Strange Sounds from 96.7FM

When Portland Redditors discover a myriad of bizarre broadcasts on 96.7 FM, a rabbit hole was quickly born. Unbeknownst to them, the mystery in which they were traversing had gone back much further than they initially believed.
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Special thanks to Thryn, DragonGalaxyCakes, Wodan, and Vuokko for their investigative help.
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[@noahhughes9308]

“Let’s have a listen...” “RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS IS ONE OF MOST AMBITIOUS RPG PROJECTS OF 2019!”

[@darkduane1]

Brilliant 😂

[@kfdhbdj9224]

Mines is a tik tok ad

[@andrearamirez9924]

@@kfdhbdj9224 if you skip to the very end at the beginning and let the reply arrow you won't have ads 😁

[@makotoplush9776]

I knew it they're secretly advert Raid to us

[@ilovesmosh2012]

I don't get it. I use ad block?

[@dialupdude]

96.7 is a music station here in Australia, and it sometimes makes weird noises here too, usually when a Cardi B song comes on.

[@vanguardian3439]

based

[@katybug6572]

HA! Lolz 😆 🤦‍♀️

[@brian.7966]

the reason it makes a weird noise is it keeps playing Elton john music,

[@jessicadia7293]

Bawhahahahaha

[@lloydcalicoy816]

Okuuuur

[@davemitchell116]

I was a broadcast engineer for 47 years. Transmitting off beat garbage is common when a new station is testing before going on the air for the first time, or sometimes when a station changes format. it's no big deal. It's to keep the frequency occupied so the FCC doesn't declare the station dead and assign it to a new licensee.

[@Leaferr]

ahh wow that makes total sense tbf. do you know why they'd choose some shit like this though? are they allowed to play licensed music during that formatting/setting up period?

[@Lallint]

@@Leaferr I'm pretty sure most MLK speeches, JFK speeches, sputnik recordings and the Apollo 11 broadcasts are in the public domain. I know for sure that Apollo 11 is in the public domain. Maybe thats why they chose it?

[@thesagedwizard]

This is my favourite answer to this mystery.

[@RickPMandel]

I spent the majority of my career 40 years as a broadcast technician, in Detroit. One of the local radio stations switched formats from AOR to country. To make sure they "lost" all of their former audience, they did this exact same thing for about a month. At some point, all the crazy programming stopped, and was replaced by a robotic countdown from 1000. When the countdown got to zero, the station returned to normal broadcasting, starting with their new call letters.

[@jaodasilva7993]

That makes sense , but i undestood that this case ran like that for years.

[@nancypantz]

Several years ago, I had a local radio station on and suddenly, a sequence of repetitious sounds that were very discomforting began and lasted about 3 minutes. I called the station and they assured me that it was only Nickleback.

[@donwayne1357]

Nickleback was once known as Eric The Toad And The Explosive Enemas.

[@potato1907]

nickelback - help me

[@tanya-xoxo]

🤣🤣🤣

[@mannmctrash]

"Look at this photograph, everytime you do you w̷͚̦̤̤̃͠ǒ̵͔̘́̈́̚ṋ̷́̚'̴̝̦͛͒͘t̸̠̙̜̐͐́ ̸̮̎̓̃͝c̶̡̛̟̟̻ö̵͎̟͓́ͅm̵̹̂e̶̖͑̈́̚͝ ̵̞̖̀͒b̸̦̆̍̉a̸̺̍̑ç̸̫̬̫̍̀̈́̕ḱ̶͙̗͊.̶̙̥̽"

[@GigaScienceCorp]

Nickleback is actually good to me!

[@S3V3R3DH3AD]

"Let's have a listen." *"If* *you* *or* *a* *loved* *one* *has* *been* *diagnosed* *with* *mesothelioma,* *you* *may* *be* *entitled* *to* *financial* *compensation."*

[@spiderz5145]

Julissa Zavaleta I’m having way too much fun reading comments like this XD.

[@killshot13000]

No, it's LOOK HERE LOOK LISTEN

[@blinkingintensifies8212]

Julissa Zavaleta I have Diabeetus.

[@kingofpain11111]

Damn he’s good!

[@miss.annissa5253]

I literally read this in the guy’s voice 😂

[@xerodelacroix5552]

96.7FM is my local "alternative" station, I guess Imagine Dragons is pretty horrifying at 3AM.

[@doubleh333lix]

Imagine Dragons is horrifying all the time.

[@xerodelacroix5552]

@@doubleh333lix Agreed.

[@apollogeist8513]

Since when have people considered Imagine Dragons alternative???

[@blackstcnes]

@@apollogeist8513 its radio, we're talking about. they play imagine dragons on "rock" stations here

[@reemyziz]

sav TM Imagine Dragons’ old music used to be alternative/indie rock. Now they’re mostly pop

[@franziskk3417]

Oh God... When Nexpo says "let's have a listen..." and the background music cuts off, you know something very spooky is coming on

[@benjabby]

Yeah, in my case, an ad. Absolutely terrifying

[@MarbleSodaPop]

@@benjabby Same, I got an add for a window sale lol

[@KeitieKalopsia]

Yeah, audio horror is scarier than any other horror for me

[@feintha]

@@KeitieKalopsia seriously.. it's freaky as hell.

[@droopy2088]

@@MarbleSodaPop I wasn’t looking at the video and I got an ad for ranch with like really upbeat music. I was so confused😭

[@cahg3871]

The fact it occurred during night time,just added to the feeling of eeriness.When Art Bell on Coast to Coast am had his radio signal cut off right across the am dial all through America and Europe when discussing the HARP program in Alaska,the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.Night time adds a lot of fuel to the imagination.

[@versebuchanan512]

I miss Coast to Coast, it used to be so good to lay in bed and listen to at night, get some creepiness in before going to sleep.

[@frickin_robin]

coast to coast was so good man

[@Aaaaaaaa-ix4rp]

Was this an event?

[@megaglock22]

You're right! I remember listening to Art Bell on any night off from my 3rd shift job! Always intriguing and respectful, regardless of how crazy some of the guests or call-in's were! Loved it!

[@TFitz1]

I miss Art!

