History
In Britain, the most famous example was the Bristol hum that made headlines in the late 1970s. It was during the 1990s that the Hum phenomenon began to be reported in North America and to be known to the American public, when a study by the University of New Mexico and the complaints from many citizens living near the town of Taos, New Mexico, caught the attention of the media. The media took the story and disseminated the information.
On June 9, 2011, it was reported that residents of the village of Woodland, England were experiencing a hum that had already lasted for over two months.
This phenomenon has also been reported since 2010 throughout Windsor and Essex County in Ontario, Canada, where some residents claim it to be correlated with the time of day, or week, while others seem unaffected or unable to hear it. On April 20, 2012 the Canadian Government decided to officially investigate, and the launch of a study was announced on January 21, 2013. Current suspicions are that the noise originates on Zug Island.
The Hum has also been heard since at least 2004 by residents on Canada's southwest Coast in the region around the city of Vancouver.
The Hum has also frustrated residents in County Kerry, Ireland. This led to it being raised in the Irish Dáil, a house of government, by Michael Healy-Rae, who personally heard the Hum. The official response was described by Healy-Rae as "away with the fairies gobbledygook." The phenomenon was also recorded in 2012 in Seattle and Wellington, New Zealand.
The World Hum Database and Mapping Project was launched in December 2012, in order to build detailed mappings of hum locations and to provide a database of Hum-related data for professional and independent researchers.
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