Beginning in the early 90s, residents of Taos, New Mexico began noticing a mysterious and constant hum. While the sound was perceived differently by everyone – all the residents who could hear it agreed – it was loud, disturbing, and driving them mad. Despite an extensive investigation, the source of the hum remains unknown, but theories range from psychological, to government experiment, to spiritual forces.
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Episode Source Material
WEB/SOCIAL MEDIA/MESSAGE BOARDS
- What is the Taos Hum? (website).
- Investigating the mystery of the Taos Hum. (website).
- The Taos Hum: New Mexico’s unexplained acoustic phenomenon. (website).
- The Taos Hum had residents in New Mexico convinced they could hear something. (website).
- Description of newly discovered Project Artichoke/Bluebird materials. (government report).
- CIA special research Project Bluebird 1952 (website).
- Memorandum for the record: subject: Project Artichoke. (government report).
- “It was torture” – an Abu Gharib interrogator acknowledges “horrible mistakes.” (online article).
- Infrasound and paranormal activity – are they connected? (online article).
- Population of Bristol. (website.)
- Mysterious humming sound has been keeping residents in Bristol awake for 40 years. (online article.)
- Locally grown – hand harvested – small batch. (website).
- Mysterious ‘difficulties’ prevent secretive nuclear lab from releasing records on first known interstellar object to land on Earth. (online article).
- Aztec UFO crash site. (website.)
- The strange case of the Bristol hum. (online article).
- Can you hear the Hum? The mystery noise that says a lot about modern life. (online article).
- Disco inferno. (online article).
- Your Taos bucket list. (website).
- Exploring the world’s most mysterious sound tourism 7 global destinations where the hum phenomenon draws curious travelers – New Mexico Taos hum desert phenomenon creates unusual bass frequencies year round. (website).
ACADEMIC PAPERS
- The International Tinnitus Journal (Volume 20, Issue 1 June 2016). Manifestations of a low-frequency sound of unknown origin perceived worldwide, also known as “the Hum” or the “Taos Hum.”
- 9th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (2008.) The results of hum studies in the United States.
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The Perception of Silence.
- Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology (Volume 93, Issues 1-3). What is infrasound?
- Trans Revista Transcultural de Musica (Volume 10). Music as torture/music as weapon.
BOOKS
PRINT NEWS
- The Los Angeles Times: In Taos, researchers can hum it, but they can’t name that sound by Michael Haederle.
- The New York Times: The cosmos is thrumming with gravitational waves, astronomers find by Katrina Miller.
- The Taos News (Taos, New Mexico): Taos actor Robert Townsend to star on TV by Regina Cooke.
- The Taos News (Taos, New Mexico): Out-of-body discovery by Lola M. Reagan via newspapers.com.
- The Taos News (Taos, New Mexico): Elevation and echo by Peggy S. Sparks via newspapers.com.
- The Taos News (Taos, New Mexico): Team arrives to ferret out Taos Hum by Jess Williams via newspapers.com.
- The Taos News (Taos, New Mexico): Solution proposed: “harmonic energy flux.” via newspapers.com.
- The Taos News (Taos, New Mexico): Questionnaire is newest weapon in “sound” battle by Jess Williams.
- The LA Times: Mysterious low-level noise destroys peace, serenity of Taos residents: New Mexico: scientists’ search for source of hum has been fruitless, though one heard sound himself. Some victims suspect a secret military project by Deborah Baker.