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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Kuala Moon, your podcast of
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Speaker 1: original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make bedtime
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Speaker 1: a dream. Tonight, we have something a little different, a
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Speaker 1: special crossover episode for you all with the one and
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Speaker 1: only bust Or Trust Podcast. Darla and Ralphie are going
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Speaker 1: on a trip to New Mexico where they stumble upon
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Speaker 1: an unusual mystery that they need Teernin and Athena's help with.
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Speaker 1: Let's see if they can crack the case. Dala and
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Speaker 1: Ralphie Holmes needed a holiday. The two young twins had
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Speaker 1: enjoyed a particularly busy few months solving mysteries for their
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Speaker 1: family and friends, and a bit of time to rest
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Speaker 1: was in order. Luckily for them, their parents felt the
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Speaker 1: same way and had booked a summer holiday. The family
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Speaker 1: of four were going to New Mexico to stay in
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Speaker 1: a lovely hotel resort with a big swimming pool, slides
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Speaker 1: and discos on an evening. Darla and Ralphie were looking
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Speaker 1: forward to all those things, although they secretly hoped that
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Speaker 1: they would discover some intriguing case to keep their detective
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Speaker 1: brains occupied too. The day before they were due to
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Speaker 1: fly to New Mexico, the twins packed their suitcases. While
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Speaker 1: Ralphie loaded the cases. Darla stood by with a checklist
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Speaker 1: and pencil, ticking off their items one by one to
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Speaker 1: ensure nothing was missed. Ralphie held up a handheld torch
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Speaker 1: and announced torch. Darla replied check. As she ticked off
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Speaker 1: her list and Ralphie placed the item in their luggage.
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Speaker 1: He called out walkie talkies. Darla ticked and responded check
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Speaker 1: once again. They continued like this for a while as
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Speaker 1: they loaded their cases toothbrush check, magnifying glass check, suncream check,
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Speaker 1: voice recorder check. They packed up all of their detective
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Speaker 1: gizmos and gadgets just in case they needed them. When
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Speaker 1: the time arrived, Dad loaded all their suitcases into the
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Speaker 1: boot of the car and they drove to the airport.
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Speaker 1: The Holmes family checked in for their flight and handed
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Speaker 1: their bags to the flight crew. They passed through security
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Speaker 1: and made it into the terminal. As Darla and Ralfie
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Speaker 1: settled themselves on an airport bench, they realized that they
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Speaker 1: had spent so much time focusing on packing that they
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Speaker 1: didn't know much about their destination, so they decided to
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Speaker 1: search it. They searched the name of the town Taos. Instantly,
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Speaker 1: lots of links popped up on their Internet search, but
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Speaker 1: one link particularly caught their eye, titled the Great Mystery
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Speaker 1: of the Tows Hum. What is that, Ralphie asked Darla,
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Speaker 1: pointing at the link on the screen. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: she replied, but let's find out. She clicked the link
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Speaker 1: and they were taken through to a website all about
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Speaker 1: a fascinating mystery that had baffled the residents of the
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Speaker 1: town of Taos, New Mexico for years. The article stated
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Speaker 1: that a select number of people who live in or
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Speaker 1: visit Touse can hear an unusual sound that nobody else
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Speaker 1: can hear. Darla and Ralphie's interest was piqued, and they
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Speaker 1: wanted to know more. Do you think a theme and
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Speaker 1: teernin a bust Or Trust have ever looked into the
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Speaker 1: touse Hum? Darla suggested to her brother. I'm not sure,
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Speaker 1: he replied, let's see. The twins opened up their podcast
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Speaker 1: app and flipped through the bust Or Trust episodes. Miraculously,
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Speaker 1: their eyes fell upon one all about the Touse Hum.
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Speaker 1: With excitement, the twins plugged in their earphones, clicked play,
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Speaker 1: and listened.
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Speaker 2: Hello and Welcome to Bust or Trust a kid's mystery podcast.
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Speaker 2: I'm Tiernan and I'm Athena.
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Speaker 3: We unravel the world's greatest mysteries with help from you
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Speaker 3: are chief detectives.
