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It Came From The Cathode Ray Tube (Weird TV Incidents)

Some might want to check out this net article:

http://www.tvparty.com/unseenf.html

About various weird broadcast occurances of a more earthly variety. Check out the Max Headroom one, it's hilarious:

On Nov. 22, 1987, video hackers managed to override the Chicago PBS station's broadcast of 'Dr. Who' for 90 seconds and replace it with a signal beamed from their secret location. Drunk with mad power, the dastardly duo also hacked into a major Chicago commercial station that night for a several moments.

With the ability to control one of the world's largest broadcast markets now firmly in their grasp, what diabolical message would they send? Were they terrorists with a Hell-bent message? Or was this a people's uprising, an attempt take back the airwaves from the purveyor's of lowest common denominator entertainment - perhaps sparking a return to the great dramatic anthology shows of the fifties, or the whimsical but wholesome sitcoms of the sixties?

Instead, what Chicagoans were treated to was some dork wearing a Max Headroom mask dropping his pants and getting a spanking from his accomplice (also masked). All the while, the camera panned wildly about, exposing a plain corrugated metal background. It was probably shot in someone's garage, but then, in all fairness, Bill Gates started that way.
 
Spillage:

Not only can I confirm what you're saying...but due to a strange sequence of events I've got a copy of the ad at home!

I had a flash-back of the ad a few days ago....which actually caused me to do a search...basically how I found this thread.

Anyway I remebered a tape that we brought over from the UK 13 years ago...what do you know there it is in the ad break.

I'll get a friend to host it for me so you can all see it.

Dan
 
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! Cheers ! I owe you 1! :D

I can at at last rest..... :)
 
The KLEE-TV station ident. mystery still gets mentioned from time to time on the Board, though all I can find tonight is this ancient thread.

Anyway here is a page with more detail than most and it may be the source I couldn't find two years ago:

http://www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/history ... texas.html

This story cropped up on the alt.tvdx.earlytv newsgroup on Usenet (the newsgroup section of the Internet). The tale itself is as old as the hills (naturally) but there may be some people to whom it is new. To the best of my knowledge it has never been fully proven or disproven but several points come to mind. Barry Fox, the well-known technology writer, brought it to my attention again some years back and remarked that theese television researchers invited the press to a demonstration of their amazing reception. Summoning up DX television signals to order indicates this was no mere isolated incidence of Sporadic E reception.

Apparently it was said that they managed the feat with standard unmodified (British) sets and any observant reader will by now be smelling a strong odour of rat, for any such signals would have been transmitted on the American 525-line signal, in negative modulation, whereas our sets in those days were 405-line and positive modulation. Every indication points to a hoax; only call letters were seen, never any live programmes. But even so, how on earth could British workers come up with a KLEE station ident, authenticated by the station engineers?

Easy (when you know how)! The early 1950s were a period of keen interest and experimentation in television technique. Literature on the subject was scarce but in those days imported radio/TV magazines from America were widely sold in London. The name of the company involved, Atlantic Electronics, also suggests an interest in what was going on in the USA.

It so happens that the January 1950 issue of Radio Electronics magazine has a rundown on all the television stations operational in the USA and conveniently, there on page 53, is a sharp photo of the KLEE station ident caption. To put this onto a TV screen would not need a camera; a simple home-made flying-spot scanner would be quite adequate for televising an opacity. And for my money, that’s how it was done although until someone comes forward and confirms it, we shall never know! [AE]

Another page on the same site gives an account of an 1977 prank in which viewers heard a message from one Vrillon of ‘Ashtar Galactic Command’:

http://www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/history/pirate_tv.html

There is also some stuff on the short history of pirate tv stations. :)
 
Yesterday I stopped working for a bit and watched the news. Then I thought, shall I stay and watch The Bill on UK Gold, or carry on with the essay......hmmmmm..........
.......then the TV spontaneously switched off. :shock:
OK, OK, I'm going! :lol:
 
I can't believe nobody ever mentioned the "Barney/Porn" incident from a few years ago. Someone had tapped into Fox's (?) broadcasting system and played about 2 mins from a porno film during an episode of Barney. It was all over the news for about 2 days then it quickly went away.
 
About three years ago there was an advert running on Sky one (I think) for DFS or some such furniture store. The visuals were normal enough but the sound track sounded like people taking the piss. Men putting on womens voices and saying 'ohh look at this lovely sofa' and the like. It wasn't meant to be like that I'm sure as the words didn't fit the visuals.

I saw it three or four times, always the same and only on sky.
 
Regarding receiving old TV-signals.
What if TV-signals sent out to space years ago had been bounced back from an object in space several light years away and back to the earth?
I know it sounds unlikely, but perhaps it is possible.
 
I remember that around the time Midland Bank became HSBC I saw an advert that appeared to break into a normal advert (for soap powder or something). The images were grainy but showed a sort of dark series of 3D frames and I caught a glimpse of an HSBC company logo, the voice over was crackling and insisted that this was a broadcast from the future. The "advert" promptly stopped and normal soap powder ad resumed.

