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Adam Martyn

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VIDEO SCARIES - THE 2020 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
In this bumper length episode, we take a look at four of the most notorious hijackings of all time!
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@weltonvillegal6258
@weltonvillegal6258 3 жыл бұрын
Lift a glass for Captain Midnight. He spoke up for us in the cheap seats.
@RiC_David
@RiC_David 2 жыл бұрын
Nosebleed Gang 4 Life
@jamst5913
@jamst5913 2 жыл бұрын
Ran it through an inflation calculator (which coincidentally it pointed out was the highest since 1982). $33.52 a month in 2022. That would be insane to pay.
@quayzar1
@quayzar1 2 жыл бұрын
@@jamst5913 That'll be what Netflix will charge by next year at this rate.
@jennifermcbryde8887
@jennifermcbryde8887 Жыл бұрын
Uh
@SmolAliens
@SmolAliens Жыл бұрын
Plus the cost of the decoder box is nearly $1k in today’s money!
@pennyforyourthots
@pennyforyourthots 3 жыл бұрын
It feels like Max Headroom is the origin point of KZbin poop humor
@DrasticFox2004
@DrasticFox2004 Жыл бұрын
Yeah 😂 (With the cutting and screams)
@feralcyborggaming1531
@feralcyborggaming1531 Жыл бұрын
Holy shit. I was thinking the same thing!
@guikatinskas
@guikatinskas Жыл бұрын
i would say shitposting, but yeah lol
@DrasticFox2004
@DrasticFox2004 Жыл бұрын
@@guikatinskas 😂😂😂
@randomness994
@randomness994 Жыл бұрын
Yea 100%
@taydrabrookshire347
@taydrabrookshire347 Жыл бұрын
“$12.95 a month ? No way !” Some things never change.
@DMParody
@DMParody Жыл бұрын
Except $12.95/month right now seems really low compared to everything else
@genericname4583
@genericname4583 Жыл бұрын
@@DMParodywell with modern inflation, it would cost 33.52 dollars now to pay for that.
@Fnafbonnie1153
@Fnafbonnie1153 Жыл бұрын
No way man
@mmchipss
@mmchipss Жыл бұрын
@@genericname4583maybe captain midnight really was onto something
@robfriedrich2822
@robfriedrich2822 Жыл бұрын
Would it be half of the price of cable...
@masonicmantis3214
@masonicmantis3214 Жыл бұрын
I like how all these news channels treat these people like terrorists when most of them are just the 4 chan trolls of the 80s
@bytesabre
@bytesabre Жыл бұрын
You need to read about the Operation Sundevil busts that happened in the US. In the early 90s hackers, even kids stumbling upon random totally unguarded systems were pretty much treated as akin to terrorists because the phone company managed to crash their exchanges with a shitty software update and blamed it on them
@Meleedroit
@Meleedroit Жыл бұрын
@Schrunkley evil version I would've figured people with a name similar to "Skrunkly" had nice shoelaces or something
@Meleedroit
@Meleedroit Жыл бұрын
@Schrunkley evil version by chance, did you steal them from the president?
@Meleedroit
@Meleedroit Жыл бұрын
@Schrunkley evil version awh man I almost forgot that, we had a whole class about it in tumblr university
@gamesincharacter5106
@gamesincharacter5106 Жыл бұрын
I mean lol you’re kinda right
@northamericanpichu
@northamericanpichu Ай бұрын
1986: “$12.95 a month? No way! 🤬” 2024: “$12.95 a month? No way! 😃”
@TSWHedgehog
@TSWHedgehog Жыл бұрын
Looking closely at the Max Headroom hijack, it's possible he was intoxicated, judging by his haphazard movements
@trippinatormachine
@trippinatormachine Жыл бұрын
Yeah imagine he just got shitfaced and was like “You know what? I think I’m gonna hijack TV signals in a Max Headroom mask” lol
@Xontar02
@Xontar02 Жыл бұрын
Don't think he was drunk. I think he was going for almost a Frank Gorshin Riddler (1960s Batman) gimmick.
@trippinatormachine
@trippinatormachine Жыл бұрын
@@someguy3752 yeah I don’t think he was actually drunk. Thats why I said “imagine”.
@coolmanyea5030
@coolmanyea5030 Жыл бұрын
@@trippinatormachine He wasn’t replying to you, if he was there would’ve been an @
@qwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
@qwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Жыл бұрын
@@coolmanyea5030 correct
@austria-hungary4981
@austria-hungary4981 Жыл бұрын
I salute to Captain Midnight. Man had prepared himself to face off HBO and slapped them real hard in the 1980s.
@cheekibreekigopnik5898
@cheekibreekigopnik5898 26 күн бұрын
Hi
@keiththorpe9571
@keiththorpe9571 2 жыл бұрын
The Max Headroom hackers could go public now. The statute of limitations ran out on that a long time ago.
