As thunderous tones deepen, their power seemingly intensifies over frail barriers such as glass windows. Certain abrupt thunder peals often shatter windows into tiny fragments. In the apparent absence of thunderous tones we may observe the strong and continuous vibration of glass window panes during storms. A sudden eerie silence, and the window is shattered before our eyes.

Natural phenomena are prodigious generators of infrasound. The potent distal effects produced when natural explosions occur produce legendary effects. When Krakatoa exploded, windows were shattered hundreds of miles away by the infrasonic wave. Wind was not the causative agent of these occurrences, as no wind was felt or detected. Seismographic stations registered the blast, and barometers measured the shockwaves. The “ringing” of both earth and atmosphere continued for hours. It is believed that infrasound actually formed the upper pitch of this natural volcanic explosion, tones unmeasurably deep forming the actual “central harmonic” of the event. The island of Krakatoa was literally lifted into orbit in the fatal blast. Brilliant sunsets followed for many years thereafter, the sad memorial of all the souls who perished.

The power of explosives, in shattering and devastating property, lies in two zones. The first zone is that with which we are principally familiar; the actual blast site, where chemically released gases and metal fragments push back everything in their perimeter. The second less familiar zone extends very much further from the blast site than can be imagined. It is in the powerful sonic wave which expands outward that an equally destructive danger lies. Thick pressure walls of incredible momentum, interspaced with equally thick walls of reduced air pressure, travel far away from the blast site. The blast site is the small destructive zone by comparison. Few objects can survive this destructive tide.

Analysts contend that infrasound is composed of a very broad band of pitches. These tones of immense pressure and duration “accommodate” themselves when encountering resonant cavities. All such resonant cavities are “found and destroyed” when the proper pressure waves flow into their resonances. Rooms, halls, alleys, spaces among buildings, courtyard areas, cellars, subways, sewer chambers; all these burst open into flying fragments when infrasonic waves flood them. Infrasound is the cruel tonal giant, tearing open whatever it finds in its path.

Study reveals that the sudden shock wave of an explosion propels a complex infrasonic signal far beyond the shattered perimeter. Incoherent though such shockwaves may be, their destructive influence dissolves distant walls and windows seconds after the shrapnel has done its deadly work. Objects of all shapes, sizes, and compositions explode when the infrasonic impulse passes through their space. No shield can block infrasound. Physicists have studied the refuse which remains after an explosive charge has been detonated. Few materials can maintain their integrity. Those objects which manage to survive explosions are noteworthy as infrasonic “resistors”. Screen reinforced concrete does not easily succumb to the infrasonic blasts of explosive charges.

EARTHQUAKE

The sound of Krakatoa exploding up into space, a vertical excess of one hundred miles, succeeded in blasting out windows at a thousand mile radius from the epicenter. Certain earthquake activities produce large and virtually insensate vertical displacements of the ground surface, in extreme instances amounting to a few feet per pulse. In this case, the ground becomes the surface of a drum, ringing out its deadly cadence at infrasonic pitch hours before the event. The ground undulates with infrasonic tones, an elasticity that eventually cracks under the heaving stress.

Ultralow pitch earthquake sounds are keenly felt by animals and sensitive humans. Quakes occur in distinct stages. Long before the final breaking release of built up earth tensions, there are numerous and succinct precursory shocks. Deep shocks produce strong infrasonic impulses up to the surface, the result of massive heaving ground strata. Certain animals (fish) actually can hear infrasonic precursors. Precursory shocks are silent, being inaudible in humans. Animals, however, react strongly to the sudden surface assault of infrasonic shocks by attempting escape from the area. Animals cannot locate the source and center of these infrasonic impulses, behaving in a pitiful display of circular frenzies. The careening motion of wild horses and other domestic animals indicates their fear and anxiety. Poor creatures, neither they nor we can escape the infrasonic source. Encounters with natural infrasound reveal their vast extent, covering hundreds of square miles of surface area.

Certain animals employ infrasound as weaponry. It has been known that certain whales are able to stun their prey with powerful blasts of inaudible sounds. Called “gunshots”, whales focus these powerful blasts at large squid and other fish to paralyze and catch them. In some instances, they have been known to burst their prey apart by tonal projection alone. Human experience with these inaudible blasts have been reported. The distress calls emitted by little beached whales was sufficient to push a veterinarian back several feet in the water. Others have experienced these pressure waves, reporting that their hands could not be brought close to the sinal area of small whales because of their inaudible acoustic projections.

Infrasonic shocks produce characteristic pressure effects on structures and organisms alike. The sensation flattens the body. It is as if one were struck with a solid invisible wall from which there is no escape. There are physiological effects as well. Anxiety, fear, extreme emotional distress, and mental incapacitation are all part of the unpleasant phenomenon. Notable among human exposures to quake-correlated infrasound is the precursory nausea which many report. This strong sensation leaves its more sensitive victims helpless. Feeling the momentary deep motion of the ground strata beneath them, numerous individuals have been used to report these sensations in a bizarre earthquake “alarm system”. Unfortunately, physiological reaction to infrasound remains continuous, long after their irritating presence has ceased. The harmfully stimulating influence of infrasound renders physiology permeable and ultrasensitive to every available environmental sensation. The extreme irritability of infrasound victims has been noted.

Earthquake infrasound manifests only at intermittent intervals, producing drastic and sustained negative modifications of consciousness. The human organism continues to reel under intermittent infrasonic assault for numerous reasons. After less than a five minute exposure to low intensity infrasound of 10 cycles per second, dizziness will last for hours. Infrasound of 12 cycles per second produces severe and long lasting nausea after a brief low intensity exposure.

FLOOD

Surf pounds the shore, producing shocks of 16 cycles per second, just short of the true infrasound range. Ocean waves which pound the atmosphere across huge ocean areas produce an acoustic energy with a mean pitch of 16 cycles per second. The phenomenon of the “barisal guns, fog guns, lake guns” form a well documented bibliography of anomalous acoustic phenomena. These “booming” anomalous tonal phenomena are not isolated to one area or nation. Every nation has accounts of these sea-related mystery sounds. Some regions call them “bay detonations”, since they come as abruptly explosive intonations from certain bay areas.

Some of these tones manifest their shocking tones at haphazard intervals. But there are those water-related booms which are periodic, residents near these sites being accustomed to their mysterious occurrence. The strange “explosive” sounds come at certain times of the day, at certain times of the month, and at certain times of the year. There are certain other related anomalous natural tones which ring, hoot, and buzz. Some have been likened to organ tones, tuba blasts, and the deep intonings of very large bells. Bay sizes, wave sizes, and geologic compositions of bays and shores have been woven into complex mechanistic attempts at explaining how these mystery sounds are being generated in certain environments.

The detonation may be caused by a sudden “slapping” of bay water by a singular wave having the “right” breadth and momentum, matching the natural resonant pitch of a bay. The underlying bay rock matrix may resound in the manner of a bell, gong, or cymbal. The geological composition of the bay plays the greater part of the effect, sudden winds or water surges knocking the natural “sounding board”. These natural bay tones have great infrasonic content.

The infrasonic outputs of the mystery tones are significant. Each of these phenomena produce a range of very low pitch tones. These booming sounds have rattled windows and rocked some small towns. Animals are startled by their inaudible precursors, and humans are often dizzied after their manifestation for hours. In several areas, people are hospitalized by the “boom” related illnesses.

Waterfalls are notorious generators of infrasound. Numerous susceptible visitors at Niagara experience a peculiar nausea which is not associated with the normal fear of heights. Thundering cataracts produce strong infrasonic shocks to which mile exposure stimulates the common malady. Lake ice and glacial ice produce deep booming sounds which ring for hours, behaving as large tympanic surfaces. The thunderous sounds associated with these occurrences produces infrasound of pitch related to ice surface mass, breadth, and length alone. Antarctic research experienced nausea in relation to ice related sounds.

Tidal waves and other sudden variations of water surfaces produce large magnitude “seiche” waves. These have been sighted by ocean going ships, where oceanic surfaces have drastically changed elevation in an incredibly short time. Ships “drop” into such huge ocean troughs and rise again after the wave passes. In dropping, some have crashed to the very rock bottom of their bays, only to be lifted in pieces when the wave resurged. Film footage of the great and horrid Alaskan Earthquake (1964) reveals this devastating sea “drop-out”.

Upon such lethal seiche tides, even in the fortunate absence of earthquakes, comes nausea and other coastal related illnesses. Large intensity infrasonic sea shocks have their powerful effect on the overlying atmosphere of their regions. These infrasonic shockwaves travel for long distances. Certain bays are known for the high incidence of such illnesses, the result of resonant baywater “heavings” which occur daily. Their sickening effects are seemingly “stored up” in physiology, lasting for hours. While these phenomena proceed from deep in the heart of earth, and on its surface, there are phenomena which generate infrasonic sources…from space.

FIRE

Aerial earthquake sounds have been reported by observers. Such rushing, thrumming sounds seem to come from “everywhere” above the affected locale. Typical of infrasound, the sources cannot be accurately located.

When Krakatoa exploded, barometers fluctuated rapidly in short time intervals. It was recognized that a new means for detecting earthquakes and other earth movements had been found. The horrifying destruction of Krakatoa prompted the emergence of a new science. The rapid development of sensitive barometric instruments provoked the discovery of a whole new “infrasonic world”.

The opposing nations of the Cold War years used barometers and seismographs in determining the relative explosive yield of periodic underground atomic blasts. Sensitive barometric detection gradually began searching the atmosphere and earth for infrasonic “events”. Mysterious and sudden barometric variations indicates that natural infrasonic generation has a much wider source than the subterranean earth. Infrasounds associated with the Aurora Borealis are too numerous to mention, a well chronicled occurrence.

