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Taos Hum

Having a Vacation Rental here in North Central New Mexico, I have ..one at least 6 occasions, had people ask how close to Taos we are. The reason invariably, is that they are affected by the low frequency Taos Hum that eminates from the Taos area and radiates up to 60 miles or more.

Normally my response is about 60 miles. Not one has ventured here!

Once, I was camping, and could have sworn I heard "The Hum'. Turns out is was a gang of hummingbirds in a juniper tree ..um..having a party!

Another time, as we doing some construction here and had lines strung ...I thought I heard 'The Hum' for weeks, only to discover that the wind was 'playing' the string we had strung! Shucks!
From NewMexico.org

The Hum is a generic name for a series of phenomena involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming noise not audible to all people. Hums have been reported in various geographical locations. In some cases a source has been located. A well-known case was reported in Taos, New Mexico, and thus the Hum is sometimes called the Taos Hum. Hums have been reported all over the world, especially in Europe. A "Hum" on the Big Island of Hawaii, typically related to volcanic action, is heard in locations dozens of miles apart. The Local Hawaiians also say the Hum is most often heard by men. The Hum is most often described as sounding somewhat like a distant idling diesel engine. Typically "the Hum" is difficult to detect with microphones, and its source and nature are a mystery to the listener.

The "Hum" is sometimes prefixed with the name of a locality where the problem has been particularly publicized: e.g., the "Bristol Hum" or the "Taos Hum". It is 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. However, in the 1970s and 1980s, a similar phenomenon had been the object of complaints from citizens, of media reports and of studies, mostly in the United Kingdom but also in other countries such as New Zealand. It is difficult to tell if the Hum reported in those earlier cases and the Hum that began to be increasingly reported in North America in the 1990s should be considered identical or of different natures. During the last decade, the Hum phenomenon has been reported in many other cities and regions in North America and Europe and in some other regions of the world.
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