Still consistently going, anyone know people or companies who specialize in this??? I dont know how much longer I can live at a place where I hear a hum constantly. It affects the way you feel......

I've heard the hum on backpacking trips in the wilderness where the nearest powerlines are miles away. Power lines hum at 60-Hz (60 cycles per second). The Taos hum, as it's called, is a lower frequency. It sounds more like a large propeller-driven airplane flying overhead. I've search the skies and seen no airplane. Even if I didn't see it, the hum continued long enough for any airplane to run out of fuel.

The Taos Hum has been heard in other parts of the world. People don't notice it in urban areas because of the constant din of the city. You hear it in quiet rural or wilderness areas. The first time I heard it many years ago, I hiked for miles looking for the source. It doesn't bother me that much. If you just accept it, you can sleep through it because it's a constant noise that doesn't change, unlike rioting neighbors, sirens, and dogs barking.

Scientists investigating the source of the noise believe it's coming from the Pacific Coast. Seismographs have picked up vibrations of about 10-milliHz, which is below the threshold of human hearing. This low-frequency sound comes from waves on the surface changing the pressure of the water on the sea floor just enough to vibrate the Earth's crust a little bit. What we hear are the interference patterns produced when these low-frequency waves come together inland. They also hear it in Nordic countries and other places around the globe. Although it comes and goes, it can persist for weeks and even months.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Source-of-Earth-039-s-039-Hum-039-Finally-Discovered-118738.shtml

I used to do business in Taos every week. While I never heard the hum inside of the town, where I was working, I did sometimes hear it further away from town, in some of the very rural surrounding communities. I can't imagine what it would be like to hear that all times of the day and night.

Due to the type of sound and the fact that it was only first heard in the early 90s, I'm less inclined to believe the Taos Hum is from an entirely natural source. For that matter, the Bristol, England, hum was first reported in the 70s. Other hums have been noticed just in the past few years. If these hums have always existed, it would seem to me that a certain segment of the population would have been reporting it for more than the past 40 years - especially in the days before we had generators, traffic, electricity, etc. I would therefore take such claims regarding the source of the hum with a hefty grain of salt.

I find myself wondering if underground utilities might be a culprit? For that matter, it seems as though I'm more likely to hear these hums in areas where there is or has been significant mining activity.

This is a good and recent article:
http://www.livescience.com/38427-the-hu ... s-hum.html

I dont believe this is like 'the hum' . It is something mechanical or a shop or underground utilities. we originally thought it was from the well pump or something like that underground, but no one seems to want to check it for us. I hear it right when I get out of the car when I get home. It only started this last feb/march 2013 and we have lived here for almost 2 years without the noise.

The hum is probably caused by the forest people under the steps that don't know the words to the songs.

The first time I heard the hum was on Meridian Hill in the early 1980s. I didn't report it. I was unable to identify the source. It wasn't loud enough to be a bother. I reckoned it was probably some RV with a generator running and I could hear the low-frequencies at a distance. I heard it before turning in for the night and then noticed it in the morning before the wind came up. I remember thinking they must be wasting a lot of gas running their generator all night. I also wondered if I was hearing a continous stream of aircraft flying to and from Stapleton.

This phenomenon has probably been happening for ages. The fact that it is being reported is probably due to more people now living where it occurs. Most people cannot hear it. But when there are enough of us living someplace, chances are that more people will notice it, share their observations, and report it to the media.

Low frequency sounds do travel very long distances, especially through solids like rock formations and the Earth's crust. So, a factory with machinery pounding on the floor can be heard miles away by those of us with sensitive hearing. I have big ears, I hear a lot more than most people. And your ears continue growing as you age, so older people tend to hear the hum if their hearing hasn't been ruined by loud noise.

I have to point out, "The fact that it is being reported is probably due to more people now living where it occurs," is bogus. Sorry, I usually love your input, but that statement is not among your better observations.

Taos Pueblo rivals another pueblo as the oldest continuously-occupied dwelling in the U.S., dating back 1000 years. Bristol has evidence of human involvement dating back 60,000 years, and has been a major English port since the 12th Century. Other areas have only noticed these sounds within the past few years. When we consider that people who have been living in these areas for generations can point back to the very day the hum first started should be a strong indication that this isn't some phenomenon that has always occurred on Earth. This isn't to say that such a global phenomenon doesn't occur, as indeed I'm certain it does. It's just an exceptionally poor dismissal of people who are suddenly witnessing an event on a specific day in a specific place where they had never previously known that kind of event to occur.

I used to live in New Mexico, neighboring a different pueblo on what was an old Spanish Land Grant. I know from experience that it's common to find families who have lived on these same lands for centuries. When they say, "I never heard the hum until one day in late spring of '92, now we're all hearing it," it's a pretty clear indication that this is a relatively new event. There's no family or oral tradition of hearing something that lasts for decades. Something started on one specific day that has been with them ever since. In the case of the Taos Hum, it not only began on one specific day, witnesses (myself included) feel it sounds like an old but very low-pitched diesel engine. This is probably a Very Big Clue.

In any case, BaileyLove has made it clear that whatever she's hearing only started in the earlier part of this year, after having lived in the same place for a previous two years. She says it sounds mechanical, like a shop or underground utilities. I think this is also a Very Big Clue. I suspect a noise from a shop is being carried along underground rocks or utilities to her location, or some neighbor has added new mechanical equipment to his house. I think it would be worthwhile to ask any of the "local" shops, from Roland Valley into central Bailey, if they started using some new equipment. It also might be prudent to ask people in the community if they hear the hum and if they have any ideas what might be the cause.

Power sub stations are more than capable of making a low frequency high decibel noise like you are hearing. It may be worth it to check with IREA maybe they're having transformer problems at one sub station, however it would be odd for a problem like that to persist for months.

Tesla proved that natural phenomenon 'hums' or oscillations around 18-20 Hz (not MHz, not kHz, but Hz) can be magnified with a separate action, such as a Hz generator connected to a structure or land rock mass. The natural hum is nature. Whether or not this particular hum was amplified by man is still a very real possibility.

There had been several people post about an untraceable hum in Burland and other areas. I have had this noise in my house as well and assumed it was a neighbor running a generator with sound transfer through the bedrock making it undetectable outdoors but you hear it inside. By accident I have traced the noise to my DirectTV box, it actually is vibrating and giving off a hum that I had previously been unable to locate because I never thought to check this box on the shelf above my TV. I hope this helps others who have heard this noise and been unable to locate it. Might just be mine but I doubt it. Just out of curiousity if anyone else tracks this hum to their box please post a response.

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is this close to the tone your hear?




if it is, you could have a ground loop. This will usually occur in audio/video/computer equipment. To find out, unplug one piece at a time (including dvr, vcr, etc). If you find the tone goes away with a particular one unplugged, then this is the culprit. To fix, get a "cheater plug" to lift the ground of that piece of gear. I would start upstairs since this seems to be where you hear it the loudest.





if not, then try this, it will step you through the tones



you can get an inexpensive sound meter. Make sure it can detect lower frequencies

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=e ... evel+meter