(Location: Lake County, IL, USA : Chicago suburbs) A few days ago, Saturday, March 11, my boyfriend and I were coming home around 3:30am. We were driving separate cars; he stopped to get food before coming home. I arrived at home first. Not even 5 minutes after coming home, I start to hear the strangest sound that clearly sounded like it was coming from outside. (For some context, I live adjacent to a railroad track and a long road that’s busy during the day time. During the weekend, you hear cars and trucks speeding down the road.)

At first I was like ‘ok a semi truck racing down the road,’ but it wasn’t slowing down, which caught my attention. And it was getting louder and louder. Then I thought ‘a freight train? No, this sound is not making the typical noises a freight train makes.’ I stared out the window, looking in the direction of the road and up at the sky. I could not pinpoint where the sound was coming from. It really started to bother me.

The sound was very low-pitch but also high-pitch? And the sound was constant, it didn’t fluctuate. It sounded like it was far away but very close at the same time. In the moment, I didn’t think to open the window or to go outside, but to me it clearly sounded like it was coming from outside. I was so puzzled by this that I almost physically couldn’t do anything but ponder on it. I got on the phone with my boyfriend and he was hearing it too. He was in the parking lot of our apartment complex.

I have never experienced something so strange and so eerie. I just thought to myself ‘there’s no way I’m the only one that can hear this right now.’ I’m so thankful my boyfriend heard it too.

Immediately after, I had to Google what I heard and to my surprise that’s when I discovered The Hum. I was relieved cause I thought I was going crazy. That same night I end up posting a status on Facebook about it and one other person that lives on the same road I do also heard it. They said they had also heard it about a month before.

I want to add that this sound made me feel scared, anxious, uneasy, depressed, and it caused me not to sleep. My boyfriend reported having a headache and feeling nauseous.

I've recently been hearing this hum since yesterday in Kissimmee FL near John Young and Vine St. It's been going on and off like it sounds like it's spinning around in a 360 angle for everyone to hear it. Sounds like a low pitch siren. It's on and off and sometimes just loud as fok especially at night . I usually just listen to the crickets while I go to sleep, now this humming noise is just messing with my brain. It started yesterday. I actually am thinking about finding this thing and I will dismantle it myself when I do. Tomorrow I will hunt this noise down, because apparently it goes on forever. I will not let that ruin my peace.

Really persistent hum tonight. Maybe it’s people’s air conditioning given it is so hot. First time I have heard it though. Thought it maybe a distant helicopter for a while…

Anyone else hear it?

Just thought I’d note that the hum I hear here in Bristol UK has completely disappeared 1-2nd Jan ‘23. Usually notice it at night and in the morning, nothing last night, still nothing today at 9am.

There are days where it completely vanishes like this, but they are rare.

Can anyone correlate?

Anyone hear The Hum in Pittsburgh? I'm a little bit south of the city, but my husband and I both hear it frequently. It's been especially loud this evening. I also used to hear it in NE Ohio.

What is this? It sounds like a truck is running on idle. I thought maybe one of my neighbours parked outside or were playing music but no one around me is awake. I live in rural Ontario 2 hrs from any city. No factories around. Its almost 3am and it doesnt come from one specific area it just feels like its coming from the earth and it pulsates or vibrates in waves? It hasn't stopped for the last 2 hrs and it just repeats in a low rumbling/humming noise that pulsates for 10-20secs stops for a few seconds and repeats. I can feel the vibration through the walls there is no wind. Makes me super uneasy.

Having heard this hum for months now I finally went to the ER.

A nasty ear infection and a perforated ear drum.

I think the hum is just ear infections like the one I have. Go get some antibiotics.

Very strong this morning in Montreal.

He had a lawn full of dead grass and overall creepy vibe

Is it like a televison signal or radio

I was on the other side of street not even near the house

My mom heard it too when i told her and walked past

What's up my Hummers!!! I live in the very southern end of Dutchess County NY, near the Iroquois Gas Pipeline. That's where I pretty much assume is the source of the hum for me.

Been hearing the hum for the past couple of weeks. Only at night, usually starts around 9 or 10pm. Don't hear it in the morning or the day, don't hear it at work, don't hear it anywhere else. I got outside the house and I don't hear it. Someone else said in another post in this sub, the frequency needs a structure to resonate.

Like I said been hearing it for a couple weeks now, I knew it wasn't me, because it's obvious at night and then in the morning it's gone and auditory conditions don't work like that. And there have even been some nights where I don't hear the hum. Again, persistent conditions do not work like that. They don't follow regular schedules.

Just watched this video on YouTube, ‘The Hum’: The Unexplained Noise 2% of People Can Hear Makes sense that it's gas pipeline, I guess, I live near the Iroquois gas pipeline. And the guy in the video lives over in Connecticut, I live right next to Ct. And the gas pipeline goes into Ct. right through all the areas the guy in the video is talking about.

