I heard once that when a station is changing formats or undergoing a management change they still have to keep broadcasting even if they don't have any material to put on air. If they don't the FCC can claim the frequency is abandoned and can reassign it to whoever they want, so I heard. There was a station here that had a text to voice program reading jokes and sayings for a few days while they switched from rock to hip hop.
Yep, that's my guess too. I think you have to broadcast a given time a day (or maybe a week) to keep the license. And those weird noises mostly sound like test signals. I think it was just a placeholder broadcast to keep the rights of the frequency.
I was a broadcast engineer for 47 years. Transmitting off beat garbage is common when a new station is testing before going on the air for the first time, or sometimes when a station changes format. it's no big deal. It's to keep the frequency occupied so the FCC doesn't declare the station dead and assign it to a new licensee.
ahh wow that makes total sense tbf. do you know why they'd choose some shit like this though? are they allowed to play licensed music during that formatting/setting up period?
@@Leaferr I'm pretty sure most MLK speeches, JFK speeches, sputnik recordings and the Apollo 11 broadcasts are in the public domain. I know for sure that Apollo 11 is in the public domain. Maybe thats why they chose it?
I spent the majority of my career 40 years as a broadcast technician, in Detroit. One of the local radio stations switched formats from AOR to country. To make sure they "lost" all of their former audience, they did this exact same thing for about a month. At some point, all the crazy programming stopped, and was replaced by a robotic countdown from 1000. When the countdown got to zero, the station returned to normal broadcasting, starting with their new call letters.
"We don't know about any interference" reads either like they didn't bother checking and didn't care OR like a cheeky way of saying "Those broadcasts are all us"
The latter is exactly the way I interpreted it. “We aren’t aware of interference,” and basically nothing else seems exactly like a cheeky confession to me.
...if it was playing over a regular station's frequency, they wouldnt want to comment on it because it implies their equipment is anemic if LP stations or some random guy can override their frequency across so many areas. That would be one of the best possibilities...
Could be an open investigation, she could only communicate things in the public domain. Not following up with an email inquiring further details she may be able to share seems negligent.
Why are those tones so freaky? I'm standing in a well lit kitchen at night right now, and I'm having to check behind me because those sounds make my brain go "not good. Something wrong. Bad times"
I always wondered why certain weird tones and audio patterns make us get creeped out or paranoid. It’s a bit strange how it works and I couldn’t find much on it with a Google search.
@@ethpling165 I would guess that the tones are an artificial way to trigger a predatory environment in your mind. Like when things get "too quiet", it's because your subconscious picked up on sub rhythms and tones that are supposed to be present, but are not. Vice versa. The presence of tones that may indicate danger. They're repliticable in audio software
One time, for the morning announcements at my high school, they decided to play "calming" whale sounds over our shitty PA system. It ended up being one of the most terrifying sounds I have ever heard.
Rob Jackson I was in Austin for a week over winter break and it really was similar to Portland it’s so nice there I know a lot of people in Portland from Austin and the other way around
Several years ago, I had a local radio station on and suddenly, a sequence of repetitious sounds that were very discomforting began and lasted about 3 minutes. I called the station and they assured me that it was only Nickleback.
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I still think it's odd that the station that took over is called "the numberz" considering the amount of people who had referred to it as a "numbers station" when cat still owned it
@@ryanphillips4123 Portland is a strange place everything, even their local ads, are art projects. This isn't really any odder than a lot of stuff there.
Nah that one actually makes a lot of sense. Urban legends are some of the best free publicity you can get, so being the creepy numbers station is a huge marketing plus. Hotels, for example, mill the whole "haunted" thing super hard.
It's human nature. Rather than being clever and original, they'd rather find one thing that works and exploit/ruin it. I hate humanity for this very reason. It's why I stopped using most social medias. Where's Thanos when ya need him?
Justin Potts it’s pretty funny though. Also, the one change can be quite creative when people have an idea to put in the template that bring back great memories for some people or let them have a true smile or even laugh because it’s something they haven’t heard in a while. Idk, you seem quite bitter and cynical... hopefully you find more happiness again.
@@daddytachanka8076 There's no such thing as true originality anyways; rather, it's combinations of ideas that are original and unique, not individual ideas themselves. Aside from that, I don't think anyone expects comedy gold from a UA-cam comment section... or at least, I think most people don't. Maybe it's because I don't spend most of my time down here, but like, I'm not even jaded about people being, in some way, "unoriginal." As a second aside, "viewer beware" reminds me of Goosebumps.
The fact it occurred during night time,just added to the feeling of eeriness.When Art Bell on Coast to Coast am had his radio signal cut off right across the am dial all through America and Europe when discussing the HARP program in Alaska,the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.Night time adds a lot of fuel to the imagination.
You're right! I remember listening to Art Bell on any night off from my 3rd shift job! Always intriguing and respectful, regardless of how crazy some of the guests or call-in's were! Loved it!
As somebody who lived in Portland for years, Portland is known to have some pretty odd folks and do some avant-garde stuff so I wouldn't be surprised if this was a totally conscious thing that was done in an effort to keep some of the motto "Keep Portland Weird "going
@Mark Ulis No, no , no, you may have misinterpreted my comment/reply. I apologize if I was not clear. I love everything about Oregon. I visited once and I was hooked. I was truly surprised after reading the comments and watching this vid. that weird things happen at all there(Portland). Unfortunately, I currently live in Los Angeles 😑. The violence here is escalating and it is terrifying. I would not wish that on anybody.
I grew up in beaver town but left in the mid 90s. I 1st herd the butthole surfers on pirate radio in '83. And lived at the satyricon. Pdx has always been progressive. I didn't know that it's gone "gangsta" since.
I'm a truck driver and in 2017 i was doing runs along the I-5 corridor, from Washington down to California, and one night as i was driving through Oregon via I-5 i was browsing through the radio stations and found one that genuinely gave me the creeps. I don't remember if it was this station or not, but from the sounds of it, it probably was. It was playing some creepy sounds and chanting almost like from a cult in a movie doing some kind of ritual. Kinda wish i had recorded it, but i wasn't even thinking of that, i was like "what the fuck?" Before turning it off.
I know the feeling. We (me, husband, BIL & our two cats) were driving back to home from in-laws lakehouse in the middle of night and we were within the greater Helsinki area, when hubby changed the channel. There was utterly weird music, lone dude lazily contemplating ufos, taking long pauses (I thought he fell asleep couple times.. that long), mechanical chirps and buzzes, chanting, humming, with a peculiar dreamlike feeling to it all, no commercials or name of the channel. It had definite form, it wasnt crazy salad of everything, but it didnt help much. The mood in the car went from uncontrollable laughter to being thoroughly creeped out. This happened maybe 5 years ago, but it left the perpetual whattafuck in all of our minds (except the cats, I think). We have tried to connect to that channel again, no dice. After we dropped BIL home, we listened to this craziness all the way to ours, so I should be able to catch it easily. All have different explanations too; I think it was art experiment, hubs is convinced it was a prank or joke, BIL thinks it was new form of number stations. I might also add that hubs works in archiving music, he recognizes the weirdest art songs from obscure labels, but nothing that played on this channel. If Im right and it was art, it definitely left an impression :)
@@janemiettinen5176Two Helsinki art stations “Raudio” and “Radio Hear” sometimes do long sequences of avant-garde music & sounds. You may have been listening to one of these.
In the e-mail you showed she didn't say that they were not responsible for those broadcasts, she said that the radio station was theirs and that they weren't aware of any interference. If they were responsible for those broadcasts then there wasn't any interference to be aware of and she was being entirely truthful while using implication to lead you in another direction.
The first audio at 6:10 on thru 6:18 are radio frequencies from the Sputnik 1 satellite. Launched by the USSR on Oct 4 1957. These were american recordings of the beep transmissions it became synonymous with. THE SIMPLE SATELLITE ONLY BEEPED.
The fact that no one hooked up a cheap yagi to a ham radio and triangulated the position of the broadcast antenna is an utter travesty, that wold have solved the whole mystery. Doesn't matter now I guess.
@@soulreaverable No he means triangulate, with radio you can rotate the antenna and get and increase or decrease in signal. Get an angle and then move to a different point and get another angle, do that again and where they all intersect is the location. Its actually a common HAM competition to find radio beacons this way, race to find the transmitter type thing.
Pilot here: The random beeping tones sounds a lot like when someone "steps" on someone else on the radio (meaning two people tried to transmit at the same time).
