The 'Windsor Hum': where is the noise plaguing a city of 210,000 coming from?

TheGuardian ^ | 7 Jun 2016 | Ashifa Kassam

[shove_it]

It’s been compared to a subwoofer blasting Barry White’s greatest hits or an idling diesel truck.

Others say the low, rumbling noise that has stalked residents in the Canadian city of Windsor for years sounds like Star Trek’s Enterprise gearing up for warp speed.

“Very destructive,” is how Mike Provost, a 62-year-old retired insurance salesman describes the so-called Windsor Hum. “If you think of thunder, and you take that thunder and constantly repeat it for hours and days, weeks, that’s all it is.”

Residents on the west and south side of Windsor – a city of 210,000 people that sits just across the river from Detroit – began complaining of a mysterious noise some six years ago, blaming it for rattling windows and trembling wall hangings.

“You can’t get away from it,” says Provost. “You go outside to work in your garden, you go outside to enjoy the sun, the noise is there.” [...]

[Robert A Cook PE]

Windmills nearby.

[Boogieman]

Some type of seismic phenomenon?

I’ve heard of these kind of ambient noises in other areas as well, it seems to be a rare but real occurrence.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Does Detroit hear it?

[Celtic Conservative]

It’s coming from the dynamo. Dynamo hum.

/Frank_zappa>

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[bigbob]

it’s the sucking sound made by wind blowing thru the mosques in Dearborn

[EQAndyBuzz]

It’s definitely not coming from the water treatment facilities.

[kosciusko51]

Morlocks?

[bigbob]

Could be feedback from an open mic used for call to prayer though...

[shove_it]

It's still humming ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3159589/posts

[stars & stripes forever]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3159589/posts

[shoff]

maybe it’s humming since it doesn’t know the words.

[Billthedrill]

Hmm... "Dynamo hum, Dynamo hum, where's that Dynamo comin' from?"

I think you're on to something.

[shove_it]

Thanks, I forgot how to post a live link.

[DCBryan1]

THIS would solve it if they were close to me :

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I think you're on to something.

Do not forget your Zircon encrusted tweezers.

[minnesota_bound]

I assume it is the underground repair station for the aliens spacecraft.

[faithhopecharity]

IslamoNazis digging more invasion tunnels

[Steely Tom]

I assume it is the underground repair station for the aliens spacecraft.

That was my first thought too.

[UB355]

Mysterious Boom in Wisconsin Identified

http://www.seeker.com/mysterious-boom-in-wisconsin-identified-1765696544.html#news.discovery.com