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‘Something made our equipment completely sensitive to everything around us,* the manager of the studio, Mrs Kevin Eisenbrandt, told the Kansas City Star (August 5th, 1970). The nearby Commerce Bank experienced similar problems with their computers and electronic gear at the same time. Experts called in to investigate were baffled. In far-off Noebbet, Denmark, a sawmill closed down in October 1970, economically ruined 'by mysterious forces that have blown out fuses by the thousands, bulbs by the hundreds, and electric motors by the dozen’. Hans Nielsen, the owner, told reporters that the disturbances began eighteen months earlier. Scientists and technicians measured twenty-nine thousand '‘lightning- like electrical discharges in mill installations in one day*. The bursts occurred even when all electricity to the mill was cut off. Incidents such as these are on the increase. Electromagnetic pollution is becoming a serious worldwide problem. Another more grisly aspect of the phenomenon, death by lightning, is also on the rise. A worldwide wave of lightning deaths took place in August and September 1970. In a number of cases the fatal lightning bolts lashed out of a clear, cloudless sky. Satellites whizzing around the Earth have detected a powerful beam of VLF energy being projected intermittently from a specific area of empty ocean near Antarctica. This has inspired scientific speculation that the Earth may be broadcasting natural radio waves into space on the same order of the waves coming from Jupiter and Venus. A few years ago newspapers carried a puzzling report from Greenland, describing how a group of scientists there had discovered a massive object buried deep in the ice. It supposedly broadcast strange radio signal at regular intervals. This odd report was never verified, and nothing further was ever published about it. One of the persistent UFO rumours of the early 1950s claimed that an unnamed scientist in Washington had in his possession a tiny box which had been extracted from a 'crashed flying saucer in New Mexico’. According to the rumour, the box emitted a loud beep every fifteen minutes and so one could figure out what it was made of or how it worked. Radio itself is supposed to have been one of the secrets of the ancient mystical societies: a closely guarded means of communication between members. A form of primitive crystal sets was allegedly used by the brothers of the Rosenkreuz (Rosy Cross - the Rosicrucians) centuries ago. It is even possible - there is no way of knowing for sure - that the mysterious plates and amulets used by ancient priests may have been crystal sets of some sort, tuned to some secret mountain transmitter. We do know that the atmosphere of our haunted pknet is overloaded with electrical energy today, ranging from manmade radio signals on every frequency to mysterious, patterned signals from In the summer of 1970 all the electronic gear in the video tape studios of Waddell & Reed, Inc., in Kansas City, Missouri went haywire,