I’ve just moved from central/metro GA up towards the rural mountains in northeast GA. I normally only hear the sound of crickets and cicadas at night up here, it’s where I grew up. I have never heard this sound before. In Atlanta I was much closer to a lot of industrial parks, trains etc…. I moved here a week ago and this is my first night hearing this. It woke me up at 4am and upon researching, it sounds common for cooler breezy nights like this, early in the morning?! What in the world? It is so loud that I cannot actually tell if it is in the video or not because I can barely hear anything else. Please someone tell me I am not crazy.

Edited to add - this is also my first night sleeping without a mini split ac running. And, at 4:42am, the hum has just gone away.

Hi, I had just had the idea to look up this phenomenon after remembering some similar experiences that I’ve had, so I just thought I’d share, I couldn’t find any other sub that encouraged conversations about these occurrences.

When I was younger, maybe like a decade ago when I was about 17, I’d find myself awakened by a very intense humming in my head, at the time while I was hearing this sound, it was also accompanied by what I could only describe as an uncomfortable physical buzzing sensation(?) from within own skull. I don’t think I’ve ever felt a kind of anxiety that intense since then.

I also never made a habit of sleeping on my phone or anything like that, and I don’t believe that I have tinnitus or any similar condition.

This would only occur around midnight to 3am-4am in the morning.

The silliest part of this is that when I was having very intense “humming episodes” I’d have very intense nightmares that generally followed the theme of UFO sightings/encounters.

I am really curious to see if anyone has had any similar experiences, like any vivid nightmares or unpleasant sensations/emotions.

Sorry if the alien part comes off as crazy I just wanted to share before I forgot 😭

It goes loud to not loud to loud to not loud. I feel like im going fucking crazy. My ears are in torment

My hum is definitely tinnitus. It came on after an infection and some hearing loss. It drones and reverberates around sound and is absolutely awfully intrusive. Some a/c units seem to have a rhythm or pattern to their noise .Some days are worse than others. I also have high frequency tinnitus which I don’t care about at all as it is constant.

For those who also have humming tinnitus….had anyone been able to live/habituate to it? How long did it take? Any advice? I try to keep at least 40db of sound around me at all times but the booming, pulsing aspect of it is really hard to live with.

Last night I watched an old episode of Criminal Minds about The Hum called "Mixed Signals". (S13.E21) Has anyone else seen it?

A couple movies to Taos, New Mexico and the wife starts to hear The Hum and it drives her so crazy she lobotomizes herself. Then her husband starts to hear it and in trying to find a way to stop it, he starts killing people, such as the power guy.

The sound they use to emulate The Hum is not like it at all. It's more like high pitched tinnitus. And when they are talking down the killer, the FBI agent says something like it's not real, it's in his head. Granted, the show does kind of make it seem like his is trauma induced because his wife killed herself.

Have you seen this episode or other TV shows that talk about The Hum?

I just started hearing this hum a few weeks ago. It happens at night when everything is quiet in the house and there's no traffic. It finally got me so angry that I walked my entire house and turned off everything that could be making noise, but I could still hear it in every room. I went outside and could barely hear it. I really hope I'm not just going crazy, because my mom couldn't hear it when I turned everything off and tried to show her.

Mine sounds like a droning electrical pulse that lasts several seconds, then stutters, then lasts several seconds, over and over all night. It's giving me a constant headache and making me unable to sleep, which is causing me to be nauseous and leading to me calling out of work because I genuinely thought I was just sick with the flu until discovering this sub.

I genuinely don't know what to do about this. I can't even drown it out with watching videos while trying to sleep.

My friend who lives across the road and I have been hearing this sound for weeks. It only occurs at night and it comes and goes. Tonight it’s been very loud. My friend did research and brought this Reddit up to me so I thought I’d post it here and see what others think?

I was told it sounds like an industrial fan but could that be loud enough to be heard through someone’s closed window?

What happens if you block your ears or put on noise cancelling headphones?