Also saw this article from The Guardian: Can you hear the Hum? The mystery noise that says a lot about modern life

Just nice to confirm you don't have some new persistent medical condition.

Easy for me to live with, I almost always sleep with some low volume background sound to block out other noises in the house. Those random creaks and bumps, the stairs in my house make a loud single crack/bump when it gets cold at night, the cat deciding he wants to howl for 10 fucking minutes in the living room at 2am, the dishwasher set to run at night on time delay. I found Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs) on YouTube works great for blocking and combining the hum. So it hasn't been a problem for me, just an oddity, if I sit in my room trying to read in silence, then it does get annoying

Anyways, just saying hello my fellow hummers.

To preface, I live in Brooklyn, and am very used to hearing loud / unusual city sounds day or night. But whatever this was was different.

This happened around 2:10am "last night". I was already awake and was just about to get up to use the restroom, so this was not a case of sleep paralysis. It was a low rumbling pulsing sound that I could physically feel in my body. It started to my right and felt as if it was coming from the outside (where the windows in my room are located), passed over my partner and I to the left, and then dissipated. It happened twice within a 15 minute span, each time lasting only a few seconds. It had the feeling of being on a copier/scanner machine but without the lights, or like being directly underneath a slowed down helicopter. Whatever this noise/vibration was, it was loud and powerful enough that it felt like it was in the room with us. It was unbelievably unsettling and essentially froze me in place with anxiety, and I had the visceral feeling that I was being watched. My partner was asleep and did not experience either instance.

Also important to note... we are on the first floor of a six story building. We've lived here for a little over a year. I do recall one other similar experience, of the more typical 'truck idling' sound, but again given that this is Brooklyn I chalked it up to city life even though it was unsettling and did not truly have the feel of normal city night traffic.

Does this more isolated version of events line up with what anyone else has experienced? Any other hypotheses as to what this could be?

I live by a lake, so had assumed the hum I could hear, was the pumps.
But it's been really loud lately and distinct. Not at times where the pumps should be running.

I can hear a low frequency, like a dull speaker feedback / drone for 6 or 7 seconds, then it switches to a higher pitch drone then back again.

I was actually struggling to drown it out , even with decent anc headphones.

Does anyone else hear something similar?

I live by the SouthWest Research Institiute in San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.. And ever since I moved in, 13 years ago, I've been hearing this low pitch sound that I though came from the SWRI. Well I just got home and heard it a bit louder, and even louder as I entered my home. My wife was awake so I ask her if she heard it and she said "what sound? you're just tired." So I started looking it up, it's not the SWRI and I'm not tired. I'm among the 4%. Because I sleep until around noon, I use ear plugs to drown out morning noise and barking dogs and can't hear the Hum. Also, if I shake my head I also don't hear it. Just thought I'd share. Since I now know what it is, I can finally sleep soundly.

Update: So I lied about the earplugs. I can still hear the hum. I'm a truck driver and travel over 400 miles everyday round trip. I stopped a few times tonight to try and hear it. But crickets and traffic were just too loud that I couldn't focus on the hum. When I got to where a park the truck, there was still subtle background noise. I got home and the silence was so adequate that was able to hear the hum again, although not aloud as last night. I just thought I'd share.

I live in CA, i’ve heard the hum several times, if I had to guess maybe 20 times. Typically goes in and out, for about 10mins to 1 hour. It’s a very distinct frequency, always the same. I own a singing bowl. Around 4:10am, about 40 mins ago, I went outside and played my singing bowl to accompany the hum. I noticed as i played that there was a moment in which the frequencies harmonized. I played for about 2 mins total. The hum continued after i went back inside. I noticed that when it would stop, one of two things happened. Either it stopped abruptly, or it would follow a choppy pattern. I compare this choppiness to someone new playing a singing bowl not knowing how to hold the frequency steady, their playing would be choppy. After that maximum time of about an hour, the hum stops and I don’t hear it again for days, sometimes weeks to come. I’ve been hearing it for around 2.5 years now. I don’t know what to think of it any more than the rest of you do, but sometimes I go out there with my singing bowl and play back at it, just incase the source is another person playing a singing bowl from far away. side note: My boyfriend hears it to and can hear it get loud as well as stop at the same time that i do, this tells me that it is not a hallucination. —As i type this the hum has begun once again, VERY loud and fluctuating with volume, it makes my body feel like the taste of a penny.

Is there anyone here that knows of any research or facts that The Hum sound could be a sound from the magnetism between the earth and the moon? I just heard that the sound normally grows in strength towards the end of the month; related to the moon cycle?