@@nateKitsura he probably uploaded it as unlisted and gave it to members/patreons to watch it. then the general public gets it when he changes from unlisted to public
"You'll never need a pencil and pad of paper to leave a note again! In fact, a pencil and pad of paper are so worthless now, we'll include them for free!"
@MIchaelArlowe ikr, theres some old Panasonic cell in my calculator thats from the year 2000 and still works, yet the new pack of energizers not even a year old are starting to leak in the pack
I think he said “ Mw “Merry Christmas 1988” then he put it in the box and never opened it again. Then his wife donated to to good will after he died. His ghost of Christmas past still lives
In the mid-90s, my family bought a phone w/ an answering machine, it came with a blank micro-cassette in the machine. We guessed the phone was returned to the store because there was a message on it from a lonely, elderly man who likely had dementia, he was trying to reach his daughter. It was both eerie and sad, but I remember he said her name over and over again started crying. It got to the point where he was wailing and then the tape ran out.
My middle school daughter heard it and said "Short Circuit." It's the voice synth used for the server robots in the party scene in Short Circuit. She nailed it. If I'm not totally mistaken, it's the female voice for Macintalk.
The people who brought one of these are the same people sending voice notes now instead of typing it out (shifting the inconvenience to the recipient).
My boombox had a crackling problem for a long time, I accidentally fixed it by just pushing the record key down. On other news (olds): Once I bought an answering machine and it had a sad message with someone sobbing, so I was the creepy one for listening to those messages.
Wouldn't it be something if the person who made that recording found this video? The circuitry looks beyond crude, like it was made as cheaply as possible. That Samsung IC is an audio amplifier and probably the most expensive part!
Kind of reminds me of the old wax cylinder recordings from the late 1800s. The reason for the poor audio appears to be the white mold I see on the tape at 6:00. I've seen mold cleaned from vhs tapes, so I guess it would be possible to clean the mold off this.
It seems to me the magnetic tape is starting to degrade inside. While the tape was great at the time, when it gets old it tends to degrade and sound (or video) starts to degrade. Not to mention mold loves to attack it. The original recording couldve been a legit message or a personal test message to see if the machine worked. The owner probably realized it was not as good as he hoped or just simply forgot to include it into his routine. As for the music? He probably had a radio playing or a TV playing in the background.
The market for unused, unchewed, vintage 1987 number two Husky pencils is super hot right now. You have found a gold mine! Risk 1988. That's when my oldest was born so I agree with that speaker's assessment. Recorded in a funeral parlor I think. Nothing creepy.
I love that the entire point is to NOT NEED pencil and paper, but also make sure you include very carefully selected pencil and paper because we all know that anyone who would purchase something like this is going to make sure there is a backup. Also, you totally called the location of the issue immediately. =)
The address on the box is now DureX, which is in their words "a full service, privately held and operated, ISO 9001:2015 Certified Contract Metal Fabrication facility"
1888 was the year of the Jack The Ripper's infamous Whitechapel murders. Maybe the recording is a soundbite from a horror movie about Jack the Ripper or its trailer?
Very interesting. Our family just wrote notes on paper and secured them to our refrigerator with little magnets. This is one of those many times when I am very glad that electronics technology keeps advancing ; )
To me it just sounds like a small part of a worn radio broadcast but yeah I can see how people who aren't used to it would get seriously creeped out by that.
This reminded me of the Maverick memo minder I bought 15 years ago or so to remind my mother with dementia to take her medications while I was at work. That device did not use tapes. You could set various reminder recordings to play at specific times during the day. All digital.
I found an Energizer AAA that still had the push to test strip on the side from the 90's in a flashlight the other day and couldn't belive that it didn't leak.
I recently found some Duracell AAs that had a similar feature, and they also hadn’t leaked. Actually, I believe there’s an extra outer seal that holds the battery tester onto the outside of the battery, and any leakage is held in under that layer.
it's weird because that amount of time of that looped has looped a finite number of times between when it was first recorded and now like sands through an hourglass, just accumulating over the decades. If my math is correct it would have looped over 58 million times if it could be left to play since the moment it was recorded about 37 years ago.
In the late 80's? Not really. It's why that contraption was made. No two people were in the room at the same time, so they had to leave messages for each other. They may live in the same house, but I'd hardly call that "together".
