"DO NOT ANSWER": 5 Mysterious Radio Signals and Numbers Stations
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- In 2012, a number of radio listeners in America heard a mysterious transmission that would prove, as investigations unfolded over the following years, to have wide-reaching geopolitical implications.
The frequency usually broadcasts nothing but static silence. However, on this occasion, and at intervals thereafter, a masked voice was heard. The voice was that of a woman, robotically distorted, reading seemingly random numbers in Spanish.
This was followed by a number of digital tones…
… which then faded away. The recorded message came in waves, repeating strings of digits, for about 20 minutes before they ceased and were replaced by the crackle of yet more static.
The most popular explanation for the signal is that a government agency was distributing coded messages to spies. Spies with the key to decrypt the messages would receive their orders by listening in and deciphering the patterns of numbers.
Investigations found that the signal was being broadcast by a station codenamed HM01, which is indeed owned by a Cuban intelligence agency. However, it remained unclear what the messages meant or for whom they were intended...
UA-cam nerfed and hid my last JFK video. I wonder why...? 🤔 I'll try to bring it back at a later date. 👽
Thats their way of saying its true and nobody gets to know the truth
Sketchy
I'd ask why except I know YT never really gives a reason. It was a really good video!
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The old Soviet numbers stations were by far the creepiest. Something about the accent, and the times in which they were broadcast. 😨
What was the point of the numbers stations?
82 twenty theee 17 fifty zero Nw 80” A1 gets your steaks done Alpha Bravo 0003
When I was in US Army Signal Corps, an instructor told us that these stations weren't broadcasting any real data...the strange sounds and other audible features were a means for the station to authenticate itself.
"The real message comes the day the station goes dark and stays dark."
The exact time and date would correspond to a 'code book' entry informing agents what to do next.
"The Division".
All of the new ones broadcast SDR waterfall images with literal text showing up on the spectrograph waterfall. Then they transmit encrypted data.
@@John-wd5cb ILLUMINATE please ??????IS this A NSA/DIA op???Stay behinds/GLADIO II?????in us????
Channel markers to keep the frequency open is what im told. Interesting I never though about it like that.
@@tripplefives1402 yes I see that all the time
I work in air conditioning and have to go into peoples houses when their AC breaks down, about 6 years ago i went to work at this one guys house, while i was in another room, the home owner was having a conference call on speaker phone where i could hear people rattling off random numbers and he would write them down on a note pad while occasionally chiming in and responding with a set of numbers back. I remember the whole thing made me really uncomfortable.
BINGO!
Yeah, or maybe he was just playing Battleships with his mates...
@@matthaxx7137 -😂
Using a phone to relay cyrptographic info literally defeats the purpose of it. I also would highly someone with the knowledge and skills to communicate in such a way would do so while complete strangers are in the same room, that also defeats the purpose of encrypted messages
Were they IP addresses?
LES-1 isn't the only zombie satellite. I've picked up TRANSIT 5B-5 several times, transmitting nonsense telemetry on 136.658
He said there was 6 of them
Numbers stations have been going since WW1
I remember 50 years ago listening to them like the Lincolnshire poacher station and many more with all sorts of accents and languages.
I had flick all idea what it was about other than espionage.
I remember reading about some radio broadcaster that was doing this in South America in the 1970s.
This video feels super nostalgic in style, I remember when you did this type of video when you used captions instead of speaking. Hearing it was a real nice touch to something that brought me back to the early days of this channel. Nice video!
I used to LOVE this channel years ago when it was only text...still a good channel but this is the first time ive seen it again in a long time
I have been listening to websdr from Gotland Island and Poland to monitor certain channels. Some very strange signals, pirates, oddities, and wartime transmissions out there. I make videos on my channel when I find something interesting. I love this topic, great video man - cheers from Canada
I love this topic! I'm your 3rd subscriber.
I’m the 6th!
17th!
@@b1r2y3n Thank you for the support !
