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  • Опубликовано: 4 янв 2013
  • Various recordings of shortwave radio oddities, numbers and noise stations. These mysterious broadcasts are found on shortwave bands and they are - or appear to be - with no definite purpose. These signals are said to actively haunt the airwaves after World War II at beginning of the Cold War. With the collapse of the Soviet Union many expect these stations to disappear overtime but radio monitors indicate these signals continue to exist with new ones surfacing every now and then along with stations that have operated for decades.
    So what are they? There are many speculations what these numbers stations are; theories point to covert government-sponsored broadcasts for spies abroad, illegal activities such as drug trafficking, for various scientific research and undisclosed military operations. However, to this day, no organization, broadcaster or country ever admitted the use of these stations.
    Video is made up of three parts:
    1) Extinct or inactive stations 2) Rarity stations, special broadcasts or tests 3) Regular or active stations
    Yosemite Sam incident
    www.brogers.dsl.pipex.com/yose...
    Buzzer, Pip and Squeeky Wheel
    www.astrosol.ch/53790397a40a2b...
    UVB-76/Buzzer
    www.brogers.dsl.pipex.com/page...
    deepthought.newsvine.com/_news...
    • Cold War Echo: Unravel...
    More info, frequencies and schedules
    www.numbersoddities.nl/
    www.brogers.dsl.pipex.com/page...
    priyom.org/
    www.numbers-stations.com/node/4
    www.apul64.dsl.pipex.com/enigm...

Комментарии • 1 тыс.

  • @halfmettlealchemist8076
    @halfmettlealchemist8076 4 месяца назад +155

    Signalis fans will hear this and say “ayo this a bop, turn that shit up”

    • @samkkuma
      @samkkuma 2 месяца назад +5

      real

    • @Terebonki
      @Terebonki 17 дней назад +2

      HEELL YEAH

    • @localspetsnaz6631
      @localspetsnaz6631 17 дней назад +2

      on god I will

    • @cthubol6824
      @cthubol6824 11 дней назад +1

      i always was in with shortwave weirdness and loved signalis for this

  • @styreneblood
    @styreneblood 8 лет назад +1140

    Whenever you think you have it rough, just remember- somewhere, somebody's job is to listen to the Chinese robot all day.

    • @vaph2012
      @vaph2012 8 лет назад +70

      "Pause it for a second!"

    • @epicstimulus282
      @epicstimulus282 6 лет назад +1

      Lol

    • @KandiKlover
      @KandiKlover 5 лет назад +76

      Not for decades. Listening posts are unmanned and really nice communication receivers like the Icom IC-R9500 are used remotely over internet and everything is recorded digitallyonto servers. Only bits and pieces get played back later down the road of analysis is needed. Also Hobbyists listen to this all day for fun.

    • @esahutske
      @esahutske 5 лет назад

      Insane

    • @Federalblue81
      @Federalblue81 5 лет назад +11

      LMAO!! And then pursue whatever the message is...and God help them if they screw up or fail the mission.

  • @JohnnyJohnman
    @JohnnyJohnman 8 лет назад +353

    the guy who made "high-pitched polytone" was tired of waiting on his sound cloud

    • @generalskunk6876
      @generalskunk6876 6 лет назад +35

      "BRUH CHECK OUT THIS SICK BEAT I MADE"

    • @Pow3llMorgan
      @Pow3llMorgan 5 лет назад +17

      In actual fact it's just a simple way of transmitting numbers.

    • @thecolorpurple4807
      @thecolorpurple4807 5 лет назад +8

      Isaac Krehbiel
      “hunnids on my wrist,
      hunnids on my wrist,
      got a nigga in my butt,
      playin wih my neck,
      gotta make this session brisk”

  • @zeldawomen
    @zeldawomen 4 года назад +377

    Part 1: Extinct stations
    Three note oddity (0:34)
    Drums and trumpet (1:13)
    8 note rising scale (2:07)
    Gongs and Chimes (3:07)
    Faders (3:55)
    Part 2 : Rare stations
    Backwards Music Station (4:45)
    The Crackle (5:30)
    Yosemite Sam (6:06)
    The Workshop (6:26)
    3 day mystery (7:06)
    Wop wop (7:45)
    Part 3: Active/Regular stations
    High pitch Polytone (8:22)
    Grasshopper (9:38)
    Pip (10:16)
    Squeeky Wheel (10:59)
    The Buzzer (11:48)
    Slot Machine (12:32)
    The Chinese Robot (13:03)

    • @thomasnativo6491
      @thomasnativo6491 4 года назад +7

      I've herd UVB-76 when Emergency Alert System in the United States some how got Transmitted to UVB-76 on Television due to a Power Hack but I do know UVB-76 is Spooky sound and its Big Frightng Noise like Pip and Squeaky Wheel but the Buzzer is Creepy sound . All I can see is on my Tv is Coded messages that are written in Russian like peoples names like Ivan Anna Noki Boris and numbers

    • @thomasnativo6491
      @thomasnativo6491 4 года назад +5

      Feels like UVB-76 is a big Threat like its a Call sign for Russian Milltary for a War or Ghosts out of the field but there can be Ghosts around the world 🌎 🕵️‍♂️ Spying on People usually at night and sometimes Emergency Alert System would Acted up Repeating itself over and over again its so annoying and terrifying and then you see Terrifying photos on TV screens with Ghost Spying on you or people dead with Black lines across there eyes those are Ghosts

    • @thomasnativo6491
      @thomasnativo6491 4 года назад +4

      The Chinese Robot sounds very creepy but totally Scary

    • @renosanceisdead7365
      @renosanceisdead7365 3 года назад +3

      @@thomasnativo6491 are you superstitious?

    • @nisang3715
      @nisang3715 2 года назад +2

      @@thomasnativo6491
      The female voice was, north east 3366358, 3385358, 3685538..... All I heard was in 7 digit format and end in 8 Does it give you any hints ?

  • @goodzillo
    @goodzillo 7 лет назад +393

    High pitch polytone is pretty banging tbh

    • @Mink-yu8nu
      @Mink-yu8nu 5 лет назад +22

      No party playlist is complete without it!

