Humming Sound

by Deb
(Australia)

Hi Sarinne,

What advice can you offer in regards to blocking out very low frequency noise? I have recently moved into a double brick house and at night I hear this constant low frequency humming noise. I am guessing that it is coming from somewhere far away as it doesn't seem like it's coming from within the house anywhere.

I have covered the vents with foam which doesn't help much.

Thanks for any advice.

Sleep deprived,
Deb

Reply from Noise Help:


Oooh, that's a very tough one. Without knowing the source of the noise, it's hard to know how to address it.

Many people, from different parts of the world, hear a sound called "The Hum," which could be what you are describing. The cause is unknown, and it's notoriously difficult to reduce the disturbance it causes. Here are a couple of links that give more information on it:
Wikipedia entry: The Hum
Hum Forum on Yahoo! Groups

The two things I would try first would be:
  • Noise-cancelling headphones, which are designed to cancel continuous sounds and work well against low-frequency noise, like the noise inside the passenger cabin of a plane. People who are dealing with "The Hum" report mixed results with noise cancellation, but it could be worth a try. It would be a pain to sleep with them, but if they help it would at least give you an option.
  • A noise-masking device, like a white noise machine (or a fan, or a radio tuned to static). It might cover over the humming sound enough so that you can at least get to sleep at night.

And of course, if you can locate the source of the sound, then you might be able to find a way to address it directly. But since low-frequency sounds can travel long distances, you're right that it could be coming from far away. Try asking your neighbors if they hear it. Maybe they have more information, or can suggest ways to deal with it.

I wish I could tell you more. I hope you find a solution!

Regards,
Sarinne


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Sep 12, 2013
 Bass Subwoofer Speaker/Electronic Harassment
by: Elizabeth

My next door neighbor plays a self powered bass subwoofer speaker 24/7 to electronically harass me over a fence dispute. My windows, walls, floors, etc. vibrate. Beats my ear drums. Can I do anything to stop the bass noise rumble hum? The police won't cite him because the bass noise is not loud. Please help. I don't want to move. Thank you very much.

Elizabeth
Sep 16, 2013
 Electronic Harassment
by: Sarinne

Hello, Elizabeth. I'm so sorry to hear of the problem with your neighbor. Low-frequency vibration of your home 24/7 is a whole new level of nerve-racking!

As you're no doubt aware, you feel the low frequency sound in your whole body, not just through your ears. For that reason, conventional measures like ear plugs, hearing protectors, and white noise don't do much to block it out or cover it up. It would probably require a massive remodeling job or even rebuilding of your home to fortify it against the vibration. However, even then I would worry that the problem would not be resolved, since in this case the neighbor is doing it deliberately to harass you and would probably simply switch tactics and find some other way to disturb you.

For defending yourself against unreasonably difficult neighbors, you might check out Bob Borzotta's book Neighbors from Hell for fresh perspective, practical guidance, and encouragement.

I hope you find a solution that lets you keep your home as well as your peace of mind.

-- Sarinne from Noise Help
Dec 26, 2013
 You are not alone
by: Lori

It's the switch mode power supply from the smart meter on your house.
Apr 04, 2014
 possible tool
by:

Your neighbor could be using an LFO synthesizer. I have also seen on youtube, drone machines hooked up with an amp. Creates low frequency pulsing sound. There is also drone, ambient and binaural songs or apps that can be downloaded. Try using an fft or spectrum to identify.
Jul 25, 2014
 Definety not alone!
by: Don

I've been trying for years to find the source of the humming, drone noise. best I can describe is twin engines from an AC-130 Hercules. They are synchronized and seldom get off frequency.I thought that they could have been chicken house fans but...no way. Folks are reporting the noise all over the planet. there has got to be a common denominator!
Sep 19, 2014
 At last I have found others who would believe the hum.
by: Susan

I am certain I this hum is external, I never used to hear it until I moved. I am no longer able to meditate as I cannot reach the level. This hum is definitely worse indoors, I can hear it through my pillow. Ear plugs do not block it out, it is far worse at night when other noises no longer 'block it out', it is awful, occasionally a car passes by and blocks its frequency out, but that is only momentary. I do not hear it when I visit my Son, he has no mains gas and has a cesspit. could it be water pumps or gas pipes under ground? I is certainly not nature. I know this because this HUM stops every Wednesday night until early hours. It then wakes me up.
Sep 21, 2014
 SUSAN!
by: Don

You are exactly right! I have wondered if the MANY gas pipe lines in the area could be carrying this hum noise. At the current moment the noise has subsided. I have not heard it in weeks. Or perhaps I have finally blocked it out. Lol, I will not even stop right at this moment to try and hear it! I will travel to the one of the pipe lines thT re less than a mile away the next time the hum appears.
Oct 01, 2014
 humming
by: susan

Please call your gas company, I had the same humming noise for two years. The gas company installed a new meter and it is totally gone.
Oct 04, 2014
 Thanks Susan
by: Don

Susan,
The noise I speak of is audible no matter where you travel in my community. I highly doubt it would be 1" residential service lines. The Gas lines I speak of are 48" supply lines that travel through-out the country. Which would make more sense, since the humming can be heard ALL OVER the country and in other countries. At this point I'm willing to bet we all have this common denominator!!
Oct 04, 2014
 HUMMING
by: susan

I see, I did hear it very slightly last night but it is better, do you think they will ever stop it?
Oct 04, 2014
 Don
by: SUSAN

I am not the Susan who wrote and suggested that I ask to have my gas metre changed, however, thank you Susan. I am inclined to agree with you Don because I can hear it outside too, it sends a vibration in to my ears, it is a sound wave which is (as I have discovered) not "audible" to all people. Personally it is terrible, potentially life destroying I now wonder how this effects new born babies and children, especially in the long term. I wonder what animals are tormented with this noise too. This is a man mad noise and one way or another, we will ultimately pay the price for what we are doing to this planet.
I am looking for ear phones, I dread the noise every single night.
Oct 04, 2014
 HUMMING
by: susan m

I was hearing it outside also, after the meter change it is extremely decreased so maybe some of it is from the underground gas pipes, it was really bad before,
Oct 04, 2014
 Susan m
by: SUSAN

Thankyou Susan, I will ask the gas company to change my metre. My problem is... will they believe me? I have been made to feel rather uncomfortable in the past whenever I have spoken about this subject because others could not hear it.. Once, even told to have my hearing checked (just in case!) for Tinnitus first! Things like that, and the constant broken sleep have rather worn me out.
Oct 04, 2014
 HUMMING
by: susan m

Try earplugs for now, it helps. We have sensitive hearing. I had no idea where to go for help with it.
The gas company called me and said I was due for a new meter so this happened by accident for me. I just listened now and there was nothing. I had been hearing it for years. It never hurts to ask. I wonder if everyone here has gas coming to thier house?
Oct 04, 2014
 humming
by: susan m

in 2013 I see a person named Lori said that she thought it was meter related, is she still here?
Oct 05, 2014
 Bass
by: Elizabeth

I believe it is bass frequency. Check with your neighbors to see if anyone is playing a bass subwoofer speaker with no music. It's just bass (white noise/sound masking). You are sensitive to the low frequency. Go see an Ear Noise and Throat (ENT) doctor to get an evaluation. You will have hearing tests to check for hearing loss. You probably have Hyperacusis Dysfunction. Persons with hyperacusis should be evaluated by a physician expert in ear disease, usually an otologist, neurotologist, or otoneurologist. See if they or your internist or your ENT doctor will prescribe Neurontin (Gabapentin) which numbs the nerves in your ear drums. You will no longer hear the bass noise and you will sleep. You may have stiff ear drums so when the bass which is a physical force hits your eardrums it's like a drum stick hitting your eardrums and it hurts. Other people's eardrums are flexible so the bass frequency goes through and they don't hear it or feel it. This is what my ENT doctor described it to me. Vibration is a physical property of bass frequency. Google the internet and read up on bass frequency and Hyperacusis Dysfunction. Good Luck!
Oct 05, 2014
 ENT?
by: Don

To Elizabeth,
I appreciate you input. However, the noise/hum is there. It is true that some people can hear it. It is also true that you have to listen for it to come through, and once it does, you always hear it. It IS NOT a disease. It is man-made and if the government cares about it they could waste more money on a study to actually find it. I live in the country...STICKS! This is nothing that can be heard in the city, simply because of it's own reasons. We do have natural gas as a utility so the small pipelines are all over. For some reason the meters are out along the roadside. It could be the source, but on certain nights and even some days the hum just seems like something more than a 2" supply line. That's why I eluded to the main distribution lines that cross through our county, and may other county's all over the nation. The noise does not me it disturbs me.It's obviously something we will have to learn to ignore to avoid it, just like many other things we do as humans can ignore. So,
Oct 06, 2014
 Not an illness
by: SUSAN

Thank you for your advice (regarding taking Gabapentin etc)however, I do not want to pump drugs in to my body to try and cure an external noise I have travelled to lots of places and this "hum" is not everywhere. I can liken it a pump labouring far off in the distance. Ear plugs do not block it out .. it passes through. After having experienced many months of meditation in different places .. I know this is man made and the fact that a lot of people can hear it means that we humans are actually capable of hearing this well (enhanced) It would be a far greater blessing if it was banned... modified ... if it could be sourced and acknowledged .. I feel it is ignored like so many other things because 'it won't do any harm... ignorance ... Well being is last on the list these days!
Oct 06, 2014
 HUMMING
by: susan m

I found this
http://stopsmartmeters.org/2013/12/03/dirty-electricity-from-smart-meters-answers-from-the-experts/
Nov 03, 2014
 Neighbor who is harassing Elizabeth
by:

Elizabeth, as I’am sure the owner of this page and local laws would not condone physical violence to stop the neighbor who is harassing you I won’t suggest it. You may have to resort to a law suite or restraining order. I'm not a lawyer so don't know what evidence you would need. It may be worth checking into. Perhaps an Engineering student at a local collage could help you document and quantify it.
Nov 15, 2014
 Humming noise
by: J.P.

I can tell you that it is not from the Smart meters. I thought so at first, had my landlord change Smart meter to analog, and humming noise is still here. It really is horrible that the people who can hear this low frequency hum will never hear silence again. It's insane. I used to love sitting in a quiet room and be in complete silence. I don't know why there isn't more news coverage about this, because it violates our rights. Has anyone had any luck with silicone earplugs? Normal earplugs do not work. Thanks.
Nov 15, 2014
 Dear J.P.
by: Susan

I absolutely agree with you, I no longer am able to meditate, this humming noise has deeply affected my life. Silicone ear plugs do not work ...that is .. they do not block that sound out. Ear phones work with music on but we are then restricted to not hearing! I personally cannot just lie in one position with ear phones on all night AND worst of all.. with ear phones on, I cannot hear my elderly mother if she calls out to me OR my dog if she gets up to go out. WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO LIVE WITH THIS? I agree .. What can we do??
Nov 15, 2014
 Law Enforcement
by: Elizabeth

Law Enforcement needs noise meters that measure the humming, rumbling Bass noise (18 - 25db) that we hear and then they could enforce the laws (noise nuisance/electronic harassment) that are in place to ticket the offender. I was told by local Police to find a sound specialist to measure and document the Bass noise and then they could take the document to a judge who would approve ticketing the offender. I cannot find a sound specialist to measure the Bass noise. Further, our local Government - Mayor, Governor, Senator, Congressman, etc. needs to be contacted and educated on what is being done to us. Perhaps, they could get the ball rolling on better laws to prevent the humming Bass noise. Not only do I experience the Bass noise, but the vibration, too. I had custom made earplugs made and they help. But, you cannot stop Bass frequency. It permeates everything. Although, my neighbor must have some way to insulate his Bass subwoofer or Sound Masking machine (White/Pink Noise) so he and his family can tolerate it - or he's plain nuts and enjoys it. The Gabapentin numbs the nerves in my eardrums and it helps tremendously. I barely hear the humming and rumbling or feel the physical pain that the Bass frequency causes me because Bass is a physical force and I can sleep at night. It's a heck of a note that neighbor can reach into the privacy of my home with his electronic harassment/Bass frequency and cause me physical harm, steal my peace that I am entitled to, and get away with it. Good Luck to all of you. May you find the Peace we so desperately deserve. Thank you.
Nov 16, 2014
 To: J.P.
by: Elizabeth

Hello, J.P Does your Land Lord have a Sound Masking Machine that produces this new white noise (Bass) to muffle noise or conversation for his renters? You can Google Sound Masking or search Amazon.com to order the Sound Masking machine. Department stores and Grocery stores are now installing these Sound Masking machines to muffle extraneous noise and conversation. Companies install Sound Masking machines to muffle office chatter in open working environments. The original white noise made a sssshhhhing sound like a fan and it did not hurt anyone. Now, this new white noise or pink noise is mostly Bass if not all Bass. That's why it produces the rumbling and humming sound. It does not bother some people. But, others like you and I, it hurts our eardrums because it's Bass which is a physical force beating our eardrums and because it's Bass (frequency) it carries, traveling low, and permeates everything. You can hear it out in the parking lot. This Sound Masking machine should be outlawed. I hope it's a fad and goes out of style. Yes, the News Media should be made aware. The authorities should stop it. But, if they can not hear it, they will not help. That's why a noise meter that measures Bass frequency is needed (18-25 db). By the way, Bass makes you deaf. My recent visit with my ENT Doctor confirmed with new hearing tests that I have hearing loss compared to tests I took last year - thanks to my neighbor. Take care.
Dec 01, 2014
 Power Line communication on Smart Grid Is Cause of the Noise Pollution
by: Sandaura

Please go to www.sandaura.wordpress.com to learn more about the Noise you are hearing.

Removing a smart meter which is contributing to the cause of the noise and negative symptoms will not stop the noise if the meter is removed from your home. The Noise is radiating on the power lines; that is why it is heard inside and outside your environment. Isolated cases of the hum may have been impart due to power grid issues. the reason people are hearing it everywhere is because of the power line communication which was implemented to manage data which needs two way communication on the lines. PLC was experimented with in the past and used, but it was always one direction and not with pulsed RF signals. it is a well known fact that BPL and PLC are very challenging to control because of the noise this technology creates on the lines.
Dec 17, 2014
 Tracking to the source?
by: Kyle

I started to hear a low humming sound about a month ago, coincidentally right after SCE company changed to smart meters in my area. However, I can only hear the humming sound indoor. The meter doesn't make any humming sound when I listen to it closely. Does anyone know of a low-frequency sound detector that can be used to follow to the source of this annoying humming sound?
Jan 03, 2015
 Sound Level Meter
by: Elizabeth

I do not have a smart meter. I have a lunatic next door neighbor who plays a bass subwoofer speaker 24/7 because he has a grudge over a fence dispute. No music. Just the boom boom boom - constant rumbling and humming and severe bass noise when he turns up the volume that beats my eardrums - and the vibration that travels through my house so that I cannot rest or sleep because bass frequency is a physical force and permeates everything. If the Police Department possessed a Type 1 Sound Level Meter as described in the USA website link below (NoiseMeters.com), then they could uphold the City Ordinances regarding Noise Nuisance (electronic harassment) from bass subwoofers and cite the individual. Please see the copy email note below from Mike Bullen with NoiseMeters.com. He is kindly replying to me. But, I do not have $10,000 USD to purchase a Type 1 Sound Level Meter. That is why the Authorities - Law Enforcement - need to find it in their budget to purchase such a Sound Level Meter because they have the power to enforce the ordinances that are in place to stop the bass noise and vibration.

Sep 15, 2014

Dear Elizabeth,

Thank you for your inquiry. These are very low noise levels.

We do have instruments that do this but they need to be Class 1 accuracy (to get the low noise floor required) and have frequency filters.
http://www.noisemeters.co.uk/product/cel/632c/

You are looking in the order of around £3K for a Class 1 version of this instrument (you would also need a calibrator).

Best regards,

Mike

Mike Bullen
NoiseMeters Ltd
Tel: 0845 680 0312
Fax: 0845 680 0316
Email: mike@noisemeters.com
Web: www.noisemeters.com

I have even contacted Radio Shack (USA) to see if they have vendors who could supply them with a less expensive Type 1 Sound Level Meter that measures low noise levels which are below 30 decibels to sell to customers and Law Enforcement.

Regardless, someone needs to invent and manufacture a less costly Sound Level Meter to measure and document low noise (bass) to sell to the general public. Thank you.


Jan 03, 2015
 The Smart Grid Syndrome (The Hum)
by: Sandaura

Australia has the Smart Grid Network there. We have heard from several Australians describing the Smart Grid Syndrome. To learn more go to www.sandaura.wordpress.com
Jan 04, 2015
 Sounds like a generator in the distant
by: J

I have been trying to figure out this noise over a good year or more now! I kept thinking it was coming from a farm behind me but only really hear inside my house?! The noise sounds like a generator in the distance which I'll hear cut in & out often. I am currently visiting a girlfriends house today who is an hour away from me. I got up & hear this exact noise & doesn't stop.
Jan 04, 2015
 It doesn't matter whether you have a smart meter on your home to hear the noise
by: Sandaura

You don't have to have a smart meter on your home to hear the continuous hum and infrasound drone because it is radiating in the air off the power lines. It is ubiquitous and everywhere the Global smart grid network is turned on.
Jan 04, 2015
 noise
by: susan m

Sandaura ,
When did this start, do you know? I have heard it for years.
Jan 04, 2015
 @"J"
by: Don

@J...Welcome to the humming community....no one knows why.
Jan 04, 2015
 Hum Timeline...heard worldwide
by: Sandaura

Hi Susan,

The timeline where it started to impact wildlife as well is 2006. this is when they turned on the PLC (power line communication) for the Smart meters and Smart Grid network. I have detailed this in my blog at www.sandaura.wordpress.com.

The history of localized hums have always been related to electromagnetic energy of the grid. the reason why it is so prominent is because the power lines are now one continuous antenna because of the Global Smart Grid Network.
Jan 06, 2015
 Sandra- global powerline hum....
by: Don

I like your idea. but how can you explain the the indeterminacy of it. IE: sound disappears for weeks or months on end. It is also very prominent during the winter time...
Jan 07, 2015
 The hum is a constant continuous noise
by: Sandaura

Hi Don,
I am not commenting on an idea I have. We have forensic evidence from multiple testing in different areas as well such as power quality, acoustic and audio. All of which using different methods and equipment to analyze and acquire the data.

The noise issue that I describe is constant and has never gone away since the smart grid network, which uses RF PLC and various forms of it on the power lines. We have been measuring this noise since 2006 and it has always been there, even during major power outages. It is a communication network that is transmitting 24/7 non stop.

The hum, to be clear, is more than just a hum. It is also accompanied by a constant low frequency drone (infrasound). Again these RF signals on the lines are the source.
Jan 13, 2015
 Not Just a Sound but Radiation
by: SmartGridHum

A few health tips:

1. There's a YouTube vid re The Hum in Ireland by ImagesByDavid. Comments there said any cheapo drugstore "HEARING AMPLIFIER" will bring the LOW FREQUENCY hum up to "Normal" Hearing Level, thereby "Cancelling it Out" for Hum Hearers. They also said that by then Not Hearing the Hum (due to wearing the Amplifier), you won't feel the Vibrations either.

There are so many of those Amplifiers online I'm having trouble zooming on one to buy. I would also like to hear from others who may have tried this. And if you did buy & try one, would you please share which exact brand & model you bought & did it really work, & how complicated or easy is it to use, etc. Thanks!

2. The Hum is not just a sound but is deadly radiation (the Amplifier won't stop that). But, per DrAxe.com site (chiropractor) in his "25 Best Uses for Peppermint Oil" (Essential Oil) article, it included this one sentence: That Peppermint Oil will protect against "cell death via DNA damage due to Radiation." -- Also see his articles re Frankencense Oil w/studies re it curing cancers.

BTW: The Hum I'm referring to is the Low Droning Rumbling Hum that, when ramped up by Smart Grid Control Room operators, can also become a Faster Drumming Hum. (It can also be ramped up Soooo Strong that it becomes a LOUD ROARING with violent vibrations. No way in Hades is that an "it's all inside your head" phenomenon!)

Signed:
SmartGrid Vibrations & Hum in South USA, 8.5-Months & Continuing!

PS: Guess what the captcha word is, below, that it wants me to fill in to prove I'm not a robot > > "CRISIS" !!! No joke!! :-/
Feb 23, 2015
 Meter treater whole house surge protector
by: Lori

Yes, check with your electric company if they will install a meter greater whole house surge protector. It is installed between the meter and the wall.
This will eliminate the thumping, but you will still hear the smart grid. You will be able to sleep better at night.
I have installed three so far and it is much better.
Feb 23, 2015
 "Boil The Frog Slowly" Interview about HUM and more...
by: Sandaura

"Boil the Frog Slowly" radio show interview with a "Hearer" and also harmed by the Smart Meter technology.

Feb 09, 2015 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiPBJD-UKUo#t=51
Feb 23, 2015
 To Sandaura: Equipment to measure hum?
by: Elizabeth

Hello, Sandaura

You previously stated that you use "different methods and equipment to analyze and acquire the data" to determine what the hum and vibration is.

Please inform me what type of equipment you use and where I can purchase same.

Thank you.
Feb 23, 2015
 How to record the noise
by: sandaura

Elizabeth,

You can email me through my site at sandaura.wordpress.com

Mar 19, 2015
 WOW, just wow
by: TrendyCorndog

I recently moved 3 months ago to a different apartment and I have been accusing my neighbors of playing low frequency bass and when I was sure they weren't I started thinking I was clearly losing my mind. I not only HEAR this noise that no one else can hear, but I FEEL it, just like someone has the bass turned up. Earplugs do not help, white noise does not help, and I cannot for the life of me ever hear it once I am outdoors. I am going to try some of the solutions posted, just relieved that I am not going crazy although losing as much sleep as I have been sure makes me feel that I am.
Mar 19, 2015
 To Trendycornydog
by: Susan W

Yes, I feel for you, I am in exactly the same positon, I am certain this noise will effect thousands of people, also including babies and wild life, it will change life as we knew it. I actually moved house because I could not bear it anymore, I could have written your letter myself, I fell out with my neighbours, eventually I did not believe them and thought it was their fish tank /pump which was situated next to our joining wall. I cannot not get of to sleep, it is like torture, I try to catch up on as much sleep during the day time whenever I can because that is my only saving grace. Once night falls and other noises which would block it out or, rather, mask it have subsided, then it is too late. It vibrates an makes me tense up my ears. In order to try and 'block' it out, I have to be awake..it is a vicious circle. I have to try and sleep in one position, curled up with ear plugs in, the ear plugs do not work, I have tried them all, eventually, they made my ears sore from the pressure, I also now have a sore throat on the one side because I can hear less in one ear so pressed my other ear into the pillow with ear plugs in and after while, that hurts. (also tried many different types of pillows )This began in Sussex, I now live in Berkshire and although the noise is less here, it remains the same...constant. I shall move again one day, but I am not in the position to and when I do, I shall go at night and try to find an area where this noise doesn't happen. I do not hear it at my son's house, but, as I have mentioned before, he has no mains gas or sewerage pipes, so I wonder. Please do not think you are going crazy. Ear phones work up to a point, but only if you stay in one position and don't mind the music, they do cut you of from the world, which is not good at night.
Mar 24, 2015
 Humming noise
by: Deena

Ever since they installed the smart meter I can hear a crazy humming noise. It's the worst at night when I'm trying to sleep. Just got back from vacation and it is so annoying!
Apr 07, 2015
 humming noise
by: Judy

I have a humming noise in my apartment. It is loudest around the water heater.
My apartment complex refuses to address it.
My ears actually ring and hurt after I'm home in the apartment about an hour.
My eardrums hurt from the noise.
If there anything that I can do to make it stop?
Apr 19, 2015
 The "Hum"
by: Shane

The "Hum", as far as I can tell, is coming from the electrical grid and I think RF is amplifying it some how. I have been hearing the hum for about 5 years now. 3 years ago I downloaded a frequency generator and matched it (harmonized) up to the hum. What I discovered was that it matched perfectly with the ac current on the grid, 60 Hertz (Hz). Just recently, while I was making dinner, I could hear the hum and when I turned on the stove, which is electric, I noticed that the tone of the hum changed. Like when you put more torque onto an electric motor it will "strain". This confirmed it for me. I wasn't sure until now. How can I hear the ac current though? My theory is that smart meters that everyone has now is throwing RF not only into the atmosphere but putting it back onto the grid. Think about it. A few smart meters aren't going to hurt anyone but think about, how many people live in your neighbourhood, in your city, in your county, in your state and all of them are transmitting RF onto the grid which, coupled with the high voltage currant, is creating a "electro magnetic wave" or "frequency", ie EMF? Certain people can hear or rather detect them in their head. I say detect because I can still hear the hum with earplugs in. The EMF's created have saturated the atmosphere so much so that I can hear the hum even when I'm up in the mountains. So until they stop transmitting RF over AC current power lines we will continue to hear this damned Hum.
Apr 19, 2015
 More Anti-Radiation Health Tips
by: SmartGrid_Vibes+Hum

Learned at an anti-Smart Meter site of yet another health tip for protecting our bodies from the PowerGrid/SmartGrid Radiation assault (the Hum+Vibes are induced by EMF/MW/RF): "Calcium Bentonite Clay" > used for human consumption & poured over the land after Chernobyl. It adsorbs radiation (& other heavy metals, etc.). Several brands out there, but I bought the "Living Clay" kind (a fine green powder) at Amz. (I have no financial interest/affiliation in any of these things.) I have been using it only 1+ week so far, mixed w/water, drink it. It's supposed to "grab" all internal radiation & take it out of the body via normal elimination. I like it; can't hurt!

Since Radiation zaps our bodies of minerals, I also added to the daily regime "Magnesium Oil" (make your own > Food Grade Magnesium Chloride Powder, or Magnesium Chloride Flakes) + Water; spritz or roll-on skin daily. Plus I added Edon Liquid Minerals, 30-drops x day in water.

HTH! Just trying to stay alive down here in FLA amidst almost-non-stop "Electrified Vibrating & Humming Atmosphere" (indoors, garage too; concrete/carpeted floor, bed (no more metal coil mattress either), chairs, body, sinks/plumbing all vibrating & humming) for almost a year now. It's without a doubt the PowerGrid + SmartGrid = DeathGrid! No Mystery to it!
Apr 19, 2015
 PS: Addendum to Above
by: SmartGrid_Vibes+Hum

Previously I'd read Nascent Iodine was good for anti-radiation. Bought some, drops, take internally, tasted good! (will stain white fillings so drink water/brush fast). Later read that internal iodine may not be a good idea, could take too much > bad for heart, liver, etc. Safer to use topical iodine, on skin only, let it absorb; easier to regulate, less chance of taking too much, etc. So switched to Isol Skin Iodine (iHerb carries it, cheap; external use only!)

