The Three-Click Handset: A Battery That Should Have Died Years Ago
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The Three-Click Handset: A Battery That Should Have Died Years Ago
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Fear of the unexplained starts in the small details: a dry, warm olive-green handset wedged in an oak tree, its cord cut to three inches, clicking three times every few seconds - yet the surrounding ground is wet with dew. The handset had apparently spent twenty-six years in a tree and its battery still emitted a persistent signal; how did a device tied to a closed mine's emergency repeater keep ticking for decades?
In this episode, you will hear the sequence of events that began when Connie Platt found the handset on the Ralph West Trail and drove to the sheriff's substation, then unfolded into a county-wide puzzle about a repeater network, a mining town's decline, and a power account record that no one followed up on. What connects a repeater installed in 1978, a meter billed through 2004, and a handset that kept clicking in 2019?
Person: Connie Platt
Date: June 11, 2019 at 6:40 AM
Location: Ralph West Trail, Ardell, Montana
Event: Olive-green telephone handset wedged between two branches, cord cut to about three inches, clicking every few seconds
Topic: Venable Mining repeater network installed in 1978 with long-duration backup batteries
- The handset was discovered at 6:40 AM on June 11, 2019 on the Ralph West Trail.
- The handset was olive green, had its cord cut to about three inches, was dry and warm while the surroundings were wet with dew.
- Venable Mining installed a network of repeater housings on the eastern slope of Briar Peak in 1978 to meet federal safety mandates.
- The Venable power account V-7 showed billing from 1992 through 2004, with monthly usage of eleven to fourteen kilowatt-hours.
- Ardell's population fell from roughly 4,200 before 1991 to fewer than 600 by summer 2019 after Venable Mining closed in 1991.
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