Weird rumble in Oklahoma
Folks in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma are disturbed by an intense blasting sound and window-shaking tremors that apparently have been occurring at noon every day this week. Hundreds of people have called the sheriff's office to complain. The source of the rumble remains a mystery. From KHBS:
Ron Lockhart, the Sequoyah County Sheriff, said the department has checked with every mining company in the county but none have reported any blasting....Mysterious Rumble Vexes Sequoyah County (via Fortean Times)
The U.S. Geological Survey has reported activity in Sequoyah County but does not believe it to be seismic.
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meth lab.
Beer baron.
RL Silent Hill! OR a low flying aircraft breaking the sound barrier.
Go to the forum (linked at the bottom of the article) and read the discussion. Some of the proposed etiologies are hilarious!
My geology professor mentioned a similar case in Colorado where a company was injecting waste deep underground at the same time every day. Turns out, it was lubricating a fault line.
sekrit underground military base blasting.
Yup, agree with Discorock: my money's on a sonic boom.
Or someone felling sequoyahs. they can get pretty big.
Graboids!
No sequoias in OK.
Anyone have a map of military bases handy? That's my bet. I seem to recall a AF base in eastern Kansas?
#6 No sequoias in Oklahoma AFAIK...
This is disappointing. When I read the headline I was preparing myself for some kind of face off between weird gangs, like yetis v.s. magicians, only to find that you don't mean that sort of rumble.
Go onto google maps and you will see that there are a number of Bigfoot sightings in the area as well:
http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=23628
http://www.oregonbigfoot.com/report_detail.php?id=01032
Camp Gruber Military Reservation is Nearby
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-fort_smith-1948.jpg
(map is from 1948, though)
cattle gas
@ #1 - yes, it must have been that bean you ate....
High performance jets typically operate at or above 10,000 ft. also the nearest AFB is hundreds of miles away. sonic boom seems unlikely. (unless there's a secret base there!)
It's an angry God pissed about all the gay action in Oklahoma. Where's Pat Robertson when we need him?
The stars are right.
@#10 POSTED BY Lydia9
That still could be the source for all the ruckus.
Moodus noises.
Although if it really occurs squarely at noon every day, that suggests a human rather than a (super?)natural cause.
Are they sure it's not just a rogue helicopter pilot?
McAlester is close by, and they have a huge ammo depot that you can see from the air for miles and miles. The ammo is stored in huge underground bunkers.
Can't I build my secret underground lair in peace? I need to tap into the lava steam to power my death ray and blasting during my minions' lunch hour is the most convenient solution. Just bear with me another couple of days. Then the world will be at my feet and you won't have to hear the blasting anymore. Well not THAT blasting anyway.
McAlester is not that far from there. There's blasting at the Army Ammo Depot all the time. Perhaps there's a weird quirk in the way it's traveling that they're hearing it over there?
Just a thought.
The idea of lubricating a fault line is fascinating. Seriously--can we do this in California--get it over with sooner than later (and maybe not at all if we could do quick little daily quakes).
Then you just keep pumping garbage into Mother Earth until she's all lubed up and smooth--prevent all the major earthquakes.
Hmm, that came out a little different than I intended...
My family has a vacation home on Lake Tenkiller. Tinker AFB from OKC has a camp near the lake with a boat dock on the lake. That's the only connection I know between tenkiller and the air force.
This is the dock in "Tinker cove".
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=altus+afb&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ll=35.694415,-94.985358&spn=0.003085,0.004828&t=h&z=18
Also, there are no sequoias in that area.
Meh. I say it's the new Hellmouth!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellmouth_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)
Lydia, I had the same thought, but I pictured something like a fight using nothing but fresh fruit as weapons.
Clearly we have the start to an opening to another dimension. The opening should be complete by 2012.
ODIN861...i just read somewhere that due to cost overruns and general jackassery that the completion date on that has been pushed back to 2015 an they've eliminated most of the water features and benches.
I'd check to see if the Flaming Lips are in town
It's either one of Obama's secret torture facilities or they are starting work on a vault ... lots of the locations are still unkonwn
Outgassing. Don't worry about it.
This all started Tuesday in Oklahoma... and Oklahoma is just north of Texas... My guess is that's it's W digging into a six-pack for the first time in eight years.
Do Okies have Jeeps with sub-woofers?
It's the Mole Men! Run for your lives, the Mole Men are upon us!
It must be a Noon Gun making a comeback...
After a whole week of hearing and reading the name of 'Obama' of course I didn't read 'Oklahoma' at first. The strange part is that it still made some sort of logical sense.
From The Sequoyah County Times:
OoooooooK...lahoma where the bomb blasts rattle through the plains.
I think it is a viral blast, started by a crazy person, and spread around the state like wildfire.
There is no Smoky the Bear in Oklahoma. . .do the math.
it's obvious someone's digging a tunnel to the local bank's safe from under the adjacent building.
Giant Worms!
The Battle Against the Mole Men is over now; once again, the US Army triumphed.
change in the watertable/aquifer?
Texas farted?
I heard a weird rumble/explosion about a half mile east from downtown Dallas on January 5th (we're about an hour-hour and a half south of Oklahoma) about 6:30am. Shook the whole house, thought a gas station had exploded two blocks north of us or something. The last time I heard a noise like that (almost exactly the same) was when the spaceship Columbia broke up over Plano/Dallas. The power to 80,000 people in Dallas county went out later that day. No joke.
Every day since the 20th? perhaps? Is it the sound of Oklahoma Republican's heads expoding?
It's not the bomb depot at McAlester- too far away. Could be Camp Gruber. That was a WW II basic training site, and is now strictly Black-Ops, top secret stuff. Then there's also the underground collective called Eloahim (spelling may be a bit off), where Tim McVey plotted prior to the OK City bombing. that's about 5 miles north of Sallisaw. Or maybe it's the ghost of Pretty Boy Floyd- He's from there.
"Chris Keathley, Sequoyah county emergency management director confirmed at 4 p.m. Friday that the mysterious rumbling noises heard throughout the county since Tuesday were bombs being disposed of by the U.S. Army Ammunition Plant located in McAlester."
http://www.sequoyahcountytimes.com/pages/full_story?page_label=home&id=1818688-Booms-are-bombs-official-says&article-Booms-are-bombs-official-says%20=&widget=push&instance=top_story&open=&
The giant ants are very close to breaking the surface.
All hail the new overlords.