    • @zxczvxzzv
      @zxczvxzzv 4 года назад +1

      Sounds kobaryo like

    • @RandyColby
      @RandyColby 3 года назад +7

      Underground. Just add a 909 kick and hat.

    • @zimtheailen1919
      @zimtheailen1919 3 года назад +2

      It’s a banger

    • @tay_piss_saucer_mk.400
      @tay_piss_saucer_mk.400 3 года назад

      @@zxczvxzzv how kobaryo just appeared out of nowere lol

  • @jeremycorbyn9559
    @jeremycorbyn9559 6 лет назад +354

    UPDATES: “High-Pitched Polytone” and “Backwards Radio Station” are now inactive. Also, “drums and trumpets” is was still around until 2010, but on a private radio wave channel broadcast from MoD Aird Uig, Scotland, UK from 1993. The station it’s self is actually Scottish. I went to the abandoned site at Aird Uig (On the Outer Hebrides). It is Abestos contaminated, but one building the locals want to convert to a museum with a history exhibit, restaurant and whale listening post.
    Hope you found this useful.

    • @InconsistentGuy
      @InconsistentGuy 5 лет назад +2

      Jeremy Corbyn why is the backwards music station inactive?

    • @EASReviewer
      @EASReviewer 4 года назад +7

      I don't think it would be Scottish as the station was speaking a Slavic language, probably Bulgarian, so the countries speculated on the video are more likely to have run this station

    • @tbuddy888
      @tbuddy888 4 года назад +28

      High Pitched polytone is still very active.
      I catch it often

    • @EASReviewer
      @EASReviewer 4 года назад +1

      @@tbuddy888 very true

    • @sunburnedshirts3724
      @sunburnedshirts3724 3 года назад +5

      isnt the backwards music station just feedback

  • @mr.mr.8261
    @mr.mr.8261 8 лет назад +534

    Something about this REALLY creeps me out.

    • @silasmcgee3647
      @silasmcgee3647 6 лет назад +16

      DrHillbillyShow the wop wop sounds more like a Subaru on a poor microphone

    • @jacobwhite8679
      @jacobwhite8679 6 лет назад +17

      Thou art not alone

    • @shredpudding2795
      @shredpudding2795 5 лет назад +38

      It reminds me of the cold war and Chernobyl and those super creepy gas masks

    • @badgerbadger-badger-Poppy
      @badgerbadger-badger-Poppy 5 лет назад +9

      Yep. Some spooky shit right here

    • @LoveusSlothus
      @LoveusSlothus 5 лет назад +18

      Same..why did I click on this..and before bed ! 😫😱

  • @dieselboy87
    @dieselboy87 8 лет назад +463

    i love how the most upbeat ones are usually the creepiest. "Drums and Trumpets" for example. it sounds triumphant, but deeply sinister all at the same time.

    • @pdrg
      @pdrg 8 лет назад +40

      Yep, not on this video is a supposedly British one 'The Lincolnshire Poacher' (you'll find it easily on YT), I find it quite haunting and impersonal

    • @epicstimulus282
      @epicstimulus282 6 лет назад +11

      dieselboy87 drums and trumpets are often preceded by military funeral music

    • @KandiKlover
      @KandiKlover 5 лет назад +8

      No it doesn't. That's your own personality being reflected into your interpretation.

    • @smonkk8556
      @smonkk8556 5 лет назад +52

      @@KandiKlover nobody thinks you're witty

    • @hellio27
      @hellio27 4 года назад +2

      @@epicstimulus282 i was about to comment the same thing. simon mason's site has an extended version of the conet project version of drums with the bugle intro.

  • @BlackburnBigdragon
    @BlackburnBigdragon 5 лет назад +160

    I'm an experimental musician who's been doing industrial music and noise music since the 80's and I've found that some of the best strange sounds to record and mess with come from shortwave radio. It's an amazing resource for a musician to get interesting stuff to play with. You can always find strange sounds, number stations, conversations that are just.. out of tune.. All fantastic to toss into an audio editor and work into a tune somehow.

    • @JP-pq9xi
      @JP-pq9xi 2 года назад +3

      Got an example? I'm, not clever enough to try to get this into music.

    • @cobaltnightmare5920
      @cobaltnightmare5920 2 года назад +1

      @@JP-pq9xi ruclips.net/video/Rrr5WY_Nyaw/видео.html

    • @sophiacristina
      @sophiacristina 2 года назад

      I want to know how to make music that gives those same feelings... I would even say this is the kind of 'music" i aim to make one day...

    • @sophiacristina
      @sophiacristina 2 года назад +3

      @@cobaltnightmare5920 I love Boc...

    • @cobaltnightmare5920
      @cobaltnightmare5920 2 года назад +1

      @@sophiacristina same I was on this video specially trying to look for a sample that gave that kinda vibe because I had heard they sampled from this compilation.

  • @MMID303
    @MMID303 2 года назад +66

    It's creepy because there's a reason these were broadcast on shortwave. Shortwave isn't nearly as popular, can be picked up all around the world, and there's plenty of frequencies to choose from.

  • @pixelbucket8884
    @pixelbucket8884 4 года назад +106

    This is one of my all-time favorite videos on the entire internet. There's something uniquely fascinating about this kind of stuff that has kept me coming to this exact video for years and years.

    • @Nigel1993
      @Nigel1993 Год назад +4

      its so true! if i remember correctly, i think when i found this i ripped it onto an mp3 and listened to it on my ipod in a creepy playlist lol

    • @dumb5308
      @dumb5308 8 месяцев назад +1

      yeah same!

    • @ElectricChaplain
      @ElectricChaplain 7 месяцев назад +3

      I miss this old Internet. No one is trying to sell you anything, it's just curiosity for its own sake.

  • @shelby3822
    @shelby3822 7 лет назад +225

    As somebody that had SW on his boombox in the 80s I loved listening to these creepy-ass stations and falling asleep to them. Screw aliens & ghosts - this stuff is far creepier! All of these were created for a reason

    • @superscatboy
      @superscatboy 6 лет назад +30

      Shelby And unlike aliens and ghosts, numbers stations actually exist.

