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* The Music/PorcupineTree song, "Even Less" from their fifth album ''Music/Stupid
Dream'' ends with the numbers, "0096 2251 2110 8105" read aloud by a woman. This is taken from a numbers station recording.

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* The Music/PorcupineTree song, "Even Less" from their fifth album ''Music/Stupid
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''Music/StupidDream'' ends with the numbers, "0096 2251 2110 8105" read aloud by a woman. This is taken from a numbers station recording.
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* The Music/PorcupineTree song, "Even Less" from their fifth album ''Stupid Dream'' ends with the numbers, "0096 2251 2110 8105" read aloud by a woman. This is taken from a numbers station recording.

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* The Music/PorcupineTree song, "Even Less" from their fifth album ''Stupid ''Music/Stupid
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* In ''Film/BansheeChapter'', numbers stations are broadcasted from another dimension and contain the chemical formula of DMT-19, a ([[FantasticDrug non-existent]])[[note]] obviously based on DMT, a real [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine hallucinogenic drug]].[[/note]] drug that was used in the [=MK-Ultra=] experiments. [[spoiler: DMT-19 turns the brain into a radio receiver so that otherworldly beings can inhabit humans and "wear them".]]

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* In ''Film/BansheeChapter'', numbers stations are broadcasted from another dimension and which contain the chemical formula of DMT-19, a ([[FantasticDrug non-existent]])[[note]] obviously based on DMT, a real [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine hallucinogenic drug]].[[/note]] drug that was used in the [=MK-Ultra=] experiments. [[spoiler: The numbers are broadcast from another dimension, and DMT-19 turns the brain into a radio receiver so that otherworldly beings can inhabit humans and "wear them".]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{Signalis}}'': Prevalent throughout the game as the source of coded sequences for solving the puzzles. The game makes use of every variety out there: voiced (with authentic musical tones starting a broadcast), Morse and synthesized tones. [[spoiler:Several of them, while seemingly unused, are actually the way to obtain the keys to the secret ending.]]
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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''''Website/SCPFoundation''
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* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', the Island has a radio tower that broadcasted a man's voice reading the {{Arc Number}}s 4 8 15 16 23 42 over and over, until Danielle replaced it with her distress call. [[spoiler: The AlternateRealityGame ''ARG/TheLostExperience'' explains that the numbers are the core numerical values in the Valenzetti Equation, an equation that predicts the amount of [[DoomsdayClock time remaining until the human race destroys itself]]. The DHARMA Initiative built the broadcasting tower to transmit the numbers to their backers and if the numbers changed it would prove that DHARMA's work on the island could manipulate the equation.]]
-->[[spoiler: A radio transmitter has also been erected on the island broadcasting in a frequency and encryption known only to us. The transmitter will only broadcast the core numerical values of the Valenzetti Equation. When, through your research, you manage to change the numerical value of any one of these factors, when you have created through science the ''[inaudible]'' ... We will know that the one true way has been found.]]

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* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', the Island has a radio tower that broadcasted a man's voice reading the {{Arc Number}}s 4 8 15 16 23 42 over and over, until Danielle replaced it with her distress call. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The AlternateRealityGame ''ARG/TheLostExperience'' explains that the numbers are the core numerical values in the Valenzetti Equation, an equation that predicts the amount of [[DoomsdayClock time remaining until the human race destroys itself]]. The DHARMA Initiative built the broadcasting tower to transmit the numbers to their backers and if the numbers changed it would prove that DHARMA's work on the island could manipulate the equation.]]
-->[[spoiler: A -->[[spoiler:A radio transmitter has also been erected on the island broadcasting in a frequency and encryption known only to us. The transmitter will only broadcast the core numerical values of the Valenzetti Equation. When, through your research, you manage to change the numerical value of any one of these factors, when you have created through science the ''[inaudible]'' ... We will know that the one true way has been found.]]



--> Take WZZZ, our local numbers station, broadcasting from that strange and tall antenna built out back of the abandoned gas station on Oxford Street. Did you know that it broadcasts a monotone female voice reading out seemingly random numbers interspersed with chimes twenty four hours a day, seven days a week? As you can imagine, that kind of work doesn't bring in a lot of money—unless it does. To be honest, here at Night Vale Radio we don't know exactly what that station is for, or what master it is serving.

