curiously, when we fired up the new compressor and turned off the old ones, folks in the neighborhood (many still "spooked" from having lived through the 1947 SS Grandcamp explosion/disaster) went berserk -- "because something was missing!".
Quite a number of families finally moved elsewhere - because of the silence...
HAARP is what, 5000 miles away? It is also high frequency.
DARPA.
What does it sound like?
It's heard in Windsor but not a few miles away in Michigan???? Perhaps scientists from MIT,CalTech and Canada's two top Engineering schools should check it out.
I think it sounds a bit like "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro.
It’s the Taos Hum. Obviously, someone relocated it to Detroit.
(Sheesh)
Also, if you want to delve into lots of tinfoil hattery, try looking info on Dulce, New Mexico. It’s an unassuming little town in northern NM, but it has quite a colorful reputation.
It’s the Taos Hum. Obviously, someone relocated it to Detroit.
(Sheesh)
Also, if you want to delve into lots of tinfoil hattery, try looking info on Dulce, New Mexico. It’s an unassuming little town in northern NM, but it has quite a colorful reputation.
I discounted it for months until I finally heard it a few weeks ago.
There is a lot of heavy industrial activity downriver. Steel mills, salt mines. Lots of heavy industrial machinery and generators.
As for why its not heard in Michigan. Geological features? Or perhaps there is less background noise over here and these things are more easily noticed.
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