The Taos Hum: The Droning in the Desert That Only Some Can Hear
In the high desert of northern New Mexico, in and around the old artists' town of Taos, some people hear a sound that others cannot. It is a low, steady droning, like the idling of a distant engine that never starts moving, a murmur that seems to come from everywhere and nowhere, felt almost as much as heard, present in the quiet of the night and impossible to escape. For those who perceive it, the sound can be maddening — a ceaseless throb beneath the threshold of ordinary hearing that robs them of sleep and peace. And here is the strangeness at the heart of it: most people who live in the same town, in the same house, standing in the same room, hear nothing at all. Only a small fraction of the population can perceive the droning. It has no known source. Decades of investigation have failed to find what makes it or why only some can hear it. It is called the Taos Hum, and it is one of the most quietly unsettling unsolved mysteries in the world. The Sound That Divides The Hum ca...