About 15 years ago in central NJ, my dad and his friend found a tape recorder at a dump. It had this mini tape in it, with a bunch of weird phone messages from some British guy. He just kept saying what he was doing and what TV shows he was watching and wondering why the person he was calling was continuously refusing to answer his calls. It was very weird. I think there were at least 5-10 messages, all like, "hello darling, just saw the most interesting show on the telly, last night. Just wanted to call and say hi. Hello again, hoping you'll call me back. I want to see you again. Hello dear, just thought I'd try you again, in case you were just to busy to answer the phone last time. Oh, well talk to you some other time, etc." We wondered if it was discarded evidence from a stalking case, or something.
I think you just needed to replace the pressure pads on the tapes, they have probably perished and aren’t putting enough pressure on the tape! Techmoan on here has a good replacement option that he uses.
You think this is creepy, I had friends over in my room as a kid and we were playing with my smarty bear from the 80s . And after a while . The bear was repeating what we were saying !!! In front of my mom !!! The bear was not supposed to do that at all ! And in a age of childs play films ,my mom grabed that bear and he was never seen agine ...true story 100 !!!
I wonder whether that was some kind of factory test recording they never deleted, noting the date it was made. Or ghots, one of the two for sure though.
@@Warp2090 I'm sure. Also I was being jokingly sarcastic. This is coming from someone who has asbestos tiles in the basement for 50 years, yet I'm still here.
@@ChristopherSobieniak Asbestos is harmful only if disturbed allowing the fibers to go airborne. Application of water while working with the material also prevents the mineral fibers from going airborne, though it is advisable not to dispose of it in household drains. Many sources, including the WHO, don't recognize asbestos as a drinking water contaminant, but the US EPA does.
Ah, simple tape loops. Takes me back to a malfunctioning vacant number announcement Evan Doorbell hit on one of his phone trips back in...Eh, the '70s? Kept looping the "I'm sorry, the number you have dialed..." without ever moving on to the next part of the recording.
i think the echo on that creepy recording is caused by the layers of tape transferring their magnetic signals to each other. I believe its known as 'print-through'.
Fascinating. It’s a bit beyond my technical knowledge and interest level, but I love history (even if I was alive for it!) and gadgets, and the message is super creepy-sounding. It kinda sounded like it said “(…) 1888”, although it’s too distorted to feel certain either way, as far as I can tell - anyhoo, to someone with my imagination, it makes me dream up some kind of sci-fi story, maybe involving time-travel or ghosts… something like that. But, yeah, it speaks to my inner nerd; neat stuff!
This one simple accessory turns any fridge into a smart fridge! A must have for today’s busy modern life, circa 1987. I guess it might have been easier to use instead of just a notepad, interesting product!
I bet many a horrified parents ended up throwing these out after one of their kids recorded a creepy message and turned it on while they were sleeping. Lol.
Wow! that cassette looks so cool. I hope that the cassette format's history be discussed more in detail. One of the channels that does this is Technomoan.
6:24 “They were made by a company called Bandai” you say as if Bandai-Namco isn't literally one of the biggest media conglomerates and toy manufecters in the world.
I have something similar, but a newer version, built into a light switch plate. it uses chip technology, instead of tape. it stopped working several years ago. even with new batteries .no biggie tho, I just haven't made time to replace it with a regular face plate yet, so there it sits, Out of Order, unused, but not forgotten.
I haven't been to Unique since the beginning of Covid. They closed the one nearest to me, but I heard they're opening a new one soon. I used to stop by the Union (or is it Springfield?) store 2-3 days a week after work. We've probably bumped into each other there, and wouldn't have even known it lol. Once I get my money situation in order I need to start going there again. I probably have several things that I bought from there that you'd be interested in making videos on.
The next time I donate some sort of recording device, I need to remember to record a creepy message.
fart in the mic
8h ago? how?
@@nateKitsura he probably uploaded it as unlisted and gave it to members/patreons to watch it. then the general public gets it when he changes from unlisted to public
@@madmodder123That happens.
