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Cracking the mystery of the 'Worldwide Hum'

  • Written by Glen MacPherson, Lecturer, University of British Columbia
imageThe author began hearing the sound at night, between the hours of 10 and 11 p.m.'Street' via www.shutterstock.com

In the spring of 2012, when I was living near the coastal village of Sechelt, on British Columbia’s picturesque Sunshine Coast, I began hearing a humming sound, which I thought were float planes.

The noise usually started later at...

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