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Nocturne

Can You Hear That?

Nocturne

Vanessa Lowe

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What if, out of nowhere, you started hearing a low-frequency rumble, like a truck idling right outside your home, in the middle of the night, every night for weeks and months on end -- and no one else could hear it?

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0:00.0

From KROW, this is nocturn.

0:05.0

Have you ever been kept awake by a sound in the middle of the night? You lie in bed, wishing only for sleep, and the sound nags at you. Maybe even feels like it's growing in

0:24.8

strength, filling up every aspect of your consciousness until you can think of

0:29.4

nothing else. That's me when my neighbor's hot tub cycles on and off all night.

0:35.0

But what if you don't know what the sound is or where it's coming from?

0:39.0

Is it coming from outside?

0:41.0

Somewhere in the house? Is it coming from inside your head?

0:45.6

You might even think you're going crazy because you're lying there awake, obsessed with

0:49.4

this sound, and no one else around seems to hear it.

0:53.0

Can you hear the hum?

0:56.0

I woke her up and I said to the wife,

0:58.0

can you hear this noise?

0:59.0

And she's like, what noise?

1:00.0

She couldn't hear it.

1:01.0

My name's Christopher Meek, and I'm located in Central Scotland.

1:05.2

It was strange because you would be in your bed and you would hear it was almost like a

1:10.9

digger driver or two digger driver driving about an adjacent field at half past 12

1:17.0

1 o'clock in the morning when you know there was nobody there and you would look and it would just be the wind blowing.

1:21.6

There was madness.

1:23.0

It's a very low-pitched hum.

1:25.0

The only way I can describe it is that there is a lorry, as we call it,

1:30.0

a semi-truck with its engine running,

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