Some jibberish about where the gold is buried... and leave gps numbers backwards that takes you to some giant graveyard. Lol
"You'll never need a pencil and pad of paper to leave a note again! In fact, a pencil and pad of paper are so worthless now, we'll include them for free!"
I wonder if Johnny finished his homework before watching TV.
Of course he didn't. No kids ever did that!
And now Johnny is a homeless meth addict.
Johnny looked like he was starring in a sitcom.
But MOOOOOOOM!
No, Johnny decided to watch The Twilight Zone instead and accidentally hit the record button while watching it; hence the creepy recording! LOL.
"Sorry Mr Teacher, I didn't do my homework. My dad left a garbled message on the fridge to watch TV channel 18 at 8pm or something".
Ha!
Sounds like something Beavis and Butthead would say.
"Lasts over 1 year" or until the batteries leak 😂
Yeah, you’re lucky if batteries last up to a year before the expiration date anymore.
@MIchaelArlowe ikr, theres some old Panasonic cell in my calculator thats from the year 2000 and still works, yet the new pack of energizers not even a year old are starting to leak in the pack
Or the pencil lead breaks! Or you run out of paper! LOL.
Is it me or the message has not just voice but creepy incidental music sounding like a reed organ or harmonium?
Some people here are saying it sounds like something from a movie.
You also could get such sounds from recording voice on high speed
"The family will love it!" - I don't know, Johnny doesn't look too amused...
I was thinking that exact thing! 😂
Johnny thought it was spying on him, perhaps? Because his Mother somehow knew he wasn't doing his homework?
Johnny's had enough of Ghost 1888s shenanigans.
I think he said “ Mw
“Merry Christmas 1988” then he put it in the box and never opened it again. Then his wife donated to to good will after he died. His ghost of Christmas past still lives
In the mid-90s, my family bought a phone w/ an answering machine, it came with a blank micro-cassette in the machine. We guessed the phone was returned to the store because there was a message on it from a lonely, elderly man who likely had dementia, he was trying to reach his daughter. It was both eerie and sad, but I remember he said her name over and over again started crying. It got to the point where he was wailing and then the tape ran out.
That's heartbreaking! I imagine it **was** extremely unsettling to hear. I hope that gentleman was able to get in touch with his daughter.
then you put the tape in your VHS and it was Mario's face but hyperrealistic
best prank ever lol
People would record over stuff and return it all the time in the 90s . Blockbuster was infamous for it
I would have laughed for sure. I miss the 90s
I think the message is saying "Marty, if we get this thing up to 88, your going to see some serious $hit"
Maybe it said 1988
1.21 Jigawatts later...
List 18, '88.
@@MyNameIsUnavailablewhat the hell is a Jigawatt?
@@L0rdOfThePies I Hear "Christmas 88" Probably the day it was gifted and used one time.
Makes your to-do list sound like the final transmission from a lost Soyuz capsule.
The initial presentation of the box copy "typical message" via 2005-era voice synth is a precious RUclips moment.
@FranklyPeetoons We had much better voice synths on our ham radio repeater controllers in the late '80s. You're off by at least 20 years...
My middle school daughter heard it and said "Short Circuit." It's the voice synth used for the server robots in the party scene in Short Circuit. She nailed it. If I'm not totally mistaken, it's the female voice for Macintalk.
This is like a industrial tech class's first project. The teacher assigns you to make a improved notepad as if you were bringing it to market.
I can't remember which but I think I've seen something similar as a class assignement on at least two tv shows, one might have been Family Ties.
5:22 lol that expression. “You guys seein’ this?”
The people who brought one of these are the same people sending voice notes now instead of typing it out (shifting the inconvenience to the recipient).
You can see the evolution.
Don’t call me out like that
At least modern transcription technology has gotten semi decent where you kind of can do this
doing voice messages are simply easier for disabled people. I can see how a product like this would be useful for someone who cannot write.
@@herzbeton Very true. I'm pretty sure OP was referring to people more generally, though.
Maybe "August 18, 88" ? The chip is made by Samsung!
8/18/88? I'm a week old now!
Ghost... 1888...
Yeah I heard 88 as well.
August is kinda hard to hear, but that could very well be the original message.
@@FoxerTails I think the "aug" is cut off
It's one of those spy number stations!
