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The Telegraph goes in search of 'The Hum'
The Telegraph sent a crack team of investigators and some equipment lying around the office to
Woodland, Co Durham, to find the source of a mysterious noise plaguing the village.
The Telegraph sent a crack team of investigators and some equipment lying around the office to
Woodland, Co Durham, to find the source of a mysterious noise plaguing the village.
Video by Roland Hancock
7:00AM BST 17 Jun 2011
The Hum is a noise that has been reported by residents as far apart as America, Australia and New
Zealand over the past 40 years. It drives some to distraction while leaving others untouched.
Bristol suffered a particularly troubling episode in the Seventies, during which people blamed it for
causing headaches and nosebleeds. The Scottish town of Largs was also afflicted throughout the
Nineties. In both instances The Hum eventually went away, but its source was never traced.
Like all sinister things it comes in the night, when the senses play tricks and reality blurs. No one
knows where it comes from, no one knows what makes it, but still it comes, a continuous, low-
frequency noise pulsating in the air, tormenting its victims.
Or does it? Could it – whisper it quietly – be just a figment of the imagination of some susceptible
members of the community?
The Telegraph was determined to find out ...
Source
7:00AM BST 17 Jun 2011
The Hum is a noise that has been reported by residents as far apart as America, Australia and New
Zealand over the past 40 years. It drives some to distraction while leaving others untouched.
Bristol suffered a particularly troubling episode in the Seventies, during which people blamed it for
causing headaches and nosebleeds. The Scottish town of Largs was also afflicted throughout the
Nineties. In both instances The Hum eventually went away, but its source was never traced.
Like all sinister things it comes in the night, when the senses play tricks and reality blurs. No one
knows where it comes from, no one knows what makes it, but still it comes, a continuous, low-
frequency noise pulsating in the air, tormenting its victims.
Or does it? Could it – whisper it quietly – be just a figment of the imagination of some susceptible
members of the community?
The Telegraph was determined to find out ...
Source
Tiny village is latest victim of the 'The hum' - It is a mysterious
sound on the very edge of perception that has driven thousands of
people around the world to distraction.
Posted July 6, 2011
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
6:00PM BST 09 Jun 2011
Now a tiny English village is the latest community to claim to be being hit by the phenomenon known as
"the hum".
Residents of Woodland, in County Durham, claim that every night a noise permeates the air similar to
the throb of a car engine.
It is sometimes so strong that it even shakes the bed of one of the householders.
But no matter how hard they look, the community cannot find the source of the problem and, at their
wits end, have called in the council to investigate.
The 300-strong population is the latest around the world to be hit by the rumble which has in the past
led to wild conspiracy theories blaming it on UFOs, government experiments and abandoned mine
shafts.
It is so widespread that it has even featured on the television show The X Files.
Its most famous occurrence was in Bristol in the 1970s when more than a thousand people complained
of the consistent drone causing nosebleeds, sleeplessness and headaches.
It vanished as mysteriously as it arrived and was never explained.
Residents of Woodland, a community consisting of one main street surrounded by farmland, claims
their version of "the hum" is constant from midnight until 4am every night and stops them sleeping.
There are no pylons, factories or abandoned mines nearby.
The noise started about two months ago and has been plaguing the isolated village every day since.
Marylin Grech, 57, a retired store detective, said: "In certain areas of the house you can hear it more
loudly. It is definitely from outside, it's in the air, all around, very faint.
"It vibrates through the house. We've turned all the electricity off in the house and we can still hear it,
so it's not that.
"Sometimes we'll be in bed and it vibrates right through our bed, like a throbbing.
"It's not tinnitus, that's a high pitched sound and this is very low. If I put my fingers in my ears it stops,
so I know it's not in my head.
"At 4am it's so clear, because we live in such an isolated place with no traffic, it's heaven.
"But it leaves a buzzing in your head for the rest of the day."
Gary Hutchinson, an environmental protection manager at Durham County Council, said: "I can confirm
that we received a call regarding a humming sound in the Woodland area earlier on June 1 and we will
now make further enquiries before deciding what action we will take."
Source.
sound on the very edge of perception that has driven thousands of
people around the world to distraction.
Posted July 6, 2011
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
6:00PM BST 09 Jun 2011
Now a tiny English village is the latest community to claim to be being hit by the phenomenon known as
"the hum".
Residents of Woodland, in County Durham, claim that every night a noise permeates the air similar to
the throb of a car engine.
It is sometimes so strong that it even shakes the bed of one of the householders.
But no matter how hard they look, the community cannot find the source of the problem and, at their
wits end, have called in the council to investigate.
The 300-strong population is the latest around the world to be hit by the rumble which has in the past
led to wild conspiracy theories blaming it on UFOs, government experiments and abandoned mine
shafts.
It is so widespread that it has even featured on the television show The X Files.
Its most famous occurrence was in Bristol in the 1970s when more than a thousand people complained
of the consistent drone causing nosebleeds, sleeplessness and headaches.
It vanished as mysteriously as it arrived and was never explained.
Residents of Woodland, a community consisting of one main street surrounded by farmland, claims
their version of "the hum" is constant from midnight until 4am every night and stops them sleeping.
There are no pylons, factories or abandoned mines nearby.
The noise started about two months ago and has been plaguing the isolated village every day since.
Marylin Grech, 57, a retired store detective, said: "In certain areas of the house you can hear it more
loudly. It is definitely from outside, it's in the air, all around, very faint.
"It vibrates through the house. We've turned all the electricity off in the house and we can still hear it,
so it's not that.
"Sometimes we'll be in bed and it vibrates right through our bed, like a throbbing.
"It's not tinnitus, that's a high pitched sound and this is very low. If I put my fingers in my ears it stops,
so I know it's not in my head.
"At 4am it's so clear, because we live in such an isolated place with no traffic, it's heaven.
"But it leaves a buzzing in your head for the rest of the day."
Gary Hutchinson, an environmental protection manager at Durham County Council, said: "I can confirm
that we received a call regarding a humming sound in the Woodland area earlier on June 1 and we will
now make further enquiries before deciding what action we will take."
Source.
| Residents of Woodland in County Durham are being disturbed by a mysterious constant throbbing noise Photo: NNP |
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