Brother Stair - The Voice Of The Dead On Short Wave Radio

[@RingwayManchester]

Quite an interesting video of Stair being scammed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYurlZ2Lg62qoLM

[@MikeDijital]

I miss Brother " Scare " he was funny to listen to.

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

Link. No good.

[@kandigloss6438]

@@MikeDijital I mean you can still hear him on countless American shortwave stations, unfortunately in my opinion.

[@intahouse]

Updated link?

[@matthaxx7137]

I was listening recently to Brother Stair going on about a local rock band practicing and picking up his transmission on their (probably badly earthed) amps. They thought it was the voice of god and called the number to talk to him. Stair put it down to divine providence. I put it down to living 5 miles away from a 200kW transmitter. :)

[@davewallace8219]

brother stair...misrepresented the teachings of christ!

[@rolyswansea8439]

I used to work at BBC Droitwich (Wychbold) and the Duty Engineer at Pebble Mill relayed a call from a resident of the town who was picking up Radio 2 LW on her cooker. The rusty contact of a heating element was causing rectification and thus demodulation, so you don't really need sensitive equipment when you're adjacent to this kind of power.

[@SEAWORRIER]

​@@rolyswansea8439 How does that work? Did the cooker have a radio or speaker built into it or did it just somehow play a ghostly Radio 2 broadcast?

[@grabham59]

@@rolyswansea8439 I knew people who lived in Wychbold whose radiators would pick up Radio 4 LW...was it at Wychbold that someone got nicked for stealing electricity by putting a contraption on his roof to change RF to EMF?....

[@rolyswansea8439]

@@SEAWORRIER The element would have had a DC current flowing through it, varying in strength and therefore electromotive force, with the audio. There was a similar effect with the enormous HT chokes on the transmitters themselves, so at Daventry I could go into their enclosure, similar to a mains substation, and listen to John Peel on the World Service. Fantastic bass for Reggae but rubbish treble.

[@RevMikeBlack]

I am a South Carolina native, working on my seventh decade of life. I'm also an active, mainstream Christian. This guy is by far not our only deceased religious broadcaster. A radio evangelist in our northeastern city of Greenville has been dead for over fifty years, yet his family keeps him on shortwave and they continue to solicit donations. I hear him regularly. Also, you can still hear South Carolina native Reverend Ike selling his "prosperity packages," even though he has been gone thirty years. Yes, the small state of South Carolina is big on the religious airwaves!

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

Reverend Ike... d*mn 🤣

[@matejfele9971]

Happy to see he's full of bs even after death.

[@RevMikeBlack]

@@fu3kMuhammad Me too!

[@HudsonValleyVHS]

Does Rev. Ike ever play on 4840? I was just reading about him in Bob Larson's book of cults (talk about glass houses haha)

[@RobertHallIV]

Lemme guess. WORD-FM in Greenville? Gaffney SC here

[@johnbledsoe8868]

He's not the only person broadcasting from the dead. Time station WWVH on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, USA uses the voice of the late Jane Barbe, long been known as the voice of many telephone recordings where calls didn't go through. Jane passed away of cancer in 2003, yet WWVH still uses her voice to this day.

[@MirlitronOne]

It's almost a kind of immortality.

[@wzpu3283]

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[@altfactor]

Also, the late Dr. Gene Scott can still be heard on the shortwave dial as well.

[@LatitudeSky]

Jane Barbe's voice can also still be heard hourly as a prerecorded station ID for ham radio station W4BOC. Like WWVH, that recording was made long ago. Keeping things the same is a good thing. WWV on the mainland replaced their original male voice some years ago. That man was also the voice of our local time and temperature phone service. That business got sold and an automated voice took his place.

[@rolyswansea8439]

@@LatitudeSky A similar thing happened on the London Underground (Metro). The guy who recorded the station announcements died and his widow would ride the trains "to be closer to him". When the system was upgraded with new announcements, Transport for London left just one station with the old voice, - his widow's local.

[@COASTALWAVESWIRES]

Great video! Oh how many times I’ve heard his voice while turning the dial.

