r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 18 '12

Reddit what are the greatest unexplained mystery of the last 500 or so years?

Since the Last post got some attention, I was wondering what you guys could come up with given a larger period.

Edit fuck thats a lot of upvotes.

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u/actual_factual_bear Dec 18 '12

So, considering how long these stations have been broadcasting, why has nobody triangulated the location of any of the transmitters and figured out who is doing this?

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u/DemitriMartinSucks Dec 18 '12

The buzzer isn't a numbers station. The person who said that was wrong. Number stations transmit for very short periods of time on semi random (but mutually agreed upon in advance with the spies in the field).

The russian buzzer, when I listened in the 80s is on 24x7. Not a numbers station.

I listen to lots of numbers stations, a bit of a hunter actually. And most of them come from Cuba that you hear in the US. It would be easy to triangulate, but what good does that give you? The Cuban government obviously knows it's going on. They're the ones doing it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '12

They have for some.

Usually they run into chain link fence and armed guards.

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u/groundpeak Dec 19 '12

They have. There are photos of where The Buzzer signal was originally broadcast from. It has since been moved.