Also, re prior Peppermint Oil anti-radiation tip (further above, January 2015), should not take internally (though some people do 1-drop on tongue, etc.). Best to dilute w/any carrier oil & use topically on skin only, as Essential Oils are very potent/condensed, & you don't want to give your liver any excess loads to filter out.

Consult w/your favorite health care provider if you have questions. HTH!

Sorry I don't have a Hum Solution, but it's NOT "ocean waves crashing on sea floor" as nutty French "researchers" said in the News in recent days! Pfff! Red Flag > Dis-Info Alert!
Apr 23, 2015
 humming
by: sue

I live in Plymouth and the humming sound is a nightmare I hear it all time night time its really bad I don't know what to do to stop it.had my ears looked at all is fine.its only in my house and I can hear a little outside what can I do im on sleeping tablets to help me sleep but its still there all day and all night sometimes its gone for a day or two then it come back could it be electrical grid or power line really need help and to find out who to call
Apr 23, 2015
 Challenge this?
by: Susan W

Does anyone know how we can challenge this? It is obviously world wide, certainly nationwide. I would imagine there will be millions upon millions of signatures. It is time to investigate seriously because the impact this is having on people from all walks of life not having adequate sleep is becoming dangerous .. it is a mental torture. This should be fought against. Is there anyone out there who is better than I am on the computer we need to unite and take this as far as Human Rights.
Apr 23, 2015
 petition
by: susan m

Maybe a care 2 petition?
Apr 23, 2015
 Complain to the ACLU
by: Elizabeth

In the USA, you can go online and fill out a form to file a complaint with the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). Also, contact your politicians and local Government, Mayor, State Representatives, Senator, Congressman, etc. We need to unite and become a force. This hum is detrimental and brings harm to people. Those in power need to know about it because they have the authority to end it.
May 05, 2015
 humming noise in my flat
by: lynn kenney

I am hearing a humming noise in my flat and a motor noise in my bedroom getting me down
May 13, 2015
 New to the Hum scene here...BUT BESIDES ALL OF US HEARING THE HUM...
by:

What else do we have in common? Sick? Flu? Allergies? Recent dental work? Low immunity? Has anyone ELSE thought to ask these questions? I myself have only started hearing this idling truck noise aka "hum" just about a week ago. (only in my right ear) It was also in this time frame that I ran out of my usual vitamins and was informed of an abscess that was infected which was treated by a 5 day regamine of zithromiacin (Z Pack) prior to having 2 root canals done...and they haven't been able to complete the rest of the dental work yet.
Maybe this is not the cause of this "hum" but rather the initiator? Can anyone else recall what was happening in their lives around the time they first noticed the hum?
Are we conducting our own frequentcy to the "hum" from our own personal environmental stimuli?
May 13, 2015
 the hum
by: lynn kenney

well I have been on to british gas they said its not coming from the smart meter I told them that have tinnitus they said it must be my ears so we all must have tinnitus . its getting me down now so think I will put my head out of the window to sleep lol.
May 13, 2015
 smart meter network cause of hum; not just one smart meter
by: sandaura

Please keep in mind that one smart meter is not going to stop the noise because it is the Smart Grid communication layer network, so it is in our environment, in our air. It is heard outside as well as inside. We knew when we demanded our smart meter be removed; we knew that it would not stop the noise in our home because we had figured out that it is much bigger than our one meter and we were right. The terrible symptoms stopped, but the noise is still here today.
May 13, 2015
 Testimonial for Smart Grid Syndrome
by: Sandaura

Please go to:

www.https://smartmeternewsupdates.wordpress.com/about/

Post your testimonial there, as well. We are documenting and building a network to fight this serious issue.
May 13, 2015
 Good News?
by: Susan W

I heard recently that there is a battery (soon available) which we can purchase and can be installed into our homes from which, we can run our appliances etc. I only caught a brief clip about it on the News and all I gather is that it is a new cleaner energy / way of running our homes. I think they have to be charged by solar?? Not sure. Does anyone else know about them or has anyone else heard about them? I thought it to be very good news if it means an end to the awful grid humming we are suffering, because thousands of people will want them.
May 13, 2015
 great
by: susan m

This is great news, please sned more info.
May 14, 2015
 Blood Type Survey
by: Shane

I'd like to conduct a survey. I'd like to research a theory of mine. It seems that only certain people can hear the HUM. I would like to know what bloodtype and RH of people on this forum that can hear the hum are. Thank You.
May 14, 2015
 Battery energy
by: Susan W

There is quite a lot about Batteries on the internet..Telsa TechCrunch.com/2015/04/30/telsa-powerballhome-battery/ ( I hope that is right)but we should be able to find it on energy storage Wikipedia etc. Mainly it looks interesting where this technology allows us to be independent of the grids. Also I think solar power is required but governments are still allowing places to be built without solar panels ..how stupid. Sorry I do not have any more information.
May 19, 2015
 sounds so familiar
by: carol

I too have the same problem as many on here. Sounds like a distant engine, worse at night, rapid not really helping etc. All so familiar.
I've been hearing it in my present house since feb 2014 (moved in during Nov 2013) but I also used to hear it only at night in my old flat which is only a 10 minute walk away from where we live now, so I do think it is a noise produced locally.
I'm blaming electricity. There are two power substations near us. It feels like a constant vibration. Makes me crazy! I can't hear it outside but can often hear it in the car parked outside my home.
Could it also be gas pipes? I've had all the utilities folk out to check metres and pipes. The power man could hear it and the water man thought it sounded like a pump running.
I have set up a facebook group so I feel like I am taking action and for other sufferers to let off stream and compare stories. Low Frequency Hum Sufferers it is called. Please join.
May 19, 2015
 Yes to PowerGrid
by: SmartGrid_Vibes+Hum

Agree w/Carol & Shane that the Low Frequency Droning Rumbling Vibrating "Hum" is emanating from PowerGrid/Powerlines.

It is not just at night either, at least not here (began April/May 2014); it's all the time/any time.

It is not just a Sound but is an Extremely Low Frequency/ELF (Radiation) Vibration in the Infrasonic range (-20Hz) which is same range as the human body's internal organs, which is why some of us actually FEEL the "Hum" "penetrating" & vibrating our gut, bladder, chest cavity, heart, brain, eyes, legs, feet. Yes, it is Slow Kill Torture!

Quotes/Wiki:
[...]
"The frequency of alternating current flowing in electric power grids, 50 or 60 Hz, also falls within the ELF band, making power grids an unintentional source of ELF radiation.l"
[...]
"A common source of ELF fields in the United States is 60 Hz electric and magnetic fields from high-voltage electric power transmission lines *AND* secondary distribution lines, such as those found in residential neighborhoods."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency

Harmful? Wiki:
[...]
"There are established biological effects from acute exposure at high levels (well above 100 µT) that are explained by recognized biophysical mechanisms. External ELF magnetic fields INDUCE electric fields and CURRENTS in the body which, at very high field strengths, cause nerve and muscle stimulation and changes in nerve cell excitability in the central nervous system."
[...]

That's putting it mildly! As expert Curtis Bennett bluntly says, " 'INDUCING CURRENTS' means ELECTROCUTION!" > ThermoGuy.com.

Also from Wiki, for those who think Gas Lines are their problem:
[...]
"Transmitters in the 20 Hz range are also found in pipeline inspection gauges, also known as "PIGs".
[...]

HTH!
May 30, 2015
 Humming sound
by: Another Susan

I too hear the humming. Loud at night when there are no other sounds to block it out. Have tried ear plugs, but they don't help. Difficult to get to sleep. It's quite late now and still awake so going to put the radio on all night to see if that helps. I'll let you know.
May 31, 2015
 humming
by: lynn kenney

hi I have been told its my tinintis that's making the sounds
May 31, 2015
 LFN drove me out of my home
by: Dee

I moved into a new build flat which had up to date soundproofing! Wonderfully quiet. A month later I began to hear thudding bass noise and over the weeks a variety of five different rhythms of bass noise along with additional sounds. Most of the day and all of the night. Traced the noise to a 'gamer' using a home cinema i.e. media centre. He was a gaming addict and even when not gaming would leave the machine on 'tick over' - a sound like distant war drums. He wouldn't stop. At night he 'gamed' all over the world. Someone the noise was so loud it sounded like a sledge hammer outside my window, but measured very little on a home decibel measuring metre. These machines have built in sub-woofers which enhance Low Frequency Noise. No one else in the block said they heard anything, although I did hear one person having a go. In the end I had to move, as health was deteriorating. I'm a writer and no way could I work with the constant noise. I've discovered since that it's damaged my hearing.
May 31, 2015
 Humming sound
by: Another Susan

Playing music didn't help - still awake at 3am. Have just bought a white noise app for my iPhone. I'll let you know if it works. At £1.49 it's worth trying.
May 31, 2015
 To Susan W
by: Dee

Susan W I hadn't seen your comment from March before I left my first comment. Your experience sounds exactly like mine, right down to the vibration, the curling up in one position, ear plugs, etc. I am convinced the noise I hear is down to low frequency noise emitting from home media centre around where I live. I moved to get away from it, and to my horror I now live opposite another addict gamer, who hardly leaves the house and keeps his media centre on all the time, even if he not using it. I know when he is using it because the rhythm of noise changes. Obviously it's not just media centres that emit low frequency noise resonance. There has been some interesting research done at Salford University which was commissioned by Defra. Also other stuff from across the world. It seems though that at present there is no 'real' answer to what, why and how. Except that the LFN issue is world wide.
Jun 05, 2015
 Imaginary noise
by: Dee

Has anyone else been told that the noise they hear (which other people may not hear) is all in their mind. I keep being told this, and I am convinced it is not in my mind. Trouble is when other people don't hear the same noise, it is difficult to convince them. I think I am picking up LFN resonance which, according to research, only some people can hear. It would be helpful to know what experiences other people have had when they have tried to take, or get, action taken on the issue. Thank you
Jun 06, 2015
 Humming Sound
by: Another Susan

The White Noise app (£1.49) does help mask the humming sound. Needed to experiment with the sound, pitch and volume. Tried Heavy Rain for a few days - that was quite good, but have settled on Brown Noise with the pitch set to the lowest setting. Still trying out different volumes so that it settles into the background rather than being too prominent. For those who like the sound of a fan I think Brown Noise fits the bill more so than the sound of Oscillating Fan, which is also an option. This app is well worth a try. Hope it helps you.

By the way - who do I complain to about the hum?

For those who suggested it's tinnitus - definitely not that. I've had tinnitus in the past and its with you constantly, not just when you're at home.
Jun 06, 2015
 Tinnitus
by: Dee

I've also been told that the noise I hear is tinnitus. I know it is not because I've had tinnitus (in only one ear) for years and it's never bothered me; it is a different sound completely to the dreadful war drums and droning hum that I hear. I've tried complaining to E H but they only concentrate on volume of sound i.e. how many decibels, and LFN cannot be measured in decibels, it needs a different piece of equipment altogether. I have two files full of copies of letters I've sent to people, their replies, copies of research, information about how constant noise and interrupted sleep can damage people and make them ill. Not got anywhere, and still having the problem. The worst thing is being told it is all in my head. I really don't believe this because if it were I would hear it when I am out of my flat, but I don't.
Jun 06, 2015
 hum
by: lynn kenney

I have tinnitus 4 days out of 7 days I hear it the most in my bedroom if I wake up at 4 am I can not hear it if I hold my left ear I can hear it so now I have to believe its my tinnitus
Jun 06, 2015
 Not Tinnitus
by: Susan W

This humming noise is not Tinnitus.
I have NOT got Tinnitus either.
Jun 06, 2015
 Not tinnitus
by: Dee

I really don't believe that this constant noise I hear day and night, is tinnitus. But because no one else hears it (or they say they don't), it is so hard to deal with it. In the long run of course, they think it is all in my mind and I am a bit mad! I don't believe that. There is so much research out there about LFN and how only 1 in 50 people can hear this, and I tell people to read it, and then see if they still think I'm mad. Whether they do or no I don't know. However, because there has been research commissioned by the gov. it must be a problem. I've found out that apparently Environment Health Departments have been issued with guidelines on how to investigate complaints about LFN. However, don't think it's mandatory for County Councils to buy the right equipment or train up the officers, so back to square one trying to prove that it's not in the mind.
Jun 06, 2015
 Humming Sound
by: Another Susan

This is exactly the sound I here. Listen carefully as it's underneath the crackle of the recording machine. This is what's become known as the Bristol Hum (Google it). Hopefully this link to the sound will work for you. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hPAt8bIxgjk&feature=youtu.be
Jun 06, 2015
 Humming Sound
by: Another Susan

The link I just posted doesn't work so copy the paragraph into your notes page, click done and the link will then work for you.
Jul 25, 2015
 To Dee, how did you locate gamer
by: Mel

I began hearing LFN bass three weeks after moving into an end-unit townhome. It occurs 24/7 and I have to go to a motel frequently for sleep. How did you determine that the source was a gamer? I live in SE USA.
Jul 26, 2015
 To Mel re gamer
by: Dee

It took a while. I'd moved into a new block of flats. I first thought it was someone playing alternate pieces of monotonous, four or five different drum and bass music over and over 24/7.I eventually located the flat the noise was coming from, i.e. a flat on the floor below mine owned by a young guy. I could hear the noise through the extremely thick and heavy fire door, as I stood outside his flat. A friend came with me and identified the noise as coming from a gaming machine. He lived elsewhere, but was also a gamer. The young guy opened the door, we could see the screen and all the stuff that goes with gaming. He seemed to have loads of equipment. He'd turned down the noise when he eventually opened the door, but I could still hear this monotonous war drum type rhythm. I asked him if he could keep the sound down a bit, especially at night. The guy got really defensive and said he could do what he liked, it was his flat. My friend asked him to take the speakers down from the walls, but the guy got aggressive. There was no way he was going to stop, he seemed completely addicted, hardly ever left his flat. He wouldn't stop and kept the machine going 24/7 even when asleep. He said that some people had radios and TV's on all the time, and he didn't like 'silence' Even when people moved into the flat above his and screamed at him and banged on the floor, he carried on. Environmental Health got involved, but because the LFN can not be measured in decibels, and they did not have any guidelines about LFN, they said that the noise did not breach regulations?? Trouble was, that no one else, apart from the new people above him, heard it. But they did not want to get involved, as it would mean they might have had problems selling their flat - we have to report any EH involvement when we sell. They also owned another home so they moved into that. I had to move. It was just over a year of hell, basically. I had to tell the person who bought my flat about the problem, she came round one evening to listen and said that she could not hear anything. Lucky her, also lucky me, or I would not have been able to sell.
Jul 28, 2015
 New to Hum in Central NJ
by:

Hi everyone,

I am new to the Hum, although now that I think about it, I have been experiencing symptoms for a while and just didn't consciously notice. It is 3:15 am right now. I live in central NJ and I noticed the Hum very blatantly for the first time this evening at about 12:45 am. I awoke from a terrible nightmare with an awful headache and sharp pain in my right ear. It was then that I heard what sounded like a digeridoo. A deep, rolling, continuous bass sound. I initially thought it was trucks passing on the highway nearby or construction. The problem is that the sound was persistent and I could feel it. Like I said, it woke me from sleep with an awful headache and ear pain. I also felt extremely anxious and physically uncomfortable. I woke my boyfriend to see if he could hear it and he did. We went outside and could hear it there as well, but could not identify a source. I have noticed unusual sounds at night before, but this is the first time that it actually disrupted my physical being. I almost felt like a dog being tormented by a dog whistle. It did not seem to effect my boyfriend as much as he was able to go back to sleep, but he did hear it too. It seems to have stopped, I hope. I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this in NJ? And also is it the consensus that this is a smart meter issue? I'm also interested in trying the bentonite clay. Has anyone else used this and if so, what brand? Thanks and good luck to all!
Jul 31, 2015
 To Dee
by: carol

If Dee is still on here reading comments please can you tell me who you wrote to in your quest to solve or trace the noise.

Are you in the UK Dee?

I have been hearing this 24/7 for over 18 months now. Only 2 periods of silence for a few weeks in that time. It's horrendous!

There are 2 substations in my vicinity. An open air one, which is quiet when beside it and also an enclosed one further away which does give off a hum. But the level of noise seems unlikely to travel into my home as it is low volume and would seem like it would be silenced by closing the door or window on it.

Any one in Scotland have this problem of low frequency humming? I would be interested in ganging up to take action and get the noise properly investigated. The council does not srrm to have appropriate equipment and are more interested in the decibel level than the tone. Least they ate investigating for me but if we don't know the source it can't be stopped or srtvef with a notice.

Please have a look at and join or like the Facebook group Low Frequency Noise Sufferers.
Best to all.
Aug 01, 2015
 To Carol
by: Dee

Hello Carol, In the first instance I didn't write to anyone or contact EH because they always ask where the noise is coming from. I eventually discovered which flat it was coming by getting up in the middle of the night, getting dressed and going outside walking around. I did this at least three/four times a week. Then I started going up to each floor and just standing listening to see if I could hear anything. This is how I discovered which flat it was. I did contact EH, but as you say it was all about decibels. Also they had loads of excuses for not coming out after midnight, i.e. they were short staffed and had a large area to cover. blah blah. However the sound cannot be measured in decibels, it require special equipment and special training. There is some interesting government funded research on line. If you google Low Frequency Noise, there was some research done by University of Salford, and some more by a unit in Westminster? Also lots of blogs and papers written about the effects of LFN on people. In one of the pieces of research it put down recommendations for EH departments to purchase the equipment and then train the officers in it's use. However, it is not mandatory for Councils to do this, so with all the financial cuts...don't hold your breath. I am in Herefordshire at the moment, but am having problems so looking to move. I found it an exhausting battle and felt that I could never win. I do hope you have better luck Carol
Aug 02, 2015
 Thank you so much Dee
by: Mel

Thank you for your detailed description of how your located the gamer. I believe this is what I have experienced for 5 months. The arrangement of the one and two-story townhomes in my neighborhood make it impossible to locate. Also, the local police have dealt with some of my neighbors (who work for the same county) as if I am a perpetrator when I complain. I am moving and may again if I encounter this again. At least those of us who can hear this LFN can move away and hopefully limit our exposure to the vibroacoustic disease effects of LFN.
Thank you again as you've helped me immensely.
Aug 03, 2015
 To Mel
by: Dee

Hello Mel, Glad I was of some help to you. It is very difficult to track down where noise is coming from, especially if it is 'gamer' noise, as it is, I've found, almost impossible to hear the noise outside. I'm sorry you have to move again, this has now happened to me twice, i.e. I am now looking for somewhere to go. Trouble is, gaming is so popular now (with more and more people getting 'addicted' to it and thus, like my neighbour at the moment keep the machines on all the time - it's the machines themselves that produce the LFN) that finding somewhere peaceful to live is hard. I only wish the companies who make these damn machines would think less about profit and do more research on the effects of the noise on humans. Most gaming machines have built in sub-woofers that actually enhance LFN. There needs to be a determined investigation into this, but...in a world that only thinks of financial gain...I cannot see it happening. All the best to you.
Aug 17, 2015
 the hum in my left ear
by: Kerry

I am in Canberra, Australia, and have been plagued for a number of months by the intermittent mid range frequency noise, coupled by a low frequency throbbing hum which I only hear through my left ear. My family cannot hear it, my friends cannot hear it...but I fear that it will drive me to distraction. Especially at night, especially when I go outside and hear almost nothing of it. I have walked the streets, I am at a loss, and feeling quite desperate.
what to do? how to block it? any answers?
Aug 17, 2015
 to Kerry in Australia
by: Dee

Hello Kerry. From what you say it must be low frequency noise. Your description of the noise matches that of a gaming machine (however it may not be so). However, I never had this problem with LFN until I came to live in close proximity to a gamer who, played constantly, and even when not playing left the machine on. The machine produces the war drum type of noise, the games add different sounds, rumbles, pings, bangs, thumps, sledgehammer type noise, and so on. The issue about not hearing it outside is so common with LFN. I have read about some people who have taken to sleeping outside in a tent or shed because that is the only way they can get any sleep. I know where the noise disturbance I am experiencing is coming from, but as soon as I walk outside - nothing. There's a lot of on line stuff about LFN. It can travel several kilometers (especially in open countryside) it seems. Also it can penetrate through glass, slate, tiles, brick, all matter of building material. Once it's into a building/room it is sounds loud because the walls act as an amplification box. This is info gained from on line searches. It is not that easy to track down when you are outside. I have not found any successful way of blocking it: have tried several different types of ear plugs, cotton wool, headphones, scarves, pillow over my head, etc. etc. I am being driven to despair - for the second time. I've moved once to get away from a gamer in a flat in a floor below me in the block where I used to live, and to my horror there is another in a house right opposite me on the other side of a narrow road. I've actually been considering trying to find a wooden house! Wondering if wood would help to damp down the noise, as sound waves bounce off 'solid' material. It is a nightmare. Sorry not to be of more help, I do hope you get settled soon.
Aug 17, 2015
 LFN is Bass
by: Elizabeth

I believe that it's bass frequency. The only way to stop bass frequency is to turn the power off or by distance - move far enough away from it so you no longer hear it or feel it. Since bass has a physical property, you should also be "feeling" the vibration (pulse/beat/resonance). Bass permeates everything - brick walls, eardrums, human bodies, etc. The USA Government and FBI use it as a weapon. You can measure bass with a noise meter or sound level meter using the C weight. New York City (USA) has a noise ordinance that includes bass noise (nuisance):

Sometimes residents are disturbed by pervasive bass sounds that resonate and can be felt physically by a person.

• Bass sounds measurements are weighted in the "C" scale and may not exceed 6 dB(C) above the ambient sound if the ambient sound is greater than 62 dB(C).

If a police officer has a noise meter or sound level meter using the C weight scale, he can cite the violator - if he has an noise nuisance ordinance like New York City's to enforce. You can Google WWGrainger.com and find their sound level meter (5URG5) for $200 that has the A and C Weight Scale.

Houston, Texas USA has a noise ordinance regarding vibration or resonance from bass:

(b)
Regardless of the measurable dB(A) level established in this chapter and measured in a manner provided in section 30-6, the creation of any sound causing persons occupying or using any property other than the property upon which the sound is being generated to be aware of vibrations or resonance caused by the sound shall be prima facie evidence of a sound that unreasonably disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, or safety of others in violation of this chapter.

I am pushing to get the City of Houston to add New York City's ordinance above and the sound level meter C weight scale in the hands of the Police.

Somehow, we must convince and even educate the authorities on bass or LFN. Push. Where ever you are, push to get ordinances created to end bass noise and vibration. We can do it. We can find a way.
Aug 17, 2015
 Newbies: Check for Smart.Grid First!
by: Smart.Grid_Vibes+Hum

All Newbie Commentors should read all prior comments first. It appears that they don't read prior comments first.

To the lady Kerry in AU: I've heard gaming machines & that is NOTHING like the CONSISTENT, STEADY, PULSING, VIBRATING LFN most people are hearing & feeling.

Which ear doesn't matter. I hear/feel it in either/or ear, depends which direction the Smart.Grid "current" is currently "looping" around the neighborhood.

The reason you hear it INSIDE is simple > The Smart.Grid IS IN YOUR WALL-WIRING. It's also in Transmission Lines & Distribution Lines, whether overhead on poles, or underground lines. So some people do hear it outside, depending on how the Grid is laid out in their area. But true, more likely to hear it INSIDE because of having WALLS with WIRING in them.

So, FIRST, check your area to see if your utility company has initiated Smart.Grid Technology. Also check for GAS LINES in your area. They transmit frequencies via "PIGS" (see my comments further above dated 1/13/15, 4/19/15, & 5/19/15).

Then, if no Smart.Grid nor Gas Lines in your area, then you can go on "gaming machine goose chases" if you like, but that gaming sound is really NOT what the majority are describing. Also check for military in your area. Navies use ELF/LFN to communicate with Submarines.
Aug 17, 2015
 USE COLD COCONUT OIL+COTTON BALLS IN EARS TO HELP BLOCK ELF
by: Smart.Grid_Vibes+Hum

Since I did not have "Hearing Amplifiers" on hand to help block ELF (see prior comment 1/13/15), the idea came to me (TYJ!) to use what I DID have > COCONUT OIL stored in the fridge. It is a solid white oil so you cut out a little chunk & completely fill your ears with it & then press a cotton ball on top of the oil to hold it in place.

No, it's not fun having your ears blocked, & it's a little bit messy/greasy, & yes it will eventually melt in your ear, etc. But it definitely seems to help block ELF & even helps block MWR/RF, & it even helps the body to not FEEL the vibrations of the ELF as much, at least for awhile.

Will putting cool/cold (from the fridge or room temp) Coconut Oil in your ears hurt your inner ear? You can get a doctor's opinion first if you like. But I wasn't & still am not worried about it. Since God created Coconuts in Nature, I figure it's totally safe. (If you live in a FREEZING Climate, maybe that would keep the Coconut Oil-In-Ears solid longer, but human body temperature 98.6(?) would probably melt it in your ears eventually anyway).

NEW REVELATION: Just the other day I happened upon an older forum thread re prepping at ATS where the conversation just so happened to veer off to two guys discussing SOUND PROOF ROOMS for Music Studios. One guy was an expert who had built Sound Proof Rooms professionally for Recording Studios. One of the frequencies they must block is ELF/LFN "Bass" because it travels through floors/walls to any adjacent Recording Room(s). I had read about Sound Proof Rooms before & materials they use but had never heard of this > > >

That expert guy described all the materials they use in building Sound Proof Recording Studios (5-pane glass, put a room-within-a-room, etc.), & he included that they then "FLOAT THE ROOM IN OIL"!!!

So there ya go!! I was like, Wow, How about that!! OIL must obviously be what helps them block the ELF/LFN since "Low Frequencies" tend to "hug the ground." So maybe that's why COCONUT OIL also helps block the ELF/LFN from reaching the inner ear!

Lastly, thanks to Elizabeth for that LEGAL info re NY & Houston city codes, etc.

