Thanks for listening. Sounded like a diesel motor running a long ways away. There is a very good correaltion though. remember turn off those mobile phones at night to stop the EMF coming through the house it really helped us. Here in north Spokane, Washington. Data is power. too fantastic. Marc, It is not uncommon for low level ambient noise from a source away from the house to be heard in the house. This ILFN is generated by a line source, not point source so it’s expansive. 1. It’s killing us and the ecosystem. same out of date rehashed material. Trips to the fire dept, DPW, thought I was crazy. I can hear it the loudest in my sons room. Learning this acoustics thing is a strange one. I describe the noise as a resonance that pulsates,it is constant. These are tract built homes all the same except for the number of bedrooms. These are not your run of the mill lines feeding your home. what can i do about it? A few days in summer when very hot, no hum. (4-5 times a week)I really thought I was going crazy. That’s my opinion and I’m sure it could be proven with contacting the right authorities and have it tested, but as for me being able to afford or have it tested is out of the question. I checked your location below, relative to the map for these lines running N-S in FL. Could it be the HD Dish? o Other important areas My houses hum started about the same time they shut down the pool and spa for repairs in the housing development I live in so that might have affected the water pressure. It’s bad, where it just vibrates and gets to the core of your ears. As for gas lines….unless it’s possible to hear em from a distance. It’s loudest in my bedroom, as my apt. Was using the free version of a Itouch app called Urban Apps ‘Ambiance lite’ with a sound called ‘Sleep machine’. Tom, SLC- there are many people on differnt sites reproting from there. Do one thing that you probably not thought of. Most men can not hear it.I hear it mostly at night and on the North side of the house.Does anyone have any clue as to what this could be?? I am plotting HUM location s in the US and “peaking” at CDn ;ocation swith the same startling revalation of the source. It started humming in October and now I have a constant loud hum and vibration through the whole house. they have enough power to get 2 gringo-sized riders up the local hills. Thanks for a place to share and to sympathize with the rest of you. But we here on the west coast generators are powered by water flow from Dams. Alice, I’m in Pittsburgh and I hear it, too. Your affect focuses the whole world. Also, could be the neighbor and his pool pump and the noise is filtering through our sewer lines. The hum is a very low frequency occilating hum (like a distant generator or aircraft engine) that seems to be coming from the airport about 2 miles away, however if I close my left ear and put my head in the pillow,the hum just seems to get worse. Dosing must be carefully controlled to achieve TSH levels within the normal reference range. I have even driven to an upper part of the neighborhood and could hear it, but not as bad as it is inside my house. Locally you should investigate when and what kind of changes were made to these systems as part of energy development prior to and during teh appearance of teh HUM and other sensations. But I feel like I may go crazy. Surly there are more?? I can ony really hear it at night and indoors when there litte other noise. Other nights, like tonight, it is quite loud and the sleep machine can’t mask it. Barabara, we have two things going on here. 6 months ago. I’ve been in contact with someone who maintains it is power equipement being installed on power lines to enable broadband. Just wanted to weigh in for those who think they’re going crazy because they’re the only ones who hear THE HUM: For the past seven days or so, I was experiencing the Hum. By the way ,there are no gas pipelines or High Voltage lines nearby. What can it be….We have lived here for 30 years and it is just the last couple of years that I had heard it but never as loud inside our house as it is now….Help with suggestions as to how to find out what is causing it appreciated…. We don’t see how we can be the only ones in this neighborhood. Has anyone ever solved the mystery culprit? Data is power. I contacted the electric company thinking it might be something from them. As soon as I get myother computer back on line will add your data point. Hello from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and yes, I have the hum. BC, Windsor/ Essex Ont and North of lake ontario have many reports. I lived about a mile from a steel yard on Jurupa that made tremendous and terrible sounding noises all night, most nights. We live in central Florida in a one level house, with a poured concrete foundation, block walls, stucco finish, tile roof. Who can I call about this. First 6 months no hum…now humming. I had hoped my case would be easy to identify or at least be one of the hums that comes and then goes suddenly. I am starting to doubt the hum is real…. It’s in the walls too. Anyhow, I haven’t found a single page of possible causes. It is on the “hum forum- yahoo” files section. Search on room reasonace, nodes and anti nodes. All house systems are A-ok. Is it possible the weight of our furniture/appliances