@@julian_david4556 Nice ! thanks for helping me grow the channel
I'm surprised the buzzer station didn't make it on here
The bigger mystery is why a russian is making the signals appear as Bart Simpson or cropped furry art
they made a video about the buzzer on their other channel a few years ago
WebSDR Art. That is so niche a troll / “because I can”
Of all the things you could do with your time….
We certainly live in _interesting times_
he touched it in one of his other videos
If you double tap a comment it will like it, if you triple tap it will allow you to reply
No just tap the 3rd speech bubble with the little lines in it.
Neat. thanks just tried it 😁👍now
@@Ann-sj4ptI've just done it on your comment.
Try it before you criticise it.
@@flickingbollocks5542 i’m not criticizing it.i’m just saying how i know it works.if you have found another way hurray for you 🤣
@@flickingbollocks5542 it doesn’t work i tried it.
I live at 9400ft, and now I want to get an antenna and high power radio,more than ever now. Good chance of picking up, maybe some. Who knows? Wild skip for sure.
You'll survive the reset up there👍
I suggest starting cheap and affordable for radios and scanners as a hobbyist myself. You need UHF, VHF, ULF, SW, to pick up generally everything.
But here's the catch.
You have to understand the environment you're in too and be familiar with interferences. Like your car for example has a "Filter" on the alternator because you could hear it on older radios. My Grundig 750 picks up machinery and equipment.
Case in point one DXing session I had I was scanning and the deck depot on my ship turned the lights on, the electronic noise sounded like a screaming parrot. My chief laughed as I got up swearing like crazy and rubbing my ears.
So here's what I have picked up.
Alaska (At sea): CNR-1, Public radio in St.Petersberg Florida, Brother Stair (He's a meme for being hellfire and brimstone) VOA in French.
BC (at sea): CNR-1, BBC Australia.
Washington State (land): CNR-1 Radio Havana, Radio Havana English, NHK, Radio Pyangyang (Korean)
Oregon (Land): Art Bell Coast to Coast FM, Pirate Station ran by White Supremacist, South Asian Music.
California (at sea): Jungle Public Radio Brazil, CNR-1, couple HAM stations.
The thing is that this is very limited with lots of electronic noise or bad locations.
But I encourage you to hit up the DXing (that's the hobby is called) forums and learn more. It's pretty cool and fun.
I got started DXing SW when I was in trade school and remembered Oregon has a ton of little weird radio stations.
Get into ham radio. It's so cool@@Jo-sp5cp
simple CB radio with a 19ft long wire antenna - awesome cheap thrills :) set it horizonal north-south - you get max reception east-to-west. line up the wire east-west, u get max signal north-south :) have both, and your awesome
There are some fairly simple and not so expensive set ups that can talk to the I.S.S. HAM radios and CBs are fun.
Crazy to think that in 2024 Numbers Stations are still a good way of transmitting information - goes to show the strength of a good code and cipher.
The key here is that you can transmit your message without code and completely open. Hence, radio is a very cheap and inconspicuous device and it doesn't matter if the enemy is listening in. It's a one way system.
Right up my alley. I find number stations fascinating!
Those first numbers translated to "Del Taco has better tacos than Taco Bell. Keep on DL"
100%
My code book validates that decryption.
If Pokemon has taught me anything, that radio station, HM01 contains cut and it can be used outside battle after obtaining the cascade badge.
Underrated comment
I rubbed the Captain's back to relieve his sea sickness.
Fun Fact. 84 Year old ARCA race team owner Wayne Peterson was an Army Decoder. He broke a Important Vietnam vode and was awarded a medal of service from President Reagan.
What's a vode?
I'm glad he broke the "vode"
@@kylegreene1356I think he meant vase
@@FrankNStein-bw4gf : (typo - 'v' next to 'c' on keyboard)
That's a crazy looking thumbnail. I love it!
Those dial tones and phone noises will always be scary idc what anyone thinks 😭😭😭
Yup, the video wasn't even in my notifications.
It wasn't even in my suggestions. I have ESP.
