The Banshee Chapter Page #2

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I didn't do...

I didn't do anything.

Fresh piece of f***ing chicken!

All I know is he said it was

from some friends in Colorado.

God.

Oh, yeah.

I hear that every time... friends.

What kind of friend

gives you poison?

Without a body,

police weren't ready

to charge Renny Seegan

with any crime.

They would never get the chance.

Renny vanished

almost 72 hours later.

He was never seen again.

I decided that James

and I would work

on one last project together.

We would find out the truth

about what happened to him.

It would be our final collaboration.

"James, I expect you'll find this batch

will help immensely with your research.

"It wasn't easy to come by, but

then again, nothing worth doing is,

"so I expect a full report when

you come out on the other side.

Sincerely,

your friends in Colorado."

James, what happened to you?

Hello?

Hello?

Henry Cale?

Yes.

We spoke on the phone.

Hi. I'm Anne Roland.

So tell me everything you know

about shortwave radio broadcasts.

Yeah. Well, I'm an operator

and enthusiast,

and I've been working with

it all my life. Come here.

I don't like this.

We should call someone.

I ingested the chemical, remember?

I took that. We don't...

- Oh, f***, Renny.

- What?

It's coming towards the house.

Yeah, that sound on the radio

sounds exactly like one

of the known numbers stations.

Numbers stations?

Numbers stations are shortwave radio

stations of unidentified origin.

They generally broadcast

artificially generated voices

reading streams of numbers,

words, letters,

backwards music,

or cryptic electronic code.

They're in a wide

variety of languages,

and the voices are usually

female for some reason.

Sometimes it sounds like a child.

And how long have you been

hearing them for?

Well, the shortwave community's

been finding them for decades now.

Listen.

7, 5, 4, 6, 8.

8, 7, 7, 6, 5.

Who would broadcast that?

Lot of theories...

secret government agencies,

terrorists, drug runners.

But it's never been shown for sure

who or what is broadcasting them.

So you've been keeping track

of these numbers stations

and documenting them for years?

That's right.

And you've heard that

particular broadcast before?

Yes, I have.

The signal sounded like a

broadcast from this small area

we call the Lonely Traveler Station.

The Lonely Traveler?

Yeah. Shortwave radio

guys named it that.

I've heard recordings,

but I've never gone out there

to listen to it myself.

Well, James's cabin

is right about here,

same area upstate.

So what do I need to do if I

wanted to record this broadcast?

Well, it's not easy.

You'd need to be out on the far

edge of the Black Rock Desert

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