The Tape at the Cedar Post: Voices, Radio and the Missing Walk

The Tape at the Cedar Post: Voices, Radio and the Missing Walk

Cold nights below 25°F turned a farmhouse wall into a low, interrupted sound that an elementary school teacher recorded for six weeks - then one of her tapes turned up sealed in a ziplock bag against a cedar fence post 22 feet from her back door. Why did Denise Williams have no memory of writing the label or walking to that post, and what do the recordings actually contain?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the first strange sounds in November 2006 through Denise Williams’s methodical recordings and the discovery of a labeled cassette on a farm corridor in January 2009. What does the tape at the cedar post mean for Denise’s notebook of dates, temperatures and quality ratings?

Person: Denise Williams Location: Aldermere Road farmhouse, Greer County, Tennessee Date: Third Saturday of January 2009 (tape found); sounds began November 2006 Item: Three 90-minute cassette tapes recorded over roughly six weeks; one found in ziplock freezer bag Condition: Tape labeled "Denise - Kitchen. November through January" and located 22 feet from Denise's farmhouse

- The sounds began in November 2006 and recurred on clear, cold nights when temperatures dropped below 25°F. - Denise recorded continuously, filling three 90-minute tapes over roughly six weeks and labeling them by hand. - The cassette found was sealed upright inside a ziplock freezer bag propped against a cedar fence post. - The cedar post with the tape was about 22 feet from Denise Williams’s farmhouse. - Denise moved into the farmhouse in summer 2005 and kept a brown spiral notebook logging dates, times, durations, weather and quality ratings for the sounds.

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