[@RubbahPants]

"We don't know about any interference" reads either like they didn't bother checking and didn't care OR like a cheeky way of saying "Those broadcasts are all us"

[@EpsilonUnitGaming]

The latter is exactly the way I interpreted it. “We aren’t aware of interference,” and basically nothing else seems exactly like a cheeky confession to me.

[@i-man872]

Bruh, I was like this sounds intresting. And then I realize, I live really close to Beaverton Oregon.

[@SuperPhunThyme9]

...if it was playing over a regular station's frequency, they wouldnt want to comment on it because it implies their equipment is anemic if LP stations or some random guy can override their frequency across so many areas. That would be one of the best possibilities...

[@svinjamaria]

How I could explain what she said: “We don’t know about any interference” = we didn’t know the people could hear this shit!!!

[@decodyg484]

Could be an open investigation, she could only communicate things in the public domain. Not following up with an email inquiring further details she may be able to share seems negligent.

[@costiq4048]

I'm gonna get my own radio station and just play Minecraft ambient music, and sometimes cave noises to mix it up a bit

[@peepiss]

yuhhh, if you ever actually do that, drop the station number and stuff 100% would listen lol

[@kamm6001]

did you ever do this lol

[@costiq4048]

@@kamm6001 I wish lol

[@toeseater2855]

woah calm down satan

[@MrSkinnyWhale]

And then suddenly.... *TssssSsSsSSS-BOOOM*

[@MrBossMan1898]

I'm a truck driver and in 2017 i was doing runs along the I-5 corridor, from Washington down to California, and one night as i was driving through Oregon via I-5 i was browsing through the radio stations and found one that genuinely gave me the creeps. I don't remember if it was this station or not, but from the sounds of it, it probably was. It was playing some creepy sounds and chanting almost like from a cult in a movie doing some kind of ritual. Kinda wish i had recorded it, but i wasn't even thinking of that, i was like "what the fuck?" Before turning it off.

[@janemiettinen5176]

I know the feeling. We (me, husband, BIL & our two cats) were driving back to home from in-laws lakehouse in the middle of night and we were within the greater Helsinki area, when hubby changed the channel. There was utterly weird music, lone dude lazily contemplating ufos, taking long pauses (I thought he fell asleep couple times.. that long), mechanical chirps and buzzes, chanting, humming, with a peculiar dreamlike feeling to it all, no commercials or name of the channel. It had definite form, it wasnt crazy salad of everything, but it didnt help much. The mood in the car went from uncontrollable laughter to being thoroughly creeped out. This happened maybe 5 years ago, but it left the perpetual whattafuck in all of our minds (except the cats, I think). We have tried to connect to that channel again, no dice. After we dropped BIL home, we listened to this craziness all the way to ours, so I should be able to catch it easily. All have different explanations too; I think it was art experiment, hubs is convinced it was a prank or joke, BIL thinks it was new form of number stations. I might also add that hubs works in archiving music, he recognizes the weirdest art songs from obscure labels, but nothing that played on this channel. If Im right and it was art, it definitely left an impression :)

[@johnescolme5066]

@@janemiettinen5176Two Helsinki art stations “Raudio” and “Radio Hear” sometimes do long sequences of avant-garde music & sounds. You may have been listening to one of these.

[@masterchief3884]

Don't worry too much. It was probably hip hop or new rap. I heard something horrific as well,i believe they called it "Bieber" or something like that.

[@riona7597]

This reminds me of something that happened with my little sister and I. This was during February 2003, in CA. I'm sure it was a weird prank but it scared us so bad we were terrified of the radio for a while after that lol. We had the radio playing while we were doing homework, and I started fiddling with the stations. We stopped on this one station that was playing sort of angelic, dreamy sounding music. It kind of sounded like Enya's music. About a minute in, it switched to this loud, rhythmic thumping. Not like a musical beat. It was like someone was violently hitting a wall with a hammer over and over again. Along with that, there was a woman saying "Wake up," repeatedly. At first she sounded kind of goofy, like she was holding back from laughing, and then she got more and more frantic. This went on to the point that she was full on screeching "WAKE UP." Just awful screaming, like this person saw something horrible. We were freaking out loud enough for my mom to come running in. She heard it too, and was equally freaked out. She ended up just yanking the radio from the wall. She tried calling the local radio stations about it, but idk what came from it. I didn't remember the full statio number (besides two 9's I think,) so that probably made it hard for her to find out anything. Our town had a similar "artsy" community, so it makes a lot of sense if someone was doing a prank/avant garde project.

[@williebeemin22]

Hate these stories, I always get the scariest boner

[@girloffthecob]

That is absolutely terrifying. Do you know what station?

[@videonik2835]

@@girloffthecob idk if he’s updated the comment, but it says at the end

[@lisazoria2709]

This is very similar to a radio interruption I experienced awhile back. I was up late listening to a classical radio station in LA. I kept messing around with the dial, because there was a lot of static, more than usual, I couldn't get the station to sound clear. Over the course of the night, the static increased until the music was barely audible anymore, but I hadn't noticed because I was too busy working on my computer. Then, around 3am, I started hearing some weird noises. There was a woman screaming like she was being murdered, and the sound of a baby crying, also some men chanting something in the background. There was also the sound of a loud banging like an ax cutting into something. It was so over the top I figured it was someone playing a prank, hacking the station. I just wish I had recorded it with my phone or something. I was up late editing some footage for a student film about a haunted house. Perfect timing. Lol

[@Prof.Tarfeather]

Gotta tell you guys that Verizon phones and their cable TV systems interfered with every phone network! My "not a smart-phone phone" I had in 2017 was a net 10 and picked up the WiFi signal off router for the computer and TV' boxes in our house I heard pieces of TV footage over the phone and pieces of my boyfriends phonecalls on our TV! My phone kept interrupting his phone! My phone would auto-dial numbers in the middle of the night? Customer service... could not help me? I had to upgrade my phone. To stop the phenomenon! Yep!

[@donteventrip9625]

“Let’s have a listen” *JONES BARBECUE AND FOOT MASSAGE*

[@ascensionspeak4694]

Not funny. Normie.

