I also found some info about the gas pipelines etc. Who can I call about this. Also it gets louder during the day which makes me think it’s man made and controllable. Steve, I to live in CT and have been hearing some extremely uncomfortable humming noises. Glad to see it’s back up to me. Atmospheric conditions? Nanette; For plotting data purposes, where do you hear htis State and town, OK thank you everyone for your theories. Is this some spook plan, or just a vibrating pipe in a wall I can’t find, or….??? Woke up at 4 in the morning with THE HUM !!!! Certainly as data develops let’s exchange notes. Anyhow, I haven’t found a single page of possible causes. All seem to parallel the lines from Cdn. Difficult if not impossible to hear outside however due to wind, bird, frog, etc sounds (I believe this is why). After reading some of these threads I would of never guessed! I hear the hum in my right side neighbours house too (who i do know). I have had a hum in my house since about 2006. the sound resonates through the walls, and I can also hear it outside on the porch. I can’t hear it in the walls either. Sometimes the noise seems to come from one wall, other times it seems to come from another; in some areas it exists more kintensely, then I lower my head and it’s gone. Stops during summer months, starts again the first day with temps below 30 degrees. Another part of the mystery. I am told from industry experts that after midnite, the suppliers (storage resevoirs, etc.) He feigned ignorance. listen to the station on-line. Wow we’re on completely opposite sides of the city. There is a real problem up there like here in CT USA. Sure needs allot more investigation. You are near main HP gas lines and you fall into the data base of being near what we believe has been operational changes through out teh world to the way natural gas is being transported and teh type of gas being transported. Without trying to fit FI into an explanation, I will just leave it on the hum map I am maintaining as a point needing further investigation and spot it on teh hum map. Use your discretion to come to a conclusion. I have been hearing the same low frequency hum for about a year and a half now on and off and first noticed it when i got up during the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. Now it’s coming from everywhere all day and night. I did notice the noise the other day at my Mother’s house who lives just around the corner. half a semitone apart. I did a case study recently that a young man in West Hartford CT was having weird withdrawal, head issues. Who ever is behind this is alot more powerful than I am so myself and everyone else is just going to have to figure out how best to ignore it until we have come to point where we’re all just babbling fools. good luck! She suffered it for many years and could find no explanation. There are no gas lines, power lines, underground pipes, factories, machinery or chicken farms within kilometers of here and in any case the noise seems to be being generated from either under the floor or the ceiling of only the back part of my house. Well as I reported to CT DEEP, FEDS, etc the coyotes left their habitat when hum started late 2009. Also for the record I don’t hear this noise anywhere else but around here. If you do some digging, you’ll find some really interesting stuff. So I can’t imagine these gas companies increasing the flow and now we have all this noise. I notice it more in certain areas of the home and less in the summer than winter. Steve, much to my amazement I found out this morning the part of Livermore we live in is completely surrounded by Southern California Gas and Pacific Gas lines. I have also heard this sound at a friends house (NE63), but otherwise most places are okay. So your personal, non-commercial, watercraft is exempt from I have turned off all electricity and water. We had to replace sprinklers and faucets yearly because the pressure would cause them to break continuously! Symptoms that can be checked – when the hum is at its loudest turn one of your taps on – the hum may reduce if the pressure lessens in the mains supplying the house – have you noticed any high flow/pressure rates from your taps? I checked the UK grid map and for her down thru Durham and into Teeside there shows a line, proably north sea gas??? We vacillate between thinking it’s an outside source that our home unfortunately vibrates ( this week’s top choice) and a dampened power mains or some power source vibrating through the wiring in our house. I haven’t heard it since last summer and back then I called the power company thinking it was an electrical noise. I do have your location already from the other site. Thats as far as my travels in CT, but I am sure it is all the way up into the eastern part of the state. You are making it enjoyable and you continue to take care of to keep it sensible. It’s interesting that there may be a connection with gas lines because I live right by one. I just went to http://www.npms.phmsa.dot.gov/PublicViewer/ and it isn’t showing me the gas lines running through our neighborhood anymore. For the record the only other place I’ve heard the Hum was recently in my Mother’s house who lives two doors down……I’ve spent an hour or so this morning on a step ladder poking my head into the attic or crawl space to be more precise….The