Case File #021: The Radio Tower Incident – Screams from Elmadağ
Status: Closed – Government Sealed – Partial Survivor Testimony
Date Filed: February 24, 1998
Last Reviewed: May 31, 2025
Location: Elmadağ Radio Transmission Facility, Ankara, Turkey
Subjects: Two Missing – Two Returned – All Mentally Compromised
Filed Under: Government Suppression – Psychological Trauma – Electromagnetic Anomaly
Access Level: Classified – Civilian Access Prohibited
Introduction: Silence from the Tower
Just 17 kilometers east of Ankara, on the slopes of Elmadağ, a radio transmission facility stood largely forgotten by the public by the late 1990s. Built during the Cold War for long-range signal testing and coded communication, the tower was said to be inactive after 1995.
Yet on the morning of February 24, 1998, a technical crew of four was dispatched to perform radiation level tests and signal stability readings at the Elmadağ Tower.
By nightfall, two of them had disappeared.
The other two were found naked, incoherent, and showing signs of severe psychological trauma.
Their only words:
“Don’t go inside...”
The Dispatch: Routine or Something Else?
At 06:30 AM, a military-adjacent civilian contractor, MTA Communications, assigned a four-person crew for a routine equipment check. Their goal:
- Test residual radiation from transmission hardware
- Inspect grounding and lightning rods
- Log electromagnetic output readings
The tower hadn’t been entered in over two years.
Local reports had increased about strange high-pitched humming at night, dead birds near the base, and brief signal jamming in nearby civilian devices.
The team consisted of:
- Engin D. (Team Lead – Electrical Engineer)
- Barış K. (Technician)
- Serdar A. (Technician – Missing)
- Mehmet Y. (Logistics – Missing)
They were equipped with:
- Radiation suits
- Signal meters
- VHF radios
- Video camcorder
Only the camcorder’s battery melted.
The footage was never recovered.
Timeline of Events
08:00 AM: Team checks in from base of tower. All systems functioning. Engin reports “no external radiation detected.”
08:25 AM: Mehmet and Serdar ascend internal stairs toward the top levels.
08:41 AM: Barış calls into base, saying:
“We’re getting strange harmonics. The meters are... oscillating.”
08:52 AM: All contact ceases.
09:30 AM: Emergency standby team is alerted due to prolonged silence.
09:58 AM: A high-pitched whine is recorded across Ankara’s shortwave and emergency frequencies for exactly 37 seconds.
10:00 AM: Static returns. No communication.
8:17 PM: A security drone (early model quadcopter) records two naked men stumbling out from a maintenance exit at the tower’s base.
Survivor Condition and Testimony
Engin D. and Barış K. were:
- Nonverbal for the first 24 hours
- Showing signs of acute radiation sickness, though no exposure was found
- Severely dehydrated despite full canteens found intact
- Covered in scratches, particularly in spiral-like patterns on arms and legs
- Repeating a single Turkish phrase once speech returned:
“İçeri girme… o hala orada.”
("Don’t go inside… it’s still there.")
Their official debriefs were conducted under military oversight.
Doctors involved were transferred or resigned shortly after.
The Interior: What Was Found
When the emergency team entered the tower on February 25, the internal structure had been heavily altered despite no maintenance orders:
- Staircases were partially melted
- Metal frames were magnetized
- A smell described as “ozone and blood” was reported on all levels
- The top floor was covered in ash — though no fire had occurred
In the control room:
- All analog devices were spinning wildly
- Oscilloscopes showed repeating waveform patterns
- A journal was found, mostly burned, but one line was readable:
“The frequency is not just a sound. It’s an entrance.”
Theories: What Happened at Elmadağ?
1. Electromagnetic Resonance Cascade
Some physicists believe the tower may have experienced a rare phenomenon involving harmonic resonance and EM burst coupling, creating a sensory breakdown or hallucination loop.
But that doesn’t explain:
- The magnetic anomalies
- The symmetrical scratch patterns
- The complete disappearance of two men
2. Contact Event
Ufologists and SETI-adjacent researchers cite the signal interference across Ankara, the survivors’ speech loss, and the tower’s last reading—a repeating waveform at 437.9 MHz—as evidence of non-human intelligence exposure.
Some believe the tower may have “received something”
— and the men were merely caught in transmission.
3. Government Experiment Gone Wrong
Leaked memos from 2001 suggest the tower was involved in experimental psychotronic field testing, aimed at crowd control or consciousness manipulation.
If true, the incident may have been a failed calibration, causing permanent psychological and physical breakdown in the crew.
But why is the building still standing?
Aftermath and Cover-Up
The Elmadağ Tower was:
- Welded shut in March 1998
- Removed from all public databases
- Referred to in maps only as “Utility Structure #442”
Survivors disappeared from public life.
Engin D. was committed to a private psychiatric clinic.
Barış K. reportedly died by suicide in 2001—though no obituary was published.
The tower still exists.
It emits no signal, and no birds fly near it.
Attempts by urban explorers in 2015 ended when their drones lost GPS lock over the site.
One of the drones returned on its own a week later.
Inside was a single image:
A spiral carved into concrete.
Still bleeding.
Conclusion: The Sound That Shouldn't Exist
Whatever happened at Elmadağ on that cold February morning in 1998, it wasn’t just a mechanical failure.
It wasn’t madness.
It wasn’t natural.
It was something that changed people.
That broke them.
That erased two men completely.
And it came from inside a place we built —
but maybe never understood.
References
All sources used in this case are listed in the References Archive. Each link corresponds to verified data, public records, or expert documentation.