Sep 23, 2026 09:54 PM
The radio signal starts sounding substantively "ghostly" at around the fifteen-minute mark of the video and super-eerie at the sixteen-minute mark.
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SIDETRACK ADVENTURES
https://youtu.be/8IB1XY29dL4
VIDEO EXCERPTS: When traveling through remote areas, you occasionally come across some strange things. North of here in the Owens Valley, there is said to be an eerie radio broadcast that can only be picked up in a small area. And to make things even stranger, the broadcast is coming from the ruins of an abandoned industrial plant. Well, today we're going to head up Highway 395 and investigate this for ourselves...
[...13:03 mark...] Okay, we are about eight miles away. First, let's tune this to 89.9 FM. All right, let's get the volume up here. I don't hear anything yet. Let's get a little bit closer, and we will try again.
Okay, we are about four miles away now, and there is a sound coming through the broadcast occasionally. Let's just listen for a second and see if we hear it again. It was really light right there, but sometimes it comes through really loud. ... Did you hear that? Sounds like a loud banging sound.
Now you can really hear it. It's starting to sound like a ghost or something now. It's getting really loud. I hope the camera mic is picking this up because this is a pretty weird radio broadcast. And in front of us right now are the ruins that this broadcast is coming from. And here we are. This was once the Bartlett railroad siding.
[...] Beginning in 2016, the studio's sonic division ... turned one of the abandoned silos on the site into a resonant chamber, where the sounds of the valley are amplified and broadcast. One of the first experiments was to treat the silo itself as an aeolian harp strung with wires along its surface. An aeolian harp is kind of a stringed instrument with no player. You stretch strings, you expose them to moving air, and the wind does the rest. And the faster the wind, the higher the pitch. But they took that idea and scaled it up to a multi-story steel silo in a valley that's known for brutal funneled wind.
So, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Factory ruins have effectively been turned into a musical instrument played by the wind currents coming off the dry lake bed. And that sound is amplified, miked, and transmitted. And not only is this sound transmitted on 89.9 FM, they also stream it online as well. And of course, the reason that we can only pick this signal up in this small area a few miles from the plant is it's a very small transmitter. It's low power.
[...] So, like I mentioned earlier, it's not much of a mystery. There's no secret government project or aliens or a lost transmitter still running on 40-year-old power. It's a dead chemical plant with strings on it. Which, honestly, I like better than it being a ghost. Because what you're actually hearing is the lake, the one Los Angeles drained a 100 years ago, still moving air across a factory that was built to mine what was left of it...
The strange radio signal coming from an abandoned factory ... https://youtu.be/8IB1XY29dL4
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SIDETRACK ADVENTURES
https://youtu.be/8IB1XY29dL4
VIDEO EXCERPTS: When traveling through remote areas, you occasionally come across some strange things. North of here in the Owens Valley, there is said to be an eerie radio broadcast that can only be picked up in a small area. And to make things even stranger, the broadcast is coming from the ruins of an abandoned industrial plant. Well, today we're going to head up Highway 395 and investigate this for ourselves...
[...13:03 mark...] Okay, we are about eight miles away. First, let's tune this to 89.9 FM. All right, let's get the volume up here. I don't hear anything yet. Let's get a little bit closer, and we will try again.
Okay, we are about four miles away now, and there is a sound coming through the broadcast occasionally. Let's just listen for a second and see if we hear it again. It was really light right there, but sometimes it comes through really loud. ... Did you hear that? Sounds like a loud banging sound.
Now you can really hear it. It's starting to sound like a ghost or something now. It's getting really loud. I hope the camera mic is picking this up because this is a pretty weird radio broadcast. And in front of us right now are the ruins that this broadcast is coming from. And here we are. This was once the Bartlett railroad siding.
[...] Beginning in 2016, the studio's sonic division ... turned one of the abandoned silos on the site into a resonant chamber, where the sounds of the valley are amplified and broadcast. One of the first experiments was to treat the silo itself as an aeolian harp strung with wires along its surface. An aeolian harp is kind of a stringed instrument with no player. You stretch strings, you expose them to moving air, and the wind does the rest. And the faster the wind, the higher the pitch. But they took that idea and scaled it up to a multi-story steel silo in a valley that's known for brutal funneled wind.
So, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Factory ruins have effectively been turned into a musical instrument played by the wind currents coming off the dry lake bed. And that sound is amplified, miked, and transmitted. And not only is this sound transmitted on 89.9 FM, they also stream it online as well. And of course, the reason that we can only pick this signal up in this small area a few miles from the plant is it's a very small transmitter. It's low power.
[...] So, like I mentioned earlier, it's not much of a mystery. There's no secret government project or aliens or a lost transmitter still running on 40-year-old power. It's a dead chemical plant with strings on it. Which, honestly, I like better than it being a ghost. Because what you're actually hearing is the lake, the one Los Angeles drained a 100 years ago, still moving air across a factory that was built to mine what was left of it...
The strange radio signal coming from an abandoned factory ... https://youtu.be/8IB1XY29dL4