The combination of the chimes and the sounds of the broadcasts of the numbers stations, coupled with the eerie stark and surreal grainy footage of the East German sector and the Soviet Block makes for one very compelling and memorable video. Well done and excellent editing 10/10
@DeVolksrepubliek3 жыл бұрын
So true
@RaphaelFrancaisAnglais1506Z2N Жыл бұрын
Agree
@MeinhofKym19446 жыл бұрын
That's the jam Honecker listened to when he was in a good mood.
@granvillebutler54494 жыл бұрын
I want this as my ring tone
@ADAMSIXTIES3 жыл бұрын
Yup, his favorite music!
@Das_Deutsche_Moerdervolk6 ай бұрын
I have this exact Gong and Chimes on my Smartphone as a ring tone, without the female and male voice. Copy and Cut from Wikipedia, made in 2 minutes.
@freedomgundam952 жыл бұрын
The Gong noise is most likely made by a Wandel & Goltermann machine. The tone is called: "4 klang gong"
@johnkelly10832 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that, just looked this up on KZbin and the chimes sound exactly like that generated on such a machine. The gongs generated by the machine were then recorded onto tape to be played over the airwaves.
@Tirana444 жыл бұрын
I can remember hearing this on my Grundig short wave radio back in the 70s/80s. There was also a station using a tuning signal of four ascending electronic tones. The speech in German featuring number sequences in a female ‘voice’ sounded identical to that of the ‘The Gongs’ station. Strange times!
@doramilitiakatiemelody18754 жыл бұрын
Was it Three Note oddity? I remember Three note oddity interfering with my AM radio while i was listening to German Pop music in 2003
@LiveWire2763 жыл бұрын
You’re Albanian? Nice. I sometimes wonder if Communist Albania ever had numbers stations, couldn’t find any
@inphaze10 ай бұрын
That'd be the Four Note Rising Scale numbers station, also known by its Enigma designation G08. Like the Gongs and Chimes station as well as the Three Note Oddity, all use the same Stasi Sprach-Morse machine (Gerät 32620), I think, which had programmable boards for English, German, and Spanish.
@ParadiseBureau7 жыл бұрын
Too bad stations like this don't exist today. I'd say the closest we have to an eerie numbers station is E07, and that's only because of the new tones they added in the background.
@ParadiseBureau7 жыл бұрын
All being phased out for digital modes.
@jusesjimmybars6 жыл бұрын
there's only really E25 with any quirk to it these days
@grandpabrezhnev57625 жыл бұрын
There are still Cuban number stations
@docteur66675 жыл бұрын
Russian buzzer still up and running
@ivaporizedmitski3 жыл бұрын
@@ParadiseBureau I agree
@EaglehawkMoonfang7 жыл бұрын
Fascinating stuff, the past was truly magical. Thanks for uploading
@chn92857 жыл бұрын
sounded like not from this dimension! Eerie Gongs! love it!
@481216Dragon7 жыл бұрын
Probably my favorite station. Thank you for posting. Have a great day.
@etenorio06227 жыл бұрын
Always providing great videos, perhaps the only on KZbin doing this around number stations. Keep it up, great historical value and for those interested in the mysterious/occult. You have some fans!
@Freshbobba Жыл бұрын
Occult? There are still numberstations around on shortwave. Manly yankees and russians. its a spy and military thing
@johnkelly10832 жыл бұрын
Those chimes send a shiver down my spine. Some recordings of this station give the impression that the tape recording of the chimes deteriorated over time, indicated by the wow and flutter.
@Ac3sdg9 ай бұрын
Tape deterioration doesn't manifest in increased wow and flutter. Only way for that to happen would be if the tape stretched over time and cellulose acetate, which is the structural component of magnetic tape, does not stretch well. The wow and flutter you're hearing is most likely caused by a stretched drive belt or worn down capstan roller in the tape player itself.
@Rick.434 Жыл бұрын
1:15 for anyone wondering what the guy is saying here is a translation i made but it might not be that good: we're discussing the most important matters/cases related to the further development (unintelligible) of the country
@aeternitasromae3 жыл бұрын
As it continued for a little while after the Berlin wall fell, I wonder what they were saying to agents in the period after. Telling them to go home? continue, but for who? etc etc
@YouTubeMillionaire4562 жыл бұрын
Germany didn’t reunify immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It wasn’t until 1990 that East and West Germany officially reunified.