@cysioland
@cysioland 2 жыл бұрын
If they are still alive, that is
@princeofcupspoc9073
@princeofcupspoc9073 Жыл бұрын
Dis is Chicago. We know how to keep our traps shut. Rats have a tendency to disappear, know wat I mean?
@sealed267
@sealed267 Жыл бұрын
@@princeofcupspoc9073 wtf
@MrRyan-wu4jx
@MrRyan-wu4jx Жыл бұрын
@lc_games_the_og yeah, I was gonna say it would probably be hard for the actual guys who did it to prove they actually did. All I could think to do is prove they have the fly swatter, suit, and mask still but they may have thrown them out just to be safe.
@Nashtoon_
@Nashtoon_ Жыл бұрын
there is a good chance they could be dead
@swarple
@swarple Жыл бұрын
Plot twist: The alien message was a prank by a couple of bored alien teens hovering in their spaceship above earth.
@klyntarsunite8317
@klyntarsunite8317 Жыл бұрын
Or it was some nerds that just watched too much Star Wars😂 Could be anything tbh
@manuelruiz4230
@manuelruiz4230 11 күн бұрын
Alien parent “What did I say about this?!”
@robertf614
@robertf614 Жыл бұрын
Takeaways: 1.) I think the audio of the Vrillon speech is real. Why would the reproduction recreate the voice becoming inaudible due to interference? 2.) “Your love is fading” is a reference to the Temptations song “I’m Losing You”, further evidenced by Max holding the Pepsi can like a microphone. 3.) The jump cut in the second Max Headroom broadcast shows that it wasn’t a live performance, but a recorded skit that had been filmed at an earlier time.
@ahhhhh148
@ahhhhh148 Жыл бұрын
That’s what I was thinking. I knew the hijack was just a pre-recorded hijacking.
@Noel_Wood
@Noel_Wood Жыл бұрын
why do you think the vrillion speech was real?
@robertf614
@robertf614 Жыл бұрын
@@Noel_Wood now, I don’t think it’s really an alien. What I’m saying is I think the audio recording itself is a genuine recording of the event that took place.
@Noel_Wood
@Noel_Wood Жыл бұрын
@@robertf614 ohhh, i see.
@almond3066
@almond3066 Жыл бұрын
1.) Could be for authenticity, if you are reproducing something it's not that crazy to assume you want to recreate it as accurately as possible, which would include the interference
@heroinboblivesagain5478
@heroinboblivesagain5478 Жыл бұрын
Fun fact about the EAS. That "attention grabbing" sound isn't actually intended to be so. That's the sound of the SAME code, the encrypted information of where and what is happening, being decrypted. That dinky little dial tone after is the "attention tone".
@bcj842
@bcj842 2 ай бұрын
So that sound is similar to what happens if you put a Commodore 64 cassette into an audio cassette player?
@heroinboblivesagain5478
@heroinboblivesagain5478 2 ай бұрын
@@bcj842 Now thats a deep cut but yes lol.
@Warp3326
@Warp3326 Ай бұрын
Kinda like the dial up noise?
@SNESPrime
@SNESPrime 17 сағат бұрын
@@bcj842 Nice! Need to find those items and try that! Been looking for a Commodore 64 as a gift for my dad since he had one growing up. Still has the manual.
@racingaerials4493
@racingaerials4493 Жыл бұрын
Thank God some random Dr. Who nerd happened to be recording a rerun one night in Chicago, otherwise the proof the Max Headroom incident happened might not even exist
@ethanpender9586
@ethanpender9586 3 жыл бұрын
The second hijacking was originally a Halloween prank - not on TV of course. It was uploaded to KZbin, and the hijackers must have had the video to hijack TV.
@captainalex8003
@captainalex8003 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely not true at all. KZbin did not exist in the 1980s.
@ethanpender9586
@ethanpender9586 Жыл бұрын
watch the video yet?
@captainalex8003
@captainalex8003 Жыл бұрын
@@ethanpender9586 Oh, whoops, I thought you were talking about the Max Headroom hijacking.
@Benalu1111
@Benalu1111 11 ай бұрын
@@ethanpender9586this is actually a cool discover. I was under the impression that the guys who mad the zombie hack were fans of anthrax as it was used in the intro in one of there songs. Apparently they ripped of that original video. (The song I’m talking about is Fight Em’ Until You Can’t by Anthrax which was released in 2011)
@wisteela
@wisteela 2 жыл бұрын
I love stuff like this. That Max Headroom one is something that is just so legendary, yet most likely will never be fully explained. I'm rather surprised that here in the UK we didn't get more of this kind of stuff before we went digital.
