I first heard it in rural NZ, South Island near Wanaka. Recently moved back home to Scotland and can now hear it from my (again rural) home in Aberdeenshire. · 2022-08-17 · from the WORLDHUMMAP archive
A low hum in I first heard it in rural NZ, South Island near Wanaka. Recently moved back home to Scotland and can now hear it from my (again rural) home in Aberdeenshire.
Sounds mechanical or electrical, like something on standby or idling. A low vibrating hum that usually sounds like it's coming from behind me, more noticable at bed time. I used to always think it was the fridge then would get up and the fridge wasn't making any noise at all. Then I went through a phase of thinking it was farmers working machines/irrigation at night but it definitely isn't. I recently found out that my dad also hears them Hum. Haven't yet asked any other family members but this is interesting and he describes it as the exact same thing as me and neither of our spouses hear the house when we do.
What they reported
First noticed: 2020
Pitch: 50 hertz
Loudest: During the night
Where: Indoors
Symptoms: Sense of vibration, I get migraines and have had anxiety bit never attributed those things to the Hum.
Changes with weather: I haven't noticed any correlation.
Low rumbling. I live in an area that has experienced a lot of earthquakes, so when I first started hearing the hum I thought it was an approaching small earthquake but the earthquakes never …
Like a idling Diesel engine. Perhaps vibrating the timber and glass of a window a little. One particular time I could hear the hum when I entered the living room, as I opened the door to ent…
Low frequency hum - like twin diesel engines occasionally resonating louder. I used to live near the beach south of Auckland. I believed it was a local generator. Then I thought it was a dis…
both described a low hum · on the other side of the country
Low oscillating hum, not loud but pervasive. Sounds like truck engines idling some distance away or a tumble dryer running in another room. Or a helicopter that doesn├»┬┐┬╜t get closer. No…
both described a low hum · on the other side of the country
Low hum that sometimes varies. Sounds like a distant digger working, or ppumping station,or a transformer...........etc It tends to vary between two tones up and down with one dominant. I wa…
both described a low hum · on the other side of the country
A relentless, continuous hum throughout day and night - although much louder at night, peaking in intensity in the early hours to dawn. Most times it is steady - very similar to an electrici…
both described a low hum · on the other side of the country
it is like an uneven engine, it doesn't seem to be the AC that is an even hum for example but more like an idling car engine but it feels like coming from the walls. It is not a "sound" but …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
Low frequency, rumbling hum, almost sounds like the noise of a large distant war plane I first noticed this sound when I was about half way through pregnancy with my first (and only) child. …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
Has this happened to you?
Write it down while you still remember the details. We will look for the others.
If this reminds you of something a friend or a relative told you once and never mentioned again, send them this page. Reading that a stranger described the same thing is usually the part that helps.
Nothing is tracked back to you and nothing is sent on your behalf. The link is just the page you are reading.
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.
Anomaly