The aurora borealis is heard to “swish, crackle, sizzle, and…thunder”. Quantitative analysts “cannot understand” how these sounds can be “heard” but not recorded. It is obvious that certain auroral sounds stimulate physiological responses which will never register in biologically unmodified electronic systems. Though debates continue when referring to higher auroral tones, the “thunder” of the aurora stimulates aerial infrasounds which can be measured.

Low level auroras have been actually seen and felt. The sounds and odors associated with this rare phenomenon are unmistakable. In one instance a chemist was fortunate enough to have lived, after witnessing the effect of auroral grounding throughout his laboratory. The incredible luminescence produced in several platinocyanides, electro-phosphorescent chemicals, were duly noted and reported. Another such incident involved the grounding of the aurora into an elevated radio tower. The radio engineer suddenly heard a crackling sound “from everywhere”, was unable to transmit any signal power, felt completely electrified, smelled ozone everywhere, and heard the “crackling” sound. Numerous witnesses who saw the event, describing the colored column of light which suffused the tower, feared he might have been killed by its power.

The auroral high pitched sizzling sounds are augmented by deep and ominous thrumming. These deep tones sweep through the bodies of listeners who are fortunate enough to survive the dangerous encounter. These permeations produce an irritability and a dizzying nausea. These sounds were always equated with evil by the Eskimo. Their legends of the aurora are always fear-filled. The trademark of anxiety and dread highly characteristic of infrasonic influence, their tales also recount the “taking” of souls by the “ground walking” aurora. English observers reported that the aurora actually “swept along the ground” like a column descending from the sky. It took a multicolored appearance all along its meandering path.

Blasting through interplanetary space, solar flares assault the earth with a barrage of stupendous proportion. Their disturbing effect on electrical systems is historically noted. The appearance of electrical power surges during solar flare events has amounted to many hundreds or even thousands of amperes line-induced current. Northern lands design their power systems to accommodate these periodic manifestations of great power. Oil lines in northern lands must be carefully grounded and insulated to prevent the continuous induction of such harmful electrical surges. Standing arcs of brilliant blue current had been observed upon the surface of loose pipe joints during solar flares and strong auroral episodes.

Few writers have discussed the intermittent effects of solar flares on atmospheric pressure. The sudden changes noted in air pressure, which cover many thousands of square miles, are obviously sourced in the solar wind. The effect of this natural atmospheric assault has defined and disturbing influence on both the weather and human behavioral patterns. Some 139 solar flares were recorded between 1980 and 1983. There is a statistical 155 day periodicity in solar flares, a rhythm often violated by several interstitial flares. Principally used for predicting their expectable effect on radio communications, specific military observers monitor solar flares with continued concern. Correlations of flares with jet stream behavior is strong.

Jet stream behavior, in its meanderings and undulations across vast geographic regions, is not mysterious when considering the intermittent effect of solar flares and the normal “background” bursting of the solar wind. Travelling at thousands of miles per hour, flare pressures aperiodically barrage the neutral atmosphere. The explosive influence of vast power shocks the entire weather system, electrically active flare disturbances violently disrupting all atmospheric processes. The very obvious outlines of flare contacts with the atmosphere can be traced as major pressure changes on weather maps. Solar flare impacts strike the earth like a bell. Auroras result, and have been correlated with thunderstorm activities.

But continual minor background disruptions also exist, propelled by the sun. In its normal process, solar expulsions do not arrive at the atmospheric boundaries as a homogeneous pressure wave. The arrival of solar products comes as a pressure wave of inconsistent density. This intermittent barrage induces harmonic atmospheric disturbances which continually modify and chaoticize emerging weather patterns. The effect is exactly like “thrumming” an evenly sanded drumhead with innumerable impacts. This imprint of “background” pressure waves, rattling daily upon the atmosphere from solar winds, can be seen as “Chladni” patterns on weather maps.

Both solar flares and the normal thrummings of the solar wind generate infrasonic pulses throughout the atmosphere. The infrasonic shockwaves of the aurora are normally not heard, but definitely sensed. Measurements have registered a continual infrasonic background noise level. This pressure energy emanates “from above” atmospheric strata, radiating downward in large patterns. Atmospheric infrasound is most strongly measured during daytime hours, a clear indication of their source in the intermittent expulsions of solar wind. Atmospheric infrasounds arrive at measuring stations with pitch between .67 and 1.5 cycles per second. Their pitch continuously oscillates between .67 and .83 cycles per second. These solar sourced infrasonic impacts very definitely correlate with sudden swings in human behavior, having very obvious sociological implications. The energetic content of atmospheric infrasound represents a vast and untapped potential.

WIND

Infrasound moves, unaffected, through and across both winds and storms. But wind and storm can generate infrasound. The powerful harmonic rotations of storms shears the atmosphere, radiating a cyclonic series of expanding infrasounds. The sense of impending fear which proceeds hurricanes is due to infrasonic emissions. The infrasound of seasonal winds and weather patterns produces illness in certain persons. Some individuals can hear the jetstream and its thunderous pitch, peaking between 30 and 40 cycles per second. More and more populations are reporting the persistence of ultralow pitch sounds which render them weak and fatigued. Having often unexplained sources, we find the bibliography flooded with cases of persistent “atmospheric…and underground sounds”.

Victims of such infrasonic assaults report severe stomach upsets associated with such infrasounds. Persons who report these persistent “underground” rumbles often live in a very localized region. These loci have been as small as six miles in diameter. Wind shear action between the rapid jet stream (.75 miles per second) and more quiescent lower air strata might continuously generate this persistent infrasound. Natural infrasonic generation is difficult to determine in all cases where it has been detected. Clashing winds may produce such sustained low pitches by misunderstood “shearing” actions, similar to Von Karrman vortices.

Wind shearing may be modified by local topology. Mountain ranges of specific geometry may offer the most plausible explanation for infrasound in certain areas. Their obstructive presence among regionally prevailing winds may produced sustained aerial vortices from which infrasounds continuously radiate.

Why however does the infrasound focus on certain ground points? Some theorists claim that wind enters caverns, producing an immense artificial whistle of infrasonic resonant pitch. Careful examinations of these caverns reveals infrasonic pitch of 20 to 30 cycles per second which does not “regisister” on tape recordings. Some have suggested that these infrasounds are only sensed in physiology, being “electrostatic” in nature. They also claim that the incidence of ground-focussing infrasound is an electrical manifestation, the result of emerging terrestrial charges in highly localized regions.

How does sustained infrasound affect manmade structures? Gusting wind has often applied such instantaneous pressure to manmade artifice that strong rock walls fall flat in tiny pieces. These sudden events often occur when winds seemingly ceased for an instance. During that brief interval, windows are often blown through, and walls are toppled by infrasonic impulse.

What is the sustained influence of infrasound on humans and human behavior? Mysterious desert humming sounds fill the night of nomads with superstitious dread. Deep, buzzing, and threatening, these continuous humming tones have produced anxiety and fear among bedouins for centuries. The “ghost wails” appear in the mythology and folktales of the desert people.

But these deep and virtually inaudible humming tones are not confined to the desert plains, where they thrash among themselves across sandy dunes. The Mistral, the northward winds of the African continent, sweeps over the southern Mediterranean coastlands during late fall. These familiar hot winds emerge from their desert journeys with a strange power, lasting throughout the winter. These winds leave an indelible trace among exposed communities, a phenomenon which has been misunderstood for centuries.

The Mistral, weak in infrasonic intensity, does not wreak havoc with material structures. But the Mistral works its permeating harm nonetheless. For the inhabitants of certain coastal areas, the low intensity infrasound of the Mistral brings with it a peculiar seasonal anxiety and depression. In certain locations across the Mediterranean coastland there are individuals who suffer from “seasonal nervous exhaustion” and other “neurophysical maladies”. It is known that whenever the Mistral blows, there will be increased emotional tension, depression, and irritability. The Mistral, in numerous cases, has produced fatalities.

Infrasound travels long distances, often exceeding one thousand miles, with virtually no attenuation. Its pressures thus arrive at great distances with the same force and intensity as when generated. A deadly pressure. The atmosphere sustains prolonged and powerful infrasonic vibrations. How natural conditions can systematically modify human behavior for protracted seasonal periods is frightening. How natural conditions can systematically modify large-scale social behavior for protracted seasonal periods is equally frightening. Not much acoustic power is required for infrasound to produce such extreme and sustained physiological symptoms.

Fohn winds are dry and warm southerly winds which traverse the Alpine regions of Europe. Fohn weather is characterized by clear skies, high visibility, and dry atmosphere. Studies of “Fohn weather” and the Mistral alike have revealed some intriguing and frightening statistical correlations. The biological effects of both Mistral and Fohn weather have been well documented. These include extreme irritability, accident-prone loss of objective judgement, slight disorientation, mild nausea, and diarrhea.

It is an established fact that sustained low intensity infrasound alters human behavior and health. Higher accident rates are correlated with pre-Fohn weather onset. This high accident rate rises until the establishment of Fohn weather, having been attributed to the infrasonic content of the winds.

ENGINES

Vibrating manmade structures stimulate the artificial generation of dangerous infrasound. When turns are made at 60 miles per hour, car chassis vibrations produce a peak infrasonic emission. Travel sickness can be associated with prolonged infrasonic exposure to any vibrating chassis. Cars, buses, trains, motorcycles, and jets alike each register hazardous intensities of infrasound. Each transportation mode has its characteristic infrasonic pitch, the necessary outcome of mechanical frictions and inertial resistances.

There is difficulty in recording and reproducing ultradeep tones for study and analysis. They have to be generated on site for experimental purposes. Theater-sized sound systems can never completely transmit all of the sensations associated with naturally occurring infrasound. But there have been instances where audiences have become frighteningly ill because of the accidental generation of infrasound in a theater space.

