He has had to fend off skeptics and theorists who believe that the hum is related to secret tunneling, U.F.O.s or covert government operations, he said. “I’m not going to quit this.”The hum is not limited to Windsor, a city of about 220,000 people on the Detroit River. Tracey Ramsey, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, said in a phone interview that she regularly gets calls from constituents about the health effects of the hum. Researchers studied the Taos hum in 1993 but did not pinpoint a source. “I have never heard the Taos hum, but I’ve heard stories of the Taos hum,” she said.

Source: New York Times February 19, 2018 16:52 UTC