Strange Sound Spooks Oregon Town

Forest Grove, Oregon has been experiencing weird noises,
and nobody knows where they're coming from. 

To me, there's almost nothing worse than hearing a strange sound in the middle of the night, or anytime for that matter, and can't figure out from where it's coming.  

It gets even spookier when nobody else can figure it out, too.

Which makes me glad I don't live in Forest Grove, Oregon, which is suburb of Portland.

It's a sharp, high pitched noise that's been heard in the town off and on for weeks now. When it goes off is random, and lasts anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes.

Gas lines in the area are buried underground, and it's not likely to be that. Plus the gas company has been looking for leaks since the noise started.

It sounds a bit like bad brakes on something like a logging truck struggling to slow down going down a hill, but there's no steep hills nearby. Or it could be a train, but the only tracks in the area are ones that are rarely used and dead end in downtown Forest Grove.

A random, note. I played a clip of the noise from this link to television station KATU in Portland, Oregon, and it drove oe of my dogs nuts. Jackson started barking like crazy. All other sounds this morning have elicit little notice from Jackson.

A sound engineer said high pitched noises like this one don't travel as far as low rumbling ones, so the source of the noise has to be relatively close to the people hearing it.

Audio expert Tobin Cooley told KATU that he doesn't know what the sound is.

"'It sounds like some sort of pressurized gas or air through a fitting or valve or something,' Cooley said. 'It's not steady state and you can't predict when it's going to happen. Those are all interesting sound features.'"

Unlike what a few people are saying, I really doubt this is a UFO or secret government plot.

But everyone would love to know what's going on.

This news report gives you another example of what the sound is like:

Why We Don't Have Upstairs Neighbors

This couple explain once and for all what's going
on upstairs with all that noise.  

I'm very happy to report I live in a single story house, owned by me and my husband, no tenants.

Especially no upstairs tenants.

I feel the pain of people who DO have people living upstairs. They make so much noise on the floors.

Ever wonder what they're doing up there?  This viral video, below, will clue you in.

I figure it was more than just normal daily routines.

Very funny:

Strange Sounds Around World Apocalypse? Hoax? Normal?

YouTube  has filled up recently with weird videos of loud, trumpet like sounds coming from the skies in various parts of the world, especially Canada.

Back country skiers in near Conklin Alberta, Canada
puzzle over loud, strange sounds in the sky in 2012.  

The latest comes from Terrace, British Colombia and was taken early in the morning of August 29.

Listen as you watch the video. More commentary (explanations? fear?) below the video





 Surely, some of the videos with these sounds are hoaxes.

And a  Terrace, British Columbia, official said in the video above, the sounds came from a city worker grinding a blade on a grader, but it does seem awfully loud for that.

Plus, how do you explain the almost identical sounds in places like Queens, New York, Tammela, Finland,  Allen, Texas ,  Conklin, Alberta, and a bunch of other places.    

I doubt all these places had city workers obnoxiously griding blades on a grader.

It's definitely true this could be a part of a big trend on YouTube, like planking or something. It would be pretty easy to dub these sounds into routine videos. But apparently, some of the videos aren't fake.

So what's going on? None of the explanations, like solar rays hitting the earth, make sense.

It does scare me to listen to these sounds, though the logical side of my brain (which is the one that is almost always right) says there must be a reasonable explanation for these loud, weird noises from the sky.  Maybe it's fracking?

It would comfort me to know what they are, though. Even if the noises are caused by something that isn't good for us.

I just hope I don't hear these sounds where I live. Then I'll really freak out. And Jackson the Cocker Spaniel will really go off the deep end.

Silence in the skies, please.