Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, ancient artifacts, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.
Ghosts have been known to haunt a lot of things. Old houses, hotels and battlefields are among the most popular. They’ve been known to bedevil grave yards, dilapidated restaurants – and in just one recorded instance – the swollen balls of a silverback gorilla. Now that’s an episode of ghost hunters we’d actually watch.
Now we’re hearing a strange story out of Scotland about an old, old unplugged radio that’s picking up long dead radio transmissions.
The Scottish Heritage Centre is a museum built on an old airbase to “[tell] the story of the men and women who served there.” That story, as we understand it, is a blatant rip off of All My Children season 23 with two exceptions – their version of Erica Cane lived a long fulfilling life with less than two dozen husbands, and the former airbase is packed full of ghostly ghouls.
According to X News Now:
“The aerodrome has been a source of paranormal sightings and sounds for nearly a century, with reports of ghostly figures, eerie footsteps and door handles turning…”
Now we haven’t necessarily been able to find any specific sighting accounts of anyone’s run-in with a see-through spectre, but they have something else that’s making headlines about now.
A haunted radio. This seems to have plenty of witnessy corroboration, as per STV’s website:
“The vintage radio set is kept in a recreation of a 940s room. Several people have heard Second World War era broadcasts including the big band sound of the Glenn Miller orchestra and speeches by Winston Churchill. The broadcasts come on at random and can last for up to half an hour. Technicians who examined it removed the back, but found “nothing but cobwebs and spiders”.
This reminds us of a separate story we’ve recently come across involving a time warping baby monitor. A young mother heard herself telling her child a story as had actually happened about five hours previously.
It’s pretty subtle, really, as far as time warping goes. At least nobody’s disappearing in this one. Still, maybe that hadron collider ripped a whole in the space time continuum as was predicted by some genius Russians or something.
If this is all true, maybe we can somehow use it to mankind’s benefit. Perhaps it will tell us the exact lottery numbers we’ll need to buy exactly 70 years ago to become filthy stinking rich.
Wait – there’s a flaw there somewhere. We can’t put our finger on it, but there’s a flaw there somewhere.
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