@shortwavemysteriesbroadcas21597 жыл бұрын
Great video, Jonny, I remember when I listened to this station years back, made my night dark
@Tirana444 жыл бұрын
I can remember this well. There was also another station which carried these number sequences in exactly the same sounding voice, it’s interval signal was an electronic sounding ascending scale. I’ve no idea if it was also a GDR station, but the voice was identical.
@buzz_archive4 жыл бұрын
It probably was. The G1 'Tyrolean Music Station' announcer sounded like the same male announcer in the G20 'Spruchnummer' station.
@itogi Жыл бұрын
There were several german language stations that used the same voice generator, all of them were in Eastern Europe.
@Popeye6400ThegoatАй бұрын
The most scary sound during the war is the silence when you don't know what can happened
@DanielDanGRFRS5 жыл бұрын
first on air 1983 for me and my little shortwave receiver ....fascinating ! why this women music and niumbers ? searching in 1999 thanks internet........g3 gong station east germany....old day and cold war era ...nostalgy...
@deactivatedaccount51406 жыл бұрын
Sounds better than modern rap music
@neglesaks4 жыл бұрын
Yah man dem hos in da East side be so dank you kno dawg
@pogchampminku25356 жыл бұрын
Why did people start recording number stations in the early 70s and further on rather than the years beforehand when number stations were broadcasting in the 60s and even in world war 1... was it because recording technology was good enough once the 70s struck?
@callumjoyce17123 жыл бұрын
2:26 Those German women look to be between their late 40s and early 60s. Their experiences up until that point are absolutely unimaginable to us. Here we see them watching young men making the same mistakes as their fallen fathers, husbands and sons.
@punishedsnake61412 жыл бұрын
Blah blah blah what the fuck does that mean?
@elevcan23125 жыл бұрын
That sounds like a grandfather clock
@omchamlin Жыл бұрын
Wow... I was born over there and lived there again (Army brat) during the late 60's - early 70's. It's amazing that all of this went on and we have learned NOTHING from it. We'll be there again in a few years... I remember looking over the wall into East Berlin during a visit there in '71 and what a squalid, empty existence they lived. Be we apparently want that again?
@michealcastor47755 жыл бұрын
Chills brought me here.
@franktillman2952 жыл бұрын
Started in the early 60’s
@dr.seytan43104 ай бұрын
Possibly 1963
@avroo3 сағат бұрын
It's unknown actually the number station rarely was recorded imagine in the 60's or 70's
@Hologhoul3 жыл бұрын
Good Lord this is eerie! And the video is perfect for a Boards of Canada track.
@robertcole18657 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Enjoy your day.
@-TimZambra7 жыл бұрын
One of your best. Really good editing.
@Freunderealitaet7 ай бұрын
Amazing Edit
@buzz_archive7 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@ednaaaxx3 жыл бұрын
Great video how did you do the subtitles?
@ComradNoFucksGivin.3 жыл бұрын
I like haw sinister that antenna looks.
@ADAMSIXTIES3 жыл бұрын
1:37 I think this swing ride was popular throughout Eastern Europe then. I've seen it in clips of many cities.
@DeVolksrepubliek2 жыл бұрын
We have one of these in the Netherlands as well
@YouTubeMillionaire4562 жыл бұрын
It’s a merry-go-round.
@philfam47 жыл бұрын
At around 1:16 with the radio tuning and static, is that from the original recording and audio?
@philfam47 жыл бұрын
Can you tell me what it's from?
@krystianmroz26854 жыл бұрын
Polish Language
@daniialsyed7175 Жыл бұрын
most likely it is a radio station on a different frequency. Frequency Tuning Sounds
@Rick.434 Жыл бұрын
im not really sure where does it come from but i do know the voice says: we're discussing the most important cases/matters related to the further development (unintelligible) of the country
@newenglandfantasypainthobbies2 ай бұрын
I could have sworn some of the sounds i heard was from the teletubbies voice trumpet.