Of critical importance is the comprehension of human tolerances to infrasound. Military medical teams have long studied the effect of machine vibration on human judgement and behavior out of necessity. If jet pilots and rocket pilots alike evidence even minor errors in judgement through their exposure to infrasound, disaster can result. Certain critical errors in judgement and accuracy have in fact been noted during short flight times.

The powerful infrasonic vibrations of jet chassis absolutely saturate the bodies of pilots. Continually saturated with these infrasonic energies throughout their flight time, pilot reflexes are severely diminished. Military procedure recognizes this factor, and routinely limits flight time. It is known that excess infrasonic exposures endanger pilots and their flight missions. Pilot damaging effects include decrements in vision, speech, intelligence, orientation, equilibrium, ability to accurately discern situations, and make reasonable decisions.

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The following essay offers a new perspective on phenomena which have captivated national interest for several years now. This perspective is the result of a continual observation of the phenomenon, with a concomitant effort directed toward elimination of many of the associated local neuralgia effects. The article is not intended to represent a completed experimental project by any means, but is merely an introduction to the topic area from a more definitive vantage. It is hoped that a renewed experimental research may determine the exact details of the HUM phenomenon along these more clarified avenues of thought. It is noteworthy that, in every aspect, such phenomena mirror those which compelled Baron Karl von Reichenbach into his legendary researches. The fruits of such study contain equally prodigious and monumental discoveries, an encouragement for those who will seek and find.

A great host of individuals throughout North America and Northern Europe have reported the reception of nocturnal auditory disturbances, collectively termed “the HUM”. No modern text offers explanation for the national mystery. It is for this reason that we will collate some of the subjectively discerned phenomena, empirically observed effects whose nature offers us the clearest direction toward understanding the HUM source. The HUM is heard by an increasing population of persons who are awakened nightly by its annoying and sometimes painful performance. So panregional have these reports been, and so credible the observers of the phenomenon, that one is compelled to affirm the existence of the effect. While the objective data received through reliable reporters may realistically be questioned in moments of scientific doubt, one is convinced of its reality after encountering the experience firsthand.

The HUM represents several simultaneous anomalies for those well versed in the lore of natural anomalies, an audio phenomenon which challenges the very basic notions of sense, perception, and world process. On the validity of personal experience and experimental verifications of a precursory development, I have therefore decided to make several statements concerning the HUM phenomenon and its associated effects. Indeed, I have also chosen to elucidate somewhat on the HUM to provoke dialogue between the mechanists and the biodynamicists.

NOCTURNES

There are an increasing number of individuals who experience nocturnal disturbances, the regular occurrence of which is sufficiently powerful to remove them from deepest sleep. This growing population of nocturnal risers neither suffer from the physical symptoms normally associated with the aging process, nor are among those unfortunates afflicted with clinical insomnia. In many cases, the victims of the malady are quite young and otherwise in complete positive health. So insidious is this social manifestation, that many are stimulated into fantastic speculations. Nevertheless, we perceive an ever increasing population of new HUM victims whose numbers grow daily.

Conspiratist writers have associated the HUM with military projects such as SANGUINE, or HAARP; concluding the insomnia to be a test of psychotronic weaponry on the national population. Such symbols of the subconscious national fear might have too long worked their way into the hearts of the susceptible, were it not for the simplest kind of evidence concerning the HUM. Curiosity and the need to know far exceed any orthodox standards, filters, or approvals. The absence of extensive measuring tools does not preclude us from making our assessments on an overwhelming phenomenon which academia continues to ignore and deny. Gleaned from the few writings and from numerous dialogues with qualified observers, we are free to share our own subjective consortium of data on the HUM.

But what is the “HUM”, and what are its effects? What causes the HUM, and why has it seemed so very impossible a phenomenon to objectify? Are there means by which to obtain hard evidence of the effect at all? Can we indeed discover those connective touchpoints between our subjective experience of the HUM and its true sources in the external world? Is there a measurable continuum between our innermost experience and the outermost world? These are hard and straightforward questions demanding equally hard answers. The HUM effect is indeed a “phenomenon-extraordinaire”. The HUM is a subjective experience, a deep and permeating tone which comes in pulsations. But it finds connectivity in an external stimulus, one which has not successfully been found by most researchers.

On certain nights, the disturbance reaches peak crescendi. These are interspersed by quiescent moments, when the roaring vibrations seem to relax and vanish for a time. Soon the phenomenon reasserts itself, and the “roar” once again reaches its previous powerful volume levels. The HUM is evidence of a regional phenomenon, a geomantic effect. The HUM phenomenon has slowly gained recognition among a substantial population of well equipped researchers, many of whom cite government ELF projects as the probable cause. HUM effects have been viewed as “leakage” phenomena, the results of local geological ELF conduction. Emerging from its otherwise subterranean conduction strata, researchers have believed the effects wholly due to NRL SANGUINE broadcasts. Local HUM experiences begin as very occasional manifestations, manageable and non-incursive.

To satisfy the skeptical dictates of the orthodoxy many have eagerly sought the supposed local acoustic noise source, imagining refrigerator motors to be this probable cause. On hearing the loudest HUM manifestations, not a few researchers are surprised to find their household refrigerators have usually ceased functioning for the night. Despite this complete absence of a close physical acoustic source the HUM is not prevented from suffusing an entire house. One may move from room to room when the HUM manifests its presence, discovering that the humming sound finds its greatest resonant magnifications on lower floors.

Rooms each mysteriously modify the main throbbing sound, adding discernible harmonics to the main HUM tone. This is especially noted when HUM events overwhelm our sense of hearing. Moving from an outer wall into each interior room of a building, one hears distinct HUM pitch changes. Hallways and small alcoves raise the pitch considerably enough for astute observers to take notice. In addition, HUM volumes change considerably with progressive movement away from outer walls, evidencing both the directionality of the local HUM source and the effect of blocking. Because of these observations, first HUM analysts imagined the phenomenon to represent a purely acoustic effect. It was in these first “acoustic” considerations, and the subsequent empirical discoveries, that the HUM was realized as a completely anomalous phenomenon.

The HUM throbs asymmetrically in time, a volume which “flutters”. One may explore the effect throughout the early morning hours of its usual activity, each such emergence offering fresh opportunity for study. One grows familiar enough to know when the HUM has mounted a sufficient power to rouse normally insensitive persons from sleep. The comments of others concerning their own nightly disturbances is sufficient corroborative evidence that the HUM has actually made itself regionally known. One is not greatly surprised to find that many neighborhood friends and acquaintances, while exhibiting some degree of discomfort in sleep, are often not roused by the less powerful HUM incidents. Individuals who suffer from this habitual awakening apparently experience the HUM in various degrees.

There are those who demonstrate varying degrees of awareness concerning their insomnia. Some have claimed that the HUM is more strongly felt by the more sensitive kind of individual only during their sleep periods, and that insensitives are not bothered by the disturbance at all. Nevertheless, normal sleep for some is absolutely broken by the HUM. The simple and mild audio-related awakenings gradually become an habitual condition, and some unfortunate persons have found themselves now rising nightly in a chronic insomnia which rules their sleep patterns. But this is not where the effects have ceased their incursive influence on the lives of those exposed to HUM events. In fact, some who experience HUM-related insomnia have begun observing a sudden shift, both in the frequency of their HUM observations and in new accompanying effects.

There are certain persons whose simple audio HUM experiences have recently been accompanied by a range of strange physical irritations. At first mildly stinging, the irritations gradually become an ever increasing flow of neuralgia which floods the musculature of arms and legs. For these persons, this peculiar neuralgia now accompanies every manifestation of the audio HUM. With effects which persistently linger throughout the daylight hours, certain such persons have actually fallen victim to a strange condition which leaves them fatigued and debilitated with every morning. Both the symptoms and conditions have remained unrecognized by physicians for reasons having entirely to do with insensitivity, ignorance, and willful denial. These irritations then represent a relatively new feature of the HUM, one which challenges analysts and skeptics alike.

It has been reported that extreme HUM events stimulate unusual personal responses. During such episodes, the neuralgia provokes survivalistic tendencies of a kind approaching those induced by asthmatic attacks. As neuralgic pain increases, personal movement becomes more conservative, efficient, and comfort-oriented. HUM neuralgia effectively stimulates deep seated survival instincts which, in its most powerful manifestations, become autonomic responses. These responses are of a depth which completely eliminate all degrees of personal freedom. This irritation literally induces the “feral” or “fetal” response, a sure sign that penetrating irritation has reached the central nervous system. A furtive sleep seems to follow these initial survivalistic arousals and maneuvers. The unfortunate individual who now suffers in times of extreme HUM disturbances, seems controlled by very fundamental and autonomic response-reflexes when in its grips. Such sufferers may behave in semiconscious modes, modelling behavioral patterns seen only in animals.

In the sometimes painful episodes brought about by the HUM, the self-survival drive becomes a tool for the most revealing kinds of studies. In the throes of HUM related neuralgia, hypersensitive individuals will seek the lowest portion of a house. In fact, they will seek relocation in the very basement of a dwelling if possible: the deepest connection to ground. In extreme HUM events, hypersensitive individuals “curl up and sit tight”. In these fetal reversions, the human body innately recognizes the HUM as a hazardous and unfamiliar agent. The response is one having utmost significance for HUM researchers. In this severe and permeating “feral” response, it is clear that the HUM represents an external unfamiliar irritant. In this semi-catatonic posture, it becomes rather obvious that our normal repertoire of survivalistic reflexes does not include an appropriate autonomic response. The HUM triggers no protective neurological reflexes…because it is completely unfamiliar to the human condition. The HUM is very clearly a recent manifestation in the natural environment.

