Trying to solve the mysterious hum of the Golden Gate Bridge

There are also clips saying the hum was solved but they all say that.  Soon, it starts up somewhere else in the world and we go through the whole thing again.

Just to prove I am not farting into the wind about the hum going back decades, here is a passage from Flying Saucers Uncensored by Harold T. Wilkins from 1955 published by the Citadel Press.  From the chapter titled, "Shadow of the Unseen," Wilkins describes the contents of a letter he received in 1954 from a correspondent who commented upon meeting a lady, a Mrs. Craig, in his neighborhood who was concerned about "underground sounds" that she kept hearing.  The correspondent writes:

"One difficulty is that only certain people hear the sounds.  I myself could only hear a very faint throbbing; but on the afternoon I called, Mrs. Craig told me that it was not anywhere near as loud as it can be...The mysterious sound is not high-pitched.  Mrs. Craig describes it as the sound of 'giant wheels turning.'  Sometimes it seems to go up and down the walls of her rooms.  But the actual direction of the sound varies and seems to be unaffected by the wind-direction.  The bungalow in between hers and Mrs. Fielding's does not appear to get the sound at all; but the floor of this bungalow is laid on solid concrete, unlike the other two.  Both ladies are normal, charming, commonsensical young women."

He also writes:

"After several visits to the Chalfont area, I can say with fair certainty that I do hear the sound, but only faintly.  I hear the sound in various parts of that area that I do not hear elsewhere, and it is always the same sound, and distinguishable from other sounds.  Mrs. Craig told me that although its volume varies, its pitch never alters.

"It sounds to me like heavy machinery working a long way off, and it has a regular pulse of vibration, which suggests that either this machine passes through a regular phase of vibration, or there is a regular periodic build-up of soundwaves.  The unchanging pitch indicates that the machine always runs at the same speed.  I know of no normal machine that could do this, day and night for months. (There was one break: when the sounds stopped for about a week before Whitsun, and started on Whit-Monday night.)

"One cannot tell the direction of the sound.  It is simply there.  One may lose it by moving a short distance from a point where it is audible.  Go back to that point and the sound is still there.  Another odd thing is that although Mrs. Craig, in particular, and several other folk have searched for miles in every direction, on foot and by car, no one has ever succeeded in getting close to the cause of it.

"It seems completely elusive. One can go away from it, but apparently not approach it beyond a certain limit.  Either it must be very deep below the surface, or else--a wild surmise--it might be located in a fourth dimension!  As a matter of fact, I do not get the impression that it is subterranean in origin.  More like an effect of 'over the hills and far away."  It is an oddly disturbing sound.  It is harsh, daunting, and chilling.

"Mrs. Craig sometimes hears it very loudly, as if, she says, 'It was going up and down the walls of the room; but, even then, the sound always appears to come from outside...from over there."

Another correspondent wrote to Mr. Wilkins from Leigh-on-Sea near Essex about the same sound he and his wife keep hearing starting in 1953 and dragging into '54.  He describes the sound as "a combination of buzzing and grating sounds.  The description of rumbling trucks such as you mention about the Chalfont St. Giles sounds, would fit very well.  Strangely enough, the noise is not heard before 11-11:30 P.M.  On occasions it is extremely loud."

The correspondent goes on to explain that neither he nor his wife can track down a source.  He says that when he goes outside and follows its apparent direction and expecting it to get louder, he instead loses it.  

Now, this has to be the same sound as the Taos and Windsor hums.  All are described as low, daunting, harsh and grating--"like trucks rumbling."  I have a hard time believing that all the people in Taos and Windsor who claim to hear the hum hoaxed it by stealing from Mr. Wilkins's book.

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A news piece on the Windsor Hum from 2012. One guy thinks he found the source but I'll guarantee that isn't it. For one thing, he says, the sound emitted radiates in all directions. So, why is it only heard in Ontario, Canada? I should hear it where I live on the outskirts of Detroit but I do not. Again, it is described as sounding like a big truck idling nearby and is primarily heard at night.

>>Well, its likely not the same sound heard all over. In one place you say it could only be heard on the Canadian side of the border and then you say it was being heard in the UK? Couldn't be heard 5 mile/8km away, yet was being heard 4,000 miles/6437km distant. See what I mean?<<

No.  The sound heard in England was over 65 years ago!!  I said mysterious hums go back decades at least.  They didn't start with the Taos Hum or the Zug Island Hum.  As proof, I quoted from a book published more than 65 years ago concerning same hum heard in England.  I never said it was the same hum coming from Zug Island but it's the same sound, i.e. the same phenomenon.  There was no Zug Island Hum 65 years ago that I've ever heard about.