@Inescapeium4 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite one
@unauthorizedentry-coldwave7779 күн бұрын
the guy who made this and put in the talk and hiss with dial buzz did it for effect this broadcast would sound different every time as interference on the sw medium was always there
@buzz_archive9 күн бұрын
Yes I do it on purpose for effect.
@ronfogartyfogarty93625 жыл бұрын
Very cool those gongs and chimes are cool keep it up
@violashutters6 жыл бұрын
fascinating
@timgstar35857 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video dude
@thrillaspirit6 жыл бұрын
I fucking love this
@qu33nnitr0s96 жыл бұрын
Creepiest sounding numbers ever
@RichardTClark396 Жыл бұрын
Creepy to hear that late at night with a onetime pad in a broom closet I’m having flashbacks 😮
@VilldoesOfficial26 күн бұрын
The best chime 0:30
@Quants04 жыл бұрын
You keep confusing "null" with "neun".
@allancopland17683 жыл бұрын
I called then the 'Evil Gongs'.
@thekidfromiowa3 жыл бұрын
A less distorted version.
@TheSilencedGamer4207 жыл бұрын
Hi! What sort of radio would I need to pick up weird number stations and other ones, like the chanting one?
@TheSilencedGamer4207 жыл бұрын
Jonny thank you! I shall invest.
@blinikot79603 жыл бұрын
3:57 min long. 357.000km^2 is the sice of a unifide germay.
@boltontownhall5 жыл бұрын
This website does a very accurate job of explaining the message format. www.simonmason.karoo.net/page73.html He explains that each message began with a 5 number code indicating the agent's number, followed by the word Trennung meaning "separation" to tell how many groups of 5 numbers would follow for that agent's message. After that many groups were broadcast, an 8 second dead space occurred, followed by the next sequence of an agent's number, the "trennung" group count, and then those groups with the secret message. These groups are used in a method called a one-time pad which is a code book that matches the numbered group with a word. It's been used since the famous Zimmerman Telegram of WW-1.
@franktillman54743 жыл бұрын
It’s been said this has started as early as 1959
@dr.seytan4310 Жыл бұрын
Actually proof states that it started probably in 1963
@RaphaelFrancaisAnglais1506Z2N Жыл бұрын
Wow
@jusesjimmybars6 жыл бұрын
great video
@van0tot1002 жыл бұрын
Why hasn't this been explained after the fall of the GDR?
@blackforestpygmy87566 жыл бұрын
Subscribed.
@doramilitiakatiemelody18754 жыл бұрын
What clock tower was gong station chimes's chimes recorded from?
@slendybendygames96033 жыл бұрын
None
@NielsPaul3 жыл бұрын
Sounds more like a school bell chime to me. Just look for "Pausengong" on KZbin, those are quite common in Germany.
@freedomgundam952 жыл бұрын
Wandel & Goltermann gong machine
@user-xl7ip9ov5v7 жыл бұрын
nice
@deactivatedaccount51406 жыл бұрын
So close to 4k subs
@user-hi4jn5jm8v4 жыл бұрын
Stasi - ist KGB (GDR-version)
@RADITDAOP92 жыл бұрын
what year was it recorded?
@buzz_archive2 жыл бұрын
In the 80s most likely.
@emirvmendoza Жыл бұрын
Recording from 3:33 is from 9 May 1990, according to the video description, citing the defunct Simon Mason site.
@georgieippolito99249 ай бұрын
I would so use this to sleep with at night
@immunderpaladin79046 жыл бұрын
What are These Number mean
@errc233 ай бұрын
+
@MichaelMouseStar4 жыл бұрын
Come help us solve the mystery: www.reddit.com/r/PlsDontCryptography/
@apollonius6214 Жыл бұрын
Cc says 0 when neuen is nine and null is zero
@buzz_archive Жыл бұрын
Its showing fine in my end.
@apollonius6214 Жыл бұрын
@@buzz_archive must be the auto generated cc, my mistake. Nice video.
@almondthefurret68187 жыл бұрын
wow creepy
@aliciaandfam111111 ай бұрын
What song is this
@ninjacker14974 жыл бұрын
I feel bad for the people that lost there jobs broadcasting G03
@fungo66312 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZDCdalrr9B1b9k This is the gong machine used