Posted on 08/03/2017 5:53:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber
“MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why.
In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate. Beyond its rusted bars is a collection of radio towers, abandoned buildings and power lines bordered by a dry-stone wall. This sinister location is the focus of a mystery which stretches back to the height of the Cold War.
It is thought to be the headquarters of a radio station, “MDZhB”, that no-one has ever claimed to run. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades, it’s been broadcasting a dull, monotonous tone. Every few seconds it’s joined by a second sound, like some ghostly ship sounding its foghorn. Then the drone continues.
Once or twice a week, a man or woman will read out some words in Russian, such as “dinghy” or “farming specialist”. And that’s it. Anyone, anywhere in the world can listen in, simply by tuning a radio to the frequency 4625 kHz.
It’s so enigmatic, it’s as if it was designed with conspiracy theorists in mind. Today the station has an online following numbering in the tens of thousands, who know it affectionately as “the Buzzer”. It joins two similar mystery stations, “the Pip” and the “Squeaky Wheel”. As their fans readily admit themselves, they have absolutely no idea what they are listening to.
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Wow. That is REALLY creepy.
Many years ago, there was a TV show called LOST in which a plane crashed on a remote island and the survivors stumbled upon a transmission station that kept reading off numbers interspersed with tones. Somehow they got brainwashed into thinking that they had to keep the transmission going at all costs or else something very bad would happen.
Many years ago, there was a TV show called LOST in which a plane crashed on a remote island and the survivors stumbled upon a transmission station that kept reading off numbers interspersed with tones. Somehow they got brainwashed into thinking that they had to keep the transmission going at all costs or else something very bad would happen.
Listen live!
Enter 4625 in the frequency box.
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
“What’s the Frequency, Kenneth.”
Laugh of the Day! Thanks.
“Get Moose and Squirrel”
In 2001 I brought my portable Grundig to Greece and one night I went outside with my daughter and told her to listen. We heard a number of frequencies that were just talking numbers in english. This was while the balkan civil wars were going on.
L8r
“Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor. “
Post of the Day!
>> Is the “woodpecker” still out there?
Did anybody ever figure out what it was doing? <<
It’s over-the-horizon, long-range radar. Not exactly a secret. Our people know all about it.
The radio transmission was in French. You may be thinking of the numbers (Hurley used to win a bazillion lottery dollars) that had to be entered into a computer in the first underground shelter they found.
Doing that bled off the powerful electromagnetic pulse, that destroyed the bunker once and that Desmond once failed to enter, bringing down their jetliner.
Makes you wonder why they didn’t just install a program to do it automatically but the premise of the show was pretty much the writers making up stuff as they went along ntil it reached the point that they had to run subtitles for viewers saying to themselves, “WTF?!”
LOL
The Chinaman is making pizza
Ed
Enough of this coast to coast AM crap.
Natasha has a beard.
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