    • @xaenon
      @xaenon 5 лет назад +43

      Shelby When I was in the Navy, I had a similar boombox. You should have heard the shit flying around Guantanamo Bay. Low-powered stuff, mostly - lots of communist propaganda (in plain English, apparently aimed at US servicemen!), even some 'Tokyo Rose' kind of stuff (you know, taunting the American personnel and so on), and a whole bunch of freaky electronic sounds. My ship went there for training in preparation for a Med cruise in '86; I even used to have a handful of tapes of some of those signals. Wish I had them today.

    • @cthubol6824
      @cthubol6824 Год назад +1

      u might wanna look into the concept of hauntology. i also think these sounds here are very soothing "music"

    • @s3dchr
      @s3dchr Месяц назад +1

      "Screw aliens & ghosts", eh? I mean, hey, to each their own, I ain't gonna judge.

  • @Lt5K1TZ
    @Lt5K1TZ 7 лет назад +393

    Turns out High-Pitch Polytone isn't actually a numbers station, it's just some guy playing on his Commodore 64.

    • @rzeka
      @rzeka 7 лет назад +41

      it's somebody playing crazy bus

    • @rioluthegreat6525
      @rioluthegreat6525 7 лет назад +2

      rzeka ikr

    • @epicstimulus282
      @epicstimulus282 6 лет назад +3

      Or is it?

    • @jonclay1
      @jonclay1 4 года назад +5

      Commodore 64??? ZX Sinclair Spectrum rules...!!!

    • @SinisterGerbils
      @SinisterGerbils 3 года назад +4

      Sounds kinda like the Metal Gear NES soundtrack.

  • @stratojet94
    @stratojet94 4 года назад +54

    Used to stay up all night listening to STASI numbers stations as a kid. Went to the STASI museum in Berlin. If anyone is interested,ask the museum guards and they have a tone of info on East German numbers stations, including a photo of the woman who actually is used for the voice. Shit isn’t so creepy when you actually see the room it was all recorded in and the people who used it.

    • @RogueError617
      @RogueError617 4 месяца назад

      That's really awesome. Is there any sort of documentary on it?

  • @VaporsUnion
    @VaporsUnion 4 года назад +62

    I remember coming across a particularly chilling Chinese broadcast once. It would play segments of Chinese pop music from 90's/2000's in various warped states, sort of like a sound collage. And it repeated nonstop. But then on occasion, there would be an interruption. I only ever heard two kinds. One is a quote from the Tao Te Ching being spoken in what sounded like Cantonese by an elderly woman. This would repeat around 6 times before the music would come back. The only other interruption, which I had only heard once and scared the shit out of me, was what sounded like a small child sobbing and an angry man shouting numbers in Mandarin. A sharp tone would hold out for a while, then a quote from the Buddha would be recited in what I think was Tibetan, but might have been Nuosu, I'm not exactly sure, but then weird sound collage would play again.

    • @pjwils
      @pjwils 5 месяцев назад +3

      This is hard to believe. But if you really did hear this broadcast, I suggest the child crying and angry man shouting were contrived to sound scary or creepy.

    • @benicioverdugo
      @benicioverdugo 2 месяца назад +1

      Hey I have this number station and it's 610-620khz. And there was a loud, LOUD buzzing noise but once every 30-50 minutes it said numbers in Morse code. (I know Morse code) I do have to say I tried this out on another radio and I heard nothing.

  • @samedwards3088
    @samedwards3088 6 лет назад +262

    Little bit of engineering info on XPH/Polytone (don't know if this is known already):
    1. The slow tones at the beginning are sent at a rate of one tone per second and repeat very slowly - probably there as a station ID or to help operatives tune their receiving equipment.
    2. The repetitive high pitched tones (which I swear sound like Fur Elise) are alternating between two frequencies at a rate of 8 tones per second. They alternate 10 times. This is probably to get the receiver synchronized with the tone timings.
    3. After that, the lowest tone (which I guess is a sort of "marker tone") plays 10 times in a row, also 8 per second. Probably more time synchronization.
    4. The station then plays groups of 5 tones with that same "marker tone" in between each group. The tones are still sent at a rate of 8 per second. I saw about 9 different tones (not including the marker tone) used in the groups, with a frequency separation of 50 Hz. No tone ever repeats twice (except in step #3).
    5. The second transmission (the higher pitched one) follows the same scheme, but this time the marker tone is the highest. My guess is there was no pitch difference, but rather the folks who made the recordings had their radios set to different SSB modes.
    So, we can conclude:
    a) Whoever designed the XPH transmitter REALLY likes multiples of 5 and 10.
    b) This is pretty clearly some kind of slow MFSK and not actually intended to be heard as audio.
    c) The system transmits 3 bits per tone, 15 bits per group, at a rate of 3/4 groups per second, or about 11.25 bits per second. (And you thought *your* WiFi was slow...)

    • @justinkern1804
      @justinkern1804 4 года назад +9

      So this is a slow drip binary signal giving info or what? It's not meant to be heard but rather deciphered?

    • @renascence239
      @renascence239 4 года назад +23

      It's likely to be decoded digitally via some kind of acoustic coupler device, like how old internet modems used to work.

    • @goose300183
      @goose300183 4 года назад +2

      @@justinkern1804 That is my understanding of it. It is intended for some kind of modem to decode. Likely the order of the 14 different tones encodes encrypted text, which is then decoded by another circuit - or possibly the decryption is manual using a known key schedule.

    • @Vulcanized
      @Vulcanized 3 года назад +1

      Just search for "XPA2 station decoding" on RUclips

    • @duncanw9901
      @duncanw9901 3 года назад

      Baud rate not the worst by shortwave standards

  • @MultiBenjiiii
    @MultiBenjiiii 7 лет назад +306

    east Germany, Russia, USA: numbers, noises, film lines
    France: *quack* *quack* *quack* *quack* *sounds of ducks making out*

  • @tzuriel2521
    @tzuriel2521 5 лет назад +38

    “FOR THE LAST TIME MASON, WHERE. IS. THE NUMBER STATION!!”

