So my father bought me this tiny little fan when we were in Cologne, in replacement of the larger one that I used to use for a few reasons (background noise to drown out my imaginary mosquito, airflow to help me breathe...). With that, I have something that achieves the same goal while consuming less power, which is a nice compromise between me needing a fan and my father worrying about the electricity bill.

At night, the fan sits on top of a box (one that contained a magician's kit, with special cards and a hat and everything) to be at the right height. And last night, I was hearing a strange, eerie, otherworldly hum in my dream; it induced a storyline and events to match, where objects affected by the tune would be altered in space-time.

I woke up

...and realized the noise was still there. Like the humming of a machine of sorts, but so fuckin regular, just like ambient music.

I was waiting to wake up from that, but it continued and I felt my body normally. Then I understood it was real.

Sounds like a creepypasta, doesn't it?

Well, I was really creeped out for a bit, especially since this was unusual.

Then I remembered the fan, though I never knew its noise to sound like THAT. I managed to stretch over to it and push the switch to the "off" position...

And surely enough, the tune stopped.

That's when I realized, it's the sound of the fan's vibrations, from the edge I had put it on (rather than the middle like before) resonating inside the box.

I've recreated the noise upon Viscra's request (see my status) and tried to record it on my camera (the only means of digital recording I have at the moment).

The quality is terrible, the actual noise is way higher§pitched than this. So if someone can isolate the middle and high frequencies (the background sounds lower to me, at least) and sent the fixed tracks to me, I could put them up here.

Here are the original files.

This one is not so bad, though a little short. Sounds like it could be a BGM for a deserted factory kind of environment, don't you think?

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Here's a longer one, the middle and end of the record sound rather accurate (watch for the high-pitch part, it's normally present ALL the time but my camera misses it for some reason).

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I prefer this one by far because, unlike the others, that high-frequency component is clearly audible.

The last record was made with the box flipped, to see how it sounds with the fan on the opposite side. I don't like this one so much, you can hear my hand trembling against the box.

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