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Strange, unexplained sounds reported worldwide

By , About.com Guide   January 14, 2012

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Peculiar, low-pitched rumbling noises of unknown origin are being reported from various regions of the world. These mysterious sounds, according to those who have heard them, seem to be coming from the sky:

  • In Costa Rica on January 9, the deep hum resembled the sound of distant rolling thunder. Costa Rican authorities assured its citizens that it was merely the sound of fireworks from the closing ceremonies of the Zapote Fair. Many who heard it insisted it did not sound like fireworks.
  • In the middle of the night on January 10, a similar noise was heard coming from the skies over Denmark. Recorded on video, the noise sounds like the rumbling of a train. The man who made the recording said it lasted for several minutes and to his ear it did not have the mechanical sound of a helicopter, airplane, or train.
  • In Kiev, Ukraine, in the summer of 2011 at about 5.p.m., a very odd sound was recorded. The person who recorded it said it was so loud that it actually rattled the windows on the 5th floor of the building.
  • In August, 2011, in Belarus (just north of Ukraine), similar loud, roaring-type noises were heard coming from the sky.
  • Over Alberta, Canada in October, 2011, an unrelenting drone was recorded by Sam S. He said it lasted for over six hours. More here.

What are all these strange noises? Industry and traffic? Military experiments, such as HAARP? Warnings from extraterrestrials? The angel trumpets blasts of Revelation? Some other sign of the 2012 apocalypse?

What do you think?

(Thanks to GhostTheory as the source for many of these stories.)

Comments

January 14, 2012 at 3:51 pm
(1) Matthias Greygone says:

In response to your recent quest for answers to strange noises in the sky, Mortal man has no concept of what this noise is, and never will until IT decides to reveal itself. Be it Gabriel, Christ, or any at this point, unknown source on the planet. We learn by questions and seeking answers that we may not understand. Worry not, lest it do you no purpose. But believe in your self. Love with all your heart, Enjoy every breath you take. For what is coming is capable of taking your breath away. Namaste

January 16, 2012 at 7:20 am
(2) Jackson says:

That’s right, leave it up to a man-made diety. Whenever something mysterious happens all the bible thumbers come out to claim if for god.

January 16, 2012 at 8:21 am
(3) Robbin R says:

I heard similar sounds in 1974/5 when living in Berkeley and Clayton Ca. It was a distant steady roar, something like large rocket motors. On occasion it would stop for a few moments, and then restart, several times in a row, as if they were being tested to do so. Generally, the sound lasted for a half hour to an hour. This went on for months, not every day, but once every two weeks or so. My thought was some sort of testing by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. If so, it must have been very loud at the source, because of the distance from the two places I heard it.

P.S. God certainly does have the power to roar from on high, but not in this case.

January 16, 2012 at 8:49 am
(4) rob says:

Jan. 2011, i was out shoveling, and plowing during a snow storm in Medway MA. It was about 3am, storm was at full force, and i noticed a low tone that went on for several minutes. I turned and looked to the sky which was barely visible due to all of the snow, and noticed a swirling motion above me. Yes it was a bad storm, but i live in New England I’m used to this! I never ever in my entire life experienced anything like it! The low frequency tone like noise lasted about 30 minutes, and i haven’t stopped telling the story since. Me and my co-worker are still dumbfounded to this day! It makes me feel better hearing about similar stories! Exactly what these stories describe, is exactly what i heard. I’m glad i saw this post!

January 16, 2012 at 10:01 am
(5) dave murphy says:

it could be the military secretely testing the drones they have developed.if it is expermental,they are not going to tell us

January 16, 2012 at 10:51 am
(6) a.m. says:

We hear the same rumbling sound in Rio Rico. As if many semi’s are sitting idle (huge produce industry here but live too far far where trucks would be) or a rumbling train. At times it is very strong.

