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There’s A Certain Sound That Makes 2% Of People Lose Their Minds — Are You One Of Them?

The hum is a low-frequency humming or a rumbling sound, like a truck idling, that only 2-5% of the population can hear. Hum ...
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That annoying ringing, buzzing and hissing in the ear – a hearing specialist offers tips to turn down the tinnitus

(THE CONVERSATION) Not a week goes by when I don’t see someone in my clinic complaining of a strange and constant phantom sound in one of their ears, or in both ears. The noise is loud, distracting ...
Gizmodo

Strange Buzzing in 9-Year-Old Boy’s Ear Was Actually a Tick Embedded in His Eardrum

Three days after a 9-year-old Connecticut boy started to hear a strange buzzing sound in his ear, his parents took him to a doctor at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. The boy reported that he had ...
Newsweek

A Boy Heard a Buzzing Sound in His Ear. It Was a Tick on His Eardrum.

A 9-year-old boy from New England who heard a buzzing in his ear discovered it was an insect that had attached itself to his eardrum. In a case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, ...
Live Science

A Boy Heard a Buzzing Sound in His Ear. It Was a Tick on His Eardrum.

There are some sounds you hope you never hear. For example, the buzzing sound of a tick burrowing into your eardrum. That's what happened to a 9-year-old boy in Connecticut who was taken to the doctor ...