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An iceberg drift in the waters off Baffin Island in a 2014 file photo. The Canadian Forces say they have dispatched a patrol plane to the Fury and Hecla Strait to investigate a mysterious "ping" that has been reported by hunters.
There may be a mysterious “ping” in Canada’s North and the military has been asked to figure out what it is.
Hunters from the isolated Nunavut village of Igloolik have repeatedly reported hearing a strange sound from below the waters of the Fury and Hecla Strait, between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula, during the summer months.
The strait is a migratory route for several species of whales and seals, and some locals say they’ve been scarce this year. Local politician Paul Quassa speculated the sound could be frightening the animals away while speaking about the issue in the legislature last month.
On Tuesday, the Canadian Forces sent a CP-140 Aurora patrol plane to investigate the reports but were unable to detect anything out of the ordinary.
“The air crew performed various multi-sensor searches, including an acoustic search for 1.5 hours, without detecting any acoustic anomalies,” the Department of National Defence said in a statement.
The statement added that the crew did spot “two pods of whales and six walruses” in the area.
Speaking in the legislature, Quassa thanked the military for investigating the claims and said he would tell locals about the search coming up empty.
However, he urged his constituents to “keep telling the DND what they hear.”
The Fury and Hecla Strait ping is not the only mysterious sound in the country.
The Windsor Hum
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Welcome to Zug Island, home of The Windsor Hum. Or at least that's what science says.
Residents of Windsor, Ontario have long said they’ve been menaced by a spooky rumble known as the Windsor Hum.
Speculation about the hum has run rampant for years. Comedian and conspiracy theorist Joe Rogan, who said he felt “kind of gross” during a 2013 trip to the area, mused that the sound may be connected to HAARP, a U.S. communications research project that various theories have linked to mind control, weather alterations and even manmade earthquakes.
If that all sounds a little too much for you, there was also a much more conventional 2014 study conducted by scientists at Western University and the University of Windsor that determined the sound was coming from Zug Island, a heavily industrialized area on the Michigan side of the border.
However, the exact source of the rumble remained elusive because researchers were unable to access the site’s facilities, which are owned by U.S. Steel.
“We all know the Hum is real,” former Coun. Al Magnieh said in a 2014 interview with Metro. “What we wanted to know is what the Hum is, and what we can do to stop it. We wanted to know about potential health affects or damage to property.”
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