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- 01-16-2009 12:24 PM #1"O" will suffice.
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Mysterious rumbling noise in my house...
It's been going on for a really long time. Sometimes, when I'm home on a weekday (usually between 12pm and 3pm - I don't know if I've ever noticed it on a weekend), there is this weird rumbling that seems to come from...well...nowhere. It sounds like rolling thunder, but it happens even when (like today) there isn't a cloud in the sky. I thought that it might be wind either blowing on the house or maybe shaking the garage door, but it happens even when there is no wind blowing outside. I even thought that it might just be big trucks driving passed the house, but I've lived here long enough to know what that sounds like.
Usually, I just hear it when I'm here by myself, but my daughter is here with me, and she hears it to. It comes in intervals (maybe a minute or two apart) and then it just stops suddenly. There are a lot of sinkholes in our area, and I didn't rule out the possibility - because it does sound/feel like the house is rumbling - but that just wouldn't make sense, because it's usually around the same time of day and the sounds/intervals are so similar that it doesn't seem to be something completely random such as the house settling.
It's the weirdest thing, and I just have absolutely no idea what is causing it...
...That's all, I guess. Just thought I'd share.
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- 01-16-2009 12:28 PM #2Dr. Danger Achievements:
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- 01-16-2009 12:42 PM #3"O" will suffice.
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That's possible. I will try to find that out. Don't you think that the sound would be a bit more frequent/constant, though? Sometimes it will happen every day (or every weekday, seeing as that's when I usually notice it), but only in the early afternoon hours. I don't know a thing about the conditions of living over a main, but would the activity be that sporadic?
Originally Posted by Man of Steel 
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- 01-16-2009 12:50 PM #4Watches u n the IRC. Achievements:
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Well... you seem sure this comes from the house or the ground itself, but... Is there an airport within about 2 miles of your house, and would you happen to be approximately inline with one of the runways? I ask that because when commercial jetliners throttle up to take off, the engines make an awe inspiring thunderous noise that can be heard from miles away in a straight line behind the plane.
[edit to add]Weather conditions affect how far the noise travels from this, whether it refracts up away from the ground, or stays down. Also, different times of day might mean different runway or direction used for take off. Both of which could explain hearing it only during certain times of the day.Last edited by Forsaken; 01-16-2009 at 12:54 PM.
- 01-16-2009 12:57 PM #5"O" will suffice.
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Nah, I'm pretty sure it's not a plane. The nearest airport is a good 15 miles from here, and it is pretty much nothing but small/private aircraft. The nearest airport with commercial liners is in Sanford, which is more like 40 miles away. I did use to live right next to an air force base, back in Georgia, though. That got really annoying after a short while. Heh.
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- 01-16-2009 03:07 PM #6Watches u n the IRC. Achievements:
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That's weird man. There's not a subway system or anything like that anywhere in florida that i know about either....
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I dunno, it was just the first idea to pop into my head. Originally Posted by Oneironaut 
Steam pipe blow out at a set time each day, but I don't know why there would be a steam line running under your house down there in Florida.
- 01-16-2009 05:26 PM #8Antagonist Achievements:
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Measure the sides of your house from inside and then outside, compare them.
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- 01-16-2009 05:41 PM #9"O" will suffice.
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I'll get right on that. Originally Posted by Omicron "One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams." Dream Journal: DreamWalker Chronicles Latest Entries: 01/13 thru 01/22 - "Tatano", "Indecent Proposal"(Or see the very best of my journal entries @ dreamwalkerchronicles.blogspot)
- 01-16-2009 11:26 PM #10Always there just in time Achievements:
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I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with this, but I saw an episode of unsolved mysteries and one of the segments was about people hearing low, rumbling, or humming noises. It is called the Taos Hum. Look it up on google or whatever.
- 01-16-2009 11:45 PM #11
Rancor in basement could be the problem.
Otherwise I'm going to have to go with Omicron on this one.You merely have to change your point of view slightly, and then that glass will sparkle when it reflects the light.
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