PS: The captcha word this time is "CATTLE" > Exactly what TPTB think of society en masse > a Herd of Dumb Cattle.
Aug 18, 2015
 To Elizabeth
by: Dee

Thank you for your very helpful comments, Elizabeth. Unfortunately the UK seems to be way behind in the way it deals with LFN. Everything is measured on the A weighting scale. There seems to be a denial culture, despite the fact that thousands of people in the UK are driven to despair by LFN. Government funded research which has been authorized (due to people committing suicide because of this problem) have resulted in conclusions so 'bland' it's quite obvious that they have no interest but simply don't want to be bothered. I wish I had a copy of your comments to send to my local Environmental Health department, as I've argued the point about C weighting measurement, and they are suggesting there is no such thing!
Aug 18, 2015
 Smart.Grid - Vibes
by: Dee

Thank you for your tip about coconut oil. I have used also olive oil, and various other 'oily' substances. Apart from ending up with a greasy ear, neck and hair, I've found, sadly, that they don't work. Electric grids, gas lines, pylons, telephone wires, etc. have all been taken into consideration and, I agree, that in some cases there could be a problem. However, I've lived all my life in a variety of different properties all with electric wiring, some with gas, some near pylons, most with telephone wires, etc., and have only experienced this problem with LFN during the two occasions I have ended up living in close proximity to gamers. I have friends who are gamers, most of them responsible in setting their volume levels. My son is a grown up gamer (he doesn't obviously live with me) I know the sound that gaming machines make when used and when 'ticking over' and this is the sound that I am hearing. OK, not everyone will have the problem - only two of the other residents here are bothered by the noise - other residents don't hear it. Which is, of course, a huge part of the problem,i.e. only about 1 in 50 of the population in the UK is bothered by LFN. I could go down the route of stripping out all of the electrical wiring in my flat, but I don't think the landlord would be too happy! I certainly accept that other people's experience with LFN is not down to gamers, but other reasons, everyone is different. I will certainly try your tip about using cotton wool soaked in Coconut oil.
Aug 18, 2015
 UK environmental health departments
by: Dee

OK. This will probably only apply to people from the UK who have a sensitivity to LFN. I have just been informed by my local EH department that: they don't deal with people who have this particular noise sensitivity!! i.e. the noise has to be something that can be heard by - 'an average, normal, reasonable person!' I asked what a normal person was? Couldn't tell me. An average person? Same answer. A reasonable person (reasonable based on what measurement) Same answer. I cannot find any organization in the UK which assists and 1 in 50 of the population who are sensitive to LFN. Does anyone in the UK know of such an organization? If so, please let me know, because it is about time the laws regarding how EH departments worked, was changed. Thank you
Aug 18, 2015
 Hi Dee!
by: Smart.Grid_Vibes+Hum

Thanks, Dee, for the add'l info. When I speak of the Power Grid powerlines, wall-wiring, etc., being the cause of ELF, I mean that in regards to the "Smart Grid." If the UK does not yet have the Smart Grid AMI ("Advanced Metering Infrastructure"), then that would not be the cause for you folks.

There used to be a group in the UK, LFNSA (Low Frequency Noise Sufferers Assoc.), but I don't know if it still exists. Try googling LFN Sufferers: http://www.google.com/search?q=LFN%20Sufferers%20UK

John Dawes is over there in the UK & he's been researching the UK LF Hum for a long time & has a google group called "Hum Sufferers." Dawes thinks the UK LF Hum is coming from the USA's 60-hertz Power Grid:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hum-sufferers

Coconut Oil is solid vs Olive Oil being runny liquid. So the chunk of solid Coconut Oil in ear acts as a barrier (plus the cotton ball on top to prevent it leaking after it begins to melt). It's only a temporary "help" & not perfect, for sure.

Supposedly a cheap drugstore generic "Hearing Amplifier" can turn LF up into "normal hearing range" which supposedly then cancels out the LF (see my first comment from Jan.2015). I haven't tried one of those, so cannot say; & I heard they are uncomfortable to wear & impossible to sleep with (the gadget shape/size hurts ears).

Hang in there!

(PS: Captcha word now says IODINE! Funny because I began using topical iodine in recent months to hold back EMF/MWR/ELF radiation damage!)
Aug 18, 2015
 To Smart.Grid - Vibes
by: Dee

Thank you for the information about LFN suffers groups. My latest find resulted in being told the e mail address was no longer in use. Then I looked at the info and saw that it was written years ago, so I guess group no longer in use. I guess it would be helpful if people dismantled their web sites when they no longer used them! Thus, my plea for help on this forum. I've tried other possibles in the past, but no response. To be honest, I think people just give up in the face of the governments disinterest, and obstruction to progress, with this problem. There are now too many people in the UK having a problem with LFN, and for the gov. to acknowledge them would be finally admitting to a problem. No way will they do that. It would open the biggest can of worms ever. Our laws in the UK are pathetic when it comes to minority groups' sufferings and harm. However, as soon as I can find some people willing to form a support group with the remit of being focused on active campaigning the better. Who is John Dawes? Is he someone sympathetic to the problems experienced by LFN suffers? Re the amplifier thing. Not heard of them over here (years behind the times as usual). I have tried sleeping in supposedly 'noise blocking' headphones, but of course very uncomfortable and also, I realized, that the 'noise blocking' bit is to stop noise intrusion when listening to music, not to block noise out completely. I wish!
Aug 18, 2015
 LFN
by: Brown-Noise

Plse all sufferers take a look at a report by Geoff Leventhall for DEFRA from 2004. This vibration caused Scotland to commission several reports and they are ions ahead n admitting there exists an environmental health issue. I have spent thousands on trying to prove I am not neurotic. But having read today Wikipedia articleBrown noise, I realise that I suffer serious sleep deprivation and weight loss due to LFN. Those frequencies are so dangerous they cause body cells literally to oscillate or resonate. And, worse, can cause involuntary bowel actions. After my nightly sleep disturbances I need to be in the loo 4-6 times in rapid succession. I bought an EARTHPULSE and realise it yields 1Hz-14.6Hz in all settings which is not good as made me hyper. Was advised to switch a fan on, and that, with melatonin has been the only way to block,out the Hum. Getting the house dowsed would not help as EMF is not the same as the pulsed droning we hear. Underground water, the Grid, substations, pylons, neighbours' devices, 4G... All of the above, and probably a cover up. What is the alternative . I've switched off the Mains at night, fridge off was bliss, but still the intermittent droning which is felt, not heard, absorbed by the entire body. Maybe there are more of us being sensitised, but I suspect it is increasing power use exponentially. And yes, what a handy inexpensive way to annoy a neighbour. If DEFRA commissioned aPhD because so many employees were/are affected, why isn't there some government action. The power companies will have their lobby much as the mercury using dentist fraternity does. Can't even move home as it is ubiquitous. Lobotomy anybody? Then we wouldn't care either way
Aug 18, 2015
 To Brown Noise
by: Dee

Hello, thanks for your very interesting and insightful post. Agree am totally perplexed at lack of Gov action. Although, having said that, I am not really surprised; as I said in my last post: to admit there is a problem opens a huge, nasty, tangled can of worms because then they have to do something, and that will cost. Although - I imagine the cost will be passed on to the already hard ridden tax payers. Have read Levenhall; also Defra funded research undergone at Salford Uni, trouble is the conclusions (at Salford) were so bland as to be useless. Most of it really made me cross, but what made me furious was the ides, not well hidden between the lines, that people who have sensitivity to LFN are somehow 'responsible' i.e. it's their reactions to it that are to blame - therefore we should all undergo CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) which in the past used to be called Aversion Therapy and was used to help people with phobias - that caused interference in living their lives - to over come them!! Can you imagine going down that route and, of course, still hearing and feeling the noise, and being told you 'aren't trying hard enough to overcome your 'phobia!' Very interested in your use of Melatonin, may try that. I also have fan, and also purchased a quite expensive 'Sound Therapy System.' This can work if the volume is turned up high, but the LFN still cuts through it. I hadn't realized Scotland was so far ahead with getting a handle on this. Do you know if there is any research carried out in Scotland that has well drawn, decisive, conclusions. I am searching for something to throw at my local EH department. I've copied stuff to them about the dangers of LFN (and it has the same physical effects on me, too) but they just won't have it. I need something hard hitting that they cannot ignore.
Aug 18, 2015
 Support
by: Brown-noise

Dee I believe there has to be a group lobby to MPs, councils, etc. I have done masses of research as heard the hum for over 30yrs when I was v isolated as no-one but no-one understood then. I will post the scot.gov sites I've downloaded. They are much more sympathetic and recognisant of the effects on health. I didn't mention that studies performed at the RFH during a concert when they emitted the bands caused members of the audience to become fearful, tearful and filled with awe and fear. That is mentioned on Wikipedia also. Hence the bowels.... I also have adrenalin sensitivity which goes with the brain type. I hear the mosquito emissions in the higher frequencies also. Was told I have a primitive skull shape by Osteo PhD and am hyper alert. I also think the beached whales , dolphins probably react to sound waves in the oceans created by the NATO defence naval systems. It is a huge problem but worsened for us as not one of my friends, family members etc take it seriously. The papers I cite mention isolation too. I have found numerous USA sites where States sometimes even compensate. The dangers as I see them, are that the Grid is being ever added to, the natural healthy frequencies of the earth are interfered with and we are branded electro sensitives when in fact we should act as a signal of what is to come. It can only get worse. I'll post the links on my research tomorrow as am fading due to a v bad night last night....
Aug 18, 2015
 Group action
by: Brown-Noise

Perhaps all UK sufferers on here should post which area they live in. Even part postcode.... there may be a line corresponding with Grid lines, water, wind turbines (create hum up to 7km). LFN passes through concrete and increases intensity at that distance... Underground mines and unused quarries were mentioned in the EMF protection sites.

I would buy a battery, off grid, but having tried to sleep with Mains off, it made little difference.
Aug 18, 2015
 Brown Nose
by: Dee

Sorry you having a bad night. My problems with LFN only started about two years ago when I moved into a new flat in a new block. About a month later a young man moved in to a ground floor flat. He was (I guess still is) a 'gamer' 24 hours a day. He obviously didn't 'game' for 24 hours, but he left the media centre switched on for 24 hours whether gaming or not. The machine (media centre) made a constant, low, heavy, war drum type of noise, so it was literally 24 hours a day. Tried talking to him but he became aggressive and would not turn the volume down. He owned his flat, as did I mine, and EH were useless. I had to move and to my horror, I found I had moved opposite to a large family who also game all the time and leave the machine switched on. Sometimes the volume is turned down, it is audible then and just about bearable, but evenings, nights, weekends, it's full blast. I have contacted EH and insisted they use a C weighting to measure the sound. However, they are very reluctant to do anything and just keep saying that 'they won't pick anything up, no one else hears it, blah blah blah.' My family, like yours, do not believe me and do not support me. I've jumped through all the medical hoops I can, ENT (not tinnitus), Neurology (no sign of damage to nerves or brain) Psychiatry (not psychotic, paranoid, manic - although sometimes depressed due to lack of sleep!) All this at the behest of my family, who even now don't want to believe me or support me. I totally, absolutely, agree that we need a cohesive, dedicated group of people to campaign and lobby the government. However, all the three support groups for LFN suffers that I found - two only had addresses, I wrote and no one responded. No e mail or phone numbers. The last one had an e mail address which was not in use. So I have written today and hope I get a response. I really want to get a handle on this, but sometimes I am so sleep deprived and also am trying to find somewhere else to live, that there do not seem to be enough hours in each day. I have, however, e mailed a copy of the HG Leventhall report to the senior EH officer at my local council, and asked her to get back to me with her comments!! Watch this space. I look forward to receiving the Scottish reports when you are able to send them. I hope your night improves.
Aug 18, 2015
 Group Action
by: Another Susan

In answer to Brown-Noise - GL8. I'm doubtful its 'gamers' - see 'Bristol Hum' on Google. A recording has been made which is identical to the sound I hear (it can be heard beneath the sound of the recording machine).
Aug 18, 2015
 Scotland acknowledges....
by: Brown noise

http://www.gov.scot/resource/doc/158512/0042973.pdf

Dee this is the dynamite site which may give you the ammo.

I pity you and all those who must endure this purgatorial torture. Guantanamo used sleep deprivation as torture. I only hope the all nighters are the root of your disruption. I once got tortured when my husband was alive; it was his electric toothbrush, just innocently plugged in, very similar in sound to the hum.

Sometimes at night, I can feel my forehead wince in time to the pulsating humming. I was convinced it was neighbours, but now realise it may be " in the air" or further afield, or underground or all of the above. At a previous address I got up at 3am walked up the road, 6 houses away and saw the TV on. I knocked on their door next day but they insisted I couldn't hear it as their children upstairs did not. That is the extent of the ignorance. I just heard the low thumping muzzled drone and followed it. It really may be just a difference in brains and their development. But even one sufferer is too many, it could drive anyone to insanity and worse. Let us know what your comments are on the paper....
Aug 18, 2015
 Bristol hum
by: Brown noise

Another Susan I was originally from Bristol and heard that in my 20s, sharing a flat with sister who never heard it. It is exactly what I feel (hear) up here. I had 12 years in ths USA but was never troubled (80s). It has got progressively worse I'm sure with the advent of 4G and more phone masts. one paper said we get so tuned in that we are subconsciously listening for it. I was told to try meditation! Yeah right been doing that and yoga for 20 yrs. That we should do CBT etc, but why...this is not imaginary, it's real and once you pick it up, it is just not possible to tune out. Even moving house which I've considered numerous times, including actually accepting offers on my home (Oxon) is not a solution as you'd have to camp outside any prospective new home for at least a week. That Scottish link above is worth reading as they are sympathetic to the problem. I joked that I was connected to the grid after I had a hip implant. Now I read that sufferers can sometimes feel the tingling down the leg into the ground, or down an arc through the bed (wiki I think it was). That tingling was in time to the throb, pulse of the humming. It is excruciating. Apparently if you sleep in a tent, earthed to the ground, you won't hear it. Has anyone disproved this?
Aug 18, 2015
 Another Susan
by: Dee

You've put your finger on the pulse. There is not just one source of LFN, there are many, and that has been proven by individuals with differing complaints about what they hear. People hear different types of noise that all come under the umbrella of LFN. Just as there are many different types of High sounding noises. I know people who can hear a hum, but I can't hear what they hear. And many people can't hear what I hear, only two other residents where I live can, but not to the point that it bothers them. Home media centers have built in sub-woofers which accentuate LFN and push the sound out. It just seems to be at the heavy density of bass that really affects me. I wish it were not so.
Aug 18, 2015
 Bristol Hum
by: Another Susan

I've posted this before and is the sound I hear. Does anyone else hear this sound, or different ones.
Listen carefully as it's underneath the crackle of the recording machine. This is what's become known as the Bristol Hum (Google it).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hPAt8bIxgjk&feature=youtu.be
Aug 18, 2015
 Brown Nose
by: Dee

Thank you for sending the paper. I will certainly read that with great interest. I know what you mean about the 'TV down the road.' You are right different sounds affect different people, and as we know LFN can carry for miles, especially at night when there is no ambient sound around. And yes, the ignorance of people is mind numbing. But very typical of the reaction to any 'unseen' ailment, illness, etc. If people can see you have a health problem/disability that's OK, but if they can't see it then: well - you must be making it up/imagining it/attention seeking, and so on! I get the same pulsing feeling in my head and sometimes the vibration is so bad that it feels like someone is giving me electric shocks straight into my brain. It used to be just the type of noise emitted by these gaming machines but now I've noticed that sometimes, when I'm out in town with all the heavy traffic, I feel a vibration through my body which is uncomfortable. I had hoped so much exposure to LFN would have desensitized me to it, but it seems not. Oh Joy!
Aug 18, 2015
 Deep ocean sounds.....
by: Brown noise


Another Susan, the Bristol Post published scientific article by a French scientist who says it's deep ocean sounds causing the Bristol hum. Ironic when the most hypnotic and seductive sound is that of the ocean. You don't hear the hum if you're in the range of crashing waves..
Aug 19, 2015
 To Brown Nose
by: Dee

Have read the Scottish report on LFN several times, and also sent to my local EH dept. Thank you so much for forwarding the link to me. Made lots of sense and the Scots seem to have more sympathy for the issue. The only suggestion I have (and this is for all UK LFN suffers who use this site) is that all the people in the UK who suffer from LFN problems write to: The Rt Hon. Elizabeth Truss who is the Tory MP for Environment and Rural Affairs. Also to Maria Eagle who is the shadow MP in the opposition. I don't know how much good it will do, probably not much to start with. However, if everyone who experiences problems wrote and explained just how they suffer and how much, then someone should take notice. At least you will get a response as MP's are duty bound to respond to letters. Also, before writing, read the Scottish report on the link given by Brown Nose and also the Leventhall report which can be found on the web. There are also many other reports written by various 'experts' all over the world.
Aug 19, 2015
 READ THE PRIOR THREADS THE ANSWERS ARE WITHIN THEM!!
by: Don

Smart Grids is correct. Between the over head power lines and the pipelines,y'all can decide which is worse. And they are all over the world. Smart grid May 19th post answers ALL your questions for origin.READ THE PRIOR POSTS!READ THE PRIOR POSTS.
Aug 19, 2015
 Hopeless
by: Brown noise (note)

Dee I will certainly write to the MPs concerned; thanks for doing the ground work. My instinct is that nothing will or can happen. What can they do, dismantle the entire Grid.. But there surely must be sufferers among the Environment fraternity. Or in Westminster. I'm buying a Lectro fan unit which can emit white noise of the rain, oceans etc variety. My fan is far too loud, blows out dry air and is costly to keep going. If Geoff Leventhall tells me I can only mask the vibrations, then there's not much more hope. What concerns me is if it can affect the bowels by way of causing oscillating, how much damage to the brain. I've got elevated metal ions (v high) and wonder how much of my brain fog is attributable to sleep disturbance from the hum and how much to ion particles. To the person who wrote about fish tank at adjoining wall, I read the disturbance is not proportional to the size of the cause. I am currently investigating with the council the date at which the wind turbines were installed as the disturbance is getting worse. Incidentally, the EARTHPULSE emits at up to 14.6Hz which luckily is below the levels of the Hum . I'm persevering with it. Personally I'm working on masking it as I don't think it'll be going anywhere in our lifetime.
Aug 23, 2015
 Humming/vibration in your ears
by: Stephanie

Hi Susan, I have experienced this same sound in my previous house. I was told it might be a hot tub but the neighbor who I was sure had the hot tub would not admit to having it, let alone changing anything about the motor. I finally sold the house and moved as it was driving me truly insane. In my new house I was hum/vibration free for almost a year, and then new neighbors moved in. Immediately after they installed their new hot tub and turned it on, I woke up in the middle of the night with this humming/vibration ringing in my ears. I knew then exactly what it was. I spoke to them about turning it down, and they did, and it's been ok for the most part - although whenever it cycles in a higher gear I get that same vibration/humming which wakes me up and causes me great discomfort.
Aug 23, 2015
 World Map of the HUM
by: Brown noise

I urge you all to register your postcode/zip code on the world map of the Hum. .. Interesting to compare with wind turbine distribution.
Aug 23, 2015
 Areas of UK
by: Dee

I live in Herefordshire. Apparently, they have masses of complaints about LFN, and it's a real issue. Problem, though, is that different people hear different sounds. However...how people are affected, both physically and mentally, seem very similar.
Aug 24, 2015
 LFN - Another UK case
by: AT

Hi.
Just been reading all your posts. I've been reading about lfn for many months now inc. Leventhal etc. & am amazed at the fact that although it's been proven to be a real & serious problem, there is no legislation in the UK that actually deals with it.
For the past 2 years our neighbours who live in the flat below ours have been causing my partner and I, but more recently my partner, intense noise disturbance. It started with loud music & parties but after several months of trying to get some action, finally getting an abatement notice served on them by the local council, the noise has changed to lfn - bass/gaming? My partner is getting unwell as a result, cannot sleep in the flat anymore & has even had to book the odd hotel room to get some peace. As the noise level is considered too low to be a statutory nuisance (apparently noise machines don't pick it up) the council say they can do no more. Am happy to write to MPs etc. but will wholeheartedly support a lobbying/pressure group if there is one..?
Aug 24, 2015
 To AT new case - UK
by: Dee

Sounds as thought your noise problem could be LFN. EH departments have been 'advised' on the how to cope with the problem. However...in my last place the EH were worse than useless. The usual noise monitoring device that they use is on the A weighting which is no good for picking up LFN. You have to insist that they use a C or G weighting. Ask them to put in writing that this is what they will do. Mind you I asked...and have not received! I have also asked for a print out of the results of the noise testing. Again...we shall see. Part of the problem, I feel, is that following gov funded research carried out by Defra, EH departments of Councils were 'advised that they should follow the guidelines recommended.' However this was not made a mandatory rule. I believe it is because there are so many different sources of LFN that for the gov to investigate all would cost - a lot - and, possibly open a large can of worms, i.e. there is much belief that some LFN is caused by Smart Grid, gas pipes, pylons, etc, as well as domestic noise nuisance, i.e. bass/gaming. My problem, both times, has been when I moved, and it bought me into close proximity with 'gamers.'The first time the gamer moved in a month after me, the second time (because no one else seemed bothered) I was not told. To be fair, I didn't ask! But because only approximately 1 - 50 of the population hears LFN, it is an added onus trying to get it taken seriously as a problem. I hadn't realized how much 'gaming' goes on! LFN is a real and serious problem and I can understand your partner being unwell. LFN has caused me untold health issues, and (I don't know if you looked at any of the other research on the Leventhall page), but there is an interesting one about the kinds of health problems caused by exposure to LFN on an ongoing basis. So far I have found three different addresses for an LFN suffers association and have contacted them all in writing with no response. An e mail given for one was not in use! I agree a support group is needed to help to lobby parliament to look at this problem. Writing to the Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss - Secretary for Environment and Rural Affair, and also to her shadow Maria Eagle is a good start, but it would need everyone who has a problem with LFN to do so, probably more than once.
Aug 24, 2015
 Hz
by: Brown note/noise

FYI cat repellent devices emit 26Hz . That is a danger frequency for me. My neighbour has removed his after aeons on the very day I called the council!I now know all the frequencies I sense by listening to the range up to 60Hz on YouTube.

Last night I went to a hotel for a good nights rest in a high ceilinged room with thick walls. Jumped awake at 3.10am and heard it through the fan AND the ipad giving out 572Hz. Why does it seem to affect me at these times, viz., 1 am ish. 3am ish and 4.30 ish. I then found out the nearest turbine was even nearer to the hotel. If it is wholly the Grid, why does it peak around this area at those hours.

The Lectro box arrived today and you can select one setting (out of 10) which resembles a radio needing tuning which I understand also may drown out LFN. I will be well armed with data when the engineer visits. It will be interesting to play him the frequencies 1-60 and see which of us does not hear... And I don't think it will be me. 1in 50 people is a lot; you would think just someone in Westminster, the Lords, anywhere in the echelons of power might be a "sensitive". Or even one of the utilities technical and engineering employees. It is baffling
Aug 24, 2015
 Mystery hum driving me nuts!
by: Julia

Hi there,
I found this forum after lying awake most nights for the past month. I live in Sydney, Australia in a fairly urbanized area.
I am not the greatest sleeper at the best of times and always use earplugs.
About a month ago I detected this bizarre oscillating hum/buzz like a low flying light aircraft or engine idling but never never stopping. Not even long enough for me to drop off to sleep!
After trying to sleep in various other rooms in the house to no avail, I am now forced to take sleeping pills which give me 6 hours of rubbish sleep and have me waking at 5,30am like a zombie.
My husband can't hear it and I have called numerous local agencies (council and organisations doing roadworks/railworks in the area) all have denied they are doing nightwork and because I can't locate the source of the sound, it is even MORE frustrating! Worst thing is, because of the constant low frequency vibration, earplugs almost make it worse. There is no getting away from the sound and no relief.
One thing I noticed from your posts - I have had ear surgery as a child and lots of scarring on my eardrums - could this be a cause? If so, why have I only just started hearing this hum?
Also, we have 132000 Volt underground cables currently being laid down our street - the sound seems to have started when this did - but I can't be sure....could this be a factor? If so, what can I do about it?
I am so sleep deprived it is all a blur :-(
Aug 24, 2015
 Hum is Global
by: Shane

The Hum is Global. Every state in the US I've been to I can hear it. I can hear it even away from the grid high up in the mountains where there is no cell service/signal or any power lines....It's Global!!! I've come to the conclusion that it's either man made or the sun is reacting with the Earth and the rest of the planets in our solar system. Lately, some really unique stuff has been happening to the solar system and it's attributed to the sun and the change thereof.
Aug 25, 2015
 To Julia in Sydney
by: Dee

I don't know how old you are Julia but it seems, from statistics, that more older people have problems with LFN than younger people; especially older women. One of the EH officer who visited my home actually confirmed this: he said that young people have a hearing range that includes very high pitched noise - sometimes painful. Most complaints - but certainly not all - about LFN have been from older people. I, too, had ear disease on and off as a child. When I got older it became worse and I endured several surgical operations on my right ear (in which I now have no hearing at all). I think this may have encouraged my left ear to try to compensate but, being an older person, it has developed this LFN sensitivity. Much of the problem seems to be that there are several different sources of LFN - this makes sense to me - because we have more sophisticated technology at our fingertips which means, of course, that we need improved power lines, phone masts, TV aerials, etc. I wish I knew what to suggest to you, but like you I found ear plugs useless (I must have spent a fortune on different ones) I do have a noise therapy machine which plays different sounds. However, the LFN penetrates through this, even thought I have it on so loud I'm surprised the neighbours haven't complained! I take sleeping pills each night, and my doc has now agreed to try me on Gabapentin which is an anti-seizure drug. It does seem to deaden the aural nerves slightly (enough for me to get to sleep without resorting to a sleeping pill) but...it does wear off and I get woken up by the LFN around 4am - 5am. I wish I knew what to suggest to you because I know how awful sleep deprivation is. I am trying to find somewhere else to live, but everywhere I go I hear this noise. Not so bad in the day time with the ambient sounds, but night time is a different matter.
Aug 25, 2015
 Shane
by: Dee

It does seem to be a global problem. But how and why? I think it is probably man made due to all the new technology around. It seems that we humans have an urgent need to 'develop' any area of the planet that we haven't settled. Interesting your comments about the solar system and the sun. Maybe our poor, over crowded, beleaguered planet is finally turning against us
Aug 25, 2015
 Brown Nose
by: Dee

Interesting comment about being woken up at 3am - 4am. I find this as well. Anything really from 2.30am to 4.30am. I can't see how it is the grid, but there again I don't have any other suggestions to offer. However, I find rooms with high ceilings worse to sleep in. With me, the smaller the rooms and lower the ceilings, the better. This is what is so frustrating about LFN, it affects individuals in different ways, and obviously there are many causes. Oh Joy!
Let us know how you get on with your Electro device, and what frequencies you could hear and the technician couldn't and vice versa. Good luck with it. If you have found an answer to LFN disturbance with this equipment, then a lot of people, including me, will be very grateful.
Aug 25, 2015
 Councils response
by: Brown noise

Here are a few paragraphs from the local EH fief sound officer. He goes to state they are bound to stick to government guidelines (which we know from the Leventhall report) . I don't hold out much hope in identifying the causes. They look for LFN but it's in our brains that we feel this. I slept until 5am with the Lectro (love it) but the LFN was felt then down my leg as a VIBRATION. I'm sure it's our brains which differ. The Osteo said my skeletal shape was a throw back and was not surprised at the fight or flee response.

