# What's that weird noise?... Oh, it's ME.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 27, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-weird-noise-oh-its-me/397632 "2007-03-27T02:09:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-weird-noise-oh-its-me/397632/1 "2007-03-27T02:09:26Z")

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So I’m sitting here, sketching away, and I gradually notice this very soft sound occurring every few seconds-- kind of a high-pitched, croaking chirp, like a small frog. Well, it’s starting to warm up a bit, perhaps a peeper or cricket or something has gotten in. I’m looking around, under furniture, trying to find the little guy, but am completely unable to home in on the sound. So I walk in the other room, and I can hear it in there too. That’s when I realize the sound is coming from _my own stomach._ Like a clock, every seven seconds… \*quirrrrp… quirrrrp… quirrrrp… \*

This has been going on for several minutes now. I don’t feel hungry or anything. This doesn’t sound like any sort of ‘stomach growl’ I’ve ever heard, more like a barely audible alarm of some sort. I don’t recall eating any pagers or cell phones. I’m vaguely worried that this might be warning me of some sort of imminent detonation, but I have no idea where my red and blue wires are located.

_Quirrrrp… quirrrrp… quirrrrp…_

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**Author:** ![Yag\_Rannavach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/858c86/32.png) [@Yag\_Rannavach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yag_Rannavach)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-weird-noise-oh-its-me/397632/2 "2007-03-27T02:42:19Z")

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Well, if you quit posting here after 30 minutes at least we’ll be know what to say when we call the police…  
“Terrifel’s self-destruct mechanism failed”

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**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-weird-noise-oh-its-me/397632/3 "2007-03-27T14:24:07Z")

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It’s the alien inside you.

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**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-weird-noise-oh-its-me/397632/4 "2007-03-27T14:58:31Z")

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I suffer from tinnitis.

Several years ago, I’m in my home and I heard something like the refrigerator motor cycle on… except it didn’t sound quite right. It was very faint. And, it didn’t cycle off after a few hours. I went to check the fridge and the sound didn’t get any louder as I approached. Hmm… perhaps the toilet’s running. Again, nada. Oven, toaster, shower, alarm clock, radio, tv, cable box, fuse box… nothing was making that noise.  
Then I realized… “Oh, it’s coming from _inside my own head_!”

Every so often, it’ll flare up. Sometimes, just a low hiss; sometimes it’s a faint “EEEEE” sound that’ll go away after a few hours.