About the project
Built by someone who has heard the sound since childhood — for everyone who hears it too.
I hear it too
This portal was not founded by a scientist or a journalist. It was founded by someone who hears the sound — and has heard it for as long as he can remember.
I was born in 1985. Growing up in Rožňava, a small town in eastern Slovakia, I was maybe six years old when I first became aware of it: a deep, low tone, like a car idling somewhere far away with a subwoofer playing inside it. Monotonous, patient, always at the bottom edge of hearing. It drones on and then breaks off — not rhythmically, not in any pattern you could predict. Sometimes it hums for a long stretch, sometimes it stops after a moment. At night, when everything else goes quiet, it is clearest. I hear it during the day too. And I have heard it in other towns, in other countries — the same sound, as if it came from everywhere and nowhere, from somewhere very far away.
For years I assumed there was an explanation nearby. There wasn't. People around me heard nothing. When I finally discovered that thousands of people across the world describe exactly the same thing — the idling engine that isn't there, the irregular pauses, the nights — I understood two things. First: I had never been imagining it. Second: nobody was seriously, systematically investigating it. So I decided to build the place where that investigation can happen.
What this portal is for
pocujeminfrazvuk.eu ("I hear infrasound" in Slovak) has one mission: to become the world's most useful meeting point for people who hear the Hum — and to move the question from testimony to measurement.
That means:
- A world map of reports. Every point is a real, manually approved person. Clean data beats big data.
- A moderated community. Experiences, health and sleep strategies, theories, regional observations. No ridicule, no spam — every member and every post is approved by a human.
- Open hardware research. A section dedicated to detection: which microphones and geophones actually work below 80 Hz, how to record and analyze, and — the flagship goal — a network of time-synchronized stations across countries that could finally triangulate the source. Donations fund exactly this, and every result will be published openly.
What this portal is not
It is not a conspiracy site, and it is not a debunking site. Both attitudes end the investigation before it starts. Here, the working position is simple: the phenomenon is real, the people who hear it deserve to be believed, and the source is unknown. Wind farms, pipelines, industry, neurology — every hypothesis gets a fair hearing and, wherever possible, a measurement.
Who runs it
The portal is run from Slovakia by its founder, with moderation done personally — that is why registrations and posts take a little while to appear. It is non-commercial and carries no advertising. Costs are covered by community donations, which also fund the measurement hardware.
If you hear the sound: welcome home. Create an account, put your town on the map, and let's find out what this is — together.