AUDIO

The HUM can be deafening for those who have grown particularly sensitive to its manifestations. Such subjectively excessive HUM experiences stand in stark contrast against the hard fact that the HUM cannot be recorded by any ordinary means. It is precisely this incongruence which represents the major impasse for anomaly researchers. Indeed, there is an inference in these considerations which places doubt on the reality of nocturnal HUM disturbances and their associated effects. The inference however does not in any way reduce the growing numbers, who both sense and suffer from the HUM.

The elusive and frustrating HUM had first prompted many to begin testing the reality of their experience through conventional audio techniques. Waiting for each peak nocturnal HUM manifestation, researchers attempt its capture on magnetic tape. Previous to this decade, the infrasonic detectors of Vladimir Gavreau very successfully sought and discovered numerous unsuspected natural and synthetic infrasounds. Adapting special PZM type microphones to magnetic recording technology, contemporary researchers fully expected to capture high volume HUM tones with their equipment. Mounted on large surface areas, these microphones should have absorbed sufficient sonic energy during HUM episodes to render powerful audio registrations of the same. In controlled settings, where PZM equipment was designed to select infrasonic signatures, professional investigators remained utterly unable to trap the HUM. Neither PZM or any other microphone, however sensitive, was able to sense and record the HUM. It was this inability which yet forms the basis of a real scientific mystery, one which places the HUM in its recent controversial poise.

The inability of recording the HUM has, for serious HUM researchers, attracted the derisive public commentary of several academic authorities. Not only can investigators not locate the source of HUM audio signals, but researchers have been unsuccessful in explaining how high population observations and corroborations of HUM phenomena resist audio registration. Examiners of the great natural variety of infrasonic generators yet actively explore and monitor their prospects with greatest enthusiasm and care. Self-funded, but sparing no expense for their labors, several research teams have independently taken their state-of-art recording equipment down into the deeper parts of the earth. Hiking for miles into subterranean caverns, their search of real infrasonic resonant cavities has produced no conclusive result. Too many neophytes, convinced that they will be the ones to secure hard recorded evidence, are completely dismayed after repeated failed efforts in these regards.

While some groups have reported an increase in subjective HUM experience with increasing depth below surface level, they have rarely been able to record or correlate any associated audio HUM. By attaching sensitive transducers directly to subterranean cavern walls, the weak physical vibration of geological bedrock has registered weak signals for some. But these studies have produced no real correlations between subterranean infrasounds and the HUM proper, certainly no equivalent pulsating ELF audio signals. Additionally, neither pounding surflines, waterfalls, howling caverns, nor valley windtunnels have managed to procure correlations between their infrasonic outputs and the HUM.

Thus far, hard recorded evidence of the HUM phenomenon does not exist. But in the absence of audio recorded evidences, one must resort to alternative detection techniques. Methods used in a former series of investigations have described ground conduction apparatus and ground antenna technology (Theroux, Vassilatos). And it is here that we do find evidence of an electrical component in the HUM phenomenon. What place this electrical component plays, whether source or by-product, will be discussed further along in our study. There are several means by which we may register audio signals which correlate strongly, if not identically, with regional HUM activity.

It is perhaps a special trait of shortwave receivers, those which have been equipped with ground antennas, that a host of different static signals may be found throughout the day. These variable static signals are always observed through the implementation of ground antennas. Shortwave correlations of the HUM have been determined along several wave bands, the excessive noise found in the 2 to 4 megacycle band being most impossibly distorted for use. For trained ears, these static signals represent the articulate variability characteristic only among biological processes. One discerns these biological warbling signals when working with plants and Galvanic Skin Response audio sensors. The warbling tones of plants teach the astute observer to recognize the characteristic biological signature in any signal. The static variables to which we refer are unmistakably biological in character. These naturally generated signals are found across a wide range of frequency bands, finding their correlation among several simultaneous settings. And it is among these signals that we learn an amazing fact. Most of these natural static signals have an overwhelming volume and do not reveal any of the variable “warbling” artifacts common to the audio experienced HUM effect.

The most useful shortwave static signals are extremely discrete in bandwidth, but do not commence manifesting their warbling variables until certain hours of the day. Indeed, these static warblings commence and correspond exactly with HUM events. These signals evidence a volume variability of great detail which may be examined throughout each of their more active periods, a simple and accessible means by which to monitor and verify the reality of the HUM.

Between the hours of 9 AM and 9 PM, one does not generally discover the pulsating portion of the static signal, although there have been exceptions to this rule. The warbling commences as soon as subjective experience of the HUM commences. They also cease to a featureless static background when the HUM ceases. Such discrete static signal stations are featureless and relatively flat throughout most hours of the day, but the variable pulsations begin appearing after 9 PM. These build in crescendo until the peak nocturnal HUM effect naturally occurs between 2:30 AM and 3:30 AM. There are thus six hours, both leading to and following the 3 AM median, in which the warbling HUM signal actually makes its appearance in an otherwise natural featureless static.

The variable pulsations make their daily appearance, neither with clock regularity nor with equal intensity. One observes exact correlations between the experiential audio HUM and the shortwave warbles. These shortwave correlations match both in pulse number, tone, and intermittent surges. Such static is normally taken by listeners to be simple natural noise effects, the results of natural charge building phenomena. But the variability of these specific static signals, especially those whose effects seem most powerfully able to modify emotion, which represent far more than the mechanistic earth process of charge development. It is in the warbling variability, the articulate detail inherent in these specific static signals, that we find evidence of biodynamic process.

Indeed, were the subjective HUM effects simple audio stimulations, the irritating pressure would not be so very permeating and painful. Infrasound does not prefer windows to walls, effortlessly passing through whole structures and finding resonant cavities within the interiors of buildings. The HUM diminishes with progressive movements deep into building interiors. Were the HUM the result of an infrasonic audio power source, it could obviously then never permeate physiology enough to stimulate neural aggravations. But the “feral” self-survival response infers an energetic aspect which far exceeds those force normally considered in closed orthodox circles.

PHYSIOPHONIC ENTRAINMENT

Every model which presupposes the development of mechanical vibration through electrical stimulation completely fails. The necessary ground surface effects of such propositions are absent, further contradicted by the empirical observations. The actual subjective experience of the HUM is very different from all attempts at elucidating its objective existence. It is experience, subjective evaluation, which has produced the most amazing assortment of HUM related discoveries.

First, the tonal characteristic of the HUM itself contradicts all of the conventional suppositions concerning extra low frequency currents. The HUM arrives as an audible tone which pulsates at a countable rate. In other words, the fundamental HUM tone itself is not a superlow audible pitch. People hear the HUM. It is within the range of human hearing, and cannot be the product of ELF generators. This contradiction adds weight to the argument that HUM phenomena cannot possibly be the result of deliberate ELF experiments or industrial electric by-products. There are some who seek explanation of the effect as an upper harmonic of a more fundamental ELF signature. If so, where is that signature? None have been measured.

One seems never able to escape the nocturnal phenomenon, however poised or positioned. When it is heard, the HUM seems to permeate and suffuse every part of a building. The HUM seems to pressure into a house from all walls, yet evidences a defined directionality along a local compass heading. While walls do produce some of the HUM tone within a building, windows especially emanate HUM effects with greatest power. The HUM is both heard and felt from windows as a pressured tone. Facing the window of greatest HUM penetration, this strange pressure literally envelopes the body. For this reason many supposed the HUM to be an infrasonic emanation. One may indeed block a great deal of HUM volume by interposing a pillow between oneself and the window of maximum HUM emanation. On doing this with care, one notices a defined and sudden muscular relaxation. Along with this comes a great diminution of HUM volume. But this does not infer that the HUM is an acoustic phenomenon, as recording failures have demonstrated. By what principle is the HUM making its appearance through windows, and by what principle is it possible to block HUM power through organic absorbers?

One especially hears the HUM in the relaxation of sleep. In the silence of night the sense of audition is able to better isolate specific audible stimuli in the surroundings. The HUM, however, seems to build its presence into an overwhelming suffusion. The loud and suffusive HUM tone, heard with fully opened and unencumbered ears, is an effect responsible for the illusory acoustic nature of the HUM. In this we recognize a characteristic of the ear drum and its ancillary sensitive structures. In addition, observers have noted that the HUM acquires an enriched harmonic “ring” when the ears are fully opened. These observations do not infer the acoustic nature of the HUM, referring us instead to learn an unsuspected nature of auditory sensation and the auditory apparatus in human physiology.

Opened-ear audition of the HUM acquires harmonic ringing, and often reaches some peak volume, because of forced vibrations. The sense of hearing is overcome by the stimulating energy inherent in the HUM. Auditory physiology is literally driven into a peak resonant condition by the incoming HUM, a phenomenon which demonstrates auto-amplification effects. HUM induction thus actually drives the ear drum and cochlear neurology into a maximum vibrant state, one which often rouses sleepers from the deepest phases of sleep. With the ears fairly suffused with the overwhelming HUM sound, one may perform several simple personal experiments which will clarify the true nature of HUM signals and open a new world of wonder. First, carefully note the nature of the HUM. When you chance to notice its permeating presence, familiarize yourself with its more obvious audible characteristics. The HUM is indeed a “humming” tone. The HUM has a rapid rhythmic aspect, a toning pulsation. In addition to the overall tone and its pulse rhythm, one hears a characteristic aperiodic “fading”.

