Mysterious “low vibrational hum sound”

SlowBlowin

Logical idea ?

OP, buy or borrow a set of noise cancelling headphones and put them on when you can hear the hum.

If there is no reduction in the hum, then its an "internal" sound, tinnitus etc. If there is a reduction then the hum is an external sound.

Badly Drunk Boy

Victor wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

I was going to mention this. I used to experience this a lot, usually late at night when I couldn't sleep. I wouldn't necessarily be in bed, but it could be 4 or 5am, and I'd hear what sounded like a car's engine ticking over. I even thought I knew the spot it came from. The 'car' sounded like it was outside the house 7 doors up from me, to the left. It was that precise and real.

I often opened my front door to check but there was nothing there. It stopped about 5 years ago, but came back once last year.

Montage of Feck

A U.S. Navy antenna array emitting ELF waves?

deise08

Sounds like a water pump...but no water pump around . I've been experiencing it the past few years...

JustAThought

deise08 wrote: »

Sounds like a water pump...but no water pump around . I've been experiencing it the past few years...

Might not streatch as far as Ketty or Cork thou!

I had a hum & it drove me nuts for
months -I even went to the doctor. Turns out it wasn’t my ears but my stereo! I had it plugged in and the speakers & it were both turned on - turns out between the cabling for the doorbell and wifi gadget plugged in alongside it, it was causing a steady hum of feedback even thou the volume was turned 00% down. Nearly drove me insane. I discovered it by accident When I unplugged the stereo to mive the couch - the silence was screaming at me. It felt like I’d been carrying an elephant on my shoulders that had finally jumped off. Bliss.

sydthebeat

Stress

Quantum Erasure

The sound of a man humming

auspicious

Ear plugs to rule out tinnitus.

Capt'n Midnight

Probably a fridge compressor.

riclad

even in the city theres not much traffic after 2am at night,
if a fridge is faulty or old it can make a humming noise from the compressor.
pipes can make a noise as the water goes through them they vibrate,
but its not a humming noise.if you hear a noise all the time its likely you have a medical problem, using earpugs does not help tinnitus as its a noise from inside the ear.

https://www.domesticandgeneral.com/content/help-advice-section/hints-tips/article/fixing-noisy-fridge

TheBlackPill

Its when the hum stops is when you should get worried

Sac O Spuds

TheBlackPill wrote: »

Its when the hum stops is when you should get worried

Yeah thats when the bass guitar solo starts.

giles lynchwood

This happened to a mate a while back.turned out it was a ventlation fan in a grow house net door on a timer.Neighbours gave him something to help him sleep.Happy ending all round.

SlowBlowin

SlowBlowin wrote: »

Logical idea ?

OP, buy or borrow a set of noise cancelling headphones and put them on when you can hear the hum.

If there is no reduction in the hum, then its an "internal" sound, tinnitus etc. If there is a reduction then the hum is an external sound.

that's a great idea
if it's external start plugging stuff out to see if you can identify

hatrickpatrick

Aurora Borealis!

tringle

Yes this has been spoken about before here and i had it for a few years and it drove me mad. Some people suggest it is powerstations and the hum can travel very long distances through certain rock formations. Other suggestions have been electric magnetic sounds and some peoples hearts beat at the same frequency so they hear and feel it. I had my family driven mad trying to find it. Always more obvious at night, can hear it the house but not in our garden (a stream drowns out the sound) and louder in the summer. We even went through a stage of turning off the electricity at night and had a carpet and a rug under the bed.
Anyway, i found the answer 4 years later out for a walk. It was the noise created by the local meat plant. 6km as the crow flies the sound travelled down the river and whatever rock formations are there. Still hear it on summer nights but just knowing what it is means it doesnt bother me as much.

1990sman

the wang of the hum

Capt'n Midnight

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.intoorbit.spectrum
measure it and then lookup the frequency.


22Hz would be for pigging