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Weird noise at 3am

  • 03-10-2017 09:15AM
    #1
    Mok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭


    Anyone in cork hear a loud droning noise outside at 3 last night? Like the start of a war alarm but all the same tone and went on for 15 mins. Woke me up it was so loud and no one seems to have heard it.


Comments

  • #2
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Kerry folk at the walls again.


  • #3
    what the hell!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭what the hell!


    Where are you living?


  • #4
    abnr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭abnr


    I heard something like this about a week, week and a half ago around Jacobs Island, probably around 1-2 am, but have no clue what it was and didn't found anyone that had heard it, although to be honest I didn't went around asking :)
    At the time I thought it might have been like a fog siren from a ship... But a war alarm describes it also...
    It actually went on for a bit at regular intervals then stopped for maybe 20-30 mins then again for a while at regular intervals.
    It was around the second time I tried to figure out what it was (while still waking up) but couldn't see anything.


  • #5
    Mok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭Mok


    I'm not far from the airport so thought it might be coming from there, but this was so loud I felt the whole city would have heard it. It didn't sound like a plane or helicopter though and I thought the airport shuts down at night.

    Interesting you heard it too. A for horn would describe what I heard also. I'm gonna have to set my alarm tonight to see if it happens again!


  • #6
    thomil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,280 ✭✭✭thomil


    They're dredging the port at the moment, could it have been the foghorn of that big dredger, the Volvox Olympia? She was active in the city docks around 2.30 - 3.30 last night according to her track at Marinetraffic.com

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



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  • #7
    Mok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭Mok


    Oh that's good to know. It must be that!


  • #8
    crustyjuggler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 542 ✭✭✭crustyjuggler


    Mok wrote: »
    Anyone in cork hear a loud droning noise outside at 3 last night? Like the start of a war alarm but all the same tone and went on for 15 mins. Woke me up it was so loud and no one seems to have heard it.

    I heard it . I thought it eerily sounded like the automatic rifle I had heard earlier on a news clip .


  • #9
    aujopimur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    I usually notice weird sounds after consuming large quantities of Murphys or Beamish.


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