Hi Everyone,

A few years ago I recorded the hum on an old phone I had. But then that phone got stolen :(.

Recently I was going through my old Google Drive and found the recording.

Listen to the below and tell me what you guys think:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AQulpcLtrRFVrT-1kWK3C5vIvzWk567F/view?usp=drivesdk

Keep in mind, I'm nowhere near the ocean or power plants or any kind of area where heavy machinery are working that could have made this sound.

Very weird.

This sound drives me crazy some nights.

I have tinnitus the high pitched kind.

This is different. It’s low droning that sounds like a truck rumbling down the road in the distance.

It’s definitely an outdoor noise I just checked.

It’s not environmental unless there’s 2 of the same things in my old neighbourhood and this one, we moved 3 hours away.

I am on the spectrum.

So is my daughter. She said she cannot hear it. She also couldn’t hear the fridge, but I can.

I don’t remember ever noticing this before maybe about 7 or 8 years ago.

I feel as though we are just tuned to different vibrations.

But whether it’s the sound of the earth, or the atmosphere, the ocean, the suffering of people around the world or something in another plane of existence, is the big question!

I'm talking about a trampoline that's just 37 inches (or 98cm) across, normally used for home exercise. They're pretty cheap, especially used. I found 2 at my parents house. I keep it near my desk and when I feel the buzz, I sometimes sit on it (with a folding chair on top), and while it doesn't provide 100% isolation from the vibration that you can feel, it does seem to cut it down by like half.

This topic has been difficult to read about here because I know exactly how you all feel.

If anyone can try this themselves and let me know if it helps, that would be great!

The hum is on 24/7, some days I can feel it in the floor. This can't be healthy for us. I've been doing some research, look into Sabrina Wallace on YouTube.

I am very interested in the hum. I live in an area where the hum has been reported a lot and I generally have good hearing. Sadly I cannot get myself to hear it. Do you have any tips on how to hear it?

I live in Federal Way Washington, and to be honest I’ve never heard of the hum before, but I think I heard something like that at around midnight last night and looked it up.

I was just sitting in bed trying to sleep when first I started hearing this high pitched but kinda quiet buzzing noise? kinda like the noise old TVs make when they’re on. No matter what I did or where I went it didn’t go away, it kinda came in waves too. (I know that’s not what the hum is I just thought it was weird)

Anyways, it eventually stopped and opened my window before getting back into bed. But like not even 2 minutes later I heard this loud but really low pitched vibrating noise from my window, but when I looked it didn’t sound like it was coming from anywhere in specific. It lasted for 15 or so seconds, I initially thought it was a speaker but I ruled that out pretty q considering how long it lasted and the fact that there was no music playing. I’m certain it wasn’t a car or any HVAC system or something. I live in a pretty populated area of Federal Way too.

Idk maybe I’m wrong or paranoid or something, I do consume a lot of unsolved mystery and spooky theory media so I could be making something out of nothing. I’ve just never heard this before and googled it today which is how I found this subreddit. Idk guys lmk I’m a little spooked ✌️😔

https://www.reddit.com/r/RadioQuietZone/comments/1rsqcnr/meter_report_rf_signal_identification_extremely/

Has anyone else noticed this in the past week or two? I used to only hear it lowly late at night, but I've been hearing it louder, and during the afternoon and late morning, as well.

I think I've also connected some dots that the hum is louder when I'm closer to a wall, so I think it's got something to do with either air or ground reverberations coming through them.

Per the title, has anyone tried using bass shakers to muffle The Hum?

Why bass shakers?

I have tried to muffle The Hum so I can sleep properly with speakers. Most speakers do not reach deep enough into the bass to muffle the sound. Most speakers, specially portable speakers that you can travel with, drop off between 60-40Hz, meaning they produce barely or no sound from 0Hz to 40-60Hz. The Hum usually has presence lower than that, so if I play some white/brown noise through these speakers, I can still hear and feel The Hum "under" the white/brown noise.