  • @LehySnek
    @LehySnek 5 месяцев назад +6

    If you wonder why some of these sound so "creepy", it's because they were on tape recordings, and as the tape keeps playing over the years it starts to corrupt, making the sounds off tone and "eerie"

  • @beonoc
    @beonoc 5 лет назад +22

    7:08
    sounds like something death grips would sample

  • @rzeka
    @rzeka 7 лет назад +109

    "Wop Wop"
    I guess France isn't too fond of Italians

    • @mishmashmush
      @mishmashmush 5 лет назад +4

      rzeka hey you made r/oldpeoplefacebook

    • @johnjingleheimerschmitt9356
      @johnjingleheimerschmitt9356 5 лет назад +3

      Who is France fond of 😂

    • @edwardxo6301
      @edwardxo6301 4 года назад +3

      Yes, yes, we haven't been able to stand each other forever

    • @edwardxo6301
      @edwardxo6301 4 года назад

      And I anxious ly say, for the French every opportunity is good to break the boxes to Italy

    • @scarletthegreat
      @scarletthegreat 3 года назад

      LOL

  • @cryptnymph
    @cryptnymph 2 года назад +7

    some poor government worker in 2002: let's call this one "wop wop"
    (everyone else in the room nods solemnly)

  • @themonohub5455
    @themonohub5455 8 лет назад +129

    I think I just watched the most interesting video I ever watched on youtube. Thank you so much for this. SW seems to be an incredible world. I just got a SW receiver module for my modular synth and realise the SW world is a deep and possibly dark place of great interest. Great video too. Love the font you used.

    • @urzathehappy72
      @urzathehappy72 6 лет назад +3

      TheMonohub wat was the modular SW u got ?

  • @SuperCholdi
    @SuperCholdi 6 лет назад +68

    ‘Eight note rising’ is Boards of Canada.

  • @MonacoLager1
    @MonacoLager1 8 лет назад +298

    8:42 FINAL BOSS REACHED

    • @alejandrorabang5083
      @alejandrorabang5083 8 лет назад +35

      only gamers will understand

    • @Lunar_Capital
      @Lunar_Capital 8 лет назад +11

      When I got to that point in the video, I laughed my ass off

    • @abiwill548
      @abiwill548 8 лет назад +2

      +Ben Winters omg thank you i thought the same thing lol

    • @twiggystardust9573
      @twiggystardust9573 8 лет назад +1

      +Ben Winters LOL. Exactly. When that came on, but husband said "Shit man, do we need fire power from this point on?"

    • @sleeplessindefatigable6385
      @sleeplessindefatigable6385 8 лет назад +5

      that bit sounds like it would make a pretty sweet guitar solo.

  • @eye_balling
    @eye_balling 7 лет назад +120

    I Don't know if High Pitch Polytone is terrifying or dope af. It sounds like something you would hear either in a club or in Silent Hills PT on the radio.

    • @epicstimulus282
      @epicstimulus282 6 лет назад +9

      It is dope af

    • @Dragoneer
      @Dragoneer 5 лет назад +9

      What clubs have you been going to lol?

    • @jane.slaughter
      @jane.slaughter 5 лет назад

      William Billiamson RIGHT

    • @9volt65
      @9volt65 2 года назад +6

      It's for sure the intro to an underground chiptune artist's debut album. Dope for sure.

  • @gingerthearttist6472
    @gingerthearttist6472 7 лет назад +57

    The backwards music station sounds like someone trying to play the recorder in the middle of an orchestra that forgot to tune their instruments.

    • @Bass_Goat53
      @Bass_Goat53 5 лет назад +3

      *insert terrible recorder meme*

    • @TheStuF
      @TheStuF 5 лет назад

      That's my favourite one :)

    • @thomasnativo6491
      @thomasnativo6491 4 года назад

      Whats the point of backwards music all it is Scratching sounds and Static noises

    • @thomasnativo6491
      @thomasnativo6491 4 года назад

      The Wop Wop sound totally Scared me

    • @thomasnativo6491
      @thomasnativo6491 4 года назад

      The Trumpet and Drums sounds awesome because you got the Drum Cadence

  • @rocket7164
    @rocket7164 7 лет назад +235

    These are so creepy but satisfying

  • @Povilaz
    @Povilaz 3 года назад +9

    It breaks my heart knowing that number stations will never be as creative as this.
    Late 80s to early 2000s was the hayday of number stations.

  • @ackewtful.
    @ackewtful. 3 года назад +16

    13:03 will wood reference 😳

    • @chemicalfuzzy
      @chemicalfuzzy 2 года назад

      YOU CAN NEVER KNOOOOOOOOOOOOW

    • @honeylavenderbakery
      @honeylavenderbakery 2 года назад

      song with five names!!

    • @marisa8149
      @marisa8149 3 месяца назад

      WHY I CANT SEE, THAT I AM THE ‘ME’, THAT I WAS BORN INTO
      AND WHAT’s THE SOURCE OF YOUU?
      IN YOUR HEAD, IN YOUR HEAD, IN YOUR HEAD,
      AND YET YOU BELIEVE ITS TRUE
      WELL, YOU DO,
      LIKE YOU KNEW ANYTHING NEVER NEVER

    • @Over_cooked_egg_noodle
      @Over_cooked_egg_noodle Месяц назад

      Real

  • @Dekrapitator666
    @Dekrapitator666 8 лет назад +66

    I think my brother and I heard some of these oddities while playing around with our grandfather's Hammerlund short wave radio in the basement of his house. We turned the knobs and paused on any signal we came across, and it seems to me we heard some of this stuff back in the 1970s.

    • @markmckinney6129
      @markmckinney6129 7 лет назад +20

      The 70s really were the best time for Number Stations, what with the Cold War in full swing.

    • @milkman6518
      @milkman6518 7 лет назад +5

      +Mark McKinney well it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that people are still using airwaves to send messages. probably more so now than ever.

    • @jacobwhite8679
      @jacobwhite8679 6 лет назад +2

      Cool, I don't have that luxury. I can't find an app and I can't find a real shortwave radio. LUCKY YOU

    • @prorrie
      @prorrie 6 лет назад +3

      phantom freddy
      Here's something for starters websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901

    • @skylarzyxsoldaccount6756
      @skylarzyxsoldaccount6756 5 лет назад +2

      Sidorovich or websdr.org

  • @steartfires3039
    @steartfires3039 6 лет назад +124

    I know what the 3 Note Oddity means. It means that the call cannot be completed as dialed. Please hang up and try again.