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Speaker 2: We present all the evidence, and then it's up to
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Speaker 2: you to decide which team are you on.
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Speaker 3: Are you a myth buster like me.
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Speaker 2: Or are you a myth truster like me?
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Speaker 4: Bookcase?
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Speaker 3: Hmmm, Tinham, please stop that humming. It's really annoying.
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Speaker 2: You can hear the mysterious hum that means you're one
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Speaker 2: of the chosen few.
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Speaker 3: Athena, it's not mysterious you're doing it.
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Speaker 2: I don't think you can prove that at all.
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Speaker 3: Then why is the hum the exact same tune you
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Speaker 3: were singing all morning before.
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Speaker 2: I told you to cut that out too, Uh, total coincidence.
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Speaker 2: I think my hum, I mean, the mysterious humming has
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Speaker 2: an unknown source, just like today's case of the Taois
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Speaker 2: hum the low pitched humming sound that some people hearing
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Speaker 2: there is in the area of Taoos, New Mexico in
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Speaker 2: the USA.
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Speaker 3: But just like the mysterious humming I can hear in
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Speaker 3: this room that seems to be coming right from your face.
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Speaker 3: I think there is definitely a reasonable explanation for the
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Speaker 3: Taois hum. Would you like to hear some facts about it?
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Speaker 3: Mm hmmmm, I'll interpret that as a yes, okay. Taois
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Speaker 3: is in New Mexico, a state in southwestern America. New
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Speaker 3: Mexico is also known as the Land of Enchantment because
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Speaker 3: of its many stunning landscapes and for the Rio Grande,
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Speaker 3: the fifth biggest river in America, which runs through the
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Speaker 3: whole state. The Taois hum is a low pitched or
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Speaker 3: low frequency sound that people describe as a humming or
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Speaker 3: rumbling noise in their ears. Low frequency is a term
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Speaker 3: that means the sound is so low you can often
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Speaker 3: just feel the vibrations themselves. It was first heard in
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Speaker 3: the area in the nineteen nineties, when residents said they
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Speaker 3: thought they heard a rumbling that was coming from the
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Speaker 3: ground or possibly the sky. The source of the hum
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Speaker 3: still hasn't been found, but there are a lot of
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Speaker 3: theories about where it comes from, including movements of the
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Speaker 3: Earth's crusts or signals from aliens. But some scientists aren't
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Speaker 3: sure it exists at all, saying it's actually just a
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Speaker 3: rare hearing condition.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden Darla and Ralphie's episode was interrupted
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Speaker 1: by their father informing them that it was time to
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Speaker 1: board the plane. The twins paused the episode and packed
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Speaker 1: their tablet into their carry on bag. This is so exciting,
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Speaker 1: Ralphie gushed, as they walked towards the boarding gate. A
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Speaker 1: mystery for us to solve on holiday, Darla added, once
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Speaker 1: we're in tows, we can investigate and hopefully uncover the
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Speaker 1: truth of the hum once and for all. The homes
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Speaker 1: twins and their parents found their seats on the plane,
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Speaker 1: fastened their seat belts, and prepared to take off. Whilst
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Speaker 1: they waited, Darla whispered to Ralphie eagerly, So, Ralphie, are
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Speaker 1: you a buster or a truster? Ralphie scrunched up his
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Speaker 1: face and pondered, It depends on the mystery, he replied.
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Speaker 1: My detective brain naturally makes me a bit of a buster,
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Speaker 1: but sometimes the mysteries are too exciting not to believe.
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Speaker 1: Darla smiled mischievously and said, well, we'll find out soon.
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Speaker 1: When they arrived at their hotel in New Mexico many
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Speaker 1: hours later, Darla, Ralphie, and their parents headed straight to
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Speaker 1: the pool. While their parents lay down on the sun loungers.
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Speaker 1: Darla and Ralphie paddled in the water. Suddenly, Darla stopped
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Speaker 1: mid splash and looked around with confusion. What is that noise?
