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Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

S2 Ep15: The Hum Heard Around the World

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

Society & Culture, Science, True Crime

4.010.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Can you hear that? It’s like a car –idling in the distance– or a plane on a tarmac, with a tinge of oil crackling in a pan. Since the 1970s a mysterious sound has tormented communities across the globe and confounded those curious to find its source. With no recording of it in existence, and only 2 to 10 percent of affected area populations able to hear it, this hum is a sonic mystery for the ages that we’ll try to get to the bottom of in this episode. 

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0:00.0

Albert Einstein here, Chico and I are out for walkies in the park.

0:04.0

My watch tells me we've walked exactly 3,000 and four steps, our personal best.

0:09.0

Our steps on the only thing we track, our smart meter display at home,

0:13.0

tells us how much energy we use daily, weekly and monthly,

0:16.0

which can help me make changes to save energy.

0:19.0

And now my watch tells me it's time to head back for a guppa, right Chico?

0:24.0

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0:28.0

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0:31.0

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0:35.0

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0:38.0

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0:41.0

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0:46.0

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0:50.0

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0:53.0

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1:26.0

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