@wisteela
@wisteela 2 жыл бұрын
@@HeidenMikael I'm thinking more of an act than autism
@HeidenMikael
@HeidenMikael 2 жыл бұрын
The Max headroom incident I was watching this guy and he was trying to figure out who it could have been someone who knew on the internet could have been someone that followed him or you know just a random person that knew or might have known that's what I'm trying to say they thought they knew who the guy was and the way his mannerisms and the way he acted like they think he was an autistic male around like 25 years old other than that they don't know anything else about it I don't know what video it was but that's what it was that's what they said so from 1986 I'm pretty sure to 2022 and still got away with it that's one pretty intelligent mildly autistic man for sure again I don't know where I saw that or heard it but that's what they said something like that
@HeidenMikael
@HeidenMikael 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah you're probably right but that's just what I heard man
@wisteela
@wisteela 2 жыл бұрын
@@HeidenMikael I know the video. He later changed his mind, I decided it was somebody else. I think that was just to throw people off the scent though.
@HeidenMikael
@HeidenMikael 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah your right people are sketchy at times I mean you're not wrong I do believe that
@kate_cooper
@kate_cooper Жыл бұрын
I saw a theory that the Max Headroom hijackers weren't just pranksters messing about, they were trying to get revenge on their former employers (the TV channel they hijacked) and the bit with Max getting spanked with a fly swatter may actually have been more malicious than funny, it may have been a deliberate attempt to get the channel fined for indecency. This is just a theory floating around though, and I don't expect we'll ever find out.
@windows11kid
@windows11kid Жыл бұрын
Im finally done Timestamps: 1:17 intro 1:44 Captain midnight explanation 5:44 Captain midnight broadcast 9:53 Zombie EAS alert explanation 10:57 Zombie EAS alert broadcast 12:54 Aliens hijack UK tv explanation 13:48 Aliens hijack UK tv broadcast 19:43 Max headroom Incident explanation (click for jumpscare) 22:04 Max headroom first hijack 23:43 Max headroom second hijack
@fire_eye
@fire_eye Жыл бұрын
Imagine Stewie sees this 💀
@DarthTalon66
@DarthTalon66 Жыл бұрын
Intro was scariest part
@I_make_animations
@I_make_animations Жыл бұрын
Yikes
@adjharry
@adjharry Жыл бұрын
General Zod
@everyyxy8425
@everyyxy8425 10 ай бұрын
god that was a huge jumpscare lmao
@deadtrendmarker
@deadtrendmarker Жыл бұрын
I wish i was a very immature adult in the 1990s so i could have interrupted the alien hijack with a video of me shooting a gun at the sky
@gemini8project
@gemini8project Жыл бұрын
Everybody would be awoken, wondering why tf their neighbor is firing off a shotgun at the sky
@Noel_Wood
@Noel_Wood Жыл бұрын
the max headroom thing is actually scary to me for whatever reason. just someone in a mask, moving really weirdly, the buzzing silence, the erratically moving background, not sure, it's just really eerie. then the one with sound, it's really eerie too, the weird voice just sounds like an AGI or whatever those things are like "I Feel Fantastic", and again, the weird movements & the erratically moving background.
@Jlaps941
@Jlaps941 Ай бұрын
Same here, I always get creeped out seeing it. Not knowing who did it or the reason for the hijacking makes it creepier too
@syd5099
@syd5099 Жыл бұрын
God, I'm so happy to not have to see any of these as a kid. I would've been freaking out, screaming. Also, the ending of the video caught me off guard. Scared the hell out of me haha
@benconway9010
@benconway9010 Жыл бұрын
Sad
@2knano992
@2knano992 10 ай бұрын
I seen the Handy Manny incident live and I was mortified lol. I was literally toddler at the time
@isabellaangeline2175
@isabellaangeline2175 2 жыл бұрын
30:15 The statute of limitations has to be up by now on the Max Headroom incident, so it’s weird the perpetrators don’t just come forward. They’d definitely be seen as some sort of icons by certain groups.
@sebastianbelcher5354
@sebastianbelcher5354 Жыл бұрын
I can see why they’d find it more fun to make it a mystery. The legend dies if someone explains who and why.
@josephjones7828
@josephjones7828 Жыл бұрын
@@sebastianbelcher5354 There is also always the possibility that the perpetrators may simply no longer be among the living. 30+ years is a decent chunk of time.
@timeweaselproduction
@timeweaselproduction Жыл бұрын
One explanation could be that they may have been successful later in life. If they were to come out and say they did this, it could get them fired. Sure, they won't be prosecuted for it, but their reputations and livelihoods could be severely damaged.
@diy_mushroomguy
@diy_mushroomguy Жыл бұрын
Nobody would believe whoever came forward probably anyways.
@canaan466
@canaan466 Жыл бұрын
@@josephjones7828 well we saw earlier in the video that the dead rose from their graves in 2011, so it’s possible they may have come back
@raypavey1102
@raypavey1102 Жыл бұрын
The alien intrusion still gives me goosebumps it is motivating and creepy at the same time
@ewen4544
@ewen4544 Жыл бұрын
Intergalactic multi dimension dwelling, all seeing benevolent overlord or not, that Vrillon lad wasn't wrong!
@samanthagarrett3671
@samanthagarrett3671 Жыл бұрын
We should have listened to him.
