Word: hummings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar with Hilda Hyams' "hum" down to the last mmm. But it seems it is not peculiar to "the drowsy county of Kent" in England [May 23]. We live within "humming" distance of the berth-place of the atomic submarines and I have taken for granted the nocturnal hummings in the area for six years...
...descriptions of the hum are surprisingly uniform. It is ugly and penetrating, louder inside a house than out side, and loudest of all at night and on weekends. The hum's pitch never varies, and it seems impossible ever to get "near er" to the sound. "For the majority," reports Hyams, "the hum is just below the threshold of audibility, but for those who can hear it, refined torture." By now, Hyams was himself hearing it on occasion. He took the matter up with the county council, but was brushed off. A local M.P. raised the question...
Down the Road. There was no lack of solutions to the hum, ranging from flying saucers to poltergeists to electric clocks. Many argued that with radio, TV and radar, modern man has filled the atmosphere with pulsating forces...
...last week the suspicions of hum-sufferers in Kent turned to the Chislehurst caves, which have recently been closed to the public. Near Chislehurst, the government has been building a research establishment, but, though the work has been going on for ten years, the building is only one story high. The obvious questions are: How deep does the work go underground, and what is being done inside it? Novelist Hyams went on BBC-TV to ask "why the government cannot say, 'This is being caused by a defense apparatus or a secret weapon. For your own safety, will...