I’m interested in the Most Mysterious Song on the internet for those who do not know I’ll pull a page out of Wikipedia
"The song was reportedly recorded from a Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) broadcast sometime in the mid-1980s, likely during or after 1984.Since 2019, this song has been the subject of a viral Internet phenomenon, with many users of sites such as Reddit and Discord involved in a collaborative effort to search for the origins of the song. Through the search, other unknown songs were discovered. Users have coined the term “Lostwave” to describe songs of this nature.*
"A man named Darius S. recorded the song from a radio program that he listened to on the West German public radio station NDR. Darius recorded the song on a cassette tape, which also included songs from XTC and The Cure. It has been speculated that the song was recorded in 1984, since most of the songs on the cassette recording were also released around 1984. Further evidence that supports this as being the earliest possible airing date was the Technics tape deck that he most likely used to record the song, which was manufactured in 1984 as well.To get clean recordings of songs, Darius purposely removed dialogue from radio hosts, which is likely why the exact airplay date and the title are unknown.
In 1985, Darius created a playlist consisting of the unidentified songs in his personal collection; he eventually digitized it in 2004, saving the songs as .aiff and .m4a files. Then, Darius’s older sister, Lydia H., gave Darius a website domain as a birthday present, which he used to raise awareness of his playlist.
On March 18, 2007, Lydia brought the search to the internet, in an attempt to identify the song. Going under the pseudonym “Anton Riedel”, her search originally began on de.rec.musik.recherche, but she eventually migrated to websites with song identification tools, upon the request of user Andreas Eibach. Lydia posted a digital snippet of the song to best-of-80s.de, a German fansite devoted to eighties synth-pop and to spiritofradio.ca, a website dedicated to the Canadian radio station 102.1 The Edge, under the pseudonym “bluuue”
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It’s very interesting and i would like to figure out on what’s behind the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
Numbers Stations!
Back in the mid-90s, I actually bumped into one before I knew about their existence. One night while slowly scanning the shortwave dial, suddenly there was this female voice reciting strings of numbers in an almost robotic way. Then it stopped, and switched to the static of a frequency that is transmitting no signal.
As it turns out, these things have been going on for decades, there have been hundreds of them, and nobody in the general public knows:
- What they are saying, as the numbers are surely a coded message.
- Who and where is sending them.
- Who and where are they being sent to.
The most probable explanation is espionage, but nobody really knows.
Here’s the Wikipedia page, with audio clips.
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The loneliest whale. It’s a whale that communicates at the wrong frequency so other whales can’t hear them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale
Nobody is quite sure what species it is, what’s wrong with it, or anything. There’s theories that it’s the last member of an extinct species which would be very cool, but more likely it’s a known species, possibly a blue whale, with a disability of some type.
52 Blue would be a great name for a band
Lostwave reminds me of liminal space. It’s an aesthetic rather than an actual mystery, but it gives me a similar vibe.
Back when I was still browsing reddit, I always really liked the subreddit about unresolved mysteries. Hopefully a similar community will at some point emerge in Fediverse.
I’ve always been a fan of a good mystery.