>>There was an indepth article in the ARRL QST Amateur Radio magazine sometime during the last couple of years regarding the Zug Island 'hum'. People on both sides of the border reported hearing the sound.<<

I've heard some Detroiters claim they also hear it but it is certainly not prevalent on the Detroit side or I would be hearing it.  I've never heard it and I've lived all over the Detroit Metropolitan area.  No one I know has ever claimed to hear it.


>>The actual mystery is why investigative reporters, curious engineers and scientists were not allowed entrance into the steel mill foundry on the island and why there was so much military security preventing entrance<<

It's entirely heavy industry.  It would be dangerous for the public to drive into Zug Island and there is nothing to see--no parks, no restaurants or theaters or entertainments--it's a huge quarry dotted with mills and factories.  There would be no reason to go there except you work there.  I've never heard of military sentinels guarding the entrances because there are no entrances.  I've driven past Zug Island many times and never saw a road leading onto it.  I saw only one closed off road off of Jefferson Avenue that doesn't look like it's been used in years.  I don't know how one actually gets on the island but it's probably by ferry.  There are a couple of railroad tracks leading in but they are way too dangerous to walk on assuming they would let you which they won't.  Most industries use their own private security forces.

>>even airspace over the island was/is restricted, according to the article.<<

They might mean using drones or something or trying to make a low pass with a helicopter.  Planes fly over it all the time.  There's no way you can prevent it.  Zug Island is very small and there is no way you could prevent commercial air travel over it or near it.  It's perfectly visible on Google Maps:




As you can see, it's a dirty place.  Probably not good for your health to be on that island long.  Maybe another reason they don't want anyone coming on.  Anyway, I see nothing sinister behind that.

>>Numerous engineers and scientists had attempted to diagnose the source of the sound but was unable, yet there were FFT plots presented in the article, breaking down the complex low-frequency audible sound into its component spectra.



About six months later the sound ceased, according to a follow up article, its cessation coincided with the stell mill being shutdown.<<

Most, if not all, of the Ontario people only hear the sound at night.  The steel mills run in the day when the sound should be at its loudest.  They might run at night but they might not.  The sound isn't caused by the steel mills.  Basically, if the sound was a physical source on Zug Island, we'd have found it long ago.  There wouldn't be all these theories as to where it comes from.  It has exactly the same characteristics of the English sound back in the early-to-mid fifties as well as the Taos Hum.  Whatever it is, it's not a steel mill or a work truck or any of that.


>>I'll see if I still have those articles. It was an interesting writeup.



In a similar schema, I can hear a low freqency sound which to me, sounds similar to a distant idling Diesal engine and which mimmicks the purported the so-called "TAOS hum" as well as others.



I've expended significant effort trying to track down the source. But interestingly no one else in my neighborhood can hear the sound, but a friend of mine, who was visiting, an ET contactee like me, was able to hear the sound. We were in my lab, when he complained regarding the noise, "hey, WTF is that sound?" "What sound", I asked, he said, "that f'in humming noise!" (ex-Navy officer, not a woke prissy panzy). Over the years, I've only found four people who can hear that sound, and all of them are ET contactees. I even wrote a lengthy report of my effort (at the time) to find the source and I posted it on Bill Beaty's "Science Hobbyiest" website, sometime around 1995?<<

It may be entirely of psychic origin.  Only certain people hear it because their brains are on the right frequency, as it were.  I hear nothing like it and never have anywhere I've lived--Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and Tennessee.  I've also spent a lot of time in Wisconsin, South Carolina, New Jersey, Rhode Island and the coast of Massachusetts.  No hum.  I'm living in an area now where a hum is supposed to be originating but I hear nothing.  The guy I quoted in the English article stated he hears it but only faintly while others were saying that it is very loud at times.  The guy in the Unsolved Mysteries clip I posted claimed to hear it underground in an abandoned mine but the film crew heard nothing.  So, I think it is a psychic thing or it at least has a significant psychic component.  

Is it UFO-related?  Could be, sure.  I am reading about UFO sightings that have taken place in schoolyards.  In one case, I'll have to look for it again, the UFO appeared near a school and had landed by some trees.  The kids got a teacher but by the time they got there, the UFO was gone but they claimed they could hear a hum coming from the area where they had seen it sitting.  What is a UFO anyway?  Saying it's just a flying craft may be as short-sighted as saying that a smartphone is just a telephone.  Obviously, smartphones are far, far more than mere telephones.  In fact, I use mine for way more than making calls.  That's the least thing I use it for.  I would think a flying saucer may be something way more than just a flying craft.  That may be the least of its various functions.

Ultimately, what does the hum mean to us?  Why is it there?  What purpose is it serving?  Is it for us to hear or is that just a byproduct of whatever operation that it is performing?  Or is it just something that happens in some people's brains that science hasn't yet caught up to?


>>Beaty's Hum page: amasci.com/hum/hum1.html



Its a cool website, presents many interesting subjects.

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Anomalous Phenomenon page:

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Cool, thanks!