Most of them aren't, but this one was 🎉
Hey my good man. Not sure what's going on, but I'm not receiving notifications of when you post, and I'm subbed to all your channels. Anyone else having/had this problem? 🤔
I live on the English coast, the closest point to the French coast. Growing up, we had some serious wacky signals and this is something that's always fascinated me. There's a great channel called Ringway Manchester that give some great content on Number Stations etc. Great content as usual 👍
You woke up distant memory in me. Im a Finn from Helsinki, Estonia and Tallinn is situated right behind Baltic on the South, pretty much just like you and France. My grandpa worked his whole life in radio (Yleisradio, our BBC) as technician or mechanic in the link tower, and loved both tv & radio deeply, in all forms. He had the first Beta-video I ever saw, later he bought VHS too and used both daily. He set his tv to catch Soviet era Estonian tv, he even learned some Estonian from it, but he also tinkered with radios.
This is very faint memory, I must’ve been really small (prob 1980ish), but Im sure he phoned to one of his radio enthusiast buddies and said he heard something weird, coming from Estonia. There was a sense of urgency or discovery, unusual or weird things were going on. I wanna say he gave the “coordinates” (frequency?, no idea what they are called) over phone and told the other guy to check it out, almost like “can you hear it too?”, but this part Im not as sure. I only remember sitting on the kitchen floor with my puzzle and the slight worry, surprise or excitement in his voice.
What a weird, long buried memory decided to surface, thanks to your post! Now Im left wondering was he just really super into all things transmitting or was my mild mannered and stoic gramps possibly a spy :)
@@janemiettinen5176 Either way, that is a fascinating story and a great read. Get researching, Ringway has covered lots of different places. My Son Mika was named after a great flying Finn. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Why does the guy in the thumbnail look like a cross between an AT-AT driver and a Tie Fighter pilot?
AI made Im guessing?
Nuke-flash head-gear for pilots.
Lenses feature 'shutters' that respond to light levels.
Only worn by flight-crews operating in nuke environments.
no america pilots use a helmet like this
🤣🤣🤣
The pilot has a cleft pallet ?
You know what I miss about the Cold War? All the subtext...
4:27 Whiskey Alpha Romeo = War. I'm probably wrong and it doesn't mean actual war, but thought it was interesting.
But what is it good for?
@@westrim😂
Could also mean drinking while driving an Italian sports car.
@@westrim Absolutely nothin'.
One of my favourite channels of all time!
Best channel ever, I’ve been following Dark5 since 10 years ago, and I love this video so much as a radio enthusiast, I have listened to several strange number stations
We just want the numbers, Mason. That's all we've ever wanted.
Duuuude! I never unsubscribed from your channel! So good to see you again!
Fascinating subject. Would love to learn more.
When the transmission fades in and out, that, in radio land, is called skip😮 and it can actually travel around the world. I have a CB that does this
cb radios cant travel the world. that would be hamm radios.
Yes cb can travel the world when conditions are right. I’ve talked to Australia numerous times from the States on lower side band
@@nomercyinc6783 CB radio is around 27mhz 11M which can propogate, though not as well as 20m, 40, or 160m.
@@jameyevans29 100% I live In Australia and I remember talking to a bloke in Honolulu that had a 1kw linear in his car
@@jamesaustralian9829 oh yes! I always talked barefoot but there’s some massive stations out there
Great video ❤
Been waiting for a new video worth it
as always great and entertaining content
3rd broadcast made my body feel fuzzy. 👀
That was so good I subscribed.
Im the 90s I caught a Sky King broadcast while band scanning. It gave me chills.
From Australia, please tell more?
@@teresatickner7537 Not a lot to tell. "Sky King, Sky King do not answer, message follows." I was listening From Florida.
USED TO HEAR THEM FREQUENTLY WHEN ON DEPLOYMENTS, I WAS CREWMAN ON P-3 ORION MARITIME PATROL AIRCRAFT!
Fascinating subjec
Best channel on yt
Ah yes, the "where are you dear general" song
I love the number station videos! They fascinate me
a lot of people wouldn't believe it, but Cuba has always been very adept at its human intelligence gathering or HUMINT.
they certainly took their KGB training and ran with it, so to speak
KGB Rules the (electronic) Waves.
