Does the Golden Gate Bridge Howl?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Listener Ryan heard an eerie noise while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge on his motorcycle. He's not the only one -- the sound can be heard from miles away. What's going on? Additional Reading: The Story Behind the Golden Gate Bridge's New Howl Why the Golden Gate Bridge Is Now A Giant Orange Wheezing Kazoo Engineers discuss the phenomenon on Reddit. Reported by Rob Speight with support from Gabe Meline. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Don Clyde.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	An ethereal noise has been floating across the bay.
0:13.4	And it peaked the interest of this week's question-asker.
0:16.2	So my name is Ryan.
0:17.2	I live in San Francisco.
0:18.5	I live in the Richmond District.
0:20.4	I lived in San Francisco for about three years now. I bought a motorcycle recently.
0:25.0	Don't tell my mom. Hopefully she's not listening now.
0:29.0	Once COVID kind of started it was it was just like a fun like going for 20 minute rides or something like that is like a
0:34.4	pretty easy way to get out of the house and not talk to anyone. Ryan was crossing the Golden Gate
0:38.9	Bridge on a windy day earlier this year something he usually tries to avoid. The wind makes it a little dicey out there. When suddenly he heard it.
0:48.0	It made this like really, really loud noise. It sounded like, I don't know know like a howl or a whistle or something like that. It kind of sounded like when you blow into like a beer bottle or something like that.
0:59.6	When he got home he tried to search online to see what was up. But at the time, there wasn't much out there. So Ryan came to us. I'm Olivia Allen Price. This is Bay Curious. The show where we answer listener questions about the Bay Area.
1:15.0	This week, does the Golden Gate Bridge Howell?
1:19.0	Stick around.
1:22.0	Support for Bay Curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, still family-owned, operated, and argued over.
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1:42.3	To answer Ryan's question about the sound he heard Today.
1:42.5	To answer Ryan's question about the sound he heard crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, we let our sound
1:47.7	engineer Rob Spate out of the studio to investigate.
1:51.3	Welcome, Rob.
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