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Speaker 1: She said. Ralphie listened, but couldn't hear anything except for
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Speaker 1: the sound of chatter, music and splashing water. What noise,
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Speaker 1: he asked. Darla itched her ear. She replied, it sounds
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Speaker 1: like somebody humming constantly, or a low pitched propeller worring.
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Speaker 1: Then she gasped with realization. I think I can hear it.
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Speaker 1: I think I can hear the house hum, Darla exclaimed enthusiastically. Really,
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Speaker 1: I can't hear anything. Ralphie sulked. It's so strange, Darla said,
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Speaker 1: what on earth could it be? I think it's time
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Speaker 1: to do some detective work. She climbed out of the pool.
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Speaker 1: First things first, let's see what Tearnan and Athena found out.
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Speaker 1: Ralphie fetched their tablet and the twins plugged back into
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Speaker 1: the Apper said.
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Speaker 4: First piece of evidence.
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Speaker 2: Piece of evidence number one is that, as you mentioned
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Speaker 2: in your facts, Athena, absolutely no one knows where the
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Speaker 2: talis hum is coming from. At first, it was thought
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Speaker 2: it might be to do with a military base nearby,
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Speaker 2: but the military denied it. Then some people thought it
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Speaker 2: was to do with the natural movements of the Earth
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Speaker 2: or the ocean, but tests haven't been able to find anything,
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Speaker 2: and suggestions that it's caused by machinery or drilling have
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Speaker 2: also come up with nothing. In fact, in two thousand
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Speaker 2: and three, a team of scientists from Phillips Laboratory and
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Speaker 2: the University of New Mexico were hired to monitor the seismic,
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Speaker 2: which means vibrations and electromagnetic energy of the hum They
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Speaker 2: found nothing at all and finished their studies with the words,
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Speaker 2: we are left with a mystery. What is even stranger
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Speaker 2: is that researchers have attempted to record the sound using
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Speaker 2: all sorts of specialized equipment and sound recording techniques like
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Speaker 2: very sensitive microphones or infrasound sensors which are used just
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Speaker 2: for low frequency noises. Yet no one has ever managed
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Speaker 2: to record the sound at all, so it must be
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Speaker 2: coming from something or somewhere very mysterious, like as some believe,
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Speaker 2: alien technology out in space or alien bases deep underground.
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Speaker 3: It is very strange that with all the tests and
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Speaker 3: technology that we have today, a source for the hum
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Speaker 3: still hasn't been found, and it hasn't even been recorded.
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Speaker 3: One answer for this might be that the Taoist hum
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Speaker 3: doesn't actually come from anywhere. Only two percent of residents
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Speaker 3: in the area can hear the hum, and to each
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Speaker 3: of them it sounds different too. Some have described it
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Speaker 3: as sounding like the hiss from a sicada, which is
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Speaker 3: a very noisy insect, like a grasshopper, a swarm of bees,
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Speaker 3: a large truck, or just like the musical note e flat.
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Speaker 3: This has led a number of scientists to think that
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Speaker 3: people who hear the hum could actually have a type
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Speaker 3: of hearing disorder like tinatus, is, a condition that causes
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Speaker 3: a ringing or buzzing noise inside your ears. Another theory
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Speaker 3: is that people who hear the hum could be suffering
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Speaker 3: from something called spontaneous or to acoustic transmissions. This is
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Speaker 3: when the human ear makes its own noises, which happens
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Speaker 3: to a lot of people, but most of us aren't
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Speaker 3: aware of them. It might be that people heard about
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Speaker 3: the Taois hum and mistakenly thought that was the noise
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Speaker 3: they had been hearing all along.
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Speaker 2: Our ears make their own music. Well, that's the last
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Speaker 2: time I bother to use headphones, take it away my ears.
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Speaker 2: Those are interesting theories, though, Athena, but they don't explain
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Speaker 2: why most people who hear the hum can't hear it
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Speaker 2: once they get thirty miles or more away from Twis
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Speaker 2: and I think piece of Evidence number two will show
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Speaker 2: you that the hum is definitely real.
