The Wire at the Bottom of the World

Deep beneath the Pacific, a fiber-optic cable that carries the world's data has started producing something no one put in — structured signals that pass phoneme detection, partial matches to extinct languages, and a response to a maintenance ping sent thirty-six hours earlier. Marine cable systems engineer Dr. Mara Thorne has been inside the investigation since the first anomaly was logged, and tonight she tells us what she found at three thousand meters down. Tonight's Numbers Station Puzzler: crack the broadcast, then email your answer and the episode number (episode 62) to [email protected] for a shot at a secret line to the show. Presented by Double Secret Labs — we do science so you don't have to. Find Strangely Odd on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.