[@krxxc.kk6]

@@ascensionspeak4694 Veterans aren't normies

[@movedgunner1695]

Nolan Beaudin “Fortnite bad lol I’m so funny ahah”

[@Captain_Mercury]

@@movedgunner1695 haha you did the funi

[@OneDayOfPiece]

LMAO

[@thebernice6062]

I heard once that when a station is changing formats or undergoing a management change they still have to keep broadcasting even if they don't have any material to put on air. If they don't the FCC can claim the frequency is abandoned and can reassign it to whoever they want, so I heard. There was a station here that had a text to voice program reading jokes and sayings for a few days while they switched from rock to hip hop.

[@dismissyourself]

This is the most sensible explanation

[@ello-olle]

dismiss yourself well, except for the part that they’ve been doing this since 2017? Or does it always take that long?

[@HomoErectusIsAFunnyName]

Yep, that's my guess too. I think you have to broadcast a given time a day (or maybe a week) to keep the license. And those weird noises mostly sound like test signals. I think it was just a placeholder broadcast to keep the rights of the frequency.

[@Tierdas]

should not have read this before watching the video lol the mystery is kind of gone now, but good explanation

[@skiderrunner]

@@Tierdas shit, you too?

[@jad4945]

In the e-mail you showed she didn't say that they were not responsible for those broadcasts, she said that the radio station was theirs and that they weren't aware of any interference. If they were responsible for those broadcasts then there wasn't any interference to be aware of and she was being entirely truthful while using implication to lead you in another direction.

[@p3zzer]

here in liverpool, england, we have a massive radio station called "Radio City". it's frequency is also 96.7, and it is also constantly broadcasting incredibly strange noises. these strange, grotesque noises are the native scouse accent.

[@paulross225]

Bit harsh! 🤔

[@gabrielv.4358]

please record it and post/upload

[@swagbski]

@@gabrielv.4358 do you get the joke? the commenter’s just criticizing the radio commentator’s accent lol

[@mikethomas4423]

🤣 juice FM now isn't it

[@JohnDoe__404]

​@mikethomas4423 nah, still radio city

[@hyperion3145]

Viewer beware: 90% of the comments are the same thing with one change. You have been warned.

[@hashtags_YT]

"Let's have a listen" (insert unfunny advertisement)

[@Anonymous_Eyeballs]

It's human nature. Rather than being clever and original, they'd rather find one thing that works and exploit/ruin it. I hate humanity for this very reason. It's why I stopped using most social medias. Where's Thanos when ya need him?

[@daddytachanka8076]

Justin Potts it’s pretty funny though. Also, the one change can be quite creative when people have an idea to put in the template that bring back great memories for some people or let them have a true smile or even laugh because it’s something they haven’t heard in a while. Idk, you seem quite bitter and cynical... hopefully you find more happiness again.

[@alicescarlet9960]

@@daddytachanka8076 There's no such thing as true originality anyways; rather, it's combinations of ideas that are original and unique, not individual ideas themselves. Aside from that, I don't think anyone expects comedy gold from a KZbin comment section... or at least, I think most people don't. Maybe it's because I don't spend most of my time down here, but like, I'm not even jaded about people being, in some way, "unoriginal." As a second aside, "viewer beware" reminds me of Goosebumps.

[@daddytachanka8076]

Alice Scarlet well said and that’s funny you noticed that

[@DAAI741]

One time, for the morning announcements at my high school, they decided to play "calming" whale sounds over our shitty PA system. It ended up being one of the most terrifying sounds I have ever heard.

[@dawnhasbroken6304]

😅😆

[@joey22306]

😭

[@Find-Your-Bliss-]

Funniest thing I’ve heard in ages! Most surreal moment award!

[@patp3800]

Lol

[@jennymoore2083]

😂😂🤣😂

[@thurayya8905]

The weird tones sound like an early satellite, like Sputnik or Telstar. They were huge deals when they first went up and I remember going outside as a small child with my friends to watch for Telstar crossing the night sky. The recordings of them passing overhead were touted as signals from space in your living room.

[@graysonrogers-barnes6302]

I am so glad others are pointing out the vintage satellite sounds

[@vbsenthusiast]

given that the speech clips date from the 60s, it would match up somewhat with the theme!

[@gabos7892]

I remember about 4 years ago, I was driving through the mountains near Mammoth, CA at around 10pm. There was no reception where I was but I had my radio on, I forgot the station, but all of a sudden, I heard yelling for help on my radio. I pulled over because I was so scared. The voice was of a young woman. She sounded like she was panicking, begging for someone to reach her. Her voice sounded helpless as if she knew no one could hear her. I remember yelling back into my radio as if she could hear me, but her voice began to fade. Not knowing what to think, I got back into my car and kept driving. I still think about that night every once in a while....and I always wondered about that woman.

[@potato1907]

there seems to only be 6 radio stations in mammoth 1: KMMT (106.5) 2: KAAT (103.1) 3: KIBS (100.7) 4: K243AK (96.5) 5: KRHV (93.3) 6: KSRW (92.5) no idea if there's more defunct but do you know around the area your radio was tuned?

[@Mike-mb8oy]

@@potato1907 creepy

[@potato1907]

@@Mike-mb8oy it's a list of radio stations??

[@Mike-mb8oy]

@@potato1907 no the woman yelling for help

[@finley4117]

I’m thinking that maybe you tuned into a comms device frequency and she was doing the only thing she could do to get help

[@primitivechef8009]

This is equivalent to Spotify ads you get just pure fear and agonizing noise

[@puremulp]

Click the banner to learn more

[@theheroickid9106]

Wanna break from the ads?

[@primitivechef8009]

“Wanna a break from the *static* tap the banner to learn how

[@alexduran1711]

It’s not as scary as KZbin’s two ads sometimes, god dame that’s horrifying

[@iCookCrystalMeth]

Ok but have you ever gotten an unskipable 2 hour long ad about chess

[@reyariass]

In Portland people often say, “Keep Portland weird” so maybe that’s their way of upholding that weirdness?

