Numbers Stations: Spy Communication, Alien Radio Stations, or Something More Sinister? | 81
Hysteria 51
ForthHand Media
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Why are there nearly untraceable radio broadcasts all around the world of seemingly random number sequences? What is their true purpose and who is behind them? Are these vestiges of Cold War spy-craft? A simplistic way for modern day terrorists to communicate? Or simply the most bizarre way to communicate with aliens this side of “Out Of This World” (you realize that was Burt Reynolds)? This week we head that the local RadioShack, get a cipher pad, and get to work. Plus, Conspiracy Bot decides he’s going to win the lottery (he won’t). We talk bad morning FM radio (we hate shows with too many drops and worthless characters). And we question how good Cuba actually is at this whole espionage thing (but man are they good at the sandwich thing). All of that and more on the podcast that isn’t in the spy game, but if we were we’d probably be a lot less James Bond and a lot more Austin Powers – Hysteria 51.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is the fourth hand protection. |
| 0:03.0 | In 1972, a crack Amano unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. |
| 0:08.0 | These men promptly escaped from a maximum security... |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, hey, you might need to start that again. These men promptly escape from a maximum security. |
| 0:12.5 | Hey, hey, you might need to start that again. |
| 0:14.8 | Get us some interference. 3.97. 3 9715 3 915 |
| 0:37.0 | 3 9715 |
| 0:40.0 | 3 97 1 1.5 |
| 0:42.0 | Okay what the hell was that? No idea, but I bet I know someone who does. Conspiracy Bot! What are you doing right now? |
| 0:51.0 | Eh, just playing with my shortwave radio and screwing with you guys. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm listening to numbers stations. |
| 0:57.4 | I like them. |
| 0:58.4 | Robotic voices are calming. |
| 0:59.7 | What you're talking about those old Cold War era transmitting stations that they just |
| 1:03.9 | send out random numbers and no one knows why. Yeah and there's still a bunch around |
| 1:07.8 | today. That sounds like a topic. Guess we have a new plan this week. Alright kids |
| 1:12.0 | grab your decryption keys and find the nearest radio shack |
| 1:15.0 | because we're diving into number stations next on Hysteria 51. |
| 1:19.0 | They say I'm disturbed. |
| 1:21.0 | From city to city an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
| 1:23.7 | I think we're getting into a weird area here. |
| 1:26.7 | Well you tell me, fools are not crazy. |
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