Hearing noises can be annoying, especially when it's frequent and uncontrollable. Those loud noises we hear from our surroundings are pretty much draining, but constantly hearing a low-frequency humming sound from nowhere is definitely another story as it's totally creepy and disturbing. In line with the topic, tonight's story is about the mysterious humming sounds heard in one of the towns in Mexico. The famed Taos Hum.
The mysterious hum was heard in the town of Taos, in north-central New Mexico, which has been home to some famous personalities like Julia Roberts, D.H. Lawrence, Dennis Hopper, Donald Rumsfeld, and Aldous Huxley. It's a little, laid-back refined local area that is additionally home to peculiar mysteries.
It was in the early 1990s when the hum was first reported. Joe Mullins, a former engineering professor at the University of New Mexico, conducted an investigation into the Taos Hum. According to the survey, around 2% of the population was trusted to be "listeners," the individuals who professed to recognize the hum. The examination uncovered, nonetheless, that there was not a single recognizable Taos Hum but rather a few distinct ones that individuals described as whir, murmur, or hum. The way that not every person heard exactly the same thing was baffling and proposes that they may have been describing subjective encounters rather than objective sounds.
That's all for tonight, have a lovely quiet night everyone!
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