I would say that the Cubans are light years ahead of the KGB. They got that country locked down. It's amazing how many tourists go there every year who are totally ignorant of it. When you enter the country they take a picture of you at the airport. They do that for a reason. They track everything and everyone.
In before they change the thumbnail from a star wars looking mask to something like a plane
My favorite UA-cam channel :]
Amazing!
This is a great video with an interesting topic!
I mean, all of your videos are interesting, but this one inspired me to leave a comment.
That is all.
Fascinating topic!
13 missed calls from dad.
I wish one day I bumped into this guy and recognised his voice.
The issue would be that this is his "broadcast voice," meaning that his casual, everyday voice would sound noticeably different. You wouldn't recognize him..
I wish I didn't have to back up 5 seconds throughout all of his videos to figure out what he said.
@@JarheadCrayonEatercmon, it's very easy to understand, even to non-native like me.
The channel was wayyyy better when it played the videos to dope trippy music and no voice narration
Thank you D5 👌🏽
Whats the freak Kennith? 'It's way freakier that you would ever want :O '
Good to hear your voice again darkman
Often used to determine shortwave radio conditions to various parts of the world during certain times of the day as well ....
Legendary Intro!
Can't beat a number stations vid...
Especially one from Dark5
Dude that helmet looks rad no pun intended
I’ve been listening to Dark 5 before they even had a narrator, you had to read the text. So a very long time🥰
Thanks love your videos what happened to Dark 5 Ancient Mysteries haven't seen it in a while.
NOW THIS IS DARK 5!!!
8:50 Creepy music for this reason.
Goosebumps.
The North Korean version of “Swanlake”?
Those are badass. I love the allure of old world tech and the hidden in plain sight.
Thank you for making these videos for so many years 🫡
I once bought a collection of old martial arts movies that came in a boxset. I don’t recall what movie it was among them but at one point in the movie the dubbed over voices dropped and it changed to two German male voices speaking for roughly 4 minutes then it went back to normal.. secret messages? Or editing issues… I’ll never know..
Actually got a taped recording of hmo1 it's neat to see it's still running.
In southern Wisconsin you can pick it up around 4pm with a consumer grade shortwave radio receiver
Hi Dark5, the HM01 message seems to be a data trans via radio, the numbers that the lady speaks seems to be the key to adjust the system to receive the data ( the data is transmited with that "static" sound after the numbers).
i dunno that is a thing, but seems to be something...
If you own a CB, since 2012 how about finding the dude saying Aaaauuuuudddddddiiiiiiioooooo!
That bastard is on ham bands too
In the 90's I was listening to the radio and it was interrupted by a guy with a weird voice reading number in spanish: Uno Dos Tres Quatro Cinqo Cinqo Seis
Was he pretty fly?
@RB20ANDY I bet he was really a white guy.
Heard the same code and wondered if he got a 13 Tattoo or 31?
Wooly Booly?
Oh yeah, I heard it too, what a coincidence! Gunter glieben glauchen globen, give it to me baby..
We're all very curious: what AI prompt did you use to generate that thumbnail?
I don't answer mysterious radio signals...never have never will
Why
Came here for the Bleep blorp diddle diddle diddle.
Was not disappointed.
UA-cam unsubscribed me from your channel. I was actually walking through the sixth-floor museum in Dallas when you released the Kennedy video. You must have gotten a bit too close to the sun. Which part do you think got it nerfed, was it the babushka lady or the umbrella man, neither of which was mentioned in the museum. There was also a man outside of the museum with an enhanced image of mussel flashes coming from the grassy knoll, a video that has never circulated on the internet.
All of them!!
Skyking transmissions are eerie and could preview series internationally problems developing.
Where can I find a radio good enough to listen to these??
Radio Shack
That’s weird, radio shack been out of Biz for more than 10 years
It's on shortwave radio
Dora was not done exploring on the first one
Would be useful to have the frequency of each of these channels listed and mode of transmission (AM, FM, USB, LSB etc).
