A Mysterious Hum Has Plagued the Earth for 50 Years. Scientists May Have Finally Found Its Source.

Since the 1970s, people across the world have reported hearing an inexplicable low-frequency droning. Scientists now think they know what it is.
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Mysterious global 'hum' has tormented people for 50 years – scientists think they may have found a cause

(Jun/Getty Images Plus) For decades, some people around the world have reported hearing a strange, sonorous background tone ...
Newsweek

Earth’s Hum: Scientists Record the Very Sound of Earth—but Don’t Know Why It Happens

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have recorded the mysterious sound of the Earth deep ...
Popular Mechanics

A Ghostly Nighttime Hum Is Invading Random Towns. Scientists Don't Know What It Means.

A mysterious, low-frequency noise has settled over the small town of Omagh in Northern Ireland, and is keeping people awake. It’s called “The Hum,” and reports of this phenomenon have been popping up ...
New Republic

A Maddening Sound

Sue Taylor first started hearing it at night in 2009. A retired psychiatric nurse, Taylor lives in Roslin, Scotland, a small village seven miles outside of Edinburgh. “A thick, low hum,” is how she ...