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A startling and sinister broadcast interruption that spooked TV viewers in Orange County, California, occurred on September 21, 2017. On this evening the regular programming for several cable TV stations suddenly cut out to make way for a very realistic and official-looking block of text that read “emergency alert,” overlaid with spooky audio, after which there could be heard a booming male voice that proclaimed “Realize this, extremely violent times will come!” in a voice that was described as sounding “like Hitler talking.”
This was followed by a wide variety of strange, ominous, often nonsensical messages played out over the air, with one witness saying that it all sounded like “a radio broadcast coming through the television.”
The mysterious and frightening messages lasted for a full 2 minutes and made scary proclamations such the end of the world was coming, that “the end is nigh,” various other apocalyptic pieces of the Bible, and most bizarrely a breathless voice that gasps:
It is all interspersed with the cackling of white noise and eery music wafting in the background. The transmission then ended with an official conclusion to the emergency broadcast, after which regular programming resumed.
Those watching at home were puzzled and not a little creeped out by the dire, portentous message, made all the more alarming as it by all appearances seemed to have been an actual test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). It was unnerving to say the least, became an immediate social media sensation, and one local said of the strange incident:
Authorities investigating the unexplained incident confirmed that the broadcast had indeed originated from the Emergency Alert System, and initially came to the conclusion that someone had hacked in to pull off a prank.
However, officials for the cable company said that a usual emergency test had gone out at the time in question but that there had been some technical difficulty that had resulted in the spooky chatter in the background, likely because somehow the audio files had been mixed up or that some audio had bled in from other sources. However, it is unknown just how this could have happened or just where the audio which can be heard came from.
Theories as to where the audio came from include that there were pieces a radio sermon by the fire and brimstone apocalyptic nutjob David Meade or some similar Christian station, as well as a snippet from the paranormal and conspiracy radio show Coast to Coast AM.
The clip from Coast to Coast AM was from its own bizarre incident in 1997, in which a terrified caller had called in to host Art Bell to claim that he was a former employee of Area 51 and that he had insider knowledge of vast government conspiracies concerning aliens from another dimension.
During the whole unsettling call the sobbing, hysterical man breathlessly tells a startled Bell that these menacing aliens are infiltrating the world and that they were “triangulating” his location as they speak, before the line suddenly goes dead.
An interesting broadcast oddity in its own right, one portion is exactly the same piece of audio played in the Orange County mystery transmission. However, who was or why they did it either case remain unknown.
Mysterious and Bizarre Broadcast Intrusions
This was followed by a wide variety of strange, ominous, often nonsensical messages played out over the air, with one witness saying that it all sounded like “a radio broadcast coming through the television.”
The mysterious and frightening messages lasted for a full 2 minutes and made scary proclamations such the end of the world was coming, that “the end is nigh,” various other apocalyptic pieces of the Bible, and most bizarrely a breathless voice that gasps:
It is all interspersed with the cackling of white noise and eery music wafting in the background. The transmission then ended with an official conclusion to the emergency broadcast, after which regular programming resumed.
Those watching at home were puzzled and not a little creeped out by the dire, portentous message, made all the more alarming as it by all appearances seemed to have been an actual test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). It was unnerving to say the least, became an immediate social media sensation, and one local said of the strange incident:
Authorities investigating the unexplained incident confirmed that the broadcast had indeed originated from the Emergency Alert System, and initially came to the conclusion that someone had hacked in to pull off a prank.
However, officials for the cable company said that a usual emergency test had gone out at the time in question but that there had been some technical difficulty that had resulted in the spooky chatter in the background, likely because somehow the audio files had been mixed up or that some audio had bled in from other sources. However, it is unknown just how this could have happened or just where the audio which can be heard came from.
Theories as to where the audio came from include that there were pieces a radio sermon by the fire and brimstone apocalyptic nutjob David Meade or some similar Christian station, as well as a snippet from the paranormal and conspiracy radio show Coast to Coast AM.
The clip from Coast to Coast AM was from its own bizarre incident in 1997, in which a terrified caller had called in to host Art Bell to claim that he was a former employee of Area 51 and that he had insider knowledge of vast government conspiracies concerning aliens from another dimension.
During the whole unsettling call the sobbing, hysterical man breathlessly tells a startled Bell that these menacing aliens are infiltrating the world and that they were “triangulating” his location as they speak, before the line suddenly goes dead.
An interesting broadcast oddity in its own right, one portion is exactly the same piece of audio played in the Orange County mystery transmission. However, who was or why they did it either case remain unknown.
Mysterious and Bizarre Broadcast Intrusions