QUOTE:

Low frequency noise and infrasound is naturally present in the environment since it can be generated by air and water turbulence as caused by wind, and waves for example. It can also be produced by rotational and reciprocating machinery and typical sources might be, compressors, diesel engines, aircraft, shipping, combustion, cooling tower, boilers, electrical installations, air conditioning plant, and aircraft for example.
Structure borne noise, originating in vibration, can transmit sound and vibration, sourced from inside or outside, to other parts of a building depending on the character of the noise and how the building has been constructed and the materials it is made of. Also resonance effects can occur in enclosed or partially enclosed spaces such that this may amplify the noise. A room with an open door or window can act as a Helmholtz resonator to generate standing waves that produce an effect that is similar to that obtained when blowing across the top of an empty bottle. Resonances in a normal sized domestic room occur in the low frequency region. For example, a room of dimensions 4m by 5m by 2.5m has low frequency resonances from 34 Hz upwards. Resonances increase the sound level in parts of the room whilst decreasing it in others. The resonance frequency is lower for greater volumes.

Expert advice received by the Government states that evidence on health effects of low frequency noise is ambiguous and there is no evidence to demonstrate it can have a direct physiological effect on the body. Also the advice is that there isn’t a scientific consensus that infrasonic noise below the threshold of hearing will have an adverse effect on health since there is scientific uncertainty regarding the understanding of human response to infrasound. However, I am aware that there continues to be an on-going debate within and between the Government, acoustic and health communities regarding low frequency noise/infrasound and its impacts. Whilst local authorities have a responsibility, along with other agencies, to regulate noise pollution, they are not in a position to peer review the validity of findings/conclusions/recommendations as published in various research papers on the subject other than to take advice from the Government and its experts on these matters.

The Government has published guidance for local authorities on low frequency noise but it is recognised that there is still much research to be done to gain a fuller understanding of its effects, and how sources can be identified, assessed and managed. It has to be recognised that sources of low frequency noise(s)/infrasound(s) are difficult to identify, measure and assess because these occur at or below the margins of the threshold of audibility of many people, and it may be difficult or not possible to identify a source or threshold of impact required before the legislation local authorities have available can be used (i.e. the Statutory Nuisance Provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 for example).
Aug 25, 2015
 To Brown Nose
by: Dee

Very interesting reading, thank you. I must say I do wonder why it is that the majority of people who are troubled by LFN are older people, and more women have problems with it, than men? I think there is something to be said for the 'fight/flight' response. This, though, is to all noise which is unexpected. Even when we are sleeping the brain is constantly monitoring our surroundings to protect us against threat/attack. Which is why a small noise can awaken you from sleep even though, when you wake, you don't know what it was that woke you. From my own experiences I think that constant, long term, exposure to LFN can cause health problems. Research has suggested that noise at night, disturbs sleep, even if it doesn't wake you up, and can cause all manner of physical problems. So glad the Lectro worked for you. What exactly is it? How does it work? Where can we buy them? Sounds as thought you may have hit on a solution. Well done. Even if it only works for some people it is worth trying. I don't quite understand the skeletal thing, about skeletal throw back. Could you explain?

Aug 25, 2015
 Lectro et al
by: Brown Noise

Dee, the Lectro bought from Amazon for about £70. It has about a dozen sounds, all similar to varying levels of fan volume. However it doesnt blow air as my loud fan did, drying the air and v cumbersome. Lectro is lightweight, simple, size of small tin of candy. I took 10mg melatonin and I buy GABA (not gabapentin, note) from iherb, ca. That's gamma amino butyric acid. Iherb is v inexpensive even with $8 mailing; arrives in a couple of days.

The brain type is primitive, Neanderthal. I could hear the anti nuisance"mosquito" sound when broadcast by the BBC. It's not meant to be picked up by anyone over 21 or so. I think the senses are hyper aware. I have a biggish occipital bulge at the back of the skull.

At a dinner party I jumped out of my seat a second BEFORE the glass candle holder cracked - deafening for me, no one else batted an eyelid. They weren't even aware it had cracked. This characteristic in me is isolating in itself. The Osteo noted my long toes and arms and was not surprised when I detailed things I picked up that no one else was aware of. Someone several blocks away was washing a car and had the radio on. I heard it from my garden as the most disorienting thumping. Again, no one else could hear it. I had to walk and find it and ask him to turn it down. That I hear LFN/brown note is an affliction of my "type"; older female etc. However, I heard the Bristol hum in my 20s when no one in the family could hear it.

I thought the EH officers comments about windows, double glazing, amplification and the analogy of blowing across the neck of a bottle interesting. Using turbines as an example, they don't have to be within a couple of Km if indeed the sound/vibrations increases exponentially with distance.

But as you say, it's interesting that we get woken at those times. Now, at 8.36pm, I have nothing on , switched the fridge off and can hear the HUM distinctly, rhythmically.

They will measure my house thankfully and if I get a reading I will know what to do with prospective homes to buy. Mr Leventhall told me the best thing is to learn to live it, but I've suffered at various addresses over 30 years. A noise can override or mask another noise, but how do you mask a vibration..

One final thought is hypnosis. It can be very powerful but you need an expert. I thought of trying to get in touch with (if it's him) Paul McKenna. If they can operate with no anaesthetic with hypnosis, then why not. Presumably during surgery you would not even hear the drilling and sawing, yuk!
Aug 25, 2015
 Selective "hearing"
by: Brown noise

P.S. A few years ago, I slept through my smoke alarm AND the ensuing arrival of the fire brigade, ringing my door bell, climbing through an upstairs window, en masse only to respond when one of them shook me from my slumber. Trains outside my window in one apartment in the USA twenty years ago, did not disturb my sleep at all. However at certain locations in Washington DC I sensed it, in particular at one friend's apartment, sixth floor in a huge building.

If you look at world map of the HUM, there is more coastal occurrence in Europe and beyond. North Bristol Channel too. The western gazette in Plymouth printed an article about their HUM and the turbine connection. I really don't understand why government isn't more active, but then look how slow they've been over mercury amalgam. You can put it in teeth, but you need protection by law to remove it with special equipment and monitoring, bonkers
Aug 25, 2015
 Electro et al by Brown Noise
by: Another Susan

Very interesting comments coming through now. I sleep with my bedroom door open so have just closed it (3.45am), but I can still hear the hum. I also wake between 1.30am-2.30am and had thought it was down to needing less sleep as I was getting older (62), but perhaps not. Re the a Electro - £70 is expensive and it appears to do the same as an iPhone app that you can buy very cheaply - or have I misunderstood what it does?
Aug 26, 2015
 Lectro vs apps ets
by: Brown noise

All I can say about Lectro is that fir the first time in 30 yrs I've slept two nights in a row on the Lectro setting WHITE NOISE. at number 10 setting (there are another 10 fan noises).

But, during all my mammoth research, I read that when councils have set up listening equipment in people's homes, the HUM mysteriously disappears. As soon as my council responded, there was silence at 0200 am when I went to the bathroom! Now I've slept 2 nights, I hope it isn't a case of "mother! father, kindly disregard this letter"! A la Lerner!

I don't like leaving wifi on at night, nor any other electrical equipment plugged in. I was about to have my home dowsed for EMF so bad was my sleep. I bought the £500 EARTHPULSE which, if you can afford it, is good to replenish in the mornings after a nuit Blanche. That was before I realised I wasn't on my own in hearing the HUM. And that masking it can restore sleep, and therefore, judgment.

Again, world map of the hum is set up for everyone whose lives are disrupted by lack of sleep, and I urge that you all key in your postcode to add to that resource.
Aug 26, 2015
 waubrafoundation.org.au
by: Brown noise

All of you should see the damning report below, but especially those in Australia....

www.waubrafoundation.org.au health/symptoms

Even the employees testing the low frequencies were made ill.
This is HUGE. I sent it to my council, and they were VERY quick in getting back to me.
Aug 26, 2015
 To Brown Nose
by: Dee

Hello. Wow, this is fantastic information. You have done so much research. Now you've explained about the skeletal shape, I realize I have similar shape to back of skull. Also an osteo once commented that I had quite long arms!! But my legs are quite long as well, so not sure if that meant anything. I am certainly going to look into this Lectro. The noise therapy thing I bought (same cost) does have some interesting sounds but the LFN seems to slide under even the most effective ones. I had same problem with fan, dried the air and I woke up with dry mouth and coughing. Never knew about the herbal Gaba so will look into that. The only reason I can think of that the gov. are ignoring this problem is because of reasons we've cited in the past, in this website,i.e. there is more than one source of LFN, so it isn't easy to pin down; it could be due to electrical installations, grids, wind machines, etc, etc, and if so it would cost too much and cause to much disruption to change anything. I was pretty cross at the suggestion that people who suffer from LFN should undergo CBT, i.e. once called Aversion Therapy. Most of us know it couldn't work, because LFN won't go away. However, it's a typical gov trick to blame the 'victim' and take the spotlight off there own extreme reluctance to take any action, thus washing their hands of 1 in 50 of the population whose live are being made a living hell. The least that could be done is to acknowledge these 1 in 50 and offer some kind of funding to buy masking equipment - but don't hold your breath on that one. You've made some very, very, helpful suggestions, Brown Nose. I hope that everyone who reads the posts can feel more hopeful that there may be some help out there. Will now down load and read the link you've provided. If it made your EH dept sit up and take notice, then it could have the same effect on mine.
Aug 26, 2015
 Brown Noise (nose)
by: Another Susan

Have to laugh 😂, but I do wish people would stop typing "Brown Nose" - it has a totally different meaning to "Brown Noise" lol
Aug 26, 2015
 Brown Noise
by: Dee

OMG I am so sorry Brown Noise! Blame it on LFN syndrome. I find myself getting really muddled sometimes when the sleep deprivation kicks in with a vengeance. I play Scrabble against the computer to try to keep the mind ticking over, and some of the words I've been putting down lately....when I'm told 'not an acceptable word' I get cross until I look closer...and they're right. By the way the waubra stuff seems to be mainly about noise from Wind Farms. I've copied the stuff about health problems caused by LFN to my EH office. Just hoping they take me seriously. Not sure I can take me seriously though, the way my mind is all over the place! Thanks for pointing the missing 'i' out Another Susan.
Aug 26, 2015
 Brown Noise by Dee
by: Another Susan

Hi Dee, I'm another Scrabbler in my very early waking hours. I play online - there's always someone in the world up and about in the hours when I can't get back to sleep.
Aug 26, 2015
 to Another Susan
by: Dee

Hi Susan. I actually used to really love those early morning hours just before, and as, it is becoming light, and there is no one around. It used to be so quiet and so new and fresh, like the beginning of the world. And you know what - this is the first time I've thought about it, but LFN has ruined it. The last time I knew such peace and quiet was over two years ago when I lived in the countryside. There now seems to be noise 24/7 without ceasing. At least on line scrabble helps a bit, I can always say rude things to the computer when it lays down highly debatable words! Interesting that if you challenge the computer it doesn't remove the word, but if it challenges you, you have to remove it. Hmmm! Happy Scrabbling
Aug 26, 2015
 Brown either way
by: NOSE AND NOISE

NOSE sometimes name given on some USA sites I've researched. Because LFN affects the sympathetic nervous system, it can cause loose bowels. Read my previous; I get so anxious when awoken by the HUM, DRONE blah blah that the following morning I go the loo many times in succession and was losing weight. I have a brilliant diet, do yoga, have no financial worries etc, yet still the night awakenings were panicky. It is a "note" in the sense of low Bass. But see my post on RFH concert goers made to feel so morbid when the "note" was emitted in sine waves. Brown nose a la Private Eye was of course something VERY different! I suggest that the morbid fear it brings on is fight or flee, very primaeval, and therefore could definitely cause the bowel to "react"!

My council is sending the equipment Friday 18th... I am ensuring it is if the cirrect weighting, and able to record at or below 25Hz.

Please all of you look at the waubra site to find, or go direct to,

Malcolm Swinbanks lecture given at Stratford in 2012. It is very technical and states that rarely can adults "hear" below 25Hz. Well I do hear it.

Also Dee you should read it as it refers to the cochlear channel in the inner ear and the ciliary cells (hairy). Which may have been affected, if not cauterised if you had surgery there...
Aug 26, 2015
 To Nose and Noise aka Brown Noise
by: Dee

Hello. Very good luck for the 18th. Do hope they get a reading and can help. My sympathies with the bowel issues, I have exactly the same problem. So I guess, looking on the bright side of life, it can help in keeping one healthy and weight down, but...!! Re my ears: The right ear has been operated on so many times I've lost count. Also lost a bit of mastoid bone from that area due to disease. I can't hear anything in that ear so I guess all has been destroyed. I know that the small bones were removed along with the mastoid bone. Problem is: EH use this against me. They're written remit is that any noise disturbance has to be that which would cause problems for - 'an average,normal, reasonable person.' I have been informed by EH Senior Officer that: 'they do not deal with people who have any kind of hearing loss/damage problem.' Meaning, I guess, that they only 'dea' with people who have perfect hearing. If that is the case then it means that the large majority of the population cannot be assisted by EH departments. It is a crazy get out clause which leaves thousands, if not millions, of people with to redress to being damaged by LFN and it's effects. I've looked on Amazon and they have quite a few noise masking machines. Wish, though, that I could hear a sample of the noises just to make sure I get one that doesn't actually drive me mad. My current noise therapy system is not bad, especially on the ocean noise setting, but the LFN does rather creep under the masking noise. Re the GABA. Looked that up and it seems Solgar is the best? Would you agree?
Aug 26, 2015
 Sleeping
by: Brown noise

Dee, look at Now foods; I use their melatonin also. Good and least expensive. Terrible to read of your aural troubles. How ghastly, on top of everything...can't any of the surgeons suggest which aids are best (as I wrote that I realise surgeons run a mile and disappear into the ether after they've yielded the knife). I can imagine if you've lost bone, and any cavity exists, all kinds of amplifications and vibrations must be felt. It's such a delicate area and SO near the brain. I won't go into my own saga as it'll get off topic, but I think basically in life we're on our own. I have been very disillusioned and become quite cynical. My council has sent me pages on their sound equipment manufactured by a German co, which appears as if it will do the job, meanwhile I got a reply from the waubra foundation. Next year, New Zealand government is releasing a new piece of sound recording equipment calibrated and designed particularly for the HUM LFN It does seem that LFN is a growing problem and probably the health consequences and implications are so vast that governments can foresee a financial catastrophe lurking. To live life at half or quarter mast through lack of sleep is purgatory.
Aug 26, 2015
 to Brown Noise
by: Dee

Hello, and thank you for the tip about New Foods will certainly look into them. Just looked at my last post - Ahhhh! Full of typos. Wrote it whilst doing my best to ward off the sounds of gaming from over the road - never seems to stop. The ENT people can't recommend anything. On top of the surgery is the problem of childhood ear disease and a fistula. The fistula means that I have to be careful of sudden, very loud noises, as the leak means that the balance fluid gets low and I fall over!! Yes, it has happened. Most embarrassing. It was only discovered about ten years ago (the miracles of the CAT scan) but I would have had it all my life. Explains why when I tried to do cartwheels and handstands at school, I ended up flat on my back and feeling sick. Oh Lord, enough already. Your EH people do seem to be trying to reassure you. I have had absolutely zero response to my e mails, letters and info. from the ones here. I know they are trying to write me off as some silly old woman with hearing problems and whom they have decided beforehand that they cannot help. My family are the same. Oh Joy! Really interesting stuff about NZ and how they are taking this LFN problem seriously. Must admit I feel much better knowing that other people do hear this (that sounds bad - of course I wish they didn't) but it does help to know you're not completely alone with it - also, to know that you are not imagining it and it is really happening. I am still trying to move - it seems the only answer - but worrying as I could encounter same problems where ever I go. As you say, sleep deprivation is purgatory, total and utter. One day, I hope so much, there will be an organization of individuals in the UK who will decide it's worth the energy to lobby our useless government and it's Nelsonian blindness to the issue of LFN.
Sep 08, 2015
 Working solution for hum sufferers
by: bioacoustician@gmail.com

Greetings to everyone! I am one of the sufferers from hearing a low frequency vibration. It is now for >2 years. The consequences are very similar to others though may be just less dramatic. All the time I observed the physiological manifestation of the phenomenon in my body. Then I studied the oscillations/waves continuum transmission trying to understand its physical nature.
Now the good news, I managed to build the working theories of the phenomenon and invented several things protecting from hearing the LF vibration. Thanks to heavens, I can sleep now at nights!
I would love to share my findings as soon as possible to everyone in shape of a product, but first probably need to file a patent and do some other organizational efforts. I wonder how many people will be interested (market size) in such vibration protection? May be someone experienced in translation of invention to market is willing to help and/or invest in the project?
Sep 08, 2015
 Working solution for hum sufferers NEW by: bioacoustician@gmail.com
by: Another Susan

I won't be investing. Please forgive me if I'm totally out of order, but I suspect a scam.
Sep 11, 2015
 To: bioacoustician
by: Dee

The effects of Low Frequency Noise are very distressing to the people who are affected by it, and should be taken very seriously indeed. Your comment is very interesting. What I suggest is that you contact various governments around the world who are trying to find out the source(s) of Low Frequency Noise. I am sure they would give you an appropriate response to your requirement for investment into developing your inventions.
Sep 11, 2015
 To: Another Susan
by: Dee

Ditto. How have things been for you lately?
Sep 11, 2015
 To: Brown Noise
by: Dee

How are things? Been pretty bad here where I am in HR9. Frantically trying to find somewhere else to live as the family now have 2 gaming screens (I guess this is so they don't have to wait to take turns. Horrendous noise.
Sep 11, 2015
 Eureka
by: Brown Noise

Well Dee, it's working...I've slept through every night with odd interruptions..I've sometimes had to up the volume and it's so easy to sleep with it. It really has been life changing as I'd forgotten what it felt like to awaken refreshed. But in your case you have the added psychological pressure of visualising those screens, now fixed in your mind. This happened to me when a lady payed radio 3 intermittently through the night and I crept outside to trace it in the night. She denied I could hear it as she could NOT when she came outside to listen! Now I don't know if I need to go through the hassle of having the council place their equipment here for a week. I'm looking at properties and mine is on the market. I will not live in Northants, the capital for wind turbines which I believe play a huge part in that humming drone. I recently bought a water vorticiser and when that is placed on a surface, it is a vibration, pulsing in time with the element which disappears if the thing is held. When you discover the increased size and power of turbines and the ground they vibrate THROUGH, you could well grasp how that amplifies over distance. They still stay suspiciously silent about the placement of turbines... You should check with your council the whereabouts. One Dr said 17km distance affected him and his wife...that was an old old paper. They are much more powerful today, and taller. Whilst your neighbours equipment must be driving you insane, be careful if you move that if you have peace around, that 20km away there may lurk a discreet (!) turbine.... It is criminal and those of us affected rendered powerless.. I did an experiment on either side of my head, as the turbine site asks you if experience hearing it both sides, and sure enough one side was much much more apparent. The side where I got shingles 20yrs ago and where I get headaches even now. This may resound (pun) with you with the ear canal etc...
B.N.
Sep 11, 2015
 Aus
by: Brown Noise

P.S. Oz sufferers see

Stopellerkerwindfarm.org

See the videos...
Sep 11, 2015
 To: Brown Noise
by: Dee

Hi Brown Noise. That is such good news. I am really pleased that your Lectron is working for you. I will certainly consider seriously about investing in one. I do have a noise therapy unit which cost me about the same amount as the Lectron, it has a white noise element on it. But no matter how much I turn up the volume, the LFN of the gaming creeps under it. One of the other residents here asked me today if I heard strange, repeating bass music playing most of the time. I suspect she is hearing the same as I am. I wonder if it is worth you having the council round because...if they do pick up the LFN on their equipment it is one more piece of evidence that it does exist. I agree about wind turbines. They were popping up everywhere where I used to live. People renting out pieces of land for a business to install a wind turbine on. So instead of just large fields of them, there are now individual ones dotted all over. Have not found one near where I am currently living, but about 20 miles away in the countryside, have found a few individual ones. Anyway, so delighted you are finally have some natural, restful, restorative sleep. Let us know if you go ahead with council and if you do, the results. Happy sleeping
Sep 11, 2015
 To Brown Noise
by: Another Susan

Hi Dee, I've been on the Isle of Wight for a week and only on one evening did I hear the hum - and faint enough for it not to worry me. Perhaps we should all move here.
Sep 11, 2015
 To Dee and Brown Noise
by: Another Susan

Sorry Dee I addressed my last note to Brown Noise in error.
Sep 11, 2015
 To: Another Susan
by: Dee

Hello Another Susan. I really like the Isle of Wight, sounds like a good plan! How very, very, interesting that you were not disturbed by LFN whilst there. Do you know if you had many of the usual suspects around,i.e. smart grid, gas pipes, wind farms, electrical installations, very noisy people? Interestingly I've been looking at areas and also buildings. There is a possibility that if a building is made of stone then LFN cannot penetrate! Although it could still penetrate via glass. I don't know how true that is. But I gather some property on I of W is made of stone, as a friend had a holiday home there and that was made of stone and quite old. So glad you had some peace and quiet.
Sep 16, 2015
 Constant hum
by: Jill

I hear it constantly in my house and no where else. My family makes fun of me and says its tinnitus. I went to the otolaryngologist who confirmed I do not have Tinnitus. I only hear it at my house.
My 6 year old granddaughter visited from out of town and out of the blue I asked her, "Do you hear a noise?" She said yes, and then proceeded to hum it for me...perfect pitch.! Hallelujah! At least I now know I'm not crazy!

We have had an electrician out who couldn't hear it and didn't know cause. Turning off the breaker didn't help. We had a plumber out to replace the water heater, water was turned off at the main, we still heard it. I am having memory problems, can't sleep, and increased stress and irritability. I know its from this darn humming. I wear ear plugs at home but it doesn't block it all out. I would give anything to make it stop!
Sep 17, 2015
 To Dee
by: Another Susan

The house we stayed in on IoW was a large old house converted to apartments, brick built with huge windows front and back and directly backing onto the beach, and noisy people in the apartment above (mainly foot fall). So not stone and plenty of opportunity for the unwanted hum to seep through glass. I've been at home for almost a week now and nothing too troublesome at the moment, it's there now at 6am but I've not noticed it at night.
Sep 17, 2015
 Hum
by: Brown Noise

Jill, where do you live.... Check with your council the nearest wind turbines...see if you're in the midst of them (even up to 20miles). Try turning off your mains at the fuse box one night (freezer will be ok, crois-moi). See national map of wind turbines. Read through previous posts on the Grid, my fridge emits similar, but for some reason at a different frequency so not so damaging to health

Then see my previous on the gadget I've bought which has CHANGED MY LIFE.. Then final option,ask council to set up recording equipment at your home (see my previous)...
Sep 17, 2015
 Electricity sub stations
by: Dee

Someone mentioned to me recently about how she was disturbed where she used to live, years back, by an on off humming noise. It was traced down to a new electricity sub-station not far from her home. It felt like the sound was travelling through the ground. To me, the most frustrating thing about this LFN is not being able to pin it down to a source, as obviously there are several sources and I can only think that dependent upon the hearing ranges and abilities of individual people, then the noise heard and therefore the source of the LFN will be different in different individuals. No wonder it is so hard to get to the bottom of the problem for the 1 in 50 of the population who are troubled by this.
Oct 06, 2015
 HUM RADIATION The effects
by: Ayelet

Dear Viewers,
I have come across information on the internet that will help you understand what is going on.
Dr Barrie Trower is well worth watching on you tube, followed by Dr John Hall Satellite surveillance.
Spread the word to your friends and family, your community and your local human rights activists and health practitioners.
The quiet years of the 80s are no longer with us.
Another person you will find intriguing is Dr Emoto who used his research in science for the good. Unlike the wrong uses of brain entrainment technology most in the public are not aware of that is being used to harm rather than to do good.
To your success. Good luck and may your postings and further research help the world.
Oct 17, 2015
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

I think this is caused by radio frequency/electromagnetic field pollution... please take a look at this... there is so much more to this, I have been investigating it for five years...I get very severe pain with it as well, our environment is being totally polluted with RF...As humans we have evolved with the planets natural frequencies for millions of years but in the last fifteen years the changes have been phenomenal.... This is worth starting with.... A Faraday Cage may well help you.

http://mumbai.sancharnet.in/rpthatte/frey.pdf

Oct 25, 2015
 How about Heat pumps
by: itah

23 years living on top floor, flat roof 2-story all-wood/electric condo, w/ CT state-protected brook "strategically redirected" alongside. Built on pilings (like venice) with "natural" outlet of reservoir running beneath my unit. Since water is a great conductor of sound... I hear EVERYTHING from below, voices (including deck discussions on the opposite side of the pond), walking, closet doors, drawers shutting..snoring, etc) ANY NOISE IS INTENSIFIED DUE TO THE PILINGS AND WATER. So I have adjusted to lots of sounds, using fans, ear plugs and radio white noise. Always had a low but livable vibration from the air conditioner compressors on the roof in the summer.

Since 2011, every autumn to spring I get a very low hum and droning vibration waking me up at 5:00am and keeping me up till 8am. Its very faint from every other room in the condo, but the bedroom and adjacent bathroom its unbearable to sleep. Earplugs do not work because the vibration goes through the body as well.

It took two years before I figured out it was coming from my electric heating system that I replaced at the same time with my downstairs neighbor to a (Honeywell Trane Variable Speed System in 2011). The compressor and heat pump both sit on the roof over my bedroom, and when the heat pump goes into defrost mode it kicks on a separate mechanism that can last for hours. There are four units over my ceiling right now, only two have heat pumps. I can't imagine what it will sound like when the other two units put in new systems.

Has anyone had a similar situation?
Can anyone recommend a really good sound machine for low hum?