    • @VibeyViberson
      @VibeyViberson 4 года назад +3

      Lmao

    • @renascence239
      @renascence239 3 года назад +2

      Yes. I know that sound is common on European phones.

    • @ninjacker1497
      @ninjacker1497 3 года назад

      It sounds like that because that is he interval signal

    • @jonkaz746
      @jonkaz746 3 года назад +1

      You're right. Here where I live we call it "too-la-leet". It's absolutely hilarious for me to see there are people who treat it as a mystery lol.

  • @emmakirby8979
    @emmakirby8979 7 лет назад +161

    This is incredibly interesting, thanks for the video.

  • @alexvaughn3834
    @alexvaughn3834 11 месяцев назад +6

    Logic says that the developers at Rose Engine probably used this video as a reference when they selected the Three Note Oddity for Signalis. Probably heard that one and instantly knew they wanted it.
    And yet it was INCREDIBLY creepy for me to open this video and have the Three Note Oddity be the VERY FIRST one. I expected it would show up, like, halfway through.

    • @boogamandan7275
      @boogamandan7275 8 месяцев назад +3

      i think they acctually used a few of these in game? im sure the radio station you switch too to open the vault in the introductory radio puzzle sounded familiar, or maybe the station you use to open the magpie box on rotfront? such an interesting genre of horror and it made watching this video so much more unnerving

  • @beepst
    @beepst 7 лет назад +193

    I like this Autechre album.

    • @jaidoua1
      @jaidoua1 6 лет назад +3

      i like this merzbow album

    • @JamieBarnes11
      @JamieBarnes11 6 лет назад

      beepst I like this Nurse With Wound album

    • @floweringsilverzero
      @floweringsilverzero 6 лет назад +5

      The lulz. I've always been pretty deep into noise/weird glitch electronic music but I've never really heard a musician/noise artist really capture the distinctly unsettling atmosphere of these stations. I'm imagining something like a pitch-black take on ambient Boards of Canada or Broadcast's side projects, or the Ghost Box label, but with like early NWW or even Ryoji Ikeda levels of austerity. I really wanted the Pye Corner Audio/ Not Waving "Intercepts" split to take this direction but alas they did not. Still a good release.

    • @beepst
      @beepst 6 лет назад +3

      Stereolab's Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements has that atmosphere, to me.

    • @trashrabbit69
      @trashrabbit69 6 лет назад +2

      You kidding me? This has Squarepusher written all over it. ;P

  • @gavinbradley8981
    @gavinbradley8981 5 лет назад +88

    Many spies where just accidentally activated, well done.

    • @dionysus6892
      @dionysus6892 4 года назад +8

      Gavin Bradley “accidentally”

    • @sirfishalot7569
      @sirfishalot7569 3 года назад +9

      The sleeper agents are not sleeping anymore.

    • @sophiacristina
      @sophiacristina 2 года назад +5

      Someone called me?

    • @YodaWasSith
      @YodaWasSith 2 года назад +1

      @@sophiacristina we out here

    • @jKherty
      @jKherty 10 месяцев назад +3

      We makin it out the bed with this one 🔥🔥🔥

  • @DeadDreamsDDR
    @DeadDreamsDDR 5 месяцев назад +4

    as a bulgarian im happy to see our country finally involved in analog horror

    • @DeadDreamsDDR
      @DeadDreamsDDR 5 месяцев назад

      also i can confirm the voice is bulgarian

  • @blakeftpful
    @blakeftpful 7 лет назад +83

    Why does "The Gongs" sound like the gates of hell being opened?

    • @YosefMetal
      @YosefMetal 5 лет назад

      Blue Moon it sounds like satanic sayings

    • @LoveusSlothus
      @LoveusSlothus 5 лет назад

      I reckon it was intentionally used cuz it sounds creepy AF 😱😫

    • @jane.slaughter
      @jane.slaughter 5 лет назад

      Blue Moon RIGHT💀

    • @EASReviewer
      @EASReviewer 4 года назад

      Cuz they are opening

    • @marishort6871
      @marishort6871 4 года назад +1

      To me, they sound like hell's bells ringing

  • @theloanranger2632
    @theloanranger2632 5 лет назад +9

    I have to come back and watch this video from time to time because it's so cool. Thanks for making it!

  • @ellieofthebeast7952
    @ellieofthebeast7952 3 года назад +6

    13:02 The Chinese Robot With Five Names

    • @IAlmog
      @IAlmog Месяц назад +1

      His ass just went “WHY I CANT SEE, THAT I AM THE ME, THAT I WAS BORN INTO!”

  • @PAULLONDEN
    @PAULLONDEN 7 лет назад +23

    The most interesting station calls came from the Eastern block from the 50's to 70's... Even the 'normal' ones are highly interesting ; got me a whole disk full of 'm...I remember as a kid to be glued to the station dial....Those old tube radios made it even more mysterious....

    • @Dragoneer
      @Dragoneer 5 лет назад +6

      You should upload them, would be very interesting to hear them if they are unique

  • @greatestever184
    @greatestever184 8 лет назад +75

    these terrify me. I don't know why

    • @MrIveyIsBonkers
      @MrIveyIsBonkers 8 лет назад +36

      +fred fuchs It could be because they're mysterious signals that have no explanation from the Cold War played on shortwave radio in parts of countries lots haven't been to.

    • @renascence239
      @renascence239 8 лет назад +37

      Fear of the unknown. One of the most basic human fears.

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 7 лет назад +28

      Probably just how "lonesome" and ominous they are.

    • @greatestever184
      @greatestever184 7 лет назад +15

      I dunno. I guess I associate it with the apocalypse because its lonsome and ominous.

    • @srbrant5391
      @srbrant5391 6 лет назад +4

      +fred fuchs Like there's still a lone number station still operating after a nuclear war?