[@h_light24]

Rey Arias as a Portlander I could 100% see this happening and would probably just pass it off as some bizarre hipster music and go on with my day

[@pillbugheart]

Yeah that's probably it, sounds like my city

[@bobjackson6524]

I saw 'keep portland wierd' graffitti piece the other day in a kids t.v programme on Nickelodeon

[@indigowendigo8165]

Austin, Texas has the same thing. :p

[@h_light24]

Rob Jackson I was in Austin for a week over winter break and it really was similar to Portland it’s so nice there I know a lot of people in Portland from Austin and the other way around

[@syxodude91]

Around 2004, I remember one of our local stations played nothing but cartoon sound effects while a man's voice would cycle through names every once in a while. This happened for an entire weekend. It still hasn't been explained.

[@Francdacake]

(Goofy ahh sound effects) “Bob”

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

The names are typically the callsign of radio station...so if it's FMR 65.6 the names would be Fred Michael Randy or something like that...

[@syxodude91]

@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 I don't think it was the case for this incident. The guy would say something like "Who is Gary?" then there would be a bunch of Hanna Barbera sound effects playing one after another for about 2 minutes. Then the guy would speak again "Who is Nancy?" then another set of cartoon sound effects would play. There was a bunch of names cycled through before it would loop and start again from the beginning. It was kinda creepy and even creepier that an explanation was never given and I have never heard any radio station play whatever that was.

[@strokey5284]

​@@syxodude91Could be a spy station, some sort of code. Very weird

[@user-dx5xm9ym7s]

The creepy beeping noises are actually simply recordings of the radio transmissions put out by Sputnik 1 over the course of 3 weeks. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.

[@mirrortoremind]

5:29 “Let’s have a listen...” “Liberty Mutual customizes car insurance. Liberty Liberty Li-berty!” Holy shit that’s freaky!!

[@cloutelfin8323]

This made me laugh, good job

[@joekerr9150]

@@CanadianaEast you aren't american, yet.

[@aerofish0]

@@joekerr9150 the jingle is going to change his nationality

[@joekerr9150]

@@aerofish0 yes

[@vogelvogeltje]

@@aerofish0 u a potato doe 😳

[@hunterhefti]

“Let’s have a listen” “COME ON DOWN TO OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE”

[@kevinkev417]

Hunter Hefti KZbin Red

[@The_Archvile]

🤣🤣😂

[@The_Archvile]

State Farm lmao

[@snowboundrecords]

"A MAN HAS FALLEN INTO THE RIVER, IN LEGO CITY"

[@JustAnotherNamelessGuy]

in my area it's a rock station

[@kristenr8311]

I don't know if it's the lack of a visual component, or my layperson fascination with pirate radio stations, unsourced audio, odd samples, etc., but I love this kind of mystery radio broadcast shit. It would be super fun to renegade broadcast like this, or catch one sometime.

[@bradbrandon2506]

I've been holding off on watching this for 2 years simple because I listen to this mostly at night and the strange sounds might stop me from being able to sleep that night. Here we go! Let's do it!

[@imarcus1973]

Are you scared of your own shadow too?

[@bradbrandon2506]

@imarcus1973 yes because of what even my shadow is capable of.

[@baileymcmanus1816]

Sounds like what that one friend who is deep into underground music plays

[@anton2fangs]

@Pentex Sucks Bonegnawers suck

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@Pentex Sucks sweet Dark Ambient

[@majira-dy5im]

This isnt really dark ambient tho.

[@MeanderingSlacker]

It was playing Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Pretty Tame

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@majira-dy5im well, the second sample sounds more or less like that

[@Zsokorad]

Let's have a listen... "You're not a dish! You're a man!" Terrifying

[@Gamera_the_Inconceivable]

I literally got that ad before this video

[@kylerp171]

Lol

[@miisoma]

Bro but why are they just making weird noises sounds like a cult thing

[@Jayfishu]

yo mama hey that's my name in a lot of stuff

[@HaXD1209]

You are right... maybe im not a dish

[@elainelewis6724]

Thank you for doing stories not heard before. So many topics on KZbin have been presented ad nauseum. It's refreshing to hear the hidden gems you present. I'm 64. I've heard most everything in life-until your channel. Thanks. And great presentation and research as well. Good job.

[@janetcraft]

My late great Grandfather showed me and friends how to make an AM radio using toilet roll and lots of copper wiring. It had to be nailed down on a wooded board about 8X10. We used a mono mic piece to listen to radio stations using a razer blade to scan over the copper wire. My Father saw this and was very angry because - it wasn't the radio hobby thing, it was because we played with a razer blade. I had no trouble handling with razer blade skimming through copper wire. So, most of my friends gave up on this hobby. We did pick up AM stations. It was very, very soft and jaggit sounds. My Great Grandpa said - this is what he learned during WW1. Thank you for this story.

[@joseph3062]

Imagine if there's just a random guy who tunes in to that radio station and says to himself "now this is my jam"

[@overlordghs1081]

joseph306 human music!

[@nomiccal7404]

You arnt dancing to that.....?

[@alexanderholzer7392]

Well of course I know him, he's me!

[@jessicazurawicz429]

"I love this song"

[@alexanderholzer7392]

@@jessicazurawicz429 Ah, yes, ambient mind control schizo EDM, my favorite.

[@JollyJuiice]

"And now... Human music."

[@kyjack3721]

was gonna be my comment lol

[@car0ndelet]

Makes me think of Laurie Anderson’s “Difficult Listening Hour”.

[@Cawksu]

ky jack another word for it is: Beat me to it. Just saying :)

[@studapeppahead5384]

Hmmm...I LIKE IT!

[@punpuniia]

Humanz music

[@crazychaoticcool]

My dog went absolutely NUTS when the high pitched noises started playing at 5:41. Head tilting, whining, barking, the works. 100% confident that's just a coincidence and not an intended result of these noises, but he's never reacted that strongly to noises coming from a speaker.

[@John-wd5cb]

There's a signal within the signal then, shifted in spectrum. Maybe it was never meant for human ears 😮 😮 😮 😮

[@ForzaNinetails]

I just recently discovered your youtube channel, and going through a lot of your old videos, and man the intro to this video is awesome.