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--> Take -->Take WZZZ, our local numbers station, broadcasting from that strange and tall antenna built out back of the abandoned gas station on Oxford Street. Did you know that it broadcasts a monotone female voice reading out seemingly random numbers interspersed with chimes twenty four hours a day, seven days a week? As you can imagine, that kind of work doesn't bring in a lot of money—unless it does. To be honest, here at Night Vale Radio we don't know exactly what that station is for, or what master it is serving.



* The [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Mi-go]] have a thing for these in the ''Radio/PleasantGreenUniverse'', as numbers stations feature prominently in all the installments involving them, presumably as a SpiritualSuccessor to the creepy wax cylinder recordings in the original ''Literature/TheWhispererInDarkness''. The ''Lovecraft Investigations'' series even makes reference to the real "Lincolnshire Poacher" station when describing them. [[spoiler: The station isn't broadcasting numbers, but Enochian letters spelling out "Babalon" - it's not a communication system, but an automated magical ritual.]]

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* The [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Mi-go]] have a thing for these in the ''Radio/PleasantGreenUniverse'', as numbers stations feature prominently in all the installments involving them, presumably as a SpiritualSuccessor to the creepy wax cylinder recordings in the original ''Literature/TheWhispererInDarkness''. The ''Lovecraft Investigations'' series even makes reference to the real "Lincolnshire Poacher" station when describing them. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The station isn't broadcasting numbers, but Enochian letters spelling out "Babalon" - it's not a communication system, but an automated magical ritual.]]



--> While he serves many vital functions, his specialty is operating so-called "secret numbers stations," sending shortwave radio transmissions to covert operatives throughout the free world in English, Spanish, German, French and Slavic languages in a variety of electronically-altered voices.

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--> While -->While he serves many vital functions, his specialty is operating so-called "secret numbers stations," sending shortwave radio transmissions to covert operatives throughout the free world in English, Spanish, German, French and Slavic languages in a variety of electronically-altered voices.



--> '''Buzzing Lore #4''': You've heard shards of our voice in the phantom-radio code of a numbers station

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--> '''Buzzing -->'''Buzzing Lore #4''': #4:''' You've heard shards of our voice in the phantom-radio code of a numbers station
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Wiki/TheOtherWiki has an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station article describing numbers stations]] in more detail.

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Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki has an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station article describing numbers stations]] in more detail.
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* The [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Mi-go]] have a thing for these in the ''Radio/PleasantGreenUniverse'', as numbers stations feature prominently in all the installments involving them, presumably as a SpiritualSuccessor to the creepy wax cylinder recordings in the original ''Literature/TheWhispererInDarkness''. The ''Lovecraft Investigations'' series even makes reference to the real "Lincolnshire Poacher" station when describing them.

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* The [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Mi-go]] have a thing for these in the ''Radio/PleasantGreenUniverse'', as numbers stations feature prominently in all the installments involving them, presumably as a SpiritualSuccessor to the creepy wax cylinder recordings in the original ''Literature/TheWhispererInDarkness''. The ''Lovecraft Investigations'' series even makes reference to the real "Lincolnshire Poacher" station when describing them. [[spoiler: The station isn't broadcasting numbers, but Enochian letters spelling out "Babalon" - it's not a communication system, but an automated magical ritual.]]
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2132 SCP-2132 ("Most Dangerous Fighting Exhibition and Obstacle Resort")]]. Every 5-6 hours, SCP-2132 broadcasts the artificially created voice of a male child reciting numbers and a list of colors. The reading is different each time. Between the numbers/colors readings the station broadcasts songs from the 1920s through the 1950s.