This reminds me of something that happened with my little sister and I. This was during February 2003, in CA. I'm sure it was a weird prank but it scared us so bad we were terrified of the radio for a while after that lol. We had the radio playing while we were doing homework, and I started fiddling with the stations. We stopped on this one station that was playing sort of angelic, dreamy sounding music. It kind of sounded like Enya's music. About a minute in, it switched to this loud, rhythmic thumping. Not like a musical beat. It was like someone was violently hitting a wall with a hammer over and over again. Along with that, there was a woman saying "Wake up," repeatedly. At first she sounded kind of goofy, like she was holding back from laughing, and then she got more and more frantic. This went on to the point that she was full on screeching "WAKE UP." Just awful screaming, like this person saw something horrible. We were freaking out loud enough for my mom to come running in. She heard it too, and was equally freaked out. She ended up just yanking the radio from the wall. She tried calling the local radio stations about it, but idk what came from it. I didn't remember the full statio number (besides two 9's I think,) so that probably made it hard for her to find out anything. Our town had a similar "artsy" community, so it makes a lot of sense if someone was doing a prank/avant garde project.
This is very similar to a radio interruption I experienced awhile back. I was up late listening to a classical radio station in LA. I kept messing around with the dial, because there was a lot of static, more than usual, I couldn't get the station to sound clear. Over the course of the night, the static increased until the music was barely audible anymore, but I hadn't noticed because I was too busy working on my computer. Then, around 3am, I started hearing some weird noises. There was a woman screaming like she was being murdered, and the sound of a baby crying, also some men chanting something in the background. There was also the sound of a loud banging like an ax cutting into something. It was so over the top I figured it was someone playing a prank, hacking the station. I just wish I had recorded it with my phone or something. I was up late editing some footage for a student film about a haunted house. Perfect timing. Lol
Gotta tell you guys that Verizon phones and their cable TV systems interfered with every phone network! My "not a smart-phone phone" I had in 2017 was a net 10 and picked up the WiFi signal off router for the computer and TV' boxes in our house I heard pieces of TV footage over the phone and pieces of my boyfriends phonecalls on our TV! My phone kept interrupting his phone! My phone would auto-dial numbers in the middle of the night? Customer service... could not help me? I had to upgrade my phone. To stop the phenomenon! Yep!
CVOD Damn bro, 0% of the squad laughed at that. Presentation was badly executed, and the use of the phrases were not appropriate for the given text. Usage of the format was also incorrect, as it was missing the second half, and included an extra term. Overall, pretty bad. 0/10. You’re gonna have to retake the test.
I feel like the people at CATS are probably just a bunch of old people who don’t know how to properly run a radio station and didn’t even realize that it was messed up audio.
This was my impression too, just a poorly produced test broadcast that they accidentally left playing during their off hours. Occam's razor, easiest explanation is incompetence.
here in liverpool, england, we have a massive radio station called "Radio City". it's frequency is also 96.7, and it is also constantly broadcasting incredibly strange noises. these strange, grotesque noises are the native scouse accent.
Rat Punk Two problems with this: First, I find it hard to believe such an obscure genre would be played in such a small town. Possible, but not super likely. Second, the lack of advertisements would mean that there would be no profit to it being an actual radio station.
Did some light digging. Cats do own the station and it was run by two high schoolers who looped apollo 11, mlk and jfk in 2017 before changing to it's current format. The one high schooler btw is a founder of KXRY
I thought this was a troll comment about cats before watching this video, but then I actually reached the part about the Community Alliance of Tenants, lmao.
And I'm not referencing Gravity Falls, like it's actually true. Especially Portland, probably the weirdest city in the USA, but all of Oregon too. Kinda makes me "feel proud" because I'm from there
The weird tones sound like an early satellite, like Sputnik or Telstar. They were huge deals when they first went up and I remember going outside as a small child with my friends to watch for Telstar crossing the night sky. The recordings of them passing overhead were touted as signals from space in your living room.
The creepy beeping noises are actually simply recordings of the radio transmissions put out by Sputnik 1 over the course of 3 weeks. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
I live in Portland, Oregon, and I heard some of these weird transmissions on the night of August 11th, 2017. I know that’s the exact date, because I managed to record a few minutes of them with voice memos on my phone - old robotic text-to-speech software saying things like “a little hard work never hurt anyone” amongst blasts of static, as well as strange rumbling minimalistic beats peppered with WWII era radio recordings. Nexpo: if you’re interested in hearing them, I can email you the files. Miraculously, I still have them.
darn it's too bad they're not MP3's or you could use something like MP3 toolbox or a piece of software to convert them to MP4 is and upload them to your channel so we could all see them.
I remember about 4 years ago, I was driving through the mountains near Mammoth, CA at around 10pm. There was no reception where I was but I had my radio on, I forgot the station, but all of a sudden, I heard yelling for help on my radio. I pulled over because I was so scared. The voice was of a young woman. She sounded like she was panicking, begging for someone to reach her. Her voice sounded helpless as if she knew no one could hear her. I remember yelling back into my radio as if she could hear me, but her voice began to fade. Not knowing what to think, I got back into my car and kept driving. I still think about that night every once in a while....and I always wondered about that woman.
there seems to only be 6 radio stations in mammoth 1: KMMT (106.5) 2: KAAT (103.1) 3: KIBS (100.7) 4: K243AK (96.5) 5: KRHV (93.3) 6: KSRW (92.5) no idea if there's more defunct but do you know around the area your radio was tuned?
It sounds like the broadcasting practice of stunting to me. A radio station where I used to live in southeast Virginia had used to be a run of the mill alternative music station, till one day they started playing Chinese opera music exclusively. They did this for about a week, got people talking about it, then changed into a run of the mill R&B station, which they still are today.
Star 96.9 in Spokane WA did this. This channel is now called Hot 96.9, but before that it was Star 96.9, and before that it was a classic rock station whose name I can't remember. But when Star took over the channel, they played eerie renditions of children singing twinkle twinkle little star at random times throughout the day for the first three months while they got everything set up for their station. But they didn't announce the name of their station would be Star 96.9, so we were all confused as to why for three months we were hearing children singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in between hours of scratchy white noise.
Around 2004, I remember one of our local stations played nothing but cartoon sound effects while a man's voice would cycle through names every once in a while. This happened for an entire weekend. It still hasn't been explained.
@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 I don't think it was the case for this incident. The guy would say something like "Who is Gary?" then there would be a bunch of Hanna Barbera sound effects playing one after another for about 2 minutes. Then the guy would speak again "Who is Nancy?" then another set of cartoon sound effects would play. There was a bunch of names cycled through before it would loop and start again from the beginning. It was kinda creepy and even creepier that an explanation was never given and I have never heard any radio station play whatever that was.
My stepdad always taught me about how radio frequencies from the war are still bouncing off the hemisphere so in rare cases your walkie talkie picks them up. It’s scary at the time but it’s very cool. Edit: Grammar correction
At this point they’d be highly attenuated. You wouldn’t be able to detect it with a walk-in talkie. However, at night the ionosphere (if I remember my professor correctly) lowers and you can get radio signals from far away, well outside their normal range. I always think that’s pretty cool
@@thebrightsideofthemoon5829 right?! That's what I'm hearing. Reminds me of that movie where the guy cb radioed his dead dad from the past somehow. Also, if that's true it's awesome and creepy and a great movie idea.
Radio enthusiast here: If it was a low power station, it wouldn't have been too hard to triangulate where the signal is coming from, and pinpoint the approximate transmitter location. A couple of enthusiasts could have done it
I don't know if it's the lack of a visual component, or my layperson fascination with pirate radio stations, unsourced audio, odd samples, etc., but I love this kind of mystery radio broadcast shit. It would be super fun to renegade broadcast like this, or catch one sometime.
I’m not sure why, but that repetitive, four-note ascending “beep” makes me feel nervous. Anxious, even. I don’t have misophonia (or even melophobia, that I’m aware of) but hearing that sound is uncomfortable. Such a weird sensation.
i literally skipped the noise after the first few oscilations, i felt an eerie sensation that someone was stalking me. well maybe it was my mistake that i watched the video at 4 am and have trauma from watching creepy shit ever since i was 10, (im 19 now). But scary videos have never affected me like THIS in a very long time. Later after i had slept and went to go to class i kept remebering the noise and had the same eerie sensation even though there were dozens of people around me. This is actually scaring me lmao
Thank you for doing stories not heard before. So many topics on UA-cam have been presented ad nauseum. It's refreshing to hear the hidden gems you present. I'm 64. I've heard most everything in life-until your channel. Thanks. And great presentation and research as well. Good job.
Katrina technically didn't lie to you. All she said is "we are unaware of any interference". Notice how she doesn't actually say "this is our station but not our broadcast" at any point? Instead she's basically saying "yes this is our station and everything's going as normal", but wording it in a vague way that could be taken several ways. This could be interpreted as her hinting it's indeed CAT's doing without quite admitting it
Thank you. She wasn't interested in any possibility of a hack and didn't say that the "interference" was abnormal. She admitted it was their brain child without saying it was. Gotta read between the lines, folks.