Instead of 'This message will self destruct in 30 seconds' perhaps it's a case of 'These batteries will self destruct in 30 seconds'? Just a thought.
Number 8...*burp*
Number 8...*burp*
...
They found me on the men's room floor.
Barney forever! Wiggum never!
Now people will stop intentionally ramming our car.
Beatles demo tape? Number 9... Number 9... LOL.
"I'll have a plum floating in perfume, served in a man's hat."
That creepy message on the tape gives me mystery shortwave signal vibes 🙂
Indeed
SSTV can be a lot of fun, too...though listening to it is more likely to just make you completely lose your mind.
My boombox had a crackling problem for a long time, I accidentally fixed it by just pushing the record key down. On other news (olds): Once I bought an answering machine and it had a sad message with someone sobbing, so I was the creepy one for listening to those messages.
Wouldn't it be something if the person who made that recording found this video?
The circuitry looks beyond crude, like it was made as cheaply as possible. That Samsung IC is an audio amplifier and probably the most expensive part!
When I first saw the cassettes, I thought they might have been the "pocket rockers" tapes.
Techmoan six years ago video.
It is weird to me that people remember Pocket Rockers. I didn't know anyone with them when I was a kid, but apparently the line was fairly popular.
I was looking for this comment, as I collect Pocket Rockers, and that’s what they look like to me.
Kind of reminds me of the old wax cylinder recordings from the late 1800s. The reason for the poor audio appears to be the white mold I see on the tape at 6:00. I've seen mold cleaned from vhs tapes, so I guess it would be possible to clean the mold off this.
i love that you continue to make these fascinating and informative videos for all these years
It seems to me the magnetic tape is starting to degrade inside. While the tape was great at the time, when it gets old it tends to degrade and sound (or video) starts to degrade.
Not to mention mold loves to attack it.
The original recording couldve been a legit message or a personal test message to see if the machine worked. The owner probably realized it was not as good as he hoped or just simply forgot to include it into his routine.
As for the music? He probably had a radio playing or a TV playing in the background.
The market for unused, unchewed, vintage 1987 number two Husky pencils is super hot right now. You have found a gold mine! Risk 1988. That's when my oldest was born so I agree with that speaker's assessment. Recorded in a funeral parlor I think. Nothing creepy.
I love that the entire point is to NOT NEED pencil and paper, but also make sure you include very carefully selected pencil and paper because we all know that anyone who would purchase something like this is going to make sure there is a backup. Also, you totally called the location of the issue immediately. =)
Sounds like the recording is saying “August 18, ‘88” or “this is 1988.” Either way, still interesting that that’s the whole message.
Luckily the recording was so garbled that the ancient necronomicon chant didn't bring any corpses back to life
I heard “Christmas 1988”. Perhaps when it was received as a gift?
The address on the box is now DureX, which is in their words "a full service, privately held and operated, ISO 9001:2015 Certified Contract Metal Fabrication facility"
In the UK Durex is a brand of condoms.
In the UK Durex is brand of condoms..
1888 was the year of the Jack The Ripper's infamous Whitechapel murders. Maybe the recording is a soundbite from a horror movie about Jack the Ripper or its trailer?
interesting idea
I feel like it could've been recorded off the TV by some mischevious kid to mess with their parents
Very interesting. Our family just wrote notes on paper and secured them to our refrigerator with little magnets. This is one of those many times when I am very glad that electronics technology keeps advancing ; )
The recording sounds like came from a weird old horror movie, and the way you edited it on 4:55 sounds like a weird Boards Of Canada interlude. 😂
That's what I was thinking, some kind of old movie or OTR.
“Christmas 1988” is what I heard
It literally just sounds like someone talking in the kitchen while Star Trek is in the background or some sh*t lol
“This is Christmas 88” maybe 🤷♂️
I'm sleeping with the lights on tonight after hearing that recording. 😂
To me it just sounds like a small part of a worn radio broadcast but yeah I can see how people who aren't used to it would get seriously creeped out by that.
Oof that message was something straight out of a horror or scifi show. Especially with that reverb 😆
Yeah, it reminded me of EVP.
OK I had a good laugh at the segment around 4:55
Post 1888?
Sounds like he says Christmas 1988
It does kind of sound like trying to hear a TV or radio over a phone, so someone must've tried to record their TV.
