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Mysterious Booms Plague Wisconsin Town

Posted March 22, 2012 9:23 AM

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Authorities have been unable to locate or stop the strange loud booms heard in Clintonville, Wis.

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03/22/2012 11:57 AM

i remember, 25+ years ago when I Just got out of college and looking for my first job, I had an interview in Clintonville.

I got turned around and basically lost. I pulled over the temperature was 80 + degrees out, my windows on my car were down, and as I was going over the directions and a map, I heard a thump, thump, thump in the distance. I followed the source of the noise and found my distination. At a place called Walker Forge (Drop Forging).

I'm sure they ruled that out.....?

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03/22/2012 6:55 PM

These guys look guilty to me...

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03/22/2012 10:30 PM

What... when they take slow, pondorous steps?

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03/23/2012 4:36 AM

Those are concrete steps, we haven't used ponderous since the termites....

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03/23/2012 8:09 AM

Actually those two also showed up with the protestors in Madison, Wisconsin protesting against the States budget repair bill.

There were told they would get a free meal.

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03/23/2012 8:14 AM

Before they announced that it was all caused by a 1.5 magnitude earth quake, I was wondering if it was someone secretly operating an illegal mine. The booms were always heard at night.

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03/23/2012 8:11 AM

The USGS first said from the data from three of its semic recorders, that it was not an earthquake.

Later on some temporary semic recorders the USGS put in last fall, that its was a series of earthquakes that registered 1.4 on the Richter scale.

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03/23/2012 8:40 AM

It's those damn aliens again broadcasting the "end of the world sounds" over their new Hi-Fi system.....

sound check....check...check.....

[It's all over U-Tube BTW....]

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03/23/2012 8:55 AM

It's seismic activity alright, it's the Grays I tell ya!

They are in cahoots with the shadow guberment and new world order!

They have been tunneling right below our feet for years. They have this plasma boring machine that turns the boring spoils into glass to line the tunnels.

They have been quiet for a few years but with this recent activity somthin BIG is gonna happen and it's gonna happen soon!

The grays abducted my Uncle Stanley back in the 60s. Made him drink large quantities of corn liquor, true story, I seen how drunk he was when he got home.

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03/23/2012 11:51 AM

I hope to God that if I get abducted by the Grays they pour vast quantities of corn liquor (White Lightning would be better...) down my pie hole so I don't remember a dang thing while they do sexual experiments on me.........ohhh my my, my poor nads! LOL

I don't think these booms are earthquake related..... That excuse is just Gov't Spin Doctoring IMO!

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03/23/2012 10:30 AM

I was standing in my front yard in Charlottesvillle Virgina, in 2003, when I heard a very powerful explosion, as in with both vibration and auditory senses. It sounded very strange to me, though. I thought about it all day. Later on that evening, I saw on the local news that many people had called the police and other authorities, and had discovered that a minor earthquake had occurred in a location over 45 miles from my house, and that it had roughly corresponded to a location near an abandoned quarry. There was speculation that the sound had been amplified by the shape of the excavation.

Just recently, we had another quake, lasting over 15 seconds, and again I heard a very distinct booming. In fact, this time, as I am located near a railway, I immediatley thought a train had derailed. Further research has shown that this is not uncommon.

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03/23/2012 11:49 AM

In the same vein as "8" (CaptM) ... they can't seem to locate or stop the 'booming' that seems to pop-up at various/random intersections in town, either.

And ... likewise ... we don't seem to have YET concluded definitively what is causing the Zug Island "Hum", as well...

Mysteries_abound ... (no cause to lose sleep, tho'...!)

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03/24/2012 11:29 AM

Maybe it's backfire.

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03/24/2012 12:31 PM

LMAO!!!!!!!!

Good 'ole George ate some spicy Texas Chili beforehand....and the General had wished that he had kept his gas mask all along!

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