Number stations are some interesting government spy stuff. You can't stop radiowaves from entering a country least not without a ton of effort and the numbers could correspond to anything you desire or just be fluff. You could instruct someone to tune in at 1:30 having something repeat before instruction, not repeat, have a list or cypher or just have your spy memorise something. And if you want to annoy a government just start up the number stations for no reason. Pretty inexpensive.
Mr Rainmaker here that's motor mount Mall unit 2 out of California he talks on z e l l o Channel 14 Moe is one of his friends I've talked to him a few times on my radio I know him funny who got him on there I can't wait to tell him
I'm so happy this kind of thing is getting a bigger audience here, the shortwave listening (SWL) community is pretty small and I'd love for more people to get into it
@@themc3140I have to agree. Ever since Vinny opened up one of the advertising kits for one of the unboxing videos, and there was one of those radio-devices that let you tune into stations it made me hope he did similar stuff and I'm glad to see he did
29:00 I KNOW WHAT THAT MUSIC IS! It's the theme for Raumpatruille Orion, an old 60s german scifi TV show! Even the robotic voice countdown is part of the song!
i've been listening to Welle: Erdball lately and they also have this vocoder bit in their "Grüße Von Der Orion" which is, i assume, is about this TV show
while that leaves the question of "why was this playing on a station for 8 hours" goes unanswered (maybe it really was a pirate or test situation), that at least answers what the audio itself is
January Marseille Parsnip Lead Emotion Bloop MX Magnetic Sunflower Clock COINTELPRO Tanis Urinal Huh that's weird I gotta go to Yellowstone all the sudden
i have a feeling like 5 years ago or so he might've played it if it was out then, but he seemed to play more experimental/indie stuff (that isn't resource management/card/dice games) then. It probably would've still just been 1 short-ish stream of it though.
Had brief talks with vinny about it. Ideally maybe he could wait until joel slows down and we get a new base ext made. Idunno. Vinny isn't as familiar with the signal sim like gameplay so he might need to figure a lot out.
Timestamps for the different stations: 1:29 UZB76 / The Buzzer 2:34 The Pip 3:24 The Squeaky Wheel 4:14 Baron-78 5:22 The Goose -- Number Stations -- 5:59 Tyrolean Music Station 9:11 Swedish Rhapsody 12:01 Lincolnshire Poacher 15:34 E13 / Five Dashes 17:23 V28 / The Parrot 18:38 V19 / WTR21 20:34 S10 / The Czech Lady -- Other Signals -- 22:22 DB0UPB Research Beacon 23:36 2006 Kia Grand Carnival Keyfob 23:56 CRY2001 Voice Scrambler 24:49 GRAVES (Grand Réseau Adapté à la Veille Spatiale) 25:45 Ionosonde (Chirpsounder) 26:24 XSL Japanese Slot Machine 26:51 Unknown 40 (40.693mhz) 27:19 Exotic Cipher 28:16 Weird Robot Counting 29:55 The Buzzer Jammed by Pirate Radio) 31:54 Scott Amateur (I assume Scott County Amateur Radio) 33:35 Bonus Number Station -- Anomolous Chat Member -- 38:36 Signal #1 (Morse Code) 39:35 Signal #2 (Motor Mouth Maul) 40:53 Signal #3 (Who/You/I da ho) 45:31 Signal #5 (STANAG Transmission) 46:55 Siberia Antenna (Uhhhhhhh) 47:59 German Maritime Warning System 49:21 Mandarin Pronunciation Help Service Signal 50:52 FT8 51:27 Russian Weather Report
Oh boy, I remember the day The Buzzer was being jammed. Besides the music, the hijacker also drew some stuff in the spectrogram, mostly trollfaces and amogus. Fun times, there's something really comfy about listening to number stations with the boys late at night.
is that the same one where that "who the hell is hijacking this station bruh" picture comes from and its the engineer from tf2 EDIT: after doing a quick google search, yes it indeed is that same hijacking. now i know where that stupid ass image of the engineer in a hacked radio spectrogram i have on my phone comes from
We often used to listen to shortwave radio while cooking dinner in the 80's in Germany and occasionally the signals would overlap with a number station. It was a really spooky thing before the iron curtain fell. The uncertainty, not knowing what it was at the time, only speculation that it was for GDR Agents in West-Germany or West-German Agents in the GDR. Now we know the ones that came in through our radio was the East-German Spies one. Glad those times are over, but ever since the war in Ukraine the activity picked up again.
I listened to this at night and, i don’t know why but it’s insanely unsettling. On one hand it’s like, you know there’s just a human behind every signals creation. But it just feels like some sort of lovecraftian signal being in our existence.
anything that's audible but is carrying data not (easily) intelligible by humans is just unsettling. I get the same feeling listening to dial up or fax noises
I know it’s pretty much just nonsense made up by old horror movies but I always felt like technology was most susceptible to “outside influences” which could just mean aliens or ghost or who knows what. Leaves this weird anxiety within you though when you consider it.
Funny that you mention this because there’s a rad movie called Banshee Chapter that combines Lovecraft with these number stations. It’s not the best horror movie ever but it’s interesting with some good scary scenes imo
fuck that was exactly how i found out about numbers stations too, through geogaddi, then it became its own thing after i started really getting into it
Speaking of Boards of Canada, I just copped Tomorrow’s Harvest on vinyl. Beautiful to hear off of wax, like, wow. What did you find so far out there? Also, I can never listen to that song ‘Beware The Friendly Stranger’ without wanting to quote Salad Fingers. I still remember that “Radio” episode, come to think of these shortwave broadcasts.
