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Strange noise in Clintonville: Engineering firm hired to try to find epicenter of loud, booming shakes

Jessie Van Berkel
PostCrescent.com
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:44 UTC
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© Ron Page/The Post-CrescentShawn MacDonald (foreground) and Tammy Strey-Hirt of Clintonville listen during a question-and-answer session Wednesday night regarding the unexplained booming noises being heard in the city as citizens and members of the media gather at Clintonville High School to ask questions of officials.
Officials have tried to record a series of mysterious booming sounds that have roused residents from their beds in the past few days, but their attempts have come up empty.

City administrator Lisa Kuss, addressing a crowd of about 400 people Wednesday night at a public hearing to talk about the phenomenon, said the city will spend $7,000 to hire Waukesha-based engineering firm Ruekert & Mielke, which will place four seismometers around the city to try to locate the epicenter of the strange sounds.

If the firm finds the epicenter, the next step will be to pinpoint the depth and what is causing it. The cause is likely only a couple hundred feet under the earth's surface, Kuss said.

"It's possible we'll never have a definitive answer," Kuss told the audience at the Clintonville High School auditorium.

The big shakes have elicited big attention and the room was lined with media, including reporters from CNN, NBC and a photographer taking photos for the New York Times.

See an interactive map of where the reported "booms" have occured in Clintonville
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Strange noise: Ireland residents tormented by 'mysterious' night time 'helicopter noises'


Derry Journal
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:46 UTC
Roe Valley residents are mystified over strange late night noises high in the sky, which has left them scratching their heads. The late night noise surfaced recently in Drumsurn, according to local Sinn Fein councillor Brenda Chivers. "It's very annoying. It starts around 7pm and can go on until 2-3am. People have been out searching to see what it is, but they see nothing. There's no plane, just this constant drone, and nobody seems to know what it is; unless it's flying saucers! It's a mystery."

A similar noise was reported in Derry recently, but there was never any conclusion as to what it was. In the meantime, residents around the Roe have been "tormented" by late night "helicopter noise". "People are telling me they are hearing this noise at a time when children are either going to or are in bed, and it has wakened some and prevented others from getting to sleep," said DUP Colr. Alan Robinson, who said no one could tell him the source of the noise. "Someone knows the answer and I hope it will be discovered soon and the usual quiet Limavady nights return."
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Mysterious rumblings bring down a barn in Vancouver Island, BC, Canada


Sooke News
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:37 UTC
A barn on the 4000-block of Otter Point Road collapsed after a series of unexplained tremors rumbled through the region on Thursday, March 15. Barrie Hanslip, owner of the 35-acre property where the barn was located, said the steepled barn tumbled downward after a large "boom" and rumble at 11:30 a.m. The large tremor was preceded by two smaller shakes around 9:00 a.m.

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Bizarro Earth

Strange noise: Something's rattling small Wisconsin town


CNN
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:44 UTC
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Mysterious explosions. Unexplained shaking. Something's going on in Clintonville, Wisconsin, but nobody seems to know what it is.

The sounds -- variously described as rattling pipes, clanging metal, thunder or firecrackers -- have continued on and off since early Sunday night in just one part of the small town of 4,600, located about 180 miles northeast of Madison.

Accompanying the sounds are vibrations that have shaken homes and household objects in the northeast corner of town, city manager Lisa Kuss said.

The sounds were loud enough Monday morning that a CNN journalist could hear them during a cell phone conversation with Kuss.
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Evil Rays

Strange noise: Unexplained booms continue through the night in Clintonville, authorities stumped


Star Tribune
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:11 UTC
Wisconsin, USA - Sleep is interrupted again for some residents in the eastern Wisconsin city of Clintonville where a series of mysterious booms continued for a second night in a row.

City Administrator Lisa Kuss (KOOS) says it was mostly quiet Monday after a series of rumbles the night before until they started again around 8 p.m. She says they continued throughout night until about 5 a.m. Tuesday.
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Strange Sounds: The Case of the Unexplained California Sonic Boom in 2009


Top Secret Writers
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:40 UTC
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It was around 9:15 p.m. on a Tuesday evening in March of 2009, when suddenly the residents in Orange County, California experienced a strange sort of rumbling that rattled the windows and shook doors.

