Over the past couple of months, I have been hearing reports of strange sounds that seem to be coming from the sky. The strange thing is, these reports have not been localized to a specific area. Individuals have reported “sightings” of the sound from all over. Quite a few people have jumped on the HAARP bandwagon, but I think that label gets slapped on phenomena way to easily, so I am refraining from joining in for now until there is better evidence of that. What we do know is that this low bass rumble seems to continue for extended periods of time and no one know what it is or what is causing it (at least anyone who is talking). This example comes to us from Tallahassee, Florida, posted May of this year to YouTube. According to the witness, 911 and the local news station reported receiving multiple calls about the sound that lasted 20 minutes.

The witness reports that the final “answer” offered by the local news was that the sound was thunder. As a life long Floridian who has been in his share of storms, I can tell you, that is no thunder. Sheilaaliens on YouTube, thinks that the noise may be from NASA’s rocket tests at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. However, Stennis is over 300 miles from Tallahassee. If the sound was so loud witnesses thought there was a tornado coming, the test would have been deafening in closer communities, including the city of New Orleans (which is only 40 miles away), but we don’t have any reports of the sort. Especially when you consider this video from St. Petersburg (450 miles away) that was taken at the end of August of a similar noise, if NASA testing is to blame for the racket, it sure doesn’t seem to be coming from the Stennis Space Center.

This only begins to address the Floridia “sightings” of the sound. In similar videos you can hear the sound in Maryland, Spain, Denmark, and many other places all over the world. These sounds all seemed to suddenly start this year. What could be causing the racket? HAARP? A geologic event? UFOs? Tell us what you think in the comments.

More Strange Sounds Recorded

Being a Floridian I have spent more than my fare share of time on the state’s beaches and from time to time have seen some weird stuff wash up on shore, but I have never seen anything this weird/awesome in my life. Earlier today at Siesta Key Village, Florida, Jeff Hindman found a giant Lego Minifig washed up on the beach. Now for the life of me, I can not understand why he left the 8 foot figure on the beach (if I had found it, it so would be sitting in my living room making my inner child uncontrollably giddy), but he did.

Amazingly, this is not the first time that this has happened. Yes, giant Minifigs have washed up onshore before. Four years ago a similar Minifig was found in Holland followed by a second in Brighton, England a year later. At the time research into the giant Minifigs revealed a connection to a website for Ego Leonard which is apparently run by a group of Dutch artists. Could this giant Lego have spent years floating in the Atlantic before making its way to the Sunshine State or is it part of a new group of giant figures deposited off the Florida coast (possibly linked to recent opening of LegoLand Florida)?

Giant Lego Man washes ashore in Florida

photo by SammyDavisDog

To say that in Caracas, Venezuela traffic is a problem would be making a gross understatement. In the Sucre district of the city it has become such a problem that the mayor has turned to mimes to help tame the area’s traffic woes. The 120 specially trained mimes wearing brightly colored “clown-like” costumes took to the streets the past week to admonish traffic law violators. Surprisingly, this isn’t a new idea. A similar program that was successful in Bogota, Colombia prompted Sucre’s mayor Carlos Ocariz to give the mimes a try. Will giving bad drivers the “silent treatment” prompt them to change their ways?

In Venezuela, gas is cheap (like 14 cents a gallon cheap), driving is seen as a right and very little is done to regulate it. In fact, Venezuelan authorities were unable to even suspend drivers licenses until 2008 and they didn’t actually suspend a single license until earlier this year when police stopped a bus driver whose vehicle was overloaded with passengers, speeding and missing a wheel. The driver’s license was suspended for one year. The maximum suspension that the law allows is 5 years, but you need to kill someone to receive that harsh a punishment. With no real penalties for breaking traffic laws drivers are free to do what ever they want on the roads. Speeds on Venezuela’s pothole filled highways routinely exceed 100 miles per hour as drivers weave from lane to lane and motorcyclists treat sidewalks as their own passing lanes. With such little emphasis on traffic safety, it is hard to imagine that putting mimes on the street in will do anything but add to the chaos.

City Hires Mimes to Give Bad Drivers the Silent Treatment