Ghost Network

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(vor the episode, see The Ghost Network)

Ghost Network refers to a spectrum of waves, lying outside of the range of those previously known (in the mid-1980's), that can be used to communicate information. The US Government was extremely interested in the network to send their most clandestine information, because no other government knew the spectrum existed and couldn't listen in.

In an advanced application, the Ghost Network could be used to transmit directly from one person to another, perhaps with the introduction of iridium-based, organo-metallic compounds into the subject's brain.

In The Ghost Network, Doctor Walter Bishop claimed that he researched the Ghost Network along with Massive Dynamic founder, William Bell. He added that Roy McComb was a test subject of his about 20 years prior. Peter Bishop characterized early Ghost Network testing as attempts to turn McComb into a human walkie-talkie.

The iridium-based compound in McComb's bloodstream multiplied over the years and turned him into a Ghost Network receiver.

Walter suspected that someone had continued, and perfected, his Ghost Network research... merely using it as a secure telecommunications channel, and not as a person-to-person channel. Bishop later used a magnetic neurostimulator he had built 1983, to adjust Roy McCombs brain to interpret the disturbing visions he had been receiving.

Doctor Bishop pondered McCombs' potential to receive satellite television.