Raven_Tear, on 19 January 2013 - 01:25 AM, said:
I have been intrigued by these sounds for a while and of course have seen numerous videos on Youtube. Are they all a hoax? Who knows but I for one would like to experience it first-hand. So far zippo, and I don't really expect to hear them anytime soon but you never know. They could be the planet letting us have it or something more, perhaps Biblical. Guess time will tell.
Quite honestly, 99% of the stuff on Youtube can be written off as a hoax. The sounds might have been distorted with software like Audacity and such, but they are too similar to be something else. There is the 1% left that can be something els, yes. Like said before, the earth as such makes noise, rumbling, humming, sometimes bangs etc. I doubt it would be something of biblical proportions, but plausible as far as nature goes. Also, lets not count out industrial man-made noises. You would be amazed on how far certain noises can travel.
Paranormalcy, on 18 January 2013 - 01:22 AM, said:
And that is the kind of feedback that is needed. For people to be able to present possible explanations, and have some obviously explainable things removed from the pool to keep them from obscuring any actual possible phenomenon. The people that have heard the sounds themselves, if honest and not intentionally perpetuating a knowingly false topic (this isn't a personal attack, just an objective general observation), need to take into account what other possible local explanations there are.
There have been some people found to be doing things similar to the scene IN the Red State movie, where people were blaring these sounds out their windows (this has been found to be the case in some of these reports), fooling others. If that and mundane everyday sounds can be fairly well discounted, then the remaining pool of reports needs looked at more in-depth.
Well said and quite correct.
Wolfman1993, on 17 January 2013 - 07:11 PM, said:
that may disprove some of them, but I've heard some of them myself
Out of curiosity, what kind of sound did you hear? Could you possibly describe it?
DingoLingo, on 19 January 2013 - 03:30 AM, said:
I remember hearing something similar in the outback camping as a kid.. basically we were 400k's inland from kalgoorlie in west australia.. was bloody strange.. my uncle is a meteorologist and a degree in geology.. worked for the .gov at woomera (the old australian missle base in south australia).. was a nice still night.. talking totally calm air..
what we could hear was noise from one of the remote mines.. he went into the technical details to do with the ionosphere and sound reflection.. type of terrain.. and the like.. of course us kids did not believe him.. so when we headed back towards Kal we detoured towards the mine.. which was something like 200k's away from us.. and yup.. what we could hear was the noise coming from the mine..
Sound does sometimes bounce of the ionosphere, that's quite correct. It's a recognized phenomenon. The fact that the mine was 200 kilometers away gives credence to the fact that the noises can quite possibly be industrial.