That kids face! 😂😂😂😂
He really thought he was gonna be watching TV before doing his homework
Not expecting you here 👀👀 @Recordology
It sounded like he was saying "testing 88"
This reminded me of the Maverick memo minder I bought 15 years ago or so to remind my mother with dementia to take her medications while I was at work.
That device did not use tapes.
You could set various reminder recordings to play at specific times during the day.
All digital.
I found an Energizer AAA that still had the push to test strip on the side from the 90's in a flashlight the other day and couldn't belive that it didn't leak.
Why did they stop making those?
@@renakunisaki Hazardous/too expensive/not dense/...
@@renakunisaki They actually haven't, you can still get them. Duracell calls it "Power Check", though they do seem a bit hard to find
I recently found some Duracell AAs that had a similar feature, and they also hadn’t leaked. Actually, I believe there’s an extra outer seal that holds the battery tester onto the outside of the battery, and any leakage is held in under that layer.
Wow i remember those!!😂
I think recording bias oscillator related parts may restore it to the full recording quality.. It sounds like low bias current to the head.
analog horror in the most literal sense.
Sounds like g..g..g..ghosts! Me and Scooby are outta here!
ZOIKS!! 😵💫
Lol industrial music sampling material XD
Skinny Puppy
totally expected rob zombie to start singing over the creepy recording at 4:53
Love your videos, man❤
Great video and what an awesome creepy sample from that tape! Thanks for your videos
Amazing to see those Bandai tapes in something other than a toy!
Recording sounds like it's from 'Earth vs flying saucers' movie.
There is music in the background.
Ha! I was going to leave a snarky comment, "it needs new capacitors" Well, I guess the joke's on me. The IC chip shows the very old Samsung logo.
Yes, it's literally Sam Sung, or 3 stars.
This was a fun video! Thanks for sharing
4:46 "Was, thinking... eighty-eight"
I await the ASMR video where you play the creepy message for 10 hours lol.
it's weird because that amount of time of that looped has looped a finite number of times between when it was first recorded and now like sands through an hourglass, just accumulating over the decades. If my math is correct it would have looped over 58 million times if it could be left to play since the moment it was recorded about 37 years ago.
WAY back when families lived together and actually communicated with each other.
In the late 80's? Not really. It's why that contraption was made. No two people were in the room at the same time, so they had to leave messages for each other. They may live in the same house, but I'd hardly call that "together".
@@johnstone7697 Im sorry you missed out on that culture 💔
@@johnstone7697 I should have said SOME families
Machine is broken, no homework...
About 15 years ago in central NJ, my dad and his friend found a tape recorder at a dump. It had this mini tape in it, with a bunch of weird phone messages from some British guy. He just kept saying what he was doing and what TV shows he was watching and wondering why the person he was calling was continuously refusing to answer his calls. It was very weird. I think there were at least 5-10 messages, all like, "hello darling, just saw the most interesting show on the telly, last night. Just wanted to call and say hi. Hello again, hoping you'll call me back. I want to see you again. Hello dear, just thought I'd try you again, in case you were just to busy to answer the phone last time. Oh, well talk to you some other time, etc." We wondered if it was discarded evidence from a stalking case, or something.
I think you just needed to replace the pressure pads on the tapes, they have probably perished and aren’t putting enough pressure on the tape! Techmoan on here has a good replacement option that he uses.
And also clean the tape head with some isopropyl alcohol.
Next week is going to feature 1980's ghost busting equipment for the demons you just released into your house. 🙂
We all clicked for the creepy voice lol. Not disappointed at all!
You think this is creepy,
I had friends over in my room as a kid and we were playing with my smarty bear from the 80s .
And after a while . The bear was repeating what we were saying !!!
In front of my mom !!!
The bear was not supposed to do that at all !
And in a age of childs play films ,my mom grabed that bear and he was never seen agine ...true story 100 !!!
I wonder whether that was some kind of factory test recording they never deleted, noting the date it was made. Or ghots, one of the two for sure though.
Those mini micro cassettes remind me of the carts we used in radio back in the day, based on the old 8-tracks!
3:00 Hooray for Mercury!
