The city of West Haven, Connecticut earlier this month approved a $16,000 contract with an acoustic specialist to try to figure out what the actual hell is causing the godawful persistent low-frequency humming noise emanating from somewhere underground, Fox News reports.
It’s not clear when it actually became noticeable to residents, but city HR commissioner John Carrano’s more than fed up. “My house is the loudest of all the different locations in the area. I would test in the morning and test in the evening. If I saw an elevated decibel reading, I would go up to the industrial zone and test the property line,” said Carrano, adding that his kids can’t hear it.
Weird-ass infrasound hums have tormented people in a number of places over the last few decades, among them Massena, New York near an Alcoa plant and Windsor, Ontario, where the humming is believed to originate from a sketchy, mysterious facility on neighboring Detroit’s Zug Island. Taos, New Mexico has been plagued by a hum that has long defied investigation and of course being New Mexico it’s something something aliens.