The Static Choir

I need to tell you about what I found in the static.

Last Thursday, I was doing my usual scan of the shortwave bands—mostly out of habit at this point. Most nights it's the same: random noise, occasional distant stations, the comforting hiss of empty frequencies.

But around 3:45 AM, something changed on 6.1 MHz.

At first, I thought it was just signal overlap. Sometimes stations bleed into each other, especially during certain atmospheric conditions. But this was different. The static itself seemed to... organize.

I recorded it. Played it back at half speed. And that's when I heard them.

Voices. Or something like voices. Not words exactly—more like humming. Layered, harmonic, almost like a choir warming up. But wrong. The intervals weren't quite right. Not quite human intervals.

I spent two days analyzing that recording. Here's what I found:

The "voices" appear at exactly 47-second intervals. (There's that number again.) Each appearance lasts 11 seconds. During those 11 seconds, there are exactly 7 distinct tonal layers.

I've been doing this long enough to know what interference sounds like. What overlapping broadcasts sound like. What equipment malfunction sounds like.

This doesn't sound like any of those things.

I've uploaded a cleaned version of the audio to my backup archive. Not sharing the location publicly yet—I want to verify a few more things first. But I will say: if you have good headphones and a quiet room, listen to raw static for long enough.

You might hear them too.

The coffee's running low and I can't sleep. Every time I close my eyes, I hear that not-quite-human harmony.

I don't know what this means yet. But I know it's not nothing.