@@ShadowNinja452 crazy, i wish i had a TH vinyl, but my #1 most aought after ia geogaddi solely cause of the nuclear family etching on the side where magic window is supposed to be
i'm glad vinny gives so much commentary because god this stuff is really unsettling to me i'm really interested in obscure stuff like this but i can't imagine listening to these on my own because of how unnerving these broadcasts can be
12:01 - i know this melody from a tf2 video. you can find it, if you search for 'tf2 spinning heavy' or 'this is the best thing i have ever seen in Team Fortress 2' for the OG.
theres actually 2 TF2 bits coming up in this stream. there's the lincolnshire poacher (the song which plays on the mic in that spinning tf2 heavy video), but before there was a short snippit of UVB-76, more commonly known as The Buzz, which in 2022 was hijacked by someone protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They put pictures in the spectrogram, and among the amogus and trollfaces was the smiling engineer meme (engineer gaming) and where that "who the hell be hijacking this station bro" picture comes from
20:35 I can’t remember where I have heard this before, but I know I have. It’s so bizarre because I’m sure it was in some piece of horror media or something like that but the way these shortwave stations are created makes them always feel surreal and dreamlike. It’s like recalling a nightmare I had as a child, the actual details are fuzzy but the emotions it evokes are so potent that it makes my blood run cold from fear. I have always had a fear of automated speech and warning sirens and this has made sure I won’t sleep soundly tonight. Edit: I remember where I heard it. Killing Floor 2, Farmhouse map. It plays an extremely similar recording in the radio in the basement. I first discovered it while playing on an empty server at 2 AM and just sat and listened to it in between rounds. It’s so incredibly unnerving and I couldn’t find ANY information on it at the time.
31:31 Apparently Robert Plant didn't always record his vocals to pitch, he sometimes recorded them a tone or two lower and would pitch it up by speeding up the tape.
If they're russian number stations they're not exactly anomalous. I'm just imagining some dude in a bunker twiddling a dial on a radio and everyone losing their minds
if you’re talking abt the Buzzer, the Pip, or the Squeaky Wheel, those technically aren’t numbers stations. they’re military broadcasts as opposed to being run by intelligence agencies
@Boamere - What are you talking about? Aside from the obvious weather stations no one is absolutely 100% sure what the Pip, Buzzer, Squeeky Wheel or most of them are and so far governments do not really acknowledge them or their use so they are by definition anomalous in nature. I don't think you understand why they are called anomalous because if Russian stations are not then all of them aren't.
15:49 Some old ass secret agent most have been thought "are you serious? Is this the best audio quality we can get? How am i supposed to understand my mission?"
My late cat’s name was Pip, so learning that there was a Russian numbers station that was called “Pip” was really neat. Enjoyed this video immensely. Thanks Vinny!
Seeing those automatic decoders is very interesting, makes you wonder how much stuff gets sent through short wave singals that people are constantly picking up and decoding the information from it. 42:26 Idaho Udaho 49:13 This is 100% some kind of teaching service, as you can tell by the man saying one phrase and the woman repeating it back. - 49:50 Especially this part, they're saying "How long will it take?" (My broken Mandarin making me understand parts of this)
The woman is speaking Serbian repeating the guy's Mandarin and translating it. The guy spoke in Serbian once, but he has a very noticeable Chinese accent.
Watching this cause I remember hearing Vinny say "this is not a stream to fall asleep to" while half asleep in my bed and I wanted to make sure it was real
Was wild to see this segment after telling my family about numbers stations a few days prior. Despite them always managing to creep me out they've held my interest for at least a decade now and I love hearing them pop up in streams or sampled in music like Boards of Canada. What a spooky treat!
Listening to this again about 4 months later because it was one of my favorite segments in recent years. Would love to get this kind of content outside of Spooptober.
For me, the benchmark stations I would use to do a restoration on a shortwave radio are WWVH, which transmits the atomic time on shortwave radio at 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20, and once again experimentally at 25 MHz. 1.25 MHz is out of the question for obvious reasons: that frequency is squarely in the medium-frequency broadcast band at 1250 AM. However, I wouldn't mind having a standard AM frequency to listen to that transmits atomic clock time.
I have this playing very loudly on my TV as background noise while I build an IKEA dresser in the other room. I'm kind of hoping that all my retiree neighbors in my very thinly-walled condo building, who were all born during the Red Scare, start having suspicions that the quiet single guy half their age living in the same building is actually some kind of cryogenically frozen Soviet sleeper agent that was just recently thawed & activated.
Curious fact: the radio noise and the numbers that can be heard from time to time in Signalis are actually from an old numbers station, commonly known as "Three note oddity"!
What a cool segment. I've been into shortwave for a while and its always so interesting. No matter what time of day you can scroll around and find something that wasnt there yesterday.
One of my favorite Sunday Stream segments in a bit. I love corruptions and other scummy Sunday content, but this was extremely entertaining and decently informative. I hope there’s more!
This sort of stuff is so eerie and interesting to me and I don't know why, especially when the spectrogram generates distinct visuals and the voices become unnatural-sounding. I'm waiting for the inevitable one that generates an Amogus or Jerma's Sus Face.
OK if this is what Vinny is into how has nobody recommended Signalis to him? Literally Silent Hill in a Stasi future and Number Stations are a major part of it's aesthetic.
There's a guy up around Michigan that calls himself "Jake from the Great Lakes" who broadcasts from a CB basestation, and he carries on conversations with truck drivers. You can actually pick him up in Mississippi, skipping off the clouds early in the morning sometimes. Shortwave stuff is wild.
20:29 Ah yes, Czech Lady my beloved one.❤If someone wonder, what is she saying, its just a numbers and picture is probably some satellite on roof in Prague.
