it's an unsolved mystery keeping this
neighborhood awake at night it sounds
like 50 trucks starting up when it when
it's very loud
what is it there are a lot of theories
spaceships from outer space to American
military installations
tonight the defenders on the case of the
mysterious Windsor home a persistent
noise sometimes compared to an idling
truck or the distant rumbling of thunder
is plaguing many who live across the
Detroit River the noise is known as the
Windsor hum mysteriously heard on the
Canadian side but very few if any
complaints on the Detroit side of the
river
look before defender Karen drew went to
track down the mysterious noise and see
what residents and even scientists are
doing about it
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it's a mystery that's been plaguing this
Canadian community for nearly seven
years
sounded like 15 trucks around our house
starting ups big transports that's
Debbie McDonald
she loves the home in the yard she has
in Windsor but she didn't expect the
noise we had just built the house a
couple weeks in we started feeling the
windows shake and you know couldn't
figure out what was going on MacDonald
isn't the only one complaining a
Facebook page dedicated to the Windsor
hum with more than 2,000 members all
posting when they hear that strange
noise the sound I was hearing was like a
low-frequency pulsing my god
almost like thunder white as a bug if
the constant steady buzzes or hum it
doesn't it never goes away that's Mike
Provost he not only runs the Facebook
page on the Windsor hum that's it but
records daily the sounds he hears from
his West Windsor backyard so you
basically made a makeshift laboratory in
your backyard
yeah Provost has three different
recording devices placed in different
locations we can triangulate it with the
third one to record noise numbers he
also makes daily logs from his backyard
on what he hears marks down the
temperature the wind speed other factors
going on that day it's partly cloudy so
you say the data from every single day
then inputs everything into his computer
every day every week every month he's
been doing this for years
and this is all the people and the times
they posted and keeps track of neighbors
comments said what the heck's going on
out there it is really really that he
says it sounds like a thousand jets
flying over
Provost let me listen to one of the
recordings because the weather
conditions it seems louder a cloud cover
I could faintly hear a buzz so all the
bad ground has been removed from that
but honestly could not decipher the
sound the hum is still there although it
certainly doesn't have the same
frequency that it that it did in its
heyday and it doesn't have the same
intensity professor : Novak should know
as a professor at the University of
Windsor he was assigned to study the hum
because it's a cross-border issue that's
when the federal government became
involved the professor and his team
started their study in 2013 with
sophisticated sound recording devices
operating 24/7 one morning we did get an
alert and we went and checked the data
and it was definitely the
characteristics of the home what does it
sound like feel like it would sound like
a big truck or even a train engine
parked outside of your house idling out
in the street so to have this low
frequency Rumble to the point where it
could even cause your windows to rattle
a little bit he shared his recordings
with me and you can just barely hear it
so where is this sound coming from other
people thought or wind turbines some of
the more realistic theories were it
could be from the Salt Mines
many including the professor point the
finger here to Zug Island where US Steel
has a plant we never did find that
smoking gun
but through extensive analysis of what
sources of noise are on the island the
one source that could potentially
produce this type of noise with this
much energy and at this frequency would
be the blast furnaces security is tight
around the island gates and barricades
don't allow the public on did you ever
ask go on the island there was a request
through the federal government for
cooperation and from what I've been told
is that we were told that no we would
not be permitted to to go within the
gates the defenders put a request into
US Steel for an interview about this
mysterious hum our request was denied
really and unless some researchers have
access to the site and can do a thorough
scientific investigation I think we're
all when we left wondering so the
mystery and the hum continued as a
scientist of course it intrigues me
we just want for me to admit and you can
bet Mike Provost will also continue his
daily logging 12:30 grumbling in the in
the roar of the unsolved noise
in Windsor Karen drew local Fleur
defenders interesting just might drive
you crazy you could see how especially
being told it's nothing right