Red Herring

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Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It was the early 80s, the height of the Cold War, when something strange began happening off the coast of Sweden. The navy reported a mysterious sound deep below the surface of the ocean. Again, and again, and again they would hear it near their secret military bases, in their harbors, and up and down the Swedish coastline.

After thorough analysis the navy was certain. The sound was an invasion into their waters, an act of war, the opening salvos of a possible nuclear annihilation.

Or was it?

Today, Annie McEwen pulls us down into a deep-sea mystery, one of international intrigue that asks you to consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe, your deepest beliefs could be as solid as...air.

This episode was reported by Annie McEwen and produced by Annie McEwen, Matt Kielty, and Sarah Qari, with sound design by Jeremy Bloom.

Special thanks to Bosse Lindquist.

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0:00.0	Oh wait, you're listening.
0:07.0	Okay.
0:08.0	All right.
0:09.0	Door listening to radio lab.
0:11.0	Radio lab.
0:12.0	From WNYC.
0:14.0	See?
0:15.0	Yeah.
0:16.0	Hello.
0:17.0	I'm Lulu Miller.
0:18.0	This is Radio Lab.
0:19.0	And today?
0:20.0	Boom boom.
0:21.0	Oh, hello.
0:22.0	Hi.
0:23.0	A story from producer Annie McEwen from her bathroom.
0:30.0	I'm actually like straddling the bathtub here.
0:33.0	I think I did yoga last night.
0:35.0	I do think our thing is like underwater mysteries from the 90s.
0:39.0	Yes.
0:40.0	Okay.
0:41.0	So today I have a story.
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