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For two years, the noise plagued residents of Holmfield and Queensbury near Halifax in West Yorkshire, disrupting their mental health and work performance (). A Facebook group started by Yvonne Conner in February 2021 drew locals who also heard the noise, and a petition gathered hundreds of signatures. Council officers worked day and night to pin down the mysterious noise, and within months three possible causes were being honed-in on. Finally, in October 2022, the council admitted they The Holmfield (or Halifax) Hum is the latest in a sonic mystery heard across the world since it was first widely reported in Bristol in the 1970s.