When these personal HUM tests are properly practiced, we may easily count off the rapidly pulsing tones, noting their familiar “asymmetric fades”: the sound which has been described as the “distant idling diesel engine”. To count the pulses, one first matches their rhythm on fingers. Match the rhythm which you hear. Once you have ascertained the relative correctness of your match, then count off the pulses against a sweep hand dial. Thrumming the rhythm of the counted pulsations against a sweep hand is a simple but remarkably effective means for discovering the slow pulsing action characteristic of the HUM phenomenon. One may thus count a steady pulse sequence, finding each HUM event to differ slightly between 6, 7, or 8 vibrations per second. In addition to this overall humming pulsation, a variable “volume envelope” is noted. The humming pulse is one whose strength rises and falls asymmetrically in time. It is this latter feature which some have described as the “idling” hum.

Contrast differences are indeed absent when the test is properly done, care being taken not to distract the HUM focussed attention. Hands must be moved in as much silence as possible. Some analysts object to the need for HUM audio focussing. These critics claim this to be evidence that the HUM is a fictitious sound, the result of mild mass hysteria and self-deception. But since there do exist several proofs that the HUM is an objective reality, we can safely conduct these personal experiments with confidence. During a HUM event, one may sample the differences in HUM amplitude by very gently holding hands over the ears. Most who stop their ears during HUM events actually lose their own audition of the HUM tone through their own rough handling of the test.

One must maintain awareness of the HUM while carefully and silently bringing the hands to each side of the head. One must maintain this awareness throughout the subjective tests, a condition required in such subjective comparisons. Why it is absolutely essential to maintain “HUM awareness” is a revealing phenomenon. First, it is important to recognize the differences in personal sensitives across the general population. The HUM is not heard by many people who lack the ability to focus in on environmental stimuli. The HUM is “personally elusive” only because of this demographic artifact. The HUM is an external and objective reality, having both source directionality and peak time manifestation. When properly conducted, the HUM audio continues being heard with absolutely no amplitude changes. With attention focussed only on the HUM audio, one carefully brings the hands ever close to the ear canals. In this carefully executed personal test, one will indeed continue hearing the HUM even with hands touching. There will be no amplitude change. The only instance in which amplitudes change during the experiment is when we have roughly handled our senses, or created rude distracting noises which overcome our awareness of the HUM.

The HUM tone does not fade when the ears are softly closed. HUM audio is continually heard “within the ears”. Thus even with the physical contact closing of the auditory canals, we learn something more about the HUM. Closed ear HUM audition is indeed a clue which leads to our thesis concerning its true nature and source. This remarkable discovery too serves as proof that the HUM is more than an acoustic phenomenon, an anomalous induction which permeates thin single-layer materials and hands. Michael Theroux reported his experiments with the HUM, experiments in which he demonstrated masking effects of the same. Using cloth curtains, it was found possible to block out some of the window penetrating HUM inductions. He also managed to mute the HUM by placing dampening material in window casings. Each of these experiments reveals a strange blend of HUM characteristics, which deserve complete exposition and satisfactory explanation.

The principle value of Victorian Bibliographies finds its utility and advantage when once-familiar anomalous phenomena make their modern reappearance. Lacking modern explanation, one finds the former perspectives of inestimable and timeless value. Too few of the researchers have studied the HUM phenomenon with these perspectives in mind. The degree of depth demanded by this remarkable manifestation of unearthly sound finds its answer in old and dusty volumes. Now largely forgotten by most of those involved in the work, the “physiophonic effect” is well known by students of early telephonic arts. Physiophony, originally discovered by Antonio Meucci in 1842, involves the electrical transmission of audible vocal signals directly into the neurology of listeners. His accidental discovery is the basis of his first “teletrofono”, the first telephonic system seen by the world. In this remarkable physioelectric effect, electrovocal signals breach the resistant skin barrier. Signals are thus “heard within”, a physiophonic or “neurophonic” effect which occurs entirely without benefit of the ears.

Physiophonic sound is an externally stimulated internal sound of sometimes enormous volume. With applications of excessive voltages, subjects experience muscular tetanus effects indistinguishable from those observed in HUM phenomenon. The real auditory seat of the HUM disturbance is thus found within the musculature and neurology of its unfortunate sufferers. The “sound” which becomes so deafening at times, is the sound of nerves and muscles. The effect is induced in the musculature of exposed persons, and represents auditory stimulation through myoelectric vibrations. The audible sound is therefore heard in the rapid vibration of muscle tissues which have been externally stimulated by an unknown energy source. The rubbing sound which fills the head cannot be recorded through microphones because it is more powerfully manifested within the very deepest centers of physiology itself. It localizes itself in the “stomach brain” of the solar plexus, driving the deepest musculature into extreme states of tetanus. Thus induced by external disturbance, the HUM is actually produced within the contracting muscles. It cannot be recorded with audio microphones. The audio portion of the HUM is the sound of muscles, the strong myocontractions within the neck which stimulate audition. One does not therefore hear the actual source of the HUM disturbance. One hears instead the muscular response to the causative disturbance, that which has yet to be discussed. This physiophonic entrainment is the phenomenon which conspiratists claim are entirely due to military ELF experiments. In addition to this muscle-vibrating condition, one falls into a very deep and distressful autonomic “mood”. This deeply emotive condition blocks the normal flow of consciousness, forcing concentration solely on the reestablishment of comfort.

Thus we may understand why the HUM manifestation surges to excessive levels of strength and brings a distinct kind of neuralgia to its more sensitive recipients. The onset of severe muscle contractions, the true cause of sleep loss, brings the primary alarum responsible for sleep termination. The awakened recipient finds his or her entire musculature in a state of unnatural tenor, a painful tension which reduces into a continuous fatigue. With this extreme tenor, sensitive victims “hear the HUM”. The painful neuralgic effect is the result of an excessive induction of myocontractions. The exhaustion reminiscent of results produced by forced-muscle exercise stimulators, designs intended to burn fat through electrical applications to muscle tissue. Neuralgic HUM related conditions grow with time. Without some diminution in the external pain causative agency, individuals become worn down with each nocturnal repetition. The more overt sleep disturbing aspects of the HUM develop with increasing absorption of the nightly effects.

Because these effects are myoelectric frictions, internally induced by external agency, they cannot therefore be recorded through ordinary audio means. But where audio microphone recordings fail, myoelectric recordings should best reveal the HUM in all of its artifacts. The entire body is disturbed by these assaults. The painful “pressure effect” is a muscle response when exposed to the energetic impact. There is every indication that certain individuals retain some lingering portions of the HUM impact for longer periods of time than others. This may have something to do with personal physiochemistry, a variation by which certain neurological systems can self-eradicate the HUM associated toxins. Irregardless of the blind instinct to seek shelter and comfort from the irritant, the associated neuralgic pain is never eradicated by relocation alone.

The question which has addressed this mystifying property asks why so overwhelming a sound fails to produce correspondingly loud magnetic recordings is thus solved. It is precisely because the HUM itself resists and eludes the best efforts of recording engineers and their equipment, that we innately recognize an entirely different mode of auditory stimulation at work. But what mode? In addition to the weak ground-related HUM sounds, the insomnia, and the neuralgias, there are strange “roaring winds” which sometimes accompany the strongest HUM manifestations. These fill the surrounding limits of the neighborhood, a wind phenomenon unlike any other. One notices that the roaring wind, one which seems to fill the entire local region, seemingly arrives from all directions simultaneously. These roaring winds have a peculiar vortexian nature. They surround the listener on all distant sides, yet produce no observable movements in any close objects. So great is this roaring sound that one may awaken by its force alone. Yet, this is not the HUM. The roaring winds appear only during extreme HUM episodes.

It becomes at once apparent that these strange winds are the result of a strange energetic expression, one which is external in source. When the HUM is in its maximum manifestation, one seems to be in the very center of sudden and unexpected weather extremes. These effects fall into the observation center from the outlying periphery shortly after sunrise, a phenomenon of great significance. The wind is very obviously a part of the phenomenon which represents evidence that the HUM is a natural, albeit extreme expression of biodynamic energy. The roaring wind is actually generated by the HUM, a most remarkable part of the HUM phenomenon which takes external physical form. In addition to these winds, one experiences strange acoustic effects which literally suffuse the surroundings.

Distant sounds become abnormally and dramatically amplified during early morning HUM extremes. The sounds of very distant trains become mystifyingly distinct and magnified, seemingly emanating from a few yards away. This strange “acoustic tunneling” effect only accompanies strong HUM events. In addition, the direction from which these acoustic anomalies are sourced exactly matches the compass heading from which the HUM effect arrives in a neighborhood. As if this were not anomalous enough, there is also a distinct kind of lumination all along the periphery of a region. The smokey white light appears throughout the surrounding horizon, a bright white “gloaming” which rises above the treeline. This white light has nothing to do with earth stresses commonly associated with pre-quake or near-quake episodes. It is a phosphorescent expression which has often been observed in Staten Island, a location virtually devoid of the tectonic or piezocrystalline activity usually cited in mechanistic explanations of the phenomenon.

HUM ORTHOGONY

On collating the data received across the nation from several highly revered subject sources, one immediately notices that HUM manifestations vary only with the local experience of sunset: a remarkable coordination from place to place. The HUM effect sweeps through different geopositions with clocklike precision, a phenomenon which would not occur with the deliberate operation of a land-fixed military project. Observers each report nightly HUM effects with time reference made only to their local occurrence of sunset. That the HUM cannot possibly be the result of deliberate military or industrial projects has everything to do with the time coordination and the “attack headings” of each HUM manifestation. Bordering neighborhoods which experience HUM phenomena do not receive the HUM impact from the same compass headings at all. In fact these impact directions, these HUM vectors, often oppose one another. Study also reveals some regions which lie between HUM experiencing lands, do not themselves experience the HUM at all.