I've been holding off on watching this for 2 years simple because I listen to this mostly at night and the strange sounds might stop me from being able to sleep that night. Here we go! Let's do it!
My dog went absolutely NUTS when the high pitched noises started playing at 5:41. Head tilting, whining, barking, the works. 100% confident that's just a coincidence and not an intended result of these noises, but he's never reacted that strongly to noises coming from a speaker.
It’s one of the worst decisions Konami ever made. PT was honestly the scariest fucking thing I’ve ever played. Ever. That game could’ve been something truly brilliant.
As a person that works in radio station, it looks like partially corrupted audio or wrong audio files getting thrown into automated broadcast without any supervision. Such automated stations are very unlikely to get noticed that something is wrong with the audio until it stops and set up the alarms, or some of listeners outside of company write email to us. To addition, some of those audio files are playing at half speed without pitch distortion - they were deliberately edited that way. Katrina's response seem odd to me, like she is confirming that how it should sound like.
i did that once. i fucked up something in the finicky software that controls the overnight programming and the next morning the radio got a bunch of call from truckers whining that they didn't have anything to listen to. lol. i was an intern. that was my one intern mistake out of all internships i did.
Caleb Kehler..THANK YOU! Look up SOUNDS OF IOI (EYE-OH, CAN'T SPELL! 🥴)... It's a video of how each planet and the moons of the planetS sound...They take the Energy Waves (kinda like radio waves) coming from each planet and moon and convert it to sound waves...It's WAY more intense and actually beautiful than this...This just reminds me of space sounds and how it could just be the cell tower waves creating a feedback ssound if you will for the most part...Look up V101SCIENCE and learn about "falling into Jupiter" or "Standing on Pluto" or any number of things about the universe...It's both the most beautiful thing ever seen and the most spooky and mysterious...After awhile of learning about the universe...The world we live in isn't that scary afterall...The universe is much more fascinating in my opinion...Now that I know how sound and time actually works in the universe in more detail...The sounds here pale by comparison.
My late great Grandfather showed me and friends how to make an AM radio using toilet roll and lots of copper wiring. It had to be nailed down on a wooded board about 8X10. We used a mono mic piece to listen to radio stations using a razer blade to scan over the copper wire. My Father saw this and was very angry because - it wasn't the radio hobby thing, it was because we played with a razer blade. I had no trouble handling with razer blade skimming through copper wire. So, most of my friends gave up on this hobby. We did pick up AM stations. It was very, very soft and jaggit sounds. My Great Grandpa said - this is what he learned during WW1. Thank you for this story.
In the area I live, there's a station that just plays what sounds like a distorted ticking clock and the occasional heavy breathing, know one knows what it is, but it's also a 97.something station? This stuff is super weird!
@@ballsacksniffer420 well your partially right, there isn’t a machine to hack but rather you can do some “hacking” shit from anywhere that’s really easy and boom, you just hacked a radio station
Just a fun fact: the beginning letter of the 4 letter call sign actually has to be a K or a W, K for being west of the Mississippi and W for being East of the Mississippi. The only exception of course being the very first radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh
Here, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA, the channel "96.7 the beaver", one of our popular country stations was suddenly interupted back in 2020 with similar audio, I was listening to it while getting ready for bed, when what was just some Allen Jackson playing on the radio turned into this creepy audio. I freaked out, and ripped the cord from the wall, too afraid to sleep, feeling my house was haunted.
@@oleksandrbyelyenko435 Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want Merzbow - Pulse Demon John Carpenter - Halloween: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 👌👌👌👌
God damnit... Nevermind.... I was thinking of something else. I looked it up and it was something totally different. Anyways, this was such a good video man. You totally got me and it takes a LOT these days for videos like this to freak me out. 👏👏👏
5:43 that's Sputnik's signal when Russia launched their first successful satellite. With the apollo 11 mission control audio as well, makes me believe that someone had this on a loop at this fm frequency
i hate the fact that my brain keeps deciding to watch you only when im about to go to bed and proceed to not get any sleep. great content tho, just creeps me the hell out
Well the opening sounds like old shortwave. I want to say SSB (single side band) or possibly an old radar like coastal radar. The Apollo 11 that sounded like Walter Cronkite narrating. And one also sounds like radio waves picked up from deep space the "sound of the universe". Is this part of the CONET project? It's a project that studies numbers stations and other radio mysteries.
In my area there are two local FM radio stations on 96.3 and 96.9. If you tune to 96.7 you get a mixture of the two stations 'fighting' for each other and it sounds extremely weird!
I feel like the fact that it sounds like a numbers station and is now a normal rap station called “the numbers” can’t be a coincidence. Maybe it was viral marketing?
"The Numbers" is also a ghetto area east of I-205 that runs along E Burnside into Gresham, lots of low cost housing there due to proximity to the MAX light rail system. I'm guessing they're trying to "get clout" by association.
I lived near here and I heard this! My friends and I built a short-length pirate radio station out of my friend's shed when I was a teenager, and we used this wavelength because we thought it was a clear channel. We'd quickly discover that our broadcast kept getting overwritten but weird broadcasts like this. This was several years before 2017 but we always got overwritten by the sound of an old man reading from what sounded like history textbooks. No lie! We always tried to figure it out but we never got this far.
11 year old kid from Argentina here: in my town theres a lot of stations that make weird loud sounds, especially in my dad's camp (i dont know how to say it. english was not my first language) and so, everytime we/i get on the car we play the radio trying to listen music or something and imagine all the stations with some 90s TV Static sound
So glad someone said it! She doesn’t deny it was them broadcasting, she just acknowledges there wasn’t any interference causing the sounds. If anything it just reads like a tacit, cleverly worded, confession.
I just commented. That it's a rap station where I live it used to be a rock station, though. It's so crazy. It's the same radio station. I used to listen to.
@@Cryptic_Keeper must be weird, that's like if KRock over here in NY turned into a weird cryptic message station and then into a rap station. Instead, it went from rock to rap to pop and now its alt rock. Lol.
You could deploy an array of software defined radios SDRs. It would require a turntable (not a record player) and a yagi antenna to act as radar. This mystery can be solved with around 10k in radio gear. You could probably pinpoint the station quickly with a small team.
96.7 is a music station here in Australia, and it sometimes makes weird noises here too, usually when a Cardi B song comes on.
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the reason it makes a weird noise is it keeps playing Elton john music,
Bawhahahahaha
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“Let’s have a listen...”
“RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS IS ONE OF MOST AMBITIOUS RPG PROJECTS OF 2019!”
Brilliant 😂
Mines is a tik tok ad
@@kfdhbdj9224 if you skip to the very end at the beginning and let the reply arrow you won't have ads 😁
I knew it they're secretly advert Raid to us
I don't get it. I use ad block?
I heard once that when a station is changing formats or undergoing a management change they still have to keep broadcasting even if they don't have any material to put on air. If they don't the FCC can claim the frequency is abandoned and can reassign it to whoever they want, so I heard. There was a station here that had a text to voice program reading jokes and sayings for a few days while they switched from rock to hip hop.
This is the most sensible explanation
dismiss yourself well, except for the part that they’ve been doing this since 2017? Or does it always take that long?
Yep, that's my guess too. I think you have to broadcast a given time a day (or maybe a week) to keep the license. And those weird noises mostly sound like test signals. I think it was just a placeholder broadcast to keep the rights of the frequency.
should not have read this before watching the video lol the mystery is kind of gone now, but good explanation
@@Tierdas shit, you too?
I was a broadcast engineer for 47 years. Transmitting off beat garbage is common when a new station is testing before going on the air for the first time, or sometimes when a station changes format. it's no big deal. It's to keep the frequency occupied so the FCC doesn't declare the station dead and assign it to a new licensee.
ahh wow that makes total sense tbf. do you know why they'd choose some shit like this though? are they allowed to play licensed music during that formatting/setting up period?
@@Leaferr I'm pretty sure most MLK speeches, JFK speeches, sputnik recordings and the Apollo 11 broadcasts are in the public domain. I know for sure that Apollo 11 is in the public domain. Maybe thats why they chose it?
This is my favourite answer to this mystery.
I spent the majority of my career 40 years as a broadcast technician, in Detroit. One of the local radio stations switched formats from AOR to country. To make sure they "lost" all of their former audience, they did this exact same thing for about a month. At some point, all the crazy programming stopped, and was replaced by a robotic countdown from 1000. When the countdown got to zero, the station returned to normal broadcasting, starting with their new call letters.
