Something weird heard while at the park

[GrouseTales]

When we were at park on cache hiding day, I heard something weird on my FRS radio while on scan.

On one of the channels, I kept hearing some goofy song followed by a computerized voice reading off a bunch of numbers. The song was a few notes of some unknown song, that kept playing over and over. It actually sounded kinda creepy, like it belonged in a Chucky movie. The numbers didnt seem to have any rhyme or reason to them. Just a bunch of random numbers.

The signal kept fading and had some static. It must have been pretty far away based on the signal clarity.

Has anyone else in the area heard this?

[RSplash40]

Hrmm… not too far away but only have a rubber duck antenna so I’m not sure I can pick up signals that far.

Maybe put out a call to all those cacheers who are ham and scanner buffs, have them do one of their triangulation hunts :>

[GrouseTales]

I’m a Ham radio guy, but my fox hunting gear is VHF. I don’t have directional antenna’s for UHF.

I’m not curious enough to drag my fox hunting gear along. I’m primarily concerned if this a regular occurance, it could interfer with our FRS repeater system. On the other hand, if this is some sort of meaningful communication, we could be interfering their communications.

[Flushingrouse]

Probably some “locals” having some fun sending some kind of secret messages….

Or,

Could be one of these…. Number Stations

Better watch yourselves in the woods… If you run into Bond, get me his autograph… 🙂

[ks9wi]

you don’t need a UHF antenna. You can do a body beam…. hold radio close to you and pivot in a circle. You are looking for the weakest signal… a null. When you find the weakest signal, (your body has blocked the signal), look 180 degrees from the direction you are facing.

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

Were these the numbers?
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.

Or was the voice speaking french?
Maybe it was the “others” on the other side of the park trying to make contact with you.

[Team Honeybunnies]

@Flushingrouse wrote:

Probably some “locals” having some fun sending some kind of secret messages….

Or,

Could be one of these…. Number Stations

Better watch yourselves in the woods… If you run into Bond, get me his autograph… 🙂

Wow. I read the entire article and some of the links and found it utterly fascinating. Thanks!

[greyhounder]

Spooky! Perhaps we’ll encounter this at the camp out…….. 😯

Bec

[GrouseTales]

Wow Bill, that is very facinating and creepy.

After playing some of the sound bites, I swear I heard the “lincolnshire Poacher” song. I have no idea what the numbers were, but the song was definately very similar, if not the exact same song. Once I heard it, I recognized it right away. Like I said, it sounded creepy, like from a Chucky movie.

Now there is no way I was picking up these Shortwave signals on my FRS radio. That would be impossible. Now this has really got my curiosity piqued !!!!!!!!!

This is a link to what sounds very similar to what I heard.

Thanks Bill !

[RSplash40]

hrmm… two things come to mind…

1. The numbers are a frequency to switch to?

2. The tones correspond to numbers on a tone dial phone? They then read them off?

No idea, but yes…creepy.

[knoffer]

Wonder if it was GMRS operating in the 460 MHZ range??

[GrouseTales]

@knoffer wrote:

Wonder if it was GMRS operating in the 460 MHZ range??

It could have been on FRS or GMRS. I was using a FRS/GMRS radio, and had the radio scanning in my backpack, just to hear area traffic. I don’t know if it was transmitting on the FRS or GMRS portion of the band.

The “tones” were not DTMF tones, it was music. Just like the Lincolnshire poacher song.

[Team Deejay]

I suspect that is the number one FM station in Waupaca, WLSP.

[hogrod]

I used to work as a tower hand constructing cell phone and radio towers, and quite often would pick up strange things on the numerous radios we used.
we were constructing a cell phone tower near Bancroft,WI (just north of vista royalle campground) and kept picking up some factory workers chatter 15-20 miles away in Wisconsin rapids.

If I remember correctly I also remember hearing someone reading off numbers, though the guys on the ground couldn’t hear it (and yes it was a little creepy). it’s amazing the range increase of a hand held radio when your sitting at 250′ or higher on a tower.

This was one of the worst locations we worked at in terms of radio interference. we were lifting the last 20ft section of tower into position and communicating with the crane operator via radio. some wise A_ _ decided to come on radio and tell the crane operator to come down with the load….. luckily he knew it wasn’t one of us.

[Jeremy]

I’ve got a couple ideas where these transmissions could be coming from, from least plausible to most plausible.

– al-Qaeda operatives reporting back to Osama’s cave or spider hole in Afghanistan.

– As a former resident of the area, I know Central Wisconsin is a widely considered hotbed of weird radio anomalies. It has been dubbed the Plainfield Hexagon (roughly from Rosholt to Stevens Point to Wisconsin Rapids to Friendship to Wautoma to Waupaca). This is supposed to be due to large magnetic rocks moved here from Canada by the last glaciers. For example, in 1992 a young boy from Almond heard what turned out to be police radio transmission from Belgium on his boombox.

– Picking up transmissions from a high-powered Mexican border blaster radio station

– I heard some weird noises while hiding caches in the southwest corner of the park, where it borders a farm. They sounded more like bells or chimes, but it could have been music. A lot of farmers play music for their cows to increase milk production, so I wonder if this farmer is using one of those cheap baby monitors to send music out into his fields for the cows to listen to?

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