What the hell is that humming sound? 

Re-upload. First version had so much SUPER LOW hum that you couldn't hear it at all on a laptop. What, you don't all have studio monitors?

sky quakes sound like they boutta drop the hardest vaporwave album of the centry

1. This is one of the times when I really wish you'd go further in depth! 2. Skyquakes? Fuck yeah! 3. I'd like it if you kept the comments and book club at the end of the video, but also bump up the time spent on the topic of the episode a BIT more. I'm always left wanting more. 4. The Italian job was a decent modern remake wasn't it? 5. You mentioned MTV in a previous episode. I don't suppose you could give us a summary of what you did before TE? 6. I can totally see you becoming the next =3 type channel (size and format, not quality, you're way better). Keep up the awesome work! 7. Any plans to get a second presenter?

Industrial equipment? Fish? INDUSTRIAL FISH?

If an NHL expansion team comes to Windsor they should be called the Windsor Hummers.

I'm actually pretty surprised you made no mention of the infamous 'bloop.' Back in '97, a noise taking place somewhere in an ocean body that stretched out over a couple thousand miles, and earned the name 'bloop' when the audio reading was sped up (it made a sound like a turd hitting water, and I'm not mature.)

Just started watching and subscribed, so don't know if I count as a super fan yet, but the fact that you had the comments at the end like idea channel was part of the reason Instantly said yes. The community you can foster with responses is amazing

I absolutely love the comments at the end of your videos. It gives us a chance as a group to come together and share our thoughts and ideas with you. In fact I always look forward to the end section because I genuinely enjoy the intelligent conversation and discussion you have of others ideas. Keep up the great work!

I like the videos as they are, they retain the same time length as older videos, with an added 5 minutes of community interactivity.Those that don't enjoy the ending can just stop watching once the comments hits.

...this ugly fish looking for love. So that's why it never stops.

Loved the video and this channel. Keep up the good work, Sam!

I think keeping the discussions in the videos is really important. It makes your channel feel really approachable and open, and that you're encouraging talking about all the topics you go into, rather than pushing it to the side like "We do some of this, and then there's this thing over here that we do too".

4:30 Those clips are clearly just Silent Hill turning into the Otherworld

I am a fan of the game-show and idea channel format, so I vote you keep up with that.

I'm from Windsor! I hear the hum on most days! It's really cool that you're doing this!

I like the way you and PBS idea channel do you videos, keep it up.

I think the comment section in the videos is a great thing. If it bothers people, they can just skip it, right? I wouldn't watch an entire episode just about comments, but when it's part of the next episode it grabs my attention and I stay to watch.

Zug island is also a rap/rock group signed with psychopathic records, when you first mentioned the name I thought you were going to be blaming the band, lol gave me a 'derp' moment, and as for the format of the show I like the current way its set up. Keep up the great work.

I get the hum, but only when there isn't background noise and it's at night. I usually leave my computer on at night so I can do several background processes that take a while and interrupt work during the day. The fan noise is comforting, but when I don't have it on I get this intense humming noise. It's my ears trying to find the noise that's so often there. Where I live, it's totally dead at night and so that complete silence confuses my brain.

do your channel the way you like it. I understand you wanting more subscribers, but your current subscribers already appreciate what you do and the way you do it.

I'm totally into the comments from previous videos! I hope you decide to keep them together like PBS Idea Channel does (from whom I learned of your channel, btw).

new subscriber. no one sent me. watched the episode about the chorded keyboard. and im completely hooked on this channle

I think you should keep running the comments in the same video. It's comforting to see that the RU-vid comments section can actually make sense and its even better to see a channel using it for it's intended purpose.

I say keep the comments. As someone who stays until the end of your videos I find it refreshing to get new perspectives on what you presented us.

I think it's great that the comment replies are in the same video as the content. Keep it up!

at first i didn't like the comments at the end of the video. it seemed like a cheap way of getting views, but i actually love the comments now, because now it seems like a good way of connecting each weeks videos together. please keep them.

I like the half video, half comments. Its nice to have the interaction and discussions.

I love that it's together. It feels almost as a reward for watching on an ongoing basis. I enjoy that there is an continuation of the last weeks video. =)

I live in a German industrial town with lots of chemical plants and factories and grew up with that humming noise. A newspaper article stated that it's a mixture of road traffic, freight trains, cargo ships and factory noise. I think it all merges together into that humming sound. Just like the individual voices in a sports stadium turn into that typical crowd noise.

