Heard Any Big Booms Lately?

April 25, 2006, 8:11 pm
Posted by James Spann in General Thoughts
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Heard any loud booms lately?

Here is an interesting article from the San Diego Union-Tribune:

"Life can serve up a good mystery every once in a while. Weird things happen that defy explanation, that make us wonder how much we really know about the world. Something of the sort happened in San Diego County shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 4, and so far no one has come forward with an explanation. Whatever it was, it caused a woman's bed to shake in Lakeside. It created waves in a backyard pool in Carmel Valley. It set off car alarms in Kearny Mesa and rattled windows from Mission Beach to Poway to Vista. At various spots throughout the county, people reported a rumbling sound or a booming noise. Scientists insist it wasn't an earthquake. The Federal Aviation Administration has no record of any planes producing a sonic boom by breaking the sound barrier.

Nor, to this day, can anyone explain what was behind similar episodes in Maine two months ago, or Alabama three months ago, or North Carolina four months ago. In each of those cases – as well as in other incidents around the nation over the years – residents reported hearing windows rattle and feeling floors shake even though no earthquake was detected.”

I did receive this report from a viewer a couple of weeks ago:

“I live in Eutaw, AL and around 3:00 am this morning 4/21, I could have sworn i felt a tremor! I have only felt one other "earthquake" in this area and didn't know if i was dreaming or if it was real...!?!? I know in the past I have been able to find the seismic activity in the area from your website and can't remember where to go to find it… Can you help???”

No ideas here. How about you? Anyone else hear loud booms around here in recent weeks?
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Posted by  
on April 25, 2006, 8:28 pm
Funny you ask. . as a matter of fact, Sunday, late afternoon or evening. I didn't note the time. I was in the shower after staining our deck and I thought something had exploded somewhere. I asked Jim what it was and he didn't know. I live in Moody.

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Posted by  
on April 25, 2006, 8:32 pm
Can't remember exactly when, but it was in the past 2-3 months. Bothered me all day... I live slightly north of Oakman.

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Posted by John T.  
on April 25, 2006, 8:46 pm
I just love unexplained stuff . Drives us crazy , like the weather .

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Posted by  
on April 25, 2006, 8:51 pm
About 7 years ago I received a call of a loud noise and the earth shaking around North River in Tuscaloosa Co. We searched everywhere, went by all the gas wells. Turns out an abandoned mine owned by Drummond Coal collapsed on the Black Warrior River.

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Posted by  
on April 25, 2006, 8:52 pm
This sounds like some weird stuff from Art Bell's radio show

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Posted by   www
on April 25, 2006, 8:52 pm
I remember hearing reports of the "Taos Hum" a couple years ago, and reports of "skyquake" booms...

ULink is nexplained sounds page from About.com.
Pay real close attention to the last article on the page...

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa031599.htm

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Posted by   www
on April 26, 2006, 6:00 am
wow john b... very interesting indeed!!!!

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Posted by  
on April 25, 2006, 9:13 pm
Sometimes meteors create sonic booms, maybe that is the explantion.

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Posted by   www
on April 25, 2006, 9:22 pm
Nothing special around Vinemont, but the train causes a rumble from time to time...

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Posted by  
on April 25, 2006, 9:32 pm
Two fans die at Talladega Superspeedway
LAST UPDATE: 4/25/2006 10:32:11 PM

Keith Stell (39) of Birmingham, AL and Ronny Wright (42) of Remlap, AL died on Monday as they were setting up their campsite for this weekend's NASCAR racing at the Talladega Superspeedway.
,The two men were killed instantly after a flagpole they were erecting came in contact with power lines.

County Coroner Jerry Castleberry said "a witness saw a gust of wind cause the flagpole to fall. The men were still holding onto the pole when it touched the power lines and they didn't have a chance."

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Posted by  
on April 25, 2006, 9:46 pm
Didn't that same thing happen at a Boy Scout convention last year?

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Posted by Rob Buell  
on April 25, 2006, 10:55 pm
I would put my money on the previously mentioned sonic boom theory as I have heard sonic booms while watching falling meteorites on several occasions.

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Posted by Mikey  
on April 26, 2006, 8:03 am
Why all the fuss about watching cars go nowhere around and around a track?

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Posted by  
on April 26, 2006, 8:21 am
First, there was only one man holding the pole. THe other died when he tried to help the first. THe current was still flowing through the first man when the second touched him, killing him also. That was a tragedy.

Secondly, there have long been rules there about poles not being over 20ft long and that is the reason for it. But people are famous for NOT following safety rules, like during tornado warnings, when everybody goes out to their car to go home. How stupid is that?


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Posted by  
on April 26, 2006, 8:34 am
I remember about 7am on the 4th of April people here in Montgomery and Prattville heard a loud Boom.Local media run a story on they thought it was from aircraft arriving for the airshow that weekend but the military said there no aircraft arriving or flying around the aera at the time.

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Posted by  
on April 26, 2006, 11:37 am
Okay...I can't believe this has been posted. The original post says something happened in Alabama nearly 3 months ago...well, it had to have been about 2 or 3 months ago that I remember something weird like this happening. We live with my grandmother (who has Leukemia) in McCalla. It was late one night, in either January or February and I had fallen asleep on the couch watching T.V. I woke up and literally saw and felt the house shaking. The next day I remember trying to find some seismic graphs online to see if it was an earthquake tremor, but I never could find the right site. And I didn't see any of the local news agencies reporting anything unusual, either. I mentioned it to my grandmother and she said it could've been the train about a mile or two away. Of all the trains that come through in the middle of the night, I've never had one shake the whole house. It's usually a very calm vibration that you only feel if you're paying attention. This was something else... Glad I stumbled on this post. Very interesting!!!

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Posted by  
on April 26, 2006, 1:33 pm
Yeah,
I think I felt and heard a sonic boom last night after I ate some pork N Beans.

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