The voice sounds like a demon child and the song is strangely familiar. Something tells me I’ve heard it before but then something else tells me I haven’t. Oh my goodness doesn’t it just give one the feeling of being some kind of sleeper agent? Nope, I’m out of here!
Man, this takes me back to early 2016 when I got into shortwave radio because of the mysteries and oddities surrounding it, even to this day tuning around the dying shortwave bands just because of how interesting it is. A couple years ago, I managed to stumble over the E11 Oblique number station completely by accident, and it felt like striking gold.
While watching this, I kept wishing there was a way to go back in time. Not to do anything fancy, just to know what the *fuck* some of these signals really are.
@@thatradioboyYeah that's the truth of it. A lot was declassified when the bloc fell but a ton of Russian specific documents never saw light because they still hold some relevance to modern operations. That and they're stubborn.
I had no idea someone had sent him a collection of shortwave radio stuff like this, or else I would have loved to contribute to it! Analog radio stuff has been a big interest of mine for the last 8 years or so. If anyone wants to learn more, check out priyom.org for the listening schedule of real number stations, and sigidwiki.com for detail analysis of all the various digital and analog modes you might come across in the entire spectrum
That actually sort of took me out of the game hearing such well known sounds - would have been pretty easy to create custom ones, but I'm only about an hour in.
@@snagglesnorf Signalis is about a lot of things but yeah, numbers stations feature prominently and tuning your radio to find different stations is a core mechanic. It's a really good Silent Hill like horror game and I think Vinny would love it.
@@snagglesnorfNot really? As someone who recently played Signalis, I’d more describe it as a classic survival horror game wherein a lesbian Android fights an Eldrich corruption to save her human lover. Number stations and all that jazz are used, but more to serve the creepy, mindfucky atmosphere.
i mean, the one around the 32/33 minute mark starts coming damn close. the dude is in a quiet hushed tone almost like that one really shitty 'raspy radio voice' you hear in all the bad analog horrors out there, but looking at the spectrogram itself and everything looks like melting distorted screaming faces, like the MARIO face. then it starts with these weird Y or triangle things and playing weird (albeit funny 'oh no, our table, its broken) sounds
Love falling asleep to this and feel like I've been trapped inside a small bathroom that's slowly filling up with water while all I have with me is an atari 2600 and a tv that somehow only gets reception of math channels from the 1950s
This is my shit right here, i used to sit on a program called SDR Radio for hours recording weird stuff i found on random frequencies. Nice one binyot, love it!!
17:20 So, it's funny he said that, because I used to fall asleep all the time listening to the Conet Project (big collection of older number station/bizarre radio recordings) through my old crappy headphones in the car when my family would go on vacation. I get bad car sickness, and listening to something repetitive and less dynamic than most music combined with the slight drowsy discomfort of the car sickness would put me right off to sleep. Would usually be jolted awake by some of the louder/sharper-sounding recordings later on in it, but overall it really did help me get through some otherwise long and uncomfortable car rides. There's just something about these recordings man, something deeply eerie yet calm, at least to me. Will say that the North Korean one in here really stressed me out though, that poor operator sounds so scared. Anyway, hope y'all have a wonderful day/night/whatever it is in your timezone. Cheers.
I used to spend hours listening to Russian numbers stations. Most of the stations were static, so when I switched to something that made any noise at all, it was pretty exciting. It was mostly identical to the New Jersey signals, except in Russian (and occasionally German).
Since I speak russian unlike chat person who recorded this, in that Novokuznetsk broadcast I heard words "Attacking", "Orlan" (witch is most likely a codename for something airborne) and "Over" so... I'm 90% sure it was a military broadcast. And I kinda wish Binty didn't talk over it.
Have had a love for numbers stations since I first found out about them. Absolutely love seeing Vinny explore them! Would love to see more weird shit like this from him.
I love this kind of stuff. Funny he mentioned falling asleep to this, I was actually doing just that because old radio signals are very soothing. Combined with Vinny's voice, this is some amazing ASMR. But I actually had to pause it before falling asleep because I didn't wanna miss anything. It was too interesting. lol
@@ratsmackerjack7353 Haha, I'm weird. I used to mess with my father's old ham radio when I was a little girl. Old radio transmissions are just comforting, unless it's full-blown yelling or screaming. lol
This kinda thing interests me something fierce. Reminds me of when I used to listen to art bell on the radio. I believe he used to discuss these things, and the mysterious and digital nature is what adds that extra layer of creepiness to it. Would love to see more cool niche stuff like this!
11:06 the Swedish Rhapsody number station's messaging was sampled and used by the late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson on a track entitled 'A Song For Europa' as part of his final album, Orphée. It's a hauntingly beautiful piece and I hope Vinny listens to it some day.
This is such a fun stream idea. I love stuff like this. A little learning, a little spookiness Edit: Vinny should broadcast his next stream over shortwave. Jus for kicks.
17:17 So crazy Vinny says this because I happened to fall asleep to this last night and I paused the video here after dozing off a couple of times. I had some very strange dreams about some of these signals and it was pretty creepy and disturbing.
I've made a chilling realization about The Lincolnshire Poacher. Despite this seeming like it's realistically the first time I'm hearing it, it actually isn't the first time. It made me remember a dream I had where I was working as a high-ranking member of the British government in what I believe was, judging by this realization, a foreign intelligence agency, and I remember the preamble, I remember the three tones, I remember the automated speaker. I remember it all. I believe in past lives and reincarnation and all that, so realizing that I remember this station despite never hearing it before in my life has led me to believe that my dream involving The Lincolnshire Poacher was moreso a memory of a past life. It's actually kinda frightening to me
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Number stations are some interesting government spy stuff.
