bajalera - 3-31-2006 at 02:06 PM
A noise sounding like thunder was heard near Calmalli in 1751, by Padre Fernando Consag and his exploring party. Local Indians said it was heard more
often in summer, and seemed to come from the earth at a nearby hill. Although the explorers looked, they were unable to find any fissure or crater.
In his book La Primera Entrada, Carlos Lazcano Sahagun says in a footnote [p. 158] that ranchers in the San Pedro Martirs have mentioned a similar
phenomenon.
Has any Nomad heard this mysterious noise?
Bruce R Leech - 3-31-2006 at 02:11 PM
we here it a lot here in Mulege more in the sumer time though and just before , during, or after it rains. we call it thunder here.
I have always called it "an earthquake"
Barry A. - 3-31-2006 at 02:37 PM
David K - 3-31-2006 at 05:50 PM
A belching gas spring? Chupacabra? Quien sabe?
Mike Supino - 3-31-2006 at 06:58 PM
Canejos????
Bob and Susan - 3-31-2006 at 07:04 PM
Rabbits???
Conejos=Rabbits
Fatboy - 3-31-2006 at 08:00 PM
Joking aside, this seems to be not so uncommon. It was also reported that a similar sound was heard around the northern Sierra's up here in Northern
California...
we get alot...
eetdrt88 - 3-31-2006 at 08:01 PM
of mystery noise around our house,as well as some mystery smells too:moon::moon::moon:
Paula - 3-31-2006 at 08:31 PM
Canejos are bunny crabs.
Bruce R Leech - 3-31-2006 at 10:11 PM
what are bunny crabs?
BajaNomad - 3-31-2006 at 10:27 PM
I think the humor is in:
conejo = rabbit
cangrejo = crab (smaller ones)
"canejo" must mean: bunny crab
Paula - 4-1-2006 at 07:21 AM
B.N.S.A.
You got it!
Paula
Bruce R Leech - 4-1-2006 at 07:33 AM
Ohhhhhhh Ok now I get it
jeffg - 4-1-2006 at 07:58 AM
Here in Vista we call that noise "shelling at camp pendleton".
Growing up in Arizona in the summertime we sometimes had what we called "dry thunder". Sometimes you couldn't see any clouds, but I assume they were
behind the mountain.
Jeff
David K - 4-1-2006 at 08:39 AM
Good one Jeff! I live near Mission San Luis Rey and a mile from base property... We call it the sound of freedom!
Bob and Susan - 4-1-2006 at 08:52 AM
no its the sound of MONEY!!!
now we need to make more toys...
burro bob - 4-1-2006 at 09:20 AM
Sometimes when I am out at the ranch at the mouth of canyon cajon I hear a rumbling noise like a big generator way off in the distance. Only problem
is I know no one else is running a generator out there.
A major fault runs goes right through the property. I have often wondered if I am hearing noise created by the fault.
Most of the booms around here come from fireworks, heard but not always seen.
Was Padre Consag traveling during Christmas or Mexican Independence day?
burro bob
bajalera - 4-2-2006 at 09:08 PM
Well, except for BBob's description, the answer to the question seems to be "No." Thanks, everyone.
Roberto - 4-2-2006 at 10:38 PM
I have hard of noise caused by plate tectonics in fault zones. What Burro Bob says makes sense and seems to fit in with that idea.
juanroberts - 11-3-2013 at 05:18 AM
Old thread. I do remember being with ranchers in Leandro Valle in the mountains South of Valle de Trinidad and hearing some low-pitched but deep
sounds in the faraway distance. I remember the more senior rancher speculating it was the waves from the Bufadora. This was questioned by the other
people in the party, with which the senior rancher responded: "Pues que mas puede ser?"
Add It To The List Dept.
DavidE - 11-3-2013 at 09:17 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/us/in-clintonville-wis-the-ground-is-going-bump-in-the-night.html?_r=0
DavidE
captkw - 11-3-2013 at 10:24 PM
Hola,,got your u2u,,any way have you heard of D.U.M.B'S they can go thru rock almost like it wasn't there...K&T
vacaenbaja - 11-3-2013 at 10:42 PM
La cosa esta canijo.
A few years ago I was in Bahia Asuncion at the time of the beginning of the earthquake swarms. I was standing in front of Manuel Arces' new place
looking
out toward the water while we talked. All of a sudden I heard a loud report.
I asked Manuel if the military was shelling he said no. I asked is there any
work going on where they use explosives. Again he said no. Then all became
clear as we were rudely shaken. I have heard from people before saying that
loud explosion like sounds occur before earthquakes but have never experienced it myself until then. That was not the last of the shaking. It went on
for quite awhile afterwards. Maybe Shari can tell us if the loud explosion like noises happened again during the numerous quakes that followed.
"tweeks," "whistlers" and "sferics."
mcfez - 11-4-2013 at 07:00 AM
Perhaps you all just heard my snoring....... this topic got my curiosity:
The Hum – ‘a mysterious and untraceable sound that is heard in certain locations around the world by two to ten per cent of the population’.
".......It’s electromagnetic noise emitted from auroras and radiation belts.
".........telephone transmissions and ‘aircraft operated by the U.S Navy for the purpose of submarine communications’.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2110523/Whats...
bajabuddha - 11-4-2013 at 09:38 AM
In southwestern Utah about 40 miles northwest of St. George are the Iron Mountains. I camped with friends there 35 years ago, and we heard 'thunder'
on a clear night. The area is close to the Nevada test ranges, but as history recorded, the early settlers would hear it, and the indians of the area
called them the "Thunder-Guns". It was explained to me as possibly from magnetic forces in the mountains, as they are very rich in heavy metals,
especially iron ore. How it all works is beyond me, but was a plausible explanation. Rocks carry 'positive' and 'negative' charges, and possibly
create .... ground thunder? Quien sabes?
The San Pedro Martyr is part of the California batholith, and is also very iron-rich. I'd venture there'd be lore of the 'booms' from indigenous
folk-tales in a lot of similar geologic make-ups, both fault-zoned or not.