That makes sense , but i undestood that this case ran like that for years.
96.7FM is my local "alternative" station, I guess Imagine Dragons is pretty horrifying at 3AM.
Imagine Dragons is horrifying all the time.
@@doubleh333lix Agreed.
Since when have people considered Imagine Dragons alternative???
@@apollogeist8513 its radio, we're talking about. they play imagine dragons on "rock" stations here
sav TM Imagine Dragons’ old music used to be
alternative/indie rock. Now they’re mostly pop
"We don't know about any interference" reads either like they didn't bother checking and didn't care OR like a cheeky way of saying "Those broadcasts are all us"
The latter is exactly the way I interpreted it. “We aren’t aware of interference,” and basically nothing else seems exactly like a cheeky confession to me.
Bruh, I was like this sounds intresting. And then I realize, I live really close to Beaverton Oregon.
...if it was playing over a regular station's frequency, they wouldnt want to comment on it because it implies their equipment is anemic if LP stations or some random guy can override their frequency across so many areas. That would be one of the best possibilities...
How I could explain what she said:
“We don’t know about any interference” = we didn’t know the people could hear this shit!!!
Could be an open investigation, she could only communicate things in the public domain. Not following up with an email inquiring further details she may be able to share seems negligent.
I'm gonna get my own radio station and just play Minecraft ambient music, and sometimes cave noises to mix it up a bit
yuhhh, if you ever actually do that, drop the station number and stuff
100% would listen lol
did you ever do this lol
@@kamm6001 I wish lol
woah calm down satan
And then suddenly....
*TssssSsSsSSS-BOOOM*
Oh God...
When Nexpo says "let's have a listen..." and the background music cuts off, you know something very spooky is coming on
Yeah, in my case, an ad.
Absolutely terrifying
@@benjabby Same, I got an add for a window sale lol
Yeah, audio horror is scarier than any other horror for me
@@KeitieKalopsia seriously.. it's freaky as hell.
@@MarbleSodaPop I wasn’t looking at the video and I got an ad for ranch with like really upbeat music. I was so confused😭
Why are those tones so freaky? I'm standing in a well lit kitchen at night right now, and I'm having to check behind me because those sounds make my brain go "not good. Something wrong. Bad times"
That would probably be the creepy music that is playing in the video the whole time
@@PlasticCogLiquid no, i specifically mean during the clips, the tones that are playing on the radio
I always wondered why certain weird tones and audio patterns make us get creeped out or paranoid. It’s a bit strange how it works and I couldn’t find much on it with a Google search.
@@ethpling165 I would guess that the tones are an artificial way to trigger a predatory environment in your mind. Like when things get "too quiet", it's because your subconscious picked up on sub rhythms and tones that are supposed to be present, but are not. Vice versa. The presence of tones that may indicate danger. They're repliticable in audio software
I’m sitting in bed watching this at midnight and it’s creepy af
One time, for the morning announcements at my high school, they decided to play "calming" whale sounds over our shitty PA system. It ended up being one of the most terrifying sounds I have ever heard.
😅😆
😭
Funniest thing I’ve heard in ages!
Most surreal moment award!
Lol
😂😂🤣😂
In Portland people often say, “Keep Portland weird” so maybe that’s their way of upholding that weirdness?
Rey Arias as a Portlander I could 100% see this happening and would probably just pass it off as some bizarre hipster music and go on with my day
Yeah that's probably it, sounds like my city
I saw 'keep portland wierd' graffitti piece the other day in a kids t.v programme on Nickelodeon
Austin, Texas has the same thing. :p
Rob Jackson I was in Austin for a week over winter break and it really was similar to Portland it’s so nice there I know a lot of people in Portland from Austin and the other way around
Several years ago, I had a local radio station on and suddenly, a sequence of repetitious sounds that were very discomforting began and lasted about 3 minutes. I called the station and they assured me that it was only Nickleback.
Nickleback was once known as Eric The Toad And The Explosive Enemas.
nickelback - help me
🤣🤣🤣
"Look at this photograph, everytime you do you w̷͚̦̤̤̃͠ǒ̵͔̘́̈́̚ṋ̷́̚'̴̝̦͛͒͘t̸̠̙̜̐͐́ ̸̮̎̓̃͝c̶̡̛̟̟̻ö̵͎̟͓́ͅm̵̹̂e̶̖͑̈́̚͝ ̵̞̖̀͒b̸̦̆̍̉a̸̺̍̑ç̸̫̬̫̍̀̈́̕ḱ̶͙̗͊.̶̙̥̽"
Nickleback is actually good to me!
I still think it's odd that the station that took over is called "the numberz" considering the amount of people who had referred to it as a "numbers station" when cat still owned it
I thought the same thing. I kinda feel like there are a few loose ends left behind by the video. Just a couple, but still.
96.6 George fm in Auckland New Zealand is named after a ghost thought to haunt their studio
@@ryanphillips4123 Portland is a strange place everything, even their local ads, are art projects. This isn't really any odder than a lot of stuff there.
THE NUMBERS MASON WHAT DO THEY MEAN
Nah that one actually makes a lot of sense.
Urban legends are some of the best free publicity you can get, so being the creepy numbers station is a huge marketing plus.
Hotels, for example, mill the whole "haunted" thing super hard.
Viewer beware: 90% of the comments are the same thing with one change.
You have been warned.
"Let's have a listen"
(insert unfunny advertisement)
It's human nature. Rather than being clever and original, they'd rather find one thing that works and exploit/ruin it. I hate humanity for this very reason. It's why I stopped using most social medias.
Where's Thanos when ya need him?
Justin Potts it’s pretty funny though. Also, the one change can be quite creative when people have an idea to put in the template that bring back great memories for some people or let them have a true smile or even laugh because it’s something they haven’t heard in a while. Idk, you seem quite bitter and cynical... hopefully you find more happiness again.
@@daddytachanka8076 There's no such thing as true originality anyways; rather, it's combinations of ideas that are original and unique, not individual ideas themselves. Aside from that, I don't think anyone expects comedy gold from a UA-cam comment section... or at least, I think most people don't. Maybe it's because I don't spend most of my time down here, but like, I'm not even jaded about people being, in some way, "unoriginal."
As a second aside, "viewer beware" reminds me of Goosebumps.
Alice Scarlet well said and that’s funny you noticed that
This is equivalent to Spotify ads you get just pure fear and agonizing noise
Click the banner to learn more
Wanna break from the ads?
“Wanna a break from the *static* tap the banner to learn how
It’s not as scary as UA-cam’s two ads sometimes, god dame that’s horrifying
Ok but have you ever gotten an unskipable 2 hour long ad about chess
The fact it occurred during night time,just added to the feeling of eeriness.When Art Bell on Coast to Coast am had his radio signal cut off right across the am dial all through America and Europe when discussing the HARP program in Alaska,the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.Night time adds a lot of fuel to the imagination.
I miss Coast to Coast, it used to be so good to lay in bed and listen to at night, get some creepiness in before going to sleep.
coast to coast was so good man
Was this an event?
You're right! I remember listening to Art Bell on any night off from my 3rd shift job! Always intriguing and respectful, regardless of how crazy some of the guests or call-in's were! Loved it!
I miss Art!
As somebody who lived in Portland for years, Portland is known to have some pretty odd folks and do some avant-garde stuff so I wouldn't be surprised if this was a totally conscious thing that was done in an effort to keep some of the motto "Keep Portland Weird "going
Yes keep Portland weird
I remember when the Oregon collective viewed Californians as
being weirdos, it kinda seems that now things have changed
@Mark Ulis No, no , no, you may have misinterpreted my comment/reply. I apologize if I was not clear.
I love everything about Oregon. I visited once and I was hooked. I was
truly surprised after reading the comments and watching this vid. that weird things happen at all there(Portland). Unfortunately, I currently live in Los Angeles 😑. The
violence here is escalating and it is terrifying. I would not wish that on anybody.
@Mark Ulis "Edgy and unique" is a great description. I get depressed when I think of great places like that, that now seem to be ruined.:(
I grew up in beaver town but left in the mid 90s. I 1st herd the butthole surfers on pirate radio in '83. And lived at the satyricon. Pdx has always been progressive. I didn't know that it's gone "gangsta" since.
Sounds like what that one friend who is deep into underground music plays
@Pentex Sucks Bonegnawers suck
@Pentex Sucks sweet Dark Ambient
This isnt really dark ambient tho.
It was playing Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Pretty Tame
@@majira-dy5im well, the second sample sounds more or less like that
5:45 Radiohead’s new single is fire 🔥🔥
And they said king of limbs was trash
pulk pull revolving doors type beat
BRUH
I wanna see Thom York dance to this
Tom yorke is getting really pretentious with this weird new Radiohead.