[@TonyLing]

Brother thousand yard stare

[@AdamEbelgccengineering]

Most short wave listeners called him Brother Scare, and also was making memes about a device that helps filter out his SW transmitters called the Brother Stair Filter. I first heard him around the mid to late 2000's around that time, and he was all over the place on the SW radio bands.

[@RJDA.Dakota]

He’s also on several MW stations including WEW in St. Louis MO. but Bro. Stair’s time may be coming to an end. I’ve noticed a lot of his programmes are slowly being replaced by others.

[@dx1450]

He still is all over the place on the SW radio bands.

[@sullivan912]

He was also known as Profit $tair.

[@notthatdonald1385]

I heard my current hometown "Red Lion, PA"!! And these transmissions fit right in with the local ..um..uh,.. christians with a lowercase 'C.

[@Mike-H_UK]

If they need another frequency for additional transmissions, I've heard that 1215kHz has recently become available for yet another 100kW transmission ;-)

[@_sandie_123]

😂😂😂😂

[@frankedwardcurry]

I often heard him on my shortwave radio back in the 80s / 90s - I did send him a reception report once but didn't get a QSL card - I did receive a program guide though. Very interesting to listen to him but I am not a religious person at all. He did rave on a bit !

[@RickMunday]

Like most of that ilk, he's way outside the bounds of reality. I should say was...

[@matthewc994]

saying he raved a bit is like saying a carolina reaper is spicy

[@johnb6723]

Perhaps he didn't know what a QSL card is. Lol.

[@worldmikel]

This is great. I've not listened to shortwave in years. In the good years of propagation when I listened, Brother Stair was all over the dial. There wasn't much on the web about him back then, or most of the US based commercial shortwave stations. So this is really interesting. Thanks.

[@MattChampion]

Brother Scare (Overcomeer Ministry) was one of my favorite shortwave programs, especially the Sunday services with the out of tune tinkling piano, the muttering of a room full of people and the occasional shout of "I LOVE YOU JESUS!" from some random dude in the crowd.

[@rebeccamacgregor549]

It was so bad you just couldn't help listening. His wife's singing was just awful.

[@MattChampion]

@@rebeccamacgregor549 It was a glorious trainwreck that you could NOT turn away from.

[@ravenishere69420]

@@MattChampion train wrecks don't repeat themselves, this is more like a natural disaster lol

[@mosherj666]

I've been a S.W listener since the late 1970s, and 'Brother' Stair was indeed a constant presence for decades.

[@sondrayork6317]

his voice still creeps me out even to this day, more now that he's dead.

[@ralphnunn3]

When I first started venturing out of the Amateur Radio bands for a listen, his was one of the first voices that I heard out there. I also remember for the first 6 months after he past, the airwaves were devoid of his voice. It was weird not hearing him out there. I'm guessing the Overcomer Ministry decided for income's sake to get his recordings back on the air.

[@MattExzy]

My great grandmother gifted me an old boombox as a kid in the 90s. It had this mysterious 'shortwave' band on it - Brother Stair was one of the first things I heard. It was such a trip for me, because I knew the signal was coming from the other side of the globe. Didn't care much for the subject matter, but it helped make shortwave intriguing and totally addictive. Which reminds me.... there was an evangelical broadcast one night from Papua New Guinea - they claimed to have the dead body of one of their pastors in the studio, and were going to resurrect him 'live on air' - a lot of hooting and hollering for half an hour straight, but they admitted it wasn't successful.

[@digitalchaos1980]

@@MattExzy Wow, that's insane! I could imagine how bizarre that had to have sounded.

[@MattExzy]

@@digitalchaos1980 It was crazy! This was the year 2000... he kept talking about "the coming end of days" which was a common theme for those stations. Whether or not they really had a deceased body with them is debatable, but being the PNG, who could say. It's stuck with me all this time; it was totally bizarre.

[@alvinmorris5404]

Yeah that was like a nice extended vacation when he was SILENT but as the saying goes 'all good things must come to an end'...unfortunately.

