Russian Radio and Roanoke

"Radio stations the Russian government won't admit to and the lost colony of Roanoke (that wasn't really lost). Also, Drop Bears definitely aren't real."

Present by: Chelsea
Category: Conspiracy

UVB-76 is a Russian radio station that started broadcasting circa 1973, with the first known recording of it being in 1982.

UVB-76 can be found 4625 khz AM. Going by the call sign "Vulcan", it has been traced the Russia, despite no official statement from the Russian government. Until 2010, the radio broadcasted buzzes at regular intervals, with pauses in between. Alternating tones were played at the beginning of every hour. This was changed in 2003, before returning to the original pattern. These would be rarely interrupted with other sounds and sometimes voices

Despite beliefs that it would end with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union, it has survived to the present day and has had an increase in activity, especially after the turn of the millennium. On December 25, 1997, a voice could be heard over the station. It was a code, saying "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."

Further voices messages occurred on January 24, 2013 ("Command 135 initiated."). Since 2010, broadcasts have occurred monthly, including phone conversations and music. In 2010, the station changed locations, likely connected to the aforementioned activity.

Researchers have determined that, rather than a continuous broadcast, the station operates off a microphone and people manually feeding sounds into. The location of the original station was followed back to an abandoned Russian military base. A man living near the base told the explorers that it had been evacuated in 90 minutes under the cover of a fog.

The new station is now apparently broadcast from several locations, including one near where the radio station "The Voice of Russia" airs from. The connection is furthered by Swan Lake, a favorite of "The Voice of Russia", has been played on UVB-76.

Several theories exist as to the purpose of the station. One popular idea is that it is part of the Russian nuclear strike system. A more likely one is that it is a way for the military to communicate with units. This may be confirmed by a picture with the frequency in an military office. Cristina also suggests that it could be a numbers station.

Presented by: Cristina
Category: Disappearance

Aside from Cristina and the Wright Brothers, Roanoke is the only famous thing about North Carolina.

In 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbert got permission to start a colony in the new world. He and his group went to Newfoundland, but since they didn't have the right supplies, they were forced to return home after a couple of weeks. On the return trip, Humphrey's choice of course lead to their ship, the H.M.S. Delight, to sink. Most of the crew died and most of their supplies was lost.

In another example of good judgment, Gilbert sailed on the H.M.S. Squirrel, which sank. His contract was given to his half-brother, Sir. Walter Raleigh.

In 1584, Raleigh organized a trip to North America to scout out locations for a military presence in the new world. They found Roanoke and made contact with the native Croatans. A year later, five ships set sail for Roanoke. Two ships arrived in their rendezvous point in the Caribbean.

After less than a one month, one boat, the Tiger set sail to find the remain fleeting. Three boats had arrived in modern-day North Carolina, with only two staying. This was the first attempt to set up a European colony in the area.

The settlers blamed a local native village for the theft of a silver cup and retaliated by burning the village. The settlers moved to the north of Roanoke Island.

Due to being cursed and not having enough food, a team of over 100 settlers sailed back to England for supplies with the promise to return. While waiting for the relief crew to return, the settlers' fort was attacked by the natives.

In 1586, Sir Francis Drake found the colony and offered to take them home on his ship. Some number between "several" and "almost all of them" accepted and left North Carolina.

Shortly after Drake left the relief team arrived. By that time, the fort was abandoned. 15 of the relief team stayed behind to protect Raleigh's claim, while the rest returned to England. It's not known if there were plans to return,

In 1587, Raleigh arranged a colony to be settled in the Chesapeake Bay. The plan was to stop in Roanoke to pick up the people left behind. However, when they got there, they once again found the colony abandoned. All that they found was a skeleton. The ship master insisted they change the colony location to Roanoke. This may have been decided upon before discovering the colony abandoned.

Attempts were made to re-establish relations with the local tribes, but the tribe that had been attacked previously with the colonists refused to meet with the settlers. In the midst of this, a native man, most likely justly, killed a settler and the colonists, fearing more attacks, convinced their governor to return to England to ask for help. Before he left, he told them to carve a cross into a tree if they had been forced to leave. He did not return for 3 years.

In 1590, after the war, the governor was finally able to return. He once again found the colony abandon with no signs of a battle or a struggle. The word "Croatan" was carved into a fence post and the letters "Cro" were carved into a tree. Because there was no cross and there were no signs of battle, he believed they moved to the Island of Croatan, but was not able to look for them.

12 years later, Raleigh finally decided to go and find out what happened to his colony. In the same year Mary of Jesus was born, they sailed to America. They got distracted by trying to make money and running into a storm forced them to return.

In 1605, the Jamestown colony was founded and the settlers tried to find out from the Native Americans what happened to the lost colony. John Smith, known liar, claimed Chief Powhatan took credited for the slaughter of the colonists shortly before the settlement of Jamestown and long after the Roanoke disappearance. This story was independently corroborated by William Strachey. No physical evidence exists to back this and historians now believe the slaughter was of the early fifteen colonists left behind.

The most likely theory is that they integrated with the Croatans. However, reports of blue-eyed Natives is thought to be apocryphal. Similar stories exist, but remained unconfirmed.

A series of stones alleged to be carved by Eleanor Dare, one of the colonists, tells the story of how the colonists were killed by Native Americans. 47 more stones were found telling about how they left and and integrated stories. While the carvings and spellings are consistent with the time period, most historians think they're frauds.

Another theory is that they moved and the new settlement was washed away by erosion.

In the end, while the logical solution is most likely, we will never know for sure.

Trivia

 * Chelsea said she would always introduce herself as, "the one who says fuck a lot."
 * Cristina asked us not quote her as saying that AM radio frequencies transmit further than FM.
 * All cryptids are robots.
 * Chelsea references 4Chan several times. 4Chan would eventually start and grow the QAnon movement.
 * Drop bears are real.
 * There were no takeaways.