Oct 26, 2015
 Lectro
by: Bron noise

I got the Lectro from Amazon. Changed my life. At least amazon allow you to return. Great compact gadget can travel too
Oct 26, 2015
 Lectro
by: Brown noise

Get the Lectro from amazon. Will be cheaper in the USA. 70 sterling here. Changed my life. Also you can return if doesn't work
Oct 26, 2015
 to itah and brown noise
by: Dee

Sounds as though you are not having the best of times itah. The only thing I could recommend is brown noise's Lectro, or something similar. I have a noise masking machine that allows me to play different types of noises, however, I find that some low frequency noise creeps underneath. I've recently had local EH department round. They checked every piece of my electrical equipment (we don't have gas). They also checked all round the complex where I live and there was no indication of anything creating lfn, apart from the family across the road who spend all their time gaming. I had this 'special' equipment to measure lfn installed in my place for six days and nights. It picked up and measured every single noise. It also measured frequency which is important for measuring lfn. It worked by being activated by noise and began recording also noting the time. When the noise stopped it noted the time and stopped recording, when the noise started again it started recording and noted the time, and so on. I had to record into a microphone when I was going out and when I came back, also when I was going to bed and when I got up. The decibel range was from nought upwards, so when I was speaking on the phone the decibel level rose, and it changed with other noises, i.e. kettle boiling, etc. It even picked up my clock ticking. What amazed them was the fact that it never, ever stopped recording at any time including when I was out and was obviously sleeping (thanks to chemical cosh) because the lfn which has a decibel level of 10 to 20 never stopped, once. They came out to me again in the early hours of the morning and said they had listened to 72 hours of recording from my flat. They stayed for two hours, and also could hear the lfn noise from across the road, and they measured it at around 17 decibels. I know now, 100%, that this lfn is not in my imagination, it is real. However in the UK there is no legislation against/about lfn. The only way legal action can be taken against noise nuisance is if the noise consistently measures above 80 decibels. In my case, as it is only lfn caused by gaming machine in house opposite. There is nothing that they can do. The family have been written to three times, and telephoned, also there have been other complaints but...because it is lfn there is no legal action that can be taken, and the family don't give a **** about disturbing other people. The UK Gov. don't want to be bothered about dealing with lfn,mainly because there are, apparently, several different sources of lfn, much of it industry, electrical installations, etc. It is also interesting to note that in the last ten years sales of fans and noise masking machines have soared through the roof, so some people out there are making a lot of money out of the distress of others. And part of the problem is: people won't complain they just put up with it. Or, they complain but don't stick at it past the first hurdle.
Oct 29, 2015
 law
by: carol

I was under the impression there is not a defined decibel limit for nuisance noise. Shouldn't matter if it is low frequency or not.
If you had bass music coming from a nightclub and waking you up it would still be low frequency and possibly at a low level. It is a judgement not a max level measurement.
To quote my country's law, the Environmental Protection Act (Scotland) 1990 which defines Nuisance “.."as that whatever is intolerable, offensive to individuals in their dwelling houses, or inconsistent with the comfort of life, whether by stench, by noise or by indecency."
There are world health guidelines yes but each noise case should be unique, especially low frequency ones.
Oct 29, 2015
 To Carol (New)
by: Dee

Unfortunately, the laws in England are not as specific. We do have thing phrase about the level of noise not being disturbing or distressing, etc. However, it only applies to noise above 80 decibels (which is quite noisy). Also the onus is on the 'victim' for want of a better word - to prove that the noise is a problem. Therefore you must be able to say absolutely where the noise nuisance is coming from. If you can't be sure then the law cannot be applied. I know where it's coming from, but because the perps deny continually that it is them, it is down to me and EH to prove that it is them. Each time EH came to my property there presence was noticed, therefor the perps turned down the noise. And even thought the lfn was noticeable, because there can be several different sources of lfn, it was not proven, and even if it were, there is no legislation against lfn. It's a vicious circle and one that I cannot break. I've been told not to approach the family because that could be seen as harassment! Scotland does seem to have much more sensible legislation and to be far my sympathetic to the 'victims.'
Oct 29, 2015
 to Carol (New)
by: Dee

...sorry, should have read their presence! Spelling error the result of a night of broken sleep!
Oct 29, 2015
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

Hi Deb,

Humming sounds can come from other things but do be aware that the HUM FORUM is very well infiltrated by industry trolls/misinformation about the universal hum....so don't take all the information too seriously....Maybe have a look at Mast Victims Website. The universal hum comes from wireless transmitting.
Oct 29, 2015
 to Mary
by: Dee

I did not know about the infiltration, Mary. That's interesting. Although had seen some comments on here that made me wonder who, and also where, the comments were coming from. I wonder why people want to infiltrate this site? If they are having a problem why not be upfront about it? If they think that the very real comments on here are simply make believe, then why not say so and present some real evidence? Weird! Will have a look at the site you mention. Thanks
Oct 29, 2015
 Thank God I'm not alone!
by: Laura

I thought I was going crazy! I live in St. Paul, MN and have been hearing this pulsating, deep, monotone hum since the beginning of the summer. I am at work right now and still hearing the hum. I tried plugging my ears and that helped but one cannot go through life with fingers in the ears. This is so disruptive to my life.
Oct 29, 2015
 hum in michigan
by: neo

My brother hears constant thrumming. Being inside the house amplifies it. He couldn't sleep and tracked it down 11 miles away. The source is a natural gas well. It runs 24/7 and never shuts off. It ramps up in the winter and gets worse because of furnace usage. Researching he found that this sound can be heard up to 30 miles away from a well. They also sometimes blow the gas back down, he said it sounded like a jet was right overhead or coming down in a crash landing. That noise he said the neighbors came out to see, as they could hear that, but not the normal hum. Seems worse at night because there is less white noise from traffic and such that blocks some if it out. Located in Michigan. Well is in Tecumseh area and he can hear the hum all the way to Dundee, past where we live.
Oct 30, 2015
 To NEO re Brother & Gas Well Hum
by: SGVH

Hi, you should contact a guy whose Yahoo ID is "CopsNE" but whose real name is Steve K., at the Yahoo Hum Group as he is tracking all things re Hums & Gas Pipelines. I'm sure he'd be interested in your bro's "Gas Well" story.