[@kandigloss6438]

I believe it was actually part of an attempt to weasel money out of people. Brother Stair himself wasn't on but for a while they were broadcasting constant messages pleading for people to send them money which they supposedly needed to keep his messages on the air along with recordings of calls from people saying how much they loved hearing Brother Stair on the radio. Mostly from little old ladies and amusingly often getting his or the ministry's name wrong, I remember one lady calling them The Overcoming Ministries.

[@K1ZEK]

Now that was interesting as for many years I lived about 15 miles from his community in SC.USA. I moved to CT. USA about 3 years ago and did not know he passed away. It is crazy that the other day I was learning to use a dongle and the first thing I heard was Brother Stair, can you believe it! 73 Leo.

[@David0lyle]

It’s actually pretty interesting how extensive his reach is given how limited his actual appeal would really expected to be.

[@dx1450]

Yes, he was a crazy old coot when he was alive, can't imagine many people sitting down and actually wanting to listen to what he had to say.

[@jongreen5638]

If you think about it as a business model, it makes sense. If he got, say, 5 people a year to sell all there possessions and give the money to him, and let's say that comes out to only 200,000 a person, that's still a million dollars in tax free religious donations. Volume is not necessary for it to become a very lucrative enterprise, but you still need to cast a wide net to pull people in.

[@gordsec]

Thanks for the video. I now have time to play with radio (rather than study for exams) so SWL may be on my list. I appreciate you giving the freqs so the rest of us can listen

[@kellybogues]

I was a thorn in #BrotherStair's side from about 1993/94 when I found him on my shortwave radio all the way up till his passing. He knew me as RABISHU. In one of our last phone conversations we talked about the love of #shortwave, the only topic we seemed to agree on. He probably holds some kind of #WorldRecord with purchase of airtime on #ShortwaveRadio stations. If not, he's gotta be in the top five I would figure. Of course he's not the only Voice-of-the-Dead on SW but love him or hate him he's made his dent in the #WorldOfRadio. I wish shortwave radio had more variety, but we are stuck with #BroStair hogging up the airwaves for a long while I would figure. Hail Shortwave!!!

[@VickyGeagan]

A lot of that he got courtesy of the people behind Radio Caroline. He got the farmers that lived on both of his farms Florida and South Carolina t help with a couple of North America Offshore Radio projects so in return they gave him the airtime, and still are.

[@danielt.8573]

Offshore radios are the true pirate stations because they are unlicensed and operate in international waters. Might be an interesting subject for a future video.

[@bill-2018]

Brother Stair still being broadcast in February 2024. I heard them say Channel 292 so it must be 6070 kHz from Germany.

[@joeblow8593]

Many years ago in the early to mid 1990's, Brother Stair had a ton of interesting guests on his broadcast from the patriot and conspiracy community. Including Linda Thompson, Anthony J Hilder, Mark from Michigan, Jeff Baker, Jim Keith, Terry Cook and even William Cooper (who would go on to broadcast his own show "The Hour Of The Time" on shortwave and satellite). If you thought Art Bell and his UFO stuff was interesting listening, you should have heard what was on Stair's broadcasts in the 1990's with his guests! I first ran across his shortwave broadcasts in 1993 on WRNO shortwave, transmitter was from New Orleans. A bit later I found WWCR. Now whether or not you believed Stair (or his guests). He was interesting to hear. In fact, in the 1990's in the U.S. there was all types of conspiracy related programming from many other broadcasters other than Stair that made for most compelling listening throughout the shortwave dial.

[@totalrecone]

S this ministry can afford to lease such high powered SW transmission sites and yet Bauer crap out their AM station because of 'costs'. Did somebody say 'tax dodge"?

[@Richard-Seekingwulf]

I used to listen to brother Stair starting in around 1985 on cassette tape and then around 2003 I got me a little Grundig shortwave radio and heard him a lot of times back then. The friend that had the cassette tapes took a trip to South Carolina to visit him and stayed there for a while but I guess they had a falling out because this friend of mine tried to teach him a thing or two LOL

[@MrSuperheterodyne]

I exchanged QSL cards with WWCR many moons ago. I was listening to them on my (since sold) Racal RA17. Good video, as always Lewis. 73

[@robertrockwell7581]

have heard him scanning the bands late at night. listened maybe 2 minutes before moving on. signal was weak. they should now remove him as he has died.