I'm a truck driver and in 2017 i was doing runs along the I-5 corridor, from Washington down to California, and one night as i was driving through Oregon via I-5 i was browsing through the radio stations and found one that genuinely gave me the creeps. I don't remember if it was this station or not, but from the sounds of it, it probably was. It was playing some creepy sounds and chanting almost like from a cult in a movie doing some kind of ritual. Kinda wish i had recorded it, but i wasn't even thinking of that, i was like "what the fuck?" Before turning it off.
I know the feeling. We (me, husband, BIL & our two cats) were driving back to home from in-laws lakehouse in the middle of night and we were within the greater Helsinki area, when hubby changed the channel. There was utterly weird music, lone dude lazily contemplating ufos, taking long pauses (I thought he fell asleep couple times.. that long), mechanical chirps and buzzes, chanting, humming, with a peculiar dreamlike feeling to it all, no commercials or name of the channel. It had definite form, it wasnt crazy salad of everything, but it didnt help much. The mood in the car went from uncontrollable laughter to being thoroughly creeped out. This happened maybe 5 years ago, but it left the perpetual whattafuck in all of our minds (except the cats, I think). We have tried to connect to that channel again, no dice. After we dropped BIL home, we listened to this craziness all the way to ours, so I should be able to catch it easily. All have different explanations too; I think it was art experiment, hubs is convinced it was a prank or joke, BIL thinks it was new form of number stations. I might also add that hubs works in archiving music, he recognizes the weirdest art songs from obscure labels, but nothing that played on this channel. If Im right and it was art, it definitely left an impression :)
@@janemiettinen5176Two Helsinki art stations “Raudio” and “Radio Hear” sometimes do long sequences of avant-garde music & sounds. You may have been listening to one of these.
Don't worry too much.
It was probably hip hop or new rap.
I heard something horrific as well,i believe they called it "Bieber" or something like that.
5:29 “Let’s have a listen...”
“Liberty Mutual customizes car insurance. Liberty Liberty Li-berty!”
Holy shit that’s freaky!!
This made me laugh, good job
@@HighlandLaddie you aren't american, yet.
@@joekerr9150 the jingle is going to change his nationality
@@aerofish0 yes
@@aerofish0 u a potato doe 😳
I miss the purple border.
The purple border let me know I could feel safe.
dw
That’s because you shouldn’t feel safe now.
Hahaha completely agree. Then you know the explanation is coming so you don't have to freak out anymore.
Same here
never would've thought of this but shi you right
“Let’s have a listen...”
*“ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING PARTS OF MEDITATION IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE DARK SIDE OF THE MIND.”*
Imagine your mind as a still pool of water...
those dang Headspace ads lol
Darkness is a mere absence of light, or the inability to perceive the current frequency.
"Let's have a listen"
*"THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE WATER, AND IT'S MAKING ALL THE FROGS GAY!"*
LMAO
In the e-mail you showed she didn't say that they were not responsible for those broadcasts, she said that the radio station was theirs and that they weren't aware of any interference.
If they were responsible for those broadcasts then there wasn't any interference to be aware of and she was being entirely truthful while using implication to lead you in another direction.
The first audio at 6:10 on thru 6:18 are radio frequencies from the Sputnik 1 satellite. Launched by the USSR on Oct 4 1957. These were american recordings of the beep transmissions it became synonymous with. THE SIMPLE SATELLITE ONLY BEEPED.
I KNEW IT!!!...Well not specifically Sputnik...but I new that was space related,..
Wow, first the Soviet anthem and now I find out that even their satellite writes bangers?
Yeah I noticed that too. It's in the first video shown too
That was the rocket that the first dog in space was in.
@@RayNumber2 No, Laika was on Sputnik 2.
The fact that no one hooked up a cheap yagi to a ham radio and triangulated the position of the broadcast antenna is an utter travesty, that wold have solved the whole mystery. Doesn't matter now I guess.
You mean trilaterated?
@@soulreaverable No he means triangulate, with radio you can rotate the antenna and get and increase or decrease in signal. Get an angle and then move to a different point and get another angle, do that again and where they all intersect is the location.
Its actually a common HAM competition to find radio beacons this way, race to find the transmitter type thing.
I know thats what I was thinking. Probably no cared enough to spend money on it hah
👍
What's a yagi?
I hope I don't sound stupid.
Pilot here: The random beeping tones sounds a lot like when someone "steps" on someone else on the radio (meaning two people tried to transmit at the same time).
This happens on military radios too, but it's hard to believe it would happen this often for this long, unless they're just poorly placed antenna.
@@tannergordon8302 do you like hamhocks or neckbones in your collard greens 🤔
Thats usually how it sounds over am transmissions yes. However this is frequency modulation. There is a capture effect to FM.
@@lawoull.6581 what the fuck is that supposed to mean?
@@odaydrums 🤔...you remind me of Jimmy Walker from Good Times...yesss...
This reminds me of something that happened with my little sister and I. This was during February 2003, in CA. I'm sure it was a weird prank but it scared us so bad we were terrified of the radio for a while after that lol.
We had the radio playing while we were doing homework, and I started fiddling with the stations. We stopped on this one station that was playing sort of angelic, dreamy sounding music. It kind of sounded like Enya's music. About a minute in, it switched to this loud, rhythmic thumping. Not like a musical beat. It was like someone was violently hitting a wall with a hammer over and over again. Along with that, there was a woman saying "Wake up," repeatedly. At first she sounded kind of goofy, like she was holding back from laughing, and then she got more and more frantic. This went on to the point that she was full on screeching "WAKE UP." Just awful screaming, like this person saw something horrible.
We were freaking out loud enough for my mom to come running in. She heard it too, and was equally freaked out. She ended up just yanking the radio from the wall. She tried calling the local radio stations about it, but idk what came from it. I didn't remember the full statio number (besides two 9's I think,) so that probably made it hard for her to find out anything. Our town had a similar "artsy" community, so it makes a lot of sense if someone was doing a prank/avant garde project.
Hate these stories, I always get the scariest boner
That is absolutely terrifying. Do you know what station?
@@girloffthecob idk if he’s updated the comment, but it says at the end
This is very similar to a radio interruption I experienced awhile back. I was up late listening to a classical radio station in LA. I kept messing around with the dial, because there was a lot of static, more than usual, I couldn't get the station to sound clear. Over the course of the night, the static increased until the music was barely audible anymore, but I hadn't noticed because I was too busy working on my computer.
Then, around 3am, I started hearing some weird noises. There was a woman screaming like she was being murdered, and the sound of a baby crying, also some men chanting something in the background. There was also the sound of a loud banging like an ax cutting into something. It was so over the top I figured it was someone playing a prank, hacking the station. I just wish I had recorded it with my phone or something. I was up late editing some footage for a student film about a haunted house. Perfect timing. Lol
Gotta tell you guys that Verizon phones and their cable TV systems interfered with every phone network! My "not a smart-phone phone" I had in 2017 was a net 10 and picked up the WiFi signal off router for the computer and TV' boxes in our house I heard pieces of TV footage over the phone and pieces of my boyfriends phonecalls on our TV! My phone kept interrupting his phone! My phone would auto-dial numbers in the middle of the night?
Customer service... could not help me?
I had to upgrade my phone. To stop the phenomenon! Yep!
“Let’s have a listen”
*JONES BARBECUE AND FOOT MASSAGE*
Not funny. Normie.
@@ascensionspeak4694 Veterans aren't normies
@PenvaRunner haha you did the funi
LMAO
CVOD
Damn bro, 0% of the squad laughed at that. Presentation was badly executed, and the use of the phrases were not appropriate for the given text. Usage of the format was also incorrect, as it was missing the second half, and included an extra term. Overall, pretty bad. 0/10. You’re gonna have to retake the test.
Let's have a listen...
"You're not a dish! You're a man!"
Terrifying
I literally got that ad before this video
Lol
Bro but why are they just making weird noises sounds like a cult thing
yo mama hey that's my name in a lot of stuff
You are right... maybe im not a dish
I feel like the people at CATS are probably just a bunch of old people who don’t know how to properly run a radio station and didn’t even realize that it was messed up audio.
I thought you meant CATS the movie...
Still works the same with movies.
This was my impression too, just a poorly produced test broadcast that they accidentally left playing during their off hours. Occam's razor, easiest explanation is incompetence.
Miron Gaines you don’t get paid to think baby girl
@@handsomest1 😂😂😂
@omgwtfbbq Nothing in the video was conclusive at all, so I don't know what you're getting at.
here in liverpool, england, we have a massive radio station called "Radio City". it's frequency is also 96.7, and it is also constantly broadcasting incredibly strange noises. these strange, grotesque noises are the native scouse accent.
