Memories of taos new mexico do not include the hum

I read with intrigue Live Science’s online article on The Taos Hum in their list of Live Science‘s list of Top 10 Unexplained Phenomenon because it included such broad and well-known topics as ghosts and intuition instead of giving specific relatively unknown unexplained phenomenon in those categories. However, it was a delightful surprise for me to see The Taos Hum” in the list, because I visited Taos a number of years ago.

I don’t remember hearing a hum. However, I do remember exploring inside one of the pueblo houses, something tourists seldom have an opportunity to do.

A retired “Governor” of the pueblo invited me and my children into his parent’s house. At the time, he lived in the town of Taos, but maintained the house after his parents’ passing. The children and I enjoyed climbing onto the roof of his ground-level home, and the children climbed the ladder on the roof to the next house.

He also played a ceremonial drum for us. It was covered with a gorgeous hand-woven tablecloth and looked like a round coffee table until he unfurled the cloth.