[@amyshaw893]

Why are those tones so freaky? I'm standing in a well lit kitchen at night right now, and I'm having to check behind me because those sounds make my brain go "not good. Something wrong. Bad times"

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

That would probably be the creepy music that is playing in the video the whole time

[@amyshaw893]

@@PlasticCogLiquid no, i specifically mean during the clips, the tones that are playing on the radio

[@ethpling165]

I always wondered why certain weird tones and audio patterns make us get creeped out or paranoid. It’s a bit strange how it works and I couldn’t find much on it with a Google search.

[@wowfrosted13]

@@ethpling165 I would guess that the tones are an artificial way to trigger a predatory environment in your mind. Like when things get "too quiet", it's because your subconscious picked up on sub rhythms and tones that are supposed to be present, but are not. Vice versa. The presence of tones that may indicate danger. They're repliticable in audio software

[@mikeyboy7719]

I’m sitting in bed watching this at midnight and it’s creepy af

[@DeepFleeceheart]

5:40 "let's take a listen...." [Loud ass youtube ad] me: That's disrespectful, man!

[@amparodavila1009]

Oh my Lol 😂

[@reallymoo8713]

I also got that lmao

[@ResidentMilf]

You're not a dish, you're a MAN

[@itzelneptune]

Lmfao

[@zygis1819]

Why are you not using AdBlocker

[@saphrodite1]

honestly you sending this thorough, polite email and CAT just coming back with essentially "hmmmm weird! thanks!" is very humorous

[@ashthewolfdog1380]

Here, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA, the channel "96.7 the beaver", one of our popular country stations was suddenly interupted back in 2020 with similar audio, I was listening to it while getting ready for bed, when what was just some Allen Jackson playing on the radio turned into this creepy audio. I freaked out, and ripped the cord from the wall, too afraid to sleep, feeling my house was haunted.

[@Young-bx2pf]

I feel like the people at CATS are probably just a bunch of old people who don’t know how to properly run a radio station and didn’t even realize that it was messed up audio.

[@sciblastofficial9833]

I thought you meant CATS the movie... Still works the same with movies.

[@y0_jimb0]

This was my impression too, just a poorly produced test broadcast that they accidentally left playing during their off hours. Occam's razor, easiest explanation is incompetence.

[@handsomest1]

Miron Gaines you don’t get paid to think baby girl

[@ToyMuseum-lw3pz]

@@handsomest1 😂😂😂

[@Freddie7191]

@omgwtfbbq Nothing in the video was conclusive at all, so I don't know what you're getting at.

[@michaellandi1582]

5:45 Radiohead’s new single is fire 🔥🔥

[@ashisaweeb]

And they said king of limbs was trash

[@offtop5784]

pulk pull revolving doors type beat

[@eparigon]

BRUH

[@hankhill7287]

I wanna see Thom York dance to this

[@oreofudgeman]

Tom yorke is getting really pretentious with this weird new Radiohead.

[@DanielYapHZ]

I like hearing your voice, it calms me. Thank you for always being a constant. You create wonderful works. Hope you are doing alright!

[@ISWAGhopey]

5:43 that's Sputnik's signal when Russia launched their first successful satellite. With the apollo 11 mission control audio as well, makes me believe that someone had this on a loop at this fm frequency

[@okbuddyretard]

If they really wanted to spook people, they shoulda played some good ol' Minecraft cave sounds.

[@zack4676]

Then don't be suprised why cars are mossy

[@deleted3966]

Or just a creeper or cloaker

[@HeyItsMutt]

just play Disc 11 and Disc 13 on repeat

[@cruze_the]

@@deleted3966 cloaker?

[@deleted3966]

@grishm one cloaker from payday two

[@cassandrag9940]

“Let’s have a listen...” *“ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING PARTS OF MEDITATION IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE DARK SIDE OF THE MIND.”*

[@fleaship6134]

Imagine your mind as a still pool of water...

[@stijnhonigvoort3448]

Cassandra Gandia my god that ad has been harassing me for over a year

[@taylorbritt499]

those dang Headspace ads lol

[@RoastHardy]

Darkness is a mere absence of light, or the inability to perceive the current frequency.

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

"Let's have a listen" *"THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE WATER, AND IT'S MAKING ALL THE FROGS GAY!"*

[@jasonfrew2394]

Reminds me of when I used to listen to shortwave radio back in the very early 90's. Lots of really weird stuff to hear then.

[@cancledacc]

We need more of these type of videos. Mysteries in radio or television!

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

Of course it's in Oregon. I swear that place has the highest amount of weirdness per capita in the whole world

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

And I'm not referencing Gravity Falls, like it's actually true. Especially Portland, probably the weirdest city in the USA, but all of Oregon too. Kinda makes me "feel proud" because I'm from there

[@talimusbellavance5101]

​@@xiphactinusaudax1045 This must be the case, yes.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

It's full of hipsters, so it's bound to happen.

[@haddonproctor5425]

I mean "Keep Portland Weird" is a sign in downtown Portland

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

@@haddonproctor5425 yeah that's actually the city's motto

[@bainslayer]

I still think it's odd that the station that took over is called "the numberz" considering the amount of people who had referred to it as a "numbers station" when cat still owned it

[@ryanphillips4123]

I thought the same thing. I kinda feel like there are a few loose ends left behind by the video. Just a couple, but still.

[@benjaminwharerau9735]

96.6 George fm in Auckland New Zealand is named after a ghost thought to haunt their studio

[@falconJB]

@@ryanphillips4123 Portland is a strange place everything, even their local ads, are art projects. This isn't really any odder than a lot of stuff there.

[@SiaSeeya_]

THE NUMBERS MASON WHAT DO THEY MEAN

[@Lexender]

Nah that one actually makes a lot of sense. Urban legends are some of the best free publicity you can get, so being the creepy numbers station is a huge marketing plus. Hotels, for example, mill the whole "haunted" thing super hard.

