The notorious Russian telephone number station UVB-76 , call back to be a tool of the Russian state to put across with agents , has begun beam foreign subject matter , including several meme and the songGangnam Style .

numeral stations are the sort of thing you stumble across on Reddit recently at night , have a listen , and drop the residual of the small hour searching for some capitulum - bleach .

The post   ⁠ — which have been around since World War I , but became more prolific during the Cold War   ⁠ — generally broadcast a   tune , or a bombilation , or sometimes   sketch character Yosemite Sam saying   " Varmint , I ’m a - gonna b - b - b - bloooow ya ta’smithereenies " ( yes , really ) followed by a series of numbers read by a human or synthesized vocalism , on a bottom of static for extra " I may never sleep again " vibes .

They are generally thought ( andsometimes confirmed ) to be a way of sending coded instructions by states to factor in the field .   Sometimes broadcasting on a schedule , sometimes seemingly at random , they have   creeped people outall around the domain , not limiting themselves to one speech communication .

A peculiarly alarming possibility about   one number station   ⁠ — “ MDZhB ” , also know as " UVB-76 " and " The Buzzer "   ⁠ — is   that it is beingused as a " Dead Hand " signal . The station broadcasts a never-ending   monotonous tincture , interrupted every few seconds by a foghorn - alike auditory sensation , and occasionally by a Russian interpreter issuing messagessuch as"Ya UVB-76 , Ya UVB-76 . 180 08 BROMAL 74 27 99 14 . Boris , Roman , Olga , Mikhail , Anna , Larisa . 7 4 2 7 9 9 1 4 " .

The " Dead Hand " theory suggests that what you really have to worry about is when the signal stops . If it ’s right , the monotone is there as a sort of " everything is o.k. " alarm , àla The Simpsons . Should the signal cease for a sure amount of time because of a atomic flak   ⁠ — according to this unverified theory   ⁠ — an automatonlike nuclear reception would be triggered .

After the place stopped pass around in 2010 , following a briefflurry of activity , you ’ll notice that a atomic apocalypse did not play along . Phew . It then moved to another location , where it cover its intermittent broadcasting .

The station has now been causing speculation once more , after broadcasting song like Psy ’s spheric hitGangnam Style , and noises that translate into meme when you put them through a   spectrum analyzer .