We are therefore challenged by perplexing combination of contrary variables: similar local time appearances, completely differing compass headings, identical pulsation envelopes. But the geographic “sweeping” time effect is the strongest evidence that HUM phenomena result from more fundamental natural process. Smooth procession lines may be mapped across the nation for each specific event. On any particular night of HUM activity, one observes that HUM effects appear after local sundown. Widely separated persons who felt the HUM effects did not feel them at the same hour, relative to any possible source point. In fact, HUM effect sites revealed a time reference with respect to local sunset alone. This remarkable fact alone indicates that HUM phenomena are natural phenomena, and not military projects at work.

There are places where the HUM vectors, directions from which the HUM is actually impacting a region, completely differ from one another. In this aspect, one of enormous import, the georegional HUM orthogony is completely asymmetric. Thus we see how HUM vectors do not occur along strictly identical compass headings. One may not draw a smooth line through towns and cities and find consistency in the HUM vectors. Were the HUM a military signal, we would expect it to make itself known across the nation on a singular registered instant of time. But the HUM does not reveal any such panregional orthogony. Despite the consistency of each regional report, no consistency in the time of the local events can be cited. Indeed, no singularity in the observation of the “HUM” exists across the nation or world.

Were military ELF systems the responsible parties, one would expect every HUM observation to occur at a single fixed time, irregardless of geographic position. Each nightly HUM event would therefore occur with reference to the station source, a singular time coordination which would be recognized by observers across North America. HUM effects would be expected to vary by a fixed 3 hour interval across the nation, even if deliberately varied by the “source station”. The conspiratist model presupposes this “national sweep” to be a deliberate deception, the phantom military stations nightly sweeping the United States to hide their presence. Indeed, the HUM seems to represent a source whose throbbing signals contain some mysterious conscious message. Many who have experienced the HUM mention a mysterious awareness that the throbbing HUM is “under conscious control”. Indeed, it is under conscious control…but not by human agency. I have no longer any doubt that the HUM is an intensified expression of the prolific natural energy, that agency responsible for organizing and bioarticulating the natural chaos.

AEOLUS

In its audio characteristics, the HUM is not a new phenomenon. Having attributes tantalizingly identical with modern observations, the HUM has given its persistent performance throughout history. The HUM was known as “Aeolian Wind” in its ancient expressions, an identical low pitched throbbing tone which “moaned” in the dark of night. These occurrence of HUM phenomena were reported in various popular journals throughout the Nineteenth Century, undoubtedly attempts to solicit scientific perspectives on the effect. A sound known as the “wind in the mountains” was reported in 1928. Long a part of local folklore in Seskin, Ireland this “variable throbbing tone” resembled that produced by an “distant engine”. British observers of the same phenomenon stand on record since the last World War, when residents of London and Southampton reported the same throbbing HUM in 1940.

The HUM and its more auditory attributes have a lengthy historical record. The HUM predates symbols of modern conspiratist mythology, such as SANGUINE and HAARP, by centuries! Added to the aforementioned empirical evidence, one marvels at the adamant attitude of those who adhere to symbolic models which deny the obvious. Facts which deny “military culpability” may irritatingly deflate the theme of symbolists without doubt. I both thoroughly expect and encourage a wonderful flood of critics who cannot pull themselves away from the turbidity of symbols and myths long enough to breathe in the new view of a conscious atmosphere. Please write, I adore your symbologies.

Irregardless, one must rest secure in the revelation of a viable and more personally relevant world foundation than symbolists can ever hope to develop. In order to obtain a measure of comfort, albeit a perverse and deranged expression, some require their hairshirt of fear. If your need for fear is indeed your security, I will give you a better hairshirt than the best fear merchant can weave. There is an implicit warning in what I have written, one which should resound throughout the community. Symbolism and its seductive threats can only incapacitate those who fall under its fascinating vacuous sway. Hopefully, some will be shaken away from the muddy security of their subconscious rivers long enough to see the light of day…while it lasts. The new attributes of the HUM greatly concerns me, being a manifestation of bioaction on a greatly magnified level. Neither in former centuries or decades had the natural HUM phenomenon manifested its irritating incursions. The new pain-generating effect is evidence that a panregional revulsion is taking place, one in which biodynamic energy is now consistently making incisive forays against the deranged by-products of a now too gauche and overdone mechanistic technology.

Caught in this titanic crossfire, humanity is only beginning to feel the first deadly embrace of a world-condition which may prove to be terrible in consequence. The HUM is the first evidence of this struggle. Indeed, we are witness to dynamic energies whose essential characteristic is biological and conscious in nature. For those truly devoted to the possibility of developing a bioenergized and geoconscious technology, these findings could not have arrived at a more opportune moment in history. Nevertheless, if the HUM phenomenon is not studied and comprehended from a more scientific base, then counter-measures will not develop in aid of humanity.

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HE listened and closed his eyes as the rolling waves of sound poured over and through his being. Thrilling, intoxicating, the hysteria of heaven, the enthralled and frightening flight of angels. Electrifying. Messaien’s organ music signalled messages of meaning, titanic foghorns ululating among dimly perceived near-worlds. Olivier Messaien, master composer of musical expressionism, used the ground thrumming tones of great Parisian cathedral organs to evoke sensations which may only be called otherworldly. Masterfully macabre. Black foundations, blue pillars, and rainbow ceilings.

Sound, rhythm, and space. Ultra-chromatic chord frames, rising like rock walls from the black depths. And immense stellar crystallizations, radiating tonal perfumes through deep and black radiant space. Lovely and lyrically swooping melodies, the flight of birds through delicate limbs. And melodic lines, reaching up toward unknown depths of space, each had their foundation in ultrabass tones of rooted depth. The basso profunda of Messaien are the critical foundations, the strong vertical pillars of an immense architecture which extends beyond performance walls. He scoured the deep and unreachable roots of worlds to hold his musical cathedrals together. Such majesty and grandeur of sound! Rich in the intelligence which flooded and made the world, the musical currents and the atmosphere of tones. Fluidic music and meaning.

The most fundamental signals which permeate this world are inaudible. They not only surpass our hearing, but they undergird our being. Natural infrasounds rumble through experience daily. There manifestations are fortunately infrequent and incoherent. Infrasound is inaudible to human hearing, being of pitch below 15 cycles per second. The bottom human limit. The plynth. The foundation. Infrasound is not heard, it is felt. Infrasound holds a terrible secret in its silent roar.

Infrasound produces varied physiological sensations which begin as vague “irritations”. At certain pitch, infrasound produces physical pressure. At specific low intensity, fear and disorientation. Nazi propaganda engineers methodically used infrasound to stir up the hostilities of crowds who were gathered to hear their madman. The results are historical nightmares.

At a very specific pitch, infrasound explodes matter. At others, infrasound incapacitates and kills. Organisms rupture in its blast. Sea creatures use this power to stun and kill prey.

The swelling bass tones of the cathedral seem as though they can burst the very pillars which uphold the ancient vaults. Stained glass windows have been known to erupt in a shower of colored fragments from the organ’s basso profunda. Impulsed ultrabass tones…thunder. Somewhere in the almost inaudible roll of these basement sounds there was a devastating and fearful power.

THE ABYSS

The Cold War was on. The United States alone held the dread secret. The most terrible weapon yet developed was the private property of one government. The mere existence of the atomic bomb was threat to nations whose motives were not entirely altruistic. Motivated, aggressive, and imperialistic, obtaining atomic bomb data was a priority for several nations. The only manner in which some nations obtained the secret was by stealing it. When Stalin’s science officers finally developed an atomic duplicate of the American bomb, pressure suddenly was placed upon every other European nation to achieve an equivalent or better device.

When one seeks to defend one’s borders, the consequences of releasing weapons of devastation to the world do not seem important. Weaponry is death-oriented by nature. But there are moral differences between weapons of defense and weapons of offense. Previous to this atomic proliferation, competing nations concentrated their weapons research on truly bizarre and equally deadly means for defending their national boundaries. A great variety of such deadly weapons were perfected in rapid succession. This included deadly variations and combinations of gas weaponry, pathogenic agents, and radiant weaponry. Stalin’s research teams investigated psychic powers as a possible means for destroying an enemy. Psychotronic warfare was developed among numerous groups, both private and national, with measurable success. Information on some simpler psychotronic weapons have recently been obtained through an increasing process of Soviet disclosure.

In truth, the larger the weaponry the less safe the national boundaries truly were. While the superpowers concentrated their weapons development programs on mass-destructive nuclear weaponry, others focussed on more practical conventions. The limited tactical warfare of small battlefields seemed a more immediate need. While developing their own atomic device, France sought defensive tactical weaponry on every possible technological front. Short range weapons would best defend against a conventional national assault. But other systems were also sought; systems which, though non-nuclear, were equally invincible. As the great Frankish Knight, Charles “the Hammer” Martel repelled ruthless invaders from the medieval east, so a new hammer would be sought to defend France against possible new enemies from the east. Even as Charles Martel arose from obscurity, so this strange new “hammer” would arise in equal obscurity.

GAVREAU

The central research theme of Dr. Vladimir Gavreau was the development of remote controlled automatons and robotic devices. To this end he assembled a group of scientists in 1957. The group, including Marcel Miane, Henri Saul, and Raymond Comdat, successfully developed a great variety of robotic devices for industrial and military purposes. In the course of developing mobile robots for use in battlefields and industrial fields, Dr. Gavreau and his staff made a strange and astounding observation which, not only interrupted their work, but became their major research theme.

Housed in a large concrete building, the entire group periodically experienced a disconcerting nausea which flooded the research facility. Day after day, for weeks at a time, the symptoms plagued the researchers. Called to inspect the situation, industrial examiners also fell victim to the malady. It was thought that the condition was caused by pathogens, a “building sickness”. No such agencies were ever biologically detected. Yet the condition prevailed. Research schedules now seriously interrupted, a complete examination of the building was called.