[@leonbrown7911]

Mad praise for actually having a short description overview, rather than just a sea of plugs

[@ScaryStoriesAt2AM]

Love going back and watching these old Nexpo videos, these broadcast/number station ones always freak me out 🥶😱🥶😱 Hope everyone watching this is having a great day, you've been a huge inspiration to me and my channel 🤍🤍

[@thecoon3193]

Pilot here: The random beeping tones sounds a lot like when someone "steps" on someone else on the radio (meaning two people tried to transmit at the same time).

[@tannergordon8302]

This happens on military radios too, but it's hard to believe it would happen this often for this long, unless they're just poorly placed antenna.

[@lawoull.6581]

@@tannergordon8302 do you like hamhocks or neckbones in your collard greens 🤔

[@nicklikesradio]

Thats usually how it sounds over am transmissions yes. However this is frequency modulation. There is a capture effect to FM.

[@odaydrums]

@@lawoull.6581 what the fuck is that supposed to mean?

[@lawoull.6581]

@@odaydrums 🤔...you remind me of Jimmy Walker from Good Times...yesss...

[@guardian2598]

Don’t touch that dial now, we’re just getting started.

[@wegothostiles]

Still got me sad that pt never came to fruition

[@fishsmellbad1862]

Stoooooooop

[@bobzilla93]

Very obscure reference

[@steinychickens9026]

It’s one of the worst decisions Konami ever made. PT was honestly the scariest fucking thing I’ve ever played. Ever. That game could’ve been something truly brilliant.

[@MRC4691]

Dude pls no

[@stephlittlebird4882]

As a Portlander, It’s funny to watch this story get “spookified” by Nexpo 😂

[@Tomsonic41]

In my area there are two local FM radio stations on 96.3 and 96.9. If you tune to 96.7 you get a mixture of the two stations 'fighting' for each other and it sounds extremely weird!

[@chase.4864]

"Let's have a listen" *"EVER SINCE I DOWNLOADED THIS APP, I'VE BEEN ADDICTED, THIS IS DANGEROUS"*

[@cassidevs7356]

Tiktok?

[@Ilovepokemon675]

Play Raid: Shadow Legends. Download for free

[@plaguex1]

KZbin and Facebook

[@healthya7975]

Pornhub with unlimited premium

[@quixotic9189]

Ayyy 666th like

[@paraldasfyre]

The sound playing from 6:45 in the car is a loop of Nasa's recording of the sounds from the planet Jupiter.

[@jayden7128]

Jupiter radio signal getting sent to earth and 96.7 is the only open radio signal to space. this is just a theory

[@jayden7128]

@@RandomNameLastName811 I know but I didn't know about the static. I thought it would sound clear ..

[@jacksoncabrera7236]

Both sound very familiar together. That's so strange that a car radio would get a signal from space. That sounds impossible.

[@jacksoncabrera7236]

@@RandomNameLastName811 Lol I never noticed.

[@geckoyacht]

Holy shit I heard this and was like “damn it sounds like Jupiter”

[@Flippirino]

Honestly such a bop with eerie music and a little bit of speeches and talks A great in between

[@shrimpbisque]

It would be really cool if a local radio station had an unannounced Numbers Station hour that was part of an ARG.

[@I_Like_Funnel_Cake]

someone make that happen!!!! 😠

[@BatJeff]

I miss the purple border. The purple border let me know I could feel safe.

[@crazyhiphopp]

dw

[@caseyharrington4947]

That’s because you shouldn’t feel safe now.

[@thewhiskysmokers3117]

Hahaha completely agree. Then you know the explanation is coming so you don't have to freak out anymore.

[@jacksonstrode4598]

Same here

[@arrozconlecheee]

never would've thought of this but shi you right

[@kjax7322]

The fact that no one hooked up a cheap yagi to a ham radio and triangulated the position of the broadcast antenna is an utter travesty, that wold have solved the whole mystery. Doesn't matter now I guess.

[@soulreaverable]

You mean trilaterated?

[@jameskinard]

@@soulreaverable No he means triangulate, with radio you can rotate the antenna and get and increase or decrease in signal. Get an angle and then move to a different point and get another angle, do that again and where they all intersect is the location. Its actually a common HAM competition to find radio beacons this way, race to find the transmitter type thing.

[@ericmikesell5252]

I know thats what I was thinking. Probably no cared enough to spend money on it hah

[@kjax7322]

👍

[@hadriasholyspear.4004]

What's a yagi? I hope I don't sound stupid.

[@cringesouljah]

11 year old kid from Argentina here: in my town theres a lot of stations that make weird loud sounds, especially in my dad's camp (i dont know how to say it. english was not my first language) and so, everytime we/i get on the car we play the radio trying to listen music or something and imagine all the stations with some 90s TV Static sound

[@algomaone121]

Thanks for this deep dive!

[@XenoLife]

The guy who said “aphex twin marathon” deserves a medal

[@bbear3886]

lmao yes XD was about to point it out myself

[@niclebowski9214]

true i laughed irl

[@randominternetguy8735]

selected ambient works 96.7

[@diyamond]

i wanna meet them

[@diyamond]

@Ze • hi 😁

[@flowerranger]

It's Portland, this is for sure just some weird art project lmao

[@Nikki-jn3ud]

Lmao, right

[@carlmanvers5009]

'It's Portland.'

[@lordtachanka5512]

Carl Manvers it’s Portland, they’re probably just experimenting on their population in an attempt to create a biological weapon

[@carlmanvers5009]

@@lordtachanka5512 LOL

[@ziggy8253]

It’s Portland. They’re probably just doing some occult ritual to summon Cthulhu and bring death and destruction upon the world.

[@butteredtoast8464]

This is great investigative journalism. Keep up the good work.

[@Biltrax2]

Great video as always! I feel like CAT did not deny their involvement, if something, they almost admit being fully aware of this and probably didn’t care enough to explain further.

[@BarelySociable]

Sp00ky haven’t heard of this one

[@megalodontheestallion5241]

you get that early extra release I see!

[@archdukefranzferdinand567]

Why aren't you verified?

[@megalodontheestallion5241]

@UCLg9DrOMekWaIse57ZCaz3Q I knowwww! I got creeped out for a second! lol

[@fra34543]

Why your comment is from 5 days ago if the video was uploaded 13 minutes ago?

