The Dead DJ Who Broadcast From a Locked Shed at Dawn
The Dead DJ Who Broadcast From a Locked Shed at Dawn
A reel-to-reel tape ran inside a locked transmitter shed at 6:41 AM on March 11, 2019, playing a forty-two minute call-in show voiced by a man who had been dead for sixteen years - and the shed’s combination had been set thirty-one years earlier by another dead man. How did a forty-dollar Ampex tape machine, bought at an estate sale five months earlier, end up connected to a transmitter through a replacement board no one at the station had installed?
In this episode, you’ll hear the sequence of discoveries at WKDL in rural Pennsylvania: the…
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