January 16, 2012 at 11:18 am
(7) Jeff says:

i grew up in the south part of Wichita Kansas near the Boeing plant , the Cessna plant, Lear Jet and few others not to mention McConnell AFB ,we would hear these sounds all the time ,Boeing did constant testing as did the other manufacturers ,the sound felt like it came out of the ground ,we knew it didn’t but it just felt that way , maybe this is something like that but in reverse ,testing of giant motors perhaps creating the sense that it’s coming fro the sky.

January 16, 2012 at 11:29 am
(8) Rock says:

The Aurora plane

January 16, 2012 at 11:36 am
(9) Ashiana Nefertari says:

In my personal opinion, aerial sounds in the absence of a visual source may signify the use of stealth technology. I think there is a lot of military activity going on in our skies above and that many of the ufo’s seen in daylight AND at night are our own craft.

January 16, 2012 at 12:02 pm
(10) sanles says:

I lived in a part of rural Australia about 30 min from the nearest town, on a quiet windless cloudless day we often heard rumblings in the distance like thunder. They were a bit freaky but the landowners just accepted it as it had been happening for years.

January 16, 2012 at 12:20 pm
(11) Rafael says:

All these noises are the frequencies of all the satellites in the skies, the pulsating current of the electricity through the whole world, and all those cells emitting noises.

January 16, 2012 at 12:26 pm
(12) Dave says:

I’ve heard these noises more than once. It sounds like a humming tone, similar to the light-sabers on Star Wars, except much louder and deeper. It almost sounds like some sort of resonance coming from the sky.

January 16, 2012 at 1:02 pm
(13) Ken says:

Interesting. What is sound? What produces sound that is audible? Perhaps, the energy wave, pressure wave is being reflected. – similar to radiowaves bouncing off the atmosphere. Perhaps “energy” of some type is being released “coronal mass ejection” and as it travels through the atmosphere and then hits you in the head, you “hear” a sound? Interesting.

January 16, 2012 at 2:06 pm
(14) -blessed holy socks says:

None has attacked me. Truly, they don’t wanna. Why is that? Jesus will kick-their-ass. I say the Rosary, go to Mass, pray the stations almost daily. My solution? On my Cannondale [a mountain bike], carry your literal Cross everywhere you go outside – be NOT afraid to die (I’m not. I know where I’m going); be Christian – if not Catholic which is what I am; and pray, pray, pray all dagnasty, evil spirits leeeve you alone!!! While I know there R some good entities (like the Andromedans), there R quite a few evil ones who have never heard of the Trinity nor do they wanna. I believe God chose THIS earth for His offspring. God bless you with discernment, people. Meet me in Heaven. Be at peace.

January 16, 2012 at 3:03 pm
(15) eddie h says:

the us military and the us navy are both working to develope the worlds fastest plane that is launched by a rocket from sub-orbit and is reportedly able to do 26,000 mph and drop kinect energy bombs anywhere in the world in minutes with the force of a small atomic weapon they openly tested it in 2011 to no avail and research continues to work out the kinks, and it may be that what is being herd around the world is test flights and engine test in the us.

January 16, 2012 at 3:33 pm
(16) Bob says:

Ok, I work for a police dept and take calls from the community. As one off as it may be. We have taken calls for this same thing happening in our city. I have received calls from people who have heard loud explosions and bangs that rattled their windows and walls. The strange thing is that this incident would be isolated. I would receive one call about the sound. The officers would find nothing when they went to the area.
It would not happen on a regular basis. I think last year I got maybe seven calls on this. The people would be alarmed but not scared. This happens day or night. I think once more than one person heard it.. You would think by the way they described the sound more people would call.

January 16, 2012 at 3:55 pm
(17) heather says:

Years ago I was awake reading at 2am, a usual thing for me, and I heard the strangest sound coming from my window. It was a whiring noise, kindof a wa-wa sound. The noise seemed to get closer and farther away. Sounded like it went to my neighbors, then the other neighbors all around my court until it got real loud and sounded like it was right outside my window. Then stopped. I turned out my light and peeked out but saw nothing. I imagined some high tech hover craft by the noise it was making. I turned back on my light and continued to read, 5-10 minutes later I heard the sound again from directly outside my window and then fading into the distance. Still wondering about that.