@SpaceBattleshipYamato-ps2jc
@SpaceBattleshipYamato-ps2jc Жыл бұрын
I mean, he's got a point
@HawloKnight
@HawloKnight 3 ай бұрын
that vrillon guy seems kinda chill ngl
@devilsorchard1449
@devilsorchard1449 Жыл бұрын
I'm not so much creeped out by the Max Headroom incident as I am just fascinated by it. The whole thing is just so bizarre, like a prototype to the weirdcore stuff you see on KZbin today. None of it is necessarily creepy, but just weirdly fascinating.
@GryphLane
@GryphLane 3 жыл бұрын
The Southern TV interruption only affected those picking up their signals from the Hannington relay, which rebroadcasts Rowridge to the north of the region - sort of Oxford/Thames Valley area. It was the last IBA relay that had been broadcasting in this manner, which is how they managed to interrupt it.
@Dustydreams930
@Dustydreams930 2 жыл бұрын
Surely Oxford was ATV though?
@trevordance5181
@trevordance5181 2 жыл бұрын
@@Dustydreams930 hannington covered South Oxfordshire amongst other countries.
@levisouthern4869
@levisouthern4869 Жыл бұрын
this one is probably most interesting to me
@tenacious3911
@tenacious3911 Жыл бұрын
A radio station in Belgium was hijacked in this way for a few years: they only hijacked the carrier frequency at night when the programme feed was disconnected so nobody noticed.
@macabre_delights
@macabre_delights 2 жыл бұрын
The Max Headroom one would definitely have scared me if it saw that as a child. Glad I didn't too be honest.
@ExploringNew1
@ExploringNew1 3 ай бұрын
Nothing can hurt me as long as I'm not in full screen
@alexvaduva8865
@alexvaduva8865 26 күн бұрын
Real
@DousedFlame
@DousedFlame Жыл бұрын
This one of the better videos on the TV hijackings! It's really in depth and well researched.
@AdamMartyn
@AdamMartyn Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@Momazosmessi-10
@Momazosmessi-10 Жыл бұрын
"I have one thing to say to you..." *"ŒĀÆĄÂĂŐÆ"*
@Akotski-ys9rr
@Akotski-ys9rr 8 ай бұрын
I wouldn’t be too scared if they alien contact because they seemed nice and are genuinely trying to help
@ClausMichaelFasting
@ClausMichaelFasting Жыл бұрын
About that 'Zombie EAS', that guy doing it must be a big fan of The Walking Dead
@gandalfthewhite
@gandalfthewhite Жыл бұрын
or of the band Anthrax, the same message appears ad verbatim in their song "Fight 'Em 'Till you Can't" from their 2011 album Worship Music.
@kuramayoko23
@kuramayoko23 Жыл бұрын
I have never heard that the other figure is a child! Thank you for bringing that up! While the Max Headroom Incident is creepy/scary watching it now, I can't imagine how creepy/scary it was when it actually happened.
@madamebkrt
@madamebkrt Жыл бұрын
Especially in the second one how he just pops up out of nowhere pretty much. People must have been terrified.
@Noel_Wood
@Noel_Wood Жыл бұрын
@@madamebkrt the sounds are so eerie too
@madamebkrt
@madamebkrt Жыл бұрын
@@Noel_Wood SO eerie.
@Bell4.
@Bell4. 11 ай бұрын
really corny intro "be afraid be very very very very afriad" then a scream LMAOOOO made me laugh so hard
@feloniousheisenberg224
@feloniousheisenberg224 Ай бұрын
🤣Same bro
@EmmaLiza
@EmmaLiza 2 жыл бұрын
Galactic Commander Vrillar is just as unnecessarily wordy as every other bleedin' politician. Makes you think.
@XmorganlamiaX
@XmorganlamiaX Жыл бұрын
I haven't heard people suspecting that the other person in the Max Headroom incident is a child before. I think that's extremely unlikely. It seems to me that there were two people involved in it: the guy as Max, and the person who was operating the moving background (seems like a simple pulley system) - which is completely motionless when she's on-screen. That, plus her movements not seeming at all like a child; I think it's safe to say that they're an adult and whoever started the rumour just wanted to make the story sound creepier.
@Aunini
@Aunini Ай бұрын
Child? No Teenager? Maybe? 🤷‍♀
@cackindustry4783
@cackindustry4783 Жыл бұрын
i feel like why in the max headroom incident why he’s saying mostly complete nonsense is because he is either extremely intoxicated or was not expecting to be on for that long
@AC-eh8tz
@AC-eh8tz Жыл бұрын
Neither of those theories make sense because the performance was clearly pre-recorded so they clearly knew what they were doing
@Hexachromatica
@Hexachromatica Жыл бұрын
If you want to know more about the Southern Television interruption, I strongly recommend "The Interruption" podcast, the guy tries to solve the case and actually finds out who did it, it's really good and only a couple episodes long
@AC-eh8tz
@AC-eh8tz Жыл бұрын
Can you give me a link to the podcast
@ionlygroommymy2cats
@ionlygroommymy2cats Жыл бұрын
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@sinnedsinister
@sinnedsinister Жыл бұрын
I remembered the Max Headroom incident. I lived in Chixago at the time. Rumor was, it was someone in North Suburban Woodstock who created it using one of the station relays. Never knew if it was true, but it still is an interesting story. Guess we'll never know.
