The Sound That Only Canadians Can Hear

Everything that I know about Canada I learned by watching South Park. But the show hasn't mentioned this fact. There's a sound that only Canadians can hear, various described as "a large diesel truck idling, a loud boom box or the bass vocals of Barry White."

The sound is detectable to people in Windsor, which lies on Canada's border with the United States. But Americans across the river can't hear it:

Windsor residents have blamed the hum for causing illness, whipping dogs into frenzies, keeping cats housebound and sending goldfish to the surface in backyard ponds. Many have resorted to switching on their furnace fan all season to drown out the noise.

Even weirder, Americans can't seem to hear it. Canadians find that suspicious—especially since their research suggests the hum is coming from the Yankees' side—and accuse U.S. officials of staying silent over the noise. [...]

American officials contend there haven't been complaints on the U.S. side of the border. Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality looked last year at whether the companies at Zug started up any new machinery in the past two years that might be causing the noise and found nothing.

"The only place I am hearing noise from is Canada—from politicians complaining," Mr. Bowdler said.


Link -via VA Viper | Image: Google

i live in windsor and hear this noise every day, mostly at night. it could only be coming from zug island on the american side of the river as there isn't anything between where i live and the river.
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I sometimes hear a sort of morse code sound coming from anything with a speaker. I always assumed it was interference caused by something in my neighborhood until I went to Vancouver on vacation and heard it there too. MP3 players, white noise generators, video game consoles, audio receivers, they all seem to do it from time to time.

I'm not saying it's aliens but...
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The "idling semi truck" sound is commonly heard in lots of areas. We have it on the lee side of the Sierra Nevada too.

Other example: http://globalrumblings.blogspot.com/2012/03/strange-noises-around-world.html
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The sound is caused by the air turbulance coming from Captain Canuck flying around to protect maple leaves, poutine, bunny hugs, homo milk (in a bag), and Japadog. He doesn't for some reason seem to be very found of ketchup popcorn salt so you might want to spray some of that in the air around Windsor.
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I live in Windsor where currently this is a pretty big issue.
I have found however, that there are some sounds that only Americans can hear.
example: when I turn on "Fox news" all I hear is a babbling drone of incoherent peeps
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