on the foundation can amplify the vibrations and noise? Since Sept 2009 we have a hum in Western CT US. No too soon for me. I have recorded the noise onto my computer so it’s not an ear/medical problem and no I’m not crazy…. Keep in mind the lines I am invetigating are not the small low pressure lines ditributing gas to homes. Well as I reported to CT DEEP, FEDS, etc the coyotes left their habitat when hum started late 2009. The interact with foundations, caves, etc to casue resonance and HUM, with resultant vibrotactical sensations toteh feet and butt. I have killed the mains power and water yet it still persists. It is 24/7, never stops and in every room of my house. I’ve always approached this problem from a practical standpoint. My wife has a painful head from it, not the norm for her. When the power is out, it’s just me and the hum. So I took a look here as suggested by someone: https://www.npms.phmsa.dot.gov/PublicViewer/, Guess what… There is a gas pipeline 1 mile from my house. Suggest you check where teh gas grid is (high pressure, large lines). Rap. So we are completly surrounded. I did notice the noise the other day at my Mother’s house who lives just around the corner. At suggestion of engineers began tracking weather conditions (air pressure, temp., wind speed/direction, humidity) but could not figure out a correlation with variability of noise level. I also live in Southern Ca (Fontana) and have the same humming noise! I have had plumber, water, gas, power, and anybody else you can imagine here in my house in Georgia. Reading this blog is comforting, yet there are no concrete answers. Marc, our noise is still present. Anyway. I have had a hum in my house since about 2006. the sound resonates through the walls, and I can also hear it outside on the porch. Our pet lab in late 2009 had to be put on doggie prozac she was so fearful of teh hum and floor vibrations. its very large .. as in- world size…google shumman resonance… read a bit – if you cant sleep ..-find a small loud fan or heater with a fan only setting and turn it on next to your head and it will mask it and you will sleep…. I’m going to talk to him tomorrow. I believe it is a proliferation of diesel backup generators and improperly insulated, ground-mounted water pumps and spas. Just a few words to thank the admin. I just read an article about The Hum in Windsor Ontario https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/world/canada/windsor-hum.html?partner=applenews&ad-keywords=APPLEMOBILE&asset_id=100000005745248 , and remembered my experience when living in Fontana, California. I hope to one day solve this !! A map is on another site called Yahoo Humforum. Mine sounds like a low hum of a refrigerator or a motor lowly idling. I live in Woking, England. It is quite debilitating and we do not know what to do….starts in the night and gets worse into the early morning hours to where my ears feel like I am getting an earache….nothing shuts it out. Beleive it or not we do not have avaialbility to gas, even though 3 large high pressure ones pass right by. Recently electrical or magnetic frequencies due to Wi-Fi or cell phone masts has been mentioned to me as an additional cause of the buzzing. Dan, if my premise from whats going on in CT is correct, i am bewildered by why more folks from the oil patch aren’t suffering (complaining). I’ve tried to join this blog but have not had a response from them yet. I hear it all over the house, and it is most noticable when it is quiet and seems worse at night. We were just in Block Island on a boat for one nite (docked a Champlins and no noise). It does sound strange that the noise has a very specific time frame to it :hmmm: I wonder if you were able to explain to your neighbours that the noise is disturbing your son's sleep, they might be willing to have a look in the room attached on their side to work it out? Checked the attic…the sound isn’t coming from there either. I certainly didn’t have to strain to hear it last night. If you like to keep your windows open during the day, I suggest just buying an A.C. instead! After this research I’ve opened my mind to the possibility that the sound is not caused by a defect in my home and have actually managed to hear it when sitting inside my truck with the engine off on a quiet back street in my area. My neighbor also hears the hum but our spouses don’t. Thanks in advance. It’s not the toilet, ballcock like several blogs maintain… I’ve turned off the outside water main, opened up all faucets, shut of toilet valves, still heard it. What town in PA. I’ve heard it in State College. I know it is not in the ceiling per se it just seems to me the direction from where the hum emanates. Okay, I’m in Pittsburgh and it’s happening to me. When reading the article on Windsor, they mentioned a steel mill. Hello Sam, Thought I’d add my two penneth and am eager to hear of more cases. http://countytimes.com/articles/2012/07/15/business/doc5002bd3edc6df428338851.txt. The issue of home low frequency hum is discussed on several blogs. Troy It sounds like you hear what sounds like an idling diesel engine always running and varying in intensity and annoyance. Suffering with this off and on for years, slightly better in the summer, terrible right now, loud, penetrates all, ear plugs don’t help, the sound is too low. Of course, we have natural gas. (San Fran/ Sac area is loaded with reports, likely had something to do with San Bruno – my opinion. I have never ever posted a blog but for obvious reasons was compelled to write. I think I dropped you a line elsewhere? This is a real revelation that teh gov’t doesn’t want to deal with, believe me!!!! Like the rest of you, first thought it was the fridge, then turned off power main, checked gas line, no attic fan, chimney has cap, my house is buzzing right now like an amplifier improperly grounded. Any certain? 