@moodymermaid3690
@moodymermaid3690 Жыл бұрын
Captain Midnight is a real one. 🍸
@hopje01
@hopje01 2 жыл бұрын
In the 1980’s the cable tv company here had a tower with receiving antenna’s for receiving the tv signals from neighboring countries. This tower was installed close to a city. At midnight these tv stations stopped transmitting. So, a little tv transmitter of a few watt’s and a yagi was enough to get a signal on the cable via the cable receiving antenna. Several ‘nature’ films where shown after midnight.. But after a few weeks the cable company did put a timer on there receivers to block the signal after midnight.
@321CatboxWA
@321CatboxWA 2 жыл бұрын
Epic
@Draknfyre
@Draknfyre 7 ай бұрын
That only works the first time. The first Max Headroom incident was seen as a test run before they hit their actual target. The network quickly overpowered the pirate signal after just a few moments. They then aimed their transmitter towards the intended target and knew the minimum amount of power they had to throw behind it to overpower the legit signal. During this time the network was completely aware shit was going on and kept trying to overpower the pirate signal by increasing the power. The pirates did the same. At this point it wasn't simply a yagi and a few watts, they were dealing with professional broadcast equipment at that point which is why many people suspected it was an inside job with a tech who worked at the station, possibly with a grudge.
@robertclark2253
@robertclark2253 2 жыл бұрын
Near 45 years later and nobody knows who Vrillon is/was .
@JennBit
@JennBit Жыл бұрын
it was: fake as fuck!
@channel_moved_stop_subscribing
@channel_moved_stop_subscribing Жыл бұрын
More Power From Vrillon, More Disaster From The Analogue Past
@ThePhantomSafetyPin
@ThePhantomSafetyPin 2 жыл бұрын
You know what? I was today years old when I realized he's saying "bend over bitch" at the end of the Max Headroom intrusion, and not "well come and get me!"
@OtisNotibrus
@OtisNotibrus Жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who finds the Max Headroom hijacking hysterical?
@restore7187
@restore7187 Жыл бұрын
Nope I’m with you
@SinisterScoundrel6562
@SinisterScoundrel6562 2 жыл бұрын
Loved that full length flying HBO bumper when I was 5. Had me knowing a good movie was starting.
@dr.pepper9893
@dr.pepper9893 3 жыл бұрын
25:15 it is kind of fitting that Tom baker in doctor who said this the moment the signal was restored
@superjamie1247
@superjamie1247 3 жыл бұрын
Bruh
@belkYT
@belkYT Жыл бұрын
?
@Alisibeth_Talia212
@Alisibeth_Talia212 Күн бұрын
The way that Vrillion just seemed so concerned for us and the way we treat each other... Even if it was a hoax of some kind, we should've listened to him.
@g_cracker7745
@g_cracker7745 Жыл бұрын
People in 1988: "I don't remember That part of Dr. Who."
@97channel
@97channel 2 жыл бұрын
The thing about the Max Headroom incident, is that it's freaky from the outset yet gets even more disturbing the deeper you look into it. With the likes of Captain Midnight and the Southern TV interruption, there's ultimately a point to them. Sometimes to make a serious point, other times to stage some sort of hoax threat. And that's understandable. But with Max Headroom, the randomness of it is just so unsettling. It wouldn't be of much, if any, concern today, if someone made it and put it on KZbin. Just a jackass trying to creep people out, no big deal. But the fact that someone went to so much trouble, the effort to achieve it would have been very significant, to broadcast something so bizarre, is really odd. In a way, I get the impression that whoever was responsible did not really intend it to be freaky. But it's truly a disturbing incident. It's the fact that they made no discernable point. They just did it. It raises so many questions, and has provided next to no answers.
@Matthew27567
@Matthew27567 Жыл бұрын
Honestly I think the max headroom incident was just 2 friends trying to test what they could do with tv and decided that if they were gonna hack a station they might as well do something funny to get a laugh out of people
@Draknfyre
@Draknfyre 7 ай бұрын
@@Matthew27567Even as far back as the day of the incident, it's been widely speculated that the people involved were part of a local network channel. The amount of technical skill and physical access it would've taken to pull off was beyond the average person at the time. You're talking tens of thousands of dollars of hardware to hijack the signal. So just like Captain Midnight, this was very likely an inside job with one or more people working at one of the stations. The network knew that too and looked into their own employees during the investigation.