You can't stop radiowaves from entering a country least not without a ton of effort and the numbers could correspond to anything you desire or just be fluff. You could instruct someone to tune in at 1:30 having something repeat before instruction, not repeat, have a list or cypher or just have your spy memorise something.
And if you want to annoy a government just start up the number stations for no reason. Pretty inexpensive.
This is the shit analog horror is made of
Mr Rainmaker here that's motor mount Mall unit 2 out of California he talks on z e l l o Channel 14 Moe is one of his friends I've talked to him a few times on my radio I know him funny who got him on there I can't wait to tell him
This has got to be the most niche surrealist type of content Vinny has uploaded. I’m weirdly looking forward for more.
The scary part is that in spite of the surreal appearance, that this is all real stuff... Spooky eh?
I'm surprised he hasn't done stuff like this before, considering his interest in aliens and stuff
I'm so happy this kind of thing is getting a bigger audience here, the shortwave listening (SWL) community is pretty small and I'd love for more people to get into it
@@themc3140I have to agree. Ever since Vinny opened up one of the advertising kits for one of the unboxing videos, and there was one of those radio-devices that let you tune into stations it made me hope he did similar stuff and I'm glad to see he did
Tell me about it, I'm big into shortwave radio and I did a triple take reading the title.
I can't wait for Vinny to awaken the sleeper agent within me I need a new hobby anyway
Comrade, your signal has been received. Please await for further instructions, your activation will be confirmed by your chosen word: SPEEN
Chocolate Butternut Transmission
Can't wait to see you in the news for a failed assassination attempt on a senator or something. Good luck with becoming a folk hero!
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They know.
29:00 I KNOW WHAT THAT MUSIC IS! It's the theme for Raumpatruille Orion, an old 60s german scifi TV show! Even the robotic voice countdown is part of the song!
It is indeed! Music and vocoder voice by composer Peter Thomas. Maybe a kind of pirate station.
i've been listening to Welle: Erdball lately and they also have this vocoder bit in their "Grüße Von Der Orion" which is, i assume, is about this TV show
Seems like either a pirate channel or maybe a drive-in movie theater that broadcasts the movie/show audio
Wow, awesome!
while that leaves the question of "why was this playing on a station for 8 hours" goes unanswered (maybe it really was a pirate or test situation), that at least answers what the audio itself is
Vinny unintentionally activating several sleeper agents in chat.
January Marseille Parsnip Lead Emotion Bloop MX Magnetic Sunflower Clock COINTELPRO Tanis Urinal
Huh that's weird I gotta go to Yellowstone all the sudden
The cat is in the bag
The eagle has landed
The trees have fallen
The cookie has crumbled
He's getting closer and closer to playing Voices of the Void
That would be great (imo), but he already asked Joel if it'd be a good fit for him and Joel told him no so he probably won't!
i have a feeling like 5 years ago or so he might've played it if it was out then, but he seemed to play more experimental/indie stuff (that isn't resource management/card/dice games) then. It probably would've still just been 1 short-ish stream of it though.
just like he's getting closer to playing undertale
Had brief talks with vinny about it. Ideally maybe he could wait until joel slows down and we get a new base ext made. Idunno. Vinny isn't as familiar with the signal sim like gameplay so he might need to figure a lot out.
Vinny is about to become the protagonist to VOTV
literally lying in bed with this playing as vin says “yeah this is not a great stream to fall asleep too” lol
same here
You telling me many of the streams or vods people watch em sitting down?
Thought so many would be just laying down, been doing it for years
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I woke up to this at 2am and I was so fucking scared
lmao so many of us idiots trying to get cozy to scary beep noises
36:30
"That is a chozo noise from Metroid"
No, thats our table. Being broken.
Oh no! Our table! It’s broken!
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This shit was genuinely unnerving. It felt like someone was going to be peering through my window if I looked outside. 10/10. Would be scared again.
The sensation of feeling like you're hearing or viewing forbidden knowledge is definitely creepy
sitting in your car in the forest in the middle of the night with a shortwave radio and a wire antenna gives even more vibes
@@cptpotatoface386 haha. Fuck that.
i knew i wasn't crazy 18:21
for some reason the voice of the north korean woman almost sounded to me like the zumbosauce kid trying to read a script through tears
alternative title: lofi creepy beats to get anxious to
Timestamps for the different stations:
1:29 UZB76 / The Buzzer
2:34 The Pip
3:24 The Squeaky Wheel
4:14 Baron-78
5:22 The Goose
-- Number Stations --
5:59 Tyrolean Music Station
9:11 Swedish Rhapsody
12:01 Lincolnshire Poacher
15:34 E13 / Five Dashes
17:23 V28 / The Parrot
18:38 V19 / WTR21
20:34 S10 / The Czech Lady
-- Other Signals --
22:22 DB0UPB Research Beacon
23:36 2006 Kia Grand Carnival Keyfob
23:56 CRY2001 Voice Scrambler
24:49 GRAVES (Grand Réseau Adapté à la Veille Spatiale)
25:45 Ionosonde (Chirpsounder)
26:24 XSL Japanese Slot Machine
26:51 Unknown 40 (40.693mhz)
27:19 Exotic Cipher
28:16 Weird Robot Counting
29:55 The Buzzer Jammed by Pirate Radio)
31:54 Scott Amateur (I assume Scott County Amateur Radio)
33:35 Bonus Number Station
-- Anomolous Chat Member --
38:36 Signal #1 (Morse Code)
39:35 Signal #2 (Motor Mouth Maul)
40:53 Signal #3 (Who/You/I da ho)
45:31 Signal #5 (STANAG Transmission)
46:55 Siberia Antenna (Uhhhhhhh)
47:59 German Maritime Warning System
49:21 Mandarin Pronunciation Help Service Signal
50:52 FT8
51:27 Russian Weather Report
this will be so helpful as i continue to use this to fall asleep
28:16 is a soundtrack from the german movie "Kleines Arschloch". The title is called "Space Patrol" ua-cam.com/video/q4kVdNsu8RU/v-deo.html
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The German maritime warning system sounds a lot like the Japan tsunami warning system. I wonder if similar hardware is used for both
Just want to say I really appreciate the effort you took for this
Oh boy, I remember the day The Buzzer was being jammed. Besides the music, the hijacker also drew some stuff in the spectrogram, mostly trollfaces and amogus. Fun times, there's something really comfy about listening to number stations with the boys late at night.