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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2132 SCP-2132 ("Most Dangerous Fighting Exhibition and Obstacle Resort")]]. Every 5-6 hours, SCP-2132 broadcasts the artificially created voice of a male child reciting numbers and a list of colors. The reading is different each time. Between the numbers/colors readings the station broadcasts songs from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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Simply put, numbers stations are shortwave radio stations that broadcast long strings of numbers, usually read by a synthesized female (or occasionally male) voice. It is generally assumed that the numbers are messages encoded using the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad one time pad]] technique, sent by intelligence agencies to their agents in the field. No agency has acknowledged these transmissions, and decryption of a one-time-pad encoded message without the key is impossible.[[labelnote: Mostly.]]The susceptibility of an OTP-encrypted message to statistical analysis varies inversely with the degree of entropy, i.e. randomness, in the keystream. Since this weakness is a well known and elementary trait of the OTP algorithm, and can be overcome through the use of a high-quality entropy source, there's no reason to expect that it will exist in the keystreams used to encrypt messages broadcast via numbers stations. Further, anybody foolish enough to use a one-time pad for more than one message is probably going to get their message decrypted, as the strength of the One-Time-Pad system almost completely hinges on it being used only once.[[/labelnote]]

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Simply put, numbers stations are shortwave radio stations that broadcast long strings of numbers, usually read by a synthesized female (or occasionally male) voice. It is generally assumed that the numbers are messages encoded using the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad one time pad]] technique, sent by intelligence agencies to their agents in the field. No agency has acknowledged these transmissions, and decryption of a one-time-pad encoded message without the key is impossible.[[labelnote: Mostly.]]The susceptibility of an OTP-encrypted message to statistical analysis varies inversely with the degree of entropy, i.e. randomness, in the keystream. Since this weakness is a well known and elementary trait of the OTP algorithm, and can be overcome through the use of a high-quality entropy source, there's no reason to expect that it will exist in the keystreams used to encrypt messages broadcast via numbers stations. Further, anybody foolish enough to use a one-time pad for more than one message is probably going to get their message decrypted, as the strength of the One-Time-Pad system almost completely hinges on it being used only once.[[/labelnote]]
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* "Transmission" from Creator/NeilCicierega's second mashup album is a sort of StealthParody of numbers stations. The song is nothing but radio fuzz followed by a voice spelling out [[spoiler:"[[Music/SmashMouth SMASH MOUTH]]" in alt key code]]. The riff from "[[Music/DavidBowie Space Oddity]]" is used to indicate the space between the two words.

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* "Transmission" from Creator/NeilCicierega's second mashup album is a sort of StealthParody of numbers stations. The song is nothing but radio fuzz followed by a voice the countdown from Music/DavidBowie's "Music/SpaceOddity" spelling out [[spoiler:"[[Music/SmashMouth SMASH MOUTH]]" in alt key code]]. The riff from "[[Music/DavidBowie Space Oddity]]" "Space Oddity" is used to indicate the space between the two words.
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->"It's said that they're hangovers from the Cold War; a way for various intelligence services to communicate with agents in the field. The truth... well, you're not actually cleared for what the truth is."
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->"They're thought to be a holdover from the Cold War. The truth is... well, you're not cleared to know the truth."

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->"They're thought to be a holdover from the Cold War. The truth is... well, you're not cleared to know the truth."
-->--Agent Johnson, ''[[Radio/PleasantGreenUniverse Fugue State]]''
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* The ''Series/SapphireAndSteel'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35922985 Started as a Whisper]]'' by thisbluespirit reveals that the numbers stations were created by the Elements, and are really important for maintaining Time in the usual surreal and inexplicable way of ''Sapphire and Steel''.
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* ''Videogame/CounterStrike [[Videogame/CounterStrike Global Offensive]]:'' One map has numbers and phonetic alphabet coming out of a computer that can be deciphered... [[spoiler:It's part of "Still Alive."]]

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* ''Videogame/CounterStrike [[Videogame/CounterStrike Global Offensive]]:'' One map has numbers and phonetic alphabet coming out of a computer that can be deciphered... [[spoiler:It's part of [[VideoGame/Portal1 "Still Alive."]]Alive"]].]]
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* ''Series/TruthSeekers'': Gus has been listening to one (which uses the well-known 'Lincolnshire Poacher' musical tag) for the last twenty years. Surprisingly, it's explained in only the second episode as a case of HauntedTechnology that's resolved without much trouble.

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