@user-5ee3zk1w
@user-5ee3zk1w 5 ай бұрын
MAX HEADROOM STORY: This is most likely Rafer and Jennifer Weigel at the ages of 17 years old. Their father was Tim Weigel a TV news sportscaster in Chicago and they are part of Weigel Broadcasting Co. They would have had knowledge and access to the equipment to do this and maybe the FCC knew they did it but in Evanston Illinois. it's all about who you know and if you are wealthy that gets you out of trouble. They have some nice careers in broadcasting now and won't come forward because they will disgrace their father legacy and their own careers.
@renakunisaki
@renakunisaki Жыл бұрын
Imagine having the opportunity to hijack major TV channels and get a message out to millions, and you use it to shitpost
@candlelitpeppermintcarniva8509
@candlelitpeppermintcarniva8509 16 күн бұрын
Okay-- YOU JUST MADE SUCH A GOOD POINT.
@TheEerieMaster
@TheEerieMaster Жыл бұрын
The moral of the story... "Catch the wave"
@AvoytDesign
@AvoytDesign 2 ай бұрын
dang, you left out some fascinating ones. "Would you, could you, on a train?" and the Hawaii missile alert both had serious real-life effects...
@LazarouDave
@LazarouDave Жыл бұрын
16:22 - The idea of a supposed alien race saying "Worthless Dross" just tickles me a bit - such a quintessentially English colloquialism being used by a higher species 😂
@scottlandano3819
@scottlandano3819 Жыл бұрын
That whole thing had a very seventies Dr. Who vibe to me, ironically enough.
@kennyf2184
@kennyf2184 Жыл бұрын
Captain midnight wasn’t the hero we deserved but the one we needed
@masterseal0418
@masterseal0418 Жыл бұрын
Weirdly enough, I recognize Max Headroom from the Broadcast Intrusion more than the actual character. Maybe I didn't grow up in the 80s, rather admire the culture back then, but what I've said is for sure convincing for modern day viewers. You missed the glove thing, I think it's in relation to Michael Jackson ridding of his Visage.
@themightyboush
@themightyboush 3 жыл бұрын
5:03 Everything major seemed to happen the day my parents got married, including my parents getting married. That and a major nuclear disaster on the other side of the world.
@jeykies3745.
@jeykies3745. 3 жыл бұрын
That “the day my parents got married, including my parents getting married” part is hilarious.
@theplaylistmaker1846
@theplaylistmaker1846 2 жыл бұрын
I mean my birthdays literally on the same day and same month the hiroshima nukes dropped.
@miikart
@miikart Жыл бұрын
@@theplaylistmaker1846protip: dont go to japan on your birthday
@belkYT
@belkYT Жыл бұрын
Wait, the day your parents got married includes YOUR PARENTS GETTING MARRIED?!
@PredictedCyborg
@PredictedCyborg Жыл бұрын
I've always believed that "Max's" exclamation of " Oh Jesus!" was because someone on the other side of the camera confirmed that they'd broken through again. xD Like, the person providing the voice wasn't expecting it.
@renakunisaki
@renakunisaki Жыл бұрын
The first broadcast was definitely cut short because they couldn't get the sound working. That's probably also why they switched channels.
@thunder____
@thunder____ Ай бұрын
It would have to be a live broadcast for that explanation to make sense, and the fact that it cuts to a different video clip suggests it was pre-recorded. I suppose it's possible that it was partially live and partially pre-recorded, but I frankly doubt it.
@weirdman9249
@weirdman9249 Жыл бұрын
tbh using aliens is probably the best way to get people to actually be friendly
@cosmicdib4823
@cosmicdib4823 Жыл бұрын
The zombie one is hilarious is some weird way.
@nicholaslienandjaja1815
@nicholaslienandjaja1815 Жыл бұрын
Also, who would even fall for it other than delusional people who watch too many horror movies and show and read too many comic books and horror novels?
@manyyoumas
@manyyoumas 8 ай бұрын
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815children?
@buckscountyeasarchive8995
@buckscountyeasarchive8995 Жыл бұрын
I’ve heard of all of these, but you’ve provided me with much more info than I knew. Especially the first one. Great video!
@Nurichiri
@Nurichiri Жыл бұрын
The hand holding the fly swatter is not a child's hand. The person is either short or kneeling, but appears to be an adult.
@devonbennett6559
@devonbennett6559 Ай бұрын
Plus they likely operated the background, which is a sheet of steel/iron so it'd have to be heavy
@andrewbeltramini5642
@andrewbeltramini5642 Жыл бұрын
The EAS hijack in 2013 is directly influenced by a song by Anthrax called “fight em till you cant” released 2 years before the incident.
@cheese2507
@cheese2507 Жыл бұрын
The zombie hijacking from 2013 uses audio from an Anthrax song “Fight ‘em til you can’t.” That plays at the intro of the song.
@Photo0021
@Photo0021 Жыл бұрын
Your voice is very great for this! Made the video very easy to watch, as someone with PTSD towards the EAS and someone that reacts terribly towards analog horror. First time it didn’t bother me at all.