Would love to see a video on Sky-quakes. The comments at the end, doing them at the end is fine, but you might be able to dedicate more to them if you give them their own show. As for the hums, outside of the Taos hum most of them seem to be in larger cities. Hard to tell, probably just industrial equipment since only a select number of people can hear it.

I like the current format of your shows. I am usually left wanting more on the topic and hope to see your shows be roughly 15 min long. 10 on the show rest on the comments. Thank you

Perhaps an explanation for the sky quakes as well as the various humming sounds found across the globe can be found in how the flow of air sounds when passing through differently-shaped objects. Much like how we're able to make noises through the passage of air through our vocal chords, these mysterious sounds might be caused by wind gusts/air streams passing by natural and/or man-made objects like buildings, trees, sand dunes, among others. You can also faintly hear similar humming sounds at beaches that have rather large sand dunes near a body of water. These are most commonly found in PEI and Newfoundland if anyone's interested in finding out for themselves.

I can dig the comments. It's neat insight. Plus, you're engaging the audience, which is something severely lacking on RU-vid these days. That said, did you hear anything about other mysterious marine sounds in your searchings? One that comes to mind is "The Bloop" which was some weird noise recorded on a huge array of underwater microphones, and as far as I know is unexplained as well. There are a few other things like that from the ocean, but their names escape me.

Ohh, the Hum. Been researching this for a while now. Never expected a video on it.

Another great video. I don't care if you do comments pertaining to the last video in the same video as the most current video or not. It's very decent of you to listen to your viewers and make changes in order to keep us/ them happy.

I remember reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, and in it, Sinclair describes 1890s Chicago as having an eerie, persistent hum whose origin couldn't immediately be identified, but which turns out to be the lowing of millions of cattle in the stockyards.

I was in Windsor recently for Thanksgiving, and I didn't notice a hum, although I wasn't outdoors very much, and wasn't particularly close to Zug Island (which sounds like something out of Oddworld btw)

Seeing the comments in the same video is the way id prefer. Its pretty fun since you're responding to the same comments I read on the last video.

there's a sort story called the Machine Stops, written in 1909 by E.M Forster, and he described a future underground civilization as having a hum-> "There was a ladder, made of some primæval metal. The light from the railway fell upon its lowest rungs, and I saw that it led straight upwards out of the rubble at the bottom of the shaft. Perhaps our ancestors ran up and down it a dozen times daily, in their building. As I climbed, the rough edges cut through my gloves so that my hands bled. The light helped me for a little, and then came darkness and, worse still, silence which pierced my ears like a sword. The Machine hums! Did you know that? Its hum penetrates our blood..."

That hum throughout the video really helped my tinnitus lol

The small town my college is located in hums and it is absolutely maddening. It sets me on edge whenever I hear it and I have to use a white noise machine and noise cancelling headphones to escape it. Avoiding a city with a hum is a huge factor in determining where I end up.

I really like the 1/2 content 1/2 comment feedback format. I say keep it going as is. Thanks for the excellence!

I like the discussions, keep them in the videos.

Let me just say that I live near Detroit and I've lived in River Rouge, which is near Zug Island, for 18 years if my life and I have personally heard the Windsor Hum for almost that entire time when living there. Sometimes I can still hear it from my home, which is about 10 miles away, on a really quiet day or night in the summer where I have my window open. It can be a little annoying when you are trying to sleep or something and you live right next to the hum at its loudest, but that's the price you have to pay when living near an industrial complex like U.S. Steel or a power plant. Of course technology will improve and the humming sound will diminish over time, but that doesn't help people living in these areas at this moment currently. The hum will die down when the orders for the producers of steel and other industrial plants finally subside because it has happened over 8 or 10 years ago when steel producers weren't making that much steel because of the recession and comparable job losses over that amount of time. Great job on the video and I just hit that Subscribe button! Keep it up!

i just love The Hum, what a lovely sound. i like this format btw

I live in Toronto and everytime there is a mini festival nearby with loud music I can hear the low pitched constant hum. I can hear it outside, but inside its louder for some reason.

Oh my god, I'm just sitting here watching this while ive been living in Kokomo, IN since the day i was born and I now realize a hum........ Thank you for mentioning the most non-chalant city in the entire US! P.S., keep up the good work, This Exists is by far one of my favorite kind of videos to watch on RU-vid!

Hybrid Librarian did a video on unexplained noises a while back including the famous Taos hum you mentioned. I think for these more rural areas, a contributing factor could be the geological make up of the lands the towns are built on. Places like Aberdeen in Scotland and Cornwall in the south of England, for example, are built upon large deposits of granite which gives off Radon gas, which is radioactive, and also a faint hum. Though these aren't reported on as often as the cause was easily identifiable.