Always has been. Really brings out the Cold War bond our generation is missing.
When I recorded it, the jammer had written "STOP PUTIN STOP WAR" and some cubes in the spectrogram.
The jammer was actually on a UA-cam buzzer livestream and you could tell him stuff to do and he would do it lol
He was actually giving his discord username out by drawing it in the waterfall and a few of my buddies and I were requesting songs lol
is that the same one where that "who the hell is hijacking this station bruh" picture comes from and its the engineer from tf2
EDIT: after doing a quick google search, yes it indeed is that same hijacking. now i know where that stupid ass image of the engineer in a hacked radio spectrogram i have on my phone comes from
Definitely wanna see more creepy type of content in a similar vein to this. It's kinda like Joey's Spooky UA-cam Night except more broad in content
The particular Jermoid entity in your profile picture concerns me.
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We often used to listen to shortwave radio while cooking dinner in the 80's in Germany and occasionally the signals would overlap with a number station. It was a really spooky thing before the iron curtain fell. The uncertainty, not knowing what it was at the time, only speculation that it was for GDR Agents in West-Germany or West-German Agents in the GDR. Now we know the ones that came in through our radio was the East-German Spies one.
Glad those times are over, but ever since the war in Ukraine the activity picked up again.
Number stations are one of my weird niche interests so seeing Vinny cover this is surreal
Right??? Hearing him mention sigidwiki by name made me smile :D
Are there any other channels out there that cover these kind of things? I'd love to check them out if they exist
Same,, can't wait to get my own shortwave radio
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@@shasuramk2 FirstToken has some great recordings and descriptions
30:57 The guitar cutting through clear as day all of a sudden is so fucking funny
Reminds me of when i listen to AM radio since i like the crustiness of it
"I'm trying to see what music this is..."
*guitar comes in*
I listened to this at night and, i don’t know why but it’s insanely unsettling. On one hand it’s like, you know there’s just a human behind every signals creation. But it just feels like some sort of lovecraftian signal being in our existence.
anything that's audible but is carrying data not (easily) intelligible by humans is just unsettling. I get the same feeling listening to dial up or fax noises
I know it’s pretty much just nonsense made up by old horror movies but I always felt like technology was most susceptible to “outside influences” which could just mean aliens or ghost or who knows what. Leaves this weird anxiety within you though when you consider it.
Funny that you mention this because there’s a rad movie called Banshee Chapter that combines Lovecraft with these number stations. It’s not the best horror movie ever but it’s interesting with some good scary scenes imo
@@burgbass you ever seen poltergeist? Or Close Encounters? The bit with the TV or the toys are super creepy :)
While spooky and unsettling, I like how a lot of this is cold war spy shit, it's an interesting piece of that history that you don't hear much about.
It’s far from history, my friend. Number stations are still used today in places like Poland and Cuba.
Average people wouldnt *Hear* this at all
Yess I love how goofy and clever they had to be. Especially during the making of the bomb. So many spies n shit
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you.
The Lincolnshire Poacher was also used in Cyprus until 2008.
now imagine if one of the "anomalous signals" was a recording of someone picking up the time that guy transmitted Joel's anti-alien alarm
20:40 Is literally the Grey Leno show transition noise. Further proof that Vinny was NOT conscious while he made it, he doesn't remember
Crazy, I just recently started tuning into shortwave radio online due to my love for Boards of Canada. Can't wait to see what oddities Vinny finds.
Based boards of canada enjoyer
I remember getting hooked on their music in the early 2000s when adult swim used them in a bump
fuck that was exactly how i found out about numbers stations too, through geogaddi, then it became its own thing after i started really getting into it
Speaking of Boards of Canada,
I just copped Tomorrow’s Harvest on vinyl. Beautiful to hear off of wax, like, wow.
What did you find so far out there?
Also, I can never listen to that song ‘Beware The Friendly Stranger’ without wanting to quote Salad Fingers. I still remember that “Radio” episode, come to think of these shortwave broadcasts.
@@ShadowNinja452 crazy, i wish i had a TH vinyl, but my #1 most aought after ia geogaddi solely cause of the nuclear family etching on the side where magic window is supposed to be
i'm glad vinny gives so much commentary because god this stuff is really unsettling to me
i'm really interested in obscure stuff like this but i can't imagine listening to these on my own because of how unnerving these broadcasts can be
12:01 - i know this melody from a tf2 video. you can find it, if you search for 'tf2 spinning heavy' or 'this is the best thing i have ever seen in Team Fortress 2' for the OG.
It's a famous HL2 beta meme, that's where the TF2 video came from
i saw this meme so long ago and have tried to search for it ever since. as soon as i heard the song i jumped and went to google lmao
theres actually 2 TF2 bits coming up in this stream. there's the lincolnshire poacher (the song which plays on the mic in that spinning tf2 heavy video), but before there was a short snippit of UVB-76, more commonly known as The Buzz, which in 2022 was hijacked by someone protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They put pictures in the spectrogram, and among the amogus and trollfaces was the smiling engineer meme (engineer gaming) and where that "who the hell be hijacking this station bro" picture comes from
Who the hell be hijacking this station bro
I adore stuff like this. I would be happy if this was a yearly or even more frequent segment on particularly creepy late night streams.