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Speaker 1: Dulla hip pause, unable to hold it in any longer. Aliens,
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Speaker 1: she said, Could it really be aliens? Ralphie grinned maybe,
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Speaker 1: he said. They would have to set out on an
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Speaker 1: alien hunt to find out. Just then, their mum called
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Speaker 1: them from her son Lounger. The tour guide was here.
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Speaker 1: It was time to pack up and head out to
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Speaker 1: see the sights. The tour would take them around house
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Speaker 1: and out to Blue Lake, a huge lake hidden within
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Speaker 1: the mountains. It would be the perfect opportunity to scan
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Speaker 1: the area for signs of aliens or secret military bases.
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Speaker 1: Once on board the tour bus, Darla and Ralphie couldn't
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Speaker 1: focus on what their guide was saying. They were too
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Speaker 1: busy thinking about what could be causing the house hum.
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Speaker 1: Do you think the hum could really be caused by
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Speaker 1: alien technology? Darla speculated. Ralphie wasn't convinced if there were
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Speaker 1: alien spaceships around, then somebody would have seen them by now, surely,
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Speaker 1: maybe zipping around in their UFOs. But they could be underground,
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Speaker 1: Darla counted, the desert is the perfect place for aliens
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Speaker 1: to hide out. There is so much open space. Look,
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Speaker 1: Ralphie and Darla gazed out of the tor bus window
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Speaker 1: at the open desert plains. Darla was right, there was
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Speaker 1: enough space for an underground city. But what, honestly were
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Speaker 1: the chances of that being true. Scientists have never found
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Speaker 1: any sure proof that aliens even exist, let alone that
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Speaker 1: they live on Earth. Ever, the buster, Ralphie teased, maybe
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Speaker 1: you just have tinatus. Darla snorted, sensing his mild jealousy.
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Speaker 1: I'm nine years old, Ralphie. I doubt I tenatus. She said.
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Speaker 1: They needed more intel, and who better to question as
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Speaker 1: a witness than a local. Darla raised her hand in
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Speaker 1: the car like she did at school, and asked, excuse me,
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Speaker 1: mister tour guide, have there ever been any reports of
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Speaker 1: alien activity in the area. Mum and Dad began to
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Speaker 1: giggle at their daughter's unexpected question. However, the tour guide
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Speaker 1: wasn't surprised by it. He must be asked this often.
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Speaker 1: He admitted that there had been several sightings of aliens
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Speaker 1: in the Taus Mountains. However, no evidence had ever been found.
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Speaker 1: It was all simply rumors. Ralphie whispered to Darla, you see,
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Speaker 1: I told you there is no proof that aliens exist.
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Speaker 1: Unable to agree on an outcome for the first set
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Speaker 1: of evidence, the Holmes twins decided to listen to some
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Speaker 1: more of the podcast to see if that would help
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Speaker 1: them with their investigation.
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Speaker 4: Second piece of evidence.
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Speaker 2: The second piece of evidence is that for the people
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Speaker 2: who can hear the tower's hum, it has a number
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Speaker 2: of side effects. The first person to publicly say she
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Speaker 2: heard the noise was Catania Saltzman, who wrote a letter
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Speaker 2: to the Towers News complaining about a deafening noise that
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Speaker 2: was interrupting her sleep. A number of other residents have
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Speaker 2: said it stops them sleeping too, and it's caused several
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Speaker 2: to leave the area entirely. Others have said it gives
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Speaker 2: them a headache, makes them feel dizzy, and stops them
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Speaker 2: from being able to concentrate.
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Speaker 3: Those symptoms could link the hum to indust your works
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Speaker 3: in two thousand and two in Coocomo, Indiana. In the
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Speaker 3: northeast of America. A noise caused people to get headaches
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Speaker 3: and even those bleeds. It turned out not to be
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Speaker 3: that mysterious at all, but coming from powerful air compressors
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Speaker 3: at a nearby car factory, noise pollution can really affect
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Speaker 3: people and wildlife too, So the nosebleedes and headache symptoms
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Speaker 3: may point to the towers hum coming from machinery. A
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Speaker 3: lot of everyday machinery make low frequency humming noises, so
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Speaker 3: people could just be hearing those things.