Have it here as well; mostly noticeable at night in the summer. I figure it's the local Farmland plant refrigeration fans. Those skyquake noises were sound effects swiped from movies and have been repeated in numerous videos; I wish they'd stop it.

love your helloween t shirt, still got 7 keys on vynal oh and a good post on the hum :)

WOw seriously. Thank you for a trip down memory lane. David D + Brian C = EPIC!

I also subscribe to PBS Idea Channel and PBS Game Show, so, I like this format; keep it up. In other "news" I haven't literally heard anything like that clip but I've seen trees swaying like that (where I live) before. Then again that could just be strong wind...

Near my apartment in New York there is a metal fence surrounding a hospital. And whenever the wind hits it just right it does this high pitched hum/whistle. At first it seemed to come from a general direction that was hard to track (and could be heard from well across the street). You had to be four feet from it to actually be able to tell it came from the fence. Maybe these hums are wind hitting certain structures just right.

I like the current format of video and commentary in the end, I feel that discussion would really fall apart if there was a separate video for it.

I'm surprised Bloop wasn't mentioned. Not only is it a staple in the category of where-the-hell-did-that-come-from sounds, but it's also the most mysterious because of how ridiculously loud it was.

I would prefer to have the comments in a separate video. I never liked PBS idea channel's format of half video, half comments. But it's your channel so do what you like, good sir. Good content so far.

I prefer the current format over splitting the comment section off. I honestly probably wouldn't watch a pure comment video without the This Exists portion before it.

I do believe the Hum phenomenon is real. And the fact that not everyone can hear it is actually prove that it is quite real. The human hearing can be plotted on a bell curve - so about 1/5 of people can hear sounds that are ultra-low while a lot of people don't perceive it. And one of the recurrent theme in "humming cities" reports is that only a portion of the residents hear it. Ultra-low sounds have also been demonstrated to affect people's moods and perception even if they can't "hear" it. And these are reported by some of the humming cities' resident, too. It sounds scientifically plausible.

Awesome X-Files episode! I like all the things you guys are doing.

It is just the din of motor traffic, it is everywhere, mainly big rig trucks on the freeway.

Ever been in a building while a Directional Boring/Drilling Machine was pounding a tunnel underneath it? About half of the people in the building can feel or hear it, and the other half think the first half are crazy. Happens EVERY time.

my college campus has a hum and i think its just wind passing over open industrial pipes, kinda like the sound you make when you blow over the lip of a bottle

Something I find interesting about industrial-based hums: I live in Pittsburgh, PA, famous for its steel production, yet I've never heard any sort of humming noise. Of course, there aren't nearly as many operating steel mills in the area today as there were before the 80s, but I've been very close to them (I drove past the entrance to one a few days ago), and I've never heard a low hum like that. Considering I've walked around only a few miles from US Steel mills before, I wonder what's different about the one on Zug Island.

I've heard one of those "sky quakes" before here in NWI. Probably like 3-4 years ago.

sky quakes sound like breaking trains.. it does not hinder the episode, it helps alot

Is that spectral layers? I love that plugin!!

I don't mind you putting comments at the end of your video, but it might be hurting your RU-vid visibility. The % of a video people watch is used in their ranking system and if lots of people never watch your videos to the end they're going to lower your videos visibility

There is definitely something to be looked at in regards to sonic sensitivity, both super and sub sonic. I used to get instant headaches from walking behind a tube tv that my grandparents had and pick up lots of sensations from sound outside the average human ranges. Also my roommate showed me some fun conspiracy documentaries and one that talked about a resonant frequency that can destroy human organs; I believe the frequency was 8 Hz.

I live in Auckland and I've never experienced a "hum" like that. Although I haven't been to the North Shore recently, but I'll be sure to listen out for it if I'm ever visiting. As for the comments discussion segment, I really don't mind that they're tacked onto the end of the actual video, but it can make it a little confusing to navigate between different discussions. If they were going to be separate, I'd suggest making another This Exists channel, call it "This Exists Extras" and upload all the discussions and tidbits there. This also has the advantage of being able to continue the discussion in the discussion video's comments section, as opposed to continuing the discussion on the next TE video, which should ideally only have comments pertaining to that video, not the previous video.

I like having the comments with video. It ties the current video together with the previous.

Living in a city previously known for trains, I hear a lot of what people call "sky quakes", they don't sound like trains, but they are just really old trains on really old tracks. Not saying that's what everyone who hears them is hearing, but where I live, it certainly is. You should definitely make a video about them.

