I was listening to music with my earphones on as I walked into this tunnel near the suspension bridge at Kinugawa Onsen, and I about shat myself when an English listening comprehension audio track suddenly started playing out of nowhere.
I went on an extracurricular school trip there back in the day. As an annoying brat at the time, I spent the whole trip mistaking the place for a limestone cave. Anyway, why is it that waterfalls and their surrounding areas always seem to turn into haunted spots, not just in Kinugawa?
When I had a job down in Shingu, Wakayama, I got so bored on my day off that I went for a drive. I turned on the car radio late at night, and a Korean-language broadcast kept cutting in. It scared the crap out of me. I checked the program guide, and there wasn't a single station broadcasting anything in Korean at that time of night, so I still have no idea what that was all about.
Those signals are coming straight from South Korea. They're technically supposed to restrict their transmission power, but South Korea doesn't bother, so the signals end up carrying all the way over to Japan.
I've heard stories that North Korea broadcasts stuff like that.
That was probably a number station for SIGINT. You can sometimes pick them up just by tuning to the right frequency.
I never heard anything like that when I lived in Osaka, so I wonder how it's even possible to pick them up in Wakayama, which is even further away from the Korean Peninsula.
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