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Speaker 2: Very good points Athena. But for balance, I should say
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Speaker 2: that some people find the hum very comforting and soothing too.
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Speaker 2: It has even inspired artists who can hear it to
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Speaker 2: use the sound in their work.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I can see that your humming definitely inspires me.
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Speaker 2: Ah, does it really?
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Speaker 3: Yes? To go and work somewhere else?
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Speaker 2: Uh spoil sport? Well, once you hear the final piece
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Speaker 2: of evidence, you might find it tricky to go somewhere
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Speaker 2: that doesn't have a hum.
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Speaker 1: The tour bus poured up at the side of Blue
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Speaker 1: Lake and the Holmes family hopped off to take a
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Speaker 1: walk around its edge. The tall, rocky mountains watched over
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Speaker 1: them like guardians, and they all gasped with delight at
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Speaker 1: the breathtaking scenery. The small was in the middle of
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Speaker 1: a valley, surrounded by towering trees, grassy hills, and flowers.
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Speaker 1: Despite their beautiful surroundings, Darla and Ralphie were still enthralled
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Speaker 1: in solving the mystery. Ralphie was still not convinced. I'm
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Speaker 1: starting to think it's not real and it's all in
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Speaker 1: your mind, he said, But I can hear it, Darla implored.
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Speaker 1: It must be real. Can you hear it right now?
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Speaker 1: Ralphie questioned a little, Darla admitted, What does it sound like?
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Speaker 1: He asked, genuinely interested. Darla paused to focus. She stopped
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Speaker 1: in her footsteps and looked out across the lake. It
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Speaker 1: was so serene here. If she couldn't hear the harm,
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Speaker 1: then she would likely not be able to hear anything
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Speaker 1: at all. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath,
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Speaker 1: and listened. She attempted to explain. It's hard to describe,
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Speaker 1: but I can tell you how it makes me feel.
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Speaker 1: It makes me feel a little bit fuzzy, like the
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Speaker 1: air around me is gently buzzing against my skin. My
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Speaker 1: head feels light and clear, and it almost feels like water.
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Speaker 1: Is trickling through every part of my body. The sound
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Speaker 1: is subtle and constant, like a low musical note being
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Speaker 1: played on an instrument. I don't know, but it is
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Speaker 1: a nice sound, a peaceful sound, calming and intriguing all
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Speaker 1: at once. Desperate to hear it for himself, Ralphie poured
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Speaker 1: out his voice recorder and turned it on. Maybe he
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Speaker 1: could record the touse hum. He recorded for a few
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Speaker 1: minutes and then rewound the take to listen back. Pressed
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Speaker 1: his ear to the device and tried with all his
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Speaker 1: might to pick up the towse hum. But all he
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Speaker 1: could hear was the sound of static waves. He sighed
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Speaker 1: and switched off the device. Humph, it must be that
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Speaker 1: spontaneous autoacoustic transmission that Athena and Tiernan were talking about.
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Speaker 1: Your mind must be making it up. But Darla didn't
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Speaker 1: believe that something had to be causing the sound, even
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Speaker 1: if only she could hear it and her family couldn't.
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Speaker 1: Something must be creating it, or maybe so called hearers
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Speaker 1: are just special. After their walk around the lake, the
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Speaker 1: tour bus drove the family back to their hotel. Then
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Speaker 1: they've promptly dragged themselves up to their hotel room to rest,
00:21:16
Speaker 1: Dahla and Ralphie lay down on their separate mattresses and
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Speaker 1: decided to play the last part of the episode.
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Speaker 4: Third piece of evidence.
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Speaker 2: There are two parts to this final piece. The first
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Speaker 2: is that more people notice the Twis hum at night,
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Speaker 2: usually between nine pm and eight am, though some say
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Speaker 2: they can hear it all day long too. The second
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Speaker 2: part is that Tawis isn't the only place a hum
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Speaker 2: could be heard. Auckland in New Zealand has a hum
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Speaker 2: that is a slightly higher frequency than the one in Taois.