[@Steaphany]

From the video title, I was expecting a honest investigation into Electronic Voice Phenomena

[@clas73]

What a familiar voice for years.

[@madcarew5168]

I remember listening to his fire&brimstone years ago..entertaining stuff...!!!

[@andw2638]

I think this was broadcasted on 1386 many years ago as I remember encountering it on my car radio on the way home from work. Another deceased preacher who is still on the air, at least online, is Sathya Sai Baba. He had a channel on the Afristar radio satellite sometime around 2001. This channel was free to air but was threatening to become a subscription one, and I would not have subscribed. As it happened the Worldspace satellites went off the air a couple of years later. Fortunately the Hitachi radio was also a very good MW and SW receiver. I still have it but haven't switched it on for some time. That was essentially the main problem with Worldspace, that the radios were very expensive and also power-hungry, especially for the regions they were marketed to.

[@ConnorWalsh_briz]

Some of those brokering stations… I get they need money to stay operating, but is it worth the damage they do to shortwave? I once stumbled across Infowars and it was so deeply ugly that I stopped tuning the shortwave broadcast bands for years afterwards in case I stumbled across it again.

[@wallstreettrader1]

The truth of this world IS deeply ugly. Somebody needs to report it.

[@shake-n-vac]

Thanks Lewis. I have often heard this guy over the years when scanning through the airwaves at night.

[@Milcom34]

Thanks RM. I Always Wondered about Brother Stair and his Radio Broadcast. Anyone who has Ever Drove into World Band Radio has heard this Voice******

[@captainwin6333]

Brother Stair sounds like he got his name after falling down a few of them and landing on his head.

[@thormusique]

Great story, Lewis! I had no idea the ministry was being broadcast from all those transmitter sites. I think I only ever picked it up from WINB and WBCQ. Side note: I often lamented the fact that there seemed to be such a preponderance of evangelist broadcasters 'taking over' the airwaves, often broadcasting at ridiculously high power. Unless I had a particularly selective radio, I remember often having trouble distinguishing adjacent signals. (We wer not amused.) Cheers! 🙂

[@Lurker1979]

I'm a ham operator and love your channel.

[@ItsRael108]

I listened to him for years i particularly like the chanting in the tabernacle Thank you rwm

[@ivandubinsky1857]

You can still hear "Doctor" Gene Scott on shortwave and he's been dead for almost 20 years. "Get on the telephone" was his catchphrase as he urged listeners to call in to donate to his "ministry" but which he actually used to support his lavish lifestyle. I'm currently listening to him on 5935 kHz, WWCR in Nashville, TN.

[@HudsonValleyVHS]

Great video! I appreciate someone covering the topic without the virtue signaling. Nothing really matches the creepy atmosphere of listening to Brother Stair on shortwave late at night alone. I'm in the poughkeepsie NY area and catch it on 4840 khz. I'm not comparing William Cooper to Brother Stair in anyway, but I would love to pick up "The Hour of our Time" somewhere, but never seem to find it, any suggestions?

[@zakofrx]

Same, I am not I interested in this stuff but it was good that it wasn't just feeling based reporting..

[@tristanmills4948]

He and some sort of 7th Day Adventists are about all I can receive clearly in English in my corner of the US. Very annoying as the stations used also broadcast interesting things, but on other frequencies and transmitters :(

[@thompson121]

isn't that weird, him and some foreign station is all I can hear in the daytime haha

[@cornelishummel7987]

I think maybe 2 years ago last broadcast in europe on 6290

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

He's not the only one. Pete Peters and Gene Scott both are alive and well on shortwave radio. Death doesn't stop them.

[@dx1450]

Oh yeah, Pete Peters is still spewing his racist ideology all over shortwave, too. I thought Dr. Gene Scott was still going on SW after he died but didn't know they were still broadcasting his shows today.

[@Lunar_Capital]

When he finally passed away, I was convinced his transmissions would finally cease. Oh boy, what a rookie assumption that was!

