Strange sounds of explosions frighten residents of Mount Airy, North Carolina, USA

Strange sounds of explosions frighten residents of Mount Airy, North Carolina, USA
Strange sounds of explosions frighten residents of Mount Airy, North Carolina, USA
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In Mount Airy, booming sounds are heard at night, similar to explosions or thunderclaps, accompanied by earth shaking and the passage of "shock waves". The problem is that no one can figure out what exactly is causing these sounds.

Glenda Mayes, who lives on Newsom Street, says she has heard and felt loud sounds and accompanying shock waves several times over the past few weeks.

"It just unsettled me," she said. "The sound was very loud and my whole house was shaking."

She's not the only one who heard and felt the tremors.

Mount Airy Police Sergeant J. W. Watson. Although Watson said his colleagues heard the noise and felt the shaking.

“The officers drove around the southern part of the city because they were constantly receiving calls, but they never found the source of the noise,” he said.

Mayes said the noises have been going on for weeks, sometimes causing her and her neighbors to run out of their homes in fear of an earthquake.

“Lately it’s been happening twice a week. It’s like a loud sound, like something is hitting a wall. A sound as strong as it’s happening outside our window,” she says, but when she and her neighbors go out on the street, they cannot understand what is happening. "When the first came, I thought maybe it was an airplane passing by, breaking the sound barrier, but no airplanes are flying by. I know they are not drilling in the quarry at this time of night."

This was confirmed by an employee of the North Carolina Granite Company. She said the quarry does not blast after dark.

A spokesman for the National Weather Service in Blacksburg, Virginia said his staff occasionally hear reports of such sounds, but if there is no thunderstorm nearby causing the noise, he says there are no known weather events that could cause explosions.

Some theories to explain the booms include explosions of meteorites high in the atmosphere; Plasma ejections from the Sun hitting the ground at a speed much faster than the speed of sound, creating a sonic boom; or even a strong expulsion of gas from the depths of the earth.

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