Crazy story with Lucille Ball discovering a Japanese spy communications morse code in her mouth

[@jonniesantos]

...can't believe she's been gone for 35 years. Still adorbs. 🤗

[@jamesohara4295]

She lives on in the Movie, Rat Race 2001. :)

[@strawberrycloud2807]

Being Japanese American myself and having loved watching “I Love Lucy” repeats as a kid, it’s heartwarming at the beginning of this video to see her make a point of not just mentioning what happened to my family and so many others, but also saying that it was a sad time. She keeps looking at the host in the eye as if to say this is important. And maybe she mentioned that so people wouldn’t get the wrong idea and think Japanese Americans had put the radio transmitter there. I love her. I miss her.

[@thewanderingamerican5412]

Well she also really brought home the point of WHY the Japanese Americans were interred as well. We didn't know WHO we could trust; and yes we made some mistakes trying to survive as a nation. People know we shouldn't have had internment camps, but nowadays they don't realize how "in danger" we really were either!

[@strawberrycloud2807]

@@thewanderingamerican5412 “Race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership”: These are the broad historical causes (the Why) of the incarceration, as written in the report “Personal Justice Denied” from the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. A lot of people don’t know this. We may not have known who we could trust, but there was no evidence that we could not trust the Japanese Americans.

[@jake1776]

@@hanspecansGerman immigrants were put in camps.

[@Monkycrasure-gk4fz]

@@thewanderingamerican5412 Yeah the country and world were in danger but Japanese Americans were still Americans. They weren't the ones causing danger they were just as worried as everyone else. And on top of being worried they were thrown into internment camps. But it was only them, like someone else said no German Americans were thrown in camps. It was a group of racist ppl that used the war as an excuse to treat Americans with Asian roots like the enemy. We were at war with Japan so seeing a submarine or a plane made ppl think that all Japanese Americans were now the enemy? That's a lame excuse. U.S.A. acts like only we are allowed to go to other countries and go to war. Like Japan attacking the U.S. is just absolutely out of line.

[@hanoitripper1809]

I watched a doco on the 442nd and 100th? Japanese American army units in Europe .. being Asian myslef I can relate to them and their story.

[@chrysantha9769]

this happened to more people than you'd think..during the war and just a bit beyond. But Lucy tells it better.

[@Vince-nu8sy]

It's mentioned in project blue book

[@jimjimmyjames59]

"I mentioned it...at the studio...to Buster Keaton..." BUSTER KEATON!!!

[@haplessasshole9615]

The Great Stone Face! But by this time at MGM, good ol' Louis B. Mayer was busting his chops at the studio, and rousting him out of bed in the wee smalls to make a fourth for bridge. Sheesh. No wonder the man turned to alcohol, bless his brilliant soul. _The General_ is absolutely cinematic art. _Our Hospitality_ is hysterical, especially if you're a Southerner, as I am. What are your favorites?

[@Nova7o9]

My reaction exactly!!

[@lohphat]

He died in 1966 so completely plausible.

[@jimjimmyjames59]

@@lohphat I didn’t doubt her, it’s how casually she says it.

[@greggblack8205]

Uhhh the event was before Pearl Harbor!

[@roxyshow123]

I remember hearing about this years ago. Good for you Lucy!

[@mikeburns5493]

Buster Keaton was a long time mentor of Lucille Ball.

[@thewanderingamerican5412]

Did not know that. Loved them both. Thanks!

[@storybellz]

First of all, for the people who keep saying, Lucille Ball is making it up, you don’t know Lucy! She was not a liar. She was many things - brash, bossy, could be a know it all, but she was honest, loyal, and true. She was one of those who never betrayed, never strayed. And if she says this happened, you best believe it did. Another thing I want to say is gosh, she had beautiful hands!! The best looking hands in Hollywood! edited to add: to the person here who said they have an uncle who worked at MGM, claiming that Lucy made the story up for publicity, nice try! You don’t want us to believe Lucille Ball, but you expect us to believe you have some uncle who worked at MGM who told you she made it up? give me a break! I’ll believe Lucille Ball over some random stranger here trying to discredit her, thank you very much!

[@iluvvideos]

I completely agree!

[@Silverstreak7878]

There was a time when people were hearing radio signals in their teeth.

[@stejer211]

@@Silverstreak7878 Yep, we called them nuts. And the people who believed them crazy.

[@storybellz]

@@stejer211 in other words, unless it happens to you, you’re a bully. Noted.

[@stejer211]

@@storybellz Your last comment sounds even more insane than your first, which is an achievement in itself.

[@EFROE1]

I still love Lucy today! I wish more of the reruns honor her. She was the best! I learned English watching her several times a day. In the 70’s many channels played I love Lucy. When i became an American Citizen, I sent her a clip of the paper telling my story, and she wrote me a sweet congratulations welcoming me to the USA. I treasure that. May she rest in peace!

[@jupru220]

That's very interesting. Thank you for sharing!