Hum seems to come from nowhere and everywhere….I would start to question my own sanity if I hadn’t managed to actually record the sound into my PC recording studio…. at least until 8am or later- by that time the other ambient noise in the house and neighborhood drowns it out for me. The gas meter is also a possibility… Please let me hear from you if you discover the culprit. Yes I have to agree on the huge area these lines feed but these lines are already high pressure and old. The one I am doing that is the most complete for the US is USA based where I surf all these type sites and collect hum reprots, as long as they as the symptoms you describe. The maps only show an oil line in Cape Town. from the food which are responsible for gain weight, then we would constantly The hum is driving my Neighbour and I nuts. I did some searches om Home Hum Noise RE: House is humming, literally * Posted by kevin2009 (My Page) on Fri, May 1, 09 at 18:22 Have had exactly the same problem. most people don’t notice anything.. so we are the lucky ones…. Seems to be 2 noises. The neighbours do not have anything that could make this sound, (e;g; fan etc) Most of them have not heard it. Steve, I don’t know what you mean by lines. The reason I know that it is (aircraft) is because one nite when I could not sleep, I decided to go outside and try to track it, just when I thought it is above my head, saw the airplane slowly approaching me (I do not know if it saw me or not) and then I noticed how it has routine flight characteristics-back and forth, etc) I can hear this noise even out of the city for miles !! The hum is happening at my vacation home and I just noticed it about 9 days ago. I have to turn it on all the way and the knocking stops. I suspected that it was the power stalk and one night went out and unhooked the power line to the RV and turned off the switches. I had similar in ds's room every evening but only for about an hour....turns out neighbours had installed a tumble dryer in their spare room!! I have now been succesful (much pain pushing) to get the two comapnaies to dig a test pit and do measurements of line vibrations. Now it is never ending. I have been hearing this hum since 2006-07. You all need to identify where your hearing this. Will buy a sound level meter this week & see if I can pinpoint any possible source(s) other than the water system. We do run ceiling fans but maybe because we have high vaulted ceilings and the volume is too much, do not notice any break in noise (much more than a hum). Started late at night and it was so loud, actually thought it might have been a fire truck out front of the house. – if you understand how gas transmission systems work they vary on demand and at night they even pump up the storage capacity and underground storage facilities for next day demand. I live along Lake Ontario and we do have some of them in the next town over along the lakefront but that is nowhere near here, so I don’t get it. Peachie Atlanta also. I have many hearers from exposure in Middlebury office that convince me my hypothesis is correct on this. Looks like I could also be close to the Oil Pipeline that runs parallel to the LONGFORD to DANDENONG Pipeline. detailed information you present. Looks like end of story, grin and bear it? I am mapping locations in US, but need allot more data for trending. Considering your on bedrock and faults could be pipeline HUM from them. Due to the low frequency I believe there is more than one contributor to this. The sound system folks understand this stuff better than me. Humming noise from neighbours house Humming noise from neighbours house I really am not sure what is causing this? Strange…Natural gas lines up here…. It is possible, of many other possibilites, they are the problem. -When the wind blows from the south or the south east I cannot hear I think the noise is from water pipes and our pressure be too low. Have lived in same house for 15 years. If I put my ear to a wall or floor I don’t really hear it. I really haven’t tried a white noise generator, but others have with little success. Dispotioantely high peaks between 20 and 70 hz, for long periods of time is information you should report to the MOE. It can cause nausea, vertigo, bewilderment why you are hearing something like this all the time, ear pressure and tingling feelings in your feet and legs when they touch the floor. Had neighbours move in across the road from me about the time it started. Synptoms and those hearing it all match yours and conuntless studies. It in Steve, any gas line changes in Boulder, Colorado? I found allot on the huge amount of changes in FL in teh last couple. I certainly didn’t have to strain to hear it last night. What is this?????????? Is it like amn idleing deisel with varying intensties and some changing characteristics? Ive been hearing it for about 2 years now. I have had to buy a sleep machine with summer night sounds and use that to get to sleep, then I can ignore it and sleep through the night most nights. It’s interesting. I started hearing the hum on my second home in Milford CT in October 2012 at 10:30 pm and it has not stopped since. Checked the attic…the sound isn’t coming from there either. Have them contact FERC and CT Rep Chris Murphy’s office, they are very aware of our problems here in CT. Get it into the news. I can’t