Man Can't Stop Catholic Radio Broadcasting Through His Muffler Shop's Phone!!

This is a strange and amusing story that is Louisiana home grown. I was looking at what was in the Louisiana Catholic Papers (they are available in PDF form in my Louisiana Catholic links) and discovered this story in the latest edition of The Church Today out of the Diocese of Alexandria Louisiana (on page 16- pic at story also)

By the way you do need to go to Dennis Carter's Muffler and Radiator shop in Pineville Louisiana to listen to Radio Maria.. You can listen world wide via the web.

A personal call from Mary?
Radio Maria mysteriously broadcasts live
from local businessman’s office phone

Dennis Carter listens to Radio Maria through his business phone. For the past two
years, the Catholic radio station can be heard 24-hours a day through the phone.
During the 3 p.m. Rosary, the volume goes up and returns to normal at the end of
the Rosary.

By Jeannie Petrus
CT Editor

Any time Dennis Carter wants to listen to Radio Maria, he just picks up the phone at his Muffler and Radiator Shop in Pineville and hears the world-wide Catholic radio station broadcasting live from Alexandria.
And even when he doesn't want to listen to Radio Maria, he picks up his phone at his mufflershop and still hears Radio Maria broadcasting through his phone.


You see, for the past two years, Radio Maria can be heardbroadcasting through this one phone in Carter's muffler shop -non-stop - 24-hours a day. And no one knows how or why. Call it a technical glitch, or divine intervention - either way,Carter has learned to live with it,and good-naturedly accepts it as a'divine connection' and a good conversation piece among customers and employees who use this one phone.

“Customers come in to use the phone and ask me if I'm aware that there's singing and praying going on on my phone,” he said. “I just laugh and tell them it's RadioMaria trying to reach me!” The broadcast is definitely audible, but not loud. He's had the telephone company check it out and made several attempts to fix the problem - but the interference keeps coming through on his end of the phone only, not the caller's side. There's other phones in the shop - land lines and portable phones - but the interference affects only one phone. Carter says he's Christian, but not Catholic.

He says it's taken a while, but over the years, he's learned a little bit about the programming on Radio
Maria - especially about the Rosary.“Every day at 3 p.m. the Rosary comes on and that's when
the sound gets louder,” said Carter.“At the end of the Rosary, the sound goes back to normal. It's
kind of weird.”


Carter says he doesn't have the time during the day to attentively listen to Radio Maria on
his phone because his business keeps him busy. But it's comforting to know his 'divine connection' is
always open by just picking up his phone.