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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Contact the RMD After the second WCRN transmission, residents begin leaving their homes with radios, telephones, and recording devices in hand. Some return unable to explain where they have been—and carrying equipment that does not belong to them.  When investigators examine an unfamiliar cassette recorder, its contents raise an unsettling question: was it documenting the incident, or listening to it?  The Reality Files: Episode Three — “After the Warning”  Headphones recommended for the full...]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Contact the RMD ### Episode 2: “The Second Broadcast”  Three days after WCRN was silenced, the emergency message returns.  It arrives through radios, telephones, television sets, and disconnected equipment—each transmission guiding its listener toward a distant source of static. But this time, the message speaks in voices they recognize.  As investigators examine the recordings, one question becomes impossible to ignore: if WCRN never transmitted the second broadcast, what did?  Headphones st...]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Contact the RMD When seven seconds vanish from an emergency transmission, what initially appears to be a routine equipment failure draws the attention of the Reality Maintenance Division. As investigators examine the original broadcast and the tower that carried it, they discover the missing time may not be empty—and something within the static appears to be listening.   ]]></itunes:summary>
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