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Back in 2000, my husband and I spent a great deal of time searching for a home or property to buy. We heard about an area that had become available on the nearby mountain for folks to purchase small plots of acreage.
Normally, we tried to stay away from the mountain area because most of the property was bluff property or near a bluff. Not that we're afraid of heights, we simply felt uneasy about having a cliff close enough that our child or pets could fall off. My son's young friend had fell off a 70 ft bluff some years before and she was still going through surgeries and therapy... But we decided to check the land out in hopes that it was situated in an area without bluffs.
When we arrived and I stepped out of our truck I could hear a hum like a metallic engine running sound. I'd hear such hums & sounds from time-to-time when we'd go into the mountains especially near the gaping gorges and valleys. I saw no valley nor evidence of a bluff to a gorge and thought perhaps it may be from the vastness of the area, as all areas do have there own sound. I tried to dismiss the sound as just that. Still it hummed on.
We strolled the heavily wooded terrain untouched by humans hands except for the main entry road and the obvious little plot markers. The trees and underbrush were fully leafed out. The stroll was worth our journey just for the joy of being in the presence of Mother Nature's forest haven. We marveled at the shame of it all that there would be so much loss of trees and woodland when/if the area got built up.
We walked along in our own thoughts for a short while. We came upon on flat area of woodland that would have made a beautiful homeplace. Shucks even the trees seemed to be in the right spot to allow a driveway & home without having to do much, if any, dozer work. We began discussing the prospects of being able to afford the lot, we knew for sure it would be a priced higher because it lay flat.
The sound hum grew louder and louder in my ears as we trekked further into the property. I was beginning to wonder if I'd be able to live with such a loud sound that the woodlands was emitting. I walked a short way ahead of my husband mesmerized by the beauty and serenity and by the annoying growing loudness of the sound.
Suddenly my husband grabbed me, pulled me back and held me to the spot. It caught me quite off guard and before I could speak in protest, he gasped, "God, I thought you were going to walk off the edge."
"The edge of what?" I asked.
"That bluff." He pointed. "You can't see that?"
"What bluff?" I saw no bluff. I stared before me. It was broad daylight, the sun was shining and ahead of me all I could see was green saplings, underbrush and treetops across a seemingly flat span of about 50 acres or more that went to the edge of a high rocky bluff... tree tops!!!... ~silent scream - vocal gasp~ The way the landscape of greenery blended & lay is why I hadn't seen the edge of that bluff that was about a mere 15 feet away straight in front of me. I felt instantly frightened and instantly grateful that he had pulled me back.
"Oh my stars!" I exclaimed. I grabbed my husband and hugged him. "Thank you! I'd of walked right off that."
We eased closer to the edge and it was a monstrous winding gorge splitting the mountaintop, no telling how many miles it went nor how deep it was. It was awe inspiring in it's beautiful yet dangerous display of Mother Natures work.
"I thought there might be a gorge here because the sound is so deafening, but honestly, I thought it was because this forest is so immense." I remarked.
"What sound?" my husband asked and looked confused.
"You know." I waved my hand in the air towards the gorge, "That sound. The humming sound the gorge is giving off."
"What are you talking about? I don't hear a thing except birds and stuff." He shook his head and chuckled nervously.
Wow, I was amazed by that one. I thought it was a 'given' that everyone heard the hums of gorges. I couldn't believe that he couldn't hear the hum, it was so loud. "You honestly don't hear that engine sound the gorge is making?"
"No." He insisted. "Just birds and bugs."
We walked back to the truck & headed home. Over the next little while, I spent a great deal of time explaining in rambling analogies of the hum sounds being as distinct to an area as the individual difference in the way sound is in a small store as compared to a gymnasium.
My husband passed comments of agreement on the different sound inside of buildings and asked me a bit more about the sound of the gorge.
I further explained to him that I didn't hear it everytime and that each gorge carried it's own distinct sound, some are low hums, but the one we had just came from gave off one of the loudest hums I'd ever heard in our area. It was almost like a huge engine running under the earth in a constant metallic hum.
My husband listened patiently, he's used to my nonsense, but still looked at me with a certain wonderment as if I might be a bit more strange natured than he'd already come to know.
I talked to my sister shortly thereafter and marveled to her that my husband couldn't hear the gorges sing. I laughed about it.
My sister stopped me dead in the conversation with, "I don't know what you're talking about."
"You know, the engine like sound you hear when you're near a gorge or something?" I quipped.
"No." she didn't know and I was totally gob-smacked by this revelation!
So for the next few minutes I spilled out the days events on the mountain top. I tried to explain what the noise sounded like and so forth. I also gave her the same analogy of buildings.