20:35
I can’t remember where I have heard this before, but I know I have. It’s so bizarre because I’m sure it was in some piece of horror media or something like that but the way these shortwave stations are created makes them always feel surreal and dreamlike. It’s like recalling a nightmare I had as a child, the actual details are fuzzy but the emotions it evokes are so potent that it makes my blood run cold from fear. I have always had a fear of automated speech and warning sirens and this has made sure I won’t sleep soundly tonight.
Edit: I remember where I heard it. Killing Floor 2, Farmhouse map. It plays an extremely similar recording in the radio in the basement. I first discovered it while playing on an empty server at 2 AM and just sat and listened to it in between rounds. It’s so incredibly unnerving and I couldn’t find ANY information on it at the time.
Dude you got it, wtf! I played kf2 for hours and hours a few years ago and i was wondering where that noise came from... its so similar.
was wondering where i heard this from, thank you!!
31:31 Apparently Robert Plant didn't always record his vocals to pitch, he sometimes recorded them a tone or two lower and would pitch it up by speeding up the tape.
Kinda weird for Vinny to stream my answering machine messages for an hour, but okay.
damn react streamers
Is it weird, though?
@@JeremiahWdabullfrog are you an old friend of mine?
@@davido5317 damn bro, I sure hope you find out :(
If they're russian number stations they're not exactly anomalous. I'm just imagining some dude in a bunker twiddling a dial on a radio and everyone losing their minds
if you’re talking abt the Buzzer, the Pip, or the Squeaky Wheel, those technically aren’t numbers stations. they’re military broadcasts as opposed to being run by intelligence agencies
@@skywardstargaze1768 I was generalising
@@Boameresorry. I’m just super autistic about these LOL
that's alright bro no worries @@skywardstargaze1768
@Boamere - What are you talking about? Aside from the obvious weather stations no one is absolutely 100% sure what the Pip, Buzzer, Squeeky Wheel or most of them are and so far governments do not really acknowledge them or their use so they are by definition anomalous in nature. I don't think you understand why they are called anomalous because if Russian stations are not then all of them aren't.
Voices of the Vine
15:44 _Lemon_ radio
yeah that's right
@@bluthian orange
16:43 you mean?
lemœn
that radio is very unwise
15:49
Some old ass secret agent most have been thought "are you serious? Is this the best audio quality we can get? How am i supposed to understand my mission?"
My late cat’s name was Pip, so learning that there was a Russian numbers station that was called “Pip” was really neat. Enjoyed this video immensely. Thanks Vinny!
I love listening to all of the crazy things on shortwave radio, the community surrounding it is awesome too.
Seeing those automatic decoders is very interesting, makes you wonder how much stuff gets sent through short wave singals that people are constantly picking up and decoding the information from it.
42:26 Idaho Udaho
49:13 This is 100% some kind of teaching service, as you can tell by the man saying one phrase and the woman repeating it back.
- 49:50 Especially this part, they're saying "How long will it take?"
(My broken Mandarin making me understand parts of this)
they were polish i think
@@gagaringagarinovic2600POLAND MENTIONED. 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱
49:50 the channel was switching between Mandarin and what sounded like Croatian or Slovenian
The woman is speaking Serbian repeating the guy's Mandarin and translating it. The guy spoke in Serbian once, but he has a very noticeable Chinese accent.
Watching this cause I remember hearing Vinny say "this is not a stream to fall asleep to" while half asleep in my bed and I wanted to make sure it was real
The Yodeling here at 6:57 is actually sampled and used on a radio in Counter-Strike
And half life 2 beta
I'm pretty sure it's Takeo Ischi who's yodeling as well; an interesting little figure he is.
I love spooky season on vinesauce.
wow, you're still alive?
Please.
Was wild to see this segment after telling my family about numbers stations a few days prior. Despite them always managing to creep me out they've held my interest for at least a decade now and I love hearing them pop up in streams or sampled in music like Boards of Canada. What a spooky treat!
Thank you for showcasing these. Shortwave radio recordings are one of my favorite found samples to embed in my music.
This type of audio mystery content fits Vin real well.
Listening to this again about 4 months later because it was one of my favorite segments in recent years. Would love to get this kind of content outside of Spooptober.
Dude you gotta do more weird stuff like this. I live for Vin getting weird with it :)
For me, the benchmark stations I would use to do a restoration on a shortwave radio are WWVH, which transmits the atomic time on shortwave radio at 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20, and once again experimentally at 25 MHz. 1.25 MHz is out of the question for obvious reasons: that frequency is squarely in the medium-frequency broadcast band at 1250 AM. However, I wouldn't mind having a standard AM frequency to listen to that transmits atomic clock time.
15:43 Definitely the creepiest sounding one so far
23:58 That's it, the rebels are there. Set a course for the Hoth system..
I have this playing very loudly on my TV as background noise while I build an IKEA dresser in the other room. I'm kind of hoping that all my retiree neighbors in my very thinly-walled condo building, who were all born during the Red Scare, start having suspicions that the quiet single guy half their age living in the same building is actually some kind of cryogenically frozen Soviet sleeper agent that was just recently thawed & activated.