On Prince Edward Island, there is a place called Singing Sands where a humming sound can be heard which is supposedly caused by individual grains of sand in the dunes together. www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders/wonder_singing_sands.html

I have no clues, but I think the hummm commes frommm hummmannnns industial magnummmm opus. ..And wind .. Another good show. I like the comments part. It catches me up after a nice episode.

I lived in downtown Detroit for 15 years! Not once did I hear the hum but only when I would go vacation in Canada....yes vacation in Canada...

It's sort of just a bit of a bother - To be brutally honest I love your videos. *Your* videos. Not the comment section or the other watchers. I leave at the halfway mark when the actual video is over, because the last half is just unrelated tbh.

lmfao I thought my phone was messed up at the beginning of the video. The funniest part about it is that I got a new phone just about a month ago so I was about to be so pissed off haha

That's so weird, I was raised in Windsor since I could remember and I must have just gotten used to it and drowned it out.

Thank you for covering my comment! I prefer the existing episode + comments format... It shows your willingness to engage with your viewership, and incentives us not only to keep up to date on your latest videos, but also to provide our feedback and ideas. While it could be separated, I think that would impede upon the goals of feeling like it's more of a collaborative relationship rather than just an internet persona speaking to us.

Im from Cobourg Ontario, and i have noticed this all over since I was a kid, I moved through Oshawa, Brantford, amd have been all over Toronto, and Hamilton, and I hear this all the time.. its always in the back of my mind en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum, I have heard that what it is is a natural vibration of all the buildings flexing and bowing in the wind and thats why cities hear it more often but im not entirely sure.. www.thehum.info/

The sky quakes freaked me out! Like some alien invasion.

Skyquakes sound super awesome! I would love to see a video of that.

other places in acanada get weird humming too. not all the time but where i live sometimes theres a weird hum outside.

Wow fascinating thank you for the uploads great video quality and content

I'm from Hampton Virginia and I used to hear hums when i would sleep as a little kid, my parents heard it too so it wasn't just my young ears picking up something most people can't hear. I later found out that it got louder and louder the closer you got to a NASA wind tunnel across the river from where I live. That wind tunnel was shut down and eventually demolished several years ago. The humming never came again after they shut it down.

As a windsorite, I can confirm this. Plus THE SKIT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO IS TOO RELATABLE.

If you're interested I think you should so do a video on skyquakes because there are so many theories as to where they come from and why they happen. I enjoyed this video :3 I didn't know a a humming fish could make an entire city nauseas XD power to them!

I live in Victoria BC and never heard the hum until tankers started sitting out in a harbour close to my home. For the last two years it's been driving me nuts. Told its tinnitus by doctors...whatever. Now I listen to podcasts to drown it out.

Does this mean this ringing in my ears that I can only notice when I try to notice it or when it is completely silent is just a hum coming from a nearby town? IM NOT INSANE! :D

I hear a hum now in louisiana just like that,don't know where its coming from,noticed it at about 9:00pm central time.

I kind of have this problem. From my house you can hear some kind of toot coming from the city centre every few minutes and everyone who visits asks what the noise could be, but you cannot hear it outside of the house except if you are standing in the garden. We asked around the neighbourhood and made calls but no one gave concrete answers and no one seemed to be interested in helping us. I sometimes forget about it since it has been happening for years now. Still pretty annoying though.

I am sad that there isnt an episode on the bloop.

I've heard the hum! Of course, at about 12am, sounded like a low bass drum druming over and over.

Wait, wait. I live in Kokomo, Indiana, always have. There's no hum here. I wouldn't be shocked if there was a hum from the Chrysler Transmission Plant, but I've never heard a mysterious hum. Maybe the hum moved to Tipton when Getrag finally went live.

personally, every time i see a video from this channel, i look at how long it is and take half off of it for the comments.

If I strain my ears hard enough, I can hear a high-pitched humming. I live in Missouri.

Darude-Sandstorm

The skyquakes and hums make me think of the Thinny in the Dark Tower series....

Dude, I'm with you on the comments thing. The discussion gives context and differing views to your videos, and means these videos become a part of a larger conversation , rather than just being you telling us things

And about sky quakes, i have a recording on my phone from a very odd loud sound that no one heard besides me in my neighourhood.also there is allot of ufo activity here, i also jsve footage of that.mostly in summer time

About the comments: My personal problem was that these use to be 12 minute videos with 4 minute (tops) comment sections, but they've quickly become 8minute videos with 4 minute (average) comment sections. The videos are great, which is why I feel short changed by this compression.