- If you've ever gotten a creepy phone call,
you know how unsettling it can be.
The idea that someone wants to contact you
with a malevolent message can be disturbing
but imagine that same person
broadcasting that creepy message
to thousands or even millions of people.
That's exactly what the following cases are.
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Here are 10 creepy unexplained broadcasts.
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Number 10 is The Backwards Music Station.
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Despite it's nickname, the backwards music station
doesn't actually play any music.
For decades, a mysterious signal
which has been described as a distorted whale call
has been heard on different short wave radio frequencies.
The signal has two sources:
one in The United States and the other in Europe.
Theories of the station's origins vary
from government agents to drug dealers
or even that it's a heavily-encrypted secret message
but no one has ever been able
to crack this disturbing code.
Number nine is The Wyoming Incident.
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In 2008, the nightly news broadcast
of an ABC affiliate in Eastern Wyoming
was interrupted by a very disturbing video.
For nearly five minutes,
eerie music and cryptic black and white video
and images were aired.
The haunting broadcast included blurry, disembodied heads
and text reading "You are ill and you cannot hide forever."
Throughout the transmission,
the message's special presentation
was also flashed on the screen.
No one knows who is behind the bizarre video
or even what they were warning viewers of.
Number eight is The Kaluga Broadcast.
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In 1966, The United States and the former USSR
were in the midst of The Cold War
with the Cuban missile crisis
happening only a few years earlier.
Tensions were still high that nuclear war
could be declared at any moment.
For residents of Kaluga, Russia,
those fears seemed to come true
when the local broadcasting system announced
that nuclear war with America had in fact begun
but the broadcast was stopped
and citizens were assured
that the announcement was done by an unknown hacker.
To this day, nobody knows who or what the hacker was
and what their intentions were
other than possibly pure fear.
Number seven is The Steve Wilko Show.
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On February 11th, 2013, TV viewers in Great Falls, Montana
had turned into the CBS affiliate station, KRTV
to watch the talk show, The Steve Wilkos Show.
However, halfway through the episode,
the station's emergency broadcast notification system
began scrolling across screens
and an automated voice warning viewers
that the dead were rising from the graves
and attacking the live was shown.
The station claims that it was a hoax by unknown hijackers
but exactly who was never determined.
Number six is Mayday Interruption.
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In January of 2007,
Australia's Channel Seven was airing Mayday,
a documentary about train crashes.
Partway through, the audio was replaced
by a looped recording of the sounds of gunfire
and a man yelling, "Jesus Christ, help us all, Lord!"
It was later determined to be a homemade video
of a US soldier who had been ambushed in Iraq.
However, no one knows
how the audio ended up in the documentary
or if it's just a coincidence that five months later,
11 people were killed in a train crash in Kerang, Australia.
Number five is Vrillon.
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At 5:10 p.m. on November 26th, 1977,
all across The United Kingdom,
Southern Television's nightly newscast
was intercepted for six long minutes.
The broadcast hijacker claimed to be named Vrillon
and represented a mysterious intergalactic association.
The images of the normal TV broadcast were scrambled
and the audio was completely overtaken.
A distorted, disembodied man's voice told viewers
to get rid of their weapons and live in peace.
The broadcast continued
to repeat the same messages over and over
but despite the fact that the broadcast was long,
the source and who Vrillon is was never found.
Number four is The Buzzer.
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Operating since at least the 1970s,
the buzzer is a shortwave radio station
based at an unknown location in Russia
that broadcast a repeating short buzzing tone
24 hours a day.
What's even stranger is that the noise
isn't a looped recording but it's made up of something
held up to a live microphone.
On a few rare occasions, the buzzer has been interrupted
by a voice listing Russian names and numbers.
One theory is that it's a numbers station
providing crucial information
to Russian spies stationed around the world.
However, there are others that believe
that this broadcast goes much deeper
and much more evil than it seems,
going as far as to list the names of people
whose time is coming soon.
Number three is Handy Manny.
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At 9:30 a.m. on May 1st, 2007,
parents in New Jersey turned on
The Disney Channel show, Handy Manny for their kids
but instead of seeing
the popular bilingual cartoon character at work,
they we're horrified to find their children
watching hardcore pornography.
The x-rated broadcast was stopped
but officials wouldn't say
how many unsuspecting families were affected.
The demented culprit was never caught nor identified
but it is known that it would have taken a lot of skill
to hack into Disney's system.
It's also believed that
before the broadcast was taken offline,
that other more disturbing videos were planned.
The likes of which, I'm not even able
to talk about in this video.
Number two is The Art Bell Radio Hijacking.
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On September 11th, 1997,
Art Bell was hosting his AM radio show, Coast to Coast
when he received a disturbing call.
The anonymous caller claimed to have worked
at the top-secret military base, Area 51.
He claimed that contact had been made
with extra dimensional beings
who are a threat to civilization
and had even begun to infiltrate the military and government
but before he could say any more,
the entire station was mysteriously taken off air
and when the signal returned a few minutes later,
the caller was gone.
Was this man trying to warn us of something
that was coming our way in the future?
Unfortunately, we'll never know
as he was never heard from again.
And number one is The Max Headroom Incident.
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At nine p.m. on November 22nd, 1987,
Chicago's WGN TV signal was hijacked.
Instead of the nightly news, for 25 seconds,
viewers saw a distorted dizzying video
of a man wearing a mask
of the popular 80s TV character, Max Headroom.
Two hours later, for 90 seconds,
the same disguised man appeared on the local PBS station,
laughing and repeating bizarre nonsense phrases.
The culprits were never identified
and the incident is one of the most infamous
and mysterious as well as creepy TV broadcasts of all time.
These broadcasts will go down as some of the creepiest
to ever be discovered by human eyes.
However, what do you think of them?
Were they hoaxes or was there
more nefarious intent behind them?
Perhaps, even warnings.