16 floors up? The worse is in the afternoon. We do not have smart meter in my region of CT. My opinion, maybe they have a high pitch localized hum, but not the extensive hum we are chasing everywhere. If you get i’ll give you an email to send a pdf copy. Many years ago in Ft Saskastewan, and innisfail It is Fox Chapel area here. Nothing was wrong….Now, I think about a plumber but with no leads at all and a such a faint sound during the day, I am not sure it won’t be a waste of his time and my money! Two HOA people, both with engineering backgrounds, cannot figure it out, though one of them is convinced it has to do with the … I hear it right outside of the house but not as loud as in the house. We have no proof that these quotes were authorized by the individuals that you are quoting. It is very plausible it works. The sound doesn’t drive me nuts yet and only happens between 9pm and 8am. I have also gone through the long list of things to check, in addition to talking to senior transportation engineers regarding the poor condition of nearby (.45 mi.) I really notice it between around midnight and 5:00 am, when the traffic noise is minimal. There are a couple reports from the VA Beach area. maybe teh crystal, but for me it’s SEEMS a bit masked when running bath fan or ceiling fan. I’ll fall asleep through sheer exhausting, only to wake an hour later, and that cycle repeats through the night. I know what you are all going through. Still there. Does anyone else know if maybe the work they are doing around my neighborhood (building new houses, putting in side walks and street lights) could affect something? I’m trying to eliminate various explanations. It is somewhere in our house, because the sound stops when I check outside. Last Wednesday evening, Nov 9, 2011 my home started humming. gas lines. Call your congressman and complain. Woken every night, sleep deprived for years! I have been hearing the same low frequency hum for about a year and a half now on and off and first noticed it when i got up during the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. And I only started this 2 months ago. If you read the posts I participate from CT. How do we get help to find out what is going on, who do we need to contact & make this more public? If you experieince difficulty let me know. I wonder if we are able to feel any of the gas compressors here yet? most people don’t notice anything.. so we are the lucky ones…. The map is posted on Yahoo Hum Forum in the file section. http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/economic/transportation/pm_pipelines. I am not plotting Canadian hum locatins vs high pressure pipelines, only monitor reports. Need many more people to complain to their congressman, get articles in the news to get any attention to this matter. I am plotting HUM location s in the US and “peaking” at CDn ;ocation swith the same startling revalation of the source. I hope to get this into the news someday, just not as popular as reproting on the mistakes of movie stars……. Anyhow Leonard, Susan, Min. We like our house and general area,no crime etc but dont know if we can put up with the hum/buzz.forever! How do you account for variability in level of intensity? Have you seen the posts from Sofie down the page a ways? I play a CD during the day with the sounds of it raining, to help distract me from the noise. We do run ceiling fans but maybe because we have high vaulted ceilings and the volume is too much, do not notice any break in noise (much more than a hum). Sounds just like an idling diesel truck like mentioned before. Left Bergen Cty in 1994. I’m hoping your resources are reliable and they are not just pacifying you. I live in north east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and there are plenty of under ground pipelines in my area. Corner of Albany and Birchwood on the Far North Side…? I’ve had the plumber over and he could not hear the sound. Stops during summer months, starts again the first day with temps below 30 degrees. After much agony, sleepless nights and general crazy-making, I have concluded that my problem is related to a head cold and sinus congestion. I am living the the same hell! We steer clear as he has guns. I’m around 50 and have been told people in their fifties are more likely to hear it. We thought the hot water heater; but we heard the sound with the hot water heater was not engaged and there was no demand. I said, I wish I knew. Jeff, RR, Nanette and madshogun- your symptoms are all familiar. Not unusual for only you to hear, 2-5 percent hear low frequency. I suspect I’m “tuned” into it and I admit I am “listening” for it now that I’m conscious of it. I try to go back to sleep – which takes an hour or two and then