@calidingoVIII
@calidingoVIII Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry, but I can't this video seriously with the "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" music playing in the background lmao
@timrob12
@timrob12 Жыл бұрын
8:16 - I know travelling with the Doctor can change a person, but I never knew it could change one's appearance completely.
@chronicnose
@chronicnose Жыл бұрын
I was thinking that
@timrob12
@timrob12 Жыл бұрын
@@chronicnose Honestly, with that name, a joke had to be made.
@jctotboiofficial
@jctotboiofficial 2 жыл бұрын
What wouldn't be a signal intrusion compilation without the notorious Max Headroom incident?
@quayzar1
@quayzar1 2 жыл бұрын
The EAS hijack was partly caused by TV stations leaving their EAS equipment with the default password. P. S. A. Incidentally have you changed the Administrator password on your router? This is not the same thing as your WiFi password and if you haven't please google the model of router you have and change it.
@Mitch-Hendren
@Mitch-Hendren 11 ай бұрын
Yes I have . Unfortunately I then forgot what I changed it to so my router is so secure now even I can't get into it ! Seriously though amazing how many are stick on the default.
@justinhamilton8647
@justinhamilton8647 11 ай бұрын
My ISP will not allow me to change it
@probsowl
@probsowl Жыл бұрын
dang I never knew a guy could have 21st century humor in the 20th century
@Chris_Elliot84
@Chris_Elliot84 Жыл бұрын
Great work on the video, there was a podcast series on the Vrillon interruption called "The Interruption" that came out last year with the effort of finding out the actual culprit. I won't spoil it for you but it's well worth a listen
@benconway9010
@benconway9010 Жыл бұрын
And did they find out who the culprit was or is??
@itsyaboykam
@itsyaboykam Жыл бұрын
ooo first hijacking showcase I've seen where the Wyoming Incident isn't mentioned
@PhoenixMoth
@PhoenixMoth 3 ай бұрын
The what?
@benb9151
@benb9151 Жыл бұрын
Okay dude this intro is an eternity
@PerfectionReincarnated
@PerfectionReincarnated 26 күн бұрын
I love how the Vrillion speech can barely even be heard due to the news guy also talking at the same time.
@thefbiman2116
@thefbiman2116 Жыл бұрын
"He's just some jackass saying whatever comes to mind" "AHHHHHH" 💀
@DarkMatter_Official
@DarkMatter_Official Жыл бұрын
the person who did the Vrillon incident just wanted world peace.
@nexusgiga
@nexusgiga Жыл бұрын
The galactic council one always amazes me.
@atodamadre3197
@atodamadre3197 Жыл бұрын
I remember the max headroom one as I was a kid in the 80s. Just imagine how much worse it could've been. They could've posted a snuff film or full nudity.
@alistairc1903
@alistairc1903 11 ай бұрын
,,,
@GamingBlarg
@GamingBlarg 11 ай бұрын
I'll be goddamned if that isn't the most perfect example of American protestant morals right there They could show real bloody footage of someone being murdered, or like... a naked woman
@sslender07
@sslender07 Жыл бұрын
On one hand the max headroom incident is fucking hilarious and the people who did it are legends for making the first shitpost but I really, really hate watching it. There’s just something about it that I don’t like.
@der_metzgermeister
@der_metzgermeister Жыл бұрын
Yeah it's a really unpleasant thing to watch
@BrinaFlautist
@BrinaFlautist Жыл бұрын
It starts out funny but gets unsettling real fast
@missweasleylovegoodgranger7019
@missweasleylovegoodgranger7019 Жыл бұрын
uncanny valley honestly
@shook198
@shook198 Жыл бұрын
It's a pain in the ears but it is absolutely hilarious.
@graymanmedia
@graymanmedia 2 жыл бұрын
Well, I've heard that the Guy in the Max Headroom Mask was a former WGN-9 Employee. But, I've never heard that the person in the made outfit was a child. Maybe a Women, but never a child. Seems more or less an attempt to make people less amused with the Max Headroom culprit.
@haileyshannon7548
@haileyshannon7548 2 жыл бұрын
I heard it was a guy with autism who constantly mumbled tv theme songs and commercial jingles one minute and shouted out vulgarities the next. He and his brother also everybody to watch TV that night.
@christopherpeden547
@christopherpeden547 2 жыл бұрын
what a throughly excellent and engrossing documentary thank you
@joeyburton7726
@joeyburton7726 Жыл бұрын
I'm sure plenty of people have commented this exact same thing before, but the videos on your channel are so well made and thoroughly researched. Binge watching loads now and they're all tremendous
@altfactor
@altfactor Жыл бұрын
Although Max Headroom appeared in films and TV series in the 1980's, the character is best remembered for the Chicago video hijack.
