Maegan - 24 July 2008 11:25 AM

I hear the TV ringing, too! 

Well answer it.

The couple said the noise started soon after St. Bernard’s Parish across the street had the roofing, chimney and ductwork on a wing of its school redone. However, when the parish staff turned off all of its equipment as a test, the noise continued.

Maybe the wind is hitting something just right and it’s just one of those 1 in a billion reoccurring occurrences.
I say, turn their home into a tourist attraction. =D

FrostBird, I think you’re probably right about a vibration which would register inside the skull and inner ear even if it does not register on a recorder. 

The city’s Protection & Welfare Committee planned to take up the matter Wednesday night, when it discusses a report from Predictive Technologies Inc., which did vibration testing at the home.

  There are often sound frequencies which are just barely (or not at all) perceived by the human ear as well, but do affect the inner ear regardless by causing headaches and irritation to other electrical impulses to the brain.

I use to have really sensitive hearing and the littlest things would bother me. I use to take my wrist watch off at night and put it in another room with the door closed just so I couldn’t hear it ticking while I tried to fall asleep. Luckily a semester on drumline without ear plugs fixed that problem.

I’m fairly sensitive to strange noises but after years of being in the army and sleeping close to a 5kw generator that runs 24 hrs a day I learned to tune out noises that I didn’t want to hear.  After sleeping next to that generator for ages I found that the only time it ever woke me up was when it was stopped for some reason.  The silence would wake me up in a flash. 

I’ve heard of the earth hum but I can’t say as I’ve ever experienced it.  I know of people around here who swear they can hear it all the time.

Sound is an odd deal…

I too have heard thing that others cannot.

But for the most part, they are one time noises.
The human mind is a strange thing. As well as the ears and mind.

Dogs hear the Dog Whistles, but we cannot, it’s the same deal

Technology is not perfect…

The ‘Taos Hum’ is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide, especially in the USA, UK, and northern europe. It is usually heard only in quiet environments, and is often described as sounding like a distant diesel engine. Since it has proven indetectable by microphones or VLF antennae, its source and nature is still a mystery.
In 1997 Congress directed scientists and observers from some of the most prestigious research institutes in the nation to look into a strange low frequency noise heard by residents in and around the small town of Taos, New Mexico. For years those who had heard the noise, often described by them as a “hum”, had been looking for answers. To this day no one knows the cause of the h

Well there are more cryptids like that…
Heard of the bloop?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop
suppposed to be bigger than a blue whale!!!

My theory would be simple harmonic resonance of the local water or gas lines.

We get a lovely harmonic resonance of the gas lines here in the hotel. It results in one of the rooms periodically getting a strange, ‘decentralized’ whining noise.

drpencil - 24 July 2008 11:03 AM

I have two TVs at my house, one old(about 10 yrs) and one new. whenever I turn the old one on, i always hear this high-pitched ringing, but no one else seems to hear it. I know it’s not just the TV because I went to a bar once and heard the same thing with theirs. They have an old house, so they probably have old things like boilers & wiring, and something bigger is making that noise.

Old tubes can get very loud if your ears are sensitive enough. Philips tv´s are even loud for me when new. Thank god for flatscreens. At the newspaper were I worked I could always pick out the monitors that would die by the screech they made.

Many years ago, and I know I’ve put this story in a very old thread here somewhere, I had a real problem because I could hear decibels that other people apparently can not hear.  It caused me MUCH pain in some stores I went in to shop.  One in particular was excruciating; the sound was VERY high and very loud and felt like hot lazers through my ears and head.  I’d even tried covering my ears but it didn’t help.  I could tell specific ‘hot spots’ and avoided them. 

One day, for whatever reason, the person I was with wanted to see something in that area. with the worst hotspot I tried to dodge down isles further from the area.  I was covering my ears and literally jogging down the isle telling my companion that the noise was too loud and I just needed to get further from it. 

Suddenly the store manager was chasing after me hooting ‘stop, please wait I want to ask you something!‘  I was not a criminal, just in pain so I stopped and turned when the manager asked, ‘tell me what you hear’.  I explained and he advised that when the alarm system had been put in they’d been told that on rare instances people may react to the hum but typically it was so far beyond human ability. 

I think that more people DO ‘hear’ but don’t identify that their discomfort IS coming from decibels; they may think it’s something vibrating through another part of their body.

You sued the store and the manager?