Number Stations
I gathered with Angel Manoukian this last Friday night. A couple of days ago I invited him to come home to discuss about the nature of the EVP phenomena. I had some weird ideas on what I called the Supernatural’s Physics of Reception and I wanted to contrast them with the point of view of a specialist. In fact, I needed someone savvy enough to confirm (or deny) these eccentric hypothesis that assaulted me lately.
Angel arrived punctual at 22:30 and I served some quickly prepared vegetarian snacks. (Margin note: I’ve inherited a few splendid things from my grandfather, from rare books to his whole collection of paranormal artifacts, and I count the vegetarian diet as one of those inherited treasures. Some day I should tell here how come the eldest son of a ritual slaughterer -a shoykhet, in Yiddish- became a merciful vegetarian in his early teen years). We ate and talked in a very friendly mood, surrounded by the Spica’s white noise interference as our background music. Basically, our whole conversation swirled around Goldstein’s significant figure. We shared some of those great anecdotes of my grandfather and, in a curious way, that made me feel at peace. At least for as long as our dialogue lasted.
During our meeting, Manoukian revealed his latest project: at this moment, he finds himself analyzing the feasible paranormal sources of this yet unexplained phenomena widely known as “Number Stations”. These Number Stations are untraceable shortwave radio channels that carry cryptic messages, generally odd series of numbers and alphabets. Usually spoken by a female voice, the broadcast signals are being tuned worldwide from almost one hundred years back (that means by the time of the first human radio transmissions and the very beginning of the radio era).
Manoukian’s studies will lead him to travel, mostly to Europe and probably to India also. But I don’t know exactly to what purpose. He will be away for one month or so, though. It seems that Goldstein himself suggested to Angel to conduct this investigation; that was before his death.
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