Unexplained sound in Clontarf/Killester area, evenings and late at night

Mrs Shuttleworth

Has anyone heard the unusual sound tonight in Clontarf/Killester. It's a loud C-E-G-C musical progression, playing repeatedly since about 7pm, like a warning signal of some kind. It's driving our family and neighbours demented and not coming from any residential house.

It also happened about two weeks ago on a Wednesday night.

I don't want to waste the guards time ringing them if there's a simple explanation but the sound is very widespread and prominent.

secman

Apologies, I'll turn it down a tad..........

Birneybau

Close encounters on the North Side.

cruais

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

Has anyone heard the unusual sound tonight in Clontarf/Killester. It's a loud C-E-G-C musical progression, playing repeatedly since about 7pm, like a warning signal of some kind. It's driving our family and neighbours demented and not coming from any residential house.

It also happened about two weeks ago on a Wednesday night.

I don't want to waste the guards time ringing them if there's a simple explanation but the sound is very widespread and prominent.

Thought it was more of a F-A-C-E musical progression myself, 4 4 time and in the key of d sharp

suicide_circus

Have you tried soloing over it?

Avada

I thought I was going mad! What the fcuk is it?!?!?

The_Valeyard

Very odd OP,


My eyebrow is raised in fascination.

Docked ship?
Sports venue nearby?

Is it a one off or constantly going?

Avada

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Very odd OP,


My eyebrow is raised in fascination.

Docked ship?
Sports venue nearby?

Is it a one off or constantly going?

Its like a doorbell chime, sort of. Only happening in the evenings, pretty much constantly for about a week!

Mrs Shuttleworth

Random_Name wrote: »

I thought I was going mad! What the fcuk is it?!?!?

I have no idea and we drove around the area tonight to try and identify the source to no avail. Last time it happened we erroneously blamed neighbours. It seems to be heard from end Raheny as far as Fairview. It is very unsettling.

The poster above who cracked the Close Encounters joke is not far off, it's actually quite a similar sound.

eviltwin

How often do you hear it?

Rayne Wooney

And so it begins, they're coming

The_Valeyard

Random_Name wrote: »

Its like a doorbell chime, sort of. Only happening in the evenings, pretty much constantly for about a week!

Any building work nearby (roads, pipes, etc)

Or how about large electrical pylons? One could be damaged and humming or chiming.

nerobert

My curiosity has peaked, do tell us more op.

nullzero

Time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside.

The Backwards Man

Could be a motor in a sewage plant or a wind turbine rotor or something like that. There's one five kilometres from me I can hear plainly in the right conditions.

Mrs Shuttleworth

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Any building work nearby (roads, pipes, etc)

Or how about large electrical pylons? One could be damaged and humming or chiming.

Good suggestion but the sound is too widespread. There's no sense of direction in the sound to be able to pinpoint a location.

Yamanoto

It's your hubby John OP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imDvCCy9PMg

Duff

Swamp gas reflecting of a Chinese lantern.

o1s1n

I heard this loads when I lived in Clontarf last year! Could never figure out wtf it was.

Lived on Oulton Road if that helps triangulate Its location :pac:

Un Croissant

Earlier I heard a dogs whining coming from the wall. We have no dog and neither do the neighbours.

Not sure if it's a dog whining OP but it's likely we are both already dead and boards is our heaven/hell.

Cunny-Funt

Does it sound anything like this video from fairview in 2012?

endacl

cruais wrote: »

Thought it was more of a F-A-C-E musical progression myself, 4 4 time and in the key of d sharp

Fail. In D sharp, that'd be Fx - A# - Cx - E#. Although Eb would make more sense...

Didn't know your sharps and flats, and failed to spot the more sensible enharmonic alternative? Back to grade 1 with you.

thelad95

Is it a secret Garth Brooks concert?

johnohanlon

Brian Boru playing tricks on you? He was slaughtered by Vikings in Clontarf

CaptainInsano

endacl wrote: »

Fail. In D sharp, that'd be Fx - A# - Cx - E#. Although Eb would make more sense...

