Can You Hear The Hum? How 1 in 50 Across the World are Affected by Low Droning Noise Which Scientists Can’t Explain

Andrew Anglin July 28, 2013

Jaymi Mccann
Daily Mail
July 28, 2013

The Hum has been heard in isolated places around the world
It can only be detected by one in fifty people in those areas
Scientists left baffled as they can’t figure out what causes The Hum
Those who hear it can experience headaches, nausea, dizziness, nosebleeds and sleep disturbances

Irritating: Leeds is one of the most recent laces in the UK where the hum has been reported.

It is a noise that only two per cent of people can hear, but this low droning sound would be enough to drive anyone mad.

Scientists have been left baffled because they can’t figure out what causes a phenomenon called The Hum, or why it affects so few people.

Sufferers have identified common factors: the humming is only heard indoors, it is a low, rumbling noise, it is louder at night, and is more common in more rural areas, reported The Huffington Post.

In the UK, the noise has been heard in Leeds, Bristol, and Largs, Scotland, but has been reported as far as Taos, New Mexico, and Bondi Beach in Sydney.

Unidentifiable: The noise has even been heard in the town of Taos in New Mexico. They were unable to identify the cause.

A 2003 study by acoustical consultant Geoff Leventhall, from Surrey, shows that one in 50 people who live in a Hum-prone place hear the noise, and that most of these people are aged between 55 and 70.

Katie Jacques, from Leeds, told the BBC: ‘It’s a kind of torture; sometimes, you just want to scream.
‘It’s hard to get off to sleep because I hear this throbbing sound in the background. You’re tossing and turning, and you get more and more agitated about it.’

Those who hear it can experience headaches, nausea, dizziness, nosebleeds and sleep disturbances, and the BBC reported at least one suicide as a result of the noise.

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