Every now and then, I run across some bit of information on the Internet that suggests that what has happened to me in northeast Seattle is not an isolated occurrence. Last week I found another, a bit of cross-talk in a years long thread of Australians seeking advice in the NoiseHelp forum on persistent humming and vibrating noises intruding into the quiet of their homes.

Much of the thread is to be expected, the usual discussion about the clatter of industry, the pulsing of the grid, tinnitus, and the maliciousness of neighbors. There was also discussion about electronic noise from “smart meters” and an illness called “Smart Grid Syndrome.”

But what interested me was the January 2017 comments on low-frequency sound of an Australian with the handle “Big Boy.”

(Passages of particular interest are bolded for emphasis. I’ve made a few copy-edits to make it more readable.)

In Melbourne Australia a group defective vermin are using low frequency sound to harass neighbours, businesses etc,

Think of this group as a gang composed of family members and familiars, with expertise in the set Up and operation of commercial sound equipment

This vermin have been active in suburbs all over Melbourne for at least the last ten years

This gang has links to organised criminals who use property investment, development as a money laundering scheme

Thousands of ordinary Australians have had the quiet enjoyment of their homes ruined by these vermin

Many have been forced to sell their homes.

Ordinary people cannot imagine in their wildest dreams that vermin like this gang exist.

This is how this gang has managed to continue unhindered for at least ten years….

Typically the sound generator will be installed in a residential property, and affect individuals within a 300 metre radius from this point.

The next post, made on January 15, 2017 by “Lis” agrees.

Big Boy is Right
by: Lis

I agree with Big Boy. My next door neighbor is harassing me over a fence dispute to make me move by using amplified bass since June 2013. I now have Vibroacoustic Disease or VAD. I have hearing loss, sleep deprivation, and my chest aches due to the bass vibration. My heart doctor requested an echocardiogram of my heart: “increased septal thickness.” The lining of my heart is thickening because of the bass vibration. The thickening of the pericardium that surrounds my heart is a diagnosis for VAD. I have my medical records and have reported this neighbor to the Police and my HOA. They do nothing. You can feel the bass vibration all through my house. My house is flooded with bass. Read New York City’s ordinance on Bass Frequency: Sometimes residents are disturbed by pervasive bass sounds that resonate and can be felt physically by a person.

• Bass sounds measurements are weighted in the “C” scale and may not exceed 6 dB(C) above the ambient sound if the ambient sound is greater than 62 dB(C).

I purchased a C level sound level meter from W.W. Grainger (UNI-T 5URG5, $200). I measured the bass noise and I know the bass noise is originating from my neighbor’s property over to mine. My neighbor is getting away with murder.

In response to a query about where this is happening in Melbourne, on January 18, 2017, Big Boy elaborates:

Well Sammy i know for a fact that these vermin are ,or have been active in suburbs such as:

Mentone
Chelsea
Carrum caulfield south
Ormond
Glen iris
St kilda east
Prahran
South yarra
Elwood
Melbourne cbd

And Sam,I suspect, many more!

The purpose?

Let’s say an eastern European crime gang wishes to invest in property, your property, someone well dressed knocks on your door, asks if you’re interested in selling.

You and your family enjoy living where you live, you say, not at this time.

All very polite!

Some months later a powerful amplified hum manifests in your property, you and/or your family are being woken in the middle of the night. This hum will vary in frequency and intensity, but will be incessant.

Still not interested in selling Sam?

This is just an example of how this vermin will acquire properties ,where owners have no interest in selling.

Some of these multi-unit developments require the acquisition of several residential properties.

The other reason you may have been targeted, is that these vermin are defective miscreants! Simple malice.

Civic compliance officers of your local council can only act on a complaint if you can identify the device and which property it is located in.

This is in essence impossible. Council officers have the right to enter a property.

The source of low-frequency sound is basically impossible to pinpoint.

The police are in the same position.

The essential problem with this situation is this:

Ordinary people have no idea that sound exists in this form.
That it can affect them in the ways it may,as described in my previous post
There are devices that can generate sound in this form

And the big one!!!!

No ordinary Australian is going to guess that you and your neighbours are being stalked by a gang of defective vermin located in a property 100 metres down the road!

(http://www.noisehelp.com/humming-sound.html)

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I can’t substantiate it, but perhaps someone else can. Even without substantiation, this thread illustrates the importance of information sharing. If mobbing is a criminal technique of house flippers and speculators over the globe, it won’t be until we can make sense of it and pool information about its occurrence that we can expose and defeat it.

Police and governmental authorities fail to recognize the significance of what appears to them to be a local, isolated instance of real estate mobbing, especially when it appears as “neighbor harassment” or includes bizarre claims of unusual types of sound. In the end, it’s the victim who appears to be crazy.

We need to begin to connect the dots. Speculators seem to have come up with a sneaky way to turn over properties without getting caught. We have to show that this is a method, and there is a pattern. We have to make sense of it, and document it, in order to defeat it.