imagine living with this for years!! electrical motors, when I stop the electrical appliances, the hum is I thought it was possibly connected to the yard decorations that the neighbors have installed for the holidays. Our spouses can’t hear it! Here is white noise link: Anyway, it is reasuring that I am not alone in this. I posted on 5/1/10 at 6:19 p.m….have since had the water company turn off the water and do the flow pressure test – the miserable sound is still there. although your theory makes alot of sense. The one thing I can think of as far as a cause is a major construction project on the freeway intersection a couple of miles from our home. I have never ever posted a blog but for obvious reasons was compelled to write. I’ve got the AC company coming out to do a Duct cleaning and hopefully they will be able to hear the noise and pinpoint it’s source. 2007, 2008 looks like major gas line expansions there. the hum is back in full force. Okay, I’m in Pittsburgh and it’s happening to me. What should I ask – what would they check? I also feel pressure in my ears. Maybe we can get more people to listen to our issue if we get together as one. I did not sense it in Marco last week and there are no major lines near there either. With people over during the day or even during the evening, are not bothered as much. I am not plotting Canadian hum locatins vs high pressure pipelines, only monitor reports. They gave no help. Corner of Albany and Birchwood on the Far North Side…? Yes there is a pipeline within 25 miles according to the map. BTW the Gulf Stream gas line from Miss to Tampa, installed in phases in FL leads the hum reprots i’ve found on many sites. I live in a small town in Manitoba, Canada and in the past passed off the sound of the humming to farmers tractors running in the distance although at times wondered to myself why they were working so late in the fields at a particular time. We’ll get to the bottom of this. It can be heard well in a basement with your ear to the Cement walls. can be cured by turning on the water at a finger size running for about 20 minutes or adjust the water pressure valve where the water line enters the house. It is at the same level day and night and the same in every room including upstairs. It will help cut down on driniking, beleive me. He could explain better but went to bed finally at 1:30 am. I just purchased a home built in 2000 in Las Vegas. The ones that are causing this, know this and they know people just can’t make time during the day to do anything about it. Hello, I live in Stroudsburg PA and have been a victim of this Hum since mid February 2012. People still ask me time to time if I still hear it. And I’ll keep watching this site for something that might reveal what’s causing all this. I have visited my doctor, in case it was me, am so desperate to solve this that although I only moved a year ago, and have spent a lot on the house, I am seriously thinking of moving again, am desperate! Arrggh!! With mild conditions here for gas purposes in the NE, the hum has been milder. This is a 1970s house and the hum began about two weeks after having a new water heater installed. Using a quiet car as mobile lab have used FFT and octave analysis proofed 25 miles away from our epicenter location. -I sometmes feel a pressure on my left ear drum. Plenty of BC vicinity reports. Laying awake after two AM for a couple of hours listening to this I feel this noise is from the communication towers for everyones cell phones and toys. A couple weeks ago chatted with a lady from warren county. The neighbors called the power company. Usually the hum resides in one ear and not the other. Can’t open. Same HUM as in Brookfield CT and State college PA. Further to this, We even had our chimley swept last week and the man even asked what the noise was. I will try the water trick, though I believe one of those professional plumbing contractors in the Oakland County area did all of thesse things. This hum can be heard in every room and on every level of the house. I myself hear it all the time, day and night (and yes depending on which aircraft is put up, sometimes I cannot sleep until it is too late on a Sunday Nite) I never had EVER heard any “Humming noise(s)” before the police planes were put up into orbit 24 hours a day. Or on my PC laptop? I live in Central CT and have been hearing it. Sometimes it feels like there is pressure built up inside my head. After all, utilizing coal and gas are the saviours of the energy crisis. They run right through my neighborhood and are underground running right beside my house. The farm has since closed down and the sound remains. It is not uncommon for low level ambient noise from a source away from the house to be heard in the house. It’s simple, If you experieince difficulty let me know. The thought occurred to me that it might be water pressure, since I have knocking pipes when I turn on the cold water in the bathroom at a medium flow. I know it is not in the ceiling per se it just seems to me the direction from where the hum emanates. First thing, if all this new technology with satelites and all is causing it, you can bet with the money that’s involved the noise is here to stay. Thanks in advance. Marc same symptoms, inside a vehicle the hum can be as bad as inside the home. Unfortunately the entire industry seems