Bit harsh! 🤔
please record it and post/upload
@@gabrielv.4358 do you get the joke? the commenter’s just criticizing the radio commentator’s accent lol
🤣 juice FM now isn't it
@mikethomas4423 nah, still radio city
When I heard the description I thought “aliens” but when I heard the actual broadcast it just sounds like strange EDM
More like Dark Ambient/ Noise music
@@oleksandrbyelyenko435 I've heard ambient music that does sound like this
Rat Punk Two problems with this: First, I find it hard to believe such an obscure genre would be played in such a small town. Possible, but not super likely. Second, the lack of advertisements would mean that there would be no profit to it being an actual radio station.
@@GamingOS you know there are different kinds of ambient music?
I would lose it if you were right because these people are crazy for those sounds saying it like mk ultra shit
Did some light digging. Cats do own the station and it was run by two high schoolers who looped apollo 11, mlk and jfk in 2017 before changing to it's current format. The one high schooler btw is a founder of KXRY
MK-Ultra detected
thank you for your contribution, Pekora's Right Carrot Braid.
Very interesting peko
nvm im impatient. Oddly, now that I have context, my comment sounds highly discriminatory against whatever their religion is. Funny.
I thought this was a troll comment about cats before watching this video, but then I actually reached the part about the Community Alliance of Tenants, lmao.
Of course it's in Oregon. I swear that place has the highest amount of weirdness per capita in the whole world
And I'm not referencing Gravity Falls, like it's actually true. Especially Portland, probably the weirdest city in the USA, but all of Oregon too. Kinda makes me "feel proud" because I'm from there
It's full of hipsters, so it's bound to happen.
I mean "Keep Portland Weird" is a sign in downtown Portland
@@haddonproctor5425 yeah that's actually the city's motto
The weird tones sound like an early satellite, like Sputnik or Telstar. They were huge deals when they first went up and I remember going outside as a small child with my friends to watch for Telstar crossing the night sky. The recordings of them passing overhead were touted as signals from space in your living room.
I am so glad others are pointing out the vintage satellite sounds
given that the speech clips date from the 60s, it would match up somewhat with the theme!
It's Portland, this is for sure just some weird art project lmao
Lmao, right
'It's Portland.'
Carl Manvers it’s Portland, they’re probably just experimenting on their population in an attempt to create a biological weapon
@@lordtachanka5512 LOL
It’s Portland. They’re probably just doing some occult ritual to summon Cthulhu and bring death and destruction upon the world.
The sound playing from 6:45 in the car is a loop of Nasa's recording of the sounds from the planet Jupiter.
Jupiter radio signal getting sent to earth and 96.7 is the only open radio signal to space.
this is just a theory
@@RandomNameLastName811 I know but I didn't know about the static. I thought it would sound clear ..
Both sound very familiar together. That's so strange that a car radio would get a signal from space. That sounds impossible.
@@RandomNameLastName811 Lol I never noticed.
Holy shit I heard this and was like “damn it sounds like Jupiter”
100% worth the donation.
subjectsigma925 wait, did u actually?
How is your comment from 5 days ago?
@@JTtheMid He pays for early access
@@JTtheMid because he probably became a member of the channel or donated to his patreon so he could get early access to videos
@@JTtheMid $3 on Patreon and you can see his videos before there listed.
The creepy beeping noises are actually simply recordings of the radio transmissions put out by Sputnik 1 over the course of 3 weeks. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
5:40 "let's take a listen...."
[Loud ass youtube ad]
me: That's disrespectful, man!
Oh my Lol 😂
I also got that lmao
You're not a dish, you're a MAN
Lmfao
Why are you not using AdBlocker
I live in Portland, Oregon, and I heard some of these weird transmissions on the night of August 11th, 2017. I know that’s the exact date, because I managed to record a few minutes of them with voice memos on my phone - old robotic text-to-speech software saying things like “a little hard work never hurt anyone” amongst blasts of static, as well as strange rumbling minimalistic beats peppered with WWII era radio recordings.
Nexpo: if you’re interested in hearing them, I can email you the files. Miraculously, I still have them.
darn it's too bad they're not MP3's or you could use something like MP3 toolbox or a piece of software to convert them to MP4 is and upload them to your channel so we could all see them.
Definitely try to screen record the voice memos and upload them to your channel
Publish them on your channel. Screen record them
please upload
Wasn't that part of that XRay's launch?
You never fail to make me feel like im not alone in my room.
Dylan Smith god i was just thinking how i have to open all the blinds to let the light in so his videos freak me out a little less
Hellooooo there. Your hair is getting a little long btw. You should get a hair cut.
@@commentcopbadge6665 wow that's a nice trespasser uwu
I might glance over my tablet from time to time lol
i never feel alone in my room past 10pm to 6am
I remember about 4 years ago, I was driving through the mountains near Mammoth, CA at around 10pm. There was no reception where I was but I had my radio on, I forgot the station, but all of a sudden, I heard yelling for help on my radio. I pulled over because I was so scared. The voice was of a young woman. She sounded like she was panicking, begging for someone to reach her. Her voice sounded helpless as if she knew no one could hear her. I remember yelling back into my radio as if she could hear me, but her voice began to fade. Not knowing what to think, I got back into my car and kept driving. I still think about that night every once in a while....and I always wondered about that woman.
there seems to only be 6 radio stations in mammoth
1: KMMT (106.5)
2: KAAT (103.1)
3: KIBS (100.7)
4: K243AK (96.5)
5: KRHV (93.3)
6: KSRW (92.5)
no idea if there's more defunct but do you know around the area your radio was tuned?
@@potato1907 creepy
@@Mike-mb8oy it's a list of radio stations??
@@potato1907 no the woman yelling for help
I’m thinking that maybe you tuned into a comms device frequency and she was doing the only thing she could do to get help
It sounds like the broadcasting practice of stunting to me. A radio station where I used to live in southeast Virginia had used to be a run of the mill alternative music station, till one day they started playing Chinese opera music exclusively. They did this for about a week, got people talking about it, then changed into a run of the mill R&B station, which they still are today.
Northeast NC guy here, I remeber riding around that area and tuned into that
Star 96.9 in Spokane WA did this.
This channel is now called Hot 96.9, but before that it was Star 96.9, and before that it was a classic rock station whose name I can't remember. But when Star took over the channel, they played eerie renditions of children singing twinkle twinkle little star at random times throughout the day for the first three months while they got everything set up for their station. But they didn't announce the name of their station would be Star 96.9, so we were all confused as to why for three months we were hearing children singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in between hours of scratchy white noise.
Sp00ky haven’t heard of this one
you get that early extra release I see!
Why aren't you verified?
@UCLg9DrOMekWaIse57ZCaz3Q I knowwww! I got creeped out for a second! lol
Why your comment is from 5 days ago if the video was uploaded 13 minutes ago?
Amuno I thought the same
"Let's have a listen."
*"If* *you* *or* *a* *loved* *one* *has* *been* *diagnosed* *with* *mesothelioma,* *you* *may* *be* *entitled* *to* *financial* *compensation."*
Julissa Zavaleta I’m having way too much fun reading comments like this XD.
No, it's LOOK HERE LOOK LISTEN
Julissa Zavaleta I have Diabeetus.
Damn he’s good!
I literally read this in the guy’s voice 😂
Around 2004, I remember one of our local stations played nothing but cartoon sound effects while a man's voice would cycle through names every once in a while. This happened for an entire weekend. It still hasn't been explained.
(Goofy ahh sound effects)
“Bob”
The names are typically the callsign of radio station...so if it's FMR 65.6 the names would be Fred Michael Randy or something like that...
@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 I don't think it was the case for this incident. The guy would say something like "Who is Gary?" then there would be a bunch of Hanna Barbera sound effects playing one after another for about 2 minutes. Then the guy would speak again "Who is Nancy?" then another set of cartoon sound effects would play. There was a bunch of names cycled through before it would loop and start again from the beginning. It was kinda creepy and even creepier that an explanation was never given and I have never heard any radio station play whatever that was.
@@syxodude91Could be a spy station, some sort of code. Very weird
My stepdad always taught me about how radio frequencies from the war are still bouncing off the hemisphere so in rare cases your walkie talkie picks them up. It’s scary at the time but it’s very cool.
Edit: Grammar correction
How can I do this
At this point they’d be highly attenuated. You wouldn’t be able to detect it with a walk-in talkie. However, at night the ionosphere (if I remember my professor correctly) lowers and you can get radio signals from far away, well outside their normal range. I always think that’s pretty cool
Do you mean you can pick up past conversations ?
