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A tiny English village is the latest place to become tortured by the "hum." The 300 residents of Woodland say that every night a noise fills the air that resembles to the throb of a car engine. Sometimes it’s so strong it shakes their beds. But despite all their research, no one can find the source of the night time noise. It’s similar to a hum heard in Bristol in the 1970s, which bothered over a thousand people, giving them nosebleeds, insomnia and headaches, then vanished without explanation.
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Those mysterious booms are back–this time in Canada! Ontario’s Environment Ministry is investigating reports of mysterious rumblings in that part of the country. In the Windsor Star, Dave Battagello quotes resident Sonya Skillings as saying, "It’s in the ground and it feels like there is a subway under the house. It happens at all different times–in the middle of the night, as well. We just want to know what the noise is. It’s just weird that nobody knows. If it’s not the salt mines, then what is it?"
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Noise pollution from vehicles, oil and gas fields and urban sprawl is becoming a major threat to wildlife. In Canada, traffic noise is causing the number of frog species to decline. In Africa, the numbers and different species of primates is falling if the animals live near roads. In The Netherlands, 60% of bird species avoid roads. In response to urban noise, some birds have to sing at higher frequencies, so they are better able to hear each other.
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Over the years, we’ve written many articles about communities all over the world where people are being driven crazy by mysterious humming noises. Now there may be a new cause for this problem: Wind farms.

In the August 2nd edition of the Independent, Margareta Pagano reveals that living too close to the low frequency hum give off by wind turbines can cause heart disease, tinnitus, vertigo, panic attacks, migraines and sleep deprivation. She quotes US pediatrician Nina Pierpont as saying, “It has been gospel among acousticians for years that if a person can’t hear a sound, it’s too weak for it to be detected or registered by any other part of the body. But this is no longer true. Humans can hear through the [ear] bones.”
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