Didn't know your sharps and flats, and failed to spot the more sensible enharmonic alternative? Back to grade 1 with you.

It's funny because every note he picked for his joke was wrong.

Ruu

Moved from After Hours. Please remember the new charter that takes effect.

Mod.

degrassinoel

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Does it sound anything like this video from fairview in 2012?

not sure if serious - the last 30 seconds of that video are of a guy teeing off and his mate laughing at him for some reason

I'm in Raheny and havent heard that noise, but.. i did frequently hear a low frequency "womping" type of noise that would transition between high and low seemlessly every second or two then fade out and stop entirely or become inaudible to me, could hear it through double glazed windows and it was generally late at night and very little in the way of wind, after 11pm to around 2 or 3am would have been the times it manifested

Sounded to me like a generator humming but it would have to have been an incredibly large genny to carry sound like that i reckon.

haven't heard it in at least 6 months though, it's possible that it was a generator being run in the saint annes park nurseries but highly unlikely that the sound would carry so far even on a still night.

whiskeyman

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Sports venue nearby?

Sounds most likely explanation.
Perhaps the Rugby ground? See if they've training / a match on Wednesdays.

Cunny-Funt

The video is serious though he only made it to show friends hence the end bit. (Forgot about that)

The lack of explanation of the sound has just made it so much stranger as time goes on.

asteroids over berlin

Port tunnel - some lads doing maintenance ......?

Victor

degrassinoel wrote: »

I'm in Raheny and havent heard that noise, but.. i did frequently hear a low frequency "womping" type of noise that would transition between high and low seemlessly every second or two then fade out and stop entirely or become inaudible to me, could hear it through double glazed windows and it was generally late at night and very little in the way of wind, after 11pm to around 2 or 3am would have been the times it manifested

Power stations in the docks.

Lovely Bloke

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

It's a loud C-E-G-C musical progression

I'm no music expert, but isn't this the opening notes of "Why do birds suddenly appear"?

Teyla Emmagan

Very interesting. Why don't you drop into the local Guards? If anyone has been receiving complaints it'll be them.

That sounds like the sort of thing that would drive me bananas.

Riskymove

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Very interesting. Why don't you drop into the local Guards? If anyone has been receiving complaints it'll be them.

I'd suggest the Council

mtbop

Heard it last night around 9.30pm too. Thought it was the roommate playing his hipster synthesizers too loud as I was walking up the driveway. Can't put a location of where its coming from at all unlike concerts in Croke Park or Landsdowne where you know exactly where the music is coming from.

B.A._Baracus

asteroids over berlin wrote: »

Port tunnel - some lads doing maintenance ......?

Mrs Shuttleworth

Riskymove wrote: »

I'd suggest the Council

As the saying goes "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music"!!

I've held off contacting Gardai or Council until all easily identifiable sources are ruled out. Last night only was the second night I've heard it but it would appear from some other posters that they've heard it more than I have.

LOL at the poster who thought it was "hipster synthesizers" - when we first heard it we thought it was some new fangled alarm system for the elderly peeps next door...whatever it is it's a ruddy pain in the a$$

shalalala

I know that some lads dirt bike in Fairview park and the noise carries, used to hear it all the time in Clontarf

Mrs Shuttleworth

mtbop wrote: »

Heard it last night around 9.30pm too. Thought it was the roommate playing his hipster synthesizers too loud as I was walking up the driveway. Can't put a location of where its coming from at all unlike concerts in Croke Park or Landsdowne where you know exactly where the music is coming from.

What's very strange is that it was louder in the Super Valu Killester car park than down nearer the docks area which is the most likely source, but it doesn't seem to be coming from the railway line at Killester either.

Next time I hear it I'll drive down to the ferryport. If it's not a docks issue then it is a complete mystery.

By 11.30 it was going round and round in my head like Chinese torture. I blocked it out by playing Tiga's Bugatti on a loop!

