Most people think of radio as a source of music, news, sports, or talk shows. But hidden among ordinary broadcasts is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What are numbers stations? Numbers stations are mysterious, unsettling, and one of the strangest things you'll ever hear. They're ...

We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine purposes. But, of course, the mere fact that they are unusual makes them ...

In the shadowy corners of the shortwave radio spectrum, you can often find mysterious mechanical voices counting off endless strings of numbers -- in English, Czech, Russian and German … even Morse ...

What it’s about: Some time after World War II (if not earlier), shortwave radio broadcasts started appearing with no obvious purpose. A synthesized voice, usually female-sounding, would read out a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as I can remember, I have been interested in radio. My earliest experiences were nighttime AM radio adventures, ...

[Ringway Manchester] has an interest in numbers stations. These mysterious stations send presumably coded numbers or other coded information. However, it is rare that anyone claims credit for these ...

Number stations are, apparently, shortwave radio stations that intermittently broadcast random series of numbers: a Cold War communication system that still lingers. Number Stations is an album by ...