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Camp Monsters

The Taos Hum

Camp Monsters

Jenny Barber

History, Kids & Family, Drama, Fiction, Folklore, Legends, Spooky, Halloween, Stories For Kids, Monsters, Thriller, Society & Culture, Family Friendly, Personal Journals

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Since arriving in Taos, New Mexico, Frank has been plagued by a persistent, irritating hum. Hoping to escape it, he drives to Santa Fe to revisit old memories—but the hum follows, culminating in a strange and unsettling experience.

Transcript

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0:00.0

REI Co-op Studios. Usually here on Camp Monster's podcast we do stories about creatures that people thought they saw.

0:26.4

Monsters glimpsed for a moment at dusk and then gone.

0:29.6

Encounters that some may dismiss as the tricks your eyes can play on you. But this story is different.

0:36.7

This story is about the tricks that your ears can play on you.

0:42.3

If what we're going to talk about really is a trick. Maybe we're

0:47.9

biased being a podcast but sounds are amazing things. And just like their wavelengths of light that your eyes can't see

0:56.1

and others that are right on the edge of perception, the same thing is true of sounds.

1:01.6

For example, some of you can hear the tone that's been steadily building under the last few sentences I've spoken.

1:10.0

The rest of you are wondering what I'm talking about.

1:14.0

Or this one.

1:16.0

Some of you can hear that sound just fine.

1:18.0

You probably think it's kind of annoying, but...

1:21.0

But many of you can't hear it at all.

1:25.0

Maybe that explains the story we're about to...

1:28.0

about to hear.

1:31.0

Well, here, as long as we play it in the right frequency.

1:35.0

Well, maybe that's the explanation.

1:37.0

Maybe the hum that some people here when they visit Taos, New Mexico, maybe there really is a sound there, and only

1:47.0

certain people can hear it.

1:50.6

So listen. Really, really listen throughout this episode and keep listening, even after.

1:59.0

And if you begin to hear that sound, that sound they call the Taos Hum?

2:06.0

Well, it may be too late.

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