Did You Ever Repeatedly Hear a Sound and Have Trouble Finding Where It Was Coming From?

SeaBreeze

SeaBreeze

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Today I went out to do some shopping and I took our newer car ('07) that's usually parked in the garage. As I was driving for awhile and had been to a couple of stores already, I started hearing a sound, three beeps or peeps, it repeated every 5 minutes or so. I looked at the instrument panel and didn't see any warning icons there. When I pulled into the pet store parking lot to buy a bigger collar for my dog, I pulled out the owner's manual from the glove compartment.

I continued to hear those 3 beeps while I paged through it and tried to see what the audible warning might be, it was similar to the seat belt warning, but much shorter and quieter, didn't find any info. So, I called my husband with my 'new' smartphone to ask him, he said he didn't know, but if I didn't see a warning sign on the display, not to worry about it, and he'd drive the car himself to check it out.

Once in the car again, I started to leave the lot and heard it again. I pulled into another spot to listen more closely, heard it again but couldn't tell where it was coming from. So, I continued to my last stop which was the Safeway supermarket. I actually heard the sound while I was in the store, so I started to think it was my smartphone. I then put it in my shirt pocket so I could hear it better. Heard it again walking to my car, so was really thinking it had to be the smartphone.

When I got home I told my husband and we both heard the sound together in the kitchen, but it didn't sound like it was coming from the smartphone. A couple of times in the past couple of nights, I was also hearing a peep, and thought it was a smoke detector with a battery that was dying. We both thought it sounded like it came from the hallway and might be the detector. But I told my husband I was hearing it while out and about, it couldn't be anything in the house. So I powered off my smartphone, heard it again.

Then we thought it might be the key to the new car with a battery getting weak, so my husband took the keys into the bedroom where he was watching the TV to see if the sound was coming from there. We both heard it again in the bedroom, but it didn't sound like it was coming from my keys.

My husband said it must be something on me or in my pants (which I already took off), and I told him no, I only had the keys and smartphone and I don't keep any other kind of electronics in my clothes. We kept hearing it and scratching our heads.

He insisted I check my pockets and I had my old Tracfone in my cargo pant pocket. A few days ago I installed a GPS app on my smartphone to measure my walking distance and it wasn't showing correctly on the map trail at first. I remember putting the old Tracfone into my pocket and telling my husband if he had to call me, to call me on the old number, so I woudn't do anything to interrupt the GPS app from functioning properly.

Completely forgot it was in there, the battery signal was empty and that was where the beeps were coming from. I then realized that I was hearing it at night, and thinking it was the smoke detector. Happy to know where it was coming from.....duh! :getit:

Did you ever hear something and wasn't sure where the sound was coming from?
 

If you hear sound your ears are picking it up. There are sound waves so it's not something exotic like you were thinking. It's always a logical explanation.

I changed my ringtone on my phone. I kept hearing this strange sound coming from the bathroom repeating over and over.

It's was my new ringtone. I didn't recognize it.
 
I was driving along and heard what sounded like a bowling ball rolling around in my trunk. I knew I didn't have a bowling ball in my trunk, but that's what it sounded like.....bump-bump-bump-bump-bump and then bump-bump-bump-bump-bump. I stopped, checked the trunk. Sure 'nuff, no bowling ball. In fact, nothing that could be rolling around. Headed back out....bump-bump-bump-bump-bump.

It was driving me crazy. WHAT COULD IT BE???

Then I realized that I had the classical station on the radio and a symphony was playing. Somehow, the sound was down very low and only the rear speakers were selected. Yep, every time the kettledrums were played, they and they alone could be heard.

And, thus, the mystery was solved. No bowling ball, just drums.
 

