What if your faucet whispered secrets? In this eerie full-length episode of Phantom Bytes, we investigate the strange phenomenon that gripped New York City in the 1960s—when residents claimed to hear music, voices, and even full radio broadcasts through their plumbing. But this wasn’t just urban legend. As it turns out, under the right conditions, metal pipes can act like makeshift antennas, turning a building’s water system into an accidental amplifier of distant signals.

From leaking frequencies to surveillance side-channels, we trace how rogue transmissions, poor shielding, and the physics of resonance led to a citywide mystery—and how the same principles now power some of the most sophisticated digital eavesdropping tactics used today. This is a story about signals we never meant to hear… and the ones still listening when we think no one’s around.