to be making changes to the NG systems and this dam hum is increasing all over. Been experiencing it shortly after we moved into house, hum started around March 2003. The First time I heard those particular noises, which sound like what I could only describe as what it would have sounded like if dinosaurs were fighting and flinging metal around. notable and strong articles. I started hearing it suddenly one night in May and I thought it was due to winter – perhaps a neighbour had bought a diesel heater or something – but I now hear the sound further afield than my own neighbourhood. The lines from western CT, thru CT to Boston area the same. This is such a maddening situation as the noise seems to come from everywhere but nowhere specific……I’m looking at the Water Heater as a possible candidate as it’s hooked to a water softener unit I don’t use and was installed by the previous owner himself and not a licensed plumber…. We discovered that when our mobile phones were turned off the high fequency sound disappeared. There are many on call plumber in Fairfield with whom you can get in touch with to fix the damages that are caused to your plumbing infrastructure. I’ve been looking at that as a possible clue. It’s really educational and you are certainly extremely knowledgeable in this region. Hum is also reminiscent of listening to a new hot water heater fill up. Thanks for your reply. Nothing was wrong….Now, I think about a plumber but with no leads at all and a such a faint sound during the day, I am not sure it won’t be a waste of his time and my money! and consciously avoid food products that cause Any suggestions? I have even driven to an upper part of the neighborhood and could hear it, but not as bad as it is inside my house. However when a ceiling fan or central heat/central air does not seem appropriate the droning is absolutely in control. I have recorded the noise onto my computer so it’s not an ear/medical problem and no I’m not crazy…. So I got up, shut off the power, gas and water and the noise was still there. The power company replaced it but the hum is still there. Assuming they admit the hum, it may be regulated under a federal FERC regualtion 18CFR380. It reminds me of how a propeller plane droning way off in the distance sounded when I was a little kid. Not the electrical. Also, likely why we did not hear the noise in the summer/early Fall was likely due to the foliage on the mountain blocking the noise. This will sound really stupid - anyway I live in a converted Victorian flat (mortgaged), the ground floor and part of upstairs (huge house) is mine. -Only my left ear can hear it wonder if it could be them doing something odd. It's constant. I notice it’s bad when it’s humid outside. Just started hearing it a couple months ago (sounds like heavy equip engine running a ways away -sometimes oscillates up and down a little). The very first night I noticed the humm, exactly as everyone describes, a far away idling (badly) diesel engine. Run your ceiling fan to break the hurt of teh hum a little bit. My neighbor also hears the hum but our spouses don’t. For your area, keep in mind, from my region wide testing in CT I beleive a line 25 miles away can be a culprit. It keeps him awake at night. A home nearest is being really hammered. From what I know the NPMS viewer only includes major transmission lines, not the local gas company distribution ones. A lot of times it’s very difficult to get that “perfect balance” between user friendliness and appearance. For our purposes it doesn’t matter. I am in battle to get an investigation done into what I’ve proofed here as changes inoperations of high pressure natural gas line causing ILFN/ LFN hum and vibration here in CT since 2009. Still not convinced with the gas pipeline explanation as they are quite removed from where I live. Have had the hum just in the winter months and at night. I can match tones pretty well and can say with certainty that the tone is approximately 80 hz. I AM along the lake, though, and there is a flood concern for this region. It is like it is the earth that is vibrating. All I want is someone to do readings around my home to try and find out the source of this hum. used for energy without any modification. I am fuzzy on the actual date. If you can’t, I’ll bookmark this site and check back often. The odd thing is we checked this house out 3 times before we decided to buy it & never heard any issues. Dave you can make a novel of the responses about natural gas pipelines in teh forum. Or at least the county. The town of Livermore, home of the Livermore Lawrence Nuclear Laborotory. I could see it if the pipes were above ground with no isolators that have direct contact to the pipes, but to be underground which would absorb the noise I just don’t see it. The reason for the location is to plot HUM locations around the US for proof of our theory to congress and the media. Next door we had new neighbours move in during the summer. I live in South India.I just moved house and am hearing a sound that is a bit like I am just hearing the bass part of a loud sound system, or else some kind of mechanical pulsing equipment. Thanks, Barbara, Absolutely. Just a few words to thank the admin. I’m a scientist so always deduce from facts anyway. If your neighbour does not comply with the direction given by the local