"CopsNE" aka Steve K. (in CT USA) posts at this Email Group:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/humforum/conversations/messages

~~~

For everyone else who hears Humming, Drumming, Warbling, &/or Rumbling inside more than outside, & with or without VIBRATIONS in floors, walls, bed, body, etc., you should check first & foremost to see if you have a Digital or Smart Meter, & whether your utility company has implemented a "MESH NETWORK" (aka PULSED MICROWAVE RADIATION) SmartGrid in your area which uses your wall-&-ceiling wiring as Electrical "Conductors." Hence, the reason you are "surrounded" by noise (&/or Vibrations) on the inside of your bldg.

If your utility is using a BPL/PLC SmartGrid system, that means they are using the Powerlines themselves to transmit PULSED MICROWAVE RADIATION which leaks heavily from the always-UNshielded Powerlines, whether Transmission lines or Distribution lines. If those are above-ground in your area you may hear the Humming noise &/or feel the Vibrations outside as well as inside.

If it feels like your floor is vibrating, do you have a concrete floor with rebar (metal) which holds the concrete in place? And/or other plumbing metal pipes, etc. underneath floor? The SmartGrid emits RADIATION & all METAL is a Radiation-MAGNET & will cause the metal to oscillate aka VIBRATE.

MICROWAVE RADIATION (MWR) also goes straight for water & moisture (which is how a microwave oven heats/cooks food > it oscillates/vibrates the moisture/water molecules & heats/cooks them from the inside out). Ditto SmartGrids > their Pulsed-MWR signals are cooking us/vibrating us from the inside out since human bodies are 70% water.

Also, Electrical Powerlines themselves, even before there was ever a SmartGrid, emit ELF (Extremely Low Frequencies). ELF of all kinds tend to "hug the ground," which also MAY be why vibration & noise is felt/heard.

Yes, it's ALL BAD, wicked, evil, & getting worse as the Grid becomes more & more polluted with MWR, Dirty Electricity from all things "Electronic" (including cell towers' electronics which dump Dirty Electricity back into the PowerGrid), etc.

HTH!

/SGVH (SmartGrid Vibrations & Hum)
Oct 30, 2015
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

PREPARED BY U.S. ARMY MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION AGENCY OFFICE Of THE SURGEON GENERAL the effect of vibration is mentioned here or as it is known the HUM. They knew then.

http://www.magdahavas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/BIOLOGICAL_EFFECTS_OF_ELECTROMAGNETIC_RADIATION-RADIOWAVES_AND_MICROWAVES-EURASIAN_COMMUNIST_COUNTRIES.pdf
Nov 02, 2015
 Thanks Mary, above
by: SGVH

Thanks Mary. Below is the one paragraph from that 1976 US ARMY document that mentions vibration/oscillation of body tissue/organs by RF/MWR:

From Magda Havas, PhD, site, just one of the 8,000 documents collected by US Navy Archivist, Zorach Glaser, PhD.

"PREPARED BY U.S. ARMY MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION AGENCY OFFICE Of THE SURGEON GENERAL"
(35-pages, .PDF, 1976):
http://www.magdahavas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/BIOLOGICAL_EFFECTS_OF_ELECTROMAGNETIC_RADIATION-RADIOWAVES_AND_MICROWAVES-EURASIAN_COMMUNIST_COUNTRIES.pdf

The doc's page 17, first paragraph, was the only mention of vibration & oscillation of internal body tissues/organs. All brackets added by me:

[...]
SECTION III
MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS

(U) Most of the reported biological effects from radiowaves and micro-waves result from exposure to the higher frequency ranges. Many of the observed physiological changes probably occur as a result of thermal effects arising from the vibration of ions and dipoles of water molecules in tissues; the vibrations are set into motion more efficiently by the shorter wavelength (high frequency) waves. For example, a radiowave of ten centimeters [3.93701 inch] wavelength converts about fifty percent of its energy into heat in this manner, whereas a three-centimeter [1.181 inch] wave converts nearly ninety-eight percent of its energy into heat. A study of the biological activity of low frequency (seven kHz [=7,000-Hertz]) impulse electromagnetic radiation of different intensities and durations was done on rats. It was found that the pathological changes were a function of dose; susceptibility to radiation was governed by metabolic processes and morphology and the organs and systems could be classified as to sensitivity in the following order: testicles, liver, kidneys, heart, and central nervous system. Another study indicated that relatively low frequency electromagnetic fields generated sonic and ultrasonic oscillations in living organisms which in turn produced elastic deformations. If the frequency of the source field corresponded to the oscillation frequency of the cells (the resonance frequency most likely), the cells deteriorated as a result of the mechanical resonance.
[...]
Nov 10, 2015
 Worth reading
by: Tiffany

http://www.leefmilieu.nl/sites/www3.leefmilieu.nl/files/imported/pdf_s/2012_OudM_Low-frequency%20noise_0.pdf

Buy a fan or use white noise...sweet dreams
Nov 13, 2015
 Gas Pipeline Syndrome
by: Steve in CT

I saw a post referring questions on high pressure gas pipelines to me. Please do so.
Steve
Nov 26, 2015
 End of my rope...
by: Sandee

What a great site. Since I can't sleep because of the continous low drone that has invaded our home, I read every comment. I have felt so isolated in my journey over the past year.My husband hears the drone as well, but is not as sensitive to it. I resent having to use the odd sleeping pill or anti-depressants when I did not create this problem and no one accountable seems to want to own it or fix it.
We have lived in the same place peacefully for near 14 years, until last year when the drone presented itself and is driving me near crazy. I discovered five other people experiencing the same thing and one family who had moved because of the noise. All agreed it seemed to relate the a small natural gas pumping station about a mile up the road. I am a person of action, so I filed the complaint, in the meantime learning that there had been two changes recently at the gas plant. I dealt with both the company, then the province and the gas plant was deemed to be in compliance but what i discovered is that there testing is done for higher frequencies and the equipment actually functions yo reduce the LFNs. Well, doesn't that just make sense! They refuse to go to the next step saying that it wouldn't make a difference in compliance with a dB penalty of 5 - of course it wouldn't! They are not accomodating the fact that LFN has no barriers, whether loud or low, it is the noise from hell! No one wants to be accountable and just want you to go away. The power of our social systems does not serve the little guy, but cater to big business. It is good to read the comments and feel a bonding and empathy with in this struggle. So frustrating and feelings of powerlessness. Yes, I too believe that we will pay the price for what we are doing to Mother Earth.So lost as to what to do. Feel for everyone who is dealing with this issue and thanks for sharing. Glad I found this site.
Nov 26, 2015
 hum/vibration
by: Candice

I believe it is the increase in power for all the wireless devices, some now being transmitted through the powerlines, for ex., electric and water meters. When I go near my water smart meter my ears begin ringing horribly.
However, the hum/vibration sound never stops and began when they installed and turned on the smart meter grid system. It was so loud at first I couldn't sit outside. Now it is in my home, mainly at night, and affecting my health. Insomnia and fatigue is bad but the irritability from the frustration of never being totally quiet again is heartbreaking!
Nov 28, 2015
 Potionally from downstairs heating.
by: Kerry (Manchester)

I live in a 1st floor flat and never had any trouble until National Grid moved all our meters outside, next day had a humming that sounds exactly as if my radiators on.
Its to do with downstairs heating but i cant figure out exactly what and shes not the type of person you could really talk to about it.
Its not on all the time for example whole of summer off and i forgot about it and now it come winter its on most of the time even when shes out however ive clocked that no steam is coming out of her boiler fan so im wondering if its to do with there thermostat side of things.
The meter is my exact old one just moved outside with new cable to it and new pipes going through the loft from where it was to outside.
Dec 03, 2015
 Tips for coping with Bass noise coming from noisy neighbours
by: JM.

Dear all

I have found some personal relief in finding other people having the same problem than me. I identify myself with nearly each posting in this long list:
My neighbours are having the SONOS system on day and night with techno music. I can hear a buzzing constantly in my hears but nobody else in the house can hear it in the family. As some people put it above, is a vibration that goes over every other sound, I feel it clearly in the ear drums, and also in the chest. My family has regularly indicated that I must have some hearing or mental problem since they cannot hear anything, therefore I also feel the isolation described above,

For nearly three years now I have faced this huge problem. I am permanently sleep deprived, headaches, occasionally vertigo, and has indeed affected my mood.

I confronted the neighbours some time ago, called police, gone with them through council mediation (service provided by the municipality of my hometown in the Netherlands), but with this type of people it did not work.

Here are my advices for keeping up with this problem for those that can also benefit for my trial and error learning process:

1.- I sleep with earplugs, and I turn a fan on near the bed, this works most of the times, but sometimes I still can hear the vibration over these. Also in the morning I feel sometimes


2.- I take pills, of Melatonine with Magnesium. I have found some information in the web that indicates that Magnesium have a positive effect on relaxation and sleep, therefore some sleeping pills already include Mg.

3.- When I am awaken in the middle of the night, I try to relax, there is a certain subjective component to the stress originated by the noise. I fight with the feeling of anger and sometimes i manage to sleep again. Of course the quality of sleep is not very good, but I found I always better to half sleep under the effect of the pills even with the permanent buzzing that waking up and go around to see what happens with my neighbours.

4.-I have sometimes used earplugs and noise reduction headphones (Bose 200eur) with some cello melodies. I can sleep well for a while with this approach but after a while the headphones become unconfortable. I found using the Vivaldi Cello sonates helps me sleep, possibly the low frequency of the cello masks well the vibration from the neighbours.

5.- Tonite I will try a new system, instead of the fan I have downloaded an app in the iphone with white noise, and I have small stereo close to the bed. I will put it during the night to see if I can mask the vibration.

6.- I found the level of stress I am under during the day can have an effect on the tolerance I have for the vibration.

7.- During the day if possible I try not to be under the effect of the vibration, either going out of the house, or listening to music permanently when I am in the house to avoid the " mental worm" effect of having the bum-bum permanently.

what else...ummm Does somebody have other ideas to mask the sound, or to make it more tolerable?

Ah yes, I have tried many types of earplugs, I have found the best are foam earplugs with a small conic shape (instead of cylindrical). It is important to place them well, squeezing the earplug and pulling the ear lobe with the other hand when inserting it, but as everyone knows by now, earplugs only block a little of the vibration, not all.

Bye for now

JM



Dec 03, 2015
 Reply to JM in Holland
by: Susan

Dear JM I have read the description of your suffering. I feel for you as I do for so many other Low Frequency sufferers. This is absolute hell. I am actually going to try putting a water bottle under my pillow to see if it helps... anything. I have tried all the ear plugs, fans, white noise and so on. The fact is, even when we do get to sleep for a while ( because we are exhausted) the noise is constantly torturing our sub conscience and I absolutely feel this is very damaging I feel my memory is becoming impaired and, as I have mentioned before I cannot meditate any longer because I cannot reach the Alpha and Beta levels.
Sometimes my dog snores on my bed next to me... it is Heaven, it blocks out the buzzing humming hell.
Anyone want to make a CD of dogs snoring!!?
You have not Mental Health issues.
Susan W.
Dec 03, 2015
 I suffer from sonic abuse by a neighbour as well
by: MaryVicAust

I have for years on and off been tortured by a low frequency throbbing noise. It predates smart meters. I used to think it was an inappropriate air conditioner. They can make a noise which cannot be heard when one is beside the unit but once the waves hit a concrete slab they noise becomes a hideous low frequency throb. My city council arranged to have an expert set up a meter in my house and the results was it recorded at 43 decibels, but then the council said they would not help me as the benchmark is 45 decibels. The noise has become much worse with the frequency dropping and sometimes and the decibels rising so that I fell this hideous vibration all over my body. It is destroying my health. This is not a smart meter or power lines. Before I was ever affected one by one single females living alone in this block of flats were subjected to just such a noise. I do not hear this noise anywhere else but in my flat. The other victims all moved away before I started to hear it and I dont know where to contact them.

Dec 03, 2015
 concrete slab
by: susan

I have a concrete slab and am wondering how many of us here have them, maybe this is an issue.
Dec 04, 2015
 Re: "Concrete Slab"
by: SGVH

I have thought the same thing but for different reasons, ie, Where There Is Concrete There is **REBAR.** The Radiation oscillates/vibrates all metal.

We have concrete floors here (carpeted inside but not in the garage) so there is rebar in/under the concrete to hold it together, &/or hold it up. (Only 1-garage wall is concrete block.)

The electric-meter pipes are also underground, which run from each Smart Meter to each unit's Circuit Breaker Panel (multi-unit building).

And water/plumbing pipes for each unit are also underground, running from the end of the building to each unit.

So there's a lot of metal underground here susceptible to vibration/humming caused by the Radiation of the Smart Grid.

RF Radiation penetrates the ground up to 39-inches (per a BC Govt./PUC expert witness from Exponent Inc., the same "experts"/group who testified that asbestos & tobacco were Safe for humans). That expert tried to back away from his testimony by saying penetration of the ground up to 39-inches did not necessarily mean the same as harm. (Tell the bugs & ants that!)

Point being, the Concrete Rebar, Meter Pipes, Plumbing Pipes, etc., could be being Radiated/Vibrated by RF, from whatever source; & that could be why many people say that it feels like their floor is vibrating &/or that it feels/sounds like it is coming from the ground upward (which is exactly what I said from the beginning re this place, before I ever learned it was Smart Grid related).

ThermoGuy.com has those BC/PUC Hearing Transcripts / Testimony by that Exponent Inc. "expert witness" re the RF/39-inches (1-meter in depth).

Dec 04, 2015
 Reply to Suzanne
by: Jose M

Hello Suzanne,

Thanks for your kind words. Is a great support to hear that somebody out there shares the same concerns.

I read my previous posting and I noticed it was full of typos and the first paragraph half way done...I mean to say that when sleeping with the fan I sometimes wake up with a bad headache.

So... about the ipad app test of yesterday night, I manage to sleep three hours from 1.30 to 4.30 so not very successful.

I agree about the memory problem. I have the same, today with the little sleep after several hard nights and a huge melatonine pill at work was having a terrible headache and I could not remember the name of the Swiss currency in a meeting ...FRANCS...Horrific.

The funny thing Suzanne in the set of noises included in the white noise app I downloaded yesterday there was a storm, waves, ..the usual, but also a CAT SNORING. Ja ja so if you were serious about it you have a solution out there, is free app.

Finally, i wanted to mention another technique that sometimes works for me to fall sleep and I found in internet, called self-hypnosis, if you are interested google for it, it made me sleep a few times.

Going to bed is dreadful, it remembers me that 80's terror series of Freddy Krugger. Now the assassin that comes when one is sleep is not the Freddy Krugger, but the noise.
Dec 04, 2015
 A new Hope
by: JM

Hi there again,

No, I am not talking about the Star wars saga, but about a Lectrofan I just ordered from Amazon. Will arrive on Tuesday. I will report back if it works after some test.

Next week I have important milestones, i really hope it works, i have to sleep well.
Dec 04, 2015
 reply to SGVH
by: susan

I think you have figured it out, I also have all pipes underground as there is no basement or crawl space, Now I wonder if there is a solution?
Dec 04, 2015
 To JM in Holland
by: Susan W

I have not slept, it is now 4 in the morning here in the UK. Soon there will be other low frequency noises which will start to block out the awful penetrating 'Humming'
(I am thinking of you all.) The water bottle under my pillow helped a bit, but sometimes (like so many of you have mentioned) the noise is louder, it is almost painful and certainly unbearable because it is a constant impediment.
I wonder if it would help to have a 'game' of my own plugged in whether that would counteract it??
Dec 04, 2015
 Re: SUSAN-Concrete-Pipes, Etc.
by: SGVH

Hi Susan, Interesting that your pipes are under the ground/concrete as well. Thanks for that add'l info.

There was a lady named Jill who posted at the Hum YahooGroup a few weeks ago who asked the group to the effect of, "Don't the rest of you have the vibrations, too? It feels like they come from the ground, into the bed," etc. I was curious then if she had underground pipes/rebar, as most others at that group only hear the Hum but do not have vibrations. I finally joined the group but haven't gone back to dig up her post/Q. If I find out I'll post it here, because it would be interesting to know if all who also have vibrations also have concrete/rebar &/or underground pipes, etc.

The powerlines (more metal inside those) here are also underground, btw, & I've read that those are generally run along the fronts &/or backs of buildings.

I'm 99% sure the Vibrations & Hum here are Smart Grid related, RF-MESH technology, which, with its routers, repeaters, gatekeepers gadgets, puts the entire area "inside an electrical circuit." So I'm not sure having our 1-smart meter removed would solve the problem since the RF from all the others in this same building & their pipes, etc. would continue the problem. The whole complex/owners would have to be ready to fight. Sigh!

Smart Grid = LF from the Power Grid (60Hz) mixed with Microwave-RF (900Mhz & 2.4Ghz). A real toxic soup! When they crank up the Power Density, the whole building, floors, walls feels like they are Vibrating & Humming, including sinks/toilet plumbing (ever sat on a "vibrating toilet"? Sounds funny but it wasn't! :)

But if your location does not have a Smart Meter/Smart Grid, I don't know, sorry! :-/

For any others who DO have SmartMeter/SmartGrid, check out this page with video & legal documents to send to utility that I saw a few days ago:

Self-Help Documents & Instructions for Smart Meter Removal by a NY Real Estate Attorney:

"Template for Non-Consent and Removal: "Notice and Demand, with Affidavit of Negative Averment":
https://takebackyourpower.net/template-notice-demand-removal-2014/

Other tips re Solutions:
https://takebackyourpower.net/solutions/

HTH!
Dec 05, 2015
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

I am sixty years old and I have heard the diesel engine Hum at times in different places since I was a teenager. My mother first heard it over sixty seven years ago. I now I hear it everywhere, it is often worse in the remotest places. It is massively worse than ever in the past.

I live in a 200 year old isolated Lake District (UK) farmhouse on a hill. There is electricity to house via two lines which come across fields...there is a buried telephone line. Some of the floors in the house are wood over a small void between them and the ground, some are sandstone directly on the ground.

There are no pipes under the house and only one water pipe coming into the property, which is underground until it comes up into the building and is gravity fed from a tank further up the hillside. My nearest neighbour is over half a mile away. There is no machinery or anything really, no central heating. I don't have a smart meter, and the vibration and hum was here before they came to the area. I visited every factory/manufacturing plant within a ten mile radius (there are not many) one Christmas day when they were all shut down for the holiday...and still heard the hum/vibration.

I can turn the electricity off away from the house but it makes no difference at all to the vibration and Hum. Electricity and phone can be down miles away and still there is the vibration and Hum.

There is a mobile phone mast around one and a half miles away in direct line with the house and Tetra mast a bit further away. There's a huge Transmitter station around three miles away (BBC) owned by the MOD. I do have the effect of the house being 'hit' from different directions though.

I get crippling pain with it and have done for some years and it changes depending on the time of day and the intensity of the hum/vibration. It can make me faint, vomit, cramp up so that I can hardly breathe. I cannot work or play. It is disabling.

I have kept an online diary since 2011 with all the changes, times, dates etc. please say if anyone is interested in looking at it and I can let you know where it is.

Dec 05, 2015
 Reply to Susanne in UK
by: JM

Hello Susanne,

I am sorry you did not sleep tonight.

I managed to sleep better. For sleeping tonight i have followed another approach that works sometimes: Here is what I did: the problem with foam earplug is that they block all of the noise, except the vibration, that is only partially reduced. The problem is that when sleeping, the brain only finds the vibration because the rest is blocked by the earplug, and then the vibration is very disturbing because there is nothing else to distract the brain.

Therefore I sometimes use some of those earplugs with a little insert and a filter for low frequencies. Then, I have turned on the stereos and put a CD with permanent repetition. A pill of melatonine and gone to bed. When I was a little awake in the middle of the night I focused my attention on the CD, and with the partial blocking of the vibration with the earplugs it worked well.

Another advice that I have found is useful: I use two pillows for sleeping. The earplugs can be very uncomfortable if you are a side sleeper as I am. I put the two pillows close to each other and i fit the ear just in the junction, therefore lowering the weight/pressure on the earplug.

I fail to see how a bottle water can help. I try to approach this with a logical mind since it is a physical problem, created by some vibration coming from somewhere.

What about this: A part of the vibration must be coming to the bed from the floor. In the past once I tried to insert some foam under each of the legs of the bed, with the idea in mind that the vibration is coming mechanically to the bed. Maybe you could try this.

I would recommend to avoid to get up and start doing things that awake your brain. Then is very difficult to go back to sleep. If you get up try something that would relax you, like a shower. I think one should avoid TV, writing, play computer games or watch a movie or play scrabble.

One more consideration. I haven;t done much reading on the topic of the sleep patterns, but I think if your brain has forgotten the sleep pattern is very difficult to get back to normal in the vibration home/environment. I see this when I am away a few days in vacation and I get back to deep sleep pattern. Therefore you could consider going away for a few days and get that sleep pattern again right.

Good luck and good dreams to everyone!!!
Dec 06, 2015
 Replies to Mary Gaylor and JM in Holland.
by: Susan

Dear Mary, you have described this noise exactly. If it were visible it would be like the heat waves rising up from the desert (rumbling/ humming/ diesel engine through the building, up through the pillow in your bed into your ears.) It is as if it is almost an Alien attack forever trying to drive us away, but there is no escape from it. Like so many others, I have tried so many ways to block it out.
Dear JM, I wondered if the water bottle under my pillow would dull the noise!
In desperation at times when it is loud, it is torture.
I have been hearing this for 9 years. I moved house because of it and although it is slightly less here, it never stops.
Dec 09, 2015
 The hum
by:

I started hearing about 3 months ago. Oddley it seems to have started after a bad sinus cold. I have tried everything internaly at my house to shutting off the main power. No differencs. Same symtoms as others. Going to a specialist soon to see if somethings plugged. Just odd tbat it started after a cold. I was prescribed a z pack antibiotic which i see somone else also mentioned. My wife cannot hear the hum. So i guess my other question is why can som not hear if its environmental. I do seem to hear it at other spots too. We will se whT the doc says in a couple days
Dec 19, 2015
 Tools
by: Ken

Hi

It started two years ago. I've obtained tools to measure and have found infrasonic noise frequency as well as vibration. I'm not sure if some of the infrasound is caused by the vibration or vice versa.

Tools:

Infrasonic Noise Monitor by Infiltec. It records low frequency noise sound pressure levels from 0 - 25 Hz. It uses software intended for amateur seismology.

Tascam DR-05 Linear PCM recorder. This tool is intended to record music and in particular low frequency music as produced by bass and drum. Manufacturers claim is built in microphones have a flat response to 20hz. I am getting reasonable results at least as low as 10hz. Recordings saved as Wav file to be analysed later.

Industrial accelerometer attached to the microphone outlet on the Tascam recorder produces Wav files of vibration.

Virtins multi instrument software. The tool includes spectrum analysis ... you need to upgrade to the pro level. Run the wav file through the analysis to produce frequency vs power ... the spectrum analysis produces a signature image that can help to identify the source.

The problem is then to make a noise map in your neighborhood in order to find where the (inaudible) infrasonic or low frequency noise is present.

I'm pretty sure I have found the source: Machinery at a Medical Marijuana Grow Op with MMAR licence in a wood frame house. ... It makes me wonder if many of the complaints here are due to noise from grow ops trying to escape detection ... So I think I know where its coming from .. the problem now is how to prove it. I'm looking at some very expensive tools that can be used to triangulate on noise or vibration.

A big problem is MMAR rules were revoked two years ago. The change in laws is being contested in the courts and the MMAR grow ops have been allowed to continue to operate till the case is decided. So do I spend the money on tools today only to have the judge in the MMAR case make a decision tomorrow ...

Note that sound meters - even class 1 meters - usually give A - weight or C - weight frequency response. The weighting given is intended to measure noise in our normal hearing range ... that being above 200hz and is of no value for measuring single and low frequency noise such as 120 hz or 60 hz noise generated by fans and heat pumps.

Tonal noise (single frequency noise) is considered by World Health Organiztion to be a nuisance that must be quantified using spectrum analysis. Tonal noise doesn't have to be loud to be a nuisance as anyone who has spent a night in a tent with a single mosquito can attest.

If you can measure it ... then it clearly isn't 'all in your head'.
Dec 21, 2015
 The hum
by: J

Got back from ear doctor. They said it was tinitus. I did not believe it.
Deffinatley sounds industrial. The thing is why cant everyone hear it
Dec 22, 2015
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

Hearing varies from person to person, I think this is all it comes down to....and those hearing this aren't taken seriously.

This is a draft of a letter to go to our local paper and possibly nationally to local papers


Dear Sir,

I know this probably sounds strange to anybody who has not experienced this, but you will know if it does affect you or someone you know. Its coming up to five years since something was turned on, or came to the area where I live, sounding like a diesel engine humming and thudding, buzzing, at times much noisier than others, generally it speeds up and slows down over an hourly cycle, changing every few minutes. I have read about something called The Hum, and it seems to partially fit what I am experiencing, and I am trying to work out what is actually causing the phenomenon, and what needs to be turned off for us to get our lives back.

For me it started at the beginning of 2011. I hear it absolutely everywhere, its worse in buildings and very powerful, often giving the impression of walking into a noisy manufacturing plant even though there is nothing working, no electricity, no machinery just the powerful energy in the air making buildings resonate, and yet somebody else may not be aware of it.

I have for some time now experienced very high levels of disabling, crippling pain, dizziness, faintness and nausea which is directly linked with the noises and vibration. Some people hear the noise without the effects and vice versa.

Over the last five years, other things have joined it. An oscillating noise in Spring 2013 came along and so did the disabling pain, something which makes my ears hiss like two steam train whistles or sounding like a foghorn blasting in my ears. Weekends are often particularly bad, although there seems very little respite these days, it has been a few years since it was turned off for a while and peace reigned for a short time. The impression I have is that the power of it is increased a little most days.

It really concerns me that people may be suffering without any support, and may have a family who are totally unaware of the noise or its effects. I know of many people around here and in different parts of the country who are affected. It appears to me that our only chance to get something done is to show just how large a proportion of the population hear/feel it. If you are suffering rest assured you are not alone and you are not imagining it. I have had every possible medical and hearing tests and nothing shows as being likely to account for what has for a long time been a disabling nightmare for me.

I would be very interested to find out how many people are affected within the area of the readership of the this paper and beyond. I would be grateful if people could contact me with as much or as little information you are happy to provide. I would like to know where sufferers are and exactly what they are experiencing.

I would be very grateful if anybody can provide any information about this, however insignificant it may seem, and particularly information about new technology which was turned on, changed or arrived in your area around the time same time as symptoms began, I have some ideas of what it is, but I may be wrong. I have kept an online diary since 2011 with dates and times of changes if anybody is interested in checking it out.

Yours faithfully

Mary Gaylor
Soulby Fell Farm
Dacre.
Penrith
Cumbria.
Dec 22, 2015
 Harmful Bass/Sound Masking Companies
by: Elizabeth

Mary and All,
Please Google sound masking and check the websites for sound masking companies (DataVox, Dynasound, Loginsound, etc.) who are using bass (LFN) as the new white noise. The "sound masking system" that is being used in offices, schools, stores, libraries, hospitals, banks, post offices, courts, auto dealerships, restaurants, hotels, airports, malls, etc. – here is the selling point - is meant to muffle office chatter or outside noise and to deliver better privacy by creating a more productive working environment or shopping environment. But, when you have to speak over the new white noise/sound masking (bass) to talk louder to be heard, it defeats the purpose. You can drop a box and still hear the sound it makes when it hits the floor. They also call it pink noise which is bass. This new white noise/pink noise/sound masking (bass) makes a humming and rumbling sound. Proof that it is bass. They say it is the air conditioning which is a falsehood. Their noise generators are simply amplified bass subwoofers. The original white noise which is the sound of a fan never harmed anyone and served its purpose. This new white noise/pink noise/sound masking (bass) is a health hazard and detrimental to not only the eardrum, but to the human body. Standard earplugs, custom made earplugs and Bose sound reducing headphones do not stop this new white noise/pink noise/sound masking (bass) because it is bass (LFN) which permeates everything – eardrums, human bodies, brick walls, buildings, etc. Bass travels low and far. This new white noise/pink noise/sound masking (bass) can be heard out in the parking lot and in the street. Proof that it is bass. The only way to stop bass is to turn the power off or distance. The United States Government and the FBI use bass as a weapon because they understand what bass does to the human body. These sound masking companies offer no disclaimer or warning. Bass or low frequency noise (LFN) has a physical property which makes bass a physical force (vibration). For some people, this new white noise/pink noise/sound masking (bass) physically hurts - causes pain – in their eardrums because it is bass (LFN) which is a physical force and it is, literally, physically beating the eardrum like a hammer. Bass causes nerve deafness because it beats down the hair cells (steroccillia) in the cochlea and since the steroccillia do not return to their normal position - that makes you deaf when you are exposed to it, especially, after periods of time. For those who work in a sound masking environment, it is not conducive to a more productive or better working environment, especially, when your eardrums physically hurt, you are in pain, and you cannot block out the new white noise/pink noise/sound masking (bass) noise or you can feel the vibration or resonance at your desk because bass is a physical force. You suffer hearing loss because of the trauma to the eardrum. You suffer headaches and nausea. We are being subjected to harmful bass. Whether or not you can hear the new white noise/pink noise/sound masking (bass) because it is bass, it is making you deaf. Simple truth. So, what action is OSHA and the U.S. Government authorities taking to shut down these sound masking companies because of the harm to the public? What law firm will file a class action lawsuit to end these sound masking companies? Where are the attorneys willing to sue for damages (hearing loss)? It is wrong what these sound masking companies are doing to people for profit.
Dec 23, 2015
 Possible source of humming sound
by: Michael

The ‘hum’ cam be reproduced on a synthesizer keyboard including the pulsing sound. We all hear it in our house it is not the result of individual sensitivity it is a real sound. If you detune a B note three octaves below middle C so you are somewhere between B & B flat you will hear it. It will come as no surprise then to discover this is the 60 cycles per minute of A.C. power. I have made a recording of this synthesized sound. We have a transformer on the power pole directly above where the feeder lines and the support cable to our house are connected. I believe the ‘sound’ is transmitted to our structure and is generated by vibrating our walls and windows. This is why the sound cannot be heard outside. It is a debilitating annoyance. I would be interested to hear if others that hear this noise have a similar connection to their house as this is something that should be able to be corrected. Thank you for reading this.
Dec 23, 2015
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

I live in a isolated farmhouse.... everything can be off for miles....electricity/phone/ there's no machinery here.... and still the noise and vibration permeating the house, I hear outside also, it's everywhere....it has made me suicidal... only the thought of what it would do to my family has kept me alive. Other people near where I live can hear it.
Dec 23, 2015
 To mary Gaylor
by: Susan W

Dear Mary, you describe the noise exactly. It is torture. I am a real nature lover and hate to substitute nature with anything BUT you HAVE to. The fact that you are suicidal is heart breaking. Mary, I have a CD of bird songs. I have invested in several speakers around the place. I can hear the birds on the CD which blocks it out (you can nap with it on) it might help and you can also put the radio on through them. Radio 4 has plays, discussions etc. Also one of those portable IPods. I don't have one (because I have to find someone who will show me how to use one) but nature CD's and Alpha sounds will give your mind a break. ( Look up Alpha sounds, they are boring but a mental pilates / good for you )
I hope this helps you. You need the respite.
Heaven only knows how bad this is and what effect it has on us all. I also think it effects my poor dog.
Best wishes,
Susan W.


Dec 24, 2015
 To Michael of 12/23/15
by: SGVH

Thanks Michael for your observations. I don't know anything re Synthesizers but interesting re the B-flats, etc.; I did take piano lessons as a kid so I do remember the notes, Every Good Boy Does Fine > E G B D F, lol).

Excellent that you zoomed in on 60Hz. John Dawes in the UK (Hum Sufferers google group) made his own testing instruments & also determined this year that his Hum was 60Hz which he felt was coming from the North American Power Grid all the way across the Atlantic to the UK! (Electrical Expert Curtis Bennett said in one interview that water only impedes Grid frequencies by 30% so I guess it's possible Dawes could hear/feel the North American Grid in the UK(?)

Your Transformer-on-Pole-Near-House reminds me of a lady's story I read over a year ago & the comment was older than that. She also felt the vibrations were somehow caused by a Transformer-On-Pole near her house & had had many fights with the utility about it which they denied of course. The poor lady was so desperate to get away from the vibrations (which she felt were in the floor) that she had her bed hung from her ceiling! (I can relate to the desperation.) But that didn't stop her from feeling the vibrations, & I think it's because, as you said, the Grid &/or SmartGrid is vibrating everything, foundations, concrete, drywall, ceilings, windows, wall & ceiling wiring, powerlines, transformers, the whole gamut, including "INDUCING CURRENT" in our bodies, which "IS Electrocution" > Expert Curtis Bennett quote. So being higher up off the floor will not help.

All Transformers here (S. USA) & powerlines are underground, unlike your situation, but it obviously doesn't matter as the problem can come in on wiring either way. And the power can be turned Off & it still keeps coming because it is a systematic problem. Here's 2 examples from the EI WellSpring site:

"PLC Testimonies": http://www.eiwellspring.org/smartmeter/PLC_testimony.htm [...]
"YouTube video, posted September 20, 2014: These are the side effects from using a system that touts being able to pass over transformers. The power is off at the breaker panel but the G3-PLC system keeps delivering a pulsed field around the entire perimeter. This all is happening without a smart meter but with an Elstar analog. There is no escaping this weapon. www.youtube.com/watch?v+sksau_6_ArE ."

"This man has a non-PLC meter and the breakers are off, so the dirty electricity is coming into the house on the power feed. [...]

Another person in Sweden reported in 2005 at that same site:
[...]
"We didn’t know that PLC signals on the electrical line can travel into other households. Neither did we know that it doesn’t help to turn off the breakers, as the PLC signals travel on the neutral wire. We found that to stop the signals from entering the house, we had to hire an electrician to install a special switch that disconnects all the wires.
[...]

There are SO MANY variations of "smarter systems" being imposed on the Grid now, all made by NUMEROUS different companies, as far back as 1980's. PLC has many variations; RF-MESH has many variations, etc. Expert Curtis Bennett (ThermoGuy.com) has said some systems, like up in his BC area, cover 125 km's (100 miles?) & that these "...PUT EVERYTHING (& Everybody) 'INSIDE AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT' which is 'VERY DANGEROUS'." (his words). So people who don't think they have a Smart Grid, could be inside a neighboring citiy's Smart Grid. Turning off breakers & mains supply won't stop it.

Bennett also says "POWER DENSITY" determines the INTENSITY of the Vibrations at "atomic & molecular levels." He also says these "HIGH-SPEED PENETRATING EMFs" are the same as "...being tazed on your/our own property 24/7."

More bad news: Google intends to begin radiating us from the sky beginning 1/1/16 via its new "Loon WiFi." See SmartMeterNewsUpdates.wordpress.com for all the latest news. That lady does a great job keeping up with it.

See also the TakeBackYourPower.net Solutions page. They have legal documents people can send to their utility company + a video explaining it (documents designed by a NY Real Estate attorney).

HTH!
Dec 26, 2015
 Began hearing The Hum in 1986
by: Ramona

It was so odd that I walked outside to see if I could see which direction it was coming from. That was the first time I noticed it - 1986. However, these past few years it has gotten worse to where it actually can vibrate my brain 0r feel like that is what it is doing. No smart meters where I live, btw.

The reason I am commenting today is I have noticed that during holidays the Hum almost goes away. Has anyone else noticed this? It's as if whomever is in charge of the Hum is off on the holiday (such as Christmas)! I know that is a simplification of the matter but really, I can't explain it.

Right now, on Christmas night 2015, I can actually sit here and enjoy the silence without the hum rattling my brain or my body.

The damn hum can truly ruin one's life, so I keep on noise distraction all the time. I'd rather have the silence I grew up with in the 50s, but now we have THIS. Sick and tired of it.
Dec 26, 2015
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

Massively worse here over Christmas...it just gets worse and worse anyway...brutal and violent, as if I am living on top of the source, with searing pain in my body, ears and head...the noise and pain never stops these days. September 2012 had a few days when I was quiet during the day. I heard it first beginning of January 2011.
Dec 26, 2015
 to Mary Gaylor
by: Dee

Hello Mary, I am so sorry that you are having such a bad time. I too have exactly the same, with constant LFN, same kind of physical and mental and emotional effects. I've felt suicidal as well. LFN is, it seems, hard to deal with as it appears there are so many different sources, dependent upon, I guess, where you live, and how sensitive your hearing is. I know that mine comes from gaming machines. I have the neighbours from hell across the road who seemingly are addicted not just to the games but also to the noise of the machine which is left on 24/7. E H came out and recorded the decibels between 17 - 20 which is the range for LFN. However, they told me that there is no legislation dealing with LFN. Also, other people do not hear it, or so they say, because I hear people shouting out for it to stop when it is at it's worst. However, without other people coming forwards, nothing I can do, which adds to the frustration. I was interested in your post where you state that the noise has been worse over Christmas. It is the same for me here, because the family have friends staying with children, and the volume has been turned up. I know you've probably read other posts on here, but LFN noise can travel as far as three kilometres, sometimes more dependent upon how dense the bass noise is. You live in a remote area, but that does not mean that you are not hearing this noise which is coming from a long way away. Have you had E H in? I cannot say they were much help to me, however, I did find out later that one of the people who occupies the 'neighbours from hell' property actually works for the H A who rents the property out to them, so it just could be that they did not want to find a problem. Have you asked the utility companies to come out and cheque pipes and wires and cables? I feel for you because I am where you are, metaphorically, obviously. I've moved twice to try to escape LFN, and am now desperately trying to find a property cheap enough but not in a problem area, so I can move again in the hope that: 'It will be OK this time.'
Dec 26, 2015
 Pinpointing the source of the sound
by: Michael

When I was boy a mechanic in my dad's shop taught me to pinpoint noises in car engines by placing a long screwdriver tip against different parts of the engine and putting the screw driver handle against my skull near my ear. When you zero in to the right spot the noise predominates. Using a similar technique in my house I tested the windows and walls (I know this makes me sound like a basket case) and found nothing until I came to the structural corner of my house where the Hydro feeder lines and support cable are fastened to the outside. There clear as day I could hear the 60 cycle hum of the transformer. The hum was an octave higher than the the one I previously mentioned. So one of the sounds is an octive harmonic of the other (similar to playing harmonics on my guitar by touching the middle of the string and producing a half wave in the string). I am thinking the support cable is acting as the string between the transformer and our house like the old tin can walkie-talkies we made when we were kids. There must be a way to deaden this sound and I will pursue it with the Hydro techicians after the Christmas holidays. I am sympathetic to those who have different experiences with this constant problem however I can only solve a problem one step at a time. If we can eliminate this tangible problem it would clear the way to analyse other potential sources. BTW I do not have a smart meter and this problem 'hum' exists after I turn off my wifi in the evening. Those who say they have turned off the power to their house have not stopped the power in the hydro lines coming to your house, only the power from the switch to the rest of your house. I will let you know how I make out with the techs.
Dec 27, 2015
 to Michael
by: Dee

Your comment is very interesting, especially describing the ways you systematically go about discovering where certain noises are coming from. When I had the EH officers round about the gaming noise from neighbours over the road, they went through my flat thoroughly testing everywhere. We have no smart metres near us, no pylons, no gas cables, no compressors or pumps. They switched everything off in my home and made their recording which consistently measured within the LFN level. I know it is these people because I recognize the noise of the gaming machine. I think they have probably and in built or added sub woofer, plus other attachments, they screen their games via their TV to a huge screen. I can sometimes see the lights from the screen strobing in time to the noise and there is a powerful vibration. It would be interesting to see the results of your experiments, if you would be willing to share.
Jan 03, 2016
 Humming is driving me crazy!
by: Kathleen

I became aware of it about a month ago. First I thought my neighbor was working on his car late at night, that isn't it. What is nutty I can hear it over the dryer running and it is louder upstairs in the house. I don't hear it when in town or at the store. Well I am happy I am not alone.
Jan 08, 2016
 @Deb from Australia
by: Anil

Hello Deb,

Although the sound is not heard by human ear, it may be amplified by your walls. Just a possibility. I am not sure even if it is true, but a lot of people are talking about it.

However, if you want to believe in it, just think of it like you being blessed and sleep tight.

Wish you good health

Anil
Jan 15, 2016
 Hum Noise
by:

Hello

I was told 10 years ago now, after having excluded every other possibility, that it is

PULSED MICROWAVES

from the cell phone towers.

A lecturer from University who is VERY familiar with this world wide problem told me.
Jan 16, 2016
 Low hum problem
by: Jan

I must say I was pleased to find this forum and find out that I wasn't going completely mad!!!
I have traced the low hum and it is coming from the main electric metre on the wall outside my house. The hum has got louder over the past few months. If I put my ear to the walls inside the house it is very clear. I assume the only way to get rid of this noise is to remove the metre and stop my electricity supply ...... seems a little drastic! Is this something we have to learn to live with or is there someone out there who can come up with a sensible solution like changing the 'hum' frequency within the houses of those who have this sensitive hearing.
Jan 16, 2016
 Jan New
by: Dee

Hi Jan, you may have a case for going to your electricity supplier and telling them the problem and ask if they will move the metre for you. They might. People seem to be becoming more aware of the fact that some people have more sensitive hearing, especially at a low frequency level, than others. I went to view a house a few days ago, and I asked the agent to stop speaking because I wanted to listen for humming noises! He said that there was a cable just outside the window and it could be that. I don't think it was that. It was quite a crowded residential area, and I think it was noise from a nearby house. It wasn't really a humming or buzzing. I suspect though, if I buy the property, I'll have to keep the windows shut even in summer. This sensitivity is a real nuisance, but there seems to be nothing that can be done to change my hearing. Just use noise maskers at night. I hope you get things sorted out, it really is worth trying everything you can think of. Good Luck
Jan 18, 2016
 Humming sound in house
by: SueSueSue

I'm also suffering from the same humming sound. I can hear it 24/7, it destroys my sleep. Not our electricity, as turning off the main did nothing. For a while I thought it was the noise from a pump for an inflatable Christmas decoration my neighbors had, but they took the decoration down and the humming is still there. I've read that sometimes plumbing issues make humming sounds in the pipes, which then transmit to the entire home. The main water supply to your house from the outside can be the culprit, if the pressure is too high it can make your pipes vibrate, even if you turn off the main water supply valve inside your house. I've contacted my city's water utility and asked them to come out and check the line coming into our home. I will update and let you know if that was helpful. If not, I plan to contact our gas provider and ask them to check those lines as well. If that doesn't work I will be forced to move. I cannot live inside a humming house any longer!!
Jan 19, 2016
 to SueSueSue New
by: Dee

So sorry to hear about this. I'm actually trying to move for the third time, in order to try to get away from the constant noise. In my case it's noise from 'gamers.' The machines they use cause a constant thudding, drumming noise which penetrates the building where I live. Tried and tried to do something about it, but there is no talking to them, and EH can do nothing. The problem is most buildings, especially older ones, are not built to withstand such noise, nor to keep it in. It's affecting my health badly, and my peace of mind. I do hope you get some help with this.
Jan 19, 2016
 Re: "PULSED MICROWAVES from the cell phone towers"
by: SGVH

To the unnamed person who left that msg on 1/15/16 above re their University lecturer 10-years ago, thank you, & FYI, Pulsed-MWR is also what the "Smart Grid" emits via RF-MESH systems &/or Pulsed-MWR leaks from the PLC Smart Grid systems. So either way, it's the same culprit whether from celltowers or from Smart Grids or both.
Jan 19, 2016
 Main Breaker in panel
by: Michael

Check with your power company but I am fairly certain that 'shutting off' the power to your house at the main breaker in your electrical panel DOES NOT stop the power the the lines running to your house. The 'smart' or 'analogue' meter is on the power company's side of your main breaker and is still powered unless the power company disconnects at the street.
Wifi pulses or power sounds coming to you house would not be isolated by turning off your own main breaker. In my case vibration from the transformer on the power pole would still be present if the power company disconnected at the street because the big transformer would still be live and the steel support cable still runs to my house. It could be a physical transmission of sound, not directly a result of the power in my house. The answer will come but the question is still to be resolved.
Jan 19, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

The BBC has run a story about the Hum today,you will find it on their website. There are some guesses at the cause, all wrong.
Jan 20, 2016
 To Mary G. & All UK-People
by: SGVH (USA)

Hi Mary, do you still subscribe to the "Hum Forum" group at YahooGroups? That LFN-Assoc-UK lady just posted there 2-days ago at this link:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/humforum/conversations/messages/19526

Quoted/snipped:
[...]
Rosemarie in England.
('LFNS Help').
(A National information service helped by N.H.S.),
at
www.healthwatchgloucestershire.co.uk.
/view/low-frequency-noise_sufferers-help/3198

Also please see
http://usir.salford.ac.uk/493/1/NANR45-procedure_rev1_23_2011.pdf

also,
http://archive.defra.gov.uk/environmental/quality/noise/research/lowfrequency/documents/lowfreqnoise.pdf

Best Wishes from England
[...]
End Quote.
Jan 20, 2016
 To MICHAEL
by: SGVH_USA

Hi Michael, thanks for your continued thoughts & observations re the vibrations+noise at your place. All very educational. Loved the screwdriver story. :)

May I ask:

1. Are you in USA? (You mentioned 60Hz Grid so you could be USA or Canada, I think.)

2. Had you already lived there for ever-how-long & then, "all the sudden" you began having the vibrations+noise problem?

3. If Yes to "all the sudden," then would it be correct to say that *something* obviously *changed* within the quality &/or quantity &/or frequencies-regulation &/or transmission-distribution of the electricity being supplied to your property?

4. Some things I've wondered about separate from your story:

--Maybe it's caused by a change at the Substation level.

--Maybe the Substation was transformed from electro-mechanical to "computerized."

--I copied this from a local engineer's site who does work for the local Utility. It was UNdated so it may have been implemented before the Vibrations & Noise problem began here. However, it might give you ideas to work with (caps added by me):

[...]
The Utility "...initiated a ... system-wide DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION program ... [& added] protective RELAYING upgrades in ... substations for all main and critical-LOAD FEEDERS and to interface the upgraded RELAYING with [the Utility's] SCADA SYSTEM ... included new LOAD TAP CHANGING equipment (LTCs) and POWER METERS on ... TRANSFORMERS."
[...]

--Maybe it's those new "Power Meters ON Transformers" that are causing Vibrations & Noise (?)

--Re: SCADA:

"What ‘they’ [industry] cannot explain, and take great pains to divert attention from, is the fact that the networking schema, the Level 2 equipment, the *SCADA* System, is deadly to living tissue because of the extremely high levels of energy it/they emit(s)."
--Victor Nixon, M.Sc. Computer Automation/Electrical Industry & SCADA Expert as quoted in "Tribute to Victor Nixon, EMF Warrior"; pg. 21 of 30):
http://www.stopthecrime.net/smartmeters/victor_tribute.pdf

--SCADA - Wiki Definition:
"SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a system for remote monitoring and control that operates with coded [RF?] signals over communication [Pulsed-Microwave Radiation?] channels (using typically one communication channel per remote station)."

--SCADA - Google Definition: "SCADA generally refers to an industrial computer system that monitors and controls a process. In the case of the transmission and distribution elements of electrical utilities, SCADA will monitor substations, transformers and other electrical assets."

--SCADA systems, in general, began in 1965:

"History of SCADA":
http://scadahistory.com/resources/SCADA+History.docx

(Maybe it has been "automated" SCADA systems causing the "Hum" as far back as the 1960s?)