  • @f_papp
    @f_papp 8 лет назад +34

    Probably the best youtube video ever IMO, well done, do video like that about ham radio or new version of this one. thanks 73

    • @f_papp
      @f_papp 8 лет назад +1

      +Jonny Jonny i am a ham, and i like a lot strange sound and digital transmission system, i have a lot of knowledge in ham radio.
      your videos have an original style and i'm not very good in videoediting. I have a youtube channel (500 subs and 350000 views) if you want i can help you with the ham video, and to this video togheter. i would appreciate it a lot.

    • @f_papp
      @f_papp 8 лет назад

      +Jonny I will send you an email in case you need to ask me something, thanks anyway

    • @GamerBros110
      @GamerBros110 8 лет назад

      +Jonny Hey Jonny, I wanted to let you know that most of these are cold war number stations, these are actually kind of rare to find, they air different times every day/week/month/year. Some where left from the cold war, they where used to pass on secret messages to agents/spys. Just in case you did not know. :D

    • @GamerBros110
      @GamerBros110 8 лет назад

      +Jonny and if you dont mind, could you please send me a list of these stations?

    • @GamerBros110
      @GamerBros110 8 лет назад +1

      *****
      Thanks dude, because im buying a shortwave raido and want to see if i can get these number stations to work :D

  • @AnthonyMonaghan
    @AnthonyMonaghan 4 года назад +10

    This is gold. Reminds me of being a kid playing with the old transistor radio in the dark at night with my brother...terrified that we were communicating with the dead. Simple times.

  • @BNPISN
    @BNPISN 7 лет назад +4

    the Morse code at the end says "THANK YOU FOR WATCHING"

  • @westkanye4005
    @westkanye4005 7 лет назад +48

    High-Pitch-Polytone Was LIT

  • @thebondsofthestars
    @thebondsofthestars Год назад +2

    it's so fascinating that will wood used this random ass thing in his song. shoutout to the person who pointed this out first

  • @yigitkadir3649
    @yigitkadir3649 3 года назад +5

    the thing that creeps me out is all these stations probably has meanings

  • @zacharybrown7765
    @zacharybrown7765 6 лет назад +24

    I'm addicted to this stuff

    • @epicstimulus282
      @epicstimulus282 6 лет назад +2

      Zachary The Gamer so am i
      Coincidence?
      *_-I think not-_*

  • @WolfmanDude
    @WolfmanDude 3 года назад +5

    Most of these are data transmissions, for atmosphere reseach or just placeholders for military stations. Very interresting!

  • @Kynos1
    @Kynos1 7 лет назад +79

    That "High-Pitch Polytone" sounds like a Cannibal Corpse solo.

    • @silasmcgee3647
      @silasmcgee3647 7 лет назад

      +The Barbermeister The wop wop sounds like a Subaru

    • @silasmcgee3647
      @silasmcgee3647 7 лет назад +2

      +The Barbermeister I think I actually have heard some Subarus that sound like that actually

    • @TheSwordsmanInBlack
      @TheSwordsmanInBlack 7 лет назад

      ye

    • @trashrabbit69
      @trashrabbit69 6 лет назад

      Yeah, I've heard a Subie that sounded like that. Its gaskets were blown...

    • @epicstimulus282
      @epicstimulus282 6 лет назад

      It doesn't. HPP sounds like webdriver torso

  • @brutechieftain9321
    @brutechieftain9321 4 года назад +6

    I'm not sure which one, but one of the broadcast activated my cat. She's been at the edge of my bed for some time listening and staring at my phone. I'm thinking she's a sleeper agent now.

  • @deaustin4018
    @deaustin4018 6 лет назад +12

    actually, it makes me kinda sad to think that all of this is mostly in the past now. A millisecond encrypted data burst on a cell phone now does what these transmission used to do. I used to enjoy hunting these oddities on my ham radios.

    • @ChainsawChuck13
      @ChainsawChuck13 2 года назад +3

      Yeah, but the cell phone transmission is tracked and stored by default, at this point. The radio transmission is a little bit harder to get a handle on.

  • @MrPisster
    @MrPisster 3 года назад +18

    I remember hearing these as a kid in the early 90's with my Christmas shortwave radio. Thanks for brining back memories. Are there still weird transmissions out there?

    • @sakura_sauce
      @sakura_sauce 3 года назад +11

      There are definitely plenty of unexplainable transmissions out there, you just have to look for them :)

  • @D-777i
    @D-777i 5 лет назад +11

    I remember on occasion when I was off sick from school or late at night I used to listen to the radio and sometimes scanning the short wave band and coming across these calling signals. This was back at the height of the cold war and they always seemed (and still do) disturbing, mysterious and otherworldly.

  • @sakura_sauce
    @sakura_sauce 7 месяцев назад +1

    I’ve been a shortwave listener now since 2017, there’s always something about numbers stations and oddity signals in general that both fascinates me to no end and also fills me with unease and dread even after like 6 years of trawling the bands.

  • @kaos5633
    @kaos5633 7 лет назад +22

    the gongs was probably the most creepy of the bunch

    • @stratojet94
      @stratojet94 4 года назад +9

      Go to the STASI museum in Berlin. They actually have the room where that was recorded and broadcast. After going there it’s not that creepy anymore

    • @doramilitiakatiemelody1875
      @doramilitiakatiemelody1875 3 года назад +4

      @@stratojet94 been to that museum it was pretty cool

    • @Inescapeium
      @Inescapeium 3 года назад +5

      @@stratojet94 That's going to my bucket list

    • @thomasnativo6491
      @thomasnativo6491 2 года назад +2

      I have to say UVB-76 is the most Scariest sound gives a lot people Nightmares

    • @kaos5633
      @kaos5633 2 года назад +2

      @@thomasnativo6491 iconic does not equal scary

  • @LunarFlareStudios
    @LunarFlareStudios 7 лет назад +8

    I know the "Wop Wop" station! It's on my channel as what I believed to be a numbers station, and a friendly RUclipsr identified it as a CODAR station. Now I have a name too. I also recorded the Buzzer, which I might do again sometime in its own video.

  • @fubarsnafu4994
    @fubarsnafu4994 7 лет назад +109

    I picture some mild mannered school teacher perhaps, coming home from a hard day of trying to teach his young adolescent school students American history.. Off comes the coat and hat, curtains drawn. Bottom drawer in a secret compartment out comes the trusty short wave and decoder book awaiting instructions from mother Russia.. Oh the good old days of espionage and counter intelligence. Awesome video thanks for the kicks - I love short-wave radio. Been a fond friend over the years fighting insomnia...