I was hearing a strange noise a lot and kept searching for it. Can't exactly describe the noise but the closest thing to the sound is the sound of crickets on a Summer night. I turned off my tv and the sound kept up. Turned off the computer and it still was there. Turned off the fan, and so on and so forth and I still heard it. This is recently, too. I finally went in the bathroom where nothing is plugged in and could still hear it. So, then I went out in the hallway outside of my apt. and it was still there. Went down to the mailboxes and could still hear it. So the noise is coming from me and I think I have tinnitus and told the doctor that yesterday. He ordered a hearing test for me because he said it could be a sign I'm losing my hearing. At least it's no longer a mystery. :)
 
I can imagine your frustration SeaBreeze, I would have
to know where the noise was from too, I am glad that
you found it.

I can't think of one that annoyed me right now, but I
will try to remember if ever there was one.

Mike.
 
Camper and Jujube, your posts made me smile, so funny! Ruthanne, I get Tinnitus in one ear but thankfully it comes and goes, it's not a daily thing. Hope yours doesn't get any worse than it is.
 
A few weeks ago, I noticed a very subtle little noise while driving to the city. After a couple of "pings", I discovered that it was my digital wrist watch announcing the Hour. Somehow, I had inadvertently turned that function on, and it was letting me know the passing of every hour....I had to get out the instructions when I got back home to figure out how to turn that off.
 
Our furnace is in our laundryroom and there is a very slight beeping noise that we hear-but only in the winter. If the furnace is on,you can`t hear it because the furnace noise covers it,but if it`s off you can. But in the summer,nothing. I`m sure it`s probably trying to tell us something but we don`t know what. We`ve been hearing it for several years now though,so I guess it`s not urgent.
 
I've had severe tinnitus for many years. When it started, I'd frequently go outside & try to find where the noise was coming from before I figured it out. My tinnitus is several sounds - a low-pitch rumble like a generator & several high-pitch tones. That's why I like noisy environments; it drowns it out somewhat. When I first get to bed, I have the clock radio or TV set for 60 minutes so I can fall asleep; otherwise I can't.

A few years ago, I heard a tapping sound at my back door & I knew it wasn't tinnitus. It was one of the raccoons I feed, letting me know it was dinnertime.
 
twinkles said:
i have tinnitus in both ears so i am always hearing something ---some times it gets loud
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ditto..
My wife kept telling me that she heard music in my room...This went on for a few weeks, but I never heard it..Then one day she came out of my room laughing..It seems that when she vacuumed, she bumped my dresser and a tie that I got from my grandson for Christmas would play jingle bells!!
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I used to hear, intermittently, a beep sound, in the bedroom. It went on for around three years. I never found the source, but I was very glad when, apparently, the batteries behind the beep finally died.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Camper and Jujube, your posts made me smile, so funny! Ruthanne, I get Tinnitus in one ear but thankfully it comes and goes, it's not a daily thing. Hope yours doesn't get any worse than it is.
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Some days it's more annoying than others but having something like the tv or music on helps and so does white noise and my sound machine. Thanks.
 
One morning my husband came down stairs and said he was going crazy. I reassured him that was not possible since he was already crazy. But, he says, I am hearing a piano play in the middle of the night. Yup. That's our neighbor, when she can't sleep she plays her piano, oh, he says. But, you are still crazy-just not hearing things, I say. :)
 
So as we all know these electronic gadgets nowadays make all sorts of beeping sounds. So I had an old iPad that I never used any longer and stored in the bottom of a junk drawer and had to turned off or I thought. So I must have been going through that junk drawer one day and accidentally hit the iPad on/off button and turned it on without noticing. I shut the junk drawer which is located next to my bed in my bedroom. I live alone so I always hear all sorts of sounds coming from outside and such. So one day I started hearing this low tone beeping sounding periodically and I could not track it down because it was so muffled because it was in the bottom of this drawer and I suppose my hearing is not the same as it was when I was 20. So I was checking everything from my smoke detectors to my iPhone for weeks. It was driving me crazy. I then called my son and he came over and searched all around my room and checked the batteries on my land line phone to see if they were OK and they were. To make a long story short my son finally tracked it down and it was the iPad and the automated messages that were still coming into it. He not only turned it off, but also somehow deactivated it which I had no idea that could have been done. Now I don't hear the mysterious low tone beeps, but I still hear creeks and other strange noises throughout my home being alone in my house. :)
 

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