I approve
Lmaooo
I LOVE JOEYSAOS, SOO FAUNNY, WHEN HE PLAYS " *VOICES OF THE VOID* " I GO, UHUHUHU
JOEYSAOS SO FAUNNY WHEN HE SCREAM *"SPEEN"* I GO UHUHUHU
i do hope people don't hassle Vinny too much about votv because it'll annoy him and he'll hate the game by proxy
@@moniquesantrifcer1447I think undertale was a unique case
@@SwizzleDrizzl And Persona
Curious fact: the radio noise and the numbers that can be heard from time to time in Signalis are actually from an old numbers station, commonly known as "Three note oddity"!
What a cool segment. I've been into shortwave for a while and its always so interesting. No matter what time of day you can scroll around and find something that wasnt there yesterday.
One of my favorite Sunday Stream segments in a bit. I love corruptions and other scummy Sunday content, but this was extremely entertaining and decently informative. I hope there’s more!
I sleep with your VODs on and waking up to this at 2am was so goddam scary.
Listening to this at night is unnerving
my favorite streamer is spreading onto my interests and it's kinda unexpected, now he needs to watch cryptid sighting videos like joel
This sort of stuff is so eerie and interesting to me and I don't know why, especially when the spectrogram generates distinct visuals and the voices become unnatural-sounding.
I'm waiting for the inevitable one that generates an Amogus or Jerma's Sus Face.
I think it's kind of because we're hearing voices, but don't know where they're from or for what purpose. over the horizon, distorted and invisible
14:09 my jumpy ass thought she was gonna say 6...6...6...
as corny as it is yeah same lol
I was walking upstairs to my room when it got to that bit and my fight or flight almost kicked in
Vinny just inadvertently activated a whole bunch of sleeper cells in various countries.
OK if this is what Vinny is into how has nobody recommended Signalis to him? Literally Silent Hill in a Stasi future and Number Stations are a major part of it's aesthetic.
its too anime
its too anime
Its anime too
anime too its
I don't understand how Signalis is an anime game genuinely.
There's a guy up around Michigan that calls himself "Jake from the Great Lakes" who broadcasts from a CB basestation, and he carries on conversations with truck drivers. You can actually pick him up in Mississippi, skipping off the clouds early in the morning sometimes. Shortwave stuff is wild.
I remember stumbling into number stations 12 years ago or so. Lincolnshire Poacher and Swedish Rapsody are both as chilling now as then.
20:29 Ah yes, Czech Lady my beloved one.❤If someone wonder, what is she saying, its just a numbers and picture is probably some satellite on roof in Prague.
God to this day the Swedish Rhapsody one is still terrifying
Agreed. It's just so unsettling.
Same
I-is that... A MUSIC BOX? A-a-and... a voice speaking NUMBERS?! I'M GOING INSANEEEE AAAAAAA
The voice sounds like a demon child and the song is strangely familiar. Something tells me I’ve heard it before but then something else tells me I haven’t. Oh my goodness doesn’t it just give one the feeling of being some kind of sleeper agent? Nope, I’m out of here!
The voice is unsettling but the music just makes me think of an ice cream truck jingle lmao
Man, this takes me back to early 2016 when I got into shortwave radio because of the mysteries and oddities surrounding it, even to this day tuning around the dying shortwave bands just because of how interesting it is. A couple years ago, I managed to stumble over the E11 Oblique number station completely by accident, and it felt like striking gold.
This is easily my favorite stream that ANYBODY has done in years now
i am something of a shortwave radio enthusiast and the fact that Vinny streamed this made me insanely happy
While watching this, I kept wishing there was a way to go back in time. Not to do anything fancy, just to know what the *fuck* some of these signals really are.
I'm sure we'll find out eventually. Got to be declassified at some point
@@thatradioboyYeah that's the truth of it. A lot was declassified when the bloc fell but a ton of Russian specific documents never saw light because they still hold some relevance to modern operations. That and they're stubborn.
9 times out of 10 its espionage and some of those documents especially East German/Stasi have been destroyed.
I had no idea someone had sent him a collection of shortwave radio stuff like this, or else I would have loved to contribute to it! Analog radio stuff has been a big interest of mine for the last 8 years or so. If anyone wants to learn more, check out priyom.org for the listening schedule of real number stations, and sigidwiki.com for detail analysis of all the various digital and analog modes you might come across in the entire spectrum
Same here. Really cool to find people I like getting into the same weird hobbies I have
@ about 8:05, the yodeling is being done by someone named Franzl Lang who was
a professional yodeler in Switzerland.
Whats the part at 7:59 is it still him?
We need a new Art Bell, Binny.
You're hosting Coast 2 Coast AM now, good luck - we're all counting on you 👍
*Beebeebeep*
"We are sorry. You have reached a mumber that has been disconnected or is no longer in service."
Vinny must play Signalis if he's in to numbers stations.
That actually sort of took me out of the game hearing such well known sounds - would have been pretty easy to create custom ones, but I'm only about an hour in.
Wait- THAT‘S what Signalis is? I was just thinking how scary a horror game based around these kind of signals would be
@@snagglesnorf Signalis is about a lot of things but yeah, numbers stations feature prominently and tuning your radio to find different stations is a core mechanic. It's a really good Silent Hill like horror game and I think Vinny would love it.
@@snagglesnorfNot really? As someone who recently played Signalis, I’d more describe it as a classic survival horror game wherein a lesbian Android fights an Eldrich corruption to save her human lover. Number stations and all that jazz are used, but more to serve the creepy, mindfucky atmosphere.