[@mplsmark222]

Not my teeth, but I used live near radio transmitting towers. I played electric bass, when practicing at home the radio broadcast would come through in my amplifier. I was not using a cordless system, just a regular amp. setup. There was an episode of Gilligan’s island that had a radio sound emanating from his mouth. Haven’t seen the episode in 45 years but for some reason remember it.

[@dmann1115]

Did you see Spinal Tap? When they play at an air force base using wireless guitars they pick up the chatter from the planes coming in to land. lol

[@mplsmark222]

@dmann1115 Yea, and it was the last straw for Nigel. That's when he walked away and quit the band.

[@billyshead1339]

She’s was a great story teller as naturally charming ❤

[@ewokander]

Amazing story and it's crazy to think they put lead in peoples faces!?! WOW!

[@SeanBundy-kk1ni]

This story is absolutely true. My uncle did submarine work back in that particular area and they actually had it happened a couple. People nowadays try and make it look like it's just something she made up but it is absolutely fact the government hit a few things from people which of you research it into the library are going Google you will find it is absolutely true

[@dennistucker9081]

What would’ve been really funny would have been if when Lucy was driving by the radio station, there was a commercial for a dentist being broadcast! 😊

[@hypergolic8468]

In the Second world war, whilst the Battle of Britain raged, a farmer kept on reporting that he could hear the instructions for RAF fighter aircraft in his field. Eventually, after he reported it enough times, they sent some people to the transmitter in his field. And yes they could hear the radio conversations. It turned out that some of the bolts on the transmission tower had worked loose, and they were vibrating and amplifying the messages as a speaker. The technical team coined the term "rusty bolts syndrome" - it may be covers areas more now.

[@ibeetellingya5683]

I looked it up and found claims that it's untrue, but I'll take it from the horse's mouth. 😁

[@sherila4834]

​@ibeetellingya5683 Keaton talked about this event in his autobiography written in the 1950s.

[@Bonescratcher]

@@hypergolic8468I know about rusty trombone but that’s about it

[@horatiohornbie7395]

I was laying in bed one evening when I was around 10 or 11 when I heard airline pilots over the radio as loud as a rock concert. I jumped out of bed only to find that nobody else had heard a thing. It was years later when I heard this could happen.

[@iluvvideos]

Oh wow! I’m sure that freak you out 😳

[@mmerriman4995]

What a story! Imagine lead fillings....

[@jonniesantos]

@@mmerriman4995 We had amalgum in my day which leeched mercury into your body. 😳

[@douggairns1019]

mercury too

[@OfficialFoodForThough]

Back in the late 80’s early 90’s our phone on base would get mixed with calls going from land to the ships. It was pretty cool. First time it freaked my mom out. Miss C from across the street told her it was normal for base housing. She told us just to hang up not listen and ignore it. 😂❤

[@eltonray7946]

Seems so much smarter than people today

[@ronwade5646]

Drive near Boulder, Colorado near the long wire transmitter farm that talks to NAVY Submarines and you may hear or feel a low hum.

[@chacaabbaylee768]

Lucille is a national treasure and hero!!!!🎉🎉🎉

[@robertalan7876]

Nothing like lead poisoning from your dentist

[@bobsmith8050]

People reported that for years but they were assumed schizophrenic I can't believe that's legit

[@douggairns1019]

at 3:50 She says they found a japanese spy transmitter type thing radio, they found out it was just the gardiners calling a friend.

[@thomassterrett1905]

Incredible story! Brings a little more perspective on that time including the interment camps. Dangerous and sad times!

[@bobsebring2819]

A truly amazing story

[@stewiedarkinvisibleid]

I know this is a bit off-topic, but, if it weren't for Lucille Ball, there would be no Star Trek.

[@raeofsunshine6499]

Or Mission Impossible

[@kitridge4301]

Lucille Ball - American Hero

[@e32b61]

She just kind of glossed over that and innocent man was taken away, likely to an internment camp. It wasn’t her fault, but still…

[@johncameron4194]

Great story

[@Ganzuran]

Absolute legend!

[@JL-ge1wi]

Lead!!! 😮

[@supremacy2040]

This is probably why they stopped using lead in fillings.

[@cya2163]

That's crazy! I never knew the Japanese had spies in California of all places...wow, I'm 60 years old and still learning!!!

[@Celluloidkid]

Interesting 😊

[@iluvvideos]

I know, good thing I took out my metal in my mouth, with all the 5G out there 😳

[@conqueringlion420]

We still love you

[@JohnnyRelentless]

I want to know where she got the ghillie suit.

[@JoniBaloney]

Hahahahaha, spot on

[@brandonmorgan3147]

They should have shut down Warner brothers

[@sugibear123]

I watched lucy as a kid and I am Japanese

[@psyndicated5929]

I remember when this happened to Gilligan 😅.

[@barbaracabrera207]

Crazy story!!!

[@Richard-w5s5x]

Love it

[@josephineerrichetto8588]

Wow!

