Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate, and today we’re talking about the Top 10 Scariest
Live TV interruptions.
In 2018, it is a lot harder to interrupt a broadcast, but historically there have been
some real spooky ones!
Stay tuned to find out what happened when people were just idly watching their TV sets.
Also, please do leave a thumbs up on this video and stick around until the end as I
will be reading out some comments from one of my latest videos.
10 - Handy Manny Interrupted by Porn Early on a weekday morning in May 2007, kids
in New Jersey, USA were eating their breakfast and watching Disney Channel show, Handy Andy.
Unfortunately, instead of seeing their favorite tool-wielding handyman, they saw …err…
less than kid-friendly tool-wielding …handy….men.
Yep, that’s right, the broadcast was interrupted by hardcore pornography, which must have been
pretty terrifying for the kids, but more so for the parents who found their kids watching
it.
Comcast, the cable network Handy Andy was airing on apologized but never commented on
how the interference came to be or who was behind it.
9 - Scary Old Couple Conspiracy In July 2007, ABC affiliate, WJLA had their
signal interrupted and something weird flashed up on the screen.
It was a spooky picture – a grainy image of two elderly people.
There was no sound involved, just the image.
Creepy, but not that bad, right.
Sure.
However, the plot thickens.
The cable company brushed over it, saying it was a programming mix up from the earlier
Oprah Show.
Okay… so why they were all video clips of the hijacking removed from youtube immediately
after?
A lot of people think that the network was covering up for something way more sinister.
8 - Captain Midnight Protest In 1986, a disgruntled electrical engineer
named John MacDougall was seriously peed at HBO for their high subscription prices.
At the time it was 12.95 a month, which is about 30 dollars now.
MacDougall called himself Captain Midnight and threatened to hijack stations periodically,
targeting showtime next.
7 - The Wyoming Incident In 2008, it is said that a local news network
in Wyoming was broadcasting some coverage of the general election, however, the broadcast
was interrupted by black and grey stripes with text reading “you will see such pretty
things” followed by clips of disembodied human heads.
Apparently, the pirate broadcast was shown at such a high frequency that it made those
watching vomit.
Now, you can read about the Wyoming Incident on a lot of creepypasta sites and urban legend
sites, however, I haven’t been able to find an official source, which leads me to think
that it is just that – an urban legend.
6 - Aliens on Southern Television On November 26th, 1977, a scary alien voice
interrupted a British TV Broadcast at ten past five in the afternoon on ITV.
Hijacking the Hannington transmitter, a scary speaker interrupted transmissions for six
whole minutes, claiming to be an alien called Vrillon from the Intergalactic Association.
With a distorted voice, Vrillon said that all weapons of mass evil must be removed,
warning humanity that we have but a short time to learn to live together in peace.
The voice implored us to remain peaceful so we could be part if the great awakening in
the Age of Aquarius.
The hijack was voice only, and later ITV called the hijack a breakthrough in sound.
The identity of the Hijacker has never been found.
5 - Atomic Bomb On a Sunday morning Czech TV show, Panorama,
viewers were convinced the Prague countryside was being bombed.
The show is intended to attract tourists and generally shows live footage of idyllic landscapes.
On the 17th June 2007, the signal was cleverly hijacked.
What looked like scenes from the usual show broadcast an atomic bomb being detonated over
the countryside, sending viewers into a panic.
Government officials were even concerned that Prague had been bombed.
It turned out that the elaborate hoax was actually a performance piece from a group
called Ztohoven.
4 - Zombie Apocalypse In 2013 TV viewers in Montana were stunned
when the Steve Wilkos Show on KRTV was interrupted by hackers.
Pranksters interrupted the show to warn of a zombie apocalypse, saying that bodies of
the dead were rising from their graves, stating that updates would be posted as soon as new
information became available.
The mayhem happened amid an episode of Wilkos show about Teen Cheaters taking a lie detector
test.
The hack was a voice over only and warned viewers not to approach the zombies as they
are extremely dangerous.
Immediately after the hack was taken down, KPTV released a statement to calm the situation.
3 - Max Headroom Appears On November 22nd, 1987, the Chicago Nine O
Clock News was interrupted on WGN TV.
Instead of host Dan Ronan discussing the Bears Victory over the Detroit Lions, the audience
got a man in a mock news reporter suit but wearing a creepy Max Headroom mask with sunglasses
and a frozen grin.
All audiences could hear was static, and all they could see was the maniac moving around
as if he was being spanked.
It appears the TV signal was hijacked for thirty seconds.
When the signal finally made it back to the studio, Roan nervously laughed: Well, if you’re
wondering what happened, so am I!
On this day, the creepy intruder became an Icon.
Building on this, at number 2….
Max Headroom Hijacker Speaks Later, the same hijacker interrupted an episode
of Doctor who for around 90 seconds.
In this secondary hijack, the plot thickens and this presumed man got creepier.
The first hijack had no audio, but the second was a rant.
The creepy hijacker spouted about coca cola, Chuck Swirsky, and a dirty glove.
After some weird lunging at the camera, head swishing, and singing, the hijackers bare
bottom is spanked.
Making this whole saga even weirder, over 30 years later, we still have no idea who
was responsible for the hijacking.
Finally, most terrifying of all as the threats were founded in reality, we have a very real
Declaration of War In July 2006, Lebanese fighters fired shots
over the Israeli border, leading to a 34-day war in which Israel retaliated hard.
Israeli hackers took control of the Islamic Lebanese Political Party, Hezbollah’s, TV
station with a chilling message of war.
The hijacked signals started showing images of dead Hezbollah Guerilla soldiers.
An image of the political party leader Hassan Nasrallah was then shown, along with the sound
of gunshots and a voice saying Your Day Is Coming.
So, that was the Top 10 Scariest Live Tv Interruptions, which of these do you think is the scariest?
Let me know in the comments section down below!
Before I head out, I am just going to read a few comments you guys left on my scary Tinder
Dates Video – you guys had this to say:
Sports Review Zane Said: I met my girl on the playground we actually met in the sandbox?
Jedi Dan Said: Note: Don't talk about Uranus when dating Rebecca . . . No problem, we can
always just talk about Neptune, lol XD?
Ha….seriously though.
I might not be down with anus chat, but Uranus and Neptune would be great topics of the convo,
I love space!!!
I said in the video I was struggling to find incidences of females acting violently to
men on Tonder and Kelly had something pretty insightful to say, she said:
While the numbers may not be even, the domestic/dating violence numbers are not nearly as skewed
towards men always being the aggressors as it's so often suggested.
Unfortunately, this type of violence against men so often goes unreported and that is the
reason the numbers are skewed in the direction they are.?
- Great point.
Sharpened Scissors said: I love your outfit Rebecca
Thanks!
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