They prob removed it from batteries so if it leaked you had to repair or get a new one
@@Warp2090 I'm sure. Also I was being jokingly sarcastic. This is coming from someone who has asbestos tiles in the basement for 50 years, yet I'm still here.
@@ChristopherSobieniak yeah my house has asbestos tape on the air vents
@@Warp2090 Perhaps what worked for us was using our heads.
@@ChristopherSobieniak Asbestos is harmful only if disturbed allowing the fibers to go airborne. Application of water while working with the material also prevents the mineral fibers from going airborne, though it is advisable not to dispose of it in household drains. Many sources, including the WHO, don't recognize asbestos as a drinking water contaminant, but the US EPA does.
Ah, simple tape loops. Takes me back to a malfunctioning vacant number announcement Evan Doorbell hit on one of his phone trips back in...Eh, the '70s? Kept looping the "I'm sorry, the number you have dialed..." without ever moving on to the next part of the recording.
In the mid-80s I had a Casio alarm clock with a similar tape to record your own alarm.
The tape looks identical to a Pocket Rocker
I'm sorry a bit? A BIT?! Sir I'm sorry but that was more than just "a bit" creepy 😂
i think the echo on that creepy recording is caused by the layers of tape transferring their magnetic signals to each other. I believe its known as 'print-through'.
I added the echo effect.
Okay, that's completely creepy.
It might be saying “This recording was made in 1988.”?
Fascinating. It’s a bit beyond my technical knowledge and interest level, but I love history (even if I was alive for it!) and gadgets, and the message is super creepy-sounding. It kinda sounded like it said “(…) 1888”, although it’s too distorted to feel certain either way, as far as I can tell - anyhoo, to someone with my imagination, it makes me dream up some kind of sci-fi story, maybe involving time-travel or ghosts… something like that. But, yeah, it speaks to my inner nerd; neat stuff!
I was waiting for the pocket rockers comparison….and I was rewarded 😁
I love these oddities!
I think the creepy recording is saying something about the year 1988
It's 1988 or something like that.
5:58 that's gonna leave a mark 😢
It sounds like the tape says something about 1988 to me
It sounded like it was saying "list 1888" in the creepy recording
This one simple accessory turns any fridge into a smart fridge! A must have for today’s busy modern life, circa 1987. I guess it might have been easier to use instead of just a notepad, interesting product!
It almost sounds like a man saying Christmas 1988
That's different qnd kinda neat... that message though
One of the worst cases of leaky batteries I've seen in awhile
I thought the batteries weren't included. RETURNED!
Johnny about to execute some mischievous plans before TV
Good to hear that you didn't lose an eye.
1987 Oh how I miss you!
I bet many a horrified parents ended up throwing these out after one of their kids recorded a creepy message and turned it on while they were sleeping. Lol.
Wow! that cassette looks so cool. I hope that the cassette format's history be discussed more in detail. One of the channels that does this is Technomoan.
Now introducing FOUND audio horror films...YIKES!
6:24 “They were made by a company called Bandai” you say as if Bandai-Namco isn't literally one of the biggest media conglomerates and toy manufecters in the world.
Back then, Bandai was just another company.
@@sa3270 Bandai was already one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world, it's like calling Hasbro or LEGO “just another company”.
Meanwhile, talking about Maverick like that's a brand we should recognize.
I have something similar, but a newer version, built into a light switch
plate. it uses chip technology, instead of tape. it stopped working
several years ago. even with new batteries .no biggie tho, I just haven't
made time to replace it with a regular face plate yet, so there it sits,
Out of Order, unused, but not forgotten.
Nice to see your arty side coming out lol; but seriously, I'd love to do something with that snippet of the recording :D
I remember this commercial. 😂😂
I hate vertical videos.
"This is Wednesday, May 8th"???
The editing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I haven't been to Unique since the beginning of Covid. They closed the one nearest to me, but I heard they're opening a new one soon. I used to stop by the Union (or is it Springfield?) store 2-3 days a week after work. We've probably bumped into each other there, and wouldn't have even known it lol. Once I get my money situation in order I need to start going there again. I probably have several things that I bought from there that you'd be interested in making videos on.
Christmas 1988
Listen to the real version, not my remixed version where the echo of S in List makes it sound like another syllable ending in S.