[@jeffoneill2720]

Amuno I thought the same

[@larsvonrinpoche1229]

As somebody who lived in Portland for years, Portland is known to have some pretty odd folks and do some avant-garde stuff so I wouldn't be surprised if this was a totally conscious thing that was done in an effort to keep some of the motto "Keep Portland Weird "going

[@LoveFitsAll]

Yes keep Portland weird

[@kmjezik]

I remember when the Oregon collective viewed Californians as being weirdos, it kinda seems that now things have changed

[@kmjezik]

@Mark Ulis No, no , no, you may have misinterpreted my comment/reply. I apologize if I was not clear. I love everything about Oregon. I visited once and I was hooked. I was truly surprised after reading the comments and watching this vid. that weird things happen at all there(Portland). Unfortunately, I currently live in Los Angeles 😑. The violence here is escalating and it is terrifying. I would not wish that on anybody.

[@kmjezik]

@Mark Ulis "Edgy and unique" is a great description. I get depressed when I think of great places like that, that now seem to be ruined.:(

[@owlytimbre9103]

I grew up in beaver town but left in the mid 90s. I 1st herd the butthole surfers on pirate radio in '83. And lived at the satyricon. Pdx has always been progressive. I didn't know that it's gone "gangsta" since.

[@ebayerr]

A quick Google search says that 96.7 FM in Portland first aired 14July2017. Wiki says this about the station: "KNUM-LP is a low-power FM radio station broadcasting on 96.7 FM in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is owned by the Community Alliance of Tenants and is known as "96.7 The Numberz", airing a rap and hip-hop format."

[@raserapps8230]

That time of night again where I try to switch off and wind down. Usually have a quick flick through and Nexpo gets me every time. Either I end up too fkn scared to sleep or before I realise I hear birds chirping and sun lights back again

[@captainmappy3959]

"Let's have a listen." "18 NAKED COWBOYS IN THE SHOWERS AT RAM RANCH"

[@corn1676]

Captain Mappy 18 MORE COWBOYS OUT IN THE YARD

[@cuppydogcity]

RAM RANCH REALLY ROCKS

[@itsvinqz3775]

With throbbing roosters

[@tokeypokey]

@@cuppydogcity BLOOO JEANS

[@cynixw]

*DAA DAA DUM DAA DAA DUM DAA DAA DUM DMHMHMMHMHMM*

[@RECTANGLE339]

Why has no one pointed out the reply “Aphex Twin marathon” lmao

[@thiskid990]

Rip aphex twin...that comment was a slaying

[@jamisunne]

@@yungpm no lol, this does sound like aphex twin though

[@thiskid990]

lil Penisballs if he ain’t dead I’d be surprised that redditor came for his life

[@kyokokirigiri100]

Yeah that's funny as hell.

[@bonkoloid]

Honestly just fucking sounds like some Fuji tape modular song by RDJ tbh

[@travisjohnson622]

Northwest arkansas FINALLY got a good alternative radio station back in 96. Right before it went on the air it played REMs "End of the world" over and over again for two straight weeks. In the last few days they began broadcasting short commercials explaining it was "todays modern alternative", etc. Until then people had no idea WTF was up with this station playing the same thing 24/7.

[@billybbob18]

You could deploy an array of software defined radios SDRs. It would require a turntable (not a record player) and a yagi antenna to act as radar. This mystery can be solved with around 10k in radio gear. You could probably pinpoint the station quickly with a small team.

[@audiodood]

Radio enthusiast here: If it was a low power station, it wouldn't have been too hard to triangulate where the signal is coming from, and pinpoint the approximate transmitter location. A couple of enthusiasts could have done it

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

A few tried, they were never heard from again...

[@audiodood]

@@PlasticCogLiquid spooky lol

[@sammywinchester7788]

This thread was simple and still made me laugh 😄

[@1234kingconan]

Lol campfire story

[@janelle9998]

T r i a n g u l a t e I imagine this means turning things into triangles

[@itsvioneko]

"let's have a listen." *"Hello everybody this is YOUR daily dose of internet"*

[@carolinacoreas7716]

"Some guy was listening to A.M. radio and heard some strange sounds." -Jason from DDOI

[@DerickMasai]

@@carolinacoreas7716 Read it in his voice

[@xfied]

Hello fellow weeb

[@calebd3947]

Once someone tuned into 96.7FM, they heard demonic sounds coming from it. Hear, take a listen.

[@gypsies.zetzip]

aayyee

[@HughGRection92]

@ 20:06 you were reading about "Tristans Bedtime Radio Hour" and the LP station it aired from, you said KFBG, but it was KBFG that was written in the text you were quoting. Just thought you'd want to know about the little dyslexic moment there. Maybe if you ever do a re-edit and want to fix it, idk. Anyways, love the videos! Keep them up!

[@MiniModellingOfficial]

The strange siren “dewuwuwe” sound and the beeping are actually recordings from the Sputnik 1 satellite launched in 1957 Which is interesting since the jfk speeches on that station were about the space race and from the 1960s

[@dylansmith788]

You never fail to make me feel like im not alone in my room.

[@irerim2961]

Dylan Smith god i was just thinking how i have to open all the blinds to let the light in so his videos freak me out a little less

[@commentcopbadge6665]

Hellooooo there. Your hair is getting a little long btw. You should get a hair cut.

[@yoshikagekira1903]

@@commentcopbadge6665 wow that's a nice trespasser uwu

[@djmcc83]

I might glance over my tablet from time to time lol

[@C.H.V.]

i never feel alone in my room past 10pm to 6am

[@Aesukimx]

My stepdad always taught me about how radio frequencies from the war are still bouncing off the hemisphere so in rare cases your walkie talkie picks them up. It’s scary at the time but it’s very cool. Edit: Grammar correction

[@angeliqualuna3146]

How can I do this

[@awearysonata4147]

At this point they’d be highly attenuated. You wouldn’t be able to detect it with a walk-in talkie. However, at night the ionosphere (if I remember my professor correctly) lowers and you can get radio signals from far away, well outside their normal range. I always think that’s pretty cool

[@thebrightsideofthemoon5829]

Do you mean you can pick up past conversations ?