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

The one thing about Stair is that he never lived the rich lifestyle. He was always frugal with the money spending it all nearly on shortwave broadcast and probably set up the ministry to run for years. I wonder how it's doing down there in Canadys now that he's dead? Is one guy in charge now or a committee of elders?

[@dikhurtz2406]

I used to listen to him regularly. In fact I was going to move to the compound as a welder I was going to train others to weld and build bunkers.

[@jaleach123]

The guy I remember was the Elder Jacob O. Meyer on WMLK. I heard him back in the 1980s or early 1990s can't remember exactly when. I did get a QSL and it's around here somewhere. According to his wiki he died in 2010 but his children took over and still broadcast his sermons on WMLK.

[@gamlemann53]

Thank's for another great video Lewis! You must be a big fan of airplanes, because in every video of yours I can see one or two big jets or some planes (he he) The best from LB1NH 🙂

[@RingwayManchester]

They’re cool shots aren’t they?? Glad you noticed ;)

[@WorldsWorstBoy]

This was an extremely fascinating video

[@tvdan1043]

Local TV engineer here... One thing I'll say about religious broadcasters is they're reliable for testing your receivers. For decades if you needed to test a C-band receiver or calibrate a dish, every satellite engineer knew where to find Shepherd's Chapel (until recently on Galaxy 16).

[@marknesselhaus4376]

I have to say that for me living in North Carolina even my shortwave crystal set has no problem picking up WRMI at any hour and the others mentioned 🙂

[@3rdalbum]

My dad had a basic guitar amp. One day it suddenly started picking up a particular FM radio station (might have been TV audio, it was a program simulcast on radio and TV). It was a bit weird and it only happened the once. Any idea what this might have been or why it happened?

[@berndp3426]

I am not a listener but randomly scanning the shortwave from time to time. Also caught receptions from Br.Stair occasionally. But it is simply another sect among the many religious sects after all. Which only lives on the air as long as there are believers who are donating enough money (the so-called "overcomers" as they call themselves). So its "wireless distribution" on air mainly depends on money donations. Otherwise it only would be someone preaching in one location where this "community" is physically residing. Today of course there is the internet for streaming as well, even if there were no radio broadcasts possible.

[@randybaumery-u5r]

I used to catch him on both AM radio standard, and various short wave frequencies.

[@raymondmartin6737]

Brother Stare oh boy. We have stayed in Walterboro, SC, off I 95 in the past. Service was slow at the restaurants there.

[@thes764]

We're all being annoyed by a dead man shouting. Only CRI beats that. But great video! Unless I completely mess up channel292 is in southern Germany, as far from Hamburg as it gets.

[@nickmullen1666]

And many people are annoyed with the woke crap polluting the Airways

[@CarolineFord1]

I wonder how many small transmitters he actually keeps going. He must be very good for Channel 292, Spaceline Bulgaria etc.

[@ericmoeller3634]

ive picked up that station on my sdr unfortunately its like all over the SW broadcast band

[@randybaumery-cp7tf]

I used to tune in to him randomly late at night.

[@johng.3740]

Maaaaannnn oh man......yeah I often used to hear Bro Stair on shortwave, WWCR, sometimes interesting You ever read about his background......man he's done so many things with women, girls.....he used to watch adult material while on the air, because he could take "strong meat". He's also made all sorts of predictions and prophecies, there is a website dedicated just to all Bro Stair's erroneous prophecies, he claimed he was "greater than Jesus", that certain cities would disappear, etc.

[@spacemissing]

The spookiest thing about this is that anyone WANTS to hear such broadcasts.

[@DP-hy4vh]

Most of us just tuned in for the entertainment, especially when he would flip out and go totally nuts on the air with screaming fits.

[@kissingbanditt]

He’s on AM here and i also hear him on shortwave.

[@dx1450]

I need to dig out my recording of the "Brother Stair numbers station" I made years ago.

[@paulwilliams2663]

Should've called himself The Lincolnshire Preacher 😉🫠😂

[@josephbovio3447]

Lol good one!

[@belstar1128]

The wonders of radio and tape recorders.

[@g4lmn-ron]

The Wikipedia page for Stair "interesting" reading. Classic cult with all the nasty add ons.