@@thebrightsideofthemoon5829 right?! That's what I'm hearing. Reminds me of that movie where the guy cb radioed his dead dad from the past somehow. Also, if that's true it's awesome and creepy and a great movie idea.
Kamen Anew ooh what’s the movie called? sounds cool
Radio enthusiast here: If it was a low power station, it wouldn't have been too hard to triangulate where the signal is coming from, and pinpoint the approximate transmitter location. A couple of enthusiasts could have done it
A few tried, they were never heard from again...
@@PlasticCogLiquid spooky lol
This thread was simple and still made me laugh 😄
Lol campfire story
T r i a n g u l a t e
I imagine this means turning things into triangles
“Let’s have a listen”
“COME ON DOWN TO OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE”
Hunter Hefti UA-cam Red
🤣🤣😂
State Farm lmao
"A MAN HAS FALLEN INTO THE RIVER, IN LEGO CITY"
in my area it's a rock station
I don't know if it's the lack of a visual component, or my layperson fascination with pirate radio stations, unsourced audio, odd samples, etc., but I love this kind of mystery radio broadcast shit. It would be super fun to renegade broadcast like this, or catch one sometime.
I’m not sure why, but that repetitive, four-note ascending “beep” makes me feel nervous. Anxious, even. I don’t have misophonia (or even melophobia, that I’m aware of) but hearing that sound is uncomfortable. Such a weird sensation.
It made me feel so anxious too, It almost felt like I was about to have a panic attack D:
Call me weird but i thought it was lowkey kinda fire
Then again, i love me some EDM music, so
i literally skipped the noise after the first few oscilations, i felt an eerie sensation that someone was stalking me. well maybe it was my mistake that i watched the video at 4 am and have trauma from watching creepy shit ever since i was 10, (im 19 now). But scary videos have never affected me like THIS in a very long time. Later after i had slept and went to go to class i kept remebering the noise and had the same eerie sensation even though there were dozens of people around me. This is actually scaring me lmao
Nah bro that shit fire 🔥 this
Death Grips bouta fuckin sample this shit
I don't think Katrina lied to you, she was being honest in that the broadcast is not an interference
Katrina sounded like an oblivious worker. She probably had no idea and was told to just essentially ignore the email.
I can identify sounds from:
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 2
Apollo 11 (Walter kronkite)
And they said MLK and JFK can be heard at other times
Checked and Confirmed 👍
That is exactly what I thought as well, Sputnik 100%
Jupiter noises. It was playing a broadcast from nasa when they recorded the sound jupiter makes.
you and Emma T (id'ed part as a Jupiter recording in an earlier comment) are my heroes
I also thought that it was Sputnik . . .
Thank you for doing stories not heard before. So many topics on UA-cam have been presented ad nauseum. It's refreshing to hear the hidden gems you present. I'm 64. I've heard most everything in life-until your channel. Thanks. And great presentation and research as well. Good job.
This sent my anxiety through the roof. Certain songs or sound patterns make me anxious. This is strange.
s a m e
It’s a pretty weird sound lol. I used to listen to tons of weird shit though. This seems like any Indy artist coming up with shit.
Me too
It's the 440 hz frequency that makes you anxious
Yep. Good thing I’m watching this on the beach at 1:30
Katrina technically didn't lie to you.
All she said is "we are unaware of any interference". Notice how she doesn't actually say "this is our station but not our broadcast" at any point? Instead she's basically saying "yes this is our station and everything's going as normal", but wording it in a vague way that could be taken several ways. This could be interpreted as her hinting it's indeed CAT's doing without quite admitting it
This is what I immediately thought at first. I was just like "uhhh, so they just said that they did it? Why doesn't she go into why it happened?"
Thank you. She wasn't interested in any possibility of a hack and didn't say that the "interference" was abnormal. She admitted it was their brain child without saying it was. Gotta read between the lines, folks.
Why has no one pointed out the reply “Aphex Twin marathon” lmao
Rip aphex twin...that comment was a slaying
@@yungpm no lol, this does sound like aphex twin though
lil Penisballs if he ain’t dead I’d be surprised that redditor came for his life
Yeah that's funny as hell.
Honestly just fucking sounds like some Fuji tape modular song by RDJ tbh
I've been holding off on watching this for 2 years simple because I listen to this mostly at night and the strange sounds might stop me from being able to sleep that night. Here we go! Let's do it!
Are you scared of your own shadow too?
@imarcus1973 yes because of what even my shadow is capable of.
Imagine if there's just a random guy who tunes in to that radio station and says to himself "now this is my jam"
joseph306 human music!
You arnt dancing to that.....?
Well of course I know him, he's me!
"I love this song"
@@jessicazurawicz429 Ah, yes, ambient mind control schizo EDM, my favorite.
"And now... Human music."
was gonna be my comment lol
Makes me think of Laurie Anderson’s “Difficult Listening Hour”.
ky jack another word for it is: Beat me to it. Just saying :)
Hmmm...I LIKE IT!
Humanz music
“Let’s have a listen...” This is Mr. New Vegas, and I feel something magic in the air tonight, and I'm not just talking about the gamma radiation.
Lol. Underrated comment.
This is Mr. New Vegas and I hope I'm not coming on to hard
💀🤗
Yes
Hell yeah
My dog went absolutely NUTS when the high pitched noises started playing at 5:41. Head tilting, whining, barking, the works. 100% confident that's just a coincidence and not an intended result of these noises, but he's never reacted that strongly to noises coming from a speaker.
There's a signal within the signal then, shifted in spectrum.
Maybe it was never meant for human ears 😮 😮 😮 😮
"Let's have a listen"
*"EVER SINCE I DOWNLOADED THIS APP, I'VE BEEN ADDICTED, THIS IS DANGEROUS"*
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Ayyy 666th like
Don’t touch that dial now, we’re just getting started.
Still got me sad that pt never came to fruition
Stoooooooop
Very obscure reference
It’s one of the worst decisions Konami ever made. PT was honestly the scariest fucking thing I’ve ever played. Ever. That game could’ve been something truly brilliant.
Dude pls no
Really digging the new logo Nexpo!
thank you :)
@@Nexpo Its really good.
I feel like a Full Moon like in your Intro would fit more...
@reventian are you my dad?
rev do more shitty bb gun vids
@@Nexpo love your VIDEOS!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I like hearing your voice, it calms me. Thank you for always being a constant. You create wonderful works. Hope you are doing alright!
"The numbers Mason, what do they mean"
Reznov died in vorkuta
Dragovich... Kravchenko... Steiner... All must die!
@@pauly260 beat me to it
Mason! For the last time... *WHERE. IS. THE NUMBERS STATION!?*
Lmao
As a person that works in radio station, it looks like partially corrupted audio or wrong audio files getting thrown into automated broadcast without any supervision. Such automated stations are very unlikely to get noticed that something is wrong with the audio until it stops and set up the alarms, or some of listeners outside of company write email to us. To addition, some of those audio files are playing at half speed without pitch distortion - they were deliberately edited that way.
Katrina's response seem odd to me, like she is confirming that how it should sound like.
i did that once. i fucked up something in the finicky software that controls the overnight programming and the next morning the radio got a bunch of call from truckers whining that they didn't have anything to listen to. lol. i was an intern. that was my one intern mistake out of all internships i did.
@Benjamin Farrington nope. Just a little scolding :P
6:50 I recognize that sound! That’s the sound of Jupiter, look it up on UA-cam.
Jupiter kinda fire!
Bump, good catch! This needs to be higher tbh
Caleb Kehler..THANK YOU! Look up SOUNDS OF IOI (EYE-OH, CAN'T SPELL! 🥴)... It's a video of how each planet and the moons of the planetS sound...They take the Energy Waves (kinda like radio waves) coming from each planet and moon and convert it to sound waves...It's WAY more intense and actually beautiful than this...This just reminds me of space sounds and how it could just be the cell tower waves creating a feedback ssound if you will for the most part...Look up V101SCIENCE and learn about "falling into Jupiter" or "Standing on Pluto" or any number of things about the universe...It's both the most beautiful thing ever seen and the most spooky and mysterious...After awhile of learning about the universe...The world we live in isn't that scary afterall...The universe is much more fascinating in my opinion...Now that I know how sound and time actually works in the universe in more detail...The sounds here pale by comparison.
Yep. It's from NASA Voyager Recordings. You can find whole album somewhere.
