Maybe you've heard of the Kokomo Hum that has incessantly driven residents of Kokomo, Indiana crazy hum. That hum can cause insomnia and irritability.
Well, there is no question about it, Spartanburg, SC has a low hum as well. I noticed it a couple of years ago and it really was irritating, especially at night when you were trying to sleep. The whole house is quiet and when you put your ear to the pillow, it amplifies the hum.
My first thought is that the hum was inside my house as it sounded like an electrical hum, but after shutting down all the power to the house, the hum remained. There is a golf course with a high powered well down the street about a mile from me and I wondered if that was it. To this day I don't know what caused it. However, the hum did stop briefly during the summer months of 2010. That's when the golf course sprinklers should have been going full blast, so I don't think the golf course well is the cause.
The Spartanburg/ Boiling Springs hum has returned during October of 2010; however it is much less pronounced than it was last year.
I was thinking it was isolated to one area, but I drove 40 minutes to my girlfriend's house last Fall in 2009, and sure enough, she had it too. I asked if she could hear it and she said absolutely. She was living in Taylors, SC, right next to Greenville, South Carolina.
If anyone has heard it or has any idea what the source is please leave your comments as I'm very interested the the Upstate Hum in Greenville and Spartanburg, SC.
Other references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
ABC News: Complaints about the Hum
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Friday, November 5, 2010
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