    • @renosanceisdead7365
      @renosanceisdead7365 3 года назад +3

      dang did shortwave radios helped with your insomnia

    • @SirCommoner
      @SirCommoner 3 года назад +4

      Lol are you sure the stations weren't causing your insomnia

    • @ChainsawChuck13
      @ChainsawChuck13 2 года назад

      You may be right considering that education is one of the first things the Communists wanted to get control over

    • @fubarsnafu4994
      @fubarsnafu4994 2 года назад +1

      @@ChainsawChuck13 When I was still a little kid my father used to go on and on about hippies and communist - though he was crazy. As I grew into an adult it slowly started to sink in. The whole communist and social agenda was being taught at first our collages and now in our kindergartens.
      He was right we have been being infiltrated since before the cold war. Seems to me they have made some progress in the last 50 years or so. We need to wake up.

    • @myg0t_jsm
      @myg0t_jsm 2 года назад +1

      Late night listener were ya?

  • @jamescaliberharefields5389
    @jamescaliberharefields5389 Год назад +8

    (repeated from another video)
    0:34
    babe wake up, remember that promise?

  • @svinjamaria
    @svinjamaria 8 лет назад +66

    the high pitched polytones sounds like a really low tech midi of Master of Puppets

    • @serafeimgeo92
      @serafeimgeo92 8 лет назад +1

      +TheLittleNorwegian hahaha yeah

    • @marvinbuxton1054
      @marvinbuxton1054 8 лет назад +2

      I wonder what joel would think

    • @svinjamaria
      @svinjamaria 8 лет назад

      +marvin buxton i sure hope he would agree with me

    • @tacklefatkids
      @tacklefatkids 8 лет назад +3

      What has been heard cannot be unheard 😂😂😂

    • @jane.slaughter
      @jane.slaughter 5 лет назад

      Svinja ugh creepy

  • @battlestar65
    @battlestar65 5 лет назад +10

    The Gongs gave me nightmares for a long time. now that i'm watching it again i'm probably gonna stay up again, lol

  • @Chrischi3TutorialLPs
    @Chrischi3TutorialLPs 6 месяцев назад +1

    Most of these oddities are what is called a number station. Number stations transmit, as the name suggests, a string of numbers, which can be decoded with a corresponding codebook. They were a common feature in the cold war, and are actually still found today, and are used to communicate with agents abroad without giving away their location or identity. Without the corresponding codebook, the string of numbers itself is useless. The reason so many eastern bloc stations use similar voices and are all in German is that the Stasi developed a language parser which could synthesize speech, and was used by several agencies across the eastern bloc.

  • @reclusivehermitwithalongbu3767
    @reclusivehermitwithalongbu3767 3 года назад +5

    As a kid in the early 60s, I listened to SW static. The "Slot Machine" comes the closest to the one I remember as frightening me so badly the first time I heard it that I ran out of my bedroom. It took me a long time to gain enough courage to go back in & change the station as fast as I could.

  • @9fmradisapratama
    @9fmradisapratama 7 лет назад +19

    8:24
    I'm sure Someone playing Crazybus

  • @limitcanc3l
    @limitcanc3l 8 лет назад +162

    wop wop will be the next hot edm single

    • @WAQWBrentwood
      @WAQWBrentwood 8 лет назад +3

      LOL!

    • @cdjspeedx29
      @cdjspeedx29 8 лет назад

      no it won't

    • @snapletgames4086
      @snapletgames4086 7 лет назад +2

      PROFANITY!

    • @krookyj
      @krookyj 6 лет назад +9

      snaplet games Who fucking cares? It's not like it's fucking hurting anyone. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

    • @silasmcgee3647
      @silasmcgee3647 6 лет назад +2

      krookyj yaa you tell em!

  • @Chrischi3TutorialLPs
    @Chrischi3TutorialLPs 6 месяцев назад +1

    Yosemite Sam was solved, actually. Some guy who worked on the station explained that this was some kind of test system, and they needed it to transmit something. That particular line by Yosemite Sam just happened to be the first audio file that they had on hand, and so that was what the station transmitted.

  • @2ndpellets184
    @2ndpellets184 2 года назад +2

    High-Pitch Polytone reminds me of the music from Great Bay Temple in Majora's Mask.

  • @patrickwall8517
    @patrickwall8517 4 года назад +4

    I think the music and tones in part one were used to help the operatives tune in, similar to the way that shortwave broadcasters used to use interval signals.

  • @tempII
    @tempII 3 года назад +7

    the fact that these existed and were broadcasted at some point just.....creeps me out I don't know what to say about it its just....soldiers were tuning into these and understood them in some way

    • @sophiacristina
      @sophiacristina Год назад

      People thinking about gov doing good for the people, that presidents and politicians are saviors and etc.
      Yet, there are things beyond a president power, and non-classified brutal thing that happens in the dark that the people are not going to EVER know.
      Spies around the world that are know only by the government that deals with him dealing with things that may end to death or worse.
      If a military guy gets a spy and send him to a dark room without cameras, nobody knows what will happen, since thy are spies and shouldn't even be known to begin with.
      All that happening all the time and daily, and people think they can trust the world we live in.
      This false sense of security while we are jailed inside the powers of a very strong elite shadow-realm.
      That thing is creepy as hell!

  • @97channel
    @97channel 2 года назад +2

    The Workshop, I discovered this on Medium Wave (UK) sometime around 1990. A local radio station was changing frequency, so I was scanning through to hear the test transmission purely out of interest. But on the way, I hit upon a signal which sounded silent at first. But when I turned up the volume, there were workshop noises identical to the ones in this video. It broadcast constantly, it intrigued me. Now I know of numbers stations, it only poses more questions than it provides answers. It's interesting to see that first reported discoveries date back to the late 90's, because I can 100% assert that I heard it some time in the late 80's to early 90's.

  • @cocoaam7711
    @cocoaam7711 6 лет назад +1

    Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for sharing and uploading! 😊👍😊

  • @sshannon1948
    @sshannon1948 11 лет назад +12

    I have listened to these types of stations in the past and have also questioned their utility. The "three note oddity" is really a mystery, unless it was designed to somehow be a beacon to perhaps indicate good propagation on some frequency.