January 16, 2012 at 3:55 pm
(18) heather says:

Years ago I was awake reading at 2am, a usual thing for me, and I heard the strangest sound coming from my window. It was a whiring noise, kindof a wa-wa sound. The noise seemed to get closer and farther away. Sounded like it went to my neighbors, then the other neighbors all around my court until it got real loud and sounded like it was right outside my window. Then stopped. I turned out my light and peeked out but saw nothing. I imagined some high tech hover craft by the noise it was making. I turned back on my light and continued to read, 5-10 minutes later I heard the sound again from directly outside my window and then fading into the distance. Still wondering about that.

January 16, 2012 at 4:25 pm
(19) krissie says:

personally I think it is some sort of military weapon technology being tested. Maybe even a direct energy beam? They exist there is even a patent application for it.

January 16, 2012 at 4:26 pm
(20) H says:

I’m not saying that these noises/hums/sounds etc aren’t being heard but … with all the cell phones and gadgets lying around people’s homes and places now, why hasn’t anyone actually recorded any of this stuff?? If people actually had some sense to just film the sky, say, and the sound with it, when it happens then … maybe we could start getting to the bottom of this mystery(??).

Anyway, just my two cents…

ps has anyone worked out whether there are any military bases nearby these happenings?? I used to live several miles from a military bombing range when I was a kid and we would hear bangs and things quite regularly. Sometimes these things have a quite down to earth answer (not that weird things don’t happen of course because I have saw something odd myself when I was a kid, and something else quite recently) but unless people stop and think, and take data we may never get to the bottom of these things.

January 16, 2012 at 4:38 pm
(21) truthmonger says:

I’ve heard these sounds and figured it was a microburst or mini-tornado somewhere not too far away. But it could be a number of things..low frequency earth tones from seismic activity, the fallout from the aforementioned HAARP or similar technology..who knows? Unless it manifests as a threat to major world governments or global trade, nobody with any resources will investigate.

January 16, 2012 at 4:41 pm
(22) michael says:

A web search does not provide any confirmatory reports in mainstream media

January 16, 2012 at 5:05 pm
(23) Chris says:

This phenomenon has been observed and recorded numerous times by our ancient ancestors. Unfortunately these sounds were associated with catastrophic events, and were heard just prior to or during the calamities. This very well could be the precursor to such events. In my opinion such sounds are generated through some sort of tonal resonance having to do with the Earth’s magnetic field. Since we know very little about gravitons perhaps we should be looking at this as being a source to such ominous noises. Plus there’s a new theory based on hyperresonance that may also shed some light on this subject.

January 16, 2012 at 6:26 pm
(24) Den!s says:

it’s the sound of military jet afterburners mostly. Depending on certain weather conditions, the sound seems to bounce off part of the atmosphere and down to a point many many miles away sometimes. The same thing happens over distances of water; you can hear the low frequency thumping of ship’s engines with no ships in sight. It’s an aural anomaly, but quite explainable in my humble opinion.

January 16, 2012 at 6:58 pm
(25) Somebody says:

Can strong electromagnetic waves induce a current into the brain that would be interpreted by the brain as a sound? In other words, is it possible that there is no external sound happening, but rather the brain is being tricked by a strong electromagnetic wave of a particular frequency?

January 16, 2012 at 7:11 pm
(26) Felix says:

I thought my ears were deteriorating! I just turned 28 on the 14th of Jan, 2012. Beginning on Jan 13 through the 15 of 2012, I heard a noise that sounded like bass, but it was almost overwhelming at the time. When I heard it, I asked my 8 year old daughter and asked her if she heard the noise too. She said yes, but I’m unsure if she actually heard it. My hearing is very good so I was surprised to have this experience. I have also, over the last 2 years, open up my consciousness and have an open mind about unexplained things and phenomenons experienced by different people. I don’t know what the sound/noise was, nor what it’s purpose was, but I will keep listening. I hope one day, in our physical form, will be able to understand the unexplained phenomenon in our reality.