The researchers noticed that the mysterious nauseations ceased when certain laboratory windows were blocked. It was then assumed that “chemical gas emissions” of some kind were responsible for the malady, and so a thorough search of the building was undertaken. While no noxious fumes could be detected by any technical means, the source was finally traced by building engineers to an improperly installed motor-driven ventilator. The engineers at first thought that this motor might be emitting noxious fumes, possibly evaporated oils and lubricants. But no evaporated products were ever detected. It was found that the loosely poised low speed motor, poised in its cavernous duct of several stories, was developing “nauseating vibrations”.

The mystery magnified for Dr. Gavreau and his team, when they tried to measure the sound intensity and pitch. Failing to register any acoustic readings at all, the team doubted the assessment of the building engineers. Nevertheless, closing the windows blocked the sense of nausea. In a step of brilliant scientific reasoning, Gavreau and his colleagues realized that the sound with which they were dealing was so low in pitch that it could not register on any available microphonic detector. The data was costly to the crew.

They could not pursue the “search” for long time periods. During the very course of tracking the sound down, an accidental direct exposure rendered them all extremely ill for hours. When finally measured, it was found that a low intensity pitch of a fundamental 7 cycles per second was being produced. Furthermore, this infrasonic pitch was not one of great intensity either. It became obvious that the slow vibrating motor was activating an infrasonic resonant mode in the large concrete duct. Operating as the vibrating “tongue” of an immense “organ pipe”, the rattling motor produced nauseating infrasound. Coupled with the rest of the concrete building, a cavernous industrial enclosure, the vibrating air column formed a bizarre infrasonic “amplifier”.

Knowledge of this infrasonic configuration also explained why shutting the windows was mildly effective in “blocking the malady”. The windows altered the total resonant profile of the building, shifting the infrasonic pitch and intensity. Since this time, others have noted the personally damaging effects of such infrasonic generation in office buildings and industrial facilities. The nauseating effects of exposure to a low intensity natural or manmade infrasonic source is now well appreciated.

It has become a routine architectural procedure to seek out and alter any possible such resonant cavities. The sources often appear in older buildings, the result of construction rendered faulty by previous lack of this knowledge. All such “improper” architectural formats are modified by the additions of sound-blocking materials.

WHISTLES

Dr. Gavreau and his research team now carefully investigated the effects of their “infrasonic organ” at various intensity levels and pitch. Changing the spring tension on shock mounts which held the fan motor, it was possible to change the pitch. Various infrasonic resonances were established throughout the large research building. Shutting the windows blocked most of the symptoms. When the window was again opened, however weak as the source was made, the team felt the nauseating effects once again.

In the business of military research, Dr. Gavreau believed he had discovered a new and previously “unknown weapon” in these infrasounds. Aware of the natural explosives by which infrasonics are generated, Dr. Gavreau began to speculate on the application of infrasonics as a defense initiative. The haphazard explosive effects of natural infrasound in thunderclaps were quite effective in demonstrating what an artificial “thunder-maker” could do. But, how could a thunderclap be artificially generated in a compact system? These thoughts stimulated theoretical discussions on the possibility of producing coherent infrasound: an infrasonic “laser”.

The first devices Dr. Gavreau implemented were designed to imitate the “accident” which first made his research group aware of infrasonics. They designed real organ pipes of exceedingly great width and length. The first of these was six feet in diameter and seventy five feet long. These designs were tested outdoors, securely propped against protective sound-absorbent walls. The investigators stood at a great distance. Two forms of these infrasonic organ pipes were built. The first utilized a drive piston which pulsed the pipe output. The second utilized compressed air in a more conventional manner.

The main resonant frequency of these pipes occurred in the “range of death”, found to lie between three and seven cycles per second. These sounds could not be humanly heard, a distinct advantage for a defense system. The effects were felt however. The symptoms come on rapidly and unexpectedly, though the pipes were operating for a few seconds. Their pressure waves impacted against the entire body in a terrible and inescapable grip. The grip was a pressure which came in on one from all sides simultaneously, an envelope of death.

Next came the pain, dull infrasonic pressure against the eyes and ears. Then came a frightening manifestation on the material supports of the device itself. With sustained operation of the pipe, a sudden rumble rocked the area, nearly destroying the test building. Every pillar and joint of the massive structure bolted and moved. One of the technicians managed to ignore the pain enough to shut down the power supply.

These experiments with infrasonics were as dangerous as those early investigations of nuclear energy. Dr. Gavreau and his associates were dangerously ill for nearly a day after these preliminary tests. These maladies were sustained for hours after the device was turned off. Infrasonic assaults on the body are the more lethal because they come with dreadful silence. The eyesight of Dr. Gavreau and his fellow workers were affected for days. More dangerously were their internal organs affected: the heart, lungs, stomach, intestinal cavity were filled with continual painful spasms for an equal time period.

Musculature convulses, torques, and tears were the symptoms of infrasonic exposure. All the resonant body cavities absorbed the self-destructive acoustic energy, and would have been torn apart had the power not been extinguished at that precise moment. The effectiveness of infrasound as a defense weapon of frightening power having been demonstrated “to satisfaction”, more questions were asked. After this dreadful accident, approaching the equipment once again was almost a fearful exercise. How powerful could the output of an infrasonic device be raised before even the operating engineers were affected?

With greatest caution and respect for the power with which they worked, Dr. Gavreau began recalculating all of his design parameters. He had grossly misjudged the power released by the pipes. He had, in fact, greatly lowered those calculated outputs for diagnostic purposes. Never had he imagined that these figures were actually far too great in the world of infrasound!

Empirical data being the only way to determine how infrasonic energy correlated with both biological and material effect, the tests were again attempted with a miniature power supply. First, the dimensions of these devices had to be greatly reduced. Their extreme length was objectionable. In order to provide absolutely safe control of the deadly blasts, several emergency cutoff switches were provided. These responded to the radiated infrasonic pressure wave. the intensity could be absolutely limited by use of automated barometric switches.

In an attempt to achieve more compact and controllable infrasound generators, Dr. Gavreau designed and tested special horns and “whistles” of various volumes. These were each remarkably simple flat circular resonant cavities, having a side output duct. They were simply the large analogues of foghorns and police whistles. These flat forms were volumetrically reduced in successive design stages because it was found that their output was far too great. The infrasonic foghorns could produce a frightening two kilowatts of infrasonic energy, at a pitch of one hundred fifty cycles per second.

The flat “police whistles” were more easily designed to required specifications. Their overall characteristics were quite simple to determine, a mathematical formula being devised for the purpose. The whistle’s resonant pitch was found by dividing its diameter into a numerical constant of 51. Increasing the depth of the whistle effectively increased its amplitude. A whistle 1.3 meters in diameter produced an infrasonic pitch of 37 cycles per second. This form violently shook the walls of the entire laboratory complex, though its intensity was less than 2 watts infrasonic power.

DANGER

Not much amplitude is required for infrasound to produce physiological malady. Several researchers accidentally did themselves great harm when, by deliberate intent or accident, they succeeded in generating infrasonic vibrations. Tesla used vibrating platforms as an aid to vitality. He delighted in “toning the body” with vibrational platforms of his own design. Mounted on heavy rubber pads, these platforms were vibrated by simple motorized “eccentric” wheels.

Their mild use, for a minute, could be pleasantly stimulating. The effects invigorating the whole body for hours thereafter. Excessive use would produce grave illness however, excessive aggravations of the heart being the most dangerous aspect of the stimulation. The entire body “rang” for hours with an elevated heart rate and greatly stimulated blood pressure. The effects could be deadly.

In one historic instance, Samuel Clemens, Tesla’s close friend, refused to descend from the vibrating platform. Tesla was sorry he had allowed him to mount it. After repeated warnings, Tesla’s concern was drowned out by both the vibrating machine and Clemens’ jubilant exaltations and praises. Several more seconds and Clemens nearly soiled his white suit, the effects of infrasound being “duly recorded”.

Tesla often went to great lengths in describing the effects of infrasounds to newspaper reporters who, behind his back, scoffed at the notion that a “little sound” could effect such devastations. Yet, it was precisely with such a “little sound” that Tesla nearly brought down his laboratory on Houston Street. His compact infrasonic impulsers were terribly efficient. Tesla later designed and tested infrasonic impulse weapons capable of wrecking buildings and whole cities on command.

Walt Disney and his artists were once made seriously ill when a sound effect, intended for a short cartoon scene, was slowed down several times on a tape machine and amplified through a theater sound system. The original sound source was a soldering iron, whose buzzing 60 cycle tone was lowered five times to 12 cycles. This tone produced a lingering nausea in the crew which lasted for days.

Physiology seems to remain paralyzed by infrasound. Infrasound stimulates middle ear disruptions, ruining organismic equilibrium. The effect is like severe and prolonged seasickness. Infrasound immobilizes its victims. Restoration to normal vitality requires several hours, or even days. Exposure to mild infrasound intensities produces illness, but increased intensities result in death. Alarming responses to infrasound have been accurately recorded by military medical experts.

Tolerances from 40 to 100 cycles per second have been recorded by military examiners. The results are sobering ones. As infrasonic pitches decrease, the deadly symptoms increase. Altered cardiac rhythms, with pulse rates rising to 40 percent of their rest values, are the precursors to other pre-lethal states. Mild nausea, giddiness, skin flushing, and body tingling occur at 100 cycles per second. Vertigo, anxiety, extreme fatigue, throat pressure, and respiratory dysfunction follow. Coughing, severe sternal pressure, choking, excessive salivation, extreme swallowing pains, inability to breathe, headache, and abdominal pain occur between 60 and 73 cycles per second. Post exposure fatigue is marked. Certain subjects continued to cough for half an hour, while many continued the skin-flush manifestation for up to four hours.

