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Episode 211: The Broadcast from 1974

Episode 211: The Broadcast from 1974

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A retired broadcast engineer in western Pennsylvania has kept a secret for fifty years. On a single night in November nineteen seventy-four, his small country music station broadcast something that no one at the station had ever put on the air — a woman's voice, reading the names of twenty-three miners who would not be confirmed dead for another six hours. Tonight, for the first time, he tells the story.

[00:00] Introduction — the farmhouse, the man, the tape recorder under the afghan
[08:30] The station, the transmitter, the night of November ninth
[18:45] Three forty-seven in the morning — what the meter did
[29:30] What the voice said, what was on the reel-to-reel
[42:15] The aftermath — the altered logbook, the FCC letter, the silence
[55:30] What Mr. Harkness has thought it meant
[66:00] The names — read aloud one last time

Keywords: broadcast horror, mining disaster, AM radio, unexplained transmissions, Pennsylvania folklore, found recordings, witness testimony, real haunting

This episode is a work of original horror fiction presented in documentary style. All names, places, and events are fictional. Created with AI assistance in narrative production; no AI voices or synthetic media are used. All human narration is original.

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