Number Stations: The Dark Side of the Dial

Video clip featuring an audio recording of the infamous G2 Swedish Rhapsody numbers station.

The phenomenon of so-called "numbers stations," mysterious shortwave radio broadcasts that seem to exist only to transmit spoken-word numbers, snippets of weird songs and enigmatic codes, is a genuine mystery.

Exactly who is broadcasting these transmissions and why is unknown. One theory holds that the transmissions are part of espionage efforts by the intelligence agencies of different countries, another, that they are the work of oganized drug smugglers, while still another claims that they are actually communications between extraterrestrial space aliens! (One commentator on an Internet message board referred to them as “the aural equivalent of crop circles”).

While shortwave radio buffs have been aware of them for years, the numbers station phenomenon remains largely unheard of by the general public.

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