Immediately searched through the comments to see if anyone else recognized it. 👍🏽👍🏽
My late great Grandfather showed me and friends how to make an AM radio using toilet roll and lots of copper wiring. It had to be nailed down on a wooded board about 8X10. We used a mono mic piece to listen to radio stations using a razer blade to scan over the copper wire. My Father saw this and was very angry because - it wasn't the radio hobby thing, it was because we played with a razer blade. I had no trouble handling with razer blade skimming through copper wire. So, most of my friends gave up on this hobby. We did pick up AM stations. It was very, very soft and jaggit sounds. My Great Grandpa said - this is what he learned during WW1. Thank you for this story.
In the area I live, there's a station that just plays what sounds like a distorted ticking clock and the occasional heavy breathing, know one knows what it is, but it's also a 97.something station? This stuff is super weird!
Probly just some doofus fucking with the radio station or something broken within the broadcasting machene (i know nothing about radios)
Where are you because i have nothing good to do and I can put in reaserch
Get Nexpo to see this.
@@ballsacksniffer420 well your partially right, there isn’t a machine to hack but rather you can do some “hacking” shit from anywhere that’s really easy and boom, you just hacked a radio station
Most likely when shit like that goes on it's most likely a pirate that amateur hobbyists haven't decided to triangulate yet
I don't understand what's so weird about this.
This was just an advertising campaign for the recent horror movie masterpiece: Cats.
what’s weird is those frickin cat things
Everyone is giving examples of ads they got during the “let’s give it a listen:” part and I’m just sitting here with nothing... :(
me too haha
Same no ads play for me lol
Isle Of Dead Memes nobody cares about our countries, i barely get ads ever
sames. :(
Good.. Don't be like them.
honestly you sending this thorough, polite email and CAT just coming back with essentially "hmmmm weird! thanks!" is very humorous
Just a fun fact: the beginning letter of the 4 letter call sign actually has to be a K or a W, K for being west of the Mississippi and W for being East of the Mississippi. The only exception of course being the very first radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh
let’s have a listen
“1 in 7 children don’t have enough food to feed themselves”
oh ok damn
lmaooo thought i was the only one that got the ad
Lmao sad but true and funny
Every damn video
Well its not exactly a lie
LMAO
The guy who said “aphex twin marathon” deserves a medal
lmao yes XD was about to point it out myself
true i laughed irl
selected ambient works 96.7
i wanna meet them
@Ze • hi 😁
Here, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA, the channel "96.7 the beaver", one of our popular country stations was suddenly interupted back in 2020 with similar audio, I was listening to it while getting ready for bed, when what was just some Allen Jackson playing on the radio turned into this creepy audio. I freaked out, and ripped the cord from the wall, too afraid to sleep, feeling my house was haunted.
My first reaction was like:
Is this some kind of weird underground rave music im too mainstream to understand?
To be honest, if you didn't like at first give it a try. There are a lot of Noise and Dark Ambient bands
@@oleksandrbyelyenko435 I didnt say I didint like it, I just said that I dont get it. 😅
@@oleksandrbyelyenko435
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
Merzbow - Pulse Demon
John Carpenter - Halloween: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
👌👌👌👌
@@inactiveaccount8103 why do you have a picture of Huilo on you channel? Lol...
@@janoslaszlovasik9161 okay. I guess that is possible
“A number station”
WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEAN
I don't know
THE NUMBERS MASON!!!
First thing I thought of too tbh-
I think the numbers are a specific cypher that very specific people have the key to. Although i think this is a joke
I'm going to replay that campaign at some point this year. Such a good story
Yo Ryan.... I am trippin out. We used to get this station in my home town 😬😱
God damnit... Nevermind.... I was thinking of something else. I looked it up and it was something totally different.
Anyways, this was such a good video man. You totally got me and it takes a LOT these days for videos like this to freak me out. 👏👏👏
Hey my brother interviewed you! Do you remember Frezzman by chance?
This video was posted just now... how is your comment a day old
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85.2FM Patreon benefits, calm down
5:43 that's Sputnik's signal when Russia launched their first successful satellite.
With the apollo 11 mission control audio as well, makes me believe that someone had this on a loop at this fm frequency
Nexpo: Maybe
me: Just maybe
Nexpo: Just maybe
You're gonna be the one that saves me
@@ji6553 [Everyone disliked that]
I don't really wanna know
@@ji6553 and after all
Big Man Austin you’re my wonder wall
-turns on radio-
-demonic screaming and scary sounds-
“shit slapping”
*cough*
merzbow fans be like
r-r-r-remix!
*vigorously bopping head*
Stardust Sydney LMFAOOOOOO
i hate the fact that my brain keeps deciding to watch you only when im about to go to bed and proceed to not get any sleep.
great content tho, just creeps me the hell out
Yeah, me too man.
Well the opening sounds like old shortwave. I want to say SSB (single side band) or possibly an old radar like coastal radar. The Apollo 11 that sounded like Walter Cronkite narrating. And one also sounds like radio waves picked up from deep space the "sound of the universe". Is this part of the CONET project? It's a project that studies numbers stations and other radio mysteries.
Doesn't that make you more immune to feeling being creep out. After a while you should get used to it and treat it like daily meme portion ;P
the tone of his voice and the sounds creeped me out
In my area there are two local FM radio stations on 96.3 and 96.9. If you tune to 96.7 you get a mixture of the two stations 'fighting' for each other and it sounds extremely weird!
You know a big one's coming when Nexpo says: "Interesting..."
I feel like the fact that it sounds like a numbers station and is now a normal rap station called “the numbers” can’t be a coincidence. Maybe it was viral marketing?
But it had apparently gone on since 2006. I doubt they'd be trying to hype their station for 11 years.
No, if anything, the current station might have named themselves after this weird phenomena
I think they just named it after the station. They probably used the same frequency for publicity.
"The Numbers" is also a ghetto area east of I-205 that runs along E Burnside into Gresham, lots of low cost housing there due to proximity to the MAX light rail system. I'm guessing they're trying to "get clout" by association.
@@KidCorporate lol transit = poor people
For everyone who is spooked
It’s okay monke will keep you safe🦧
We're all gunna dje
M o n k e
@@dankestranch8738 not on monkes watch
Thank you monke
Cuz that’s what heroes do
I just recently discovered your youtube channel, and going through a lot of your old videos, and man the intro to this video is awesome.
Maybe it's a Scooby-Doo situation and they're trying to create affordable housing by scaring off all the rich folks.
LaughingManRa under appreciated joke :D thanks!
L E T S S P L I T
DUDE THOSE ARE THE SPUTNIK SOUNDS YOU CAN FOUND THOSE BY SEARCHING THEM ON UA-cam.
EXACTLY LOL
You can, in fact, found those? Damn
@@santasangre996 No need to be a dick over a typo
Yep. I recognized them too, but I am older than most of Nexpo's viewers.
Atlach Nacha calm down redditor.
I lived near here and I heard this! My friends and I built a short-length pirate radio station out of my friend's shed when I was a teenager, and we used this wavelength because we thought it was a clear channel. We'd quickly discover that our broadcast kept getting overwritten but weird broadcasts like this. This was several years before 2017 but we always got overwritten by the sound of an old man reading from what sounded like history textbooks. No lie! We always tried to figure it out but we never got this far.
Weird, this could be some religious speech the church was broadcasting before letting the very devious kid take over the job without moderation
you...
11 year old kid from Argentina here: in my town theres a lot of stations that make weird loud sounds, especially in my dad's camp (i dont know how to say it. english was not my first language) and so, everytime we/i get on the car we play the radio trying to listen music or something and imagine all the stations with some 90s TV Static sound
Listen to shortwave radio, you pick up ALL kinds of weird stuff on there LOL
I was on it once
Didn’t know my GF had a fuck buddy with a radio.
Also, I got a new friend with a radio and no GF
Like what kind of weird stuff?
I 👂 music
Sounds fun! I hope to stumble across one someday!
it's so much fun to poke around em
"don't know about any interference", seems more like "it's us not an interference"
i thought this glad im not the only one
My exact thought
So glad someone said it! She doesn’t deny it was them broadcasting, she just acknowledges there wasn’t any interference causing the sounds. If anything it just reads like a tacit, cleverly worded, confession.
Anyone else find it funny that people were calling it a numbers station and it eventually turned into a rap station called "The Numberz"?
I just commented. That it's a rap station where I live it used to be a rock station, though. It's so crazy. It's the same radio station. I used to listen to.
@@Cryptic_Keeper must be weird, that's like if KRock over here in NY turned into a weird cryptic message station and then into a rap station. Instead, it went from rock to rap to pop and now its alt rock. Lol.
You could deploy an array of software defined radios SDRs. It would require a turntable (not a record player) and a yagi antenna to act as radar. This mystery can be solved with around 10k in radio gear. You could probably pinpoint the station quickly with a small team.