Mrs Shuttleworth

shalalala wrote: »

I know that some lads dirt bike in Fairview park and the noise carries, used to hear it all the time in Clontarf

It's definitely not the bikes, I know that noise alright. +1

This is as an earlier poster joked a Close Encounters noise, just different notes.

o1s1n

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

It's definitely not the bikes, I know that noise alright. +1

This is as an earlier poster joked a Close Encounters noise, just different notes.

Yep, that's exactly it.

Initially I thought it might be a neighbour's doorbell, until I heard it while I was outside one day and it was far too loud.

I then thought it might be one of those speakers at the train station making announcements, but the station was way too far away for a sound like that to carry.

Plus if it were a loudspeaker making an announcement, you'd hear some mumbled speech after the tone - but there's never anything.

Another one to add to the mix, there's also an air raid type siren that goes off around there for some reason. It's very eerie and kind of makes you think the Luftwaffe are approaching

Mrs Shuttleworth

o1s1n wrote: »

Yep, that's exactly it.

Initially I thought it might be a neighbour's doorbell, until I heard it while I was outside one day and it was far too loud.

I then thought it might be one of those speakers at the train station making announcements, but the station was way too far away for a sound like that to carry.

Plus if it were a loudspeaker making an announcement, you'd hear some mumbled speech after the tone - but there's never anything.

Another one to add to the mix, there's also an air raid type siren that goes off around there for some reason. It's very eerie and kind of makes you think the Luftwaffe are approaching

+1

The air raid siren I think signals a fire down the docks and usually doesn't last too long.

Close Encounters starts around 6.30pm and lasts continually into the early hours.

It's not coming from Clontarf Rugby pitch either.

F**k me, it's exactly like this (just different notes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQzI3sz83FY

CarpeDiem85

Would it be something to do with the Port Tunnel? That's up that General direction isn't it.

Mrs Shuttleworth

I'll phone the Tunnel people today and ask them. This is driving me nuts.

NS77

Maybe it's a sound preceding PA announcements on one or more of the ships/ferries on the docks?

These would be common enough - particularly for on-deck announcements directed towards crew...

Mrs Shuttleworth

NS77 wrote: »

Maybe it's a sound preceding PA announcements on one or more of the ships/ferries on the docks?

These would be common enough - particularly for on-deck announcements directed towards crew...

No, another poster above had it right. There's no speech and no interruption and it lasts seven to eight hours at a time.

Mrs Shuttleworth

In the meantime, great version of the theme...

KomradeBishop

I think some places have an automated intruder alarm type thing, that are probably tripped by motion detection, that make a noise like this (is it almost like the start of a PA announcement tone, in some supermarkets?).

In the Coolock area, there has been something like this for 3+ years, just not as frequent as you describe; it does carry a ridiculously long distance.

Mrs Shuttleworth

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

I'll phone the Tunnel people today and ask them. This is driving me nuts.

Rang the Tunnel Authority. They were quite helpful actually. No knowledge of the noise and the tunnel was open last night, no works being undertaken.

Mrs Shuttleworth

KomradeBishop wrote: »

I think some places have an automated intruder alarm type thing, that are probably tripped by motion detection, that make a noise like this (is it almost like the start of a PA announcement tone, in some supermarkets?).

In the Coolock area, there has been something like this for 3+ years, just not as frequent as you describe; it does carry a ridiculously long distance.

Yes, but I imagine the owner of any business premises would be alerted to check the premises out and turn the alarm off if there's nothing. Am I incorrect in this?

Has anyone in Coolock area tried to trace the source of the noise? Whatever it is, anyone living closer to it must be driven demented.

Muahahaha

Speaking of unusual noises has anyone in Finglas/Ballymun heard a large air raid siren at around 2 or 3am over the last couple of years? I haven't heard it in a few months now but there was a time when it was almost nightly. I suspect it is the Roadstone quarry just out the road in the St.Margarets Road area, my guess is they play the siren before using dynamite to blow rocks up or something but then it was so regular it could have been for something else, unless they always blew rocks at 2 in the morning. I could never figure it out, it appears to be gone for now but it has dissappeared for some time in the past and then returned again.