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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: The Hum

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

A mysterious "humming" noise is being heard by people world wide. So far the source of this constant, and potentially maddening, noise remains undiscovered and unexplained.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not going to say for rejoining us. I'm just going to say joining us. This is thinking

0:29.2

sideways the podcast. I'm Devon and I'm joined by Joe and Steve as always as always. We're

0:35.9

going to as Joe would say solve another mystery. Absolutely we are. I'm not going to solve it. I

0:41.9

don't know Joe I guess probably well. So we're going to tackle the hum. We all know what that is.

0:47.9

Yeah. So into the series now. So the hum is another apparently I'm on the like unexplained sounds

0:57.0

bandwagon right now. I've been doing them a lot lately. I'm super sorry. It seems to be your

1:02.4

thing. Yeah right now it was like it was something else for a while. Mysterious middle-aged men dying.

1:07.9

Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to another phase. Sorry. Sorry everyone. I'm sorry. I hope this isn't boring.

1:14.5

So the hum is an unexplained noise that involves widespread reports of persistent and invasive low

1:22.2

humming low frequency humming rumbling or like a droning kind of noise. That makes them like

1:28.6

an airplane right Mac kind of yeah it's it's often described as like an idling truck like a

1:34.8

like a 18-wheeler truck idling. I don't know I've never heard it. Oh the hum. I was like you've

1:41.0

never heard an 18-wheeler. Where have you been living? A basement. A basement myself forever. If you live

1:47.4

at a basement you still heard an 18-wheeler. It's true. It's a day breaks you could hear from a

1:51.6

mile away. Yeah man. Hums have been widely reported by lots of national media particularly in the UK

1:59.0

and the United States. So it's mainly English speaking people. Mainly speaking people. Yeah I don't

2:05.1

think that's true but here the hum but I think it is true that that's where it's reported most.

2:10.6

We both let's be honest the UK and the United States are pretty good at reporting stupid stuff.

2:17.4

Yeah it's probably like all over Africa and they're probably just busy trying to like you know

2:22.0

say a lie. Yeah yeah they hear it but they just got better things to do than talk about the hum.

2:27.3

Yeah so it's often you'll hear it referred to with the like the location affixed to the front of it

2:33.4

so like the Ritalhum the Towshum and it can be really disturbing and apparently in the UK it's

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