January 16, 2012 at 7:30 pm
(27) Orion says:

it could be anything? we dont know believe in christ hes the truth

January 16, 2012 at 7:43 pm
(28) shawn says:

ive heard something like a wailing trumpeting sound here in tampa florida around the time we had the D.C. earthquake. guy i work with said he’s heard a similar noise as well.

January 16, 2012 at 7:57 pm
(29) iim l says:

I have objective tinitus.~~ Every one can hear thenoise in my ears but me.

January 16, 2012 at 8:02 pm
(30) Tim says:

I live along the Ohio river in Kentucky and over the past 2 years Ive encountered a rumbling sound on occassion. It is a sound along with a rumbling. We are not directly on any fault line and are some few hundred miles from the New Madrid and Wabash seismic zone. It is quite curioius and a mystery. I did end up looking over the internet in the past few months and noticed other individuals in other parts of the US and in other countries describing the very same thing. What the heck it it? You would think that it would show up on the USGS but I inquired with them and they do not seem to know. I say that it is something and could be a precursor to something.

January 16, 2012 at 8:45 pm
(31) Jackie says:

I’ve been hearing strange rumbling sounds for the past few months. I’m an amateur astronomer and I often go outside late at night, and early in the morning to stargaze. On quite a few occasions I’ve heard strange rumbling sounds; they seem like they are coming from above me, but there is nothing visible in the sky.

And the past few months I’ve also been hearing a rumbling noise that sounds like it is coming from underground. It is a very low-pitched sound, and it actually makes my eardrums vibrate. It sounds like some kind of machine is moving underground. None of my three children hear it…that freaks me out a bit because when I ask them if they hear it they just look at me blankly and tell me they have no idea what I am talking about.

January 16, 2012 at 8:55 pm
(32) Sam says:

It is not the mysteries of god, crazy people… I think it is the tunneling machines working there way from one place to another.

January 16, 2012 at 10:24 pm
(33) CARRIE B says:

OMG… I have been hearing a low frequency humming almost every night here in Western NC… It has been driving me nuts!!! It will go one for 45 seconds to 3 mins, then cut off, then come back on, then cut off…always different lengths of time! It almost sounds like someone is drilling below ground under my house! I heard the same thing about 7 years ago for around a month, then it just stopped… It began again around a month or so ago. Some nights it doesn’t do it, but it is usually late at night when I am trying to sleep..I was seriously beginning to think I had a brain tumor or something near my ear since my husband can’t hear it. However since he has been a CNC machinist working around loud machined for the past 17 years I think that is why he can’t!! I am So relieved to know I am NOT the only one hearing these sounds!!

January 16, 2012 at 10:33 pm
(34) don says:

back around 1956/1957,when I was about 10 or 11,I heard this rumbling noise.Started early in the morning,sometime after midnight.sounded like rolling thunder but at a continuous pitch. Lasted all morning. The reason I feel so sure of the time element is because I never forgot that experience.I was scared and couldnt sleep. This was in Chicago.On the morning local news they addressed this sound/noise as flying tanks being tested.(if you can believe that) never heard after that,but even at that age I had a curiosity about ufo”s and wonder to this day if that was what I heard. I have never heard of a flying tank and to this day,do not know and have never read about the same being in existence either.

January 16, 2012 at 11:02 pm
(35) Jan says:

Here in Calaveras County, California..This week many lost their internet..last week there was a horrible sound, the house shock, then came the pain at the bridge of our noses and it seemed like our ear drums burst and were bleeding. Was told it was Scalar Electromagnetics.

January 16, 2012 at 11:15 pm
(36) Wondering says:

Carrie B. describes the experience many have been experiencing in the Windsor and Essex county area in Ontario Canada. Google “Windsor Rumble” and discover that the Canadian Government did research this and triangulated the location to be the mouth of the Rouge river at the Detroit River. No further info has been forthcoming as it is reported there is no money to investigate further in Michigan… The sounds continue. I hear them still and don’t know what’s the cause.

