Hey /x/,
I live in Albania. Not the tourist part, the real part. The old part. I work near the coast, lot of history here, lot of concrete too. You know, the bunkers. So many bunkers. Everywhere you look, concrete eggs on the hills. My job is boring, so I walk. I walk a lot. Explore the forgotten places.
One day, I was in an old bunker, one of those big ones near the sea, you know, meant for army. It was raining, very grey day. Inside, it was damp, smelled like old metal and earth. I had my phone, just listening to music, trying to forget the rain. Then, my radio app, it just… changed. It found a station. No name, no announcer. Just a sound.
It was on 432 Hz. I know this frequency, some people say it's special. This sound… it was not music. It was like a low hum, very deep, like the earth breathing. Then, parts of old songs, like from the old times, but warped, like underwater. And whispers. Always whispers. In Albanian, I think, but so broken, so fast, I can't understand. Like secrets they try to bury.
I started going back, trying to find it again. It was hard. Signal was weak. Sometimes it was clear in one bunker, then gone in the next. But I started noticing things. When the signal was strong, the air felt… different. Heavy. And I saw things. Or I thought I saw. Shadows moving in the concrete tunnels. Shapes in the fog outside.
I started recording. I have hours of this. The hum, the warped songs, the whispers. And the other sounds. Sometimes, a sharp crack, like a rifle shot, but distant. Or a clang, like metal on metal. Once, I heard what sounded like a voice, clear for a second, saying numbers. Just numbers. And then back to the whispers.
I tried to find the source. I followed the signal. It led me to more bunkers, to abandoned army bases, to old watchtowers on the cliffs. It felt like the island itself was speaking through this frequency. Like the history of this place – the ancient tribes, the Ottoman times, the communists, all of it – it was trapped in the air.
Yesterday, I was in a very remote place, hiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.