the humming wakes me up again around 3am, 5am and finally I just get up and get out of bed at 6am but I can still hear it throughout my house- in the kids room, the basement, the living room. Have lived here for almost ten years — we built the house — and haven’t had any major problems. I am having the same problem. Good luck everyone . It is more annoying in certain areas than in others. I wonder how we could find out if others hear the noise in Las Vegas? Leo, took a look at the maps of pipelines and you are pretty far from teh lines through Springfield. I am confused about your comment on when the temperature increases the generators will increase supply. I believe you meant 2010 started hearing? It gets loud at 2am and 4am which wakes me up. The maps only show an oil line in Cape Town. I have turned off all power and it continues. I beleive some places there may be some reasonance of geological structures that might be heard in dead silence outside, needs allot more invetigation. BUT…Seems to be 60hz or so occasionally oscillating to 120 or so, so electric? Another is the huge chiller unit behind a supermarket. So, don’t think that local needs are what’s driving how these systems operate. Is there a machine I can buy to “suck” this noise, or a sheet rock that stops the noise from coming out of the wall? On Yahoo Hum Forum you find others from the UK active in this pursuit. I bought a white noise machine which I play really loudly at night, and it helps me get some sleep. You are first from the east side. Most of the time the noise is 24/7 and at other times intermittent. I’m so happy to have found others who are experiencing this curse. Hope this helps. I am in warren county and I am going crazy with this sound. Has anybody been hearing teh hum between Syracuse to Buffalo NY? City, county, won’t pay us any attention as right now we are in the number of one complaint. The hum for the last few days has returned to high levels. Very good information. I hope that’s it and I can do something about it, because this is unbearable. Unfortunately, or fotunately we are sentinels of a bad problem growing. 2 miles west of Route 1 and the Indian River. Am going to have the water co. return and check the flow/pressure….house is approx. Terry good you found the source, now you need to test the hypothesis. No, this sounds like some kind of engine or motor and it fluctuates as well. I am in Jackson Heights, NY. Keep in mind these systems have to adjust to varying daily operating conditions, so that’s why you get varying characteristics during the day. We are as well experiencing that humming sound; it does sound like a pipe resonating, sometimes persisitent, sometimes intermittent. It was practical. Like other poster wrote, wakes me up out of sound sleep around 4pm, sounds like a truck idling outside, go outside and its quiet as can be, come back inside and the Hum is there. Water pressure is not high in this area. Then and only then did it my ear start to feel “full.” Odd how that works, you concentrate on it and it manifests itself. If it feels like your floor is vibrating, do you have a concrete floor with rebar (metal) which holds the concrete in place? I wear a headset to bed, during the day, while on the computer or tv ears watching tv, or else all I hear is this noise. Nosie started and those sensitve enough hear it, Changes in gas line operations is casuing it. I certainly hope you find the source of it. Fortunately she acclamated after 3 months off the drug. This will be like the tortise. Technically, hearing is feeling, so that’s just a way to give someone a better idea of the experience. Lesley- I have a couple of people, one in particular from the south part of West Hartford, who want to exchange notes on the hum with you. Well, the HUM was as bad if not worse than my home. Perhaps an Audiologist could help. I don’t know what diodes are, but doesn’t matter. http://acecasinosportsbook.com/, Really you’d spam a board like this? A couple weeks ago chatted with a lady from warren county. Use a HEPA air cleaner filter for sleep. How can I identify this? Still not convinced with the gas pipeline explanation as they are quite removed from where I live. That’s par tof the process of discovery. I have had the council out with recording equipment but it did not pick any sound up which i thought it wouldn’t and if it did, it still wouldn’t identify where it was coming from, this has got to the point where i am considering moving because if the council by some miracle come out and investigate and find the source, they probably will say they can’t do anything about it. at least until 8am or later- by that time the other ambient noise in the house and neighborhood drowns it out for me. No hum. Steve, maybe during their investigation they could check out why the Smart Meter at the main electric panel on our house started a fire and burnt the breaker contacts. It is posted in the “files” section on the yahoo hum forum. I thought there was something wrong in the house, went to the basement at night etc but nothing. Can definitely fully relate to both posts re the low humming noise – have had all utilities turned off, all meters checked including cable, electric transmitter in the yard, etc. Is the hum louder when you get closer to the chicken