reply to post by kid_cudi
Yeah, but seriously - what do you think? There's people from all over the place (including one very close to where I live) believe they heard the
same thing I did, at roughly the same time - so, what's your best guess?
It was out-of-the-ordinary, and I'll be keeping an open mind...
Bad vibrations
The hum is a phenomenon that has been reported in towns and cities across the world from Vancouver in Canada to Auckland in New Zealand.
In Britain, the most famous example was the so-called "Bristol hum" that made headlines in the late 1970s. One newspaper asked readers in the city:
"Have you heard the Hum?" Almost 800 people said they had.
The problem persisted for years. Residents complained of sleep loss, headaches, sickness and nosebleeds. Experts eventually found traffic and
factories were to blame.
There have been other cases in Cheshire, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, London, Shropshire, Suffolk and Wiltshire.
A low-pitched drone known as the "Largs hum" has troubled the coastal town of Largs in Strathclyde for more than two decades.
Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
SOURCE
I quote the above for the curious locational correspondences - Vancouver, Canada - Strathclyde, Scotland - BRISTOL, England - CHESHIRE, England
PS - Stockport is in the county of Cheshire for those who don't know. A county here is a bit like a small state in the US.
Extra info:
I get the 'hum' sound - including a pressurised sensation in my head and near-metallic sensation in my mouth when I walk under power lines. I'd guess
it's unrelated to any of this weird 'noise' stuff, as per the OP, but I thought I'd add it in just for the sake of it being related to ELF soundwaves.
Does anyone else who experienced the 'noise' experience the 'hum' as well? (this is sounding like a thread from la-la land now...)
Or, do you know when a thunderstorm is going to hit by the pressure change in the atmosphere?
EDIT TO ADD - 'traffic and factories were to blame'. Yeah right.
edit on 19-10-2010 by FlyInTheOintment because: (no reason given)