Chapter One: Seeking a Higher Altitude

 

Mount Lassen, Lassen County, CA.(Tanya photo)

The Sound

I spent most of one winter after my Earthprobe adventure alone in a little A-frame cabin on an isolated lake about twenty miles north of Anchorage, Alaska. There was no electricity and the remote cabin was usually totally, absolutely silent, especially at night.

That’s when I first remember hearing a peculiar sound—a sort of low-pitched, hum so loud and so continuous that I thought it must be caused by some huge jet airplane flying just over the horizon—my cabin was located on flat land covered in those small tundra pine trees so common in Alaska, so my horizon was pretty close.

This was in the days of the cold war and the USA had some early-warning aircraft flying to detect incoming ICBMs from the USSR. But when I asked Anchorage friends about this, they said they knew of no aircraft making such a sound.

Since no one could hear the sound but me, I gradually got used to it. I even liked it. It was “company” out there on that lonely lake, but I stopped talking about it since I didn’t want to seem weird or different.

But I was very curious about the sound and since it seemed louder in some places than in others I thought it might possibly be some kind of audible earth energy that possibly I was sensitive enough to hear.

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