What made the rumbling particularly odd was the fact that witnesses reported their homes didn't shake at all - only the doors and windows of their homes shook. In one specific account, one woman reported how she watched the bedroom doorknob rattling as though someone was trying to open the door - yet no one did.

It spooked her greatly, because she was home alone with her 1 year old daughter. That witness told the Orange County register that she didn't hear or feel anything - only her doorknob rattled as though from an invisible hand.
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Unexplained Noises Shake Clintonville Homes


WBAY
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:04 UTC
(Wisconsin, USA) Authorities in Clintonville say they're looking into unexplained noises and shaking felt around they city Sunday night and early Monday morning.

Police say around 9:30 Sunday night, people started reporting explosion-like sounds shaking their homes.

Police officers say the sounds are like loud bangs with shaking.

The reports were concentrated in the northeast part of Clintonville.

The most calls came in just before 3:00 a.m., but city administrator Lisa Kuss tells Action 2 News the noises then tapered off, and the last report was at 5:30 a.m.
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Rumblings in Sooke Spark Mystery


UFO Digest
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:28 UTC
(British Columbia, Canada) In the last 48 hours a number of people in Sooke have reported feeling powerful tremors that some believe are an earthquake. "I heard what sounded like a freight train coming, that rumble, and it was very brief.


My bed actually shifted," one Sooke homeowner told CTV News. Seismologists say there are no indications of an earthquake in the Sooke area and all calling the recent reports a mystery.
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Mysterious rumbles bring down an old barn

Jack Knox
Times Colonist
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:10 UTC
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© Supplied photoMysterious "rumbles" are blamed for the colapse of Sharon Hanslipês barn in Otter Point on Friday March 16, 2012.
(British Columbia, Canada) Life is full of mysteries: why hot water freezes faster than cold, how they built the pyramids, why anyone listens to Rush Limbaugh.

And now, or perhaps still, The Rumbles.

Three times Thursday morning, an unexplained phenomenon rattled windows, dishes and nerves from Langford to Otter Point, even knocking down an old barn.

It sounded like sustained thunder, or God bowling. Some feared it was an earthquake, others suspected blasting, while still others thought it was bad choices from the '60s coming home to roost.

"It's still pretty much of a mystery," said Otter Point's Sharon Hanslip on Friday.

The episodes came at 9: 30 a.m, 10 and 11, the last the most intense. "It shook the house and brought down the barn."
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SOTT Focus: The Cs Hit List 06: Let's Do the Planetary Twist to the Tune of the Brothers Heliopolis

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:39 UTC
OK, it's time for more weirdness. As we covered in a recent SOTT Report, accounts and recordings of strange noises heard all over the world went semi-viral on YouTube in January this year, and some are even receiving mainstream media coverage. Some YouTube pundits claim they're all faked, a couple of scientists say they're 'normal' and nothing to worry about, and many are freaking out as the phenomenon is feeding the '2012-apocalypse-oh-my-God-we're-all-gonna-die' hysteria. So what's really going on?

The hype appears to have started with these videos from Kiev, Ukraine, posted on 3 August and 11 August 2011, respectively. (Although, as we'll see later, these were not the first accounts.)



(See here for a translation of the uploader's account of the sounds and analysis and here for a summary of the associated thread, with additional analyses and accounts.)

Dozens of videos have been uploaded since then, some obviously faked, others perhaps not. For example, at least 28 videos posted in the months since Kiev obviously use the sound from the original video played over random video footage, sometimes with staged 'Oh-my-God-what-is-that?' dialogue. And, no, as far as I can tell, none of them use samples from the films Red State or War of the Worlds, as some have claimed. The similarity is striking (trumpet-like blasts, metallic rumbles and such), but truth has been known to resemble fiction. And it wouldn't be the first time that similar strange noises have been heard, both in recent times and the murky depths of history recorded in myth and legend.
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