  • @Sherpa403
    @Sherpa403 7 лет назад +15

    Honestly your one of my favourite youtubers.

  • @Bromine35br
    @Bromine35br Год назад +2

    ah, when the squeaky wheel was actually interesting and not a boring ass 3 tone thing on repeat… and when the buzzer actually sounded terrifying…

    • @richwater296
      @richwater296 Год назад

      now it sounds like three note oddity

  • @happyvolts
    @happyvolts 2 года назад +2

    high pitch polytone goes kind of hard

  • @peterw4910
    @peterw4910 5 лет назад +6

    No Lincolnshire Poacher :(

  • @kellygable2884
    @kellygable2884 3 года назад +4

    8:25 Russia did dubstep before anyone else

  • @tinkerbell1479
    @tinkerbell1479 5 лет назад +1

    Chills brought me here! 😱❤️

  • @crystalc1ear
    @crystalc1ear 4 года назад +3

    8:45 Robert Fripp gains access

  • @Memphiz1996
    @Memphiz1996 7 лет назад +21

    I can't watch this with sound my dog keeps going nuts

  • @ellionm
    @ellionm 7 лет назад +60

    Why does all the creepy stuff come from Russia...

    • @epicstimulus282
      @epicstimulus282 6 лет назад +7

      EMMETT MAY or East Germany

    • @johnjingleheimerschmitt9356
      @johnjingleheimerschmitt9356 5 лет назад +3

      Because Russia is into scary military technology like America is into "dude like if I get 100 subs I'll force this guy at the mall to drink 100 Jamba juices" videos

    • @confusedaf1112
      @confusedaf1112 5 лет назад +5

      Cause it's Russia.
      When is Russia not scary af?

    • @isabellaperkycrapz-koretki4949
      @isabellaperkycrapz-koretki4949 5 лет назад

      Scariest Urban Legends Come From Japan 😨😨😨😨😨

    • @sh22real
      @sh22real 4 года назад

      Your Neighborhood Friendly Bernkastel/Mariuteau im from russia am i scary for you?

  • @WorldsWorstBoy
    @WorldsWorstBoy 4 года назад +1

    Love this video.
    Informative and has long sound clips for each one.

  • @markloveless1001
    @markloveless1001 3 года назад +1

    What a great trip down memory lane. Hearing 'The Gong Station' brings back memories, and I heard a couple extinct ones I'd never heard. "The Workshop" sounds like classic Russian random noise jamming using a rooftop microphone. Quite tickled to see High Pitch Polytone is still around, and I've never heard of voice on The Pip - thank you! The Buzzer is still live as of October 2020. Chinese Robot sounds like a NewStar (Taiwan) jammer - I recognized the NewStar voice, albeit thrown in a blender.
    Thank you sir! Great fun!

    • @user-lg7cb6sr5z
      @user-lg7cb6sr5z 3 года назад +1

      high pitch polytone has been extinct since i think either 2003 or 2005, however some of it's successors, XPA, XPA2 and XPB are around. you can see when they broadcast on priyom.org

  • @tbob8212
    @tbob8212 8 лет назад +98

    Cool stuff. I thought of a Russian gulag for the workshop. The high pitch polytone reminded me of some 1980s Nintendo video games. Maybe the slot machine is some Japanese Admiral playing pachinko while he's at sea. ☺

    • @ajesbayes9057
      @ajesbayes9057 5 лет назад

      This polytone recording (in the video) kinda sounded like a beat to be honest

  • @lvnarlotvs
    @lvnarlotvs 3 года назад +4

    3:21 big nope to this one

  • @GermanPatriot1990
    @GermanPatriot1990 6 месяцев назад +2

    3:07 this East German thing is……oddly terrifying

  • @JamesCleveland1989
    @JamesCleveland1989 8 лет назад

    Thank you so much for doing this!

  • @MrMoorkey
    @MrMoorkey 5 лет назад +5

    00:01 was used as the whale tracker transponder frequency in The Voyage Home - Star Trek IV

  • @meercreate
    @meercreate 8 лет назад +14

    "Crackle" almost sounds like Hellschreiber teletext

    • @joaolima70
      @joaolima70 8 лет назад

      it sounds like When you are recording a vídeo and the wind blows into your camera and makes that noise

  • @someguy.247
    @someguy.247 3 года назад +1

    The Three note oddity has the same voice as the gong station when it didn’t have the drunk men singing

    • @user-lg7cb6sr5z
      @user-lg7cb6sr5z 3 года назад +2

      there was a device that the east germans had known as the Gerät 32620 that was able to generate the speech they had for this, they all had the same built in voice. it also had other voice modules for english and i think spanish. thats why they are the same

    • @EASReviewer
      @EASReviewer 2 года назад

      When drunk men sing bohemian rhapsody (based off of real experience) 🤦‍♂️

  • @WarbossR0kt00fSant0s
    @WarbossR0kt00fSant0s 4 года назад +3

    I'm pretty scared of number stations right now.

  • @michaelbay7276
    @michaelbay7276 5 лет назад +5

    7:45 Photon lasers, fire!

  • @omarcisneros8498
    @omarcisneros8498 6 лет назад +7

    Polytones (think) still exist because i found a similar sation that sounded like it

  • @JoshLeRose
    @JoshLeRose Год назад +2

    I imagine if a lot of these old stations were from the Cold War or earlier, the coded messages probably say something along the lines of “The War is over”

  • @ShadeGirl123
    @ShadeGirl123 5 лет назад

    thanks for posting this

  • @brain8484
    @brain8484 7 лет назад +12

    i think some of these are used in navagation , like markers for cold war bomber crews. triangulating positions

  • @davefurey1989
    @davefurey1989 5 лет назад +6

    Whoever named XM the "backwards music" channel must have a very loose definition of music

  • @Oracle13
    @Oracle13 6 лет назад +1

    Excellent video! Thank you!

  • @pogchampminku2535
    @pogchampminku2535 5 лет назад +2

    5:18 omg that is so unsettling, that noise!!