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Rotted Ghost TV

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Sit back from the set! You'll ruin your eyes — what's left of them.

Here they are, the three of them, cross-legged on the rug at the wrong hour with the lamp turned down and something coming through the static that the station never scheduled. A witch, a burning skull, and one wearing a pumpkin. Not one will admit to being frightened.

And the thing on the screen is screaming. Screaming and reaching out into the room, which is a great deal to ask of a console television, and the three of them lean in closer.

There's a whole night of it. There always is, in this house, at this hour.

Nobody moves. Nobody blinks. Somebody's mother is going to be very cross.

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From The Morgue

Roughly one per cent of the snow on an analogue television was the cosmic microwave background — radiation left over from the early universe, identified in 1964 by two researchers who spent months trying to eliminate a hiss they first blamed on pigeon droppings in the antenna. The rest was atmospheric noise and the set's own electronics. None of that stopped anyone hearing voices in it. Recording the dead in static became a small international pursuit from 1959 onward, and a television left on after the station has signed off is still the standard image for the whole idea.

The set was a babysitter with a broadcast licence.

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