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us, (clear throat) just kidding, welcome to 5 bizarre tv broadcast hijackings.
Channel 7 Mayday This happened In Australia on January 3rd
2007, during a broadcast of an episode of the Canadian television series Mayday on the 7
network, an audio loop started to randomly play, the
audio was of an american man saying Jesus Christ, Help us all, Lord. the audio repeated
itself for a total of six minutes. A spokesman for Seven later denied that the transmission
was a prank or a security breach and claimed that the repeated line was actually
part of the original broadcast but clearly it wasn't.
There was an investigation and it was found out that the audio was taken from a news broadcast
of a civilian truck being ambushed in Iraq in which three people died, its not
known whether it was just a technical glitch or an intentional hijacking of the channel.
Although viewers that had seen it believe it was a high jacking purely because of the
strangeness of it, many viewers phoned in, one viewer said they believed it might
of been a subliminal message or that someone must have hacked in.
Here is the recording of it, ive only included a short clip as it repeats itself but its
still quite bizarre.
Zombie Apocalypse KRTV On February 11th 2013, KRTV which is a CBS
affiliate located in great falls, montana, was hijacked, they had their emergency
alert system hijacked, its used to enable the president to speak to the united states
within 10 minutes and also alert the public of local weather warnings.
Hackers managed to hack into it and during a showing of the steve wilkos show they put
out an audio message saying "dead bodies are rising from their graves".
later on in the day 2 other news stations were hijacked and the same message was played.
Clearly people knew it was a joke but you never know there might of been some clueless
son of a gun who is now taking refuge in an underground bunker thinking all hell is
breaking loose above An investigation was done, and the hacker
was arrested on several counts of hacking, this is what the broadcast sounded like
Captain Midnight on HBO This one isn't really bizarre, on April 27th
1986 at 12:32am, HBO had its satellite signal feed interrupted by a man calling himself
Captain Midnight, it occurred during a showing of the falcon and the snowman, it lasted about
4 minutes, it was a message that read, good evening HBO from captain midnight
12.95 a month no way! showtime/movie channel beware!
it was in response to HBO charging 12.95 a month to receive their channel.
HBO contacted the federal communications commission and announced that the hijacker would face
prosecution, the F.B.I then launched an investigation and
they traced it back to a man called John MacDougall He managed to interrupt the broadcast while
he was working at an earth station, He stated that he did it because he was frustrated
with HBO's service rates, and that it was hurting his business
selling satellite dishes. He was charged with transmitting without a
radio license and pled guilty, he was fined 5 thousand dollars and served a year probation
here is the interruption.
Vrillon This hijacking occurred on November 26th 1977
in the UK during an ITN news bulletin on southern television.
During the hijacking the audio was replaced with a voice, it claimed to be a representative
of an Intergalactic Association it said its name was vrillon of the ashtar
galactic command, the voice was distorted, it said things such as
All your weapons of evil must be removed and You have but a short time to learn to live
together in peace. Clearly it was a hoax as the person speaking
had a british accent and why on earth would an alien speak with a british accent,
although its believed to be a hoax the culprit was never found.
the recording is 6 minutes long but here is a segment of it.
The Max Headroom Incident This broadcast occurred on November 22nd 1987
during a showing of doctor who on PBS station WTTW,
The stations signal was hijacked by an unknown person, they was dressed to resemble max headroom.
Max headroom is a fictional artificial intelligence character, which appeared on the max headroom
show during the 80s.
In the broadcast the persons voice is distorted, they start to talk about various things such
as, they say new cokes slogan "Catch the Wave" while holding a Pepsi
can, they also start to hum the theme song to clutch cargo.
By the end of the broadcast the person begins to get spanked by a women then it cuts to
black. The broadcast was investigated but the person
behind the mask was never caught, The incident made national headlines and was
reported on the CBS Evening News the next day, several viewers phoned in to the station
as they was wondering what the broadcast was. Here is the broadcast.
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