Significant visual acuity decrements are noted when humans are exposed to infrasounds between 43 and 73 cycles per second. Intelligibility scores for persons exposed, fall to a low of 77 percent their normal scores. Spatial orientation becomes completely distorted. Muscular coordination and equilibrium falter considerably. Depressed manual dexterity and slurred speech have been noted before individuals blackout. Just before this point, a significant loss in intelligibility is noted.

The findings of Dr. Gavreau in the infrasonic range between 1 and 10 cycles per second are truly shocking. Lethal infrasonic pitch lies in the 7 cycle range. Small amplitude increases affect human behavior in this pitch range. Intellectual activity is first inhibited, blocked, and then destroyed. As the amplitude is increased, several disconcerting responses had been noted. These responses begin as complete neurological interference. The action of the medulla is physiologically blocked, its autonomic functions cease.

WATCHMEN

Infrasound clings to the ground, a phenomenon well known in the animal world. Female vocalizations and those of their young, take their traceable routes through the air. High pitched sounds are aerial in nature. This makes females and young natural targets for predators. Low pitched tones cling to the ground, being “guided” along the soil layers. Male vocalizations cannot be localized by predators. Male sounds “hug the ground”, diffusing out from their source. Some males rumble the ground with voice and hooves. These are communications signals which they alone comprehend.

The fact that the ground draws and guides low frequency tones is a remarkable gift to the animal kingdom, enhancing the survival of male leaders. When herds are attacked by predators, the males can continue to give guidance to their companions, while remaining completely “invisible” and elusive. Predators cannot locate the voices and rumblings of male leaders because their low pitched signals ar impossible to pinpoint. They are therefore also impossible to attack. Predators are often overtaken by the males who maintain their diffusive communications across and through the ground.

The same analogies would apply to an infrasonic defense system. First, infrasound does not lose its intensity when travelling very long distances across the ground. They remain at the same intensity as when released from their deadly sources. Also, because of the ground clinging effect, infrasonic sources cannot be located without special appliances. This would work well for those who used the weaponry of infrasound. But suppose some hostile force were themselves using infrasonics? Infrasonics are inaudible. The battle would be over before anyone knew it had begun. How would one know of an infrasonic attack? The first line of defense would therefore be the detection of the “unperceived enemy”. The development of an adequate infrasonic weapons systems would first require an infrasound detector.

Dr. Gavreau first concentrated on developing infallible infrasonic detectors for the personal safety of his operators as well as for eventual tactical deployment. He experimented with several designs which followed the arcane analogues of old wireless detectors. One such design used enclosed flames to detect infrasonic pitches. They were reminiscent of those flame detectors developed by Lee De Forest just before his invention of the triode. The flame detectors of Gavreau employed variable resonant cavities. Flame amplitudes shifted with specific infrasonic pitches. He could calibrate the infrasonic intensity as well as the pitch with these detectors. But, flames are dangerous and fickle, not being very reliable in battle.

Dr. Gavreau next experimented with enhanced mechanical barometers. These coupled large resonant cavities with very fine barometer tubes. They displayed great sensitivity. Steady increases in barometric pressure were registered when large cavity bellows were compressed by infrasounds. The sensitivity of these barometers increased as the bellows capacity was increased. They were adequate, but frail.

Another embodiment resembled the early mechanical television designs of John Logie Baird. It utilized large tympani skins, mirrors, lights, and photocells. A mirror was fastened to the tympanum. A light beam flickered when infrasound struck the mirror. The photocell recorded these flickers as an electrical signal. This detector system was very reliable.

By far, the most advanced detectors which gavreau designed and tested utilized an electrolytic process. In this analogue of systems developed by Fessenden to measure faint wireless signals, chemical solutions and fine wirepoint electrical contacts were used. Chemical solutions, separated by an osmotic barrier, were forced to migrate through the barriers whenever infrasound traversed the system. This chemical mixture was then measured as an increased electrical conductivity in a sensitive galvanometer. This system was reliable and accurate. All of these systems suffered from one possibility. The offensive use of an incredible infrasonic amplitude would burst them into vapor.

ARMOR

Claims were issued by french authorities, stating that Dr. Gavreau was not developing weapons at all. Several patents, however, betray this conspicuous smoke-screen. While it is impossible to retrieve the actual patents for the infrasonic generators, Dr. Gavreau is credited with extensive development of “infrasonic armor”. Why would he “waste” such time and expense if not for an anti-weapons program?

Thus use of infrasonic weaponry necessitates the development and implementation of infrasonic shields. Dr. Gavreau spent more time developing infrasonic shields than on developing efficient infrasonic horns. Infrasound could not adequately be blocked, as Dr. Gavreau discovered early in his research. Infrasonic devices require extremely large baffles.

Furthermore, no one would dare initiate an infrasonic barrage on any invasive force without adequate protection. Infrasonic horns can project their sounds in a given direction, but natural environments “leak” portions of the sound in all directions. Infrasounds saturate their generators, flooding and permeating their sources in a few seconds. They “work their way back” toward those who dispatch their deadly signals. Infrasounds “hug the ground” and spread around their sources. Unfortunately, those who would release infrasonic energy would themselves be slaughtered in the very act.

The first method of Gavreau involves the conversion of infrasound into successively higher pitches, until the infrasonic pitch is “lost”. This was achieved in his passive “structural” method, an enormous layered series of baffles and resonant cavities. This form is “passive” since it merely stands and waits for infrasonic barrages, absorbing and converting them into harmless audible tones.

The second method of Gavreau is more active and “aggressive”. It actively engages and nullifies any offensive infrasonic power. The nullifier uses a well known physical principle for its operation. As an “active” shield, it transmits tones whose opposing wavefronts destructively interfere with incoming infrasound. Infrasonic attacks are nullified, or at least brought to much weaker levels.

This method requires high speed detection and response systems. The process involves determination of an attack pitch, generation of the same, and projection of the pitch “out of phase”. The active nullifier method is not completely accurate or protective by any means. A highly modulated, mobile infrasonic source would be nearly impossible to successfully neutralize without extremely sophisticated electronics.

But an elegantly simple approach was imagined, one which would not require the defender to be exposed to his own infrasonic projections. While fixated on the old notion of gun installations and stations, Gavreau and the team had momentarily forgotten their first research endeavor. Robotics!

THE HAMMER

Let us recall that Dr. Gavreau and his team of pioneers were in the business of robotics. They developed industrial and military automaton systems. How difficult would it have been to couple his newfound weaponry with robotic applications? Dr. Gavreau combined the organ pipe and whistle format. The device was housed in a block of concrete. It was less than a cubic meter in volume. The primary whistle was poised within its interior. At its flared opening were placed several resonant pipes. The device was operated by highly compressed air. Its output was frightful. It was capable, in a conventional engagement, of utterly destroying an aggressor.

This infrasound whistle design was once sealed in an 880 pound concrete pier for tests, a concrete baffle placed over its projective end. Even with these precautions, the device succeeded in absolutely shaking a fan-shaped portion of Marseille. It broke through its supportive concrete pier and destroyed the baffle covering in an instant. Macabre. No sound was ever heard.

This design demonstrated great pitch selectivity, power, and directivity. In this last feature, Gavreau and his team achieved a safety factor of greatest value. Infrasonic defensive armaments could now be safely directed away from the operators against any foe. This weapon was a remarkably compact and efficient device. Its efficiency was gauged by the destructive output and the weapon volume.

A later embodiment of this terror disclosed another compact cube. The infrasonic whistle was presumably housed therein. Proceeding from the front plate were some sixty pipes, flared horns aimed in deadly forward array. It was said that this device alone, remotely guided into an arranged artificial battlefield, burst heavy battlements and tank interiors open with a hideous effortlessness. In addition, several other more frightening and unmentionable disruptions were observed with equal effectiveness. In each, not a sound was ever heard.

The device was mounted and mobilized. A robotic vehicle. Powered by diesel engines or compressed gas, the almost insignificant unit would be a bizarre foe for an army to engage. Preliminary experiments had proven the extreme danger of loosing infrasonic power among Gavreau and his workers. Without automatic remote control mechanisms each technician would succumb to the deadly sound and die, while the machine kept broadcasting its deadly sound. As defensive weaponry, such a device would be terrible and effective. The system would be a true deterrent for those who would be foolish enough to attempt ground assault on any nation so armed. Armies would fall flat. Once the infrasonic horns were unleashed against the foe, the battle would not even begin.

Such a war engine would be impossible to locate. None who saw its size would believe it to contain such a lethal power. Most would overlook the device completely. A flood of such devices, each emanating a peculiar highly modulated blend of infrasound, would be an unstoppable wall. Robotic tanks equipped with infrasonic generators could sweep an area with deadly infrasound, destroying all opponents to within a five mile radius. These terrible infrasonic weapons could easily be secured in drone jets, where aerial assaults could quickly and methodically waste any offensive approaching army.

Deterring would-be aerial attackers could be equally devastating for the offenders. Infrasonic beacons could sweep and scan the skies with a deadly accuracy. Infrasound passes through all matter with equal effectiveness, seeking out offenders with deadly consequence. The intensities which the Gavreau devices effectively broadcast into the environment are frightening. In these devices we see the perfection of phenomena which never naturally occur in such dangerous intensities. This is why these weapons must be deployed by remote control, operating as automatons at great distances from their operators.

Weapons are made to defend, not to offend. In Gavreau’s own words: “There does not exist complete protection against infrasound. It is not absorbed by ordinary matter, walls and chambers do not suffice to arrest it”. And so, once again, we stand at the cross-roads. We are called, summoned to appear before two pathways. On the one, we hear Messaien and the musical messages of peace. On the other, Gavreau and the musical messages of war. And again we choose. And again we must choose. Whose music will it be?

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