There are, apparently, things that go boom in the night in Mount Airy.
Only trouble is, no one can figure out just what is causing the booms.
Glenda Mayes, who lives on Newsome Street, said she’s been hearing and feeling the loud noises and accompanying shock waves multiple times over the past few weeks. She said the most recent one was around 2 a.m. on May 1.
“It just about knocked me out of bed,” she said, admitting that while that might be a bit of an exaggeration, the noise was extremely loud and shook her house.
She’s not the only one hearing and feeling the booms.
Another mystery boom leaves San Diego grasping for answers
John Wilkens, The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 14, 2021
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A girl plays along the border wall, right, separating San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico, where it meets the Pacific Ocean, Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Tijuana.Gregory Bull/Associated Press
SAN DIEGO Everybody loves a mystery. But we like them solved, too, and so far an answer has been elusive for the Big Border Boom.
It rattled windows and shook doors across a large swath of San Diego and Tijuana late Wednesday afternoon, jangling the nerves of residents who’d experienced a similar noisemaker last month, and one a year earlier.