Ancient Walls, Strange Sounds RoadyGoat
Just north of the town of Taos stands Taos Pueblo, a multi-storied adobe village that's been continuously inhabited for more than a thousand years, making it one of the oldest living communities in the country. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site, sharing that list with the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramids. The high-desert light that washes over these walls drew painters in the early twentieth century and built Taos into a celebrated art colony; Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams both worked nearby. And then there's the genuine mystery: the 'Taos Hum.' Beginning in the early 1990s, a small fraction of residents, only about two percent, reported hearing a faint, persistent low-frequency drone with no obvious source. A 1993 scientific team with seismographs and spectrum analyzers came up empty. Decades on, no one has pinned down what causes it, or whether it's out there at all.