[@kamenanew9867]

@@thebrightsideofthemoon5829 right?! That's what I'm hearing. Reminds me of that movie where the guy cb radioed his dead dad from the past somehow. Also, if that's true it's awesome and creepy and a great movie idea.

[@scrumbole]

Kamen Anew ooh what’s the movie called? sounds cool

[@mrrrglllrrr]

I was using today the app "Radio Garden" which allows you to listen to radio stations around the world (even in North Korea ;)) and "The numberz" from Portland is the ONLY radio station on which I had interference. Maybe it's because I live in Poland (a country in Europe, not a city in Maine, US), but then why do all other stations work perfectly? Even the one in Pyongyang

[@pokepress]

Thanks for giving some more publicity to LPFM! There was another application window a few months ago, so expect some new ones in the next few years!

[@sewerparty]

When I heard the description I thought “aliens” but when I heard the actual broadcast it just sounds like strange EDM

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

More like Dark Ambient/ Noise music

[@GamingOS]

@@oleksandrbyelyenko435 I've heard ambient music that does sound like this

[@someholyspectacle2494]

Rat Punk Two problems with this: First, I find it hard to believe such an obscure genre would be played in such a small town. Possible, but not super likely. Second, the lack of advertisements would mean that there would be no profit to it being an actual radio station.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@GamingOS you know there are different kinds of ambient music?

[@thisguy9458]

I would lose it if you were right because these people are crazy for those sounds saying it like mk ultra shit

[@DoggoLua]

"The numbers Mason, what do they mean"

[@xrtsroom]

Reznov died in vorkuta

[@pauly260]

Dragovich... Kravchenko... Steiner... All must die!

[@tonygunk.]

@@pauly260 beat me to it

[@redacted8983]

Mason! For the last time... *WHERE. IS. THE NUMBERS STATION!?*

[@drkness3018]

Lmao

[@edwardhorner8654]

To get the answer, you should have reached out to the FCC field office closest to your location in Portland. They would set up a field audit of the broadcast and find the location and the broadcasters.

[@KazyEXE]

Seriously. FCC takes this shit seriously

[@sealyoness]

Interesting. Decades ago I would often attempt to tune in to a channel whose call sign I cannot remember in order to catch 'Caribbean Night Sounds'. Nothing weird or supernatural... I just wanted to hear *something other than* the latest pop thing being hawked constantly on the regular stations.

[@PhilosophyofElivagar]

Nexpo: Maybe me: Just maybe Nexpo: Just maybe

[@ji6553]

You're gonna be the one that saves me

[@NintendoSunnyDee]

@@ji6553 [Everyone disliked that]

[@tonightsbigloser]

I don't really wanna know

[@bigmanaustin2843]

@@ji6553 and after all

[@Mavvvzz]

Big Man Austin you’re my wonder wall

[@tychul]

When the radio station said “whoop whoop WhOOp whoop” and I felt that

[@marko6905]

Hits diffrent everytime

[@fruitygarlic3601]

I can't believe James Charles stole these iconic bars, and no one said anything.

[@LuckyDT]

tychul Same, got me right here; ❤️

[@px2a]

tychul same

[@serixskylark]

justførkicks lmfao

[@beansious]

Okay so just reminded me, this FM frequency is literally a couple of points (on decimal side) off a local radio station that got closed down. It was closed down a few years ago and a different radio station obtained there building and use a different frequency.

[@TheOtherGuys2]

96.7 was the radio station of choice for my family growing up in Ontario, but there it was called CHYM and played 90s light rock.

[@BitByADeadBeePt1]

"Let's have a listen...." "YOU CAN POSTMATE ANYTHING"

[@cheeselover2418]

my ad was.. "PETE BUTTGIEG"

[@noticee3825]

Blake Lacerte hate that guy

[@Mscp9]

"CUREOLOGY HAS SAVED MY SKIN"

[@t0tallyn0ttac09]

RAID, SHADOW LEGENDS

[@heysaucemikehere1804]

DrRockso Oh god

[@joyboysplanet]

-turns on radio- -demonic screaming and scary sounds- “shit slapping”

[@bigblueassbaby9074]

*cough*

[@kirzenlitch]

merzbow fans be like

[@ontxtteredwxngs]

r-r-r-remix!

[@NotWizardRealms]

*vigorously bopping head*

[@lakewude]

Stardust Sydney LMFAOOOOOO

[@zisaletter4602]

i know this is an older video but still one of my favorites :) and also this version of the intro is always my favorite, the trees and the deer and such

[@TrainTrackTrav]

That was actually a really fascinating video. Very cool investigation.

[@OccasionalNASCARRaces]

"Let's have a listen:" "I AM ONCE AGAIN ASKING FOR YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPOHT"

[@serixskylark]

Collin McNaught lmaoooo

[@coreythepeanut]

Terrifying

[@chadstuff1875]

He is the kinda dude to rig his own setup at the crib to get some free publicity😂😂

[@circle2867]

dspgaming?

[@Echs_D33]

Or, if you're playing bfv and you're really bad at attacking: I AM ONCE AGAIN SUPPORT.

[@Samstar369]

"Let's have a listen." *"I am once again asking for your financial support."*

[@Trea03]

I got a shitty mobile game ad

[@xxkillemxx4862]

yes it Raid shadow legend

[@catsthepope1037]

My phone completely skipped the ad

[@ricksanchezsflask8794]

Scariest thing I've heard all day.

[@theofficialebt3048]

No Refunds

[@NaviciaAbbot]

Fun fact about call signs. The International Telecommunications Union is in charge of giving regulatory agencies the prefixes for use. The FCC received AA-AL, K, N, and W. Only K and W are issued to commercial stations and commercial callsigns are 3-4 LETTERS in length and are split based upon the Mississippi River (K for everything West and W for everything East). Meanwhile, Amateurs are given anything from the pool and are organized into ten regions. Their region will appear in their callsign, like W1AW, the callsign of the American Radio Relay League's own station, which is in Amateur Region 1 - New England.

[@bunks.]

really fucking LOVE that i tend to only watch nexpo when im home alone or when its night.