The 'Big Border Boom' among many strange sounds that resound across the planet

REPORTING FROM JOHN WILKINS WITH THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE:

It rattled windows and shook doors across a large swath of San Diego and Tijuana late Wednesday afternoon, jangling the nerves of residents who’d experienced a similar noisemaker last month, and one a year earlier.

What was that?

The region joined a list of communities from coast-to-coast that are defined in part by unexplained goings-on. “Mysterious Shaking Rattles San Diego County AGAIN,” the website Strange Sounds trumpeted in a headline this week.

And this!

Thirty years ago, thousands of San Diegans were drawn to what some believed was the apparition of a slain girl on a blank billboard in Chula Vista. But unexplained loud, shaking noises are the most common, sometimes falling under the general term “skyquakes.”

On the East Coast, enigmatic booms are known as “Seneca Guns,” the name drawn from a lake in upstate New York, the setting for a short story, “Lake Guns,” written in 1850 by James Fenimore Cooper.

“It is a sound resembling the explosion of a heavy piece of artillery that can be accounted for by none of the known laws of nature,” he wrote. “The report is deep, hollow, distant and imposing. The lake seems to be speaking to the surrounding hills, which send back the echoes of its voice in accurate reply. No satisfactory theory has ever been broached to explain these noises.”

After Wednesday’s boom here, the first thought of many people — this being California — was “earthquake.” But the United States Geological Survey said no. Their seismic-activity sensors recorded nothing.

The article goes on to explain that similar issues happened in 2012 with booms in San Diego .. At that time the military did not take credit for any explosion noise..

Some are explaining away  the booms as skyquakes.

The stories and lure of the weird booms date back several years, as explained in detail in the article from Wilkins. 

Those who have been paying attention to the ground and sky may also realize this is not the only location globally where these booms have taken place.

People like Linda Moulton Howe have been documenting the strange explosion noises being heard around the globe for almost two decades..