Anyway, what Kennedy had heard in Henry Akeley's house sounded like one of these. You can hear hundreds of these online and the more you listen to them, the stranger the world seems. The most famous is one known as the Lincolnshire Poacher, which goes like this: So it's a whole weird thing. No one knows where most of them broadcast from or to.
Numbers stations were used a lot in the Cold War and some of them are still going today. It's generally believed that these are coded instructions being broadcast to spies in the field.
In case you don't know, numbers stations are shortwave radio broadcasts, usually consisting of a recording of someone reading out a series of numbers. Maybe it was kids,Īt that time of night? And I don't think you'd get freaked out by kids playing games. I ran like hell for the car and drove away. Anyway, you heard it on the tape.Īnd when you opened the door, there was nothing there.
I didn't imagine something banging on the door. The next morning, she played me the recording and we went across the road to the café to talk it all through. Kennedy drove straight back to London without stopping. Now, I want you to step away from the front door. I'm armed and the police are on their way. Okay, I'm gonna confront the Martian invaders with a rolling pin and a pair of scissors. From this window I can't see down to the front door. When he saw me he said something that I couldn't hear. I looked out the window and Walter Brown was standing at the gates staring up at the house. I came out the front door and they drove away a few minutes ago. I couldn't see who was inside and I don't know how long they've been there. And when I woke up, there was a black car parked in the lane across from me. I tried to cut in on the frequency, but no one responded. I can't be precise about when it started, but it woke me up. The broadcast came through at about three o'clock this morning.
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