The more hits a youtube video gets, the more money goes in the pocket of the person who posted it.

I've seen some compelling UFO video's which later proved to be BS. My cynical side tells me making fraudulent Audio is both amazingly simple and profitable. Same goes with misrepresenting "known" sounds as mysterious.

oh really Emmmie? the Kiev one is a hoax? darn it, i liked that one too. LOL
thanks Em.
I wish I could hear something like that and get a video of it for real.
I'd know for sure then!
stupid hoaxer people.

pammie, yeah, but it did look pretty cool didn't it?  hehe.  Eat your heart out Alfred Hitchcock.

Powerdown, I've noticed a lot of things go viral on tin-only sites.  I know we don't trust the MSM either, but if I find something on the MSM and tin sites I usually find it is likely to be more credible.

Having once worked as a journalist I know editors are often desperate for "news" and items to fill newspapers/magazines and I think it's the same when tin goes viral sometimes - a lot of tin/conspiracy sites have a profit motive so it's pretty obvious some of them jump at anything, even when it's obviously very dubious.

It's sorta like armies looking for wars, yanno?

If you scroll down a bit here there's a guy claiming to be a sound engineer who says he can de-bunk most of them:
So, I looked at these videos from an audio-guys standpoint, and most of them seem pretty fishy.
I downloaded the videos, extracted the sound and analysed it using super secret pro audio toolz (Audacity):
Manitoba: This one is pretty ridiculous. The sounds don't even sound like they where recorded with the rest of the audio. They even have a bit of digital delay added, which makes this even more obvious. Listen to the last part, after 41 seconds.
The sounds simply don't fit in. A cityscape like this would have very spread out/distant reflections. So, lots and lots of subtle reverb. Listen to the hammer tapping.
Also, the sounds are too clean. You could never get a sound this clean with a camera mic. Especially on the low end. It's just too good.
Ohh, and if you speed them up they sound exactly like when you scrape metal stuff with a violin bow. Add some digital reverb and delay, and you got it.
Dawson Creek:Speed it up, and its just some animal noises (sounds like a fucking safari). Boring. Also, a slowed down crash cymbal at 42 seconds. WTF? This was clearly added in post (well no shit), since it's frequencies reach up beyond 10khz, and the camera recording already stops at 5.5 khz. And again, knowing how bad camera mics are at picking up low frequencies, these sounds would have to very loud to appear this clear.
Alberta: The supposed volume (it would have to be very loud to be able to be heard in ...........................

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oixhc/what_the_hell_are_these_noises_being_heard/

great stuff Emmie. I wonder though, do you think some of them are legit?
maybe someone posted a real one and the hoaxers got hold of it and thought it was a good idea?
like ufo videos?

pam, I think some of them are. 

Interesting thread on it here too:

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1755062/pg1

http://seektress.com/ssounds.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CNql-wSfM0A

Strange Sounds in Germany?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=cf96on0Uvyw&feature=endscreen

Strange Sounds in Poland?

Scotland.

that one of the foresters, scares the piss out of me.
almost like some big animal hollerin'.

That map is interesting because of the difference between the northern and southern hemispheres. There are only a total of 7 reports south of the equator and too many to count north of the equator. I learned sometime in the past few months that 90% of the population lives in the northern hemisphere. So, is the difference due to fewer people around to hear the sounds, or are there more sounds in the northern hemisphere? If there are more sounds, is it due to earth expansion activities, and does that mean that the northern hemisphere is going to have more physical consequences - or fewer?

Saw a report yesterday at GLP which attributes these sounds to dimensional rifts.

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I thought some of them sounded like they were from War of The Worlds too.......I think he's right that lots of them are hoaxes or exaggerated, but there still seem to be a lot of individuals in all kinds of places saying they're hearing strange sounds so I think there may also be something really going on.

Illinois:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5fzeGjVguQQ

Penn:

http://youtu.be/_MBmeV4lNYw

NYC:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3FyTVxdcQqk

Mainstream Reporting Strange Noises Heard Around The World - Jan 26, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UrpByvs2qvE