Most nights, the old shortwave radio gives you nothing but static.

You bought it on a whim at an estate sale, the kind of obsolete curiosity destined to gather dust on a shelf. Then, one sleepless night, you find a signal.

A melody plays. A woman's voice begins calmly reading numbers.

You listen.

The next night, she's there again.

Same frequency. Same melody. Different numbers.

You start recording them. Looking for patterns. Searching online. That's how you learn about number stations: mysterious shortwave broadcasts used for decades to transmit coded messages to unknown recipients.

Nobody knows who operates this one.

Then the melody plays again.

The woman begins her transmission.

Numbers. Numbers. Numbers.

And your full name.

Somewhere in the static, someone knows you're listening.

The only question is why.

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Wiki Weird: Number Stations is a mystery adventure inspired by the strange and unsettling world of shortwave number stations. Every transmission offers another clue, and every answer draws you deeper into a message you were never meant to hear.

This is the fourth installment in the Wiki Weird series, where I transform strange, unsettling, mysterious, and poorly understood Wikipedia topics into interactive adventures.

This is where the article ends, and your story begins.