Lightning turns my modem into a radio

I live in Minnesota. There was a thunder storm going in the area a couple days ago in the midnight. One thunder must have hit something near the apartment I am living in, the fire alarm inside the building was set off and the fire engines came.
The next morning I wife called me at work. She told me that the phone was not working (she had to borrow the phone from downstairs). She said when she picked up the phone, she heard radio. So she reported to the apartment office. Later, my wife called me again and told me that someone came and took a look at the phone line, as soon as he unpluged the PC modem, the phone worked. I was amazed hearing it.
It was true! After I got home from work, I tested it myself. Once I pluged in the modem, I heard radio on the phone that is connected to another phone jet. I could even find out that it's from an public AM radio station. I heard songs, people called to the talk show. Everything is loud and clear. Once I unplug the modem, the phone works normally. My PC is working as before and I can use another modem with the same phone jet.
I am holding on to my modem, or radio.

sounds cool!

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so now you can directly download the radio's music off the air and rip it directly to mp3's.. The RIAA wil hunt you down for this !!

lagger

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Cool.

I use to receive a radio station sometimes when my speakers where on... but this is very strange.

With a hovering case crashing takes a whole new meaning... .

I pick up the firestation's radios through my speakers. sometimes it freaks me out, im stiting there doing work or something and its all quiet, then all of a sudden some guy is talking.

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That's really interesting.

A similar thing has happened to me, twice. Only instead of giving my modem super powers, the lightning just fried it completely. Killed a monitor, too.

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I made wire radios in school. Only could receive capital gold. God knows How many capacitors I've added in parallel, then in series, still capital gold. You get excellent reception though, if you put a crocodile clip on it and clip that on the gas network that runs through the whole school.

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LOL yeah I built a few of those as a kid. Thanx for the trip down memory lane ( now where the heck is my Gilbert Erector set and chemistry set?)

lagger

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