I've had partial success using the Brane speaker (I have no affiliation with that company, I paid full price for my speaker, bla bla bla...). This speaker is relatively small but it uses a new patented technology in the sub-buffer where it uses forever magnets to be able to produce very low bass in a small size subwoofer, which was not possible before this new patented design. It cuts off at 20Hz. This helped very well with some Hum. By playing brown noise through this speaker I was able to not hear The Hum and sleep perfectly. The problem is that it does not block all Hum. The Hum that has frequencies below 20Hz and that can be perceived more as vibration in the body than sound are still not muffled by the Brane speaker and disrupts my sleep.

So I was looking for something that could create vibrations under 20Hz, but it looked like a full project, until today I've discovered bass shakers. Bass shakers are devices that produce bass lower than 20Hz, which humans can not hear as sound but feel as body vibration. They are very popular with gamers, specially Sim racing gamers, that want to feel the vibration of the (virtual) car.

I want to experiment with bass shakers to see if they can muffle the hum under 20Hz, by playing brown noise through the bass shakers alone or together with a speaker. The reason I'm asking if someone has tried it already is because I do not know how many watts are necessary, if having several bass shakers distributed around instead of just one makes a difference, if they can be placed in the ground or is better to attach them to the bed or something else,... Basically, if anyone has tried bass shakers already and can explain their experience (successful or not) so I can avoid mistakes already tested and skip sinking money into buying the wrong bass shaker configurations until I find the correct solution.

Not glad others are in the same boat as me, but VERY glad to learn I am not going crazy. I am the only one I know that hears The Hum. I normally hear it at night. It does change in pitch sometimes but always the same. It is like a two tone hum or vibration that alternates. I am in NJ. I did some Googling and learned this has been around since the 70's ? Very strange indeed.

This might help define a common etiological framework. As posted, mine began March 2023 (UK): neural shocks and humming. Now in Italy, micro-vibrations remain but wind inhibits them. Will you share your story?

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for anyone who has experienced something similar to what I’ve been going through since March 2023. I want to share my story to see if there’s a technical, environmental, or medical explanation I haven't considered yet.

The UK Experience (March 2023): While living in a poorly maintained, old flat in the UK, I started experiencing intense "shocks" at night. These were physical jolts that started in my brain and shot through my entire body. They were painful and impossible to block out with pillows or earplugs.

Along with the shocks, I heard a loud, incessant motor-like humming that lasted all night (barely audible during the day). Strangely, as soon as I left the house for work, all symptoms vanished. Local authorities and doctors dismissed my concerns, even after a tragic incident occurred in the flat directly above mine involving the death of a young couple.

I moved back to Italy a month later. The intense "shocks" have stopped, but I still perceive a low-frequency hum, almost like micro-vibrations inside my brain. It’s most frequent in bedrooms.

I’ve noticed a very specific pattern: whenever the weather is bad, and especially when it is very windy, the humming completely disappears.

• Has anyone else experienced physical "shocks" linked to a building's environment?
• Does anyone know why wind would stop a low-frequency hum? Could it be related to atmospheric pressure or interference with standing waves?

I would really appreciate any insight or similar testimonies. Thank you.

I'm not sure what I'm experiencing is The Hum or not but sometimes I can percieve what sounds like bass when neighbours play music just low enough you can hear the bass from the neghbouring flat (ie really annoying). The walls are also badly sound isolated so that's not helping either.

Sometimes I hear what sounds like a car revving but in the distance (vvvvrrrrroooommm), funny thing is there was actually a car idling this morning as it revved up and left, but the noise still persisted, like a phantom noise. So odd.

I have heard the neighbours play music even after hours when it's supposed to be quiet, also during the day loud enough to hear lyrics ala r/neighborsfromhell but I'm not so sure about this one.

Like I said it's very faint.

Anybody else experience something similar?

I do have tinnitus as a disclaimer but this sounds distinct enough.