council or police, they are subject to an on-the-spot fine. I am in the process of trying to find a Industrial Hygienist and Acoustical Engineer. (San Fran/ Sac area is loaded with reports, likely had something to do with San Bruno – my opinion. Almost sounds like a wheezing noise; high…low…high…low….low…low…high…etc…. a licensing requirement. Marc, maybe your already doing this, run a ceiling fan near you bed for sleeping, someone recently said a HEPA filter near bed works. I only notice it when I’m trying to sleep. JT- I did a visit up from my home in Brookfield (50 miles away for non CT folks) on a hunch about a young guy having serious VAD type issues of health in West Hartford off Farmington Ave (son of a co worker). I have slept on over 8 blankets b/c the vibration rattles my head and body so much. Do you have an email you can share? My ear hairs are even vibrating. An investigation must be demanded. Street lights came on, hum came back. Steve, we live outside Atlanta GA, and this has started happening at our home during the night. has never complained about hearing the hum. Here’s an idea my husband had: water pressure is too low — we are in a major drought here in Texas and have had water mains bust nearby. This is a problem with houses next to factories and airports. Heard mostly inside the home or a parked, quiet car. Who can I contact to get them to admit what they are using. If I think to myself, “I’m going to hear it tonight…” I will. Beleive me, its not the popular excuse of cell towers or HAARP. Any certain? I live in the city. Unfotunately not with much success. After much agony, sleepless nights and general crazy-making, I have concluded that my problem is related to a head cold and sinus congestion. Also, contact FERC’s Environmental Dept and complain to them. So, don’t think that local needs are what’s driving how these systems operate. Ive lived in my home for 9 years and then out of nowhere the noise started. The engineering is waay above my head, but i have the email for anyone who wants it. I’m lying in bed, it’s after midnight, and all I can hear is what sounds like a huge truck idling in my driveway. Check teh internet for gas lines, you have a couple big ones running thru your area. Sandura thought you fell off the earth. I don’t get a complete night’s sleep at all. Jill I am mapping locations where this is occurring. Possible causes – pumping station pressures too high – pressure reducing valves malfunctioning – mains pipes causing transient noise due to a “Dead end” section of the mains pipe. Yes,It does stop,but not that often.What a relief though and we almost feel human again. He said yes, what is it. There may be legitimate noise pollution out there causing your hum, but if you’re the only one hearing it, chances are it’s an internal thing affecting only you. Surprising. The mountain behind our house does have main power lines coming across the mountain and traveling northward along the mountain. I know I hear a/c’s in stores or doctor/dentist offices & feel the vibrations but I think this is because I have become so sensitized to it. When the pilot light fires up and the water is being heated, it makes a loud humming noise. The reason we have exposed this is coincidnece and follow up testing research from two large NG compressors installed here in a residnetial neighborhood. Barbara, assuming your health has been checked at teh docs, you are not doomed. One night we got in the car, and followed the hum to the nearest power station. If you buy a bottle as is, be sure to choose Extra Virgin Humid means hot, means the electric power plants are using much more gas (not necessarily in Chicagoland but anywhere the gas goes that passes throguh your area.) (assuming there isn’t another local source for you). i promise jk, So not crazy, lol. Brookfield Resident ….. Ive done a (car test) to see the Sub-Station is the cause. So the LF sound waves emanating from these lines is wide spread and attenuation of the hum takes many miles depending on geology. Hmmmmmm. I’m trying to eliminate various explanations. 60 and 120 hz sure sounds electric grid for you. I’m around 50 and have been told people in their fifties are more likely to hear it. What I want to comment on is that while searching for a good online electronics shop, look for a site with complete information on important factors such as the privacy statement, basic safety details, any payment procedures, along with other terms in addition to policies. It seems to be almost everywhere. It always leaves us with a major headache. Hmm.. Just like thousands of others. Has been heard/felt by others too. I am at my wits ends, this is completely beyond me and defies all logic. The pressure build up is like standing in front of LF boom speakers. The hum is also louder in one area of our house. Folks, if you could provide the location of hearing I will be using it on a mapping to prove and support of a theory like we have us in western CT that gas line operations are the cause. In LINN county you have a couple of liquid lines in the south and some NG lines. A transformer in our front yard started an abnormally loud humming. Living with this is nearly impossible. The size of your city, the type of jet engine, the condition of the aircraft mufflers, and each individuals own sensitivity to low frequency noise is unique.