[@landonmiller6943]

Yep, concerning his "interest" in young girls, i.e. juveniles.

[@RingwayManchester]

You’re not wrong there Ron, scary stuff

[@GlareStarwop]

Im a wiccan but listened to im for years. He was sure entertaining.

[@bennetenglisch1467]

I think I stumbeled over a broadcast from this guy last night, was using my Saba Freudenstadt 100,very very weird.

[@aqweaqweaqweaqweaqwe]

Read somewhere that someone created a fake numbers station using His voice 😄

[@rebeccamacgregor549]

I would love to hear that.

[@PhantomWoIf]

would be funny

[@TheSteakStyles]

I love listening to this guy as background noise. I found him kind of late, but I'm glad they keep his craziness on the air

[@FrozenMilkOnACloudyDay]

Fascinating, thank you

[@techguy9023]

Wasn’t there a big SW broadcaster in Florida that recently shut down?

[@tbp-channel8870]

The Channel 292 transmitter site Waal (Rohrbach) is located in Bavaria, not near Hamburg. Or did I get something wrong ? But interesting video as always !

[@areaone3813]

As a young 24 year old guy I sat in a small town oil barrel making facility in 1994-97 working as a 3rd shift security guard I would listen to brother Stair. He gave me hope in life after death, and fear in life on earth. Wether anyone thinks that is good or bad, for me it was a very impressionable time in my young life. I very much enjoyed his broadcast as well as David J Smith who was on a similar subject. Dr Jean Scott was also there in the mix but I do not know a lot about him. These were good times in my life and I have to tell you I appreciate you for your story on Brother Stair it brings back so many great memories. Thank you.

[@SocialistDistancing]

A phantom transmission? This kind of weird stuff is what drew me to sw listening. Interesting structure on that mountain. It looks like a lighthouse, but I'm sure that is not what it is.

[@Steve-GM0HUU]

Thanks for posting. 👍

[@jeffreyspeltie1961]

Wow

[@fetus2280]

I dont know too much about SW radio . So bare with me here. My question is .. How far do these signals transmit ? would someone say, me, here in Canada be able to pick up a receiver and tune into stations around the globe or am i stuck with whats around me ? Ive been watching your channel for a bit now and have always been curious about it . I would love to get one4 and start recording some things for music creation and to Learn something new . Now i am able to rig up an antenna if need be so if thats something i would require i can do that . Any info or some Links to help me get started and/or learn more about it without going down a rabbit hole of stupid, I would greatly appreciated as i dont even know where to start . Cheers .

[@landonmiller6943]

Short wave signals (HF) have a global reach, depending on the frequency and time of day. Buy a half-way decent world band radio for around $50 or so and off you go. Brother Stair is actually one of the least interesting signals on the HF bands. This radio is a good choice since it has Single Side Band (SSB) therefore you can monitor hams and other interesting signals like utility stations. Tecsun Digital PL368 AM/FM/LW/SW Worldband Radio with Single Side Band Receiver

[@landonmiller6943]

The SWLing Post is an excellent source of information on shortwave listening.

[@spugintrntl]

I'm in upstate NY, with a sixty year old receiver and an antenna that's little more than a loop of solenoid wire strung around my garage, and I regularly pick up at least a couple stations from Asia (Japan and India specifically). I guess it depends on the time of day, but if you were to set up a decent rig (not just using whatever crap you have lying around like I did) I'm sure you could pick up all sorts of interesting stuff.

[@sandmanxo]

I remember one time a few years ago just scanning various sw bands and I think I heard him on 9 frequencies in a 5 minute period. While I didn't enjoy his content I guess he did keep(and still keeps beyond the grave) quite a few broadcasters on the air.

[@atari2600b]

I used to troll this dude on Facebook all the time he'd comment then I'm comment. You know, before the stuff

[@Jst12341]

Very interesting. I found this station on two frequencies. Heard it in texas

[@glloyd1987]

Man we live in the most interesting times.

[@thompson121]

Lettuce pray the funds dry up soon, In the spaghetti monsters magnificent name. Ra'men

[@rutabagasteu]

There is a breakfast sausage company in the US that still uses the voice of their dead founder to sell sausage. Very strange.