~~~
Jan 25, 2016
 It's not just my house
by: SueSueSue

Well I do have an update on my humming noise -- I discovered it's not just in my house. I talked to a couple of neighbors and went to another house to listen. I could hear the exact same humming sound in their house too. The neighbors can't really hear it, so it must be that I'm especially sensitive to the frequency of the hum and It MUST be something affecting the whole neighborhood, like possibly the electrical substation a mile or so from us, or possibly a natural gas well that's also about a mile away. So frustrating!
Jan 25, 2016
 To SGVH
by: SueSueSue

SGVH, thank you for the information! I'm in the U.S. and those are interesting theories. I appreciate you taking the time to make your posts above.
Jan 26, 2016
 To SGVH
by: Michael

We have lived in our house in Canada for many years. The noise preceded cell phones and towers by at least 10 years. The noise is not always present which leads me to believe it may be generated as different loads or substations are brought on line. As to how they are switched I would have to ask the hydro authority when computers were first initiated. It is my guess that the computer switching was brought to our system fairly early on as our hydro company is pretty progressive. That raises the other point. I do not have a smart meter because I don't want a source of micro-wave radiation in our house that I can't turn off (as I can with WIFI). Thank you for for your interest. Interestingly when I started writing this there was no hum now it has become quite noticeable. It seems to have started about 1am.
Jan 28, 2016
 Ugh
by: RDSWYSD4

I thought I was losing my mind a few years ago when this low pitched humming noise began. I live in an area where there are often diesel trucks and trains. I assumed that maybe there was a truck idling or a train engine idling on the tracks somewhere. It was early winter and I put on my coat and began walking and walking all around my neighborhood to find the source... I never did. In the area where I live I only have to endure this from about October until June. It is prominent when it is cold outside and I never hear it once it warms up. I get so tired of the advice of "play some noise or turn on a radio"... you see, I like to sit and read in silence and sometimes just think... this hum makes it nearly impossible to do so. What is baffling to me is how many people *don't* hear it. I visited my Mom in another state (in late winter) and OMG! There it was! I said, "Oh great... you have the constant humming too." She couldn't hear it and so I promptly shut my mouth. Ha. I do have sensitive hearing... loud exhaust and loud booming music drives me over the edge... but this hum is something else entirely. It is constant and grating and I am so sick of it. I try to purposely make myself forget about it... but that is nearly impossible. I am so happy to have found this site with numerous comments. It helps just knowing that I am not alone in this.
Feb 02, 2016
 About posts
by: Dee

I'm really finding it bemusing the way the posts on this site seem to be drifting off the edge of the right hand side. Words missing and I'm trying to puzzle out which ones so posts make sense. Has anyone else noticed this? What can be done about it?
Feb 02, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

There is a facebook forum for Hum Sufferers Low tone if anyone is interested....
https://www.facebook.com/groups/421777554665488/permalink/574273326082576/?comment_id=575082086001700&ref=notif&notif_t=group_comment_reply
Feb 08, 2016
 Noisy Rainforest
by: JungleWahine

New here,aloha. I too was bugged for a while by the way off in the distance generator noise, but seeing as 80% of the people living in the rainforest were off grid, I assumed that's exactly what it was. Now that this rainforest has power lines everywhere, that noise is loud and much different. There was talk of putting smart meters in as there are no paved roads in here and it would just be easier. I hate that we are all having this issue, but I'm glad I found this site and it's not just me.
In the last few months the noise has changed and got louder again. I really thought I might be going nuts or something.

One thing did occur to me though. i was looking into solar and I remembered reading about the "dirty" electricity noises you would get depending on inverters you used etc, but more importantly, if you were still connected to the grid to "sell back" electricity. Well all the big box home improvement stores here in Hawaii have this deal going on where they almost "give" you the whole system. They guarantee that your power bill will be less than 1/3 of grid power. In return they keep whatever goes to the grid. Well tons of the new well off folks that could afford to get connected went out and did this. Just a thought.
I wonder if the hum were speaking of is the same or almost the same for all of us? I listed to the Bristol hum, mine used to be that, but boy has it evolved. Mine now greatly fluctuates and is never one steady tone. Only way I can describe it is when you have a refrigerator on the fritz, but much louder and a scale higher than the old steady drone.
Physical/Mental symptoms, yes. Since its been so much louder I am extremely anxious,sometimes manic, even paranoid. It's like I always have the heebie jeebies. Complete lack of sleep until I pass out from exhaustion or drink alcohol.
As far as the radiation mentioned, I'm assuming that's a factor weather or not you hear it?
I'm going to scroll back up and hit all these links posted. Thanks to everyone that has posted with their personal experiences and information!
Feb 08, 2016
 Research
by: Dee

A friend sent me a link for the following research done in 2011 by Professors, Thomas Jentsch and Gary Lewin, in Berlin. It makes very interesting reading re people who were born with a hearing defect (but not total deafness) due to a gene mutation. Apparently, such people - and I know I am one - tend to hear noises especially in the low frequency range, that other people cannot hear. Also, it seems, there is some connection with increased touch sensitivity to do with identifying something by touch that you cannot see? At least I think that is what they are saying, it is a bit medical technical for me, but others of you will probably understand it.

People with DFNA2 Hearing Loss Show Increased Touch Sensitivity
Feb 08, 2016
 In re: Dee and the "hearing defect" researchers
by: Ramona

I don't see how a hearing "defect" could explain the hum we all hear. I didn't hear this hum growing up in a southern big city. In fact, when I went away to college in the mid-70s to an upstate college town, I didn't hear the hum. And yet, when years later I moved back to the same upstate college town, I began to quite suddenly hear this hum in 1986.

In my lifetime (I'm now in my 60s), here's the score card for me (United States):

No hum in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and part of the 1980s. During this time, I grew up in one large metro southern city, went to college in a small southern college town (same state), moved out of state to a very small southern town, returned to my previous small southern college town and then... the "hum" began quite suddenly in 1986 in this city.

The "hum" while apparent seemed to be manageable over the years.

Early 2000s I moved clear across the country to a western state. The "hum" was apparent but seemed to be not as annoying as "back home" and would come and go.

Moved back yet again to same small southern college town of alma mater a few years later and hum was in its usual manageable albeit annoying form.

Then wham - around 2013 it changed to something that affected me (still does) in an entirely different way. Louder, more vibratory, more intrusive, non-stop, like rattling my brain.

This "new" hum often make me anxious and nauseous.

Since I have lived in several different homes and apartments in my alma mater city, it certainly was not my dwellings that created the hum.

With the new hum that continues to this day, I often hear it when I am in quiet parks or deserted streets. And of course, I hear it in my current dwelling.

What is odd is this hum seems to turn "off," as if someone takes a vacation for a holiday. It can also unexpectedly stop and then restart in an hour's time. If I find myself feeling "up," and light and breezy, even "optimistic" in attitude, I will stop myself and say "Hey, you feel great - has the hum stopped?" And if I turn off the masking fan or TV, yep, there is no hum. Doesn't last all that long, and once it returns, I have to plug the fan back in or turn on the TV or Internet radio.

So I don't think any type of genetic ear defect can explain the hum we hear. Perhaps for some, but not for me. I didn't begin to hear it until I was in my 30s.

I believe it could be many things - sonic sounds from submarines (which effect fish and mammals), wifi, cell and microwave towers, or even HAARP. The thing is, those of us old enough to remember true silence and the joy therein, know that what we are hearing now is not something we grew up hearing.

Oh, to be able to "hear" the blissful silence we once knew...
Feb 09, 2016
 to Ramona
by: Dee

I guess everyone is different in what they hear and when. I'm a bit older than you, and had problems with ears from birth. Hearing was not too bad until I reached my 40's, then it started to play up. Hearing changes as we age anyway, and now I am totally deaf in one ear. I've heard different types of 'hum' (that have not actually been hums) in different places, i.e. different in towns and countryside, also depends upon terrain, flat or hilly or by the sea or inland. I was interested by the research because I wondered if my genetic hearing problems might be the root of hearing stuff that others around me don't. I too wish that we have silence sometimes, as we used to, before technology took such huge leaps forward.
Feb 09, 2016
 World Hum Map Founder will be on Radio Tonight
by: FYI

FYI: Glen McPherson who founded the World Hum Map & database & HumInfo wordpress blog, & who also posts at the YahooGroup Hum group, will be interviewed by George Noory tonight, Tues. 2/9/16, on the Coast To Coast AM radio program beginning at 10pm PST through Midnight.
Feb 11, 2016
 MP3 Files of Radio Interview re World Hum/Dr. Glen McPherson
by: FYI

As a follow-up to the above re the Coast to Coast AM radio program the other night about "The Hum," here's the program/interview of Glen McPherson in mp3 format:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lbddivtu0e8hclb/AAAyhVB4oIZcxrB2P2Bm6RTga?dl=0

Glen's site is here:
https://hummap.wordpress.com

His World Hum Database & Map is here:
http://www.thehum.info
Feb 12, 2016
 Introducing Another "Vibes & Hum" Hearer
by: SGVH

The Virginia-Pilot newspaper did an article today 2/11/16 re a retired gentleman whose house began "humming" in December 2015. You can read it here:

"The mystery of the humming house in Chesapeake":
http://pilotonline.com/news/local/the-mystery-of-the-humming-house-in-chesapeake/article_ace78dc6-0396-528a-8825-2e8ced1e8e7d.html

He was an Electrician for 40 years so he says it is a 60 Hertz hum & he did all he could to determine the source & his local power company has been to his house about 5 times so far trying to figure out where the noise is coming from. So cute: He says he has been going around hugging the utility poles to see if they are vibrating. :)

It's a good article, but it did not mention Smart Grids, Smart Meters (Electric or Water), RF-MESH systems, PLC systems, SCADA systems, Substation or Transformer upgrades, etc.

They also did a very short video of the gentleman which you can see here:

"The humming house in Chesapeake. Can you hear it?":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxF6fKXDtVo

If you have the time or inclination & can log in via disqus, google+, etc., please go welcome the man to the "Hum" people by leaving a comment at the newspaper site &/or their youtube channel so he knows he's not alone (& so the newspaper & their youtube channel knows he's not alone either!)

Thank you!
Feb 12, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

Glen Mcphereson in his radio interview say he thinks the hum is caused my military VLF transmitters.
Feb 16, 2016
 Humming
by: Pia

https://bookofresearch.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/the-mystery-of-the-worldwide-hum-phenomenon/

I started hearing the humming noise in April.2014 and have been deiven to dispair.
I live in Johannesburg South Africa. Add your details to the hum research database to assist with the research
Feb 17, 2016
 Waves are the cause
by: Ali

This has now been proven to be caused by waves on Sea beds.
Feb 18, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

Ali,

I am sure we would all be interested to see how this was arrived at...noise from waves on seabed! can you back this up with some more information please.
Mar 04, 2016
 I have a plan to find it
by: Cerino

I started hearing the hum mid December of 2015 in my home in Roswell,NM 88203. I noted that the hum started in variant times from 12pm to 12am. At these times the intensity will vary. Mid January after days of trying various cooping technics and failing to find the source I decided to contact the code ordinance office who the replied with a suspicious attitude towards issue. The woman insisted that her department could do nothing and if I had any complaints to contact the police. I didn't contact the police but the next day the hum did not return. I spent two days paranoid about the noise returning but it did not. As of March 1, 2016 the noise returned and continues. On the third of the month I contacted the police after driving around town trying to find the source. To my surprise the noise covers all of Roswell. There is a c130 constantly flying over the town I live near an airport.

My plan to find the source is simple. I will map the area to find where the noise subsides. This will create a radius around the source and I will find out the area where the source is. I WILL THEN FIND OUT WHO IS THE CULPRIT AND PUNISH THE GUILTY. I will relay the source to this site so you also can understand what is cuasing this.

Just know it is artificial and it can be stopped.
Mar 22, 2016
 The same does not good an evil!
by: Sound

That is a very deceaving comment--ary!
Mar 24, 2016
 Waves on seabed
by: Ali

http://www.livescience.com/50473-earth-mysterious-hum-explained.html

The cause has been found. Try googling.
Mar 28, 2016
 I doubt it's waves on the sea bed.
by: SueSueSue

That is only a theory and we've all been googling like crazy forever to try to figure out what this humming is (at least I have). I doubt this is THE answer, it's one possibility, but it explains nothing about "my" hum, like the fact that it hums at a very constant rate (no 13-300 second waves in my hum -- no variation at all really), or why I only started hearing it 6 months ago, or why I can feel the vibration of the hum (the article says humans can't feel it) or why it's louder on some days and quieter on others, or why I can hear it inside but not outside, or why it's louder upstair than downstairs.

I really don't believe it's ocean waves. I'm sorry but I just don't. It's an interesting theory but I still think "my" hum is coming from a man-made source.
Mar 28, 2016
 I doubt it's waves on the sea bed.
by: SueSueSue

That is only a theory and we've all been googling like crazy forever to try to figure out what this humming is (at least I have). I doubt this is THE answer, it's one possibility, but it explains nothing about "my" hum, like the fact that it hums at a very constant rate (no 13-300 second waves in my hum -- no variation at all really), or why I only started hearing it 6 months ago, or why I can feel the vibration of the hum (the article says humans can't feel it) or why it's louder on some days and quieter on others, or why I can hear it inside but not outside, or why it's louder upstairs than downstairs.

I really don't believe it's ocean waves. I'm sorry but I just don't. It's an interesting theory but I still think "my" hum is coming from a man-made source.
Mar 29, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

http://iervn.com/2016/02/22/jan-2016-letter-to-dept-of-environment-re-the-hum/

Jan 2016 Letter to dept of environment re "THE HUM"
Mar 29, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

A constant non-stop low frequency....

https://sandaura.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/a-constant-non-stop-low-frequency-hum-heard-in-my-home/
Mar 31, 2016
 Consider SmartGrid before Anything Else
by: SGVH

SueSueSue wrote:

--"...it hums at a very constant rate..."

So does the Power Grid.

--"I only started hearing it 6 months ago..."

a) Smart Grid, water &/or electric, installed for the first time? &/or "upgraded" to "Advanced Metering Infrastructure" (AMI)?

b) SCADA?

c) Polluted Electric Grid even w/o Smart Grid?

--"I can feel the vibration of the hum..."

The EMFs are "inducing current" in your body, that's why you can feel the vibration, which is technically "subtle electrocution."

--"..it's louder on some days and quieter on others..."

Power Grid operating at either "Real or Reactive Demand" at any given day/time/season. Also, "Power Density" determines EMF Intensity.

--"I can hear it inside but not outside..."

That's because the EMFs are riding on your wall-wiring, ceiling-wiring, plumbing, etc. & turning any/all metal in/under/above/around all the walls of your residence into "oscillating antennas" & are vibrating your building at "atomic & molecular levels."

--"...it's louder upstair than downstairs."

a) Are the rooms smaller upstairs? (Smaller rooms have walls closer together, hence more "compact" wall-wiring closer together, hence more "sound".)

b) What type of roof & beams?

c) More metal upstairs?

Etc. Etc.

Question & Analyze Everything.

And I totally agree 1,000% that that idiotic "ocean waves" theory is an absurd joke. An obvious "disinfo" effort to cover-up & lead people astray. The ocean does NOT emit EMFs!

Nature CAN produce INFRASOUND, however = Frequencies below 20Hz = but it is short-lived & not constant, ie:
--Volcanos.
--Glaciers.
--Earthquakes.
--Avalanches.
Apr 03, 2016
 Just tell me why.
by: Vibro gal

I am sorry so many people suffer and I suffer from feeling vibrations. My problem started last fall, 2015 after my neighbor had at least a hot water heater replaced in her house. Now I feel her wash, humming, vibrations, pulsations that wake me up at night. Sometimes feeling that the house was going to take off or possibly explode. I lived in this house for several years symptom free. Our house is one of many attached, single-family homes. My husband does not feel anything- he may hear an occasional humming sound coming her house. I feel the vibrations at work also because my desk is near a compressor pump room. Sometimes I think its a freight train down the hill or the crematory up the hill. I wonder if I feel it because I took away the carpeting in the den room downstairs. It may be the combined effect of all the heating systems, dehumidifiers, or through the pipe-lines, and the noise of the city. I live on a hill top. I would pay to stop the cause. I went into panic and thought that my house was fukced but since my husband does not feel it- at least its good for some people. I started getting panic attacks,anxiety, and anger,depression, and I was taking medication for it. Now it's mind over matter because I feel hopeful that heating season is almost over. Now that I can "live" a little-I want to plan to get help. I want the trespassing vibrations to cease and desist. Could not measure vibrations with a rented vibration meter.( or we don't know how to read the results)I am all alone with this. My husband is sympathetic and he took me to the hearing doctor. At middle age, I have above-normal hearing- like a teenager I was told. I feel vibrations on the street, church, work, etc. If it's mechanical, I can feel it. sucks. It used to literally vibrate my skull on the pillow. I would feel it on the floor, through the bed, into my chest or my groin. I asked the neighbors- crazy I am but at least the neighbors know to watch their crap. At least it's quieter on one side. Some suggested I call Noise Control. It's not the noise so much, it's the vibrations.
Apr 04, 2016
 Humming noise
by: Tony

I don't dismiss previous writers on this topic but I can confirm that the main cause of humming noise which becomes most apparent at night is principally due to Electrical transformers. The sort which are commonly placed on power poles or in metal cabinets placed around residential streets. They are used by power companies to reduce the high voltage supply to the domestic voltage. Having suffered from humm from a pole mounted transformer, I purchased another house in another town.Brick construction with underground electrical supply lines. The first night when the neighborhood was quiet I became aware of the Humm. I traced the source to a ground mounted transformer. A little over a 100yds (90m)away, hidden behind a hedge. Which is why I'd not seen it prior to purchase of the property. I am now looking for another house. As even if I strip the walls to install sound proofing material and fit double glassed windows, I doubt it would remove the sound. Besides which I would then have to live in sealed box.
Apr 04, 2016
 To Tony
by: Michael

Tony I agree with you completely see my post Dec. 26, 2015.

It would seem reasonable in these days of advanced technology that it should be possible to create a counter signal to the hum at its source. I understand AC power is necessary and the hum is inevitable but when there is a known source of that sound why can't the neutralizing sound signal be generated in the same place. It would be the same as getting stereo speakers in phase in the old days. I have heard out of phase speakers create dead spots in a room where the sound waves canceled each other out. It was really noticeable when you put a mono record on a stereo system. Just some thoughts.
Apr 04, 2016
 more on Humming
by: Tony

Hi Michael, thank you sorry I missed your previous comment. I teach physics, so I understand why producing a counter noise by a transformer would not work. If one considers how a transformers are constructed; it becomes obvious how the noise, which we hear as vibrations of air particles acting on our ear drums. The noise is generated by oscillations of magnetic field within the transformers. This causes a physical vibration of the electrical cables within the core as well as the metal containment materials of the frame holding the wires. As well as the whole containment vessel in which the transformer is held. Air particles will be excited from every surface in every direction.
Most sufferers will confirm they hear a repeating cycle of sound, as the hum from the different surfaces That's because the sound from the different surfaces will interfere with each other so you get a pulsing hum noise.
Anyone who hears a solid constant hum would be wise to check around nearby as the source is likely to be very close. possible a bed side clock or some other appliance, that is turned off but still plugged into the mains.
As above the multiple surfaces from which sound emanates, is the reason you hear the hum which ever way you turn or locate within a house.
I believe the electrical hum inflicted on everyone is a serious health risk. I affects sleep, it causes stress, aggression, not to mention hearing loss. Like so many things in things society accepts noise because most people like my wife, simply relax somehow and accept it as unavoidable, regardless of possible ill effects.
Apr 05, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

Hi Tony,

I wonder if you have any thoughts on this....I hear the diesel engine hum, at least it sounds like a diesel engine when it is working at a specific speed, it changes over an hours cycle.

In the past the noise has stopped completely for a few hours at a time...but I there was no break in electricity supply and the telephone line was still working.

Some people report the hum as stopping for months at a time and then starting up again.

I live in an area in the UK which had severe floods around Christmas time. The electricity was 'down' as were the telephone cables and yet the noise continued. I live in the English Lake District in an isolated farmhouse, telephone line is buried and comes up through some fields, electricity comes across the fields on two lines, there are no major transmission cables within miles.
Apr 05, 2016
 more on Humming 2
by: Tony

Dear Mary, A lovely part of the country so it is tragic that even there you suffer from background noise. Naturally I can only speculate as to what the source of your noise is. Given that you state it heard even when the electricity is off.
How apparent a noise is depends on two factors. The frequency and the Amplitude. Few Humans can hear any sounds below 60Hz or above a frequency of 20,000Hz. although many can hear up to around 22,000Hz, I was one who had very acute hearing when I was younger.

Amplitude determines how loud the sound is but at frequencies that are not audible, the sound may be felt because of the vibrations transmitted through the air, ground or physical structures.
Depending on where in the world you live, regardless of the electrical voltage; electrical hum typically has a frequency of either 50 or 60Hz. The hum's amplitude (volume) may be so low it is barely audible.
This is often the case during the daytime when the hum is easily masked by bird songs, traffic an other domestic sounds.
50Hz and 60Hz electrical phases are produced by three phase generators, running at 3000 or 3600 revs per minute.
electric clocks,fan motors,in fact most if not all induction type electric motors run at the same speed, as they run in harmony with the phase. Transformers inside all sorts of appliances also vibrate in harmony.
A large supermarket, opened in Johnsonville it had large extractor fans on the roof, which ran day and night. The motors used were induction type, so from then on the throbbing noise could be heard throughout the valley.
A diesel motor is unlikely to produce the same frequency as the electrical hum.
This leads me to comment on the low frequency noise which Mary has mentioned. Below 60Hz is known as sub-sonic. Whales produce sub-sonic noise to contact other whales. They can communicate with others several hundred kilometres away. Because sub-sonic sound although at a low frequency carries a lot of energy as wave length is very long. The length of the wave allows it pass around obstacles such as buildings or hill sides. So although Air is not a very stable medium for transmission of sound but because sub-sonic sounds have so much energy, it's possible to hear sub-sonic sounds which have been generated many miles away. Particularly if you live in an elevated position as sound tracks upward. For example, If you go up a hill above a busy road the traffic noise will be obvious.
find a valley or some position the same distance below the same road and it will be noticeably quieter.
Mary lives in a very beautiful part of the UK but it is also quite hilly. Wind passing around hill tops form waves, just like the sea on a beach. As the air waves collapse or collide with obstacles or other air waves we hear sound. This might well be the case where Mary lives.
May 2017 I shall be retiring. My wife and I intend to returning to Australia to continue travelling with a 4Wd and caravan, we are looking forward to getting into the outback where all we shall hear are the sounds of nature.
Apr 16, 2016
 humming noise
by: Maggie

Hello I have just found this forum by accident....I know exactly what your all on about as I have the same problem here...the sauce of the noise I am getting is from a power station over the road from me,I have complained to them for nearly two years now and they are insisting it is not coming from there station...is there any suggestions anyone could tell me if there is anyone else I could get advice about it? The people from the power station know there is a noise in my flat but keep denighing that it's from there....
Apr 22, 2016
 Humming noise-health effects
by: Colleen

Nearly two years ago something in the vicinity of my peaceful home changed. It started in the fall and has continued to this day. 24/7 day and night...there is a low idling hum. It has a brief change in tone then continues to vibrate at a low level causing me to feel dizzy. I use music, the washer, fan etc to block it out. I can hear it inside the house and outside the home. I can hear it in my neighborhood. We do not have smart meters, I have hiked in the forest behind my property up to the power lines, cell tower etc and cannot find the source. This is a man made noise. It was not here the first few years of owning my home. What help can I obtain to locate this source. Another issue is many cannot hear this noise. They suggest I have hearing issues. I'm healthy and have super senses. I was briefly away and it was so nice to have a break from this mind numbing noise. I live in British Columbia and need advice on who I can go to for help. Best Regards, Colleen
Apr 29, 2016
 HEARING AMPLIFIERS
by: John

Hi,

Has anyone had any experience with using Hearing Amplifiers (previous post) as suggested solution?
If the original poster is still around - can you please provide a link to the YOUTUBE video referenced?
Any feedback would be appreciated?

Thanks.
Apr 29, 2016
 HEARING AMPLIFIERS
by:

Hi,

Has anyone had any experience with using Hearing Amplifiers (previous post) as suggested solution?
If the original poster is still around - can you please provide a link to the YOUTUBE video referenced?
Any feedback would be appreciated?

Thanks.
Apr 29, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

I tried a hearing amplifier, it didn't help.
May 02, 2016
 Pulsating Noise...
by: Help in NJ!

Not sure if this is the 'hum' but I an in Central NJ and hear this low frequency pulsating noise at night. I moved into the house about a year ago, and have heard this noise constantly.

I've been trying to figure out the cause, but can't really get any confirmation. It's a brick house. There is a heat pump. There are power lines running along the street.

Desperate to see what the source is, and if there's any solutions.

Please, help!
May 04, 2016
 low hum
by: Veronica

I live under power lines & can only hear sizzling sound outside, inside home is a horrible hum. Down the street, they started putting lines underground & hum is getting louder. Power company knows what's going on, but they don't care because it's all about $. They have to fill big orders for all of our devices. In turn, I think we're killing ourselves. It is obviously having an ill effect not only on us,but environment & animals, etc. Since the increase, I have developed 6 nodules on thyroid. I didn't believe in conspiracy theories before, but taken the growing agitation & violence of our society, it might have something to do with it. I know my family has become very noise sensitive & short tempered as the hum grows. There are also frequencies & tempos that change sporadically. Turning on a fan helps drown out, but I'm sure it still has ill effect. Time for a change in gov't.
May 06, 2016
 Pulsating Noise...
by: Help in NJ!

I'm starting to realize / think that it is something unique to my house rather than the neighborhood, or the neighbors simply don't hear it.

It's either the power lines running to the house, or something with the water, or the other culprit might be the gas meter.

I don't know whom or how to approach it. Being that I only moved into the house in July, I suspect I'm stuck.

May 06, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

If you want to, come and join us Hum sufferers here.... https://www.facebook.com/groups/421777554665488/permalink/622538267922748/
May 14, 2016
 hum
by: patricia

hi all, the hum for me is ,BASS machines from cars hooning, it is silent and vibrates from my feet to my head,, Then its gets louder and louder untill they create a rumble and if I am lucky , the Police attend..... I have to take medication for vestibular migraine, and wear noise cancelling head phones with music playing.It has been debilitating . I agree it is worse inside for some unknown reason........I have seen utube footage of guys in cars silently making shop windows vibrate.... That is what we are having to tolerate in this world.....Patricia
May 15, 2016
 ANAEROBIC DIGESTER PLANT CAUSES HUMMING NOISE
by:

I believe the humming noise is caused by Anaerobic Digester. I lived peacefully for 2 years and now since March 2016 when the ANAEROBIC DIGESTER became active I constantly hear a low frequency humming noise which disturbs my sleep. Unfortunately, more are being built in the UK so more people will start to experience these dreadful humming sounds and nothing can or will be done about them!
May 19, 2016
 Humming sound
by: Paul in Medina, Ohio

Several years ago I complained to the EPA. They were worthless. At first I thought there was mining going on below my house. The humming sound continued. I sold my house and had another built some thirty miles south, still I hear the humming sound. At first, my live in girlfriend said it was all in my head, until I found articles of people experiencing the same phenomenon. Is there any help?
Jun 07, 2016
 Lochgoilhead Has The HUM
by: Marlene

I've lived in village of Lochgoilhead (Scotland's National Park, Argyll) for almost 14 years - until recently the tranquility and beauty of the surroundings have made the long commute worth it.

But as of late 2015 the HUM started.

