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Can't blame you. 

I was recently flying from Galveston to Port Arthur in a B407GX and saw some very strange stationary lights hovering (roughly 500 AGL) over the water about two miles west of Sabine Pass. TCAS didn't show anything, and no one was talking. My first thought was that someone was flying a drone near the old lighthouse, but at that moment the object shot out over the ocean at speeds that had to be greater that 200kts. Literally went from stationary to 200kts at the blink of an eye. Shortly after seeing the lights disapear, I began to hear an old CBS Radio News broadcast from February 1st, 1943 over the SBI VOR frequency (115.4).

As if this wasn't odd enough, and just as I was crossing over High Island, I heard someone on 123.025 identifying as 'Pumpkin Air', calling 'final' into the Texas Menhaden strip (XS76), an old field that has been inoperative for years. So I keyed up on 123.025 in attempts to reach the Pumpkin Aircraft, but my radio only returned static, and then completely shut down. (By the way, didn't  Pumpkin Air go out of business several decades ago?) 

In any case, I was finally able to regain power to the radio just south of Port Arthur, before heading into KBPT. I have never in my life experienced anything this eerie in flight.