@alexvaduva8865
@alexvaduva8865 26 күн бұрын
Something is wrong I can feel it
@TaylorJohns-fp4vk
@TaylorJohns-fp4vk Жыл бұрын
I was actually watching TV with my mom when the zombie one came up. We were laughing so hard. Good times.
@3rdalbum
@3rdalbum 2 жыл бұрын
How did the attacker trigger the Emergency Broadcast System and get a unique voice message played?
@woffyreal
@woffyreal 2 жыл бұрын
i read a few reports, i believe the station left the password for the eas console as the default, and whoever did this just guessed it
@woffyreal
@woffyreal Жыл бұрын
@Lu0z9 alternatively: 1234
@ohitshammy
@ohitshammy 10 ай бұрын
@@woffyrealclose- it’s actually 4321 for the box that was hijacked
@woffyreal
@woffyreal 10 ай бұрын
@@ohitshammy ah, at least it’s not just 1234
@SonicBoone56
@SonicBoone56 9 ай бұрын
Captain Midnight/John MacDougall was way before my time, but he's definitely a badass for sure. And all the press photos of him show him smiling and laughing. Gigachad energy.
@borntoclimb7116
@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын
Some of those incidents are legendary
@michaelreddington658
@michaelreddington658 3 жыл бұрын
What a really interesting video!! Nice one Adam!!
@SonGoku-kp8kw
@SonGoku-kp8kw Жыл бұрын
Thank you for blowing my eardrums out with that ending 👍
@Diskoboy1974
@Diskoboy1974 Ай бұрын
The good old C-band days. Once all the channels started scrambling and using different decoder types, the fun was over. I actually remember watching the Captain Midnight incident as it happened. I thought it was a pissed off HBO employee.
@KRPTV
@KRPTV Жыл бұрын
I imagine the sound at 10:57 is similar to the noise we will hear on all our mobile phones on 23rd April at 3pm! It's going to catch a lot of people off guard, especially people with anxiety like me!
@renakunisaki
@renakunisaki Жыл бұрын
lmao I looked it up to see what this guy was predicting... it was a test of the emergency alert system
@Whiteman2.0
@Whiteman2.0 11 ай бұрын
@@renakunisakiit was freaky I have to admit
@Daniel_Plainview_1911
@Daniel_Plainview_1911 11 ай бұрын
I was waiting for it and it STILL got me!
@TMPStudios07
@TMPStudios07 3 жыл бұрын
Nice to see this show come back.
@tomaszhallay6653
@tomaszhallay6653 Жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: there was probably that one guy who heard Vrillon and thought that the aliens are just trying to get rid of our weapons so that they may raid and destroy the Earth.
@Joseph_Stalin5
@Joseph_Stalin5 3 жыл бұрын
There should be a video scaries of law firm commercials.
@wouldbewidow
@wouldbewidow Жыл бұрын
hi, I’m Saul Goodman. did you know that you have rights? …the constitution says you do, and so do I. I believe that until proven guilty, every man, woman and child is innocent. and that’s why I fight for you, Albuquerque!
@gemini8project
@gemini8project Жыл бұрын
One huge advertisement for the law firms. Would actually be good for the firm.
@RonnyCoalman
@RonnyCoalman 2 ай бұрын
I used to be truely convinced that the Ashtar Galactic command was going to beam humanity up in 2012. I used to believe in a lot of conspiracies back then and i'm very glad i'm rid of it all.
@Carslikesninjago
@Carslikesninjago Жыл бұрын
I should not be watching this at one in the morning
@Lively_1185
@Lively_1185 Жыл бұрын
I am right now. I find max headroom freaking stupid though, might be impossible to reoccur for digital tv signals nowadays. But the HBO captain midnight, that was my favorite one of the whole video, so simple yet amazing!
@identchannel
@identchannel 3 жыл бұрын
that last part's scream though 😨 happy halloween indeed
@elaynadiedinside
@elaynadiedinside 7 ай бұрын
Just knowing there's someone roaming this earth the title of being "the max headroom guy" is wild
@mht5875
@mht5875 10 ай бұрын
OK But the Max Headroom incident is still the funniest tv hijacking I have ever seen. LOL
@RTC926
@RTC926 10 ай бұрын
Imagine watching a show and out of nowhere you see some guy's ass getting hit with a fly swatter
@jmp00
@jmp00 2 жыл бұрын
Great video this mate never thought of watching something like this but it peaked keep at it mate! Also a very weird one, do you remember in the mid to late 2000’s maybe 2011-12 when all the landlines in the UK went very strange and you could connect to other peoples calls and everyone’s phones were ringing none stop for about 3 days? Or was that only local? Been playing on my mind for years I just want to see if I’m loosing it hahahah
@gokairedwillcipher
@gokairedwillcipher 3 ай бұрын
I'm curious if they will ever find out who is behind Max Headroom
@_sallymander_4747
@_sallymander_4747 Ай бұрын
I clicked on this video and then clicked on a short I wanted to watch first, but this kept playing in the background and it scared me so bad 😂😭
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