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I was in Havana in January, 2017, around the time that this was happening. I walked around the US embassy one day. The weather was sunny but cold and windy; the embassy is on the Malecón, the seafront that stretches around Havana, and waves were crashing over the walls. It was unpleasant. I had never heard of the "Havana Syndrome" thing then, but in describing that day in my notes, I wrote that there was a feeling of pressure from the wind and sea spray. In hindsight, I wonder if this sort of weather condition contributed to perceptions of this syndrome. In videos I took that day you can sense this from the wind noise.


I wonder if specific wind patterns could be causing a building wide Vic Tandy's Ghost in the Machine - which is a great read for any HN viewer...

(I would link, but most results are of a PDF & linking those never goes well for me)

tl:dr standing waveforms and infrasound can do some strange things to humans.


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24236415_A_Ghost_in... (scroll down - for some reason the author listed above and the authors listed in the doc don't match)




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