January 16, 2012 at 11:18 pm
(37) Virginia Beach says:

I also heard a similar noise here in the middle of the night a few weeks ago . I looked out the window and saw no planes, no heavy equipment and no electrical storms, what the heck is going on?

January 17, 2012 at 12:00 am
(38) Crooklyncat says:

@H- There ARE vids of this stuff. These sounds really creep you out. The videos are posted on Coast 2 Coasts website

January 17, 2012 at 12:12 am
(39) Jeremy says:

There was a strange rumbling sound in Toronto back in November 2011. I was biking up Euclid Ave near College Street at night when this massive rumbling came out of no where. It honestly sounded like a rocketship taking off. It was THAT loud. I stopped and looked south and waited for it to dissipate, but it didn’t. It lasted for about 20-30 minutes. Never heard anything like it in my life. Other people heard it too. Check out this thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/mqds3/did_anyone_here_a_loud_rumbling_this_evening/

January 17, 2012 at 12:16 am
(40) Jeremy says:

BTW – regarding the link above… what I heard was NOT fireworks.

January 17, 2012 at 12:24 am
(41) Ellie says:

I live in a military town and grew up with the sound of jets and, before it was outlawed, sonic booms. I’ve heard these rumbling sounds quite a bit and I know the difference between the jet engine sound and this. It is something different.

January 17, 2012 at 12:33 am
(42) Dave says:

Why is it always supernatural! I think it is just the earth’s plates sliding around underneath us,or grinding against each other,and the sound was reflected off the atmosphere and back to earth.This would make it sound as if it was coming from the sky.This would also explain why it is heard all over the world.The sound escapes through a crack in the earths surface,probably where the crust is very thin.Not because of super secret spy planes! Get a life!

January 17, 2012 at 1:30 am
(43) Ramses says:

Well, I’m no bible expert but I’m pretty sure that in the book of revelation it says that major events in the book will be heralded by the sound of horns from the heavens.

January 17, 2012 at 7:52 am
(44) Si says:

I find it kinda hard to believe that a dead guy and his imaginary friends are bowling in the clouds. LOL… Fools!

January 17, 2012 at 1:57 pm
(45) Lesm says:

Perhaps it’s the crust moving as people from all over the planet are hearing this. If the noise is loud, it would be hard to distinguish where it is coming from.

January 17, 2012 at 3:30 pm
(46) Steve Fenster says:

While these sounds may not be Divinely sources (or may) I do agree that we are dovetailing into a crisis point and that what is coming will be dramatic and tremendous and that after these “birth pains” there will be a wonderful world emerging

January 17, 2012 at 9:00 pm
(47) dkeithb says:

Solar radiation is phenomenal… and covers a spectrum of most every kind of energy.

January 18, 2012 at 3:09 am
(48) Katherine says:

It is the Siths v. the Jedi.

January 18, 2012 at 9:10 am
(49) Ant says:

I think everyone should acquaint themselves with HAARP. This is what I believe it to be and I think the governments use this for evil instead of the good it was intended for. Notice any strange weather patterns recently? Yea me too.

January 18, 2012 at 9:31 am
(50) joe says:

@(44) Si – Mark my word, one day soon you will be bowing in front of that “dead guy” while cursing the day you were conceived. The only fool is the one that hath said in his heart “There is no God”.

January 18, 2012 at 11:47 am
(51) consciousness says:

These tunes being hear sound like there is a H.A.A.R.P involved..

January 19, 2012 at 1:46 am
(52) gord says:

heard all over the world same sound either its the trumpets in heaven telling us the 3rd trumpet has sounded ! or its the earth moving its axes either…. or….. its pretty freaky!

January 19, 2012 at 7:40 am
(53) Ann says:

You wont know until you know it
But I know millions are abused because of the system we allow to exist in this world. Its something that we know already. It is time for us to stand together to stop our system that abuses all and puts money on nr 1.

