This gem was posted recently by Reality Rewind on Facebook. You be the judge.
The first report came in 1960, when a ham picked up a faint voice on a shortwave band normally used for military testing.
The message was always the same:
“Is anyone out there? Over.”
No call sign.
No identification.
No follow-up message.
Just the same phrase, spoken in a flat, emotionless tone.
At first, operators assumed it was a lost hiker or stranded pilot.
But the signal never changed frequency.
Never drifted.
Never weakened.
And it continued long after anyone in real danger would’ve given up.
Then things got stranger.
The voice never aged.
Over the years, more operators recorded it.
The voice never changed tone, pitch, or timing — as if the message were being sent by a machine or by someone who never grew older.
The transmission ignored weather, interference, and solar storms.
In 1967, a severe geomagnetic storm wiped out most radio communication across North America.
But the Nevada Signal kept going — perfectly clear, perfectly steady.
It responded to nothing.
Hundreds of operators tried replying.
Calling back.
Asking questions.
Sending emergency codes.
No response.
Not once.
In seventeen years.
In 1971, the Air Force investigated.
They traced the signal to an area of desert north of Tonopah but found nothing there.
No tower.
No equipment.
No buried wires.
Just rock, sand, and silence.
Some believed the signal was bouncing off the ionosphere from another part of the world.
Others thought it was a Cold War experiment gone wrong.
A few speculated it was a distress signal from a downed aircraft that was never found.
But locals had a different explanation:
They claimed the signal came from the old Sand Hollow Mine, abandoned in the 1940s after a collapse killed several workers.
Survivors reported hearing voices echoing through the mine shafts for days after the accident — long after no one could have been alive.
And the eeriest detail?
The five-word phrase from the signal matched a line in a journal found in the mine foreman’s belongings:
“Is anyone out there? Over.”
In 1977, the signal suddenly stopped.
No fade-out.
No interference.
Just gone.
The frequency has been silent ever since.
But every year, on the anniversary of the mine collapse, radio operators in Nevada claim they sometimes hear a faint whisper on the band…never more than a second long…like a breath trying to become a voice.
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