Regarding the 'zombie' satelites as a radio ham we had one of our OSCAR satelites come back to life a few years ago but only whilst the solar panels were in sunlight so we realised the onboard batteries had gone open circuit and it was operating only by solar power as are the others.
AO-7 is my personal favorite zombie satellite, not least of all because of how we got it back: after it failed in the early 80s, Polish resistance fighters discovered it would sometimes work in sunlight, and used it to communicate with different cells across communist Poland and the west. Given that the government had seized most radio gear, and monitored everything, AO-7 was one of the only ways to freely communicate.
After the fall of the USSR, some resistance fighters wrote about it in their memoirs, and it was largely forgotten - until a ham read them in 2002, realized the implications, and did some tests to determine that it still worked! AMSAT made an announcement, and to this day it’s one of the oldest working satellites up there.
Haven’t seen PLTZ goggles in a long time.
Thanks! Was wondering what that was.
unknown radio signals are my favorite mystery
Catch one from decades ago, good times
Sometimes even North Korean kids need help with their math homework.
"... the signals got stronger every time it was overhead." :D
I often heard Sky King on 11,243 Mhz during the early-mid 80's 😧
"In 2012...."
These things have been on non-commercial frequencies _FOR DECADES!_ Cuba also used reel-to-reel and still does sometimes. It's funny to hear an old recording playing the voices BACKWARS.
No choice here- they’re all creepy. Thanks again for the great posts!
heard that last night west coast usa
I have heard of these. How do you find them to listen?
"Which of these broadcasts do you find to be the most creepy?"
Me: none of them.
"The numbers, Mason !! What do they mean ?!?!"
Sky king messages or Richard Russell messages ?
Worked with a guy who had been in a branch of the US armed forces... Army or Air Force, don't really remember as It's been 7 years ago...
Anyway, we were working in Illinois and he knew I was from Oklahoma. He asked if I had ever heard of a particular small town. I had heard if it and had actually been there.
He told me that he and a handful of members of his unit had been sent there to set up a listening post. Said they were there for a few weeks listening to radio traffic from another country... North Korea, China, someplace like that... Again, I don't remember.
But something about that area around that little town allowed them to receive a good enough signal to monitor comms from somewhere across the world.
Pretty wild stuff. I'll have to see if I can get ahold of that guy and fill in the details of my foggy memory.
Is it possible North Korea either had trouble with or didn't trust their internet connections when they reactivated the station?
Also, I looked up events from the same month as the Chinese Space Plane... China started operating laboratory deep under the Jinping mountains on December 7th.
1:01 Not mysterious at all. That's a encrypted comm for embedded spies.
Please dont have voice over .have the old version where there was spooky music and subtitles
Out of the western sky comes sky king.
When there was a paramilitary attack on a gas line in my city..
All the week, i was able to tune 3 - 4 , "ping" stations, could only hear static, i guess was an encryoted army signal..
They’re all creepy, as someone who knows nothing about this, if I picked up a random transmission, I’d be spooked
Fun fact! The opening for Radio Pyongyang is called "Where are you, Dear General?"
Mr Dark can you do a video on the Stock Market Crash of 2008?
Listening to some of them. They seem like they're using an open line to send info for syncing a radio to a secret line.
Military radios have to be synced together to communicate.
Edit: i think im actually on to something. We would use a device called an ANCD. They required a certain code to be put in and it reminds me a lot of what theyre saying with the numbers stations
In the 70s I would play my electric guitar through a pedal and this stuff came through my amplifier late at night. I would call my band mate and have him listen through the telephone. I think either the pedal or the pickup acted like a sort of antenae. We figured that it was some kind of spy stuff. Jeff Tweedy named his album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot after these Irdials that he picked up. The album The Conet Project collected a bunch of these Irdials.
“… broadcasting static silence …”. Huh? Which is it then?
Subscribed for years. Notifications haven't been received for months.
UA-cam has been trying to push back channels like these over the last 5 years by hiding content and notifications. lol sucks tbh
I love Light 6