Some even blamed it for killing their goldfish. As people began complaining to local news outlets, they both realized that the “Windsor hum,” as it has come to be known, was upsetting thousands of their neighbors-vibrating their beds, wrecking their concentration, making their toddlers cranky. “For me, being a professional, you don’t want to step up and have people be, ‘Oh, she’s the crazy one who hears a hum.’”īut she and Gross weren’t the only ones. If there was a teenager in a sports car parked outside with his music on and the windows up-it sounds like that.” But she was reluctant to mention the noise to anyone else. “You look outside the window because it sounds like a truck idling. “You think, is there something wrong with my hearing?” she says. An accountant with young children, she would stay up late catching up on work while her family was in bed and the house was quiet. Sherry Kelly, a resident of nearby LaSalle, first noticed the noise a year and a half later, in the winter of 2011. Figuring the sound must be coming from the building, he dismissed it as a one-time irritation that would probably soon be fixed. He ended up at the Detroit River, near the local power plant. Grosse, annoyed and unable to fall back asleep, jumped in his car and drove around looking for the source of the deep, rumbling pulse that now seemed to suffuse his leafy suburb of Windsor, Ontario, not far from the U.S. The air was still and the windows open, and the sound startled him out of slumber. Gary Grosse first heard the sound at 2 a.m. Originally published in June 2013, this article about a mysterious hum in a Candian town won top honors for digital news coverage at the 2014 FOLIO awards.
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