[@VA7SL]

“I’m not dead yet, in fact I’m feeling better” Monty Python The Meaning of Life

[@borntoclimb7116]

Lol

[@paulcarlsen4088]

😂😂😂

[@paulsengupta971]

Let's hope the funds don't dry up. This is the only thing that's keeping some of these transmitters on air. I'd rather have loony preachers on the bands than just static.

[@matambale]

Brother Scare is useful as a propagation beacon modulated with nonsense.

[@N_Andrews]

Slohb

[@FreedomMonky]

Stair isn't the only dead shortwave star: Gene Scott, money grifting preacher died 2005, still airing today. Peter J Peters, hate spewing preacher died 2011, still airing today Mother Angelica, Catholic nun whose programs were aired long past a 2001 stroke left her speechless, and even past her 2016 death Harold Camping, religious broadcaster who predicted the world would end in 2011. Died in 2013, but his programming (with the embarrassingly incorrect rapture talk edited out) was broadcast until 2018.

[@jacobberthold3602]

praise the lord

[@NICKGAR7]

Interesting info. I’ll take a listen. Kinda reminds me of Jonestown! Hey, what’s the hilltop transmitter on outro? Cheers, Nick

[@RingwayManchester]

Mount Alvaiezere in Portugal

[@NICKGAR7]

@@RingwayManchester thanks Lewis. Have a good week. Maybe get you on 2/70 Tues/Wed next week…..

[@olafelsberry420]

I always love your videos Lewis, gigity gigity goo.

[@RingwayManchester]

Glad you like them! Giggity goo!

[@olafelsberry420]

@@RingwayManchester anything radio gets me going brother, giggity giggity goo.

[@zakofrx]

Why was their ship and equipment seized?? The ship and equipment is legal I would guess and they were not breaking the law with it.. They may be breaking the law when they transmit later from international waters but they could be transmitting near any country, not just the one the launched the boat from..

[@RyanJ_]

Over-the-air pollution

[@atwaterkent3413]

I'm not a Christian but I'll listen to Brother Stair sometimes. I'm not sure why, but I do find it entertaining in limited doses.

[@walterwrightmarine]

Is this anything to do with the Irish or maybe Italian station that sell or lease airtime...

[@mr.nonsense2900]

I heard him on my multiband radio in South Carolina.

[@lesjones5684]

Very cool 😎

[@ananonymoususer4698]

They are probably reruns ngl.

[@sleeve8651]

Having been interested in all things Radio, since the 60's, I can't tell all the times I tuned across this Man, never having a clue what he looked like, but as typical for voices, they seldom sound like they look ! But then to hear here, he may have been into more nefarious things, is surprising ! Makes me wonder if they were trumped up charges to try and silence him ?

[@CrimsonLegacy]

I get this station in on multiple frequencies on my shortwave radios. Located in North Carolina. I heard a long speech from him telling people to send in money and call in to leave him a voicemail to let him know how you listen so they can justify spending. I called the number and its still valid and taking new messages.

[@PaulTaylor1]

Yep, 15 years ago if you didn't land on Brother Stair then it was Harold Camping. They don't bother retransmitting the old Camping stuff any more, partly because he was so specific with his date setting that it hasn't aged well at all. As for The Overcomer Ministry, they're now led by Pastor Rice, which sounds like an Italian recipe. "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Glory glory!" 🤭

[@rebeccamacgregor549]

I think Harold Camping's folks just gave up

[@SarahJane148]

I remember this story wasn't it connected with radio Newyork International and the Mv Sara & the transmitter engineer Al Weener who had worked for Radio Caroline

[@boilerroombob]

Brother stair was always heard on sw the bands even more so 30/40 years ago .. .and still a voice beyond the grave today ...whatever your views he was always there somewhere to be found...and because of this he made a good way to test for propergation.....

[@Drive4YourLifeAZ]

excellent listening😮

[@rikprince8414]

I just had to see if the crazy bastard was still out there. Tuned in to Brother Stair on a web SDR out of Georgia. 🤣🤣🤣