@@saltysatan4299 oh ok but the usage of number stations to make it creepier is definitely still kinda selling it to me
12:01 me holding back my laughter trying not to think of the fucking A posing heavy from tf2
If one of these started showing creepy images in the spectral analysis I'd fucking shit my pants
sometimes theres trollface and amogus
i mean, the one around the 32/33 minute mark starts coming damn close. the dude is in a quiet hushed tone almost like that one really shitty 'raspy radio voice' you hear in all the bad analog horrors out there, but looking at the spectrogram itself and everything looks like melting distorted screaming faces, like the MARIO face. then it starts with these weird Y or triangle things and playing weird (albeit funny 'oh no, our table, its broken) sounds
Love falling asleep to this and feel like I've been trapped inside a small bathroom that's slowly filling up with water while all I have with me is an atari 2600 and a tv that somehow only gets reception of math channels from the 1950s
So 24:03? Lol
@@BananaPhoPhillyI'm like r2d2 mixed with an inkling from splatoon
That last part… just… what? That’s neat! But.. what?
I listened to this in broad daylight at work and it still gave me the fucking creeps
This is my shit right here, i used to sit on a program called SDR Radio for hours recording weird stuff i found on random frequencies. Nice one binyot, love it!!
17:20
So, it's funny he said that, because I used to fall asleep all the time listening to the Conet Project (big collection of older number station/bizarre radio recordings) through my old crappy headphones in the car when my family would go on vacation. I get bad car sickness, and listening to something repetitive and less dynamic than most music combined with the slight drowsy discomfort of the car sickness would put me right off to sleep. Would usually be jolted awake by some of the louder/sharper-sounding recordings later on in it, but overall it really did help me get through some otherwise long and uncomfortable car rides.
There's just something about these recordings man, something deeply eerie yet calm, at least to me. Will say that the North Korean one in here really stressed me out though, that poor operator sounds so scared.
Anyway, hope y'all have a wonderful day/night/whatever it is in your timezone. Cheers.
I used to spend hours listening to Russian numbers stations. Most of the stations were static, so when I switched to something that made any noise at all, it was pretty exciting. It was mostly identical to the New Jersey signals, except in Russian (and occasionally German).
When the DMT demons attempt to establish contact to our dimension.
what an awesome thing to randomly cover
the conet project is a great collection of shortwave recordings
I feel like someone is gonna sample these sounds for a sick beat.
Boards of Canada already has
Very cute avatar
New Death Grips album is gonna have the hottest short wave samples
Hideki Naganuma is gonna put this in the new Jet Set
Wasn't the one at 11:00 sampled in omori
This reminds me of when vinny played spooky jumpscare mansion and was just showing off scary transmissions
Aw man, I love weird auditory phenomena, and I love Vinny, this is gonna be a GREAT vod to watch
Since I speak russian unlike chat person who recorded this, in that Novokuznetsk broadcast I heard words "Attacking", "Orlan" (witch is most likely a codename for something airborne) and "Over" so... I'm 90% sure it was a military broadcast. And I kinda wish Binty didn't talk over it.
Omg I wish I didn’t miss this stream live I’ve been a total sucker for this stuff ever since I played Oxenfree a few years ago
Have had a love for numbers stations since I first found out about them. Absolutely love seeing Vinny explore them!
Would love to see more weird shit like this from him.
ive been into this stuff for years and vinny decides to randomly take a look, pretty cool
The reason he was saying 'Uhhhhhh' for so long was because he was tuning an amplifier and it needs a solid tone to properly tune.
They've been trying to contact us about our car's extended warranty since 1963...
I love this kind of stuff. Funny he mentioned falling asleep to this, I was actually doing just that because old radio signals are very soothing. Combined with Vinny's voice, this is some amazing ASMR. But I actually had to pause it before falling asleep because I didn't wanna miss anything. It was too interesting. lol
SOOTHING????
@@ratsmackerjack7353 Haha, I'm weird. I used to mess with my father's old ham radio when I was a little girl. Old radio transmissions are just comforting, unless it's full-blown yelling or screaming. lol
Vinny playing a dangerous game with this one, I’ve heard those Russian stations are RUTHLESS with their copyright
This kinda thing interests me something fierce. Reminds me of when I used to listen to art bell on the radio. I believe he used to discuss these things, and the mysterious and digital nature is what adds that extra layer of creepiness to it. Would love to see more cool niche stuff like this!
I hope this is leading up to a Signalis stream. Vinny would love it Im sure.
11:06 the Swedish Rhapsody number station's messaging was sampled and used by the late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson on a track entitled 'A Song For Europa' as part of his final album, Orphée. It's a hauntingly beautiful piece and I hope Vinny listens to it some day.
This is such a fun stream idea. I love stuff like this. A little learning, a little spookiness
Edit: Vinny should broadcast his next stream over shortwave. Jus for kicks.
10:13 I did not expect to find out the origin of a certain sound sample used in OMORI of all things by watching this, but, you live and learn.
one of my silly little special interests is short wave/Amateur radio, so i was super excited to see this vid show up in my feed
Oh hell yes, I needed more of these for sound design ideas.
17:17 So crazy Vinny says this because I happened to fall asleep to this last night and I paused the video here after dozing off a couple of times.
I had some very strange dreams about some of these signals and it was pretty creepy and disturbing.
I've made a chilling realization about The Lincolnshire Poacher. Despite this seeming like it's realistically the first time I'm hearing it, it actually isn't the first time. It made me remember a dream I had where I was working as a high-ranking member of the British government in what I believe was, judging by this realization, a foreign intelligence agency, and I remember the preamble, I remember the three tones, I remember the automated speaker. I remember it all. I believe in past lives and reincarnation and all that, so realizing that I remember this station despite never hearing it before in my life has led me to believe that my dream involving The Lincolnshire Poacher was moreso a memory of a past life. It's actually kinda frightening to me
I fell asleep and this presumably auto played after another video.. I woke up in the middle of this and thought I was having a fever dream.