// GZS 197.7 · THE PODCAST
Transmissions from the Fringe
Short, strange, and all true. Numbers stations that never stopped counting, a ghost ship with the coffee still warm, a sound the ocean made once and never again. Read by the Wolfman, off the edge of the dial.
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The Golden Record
Every story on this show so far has been us, down here, listening to the dark. · June 21, 2026
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The Reply
In nineteen seventy-four we shouted one sentence at the stars. · June 14, 2026
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The Child Voice
Of all the coded voices that lived on the shortwave dial, the one that frightened people most sounded like a little girl. · June 7, 2026
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The Bloop
In the summer of nineteen ninety-seven, the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a noise so big it broke every rule we had for what is down there. · May 31, 2026
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It is not an Aircraft
A young pilot flew out over the water at dusk, started describing something to the man on the radio, and got about as far as a person can get before t · May 24, 2026
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The Hum
Most people in the world have never heard it. · May 17, 2026
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The Hessdalen Lights
There is a valley in central Norway where the lights come down into the hills, and for once the scientists went up to meet them instead of laughing th · May 10, 2026
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Vrillon
On a Saturday evening in southern England, the news was running, and then for about six minutes the news was not in charge of the channel anymore. · May 3, 2026
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The Ghost Ship
Out in the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and the Malay coast, two ships caught the same distress call on the same night, and what it said was wor · April 26, 2026
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The Lincolnshire Poacher
Somewhere a tape deck clicked on, played a few bars of an old hunting song, and then a woman started counting. · April 19, 2026
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Seventy Two Seconds
The universe has said exactly one word to us, and it said it in the summer of nineteen seventy-seven. · April 12, 2026
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The Intrusion
There is an hour of the night when the television stops talking to you and starts talking to itself. · April 5, 2026
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The Long Echo
Some nights you talk to the sky. · March 29, 2026
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The Buzzer
Somewhere in the forests west of Moscow, a machine has been clearing its throat for fifty years. · March 22, 2026
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