plant? Reprot this to your congressman and have them contact FERC in DC. Worse at night probably b/c everything else is turned off. I don’t listen to music loudly, so the new youth might be encouraged to lose their hearing so they could not actually detect the Waves of mind control. Still humming. I have done that so I have proof the noise is real I don’t need a Doctor. I do have your location already from the other site. I am amazed when someone suggests tinnitus. No hum and so quiet. This is real, and FERC and the gov’t aren’t looking for this problem to get out. The incessant humming started at my home 2 weeks ago when a Smart Grid meter was installed on my gas outlet at my home. Thanks. After we got him to agree to run it for short periods of time, we thought the noise problem would be solved. Due to the low frequency I believe there is more than one contributor to this. If those are above-ground in your area you may hear the Humming noise &/or feel the Vibrations outside as well as inside. By obtaining increasingly more favour using their company people in your My husband cannot hear it but did turn off all the breakers in the house for me at one point and yes I could still hear it so it is not something running in the house that is making the noise. This is a 1970s house and the hum began about two weeks after having a new water heater installed. Been away for 2 weeks and escaped the Hum during that period. I really don’t know what to do because others cannot hear it and therefore, do not take me seriously or do not understand the seriousness of the issue. what is it and where is the chart you spoke of. The very first night I noticed the humm, exactly as everyone describes, a far away idling (badly) diesel engine. please call me to discuss further.862-324-0142, I am following teh announcements of the Marcellus gas pipelines, and western Jersey is getting a few more…. It can hear it quite clearly in my bedroom, the living room, the office, all over the house but as soon as I step outside, I can’t hear it. (Assumption is that the hearing sensitivity developed recently and not that the noise started recently) Have you found that LFN from gas lines is easily heard by the general population as opposed to only sensitives, or is it that we are we hearing different things? Dispotioantely high peaks between 20 and 70 hz, for long periods of time is information you should report to the MOE. It seems to be worse at night. The hum is also louder in one area of our house. Nay I am in Brookfield and have confirmed from here to Hartford to New Haven. I use an electric fan to drown out the hum at night, but can still ‘feel it’ in my head, Oh boy. A lot of times it’s very difficult to get that “perfect balance” between user friendliness and appearance. Have the ranchers turn the fans off for a few minutes (call them on your cell and coordinate). I’ve be mindful your stuff prior to and you’re simply extremely excellent. reversing damage from the sun. Use my name name Steve from Brookfield CT. Expect to be meet willful ignorance…. we're in a terrace. What generates the electricity, if not nuclear (which I support), clean coal, it’s natual gas (which I support if they admit an fix problems). Jenhatenoise is from Ajax and reprots the same problems. I finally decided, much to my dismay, that it was in my head. Keep me posted what others finding. Also the house two doors down from us had the same problem from the Smart Meter, at a repair price of over 2K. Wondering where in Northern England you are, I’m in Blyth, NE24 and since I moved house I have this problem, as you say it literally vibrates everything, I get some comfort from earplugs, but ‘feel’ the vibrations through my whole body, driving me insane, very little sleep, can’t think straight. Very helpful info particularly the closing section I care for such information a lot. Anyway Steve, back to your research. Others have also heard it in our house. In fact, it shows very little now concerning Gas or Hazardous type pipelines. It isn’t some ear problem. It became somewhat of an obsession, because I was convinced that some new construction project or cooling fan had taken up residence across the street. Well last night was the last straw. Used to be able to block with white noise machine and fan, now that only works some of the time. So that would lead me to think the noise is not from gas lines here where we live. Had my gas meter changed a few months ago so plumber thought it might be the regulator. Now I am also fearing it may be something wrong with me and I’ll hear it in other places too…. I’m interested in helping. We even had our chimley swept last week and the man even asked what the noise was. Has been heard/felt by others too. I also stated that while visiting family in the Sacramento area I heard the HUM there as well. It started roughly 5 months ago I think. I have noticed a hum since I moved here about 2 years ago. Please anyone help. I tell them yes. We had to replace sprinklers and faucets yearly because the pressure would cause them to break continuously! I no longer buy the SmartGrid explanation… it hasn’t yet been implemented in Chicago, and we’ve had this on and off for 10 years! I’ve notice when the fridge kicks on or it a vehicle drives by with a loud muffler, it voids the hum out.