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Tuscumbia Alabama 35674 · 2018-12-06 · from the WORLDHUMMAP archive

A low hum in Tuscumbia Alabama 35674

Very low pulsating rumble. Not unlike a distant diesel engine. I used to live near an alloy plant that had cooling towers with a very similar sound but this is much lower in frequency. The vibration that comes with the sound is itself more intense when I have a cold or allergies. The tone doesn't change, nor the volume. The frequency of the hum changes around 20hz up and down from the 200 at my house the further away I go. It went down until it disappeared from me when I went further north above North Carolina. It seems to radiate closely from a central point around the national Forest. Due to terrain I'm unable to physically find a central point. Flat musical notes cancel it. It appears to be a very low b flat only obtained electronically.

What they reported

First noticed: 2005

Pitch: 200hz

Loudest: Equal night and day

Where: Indoors

Symptoms: Ear discomfort (pain, fullness, throbbing), Headache, Insomnia, Nausea, Sense of vibration, Anxiety

Changes with weather: It stops during storms and during our tornado season. It's loudest on clear nights and in winter, regardless of temperature.

What stood out: a low humrumblingpulsing light

 

Others who described something like this

2018-06-05

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2018-03-02

ohhhh Wow...thank you thank you thank you....so I'm not crazy!!! I am sensing something. I live in the NE US. I can certainly relate to this, I hear/sense it a lot, usually late in the ev

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2018-03-23

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2020-09-21

It's a low frequency pulsating droning/rumbling similar to the sound a heat/water pump (HVAC) or a diesel generator makes. I live about 800meters (half a mile) from the largest Navel base in

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2019-07-27

Evepresent tone different from normal tone of silence in the nature I thought this sound may have something to do with the three large airports in vicinity, a lot of air traffic and a presen

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2019-07-05

Low pulsing hum like that of an idling engine or generator on the edge of perception. It seems to vibrate the ear drum at the tip of each pulse almost like the ear drum is spasming. I have a

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This is a Hum report from Dr Glen MacPherson's World Hum Map, an open, worldwide record of people who hear an unexplained low-frequency hum. Reproduced with permission and with thanks; the project is at thehum.info. We remove anything on request. Location shown is approximate.