We've been flooded with emails ever since we published a police log post about several recent reports of unexplained 'explosion noises' in Salem.Ever since we published a police log post entitled "
Explosions Heard on Bridge Street" last week, we've received more than a dozen emails from Salem residents who are interested in finding out what's causing the unusual late-night noises.
At 12:22 a.m., on Monday, Nov. 19, local police officers responded to multiple reports of loud explosions in the area of Bridge Street. A search of the area, however, didn't reveal the source of the alleged sounds, according to
the following morning's police log.
Some local residents even emailed in other information, including other dates when they swear they heard similar unexplained booming sounds echoing across the city.
One even suggested that there could be some correlation between that
earthquake in Maine in October and the booming noises heard just beforehand in Salem. (A minor 2.1 earthquake was recorded in Belfast, Maine, on Friday night.)
Here's some of the comments our readers have posted about the recent noises:Jared Robinson Yeah. The explosions on bridge st were wicked loud. There were like 4-5 loud ones.
Carolyn Costain Hey Jared, I hope, Peabody and Salem can find and explanation for the explosions and I hope they "are" just transformers. I do a lot of research and people have described and heard the same kind of unexplained explosions as we heard ,usually before an earthquake. I have been looking at the earthquake live maps but see no activity, " yet" when we felt that quake a few months ago, there were reports of the same kind of explosions heard and within only a few short days the quake struck. I hope both Salem and Peabody find the "actual source" and that its not the earth shifting in our area?