A mysterious noise is plaguing a northwest Atlanta community and keeping some neighbors up at night.

“It sounds like a tornado siren roughly,” one neighbor said.
Since it started about six weeks ago, neighbors in three different developments along Marietta Road in northwest Atlanta say they’ve heard the noise.
“It can go off at 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 3 a.m. and you don’t know what it can be,” said Wendell Burks.

“We are hearing sirens, maybe 10 times a day, late at night, at all hours,” said Anna Wagner.

When Channel 2 Action News visited the neighborhood Sunday, we heard the noise five or six times.
Atlanta Councilwoman Felicia Moore says her Facebook page is blowing up with concerns from constituents. Moore estimated the sounds can be heard by more than 1,000 neighbors in the Dupont Commons, Adams Crossing and Hills Park neighborhoods.


“I’m irritated, and I’m taking my irritation to the rail yard and they are saying they don’t know what is going on, so we are stuck right now trying to figure out where it is coming from, who is responsible and how we can stop it,” Moore told Channel 2’s Rachel Stockman.
Some neighbors report the sound is coming from the nearby CSX railroad.  A representative with CSX says they are currently investigating.
“It is a mystery. We’ve had someone contact CSX, they claim nothing has changed over at the yard. We’d like to get to the bottom of it,” Burks said.