January 19, 2012 at 1:33 pm
(54) Nathan says:

The sounds in Canada was a choir of Sasquatch…where were you discovery channel?

January 19, 2012 at 11:59 pm
(55) Felix says:

Well I live in Dominican republic and I heard sounds similar to these about 7 months ago in the summer of 2011 the weird thing was that it sounded like a plane right above my building but when I went outside i did not see anything in the sky but the sound was clear this went on for about half an hour I was really intrigued by the sound and I’m glad to hear I’m not going crazy….by the way has anybody tried giving an explanation for this??

January 21, 2012 at 12:08 am
(56) justine says:

it da end of days people say!!!! but from wat i know god and dat guy down there are at war!!! thats why everythangs happen…. its up 2 u what side ur ganna be on!!! love life ,family , and ur self…cause who knows wats next after this life!!!

January 21, 2012 at 12:12 pm
(57) Rich says:

Yehshua is coming soon July this yr 2012 Yehshua “jesus” is returning
If you love Him and Want to ENTER Eternal LIFE WE MUST KEEP ALL HIS COMMANDMENT’S Be found in his favour
We need to do even the least of these even blue tassles not shaving our beard ETC ETC Yehshua’s 2nd Witness is HERE on youtube channel repairingthebreach

January 21, 2012 at 2:14 pm
(58) Larry says:

I haven’t heard the sounds yet but it may be possible they are the beginning of the “Earth crust slippage ” situation researched and written about by Charles Hapgood and others whereby the entire crust of the earth slips like the peel of an orange around the molten interior. If that has happened before it reportedly moved everything as much as 2000 miles thrusting temperate climates to frozen latitudes and vice versa. It was rather hard on living creatures to say the least.

January 23, 2012 at 6:44 am
(59) shirley says:

I am surprised there are so many comments on this one. There are different described sounds like whooshing, bangs, clanging,booms etc. I think we have to say a proportion are aerial explained or phenomena and perhaps reverberations from within the earth. Its strange to say we hear it but do not see it. The earth is full of mysteries lets keep reporting them.

January 24, 2012 at 6:40 pm
(60) jimmy says:

if this is not a hoax we do have something to fear. this is not an aeroplane. or secret weapon. to be in diffent parts of the globe with dates being close an people that dont know eachother. seem like some one will find out quick. only the ones that are a hoax have been debunked, real ones have not been debunked.

January 26, 2012 at 1:53 am
(61) DJ Rosen says:

Ray Walston is back.

January 30, 2012 at 10:58 am
(62) DAVE murphy says:

i think that it is the overall structure of the earth realighing itself.this is what is causeing the noisewhich people dont understandtons of material shifting beneath the earth

January 31, 2012 at 11:26 am
(63) Tracy Li says:

About 7:30am, I was still in bed, noticed the east sky was really red.

Around 8:00 am , sun rise.

About 8:10am ? : I heard the sounds Like a big plate being pulled, among busy morning cars, street cars sound downstairs…….This soundd was really loud, continuing, rough, like low rumbling and low frequency humming in big range of air.

Then around 8:20am, again, I heard it…I was more sure there WAS the sound.

I live at Toronto, Harbour front downtown by the Ontario lake, just south of CN Tower, in a condo building, 21 floor, facing East.

Tracy Li

February 14, 2012 at 1:57 pm
(64) Kelly says:

Altamonte Springs, FL My husband and I have heard strange noises in the sky several times over this last year, like last night 02/13/12. The sound is like a strong distant thunderstorm or bombs going off. It doesn’t sound like anything man made like a plane. The sound lasts for a long time and the sound always comes from the same direction. There are no Thunderstorms or fireworks within hundreds of miles at these times. Then the sound just stops. The first time we heard it, it was scary as it sounded like a war was going on. We have not seen any signs of lightening, fire etc… Has anyone else in the area heard these noises or know what it is?

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