She was in agreement with my husband, She had never heard the gorge's sounds either.
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Autumn of 2008, my husband and I went to a different part of the mountains many many miles south of the ones with the land. As we sat on a bench at the edge of a gorge, I listened intently to the low soft hum of it.
My husband told me, "I hear it. I hear the hum. A low sound like a motor idling."
"That's it! You do hear it!" I replied happily. We then shared some quiet time of just listening and wondering if it was the vastness of the gorge or if it was a vibration from the earth or something else.
You've know idea how happy I was that he heard it too.
We stopped at several little pull offs at the edge of the various gorges and discovered that the ones covered in trees across the mountain walls and basin made a soft hum and the gorges that were mostly bare with the bedrock and bluffs made louder hums.
It's interesting to hear the hums. I doubt that I'll ever know the cause. I surmise there could be many causes. Perhaps it's the natural vibrations of the earth for some and others may be caused from something man-made or perhaps it's something from out of this world...
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Since 2000, I've asked around discretely (and even on a few forums & blogs), and apparently, I'm pretty much alone on this one as far as home-folks go. I haven't met anyone else that has heard the gorges sing.
Alisa's the only other person that I've actually had contact with that has heard the other hums much like the ones that I hear from time-to-time.
If it hadn't been for the reports of people across the world on the internet hearing hums and sounds in places like Taos, I'd think I was totally bonkers.
I'm still amazed that it isn't second nature to everyone to hear the gorges sing. It's so fascinating to me... and ever so curious...
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Read more about hums around the world:
Media article I posted here at Alisa's forum:
Have you heard 'the Hum'? (BBC News)
Other links:
Hums - wiki
Taos Hum Page
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Wow, that is an excellent tale, Dawn! If you aren't a published author, you well could be if you wanted! That is good readin!  I love it! Bless you for sharing it!  It made me think of various things as I read. For one thing, heeding the hum could save your life!  I also thought about how people may see and hear "things" that they may think everyone else experiences so don't happen to mention and never make the connection. Actually I have read of people who innately see auras and go on for years thinking everyone else sees them, too, so don't mention it. Further, it made me think of children and how they claim to see and experience things adults may think are "imagination", but are just beyond the adult's perceptions. Most significantly, it made me think of the idea that what we perceive that most others don't (like your perception of the singing gorges) can be taught to others by explaining what you hear, stimulating curiosity, and then like you did with your husband, go out together exploring, being still and quiet, listening and comparing notes. Thus, this story is also wondrous for the sharing, adventure and discoveries of a husband and wife team. Now I want to hear the gorges.  Do you have to be above them to hear? And do you hear them if you are down in them do you know?
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Wow, that is an excellent tale, Dawn! If you aren't a published author, you well could be if you wanted! That is good readin! reading I love it! Bless you for sharing it! cheerful Oh shucks Alisa. You tickle me pink with your compliments. I wish I was a published author. That would be so cool! Thank you so much. You made my week!  If it hadn't been for my husband, I would've walked off that bluff, simply because I convinced myself that there wasn't a gorge there... However, I am so thankful for that day because you can bet you're bottom-dollar that now whenever I hear a singing gorge I'm extra careful. So, yep I think it could save my life. Now that I know what I know. lol I won't second guess me again.  You're also right about people thinking what they see, hear or feel is the same for others. That's another lesson I learned that day. I'd heard that about other people, but I never thought I'd be the one who was the only one (at the time) that actually experienced something seemingly so normal to me, while others were deaf to it. I honestly believe that my husband probably would've never paid attention to the hums if it hadn't been for me. I think the reason he can hear them now it's like you said ...what we perceive that most others don't (like your perception of the singing gorges) can be taught to others by explaining what you hear, stimulating curiosity, and then like you did with your husband, go out together exploring, being still and quiet, listening and comparing notes. I've been pondering on the being able to hear the hum when I'm down in a gorge and I can't. I've been in gorges to see waterfalls and all I hear is the crashing falls. We've fished rivers that cut through gorges and it's almost like being in a tomb or a bottom of a well. Unless a bird chirps or a boat passes, the silence is almost deafening... to me that is... I hope someday, you can hear the gorges sing. Australia has such a varied terrain that I'm sure there's many places that would sing opera... so-to-speak lol Thanks again for all your wonderful compliments and thought provoking comments. 
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It's wonderful to learn and share this way. And now I wonder...since it is quiet within the gorge, is like a bottle where you can blow over the top of it and it makes that hollow whistling noise. Do you know what I mean? Could it be the vibrations of air moving above the gorge?
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You may be on to something. I hadn't thought of that. Interesting. 
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