[@stevenfarmer2660]

WOW!🤓

[@reelsouthernadventures9933]

Funny ha . In 1953, at the height of the second Red Scare, Hollywood's elite were being dragged into a damning limelight if anyone found reason to suspect them of being a communist or a communist sympathizer. Ball became one of the most notable subjects of the era, landing in a precarious position when it was revealed she was attached to the party about 15 years prior. It makes for excellent fodder for Being the Ricardos, which wisely follows a crisis-riddled week in Ball's life (as opposed to a full biopic). But not everything in Aaron Sorkin's new film is 100% true. The true story of Ball's brush with communism is a bit less cinematic than the creative team paints it to be, though she very much was at risk of losing everything that she had built her empire upon.

[@jamesohara4295]

There was also German American and Italian American camps but you don't hear them complaining.

[@lucysonata790]

This absolutely true. Two years ago oversees been cover radio active component with transmitting sensors in my mouth, impossible remove uself, this is some agencies project for monitoring individual. So hard , you have electric buzz and test 24 hours, with saliva components going to digestive sistem , works like electronic shocker , this is software program , only Gov.dep. may be can help!!! I still alive, but how long nobody tell.

[@kit2130]

A speaker was in there too?

[@storybellz]

Yeah, it’s called your ears, and your own internal Soundsystem.

[@SamK1281]

They don't teach about those interment camps in school in the states I'll tell you that. I didn't know about them until a few years ago. Similar story almost, when it's really humid you can hear the radio coming through box fans, no idea how that works but it does.

[@beverlysusangoadrogers9619]

Lol!😂😂❤❤❤

[@Sneakycat1971]

Lead filling? They had to know even back then.

[@toastedt140]

At they point they did and had switched to a wide variety of alloys. It would be copper or aluminum or gold with zinc added. For a time, they were made out of mercury amalgamations. You can only get the "radio mouth" effect if you have at least two different metals in the filling.

[@umbraemilitos]

Lead... oof.

[@eugenekranz6981]

The Myhtbusters did an entire episode about this. They tried it both ways: replicating the story with the elements Lucy told and replicating the results by any technical means possible. The myth was "busted". The episode is here on KZbin.

[@iluvvideos]

Folks keep telling me that! I need to watch that episode

[@AP-gb3eh]

They had lead put in their teeth ?

[@dlxmarks]

Whether or not fillings can pick up radio signals is one thing but when combined with all the other coincidences, I find the whole story profoundly implausible. She just happened to have fillings that just happened to pick up radio signals that just happened to be active while she was driving past (since spies don't broadcast continuously like a radio station) that just happened to be from a Japanese spy (a cliché gardener no less) even though all people of Japanese descent had already been relocated from California at the time? That's too many _just happened_ coincidences for me. At the very least I call a Brian Williams-style "dramatic memory enhancement" on this story and at worst a total fib.

[@dennistucker9081]

First, when Lucy said, they took the Japanese “out of California” that was misspoken . What she was meaning was in California they put the Japanese into the interment camps. Otherwise, knowing the strange things that radio waves can do, it seems to me that something like this could happen. However, I’m not an expert. I do know that to authenticate something takes more than watching a video.

[@eugenekranz6981]

@@iluvvideos I'm trying to post this but it gets deleted. The Mythbusters' Episode is called "Penny Drop" and can be found here.

[@lliamjurdom9505]

reds under her bed yeah right

[@sawboss5794]

People are so eager to believe bs .

[@patriciafeehan7732]

Facts prove this could not have possibly happened. It was just impossible at the time.

[@StefaniRyan]

I believe her she gives many details.

[@Jasper7182009]

???? If anything, Lucy did not make up stories. Great story teller and I believe her.

[@molliwilson5639]

Facts prove that there been many accounts where people with fillings have experience radio frequencies of various kinds through dental work. Where have you been?

[@flamencoprof]

Troll channel if ever I saw one.

[@alexistrebexis3195]

Thank you! So her fillings were able to play music she could hear? People, do you really think just cuz she had metal in her mouth, it can now amplify discernible sound like it had speakers? This has never happened IRL.

[@eugenesant9015]

That explains the internment camps.

[@Martin-iv6lq]

I had an uncle that worked at MGM during this time. Lucille Ball made the entire story up for a publicity story.

[@storybellz]

And you could be making up your uncle story. Who do I believe, a random person like you, or Lucille Ball who was a woman of integrity and truth? Not only that, but other people have had it happen to them, so it isn’t out of the realm of possibility.

[@Miranda-Priestly]

​@storybellz I agree, I have had things happen to me that I simply have learned to live with because no one would believe me. I am at peace with that fact, and I have learned to look at those moments as a sort of luck. Really, anything is possible when we still have so much to learn and discover as of yet.

[@storybellz]

@@Miranda-Priestly exactly!! If you don’t mind me asking, what were some of the amazing things that happened with you? I love reading about stuff like that, stuff that you think no one will believe. Because like you say, anything can happen!

[@sinjin1259]

I saw a guy flip a quarter, it landed on the cement, did a couple of bounces and started to spin - it stopped on its side. A coin flip that landed on its side.

[@XavierKatzone]

Yeah? What was his name? When did he work there? What did he do? How did he determine she made it up?