Category: Radio-Era Conspiracies

• The Telegraph to Mars

  This theory claimed that the shortwave boom of the 1930s was not only about terrestrial broadcasting and communications but also part of a hidden or semi-hidden attempt to contact Mars or other worlds. It grew out of older wireless-age enthusiasm for interplanetary signaling, popular press fascination with mystery transmissions, and the new technical culture around shortwave sets, amateur radio, and atmospheric propagation. When unusual static, fading, or unexplained signals were heard, believers could interpret them as evidence that engineers and scientists were already using radio to reach beyond Earth.