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The call was coming from the night. It was eerie, like a foghorn from another dimension rolling through the mists of San Francisco Bay. This is an actual recording of the sound, which was plaguing residents of San Francisco in the late 1980s. People had all kinds of theories about what it might be. secret government activities, submarines, offshore drilling, UFOs.
Whatever it was, it was so powerful, it was rattling the houseboats of the Bay.
I'm Latif Nasser. I'm Lulu Miller. This is Radiolab, and it is with that mystery that we kicked off our latest live show about voids.
Which we performed beneath the void of the night sky at this gorgeous venue called Little Island in New York City. It sits right alongside the Hudson River, which itself empties out into the void of the ocean.
Right. And so in that place, in that very void adjacent place, we wanted to make an episode about not just about voids, about people reckoning with voids, standing on the edge of them, trying to decipher the sounds coming out of them, trying to measure them, trying to decide whether or not to scream into them.
Three stories, one by Latif, one by senior producer Matt Kilty, one by me, plus a little extra special bonus by a guest at the very end.
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