# What's the story with the Taos hum?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-with-the-taos-hum/700038>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [October 1, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-with-the-taos-hum/700038 "2014-10-01T00:29:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-with-the-taos-hum/700038/21 "2014-11-03T04:10:56Z")

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I was in Taos about a year ago. I don’t recall any hum.

I did feel a ‘vibration’ when I visited NYC about a decade ago. It started on the train from Newark and lasted until I left the city. It seemed like a high-energy effect to me, this vibration, a reflection of the huge amounts of power and people flying around everywhere at once.

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**Author:** ![TheseGoToEleven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@TheseGoToEleven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheseGoToEleven)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-with-the-taos-hum/700038/22 "2019-09-10T17:28:24Z")

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September 2018 Update: It appears that at least some inanimate things on earth DO “hum”, as written up in this NY Times story:

[Taking the Pulse of a Sandstone Tower in Utah](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/science/castleton-tower-utah-vibration.html?te=1&nl=science-times&emc=edit_sc_20190910?campaign_id=34&instance_id=12256&segment_id=16889&user_id=ad68de244ec4de56075d50d7ee129715&regi_id=57494482)

This immediately brought to mind the phenomenon popularly known as the “Taos Hum”, which our master himself has written of in the past. This article would seem to confirm that it (or at least something) is actually there, though not everyone can sense it. Maybe some people (and animals) are sensitive enough in a certain way to pick up these vibrations? And maybe the same applies to how some animals are said to sense impending earthquakes? That, at least seems worthy of further research…

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-with-the-taos-hum/700038/23 "2019-09-10T21:05:38Z")

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It’s 2019. Just saying.🙂

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**Author:** ![TheseGoToEleven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@TheseGoToEleven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheseGoToEleven)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-with-the-taos-hum/700038/24 "2019-09-12T06:11:55Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> It’s 2019. Just saying.🙂

:smack:

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