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This is ridiculous. Neither environmental hums nor hallucinations or tinnitus or other psychological sources are paranormal.

I'm fine dismissing out of hand paranormal hums and paranormal phenomena generally. You don't appear to even be in this group and yet you feel personally attacked?

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This is internet; the place where people go to exercise their right to feel offended. Welcome!

I read the quoted part as the whole class of people with this auditory issue being binned as truth-is-out-there nutjobs, and decided to offer a bit of perspective. It was probably an overreaction on my part.

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