As decribed by many others here, sounds like an engine/generator/pump running; ear plugs make no difference, the noise can still be heard - and felt.

Wandered around the village many times trying to find the source.
Contacted the utility companies.
Contacted QuintiQ (who operate the MOD Noise Range).
Posted a notice at the local shop and in local newsletter asking for help/info.
Contacted Env Health Office who confirmed the noise had already been reported.

Even reached out to a couple of acoustic experts and to DEFRA/the Scottish Govt - all of whom advise that there is nothing they can do; even if the source of the noise can be traced it might not be possible to make it stop.

At least I now know that I'm not the only person in the village - or in the world, based on what I've read here - that is effected.

I'm left wondering where in the world anyone can go to find peace and quiet...




Jun 08, 2016
 New
by: Blue eye

I live in outer NYC. It's a shame that the hum can be heard in rural areas. For me, it's constant faint droning noise/pulsation and vibrations. It's distracting. I thought it started late summer 2015 when my neighbor changed out mechanicals (AC, water heater, heating) Basically I suffered a lot during the winter from vibrations in my home, then at work, and even now in the summertime I feel it on the street, in the stores. I can blame the energy of the city for it (not). I hear the hissing in the air. I heard the hissing at a relatives house in the countryside. It sounded different. They had central AC. Lots of wifi I believe in the community. While years ago I used to enjoy myself in their company, I found myself falling asleep on the couch due to exhaustion. I had a severe headache but that could have been from anything. I just keep my mouth shut but my husband is understanding most of the time. He suggests I get a counselor to help me cope with this.(He does not feel the vibrations or the droning and hears the city sounds as a one tone noise) As if anyone has any experience to begin with. I read these forums but I feel isolated. It's raining outside and I feel slight pulsing standing waves underneath me and the background droning noise of some engine/generator (not) that never seems to stop. It seems to come from below or through the wall. I used to keep the television on constantly- and since I've stopped, I am tuned into this. I lost my will to watch television because my body would vibrate on the bed starting last winter from where I used to sit and enjoy in total peace and calmness with no distractions.
Jun 09, 2016
 To Marlene and Blue Eye
by: Andrea

Both of your comments could be my comments.I have been hearing this humming since 2012 and it has done a lot of harm to my health and my life, actually once you hear the hum and feel the effects of it it is life altering! My husband hears and feels it ,too and just like you, Marlene, we contacted lots of people to find out who exactly is responsible and who could remedy this situation.
Basically we got no answers and I have not posted about the hum in a looooong while, because it takes me nowhere. We live about 60 miles (rural) north of NYC, where it used to be so nice and quiet, just like what you described "Blue Eye". Forget it, I think you are almost better off living in a noisy and big city, because of the constant ambient noise that at least would distract from the "humming noise". When it gets quiet at night in my town you could go out of your mind from the humming. The puzzling thing is, that too few people hear it to get something done about it.
This is an electrical hum from the so called Smart Grid, but who is in charge, whom can you contact and the sad thing is that this problem exists in so many countries, but wherever people try to resolve this matter with authorities,they get nowhere. Why is that? Why are they stone walling?
Life is not good any more, we are not living any more, we are just existing on that little bit of sleep we get every night and hope to make through another day!
Jun 09, 2016
 Can Humming be blocked
by: Tony Wellington NZ

I live in New Zealand but since finding this web site I have been amazed to learn how many people world wide, share the curse of humming noise.
I think most readers will agree the problem stems from the frequency of the AC electrical supply. Coupled to the use with electrical motors, and the machinery that is driven.
Almost all electrically driven equipment, will resonate at the frequency of the electrical grid.

So the noise will be made by everything from the power utility transformer in the street, the bedside clock, air conditioning fans, electrically driven pumps,etc the list is endless, so I'm sure you get the point.

As the whole fabric of our civilization is bound to the use of electricity, there is nothing any authority could to do to remove or reduce the occurrence of the humming noise from society.

So I wonder, is there any way we can build new houses or retro fit old ones with sound reducing materials which would be effective against Hum?

Is there any reader of this site an architect or sound engineer who could offer advice? On whether there is any proven way to effectively block or at least reduce the humming sound within a house?
If there is could there be a business opportunity here that some readers might consider pursuing. I for one would be be interested to learn more.


Jun 10, 2016
 Reply to Tony
by: Andrea

Tony, you wrote something interesting and here I quote: "As the whole fabric of our civilization is bound to the use of electricity, there is nothing any authority could to do to remove or reduce the occurrence of the humming noise from society."
There is more to this story than just supplying people with electricity. We have lived in our house for 8 years with no humming and obviously we were having electricity. Same goes for the places we have lived before. We never had a humming anywhere!
I think we all know by now about Smart Meters that communicate over the electrical lines and we in particular also see WiFi boxes hanging on the lines which broadcast 24/7. Since that technology was applied the problem with the humming started and that is what needs changing. That technology causes major harm.
Jun 12, 2016
 wifi and smart meter hum
by: Tony Wellington NZ

Dear Andrea, I have no doubt you are correct in stating that wifi devices and smart meters produce humming noise. As stated previously, any device connected to an AC supply has the potential to produce hum. How loud the hum is will depend on the size and construction of the device and the amount of electrical current associated with the use of the device.
In my case having turned off the house supply I am sure the hum is from the Utility supply transformer in the street. In your case if you're sure the sound is from the meterbox, I wonder if you could line the box or encase it in sound proofing foam as used in the marine industry to line engine rooms. I have used it on a yacht and found it very effective at containing sound within the engine box.
regards Tony.
Jun 16, 2016
 To John of 4/29/16 re Hearing Amplifiers/New
by: SGVH

Hi, if you see this, the YT link is this one by David in Ireland, posted about 2-years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia05-4AYdjg

The lady who mentioned getting a cheap hearing amplifier from her local drug store was named "B. Jackson." I think you have to be logged in to YT to see HER comments, though everyone's replies TO her can be seen without being logged in (go figure! I have no idea why that is).

There's no much there to go on. She does not give a brand or model, & only said she found it helped her.
Jun 16, 2016
 To "Blue Eye" of Outer-NYC (of 6/8/16):
by: SGVH

Almost everything you described is the same here except this is not a rural area. Otherwise, pretty much ditto!

Are you in a SmartGrid Network area? Smart-WATER-Grid &/or Smart-ELECTRIC-Grid?

a) SmartGrid uses wall-wiring (& any metal in its path, including any amalgams in your teeth) as "electrical conductors." Hence the reason it "...seems to come ... through the wall" [wall-wiring].

b) SmartGrid EMFs "induce current" in human bodies/organs; "inducing current" is an electrical term which literally means "electrocution" which is what is causing the "internal vibrations/pulsing/pulsating."

c) Plumbing Pipes under your building &/or Underground Electric/Gas/Water Meter Pipes are also being vibrated by the SmartGrid EMFs > Radiation & hence may be why it "...seems to come from below..." Another reason might be:

d) If your floor is concrete, it may have rebar/steel in/under it for support. SmartGrid EMFs/Radiation would vibrate that steel rebar as well.

e) SmartGrid "electronics" (& all "electronics" for that matter, including the TONS of "electronics" at each & every cell-tower site, etc.) create "Dirty Electricity" in the Power Grid (a distortion, creating transients & harmonics). This "Dirty Electricity" (DE) could also possibly be what feels like the "...slight pulsing standing waves underneath me" as it spews out from electrical outlets which are near the floor.

f) "Ground Current" a/k/a "Stray Voltage" has also become more of a problem as more Utilities choose to allow "return current" to just run free along the ground back to the Substations (cheaper for them) rather than providing a "return wire." (Supposedly illegal, but what the hay, right?) If there is any "Ground Current" in your area, it can enter into buildings via the outside water pipes where those enter your building.

--See this YT: "Electrical Current on Plumbing Pipes": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2iejrZsXkM

--This article mentions NYC & "Ground Current": "High Frequency Voltage Transients in the Power Grid may be Causing Life Threatening Health Problems for You and Your Family" (scroll down): http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/dirty-electricity-is-a-national-problem-affecting-everyones-health-in-the-united-states/

g) Per Magda Havas, PhD (see her videos at YT), ALL of North American buildings' electricity is "GROUNDED TO THE PLUMBING." Hence, another possible way that "Dirty Electricity" & "Ground Current" can come up through your sinks, faucets, toilets, etc. & permeate the building; & hence may be another reason that it feels like "...slight pulsing standing waves underneath me."

h) FWIW: This Feb. 2015 article re Con-Ed [NYC] says: "Con Ed spending $1.5 billion on 'smart meter' program" (you said your problems began circa Summer 2015):
http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2015/02/con-ed-spending-15-billion-on-smart-meter-program-019676

i) For those who are absolutely positive & have checked that they for a certainty are not living inside of a SmartGrid Area Network (which can cover MANY miles), then read this full page top to bottom for all the other problems with the Power Grid itself that might be causing the vibrations/pulsing/pulsating + noise:

--"'Dirty' Electricity is a National Problem Affecting Everyone’s Health in the United States" (one of the same links as above, but this entire page covers the full story of all problems mentioned above; 30 documented references):
http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/dirty-electricity-is-a-national-problem-affecting-everyones-health-in-the-united-states/

HTH!



Jun 16, 2016
 For "Blue Eye" & Andrea & Anyone w/SmartGrid
by: SGVH

Reposting from Dec. 2015:

For any ... who DO have SmartMeter/SmartGrid, check out this page with video & legal documents to send to utility...

Self-Help Documents & Instructions for Smart Meter Removal by a NY Real Estate Attorney (but documents can be used anywhere, not just NY):

"Template for Non-Consent and Removal: 'Notice and Demand, with Affidavit of Negative Averment'":
https://takebackyourpower.net/template-notice-demand-removal-2014/

[There were 40 comments at that page but today 6/16/16 they are not showing up. Something wrong with my browser, or the site hid them, maybe not wanting to let the Fox in the Hen House know what the chickens plan to do(?)]

Other tips re Solutions:
https://takebackyourpower.net/solutions/
Jun 16, 2016
 To Tony in NZ
by:

Re: "So I wonder, is there any way we can build new houses or retro fit old ones with sound reducing materials which would be effective against Hum? Is there any reader of this site an architect..."

I'm no architect, but I saw one in video interviews who lives in the Memphis, TN, area, who has determined to be only a "Green Home" designer from here on in, after having been woken up to SmartGrid dangers. His name is Herman (Butch) Wolfe, Jr. He's a sometimes-guest on a radio program, Liberty in Action, aired from Memphis & hosted by retired R.N./nurse, Donna Bohannon, who has been regularly interviewing expert witness (in SmartGrid cases), Curtis Bennett.

Liberty In Action FB timeline lists their bi-weekly radio guests & programs/subject/content:
https://www.facebook.com/Liberty-In-Action-500883253395852/timeline/

Liberty In Action radio site (which only lists the dates/videos but no descriptions):
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wmqm1600am
Mon-Wed-Fri at 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM.
Tune in App - Search WMQM
2 Call in numbers: 901-327-2500
& NEW 2nd line: 901-327-3400

Guest/Curtis Bennett site:
http://thermoguy.com/category/news-and-updates/

I can't find a site for the architect/Wolfe, but here's one of the recent programs he was on in May, w/photo:
https://www.facebook.com/memphis.lia/photos/a.500898510060993.1073741827.500883253395852/608955845921925/?type=3&theater

Jun 16, 2016
 Testing Your Environment
by: SGVH

New 12-minute video out 6/5/16: Dr. Laura Presley tests a man's home for Dirty Electricity, Electric Fields, & RF from his Smart Meter. Informative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S57mrknMajY

Jun 16, 2016
 To Patricia of 5/14/16:
by: SGVH

Re: "The hum for me is BASS machines from cars hooning, it is silent and vibrates from my feet to my head. Then its gets louder and louder until they create a rumble..."

You may have already seen this, & it won't provide any solutions, but it's very interesting. Site is called "Lower the Boom" re the very thing you describe, bass "boom cars" basically terrorizing neighborhoods with their cars & vibrating people's houses & bodies: http://www.lowertheboom.org/

They link to an older report by a nurse, Patrice Thomas, re the effects of High-Intensity Low-Frequency Noise (HILF):
https://www.noisefree.org/boomcars/boombooklet.php
https://www.noisefree.org/boomcars/boomcarbooklet.pdf

That NoiseFree.org site is also very interesting. Look at these headlines re police depts. getting "The Rumbler" - some new kind of siren that emits "vibrating sound waves":
https://www.noisefree.org/rumbler.php

Check out their LINKS page, wow; but they need to add POWER GRID to their list:
https://www.noisefree.org/links.php

Their page of articles re Health Effects of Noise (besides ears, it affects the heart; can contribute to strokes; says you may sleep through it but your body still feels the effects of it, etc. -- which we all already know all too well!):
https://www.noisefree.org/harmsofnoise.php

"Noisy Dozen Press Releases":
https://www.noisefree.org/newsroom/pressreleases.php

"Boom Cars: View Noise Free America's collection of Obnoxious Boom Car Ads":
https://www.noisefree.org/boomcars.php

NoiseFree.org also has chapters in various cities:
https://www.noisefree.org/localchapters.php

Noise Free America (PLEASE ADD POWER-GRID TO YOUR LIST OF NOISES!)
P.O. Box 2754
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515
877-NOISE-NO
(877-664-7366)

"A good first step in creating a more peaceful world is to join Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet (www.noisefree.org). Members of Noise Free America lobby at the local, state, and national levels for stronger noise enforcement and reduced levels of noise. Reduced noise levels would greatly improve the health of individuals and communities."

"International Noise Awareness Day" is APRIL 27th: "The Center for Hearing and Communication (CHC) founded this yearly event in 1996 to encourage people to do something about bothersome noise where they work, live, and play":
http://chchearing.org/noise/day/

==================

P.S. To TONY in NZ:

ASK AN EXPERT:
https://www.noisefree.org/askanexpert.php
Jun 17, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

I wonder if this may be of help to some of us...

https://www.facebook.com/medicalmedium/?notif_t=notify_me_page¬if_id=1466078457388519
Jun 18, 2016
 Re: "Medical Mediums"
by: SGVH

Thanks, Mary.

Here's opposite opinions for anyone who cares (Bible verses re "consulting mediums"):
http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Mediums/1000/1/relevance/asc

Reader Reviews at Amazon &/or Goodreads say:
--That he asks people NOT to record his consultations (which many found to be "fishy");
--That he charges $500;
--That he blames most every illness on any of the "...60 strains of Epstein-Barre Virus...";
--That he recommends supplements & raw-food diets (which anybody can get that info anywhere for free & which has been around for, in modern times, two centuries already via "Natural Hygiene").
--That "...For someone in direct communication with the most powerful angel in existence, there is a surprising lack of information..." (in the book).
--One person who replied to those who had recorded their consultations (against the author/medium's request) basically said, "I guess his 'Spirit' wasn't smart enough to tell him they were recording their consultations..." (LOL!)

More troubling to me, personally, was this description by one lady at Amazon:

"...his supreme spiritual arrogance ... On the one hand, William tells us that his source (Spirit) is higher than anyone else's source of spiritual enlightenment (and in fact, is the right hand of God). By inference then, the rest of us are placed far below him and unworthy of such information until now ..."
--Reviewer: "Trouble from the beginning" By Claire S. on November 11, 2015; Format: Hardcover|Verified Purchase:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R6T5MYL96TKPB

She says that the book-author/Anthony William says "...his source (Spirit) is higher than anyone else's source of spiritual enlightenment (and in fact, is the right hand of God)..."

I hate to tell Anthony William, but the ONLY "Spirit" that is "the Right Hand of God" is Jesus Christ. Google searches asking whether Anthony Williams believes in Jesus Christ came back zilch. For those who care about such things, that's a red flag; see below (caps were in the originals):

--Psalm 110:1: The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet."

--Matthew 22:44: 'THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I PUT YOUR ENEMIES BENEATH YOUR FEET"'... (Full Context verses 41-46).

--Matthew 26:64: Jesus said to him, "You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you, hereafter you will see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN."

--Mark 12:36: "David himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I PUT YOUR ENEMIES BENEATH YOUR FEET."'

--Mark 14:62: And Jesus said, "I am; and you shall see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN."

--Luke 20:42: "For David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND..."

--Luke 22:69: "But from now on THE SON OF MAN WILL BE SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND of the power OF GOD."

--Acts 2:34: "For it was not David who ascended into heaven, but he himself says: 'THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND..."

--Acts 7:55-56: "But being full of the Holy Spirit, he [martyr Stephen] gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."

--Acts 2:33: "Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear."

--Acts 5:31: "He is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins."

--Romans 8:34: "...Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us." <<<

--Ephesians 1:20-21: "...which He [God the Father] brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come."

--Colossians 3:1: "Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God."

--Hebrews 1:13: >>> "But to which of the angels has He ever said, 'SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET'?" (There is no "angel" at God's right hand; only Jesus Christ.)

--Hebrews 1:3: "And He [Jesus] is the radiance of His [God the Father's] glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power when He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.."

--Hebrews 12:2: "...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

--Hebrews 8:1: "Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens..."

--1 Peter 3:21-22: "...through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him."

Lastly, re: "Magic Arts" books (sorcery, etc.):

--Acts 19:18-20: "And many who had become believers [in Jesus] came confessing and disclosing their practices, while many of those who had practiced magic collected their books and burned them in front of everyone. So they calculated their value and found it to be 50,000 pieces of silver. In this way the Lord’s message flourished and prevailed."

Bottom Line: Why pay $500 to "consult a medium" who supposedly communicates with some unknown, unnamed "spirit," when you can communicate with the Son of God Himself, Jesus Christ? (who is no "mystery spirit" & actually has a Name!) And He won't charge you $500 either. :)
Jun 18, 2016
 To Veronica of 5/4/16:
by: SGVH

Re: "...inside home is a horrible hum. Down the street, they started putting lines underground & hum is getting louder."

Interesting. The powerlines here are underground as well, but they always were, not a new thing, but the vibrations+noise did not begin until 10 years after this building was built. I think it's the newer "2-Way AMI Smart Grid" (Advanced Metering Infrastructure = AMI) creating tons of "Dirty Electricity" in the Power Grid. Previously there was only 1-Way "Smart Meters" that only radiated outward from the meter. 2-Way AMI means it is radiating INTO + throughout the building's wiring & metal pipes & then back outward again.

The "electric meter pipes" (that run from the meters to each unit's "circuit breaker panel" are also underground here. My electrician-brother says some buildings have those pipes running above (in the ceiling, etc.), & others put those pipes underground.

--Re: "...Since the increase, I have developed 6 nodules on thyroid."

Sorry to hear that. Please check with your medical provider. But once I learned the vibration+noise is caused by EMF *RADIATION*, I bought some topical iodine to put on the skin (safer than ingesting iodine as you don't want to get too much. Too Much is as bad as Too Little). iHerb sells this brand of topical-iodine: "TPCS, PT Skin Iosol, Formula VI, 1/2 fl oz." (I have no affiliation w/iHerb nor make any $$ from that recommendation.) I only put some on my inner arm twice a week as I don't want to take "too much."

--Re: "There are also frequencies & tempos that change sporadically. Turning on a fan helps drown out, but I'm sure it still has ill effect."

Very true re the constant fluctuations of frequencies & "tempos" or Intensity as I call it. Same here! The "Stronger Intensity" it gets, the "faster" the noise sounds.

I have been a "box fan" user for many decades (due to hot, humid South). Last year I bought some "air circulators" instead (brand: Vornado). They did a great job BUT their motors are stronger than a "box fan" & they give off a "Low-Frequency Noise" that, when the Grid is in "Too Strong/Intensity" mode, I couldn't use the Vornado fans as they ADDED to the Grid's Vibrations. So I'm back to using "box fans."

And you're right. Radiation does have "ill effects"! I sincerely believe that is what we are all dealing with, EMF Radiation. It is NOT just a harmless "noise."




Jun 18, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

This talk is about foods and supplements to eat if you are having problems with your neurological system...to strengthen immune system and destroy a virus, if this is the cause of humming in ears. This is not a new idea, I have read about this elsewhere on medical sites.

Anti viral tablets from doctors can knock back virus but can have the effect of making them mutate and become even more disruptive... This is simply all I was suggesting people take a look at. Not suggesting people pay for a private consultation. By the way, the spirit mentioned does have a name, and that name is COMPASSION.

"If you suffer with a sensitive central nervous system, neuropathy, tingling, humming, buzzing, tremors, shakes, chemical sensitivities, fatigue or brain fog, your neurological system needs some help. Learn about the true causes of neurological symptoms and how to begin healing in this very important episode with Medical Medium Anthony William."



http://www.medicalmedium.com/listen/healing-your-neurological-system
Jun 18, 2016
 Healthy & Unhealthy Both Hear "Hum"
by: SGVH

Agree re anti-virals being a farce. All RX drugs for that matter are anti-body & only create a toxic load on the vital organs, of which the body then has to work harder to rid itself of them, causing enervation.

The Hum is caused by an external force (EMFs, imo). Healthy & Unhealthy people hear it. So it cannot be a "state of health/unhealth" that causes people to hear it. When that external force of EMF energy is "turned down," the Healthy &/or the Unhealthy no longer hear it. (That happens here all the time, that the Grid goes into Super-Duper-Low-Mode so that the Hum is sooooo faint it can hardly be heard at all & sometimes it is so Quiet you can hear a pin drop. Likewise, there's no question the EMFs are vibrating the floors/walls when the Grid is turned up into "Super Strong" mode.) Point being, one's health has no control over that EXTERNAL energy. Remove the source (the EMFs) & whether you are sick or healthy, you won't hear it.

What the "medical" guys don't know is that naturally detoxing (water fasting) will cure just about anything. However, continuing to live in an EMF-polluted environment would eventually wear your health down again, especially the immune system.

--Great book: "FASTING CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE" by Herbert Shelton, N.D. (1895-1985) -- originally published in 1964: https://www.healthscience.org/shop/fasting-can-save-your-life
--.MP3's of Dr. Herbert Shelton lectures:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrHerbertShelton/videos?sort=dd&view=0&flow=list&live_view=500

Video Lectures re Natural Hygiene & Water-Fasting:
--Dr. Alec Burton (has a fasting center in AU) but gave this lecture in USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU7A9VIDKI0
--Dr. Alan Goldhamer (has a fasting center in Santa Rosa, Calif.), lecture re water-fasting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl8Y5jV0hN0
--Many more at YT.

Re: "...the spirit mentioned does have a name, and that name is COMPASSION."

--"And no wonder! For Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their destiny will be according to their works." (2nd Corinthians 11:14-15)

"Compassion" is a quality of God's character, not the demons who masquerade as such. Why settle for a Fake when you can directly access the "Real Thing"?

Mark 6:34: "And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things."
Jun 18, 2016
 Humming Sound
by: Mary Gaylor

I must say, I never imagined the devil giving out good dietary advice in his spare time. The vibration of the hum has, I believe, damaged my nervous system causing the most horrendous pain and if a better diet can help ease this I am willing to try it, this talk is has such advice....

"If you suffer with a sensitive central nervous system, neuropathy, tingling, humming, buzzing, tremors, shakes, chemical sensitivities, fatigue or brain fog, your neurological system needs some help. Learn about the true causes of neurological symptoms and how to begin healing in this very important episode with Medical Medium Anthony William"

He particularly mentions humming in ears


http://www.medicalmedium.com/listen/healing-your-neurological-system
Jun 22, 2016
 to SGVH
by: Blue eye

Thank you for all your information. I recently bought a small vornado fan and I also find that it gives off a low hum even on the lowest setting.It hums through the floor and I can hear it downstairs. I am not pleased with the noise either.Not sure if I will return it because it is efficient but not pleased with the hum. I may replace it with a regular table top fan.
Aug 03, 2016
 Discovery of one vibration source
by: Blue eye blurry now

My next door neighbor installed a ductless unit outside. Her house is 2' higher than mine, so the install is literally inches beneath my floor. It resonates the floor to the point where I can not sleep. It is a light, deep vibration- that is penetrating. My husband does not feel it. I hear it hum through to my pillow. No one in all these attached houses places their AC units where she did. In these tiny homes I can feel it through out. It is a nightmare. Who would have ever thought something like this could ever happen? Don't believe the hype of these units- they are quieter but they vibrate. The condenser, the refrigerant lines vibrate, and of course the airhandler indoors on the walls. I don't understand the dependency of people with their machines. It's darn cool outside-why can't ppl just open the windows and use a fan? Now I have to turn on my AC to try to counter the vibration but it does not work. I lose hours of sleep and then maybe the 3rd night i am so exhausted, I sleep through it somehow. Every night I fall asleep and when she turns it on- it literally wakes me up. Not my husband. I envy him. I am worried about my nieces not being able to sleep when they visit in a few days.
Aug 06, 2016
 To: Blue eye blurry now
by:

Check your state's noise legislation. There are time restrictions when noise should not be heard in a habitable room in a neighbour's residence.

I am not sure where you live, however see if you find the equivalent of the information below in your state.

http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/noise/neighbourhoodnoise.htm

good luck!
Aug 11, 2016
 GET LEGISLATIVE ACTION
by: STOP TORTURE!!

I am thankful for finding this page because I believe that we must force government officials to enact legislation to find, stop, & prosecute anyone and everyone using technological weapons. This includes the use of the new sound wave guns which claim to be harmless but can cause serious injuries, illness and death. Even amplifiers can be abused for harassment, abuse and torture, as may be what is happening when someone says they feel the vibrations. It is obvious meant to harass and torture, when it interrupts your daily life or sleep.

Please, I urge anyone reading this page to contact your state, federal and local agencies & legislators to file complaints and demand these people who use this on humans or animals be severely prosecuted and face lengthy jail time. Torture is illegal in this country, but finding the source of electronic harassment and getting law enforcement to believe and acknowledge the existence of it is not yet an easy task. DON'T GIVE UP!!! Also contact the ACLU (American Civl Liberties Union) They are aware of some of these new weapons. You are not alone! Do not give up! Please contact your state, U.S. Congress Representatives right now today!!! Please post to Facebook, Twitter and any social media to help get people to support getting leglislation against these electronic torturers.
Http://www.senate.gov Http://www.house.gov and Google your states website for your state officials. Email and call everyone you can. This must be taken seriously and it must stop!
Aug 19, 2016
 My theory
by: S. Collins


Ill be honest, this information is way out there for most people, if it resonates (no pun :) ) great, if not, thats ok too .. but good luck nonetheless!
http://www.alloya.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Protecting-from-the-negative.pdf

you can also find stuff on tetra masts and the hum, and mind control and these frequencies in general..

Oh, another personal theory I have is that I am RH negative blood type which is copper based. Copper is an electrical conductor (I believe carrying lower frequencies the best?)
anyway, I've heard it in England, Austria, & Tennessee .. different places but not everywhere. Also like most of you, I dont know others that can hear it, (yet) just me.

:) S

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