The Tape That Walked: Sleepwalking Broadcast and a Field's Whisper

The Tape That Walked: Sleepwalking Broadcast and a Field's Whisper

A cassette tape was found standing upright in a frozen Nebraska field, label facing east and dated two days into the future, containing 91 seconds of a woman reciting compass bearings and one precise instruction: the northeast corner of the Peltier east parcel, eighty feet from the irrigation standpipe. Who recorded a live broadcast that interrupted a rural FM signal at 1:58 a.m., yet had no memory of speaking?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the tape’s discovery to the on-air interruption and the town’s reaction, following the people involved and the unexplained details that remain. How did a local overnight broadcast air that 91-second message, and why was the cassette later found standing in a field dated March 11 when it was discovered around March 9?

Person: Laura Christensen
Location: Dunbar, Nebraska
Date: March 2013
Event: 91-second broadcast interruption
Status: Tape found upright in field, voice identified

- The tape was found upright in soil roughly two miles east of Dunbar by Raymond Richardson on a Tuesday morning in early March 2013.
- The cassette label was handwritten in blue ballpoint ink reading "March eleventh," while Richardson found it around March ninth.
- The audio contains ninety-one seconds of a woman reciting compass bearings and distances and the phrase "the northeast corner of the Peltier east parcel, eighty feet from the irrigation standpipe."
- WKDT 91.3 FM, run solo by Laura Christensen, broadcast overnight with a signal reaching about eighteen miles on a clear night.
- Approximately at 1:58 a.m. on March 9, multiple listeners including a farmer in Lincoln reported hearing the unexplained ninety-one-second interruption on WKDT.

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