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By Ahmed Arafat

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Here, a group of researchers put together multiple clips of a humming noise also known as the Taos Hum. They claim their work to be true and that this is evidence of the sound, but they don't claim any evidence of the theory behind it. This here is known as proof by verbosity; a way for people to sound scientific and logical, by putting quantity over quality. The correlation here is that it is very easy to get people thinking that this is the truth and that these sounds exist just by providing an example of a clip. After checking up on the website, the sources are not very credible and no research has been put as to what is behind these sounds (wave lengths, location, trials, etc.) For all we know, it could be a kid in his basement creating these clips with a paper roll tube and a water bottle.

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The 'Taos Hum' is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide, especially in the USA, UK, and northern europe. It is usually heard only in quiet environments, and is often described as sounding like a distant diesel engine. Since it has proven indetectable by microphones or VLF antennae, its source and nature is still a mystery.

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Mystical Energy; false energy made up to sound scientific. The Taos Hum sound could be some sort of energy in the atmosphere that we yet have studied or found to exist. Perhaps we as a society don't have the tools necessary or built to study this because as a whole, we don't believe in random energy's and weird matter. However, dark matter in space is being heavily explored and popularized in recent times. Could the Taos Hum sound be dark matter moving around in space and entering into our atmosphere and creating these sounds?

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The "observation/perception" red flag talks about how people can take their observation and perception of an event that happened, and relate it with their belief, which makes an event seem true to them. In this article, the disorder tinnitus is discussed. Roughly 5-7 percent of humans have observed and heard the Taos Hum sound. A scientific research has concluded that perhaps those who observe the sound have tinnitus; a disorder where there is a constant and random ringing or buzzing sound in ones ear. It is interesting to see how maybe those few numbers of those diagnosed with tinnitus believe in world consperiency theories. Perhaps their perception of what the government is hiding mixed in with the observation of what they are hearing due to tinnitus, makes it seem like they are hearing this "Taos Hum" sound.

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Everything seems to be normal in the small town of Taos in New Mexico. Well, almost everything. In this town of about 4,700 residents, a strange phenomenon affects the population. It is called the Taos Hum - a strange humming noise like one that would come from an idle diesel engine left running.
Investigation into this low humming noise has not lead to any tangible proof of where this noise might be coming from. The whole thing gets weirder as people who hear it cannot get rid of the irritating persistent hum even by putting on earplugs! The noise is louder inside the house or contained environment than outside. Some people hear it all the time and some hear it at intervals. For some its gets so disturbing that it keeps them up at night.

It is said that the humming sound began in 20 years ago but the exact time varies. However, when the reason or location of the noise could not be found, it gained so much importance that the people suffering from it contacted the United States Congress in 1993 and asked for help.

A serious investigation of the mystery began in 1997 with several science and science institutions getting involved to get to the root cause of the noise. They interviewed people who were affected by the sound and were surprised to find that the effects of the mysterious humming resulted in nosebleeds, feeling dizzy, vibrations, irritability and, of course, sleep disorders. The residents were of the opinion that it was due to some secret government project or military installations, which were based near the area.

Investigators and researchers came to no exact explanation to the cause of the hum but some of them attributed it to the possibility of electromagnetic waves which are caused by meteors.

Another strange thing about the mysterious humming sounds is that more men can hear it than women. Also some people cannot hear it at all. What could generate this noise? And why is it in this specific location? Whatever the reason, do the people who hear it possess some kind of advanced and evolved hearing, which is yet to be discovered by science?

Also why has this phenomenon just started 20 years ago? If the rise of industry is the cause, then that happened much earlier.

The answer to that could be the more advanced technology of today. But some are certain that the occurrence is due to supernatural phenomenon or even some sort of conspiracy to keep the real reason from the general public.

To name a few interesting suppositions, the famous or infamous town of Roswell, which is supposed to have had a flying saucer crash in 1947, is pretty close to Taos. Furthermore, there was much strange flying aircraft activity reported in the region even after the initial alleged crash which was covered up by the United States military, stating that it was a weather balloon that had crashed. Then one also wonders if the "Trinity" atom bomb test in 1945 could have had triggered the phenomenon.

Just like the persistent humming, the story too does not end here. The noise has also been reported in other places in the world giving these "Hums" their local titles, like the "Bristol Hum" and the "Bondi Hum". Interestingly, the Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, tried to record the hum and reported that its power spectral density has a frequency peak of 56 hertz.