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Speaker 2: Hums have also been heard in Omar in Northern Ireland,
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Speaker 2: Bristol in England, and a number of other places all
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Speaker 2: around the world. If something very obvious causes the Tawis,
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Speaker 2: why are there similar mysterious sounds heard across the world
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Speaker 2: and why does it seem to be nocturnal. Just this year,
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Speaker 2: scientists discovered that there is a hum across the universe
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Speaker 2: that they believe is caused by black holes echoing as
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Speaker 2: they merge together. So maybe everyone in these places with
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Speaker 2: hums are just tuning into the universe.
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Speaker 3: Ah, that's a nice thought, isn't it. I'd sleep very
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Speaker 3: soundly if I could lie back and tune into the
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Speaker 3: sounds of the stars and the planets. But I think
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Speaker 3: it's very likely the sound can be heard more at
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Speaker 3: night time because there is less noise pollution from everywhere else,
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Speaker 3: and as we relax and go to sleep, humans are
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Speaker 3: more sensitive to hearing low frequency sounds. As for the
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Speaker 3: hums around the world, if it was caused by a
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Speaker 3: hearing condition, there's no reason people everywhere could have it,
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Speaker 3: not just in twis Or perhaps it's caused by machinery
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Speaker 3: from all around the world. It could be a combination
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Speaker 3: of a number of reasons. Maybe we'll only be able
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Speaker 3: to find out exactly what the tower's hum is caused
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Speaker 3: by when it stops.
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Speaker 2: And you know what, I bet some people will miss
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Speaker 2: it when it does too, just like I bet you're
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Speaker 2: feeling a lot less relaxed now I'm not humming anymore.
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Speaker 2: I know what will definitely help.
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Speaker 3: Oh oh, no, no, no, anything anything, But that's no.
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Speaker 1: I like the idea that we can hear the universe.
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Speaker 1: Dahla whispered wistfully. Maybe the tows hum is the sound
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Speaker 1: of the earth beneath our feet and the stars in
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Speaker 1: the sky. Ralphie whispered back, I like that idea too.
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Speaker 1: Let's go check if you can hear it louder outside
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Speaker 1: now that it's nighttime. The two twins rolled slowly out
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Speaker 1: of bed and tiptoed over to the glass doors that
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Speaker 1: led out onto the hotel room balcony, where their parents
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Speaker 1: were sitting on chairs gazing out into the night. Mom
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Speaker 1: and Dad pulled out chairs for the twins to sit
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Speaker 1: on and place their arms around their shoulders lovingly. Why
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Speaker 1: are you two still awake, Mama asked softly. Darla explained
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Speaker 1: that they wanted to look at the moon and stars.
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Speaker 1: The night sky was particularly clear here in house, and
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Speaker 1: the stars gleamed with a twinkle that the family hadn't
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Speaker 1: ever noticed before. Maybe you could hear the universe here.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the desert was so open and quiet that you
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Speaker 1: could hear everything clearer. Dad pointed out the planets visible
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Speaker 1: from Earth, and they all admired the trickles and streams
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Speaker 1: of galaxies decorating the dark air. The sky looked like
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Speaker 1: a sparkling tapestry. Can you still hear the hump? Ralphie
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Speaker 1: whispered to Dalla, and she sleepily nodded her head. Ralphie smiled,
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Speaker 1: I think I can hear it too, now, he said,
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Speaker 1: laying his head against his father's shoulder. The two twins
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Speaker 1: closed their eyes and listened to the sounds of the
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Speaker 1: night around them. Maybe they could hear the stars, the galaxies,
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Speaker 1: and the Moon orbiting out in space. Maybe it was
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Speaker 1: the tows hum or all in their imagination. Maybe there
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Speaker 1: were no sounds at all. Regardless, Dhla and Ralphie drifted
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Speaker 1: off to sleep, happily and peacefully, a little bit wiser
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Speaker 1: and a little bit more connected to the universe.
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Speaker 3: Ha