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Mystery boom startles Roslindale again
By adamg on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 8:06am
Todd Johnson reports "another huge explosion" in Roslindale around 2:20 this morning. Johnson says he was in a back room of his house at the time, so it was hard to pinpoint the location, but that it seemed to have come from the same Belgrade Avenue/Fallon Field area where residents have reported other mystery booms.
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Boom in JP!
We heard a large boom around Green St in Jamaica Plain on 7/19/12 at around 11pm. It was strikingly similar to the descriptions of the booms in Rozzie - extremely loud, too deep to be fireworks or a gunshot, and accompanied by a flash of light. Our neighbors said that it was the loudest noise they had ever heard, and that they could feel it in their bodies. Our other neighbors reported that they saw the flash coming from the second floor of a house across the street. The fire department and police were called, scanned the area looking for evidence of a transformer explosion, and found nothing.
Probably Visitors escaping
Probably Visitors escaping through a cosmic gateway to their own worlds. I've seen some people in JP who look mighty 'otherworldly,' if you catch my drift.
JP boom
My bil was arriving in a cab and saw some young men running up green street from a cloud of smoke. I assumed it was an M80.
I heard it, as well
We're near Pinehurst & Belgrade and heard the boom sometime after 2am. It sounded incredibly close, almost as if it were on our street or very nearby. Much deeper than fireworks or a car backfiring.
Subwoofer-type sirens?
any chance that these are from those new-ish subwoofer type sirens that the emergency responders have so that people with blasting music can hear them coming, or are they louder than that?
To quote Michael Scott
"None percent chance"
It's a loud boom, isaac, not a siren coming from the street level. Thanks for the help.
Maybe I have tender ears, but
Maybe I have tender ears, but the things I (mis)characterized as "sub-whoofer sirens" do not sound like sirens at all - when quickly sounded, they sound like small sonic booms that are designed to be heard through headphones, souped-up car stereos, etc. They noise they make often sounds like they are coming from above as well.
Notwithstanding the fact I'm pretty sure that BPD has outfitted many of their cruisers with these, given what people are describing, I suspect that these were not in fact the cause of the noise (because, if for no other reason, why would they be using them at 2:30 a.m.?). However, I thought that it was worth throwing it out there as a possibility.
Police sub woofer
thanks for the snark anon, but Isaac may be on to something, I have heard those cruisers coming up Mcbride and the sound can be something between a WOOF and a boom. Thank you for your help. If only people who knew nothing, said nothing.
Metal plates?
Various utilities have been digging up my street over the past few months, and on occasion they've laid down big metal plates over the holes they're not ready to fill in yet. Get a big truck going over that plate a speed, and it can make a pretty impressive booming sound even during the day, and everything sounds that much louder at night.
Any digging going on in the area?
? about mystery boom.
was this reported on your local news? If so can you send the link?
No, only here and on Twitter
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It must be a mistpouffer
I think the rising sea level has Roslindale in its grip. Wordnik has the skinny.