The Bristol Hum was reported in the late 1970s in Britain. In some locations, volcanic activity nearby was the cause. Experts say that in the human body, the auditory nervous system too can create a humming sound called tinnitus. But why do people hear this sound in a particular location cannot be explained.

Interestingly, people with tinnitus can also hear and distinguish the Hum from their disorder. Then there is another scientific theory in which it is possible that hot gasses moving beneath the Earth can cause the vibrations and sounds. But all this is mere speculation. So far no one has come

up with the proper or precise explanation of the Taos Hum or the same phenomenon in other areas. Some even attribute it to an advanced civilisation below the surface, one that uses advanced technology.

But for now it seems that the mystery endures and will for many years till its source is discovered. And last but not least, like all eerie stuff that goes 'bump' in the night, the Hum too increases as darkness falls.

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Everything seems to be normal in the small town of Taos in New Mexico. Well, almost everything. In this town of about 4,700 residents, a strange phenomenon affects the population. It is called the Taos Hum - a strange humming noise like one that would come from an idle diesel engine left running.

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This interesting video about the Taos Hum covers all aspects and angles of the fact that Taos Hum is just another phenomenon that cannot be scientifically backed up. At minute 3:24, the author puts up a quote published by the University of New Mexico stating "We are left with a mystery. There are no acoustic signals that might account for the hum nor are there any seismic events that might explain it." Here, the red flag is "the unexplained". There is just simply a possibility that this can never be explained and it's one of those things that just randomly happen, whether it's aliens or nature. What's interesting here is that a lot of other articles that are verified do claim that their are acoustic signals in the sound. This is where researchers need to be careful as to where they find their information, as there is really no right answer at the moment, and maybe there will never be one.

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The video here is a recording of the supposed Taos Hum. After doing some research in the comment section, this video works in both ways. Just like the popular twitter debate a few years ago, if the dress was blue or white, people can hear the hum or not hear the hum based on their own conformation bias. You can chose to hear it or not hear it, just like how with the dress if you focus on the white part, the dress becomes white, or if you look at it from another angle and focus on the blue, the dress becomes blue. It is what you subconsciously believe in. At first, I told myself that I don't believe in the hum, and I couldn't hear anything playing. After reading in the comments, I saw that if you change your own bias and belief, and tell your self that you do hear it, all of a sudden you tend to focus on what needs to be picked up and the sound randomly starts occurring, as a steady and suttle humming sound. Could this video be made up and worked this way to trick society into believing that the hum actually exists, or is this yet another made up hoax? It looks like it all depends on one's conformation bias in this example.

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This image here represents the Taos Pueblo. It's one of the worlds oldest, inhabited cities that still remain intact in the world. The Taos tribe that lived here is known to be one of the world's secretive and most secluded culture. The name of the mysterious sounds that people refer to as the Taos Hum; a continuous, random droning noise that occurs. This red flag is also known as "mystical energy". Since the city of the Taos Tribe is known to be very secret, maybe there is a energy out there that produces this random droning noise out of nowhere so the tribe could still be remembered and not forgotten. Society will truly never know that the sound is, but mystical energy can be a strong theory.

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Often, people find them selves distracted from the truth and only look at what's around them, and not behind them. In this example of the Taos Hum, we will be taking a look at the red flag "red herring". The Red Herring is defined as irrelevant distractions to cover up what's real. The Taos Hum's most popular and scientifically backed up theory is the tectonic plates shifting, causing the noise. This was published by many government sources and news outlets, making it seem like this is the most credible theory. What if in reality these strange sounds are aliens trying to communicate with humans on earth? Could they be some sort of signals to warn mankind? These are questions we need to start asking ourselves as a whole and not just focus on what's being told to us as true.

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This website is run by a famous news outlet, The Guardian. They discuss how the US steel industry is to blame for the sound of the Taos Hum. Upon searching a reddit thread, a popular theory of the US Steel industry adopted from this article made its way to be a top thread in a science section. The comments had a lot of belief to this theory because The Gaurdian is a credible source. This shows how "appeal to authority" is being used by the news agency to broadcast information, while scientifically the steel industry theory lacks any evidence. This shows how society is quick to jump and come to conclusions when a major source spills out information, just because of their authoritative figure.

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What is the Windsor hum and is it really US Steel's fault?

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An intermittent rumbling similar to a case investigated on The X-Files has been driving some residents berserk for years - with similar noises heard around the world. The truth is out there ...