At the time I assumed publicity stunt. Anyone else remember this one?
I only saw it once and no one else I knew at the time saw it.
 
I was watching an episode of Full Metal Alchemist about a year ago on a cable station and all of a sudden farting noises started and went on for almost the whole episode.
Anyone see that one?
 
Were they electronic noises that sounded like farts, i.e. a problem with the signal, or actually farts from a prankster?
 
rynner said:
The one I particularly remember was (I think) called Quatermass and the Pit, where ancient ETs are discovered during excavations for a new London Tube line, which seems to relate to various ghostly happenings in the area, and then.... AARGHHH!
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I long ago fell in love with the later feature film version of "Quatermass and the Pit" (5 Million Years to Earth) but around a dozen years ago I tracked dwwn the original television version which you saw, and it is indeed even better. For one thing, it is longer.
 
gncxx said:
Were they electronic noises that sounded like farts, i.e. a problem with the signal, or actually farts from a prankster?
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It didn't sound like electronic noises but farting from pranksters but I never heard or read anything about it after the fact.
 
Back in the early 80's IIRC,when the big fiberglass sat dishes were all the rage for TV,
I got one and found a once a week program that I think was called "cosmic connection".
It was a cheaply done show that was hosted by an eccentric little man and showed the most up to date UFO photos and eyewitness accounts that went with the photos.
Also there was a "classic case" segment which showed the older unsolved cases and photos of the objects.
I watched the program for about a month or more and after showing a short film of an alleged landing at a military base of some kind the program never came on again.
It was supposed to have been secretly recorded,so it was from a distance sufficient enough to obscure any faces or details other than the ones I mention.
The film showed an area encircled by soldiers armed with what appeared to be M-16 rifles and all facing away from the area as if guarding it.
AN officer then walks into view and watches a classic disc shaped craft with a domed top land in a "falling leaf" pattern,and after landing "legs" came out of the craft it settled on them and a stairway of sorts came down from it and a door opened.
The officer type went to the beings who came out and shook hands with one of the three
beings who appeared humanoid and wearing some kind of space suits.
Then the film stopped and the host claimed it was (of course) a top secret piece he had gotten from an anonymous source proving that the military was and had been in contact since the truman era.
As stated above, this was the last time the program was aired, and I have wondered if anyone else had rememberd seeing it and if the alleged contact film was clipped from a movie or where it could have come from.
I have never seen it anywhere else to my memory.
Anyone ever recall seeing this clip, or the program?
I have never seen any movies with this scene in it,and it looked very authentic.

(edited for horrible spelling)
 
Could the clip have come from a science fiction film? I guess you'd have known if it was from Close Encounters though.
 
gncxx said:
Could the clip have come from a science fiction film? I guess you'd have known if it was from Close Encounters though.
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This looked to be from the late 60's/early 70's, it was in black and white,
and appeared to be on a roll of 8mm/16mm type film.
I have tried to find it in every sci-fi film I have ever seen but have never found it yet.
I am hoping someone else saw the program or has seen the footage elsewhere.
 
That ufo clip almost sounds like the famous Holliman Air Force base encounter in the early 60's. Allegedly aliens landed and came out of a classic saucer with space suits and 'big noses'. This was during Eisenhower's presidency and I think he was supposed to have been there to greet the aliens.
 
The clip wasn't an adaptation of that from Project UFO programme, was it? Or something similar?

You don't happen to remember the name of the presenter of the "cosmic" programme, do you?
 
It has been so long ago,I cannot remember the hosts name,and his program was short run. It was one of those public access channels ,so everything on the station was amiturish and subject to being dropped if they offended the station owners,
after only a few episodes it was just gone and replaced by some other public access type program.
It seemed so convincing because of the low tech properties of the film,(no sound,just the sound of the projector running and his voice) he had run it from a small projector and simply turned the TV camera at the screen while talking about it.
It could all have been a hoax,but there just seemed something authentic about it.
 
It's only vaguely related, but I have always loved the stories of the 'Filipino Monkey' butting into military radio broadcasts during the Gulf War. The guy (girl?) would jump onto military frequencies and scream 'Theees eees the filipeenooo monkeeee'. Absolutely one of my favourites. According to a friend in the Navy the Filipino Monkey is still active today.

Does anyone remember a story about a couple who's computer started receiving bizarre messages, which claimed to be someone from the past? I think I read about it in a Jenny Randles book but it was also on one of those paranormal shows that were popular at the peak of X-Files fever in the 90's.
 
hokum6 said:
Does anyone remember a story about a couple who's computer started receiving bizarre messages, which claimed to be someone from the past? I think I read about it in a Jenny Randles book but it was also on one of those paranormal shows that were popular at the peak of X-Files fever in the 90's.
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IIRC, it featured in 'Strange but True?' and presumably also in the accompanying book by Jenny Randles and Peter Hough.
 
citizencane said:
It has been so long ago,I cannot remember the hosts name,and his program was short run. It was one of those public access channels ,so everything on the station was amiturish and subject to being dropped if they offended the station owners,
after only a few episodes it was just gone and replaced by some other public access type program.
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It was probably nothing more sinister than the presenter running out of money to pay for his slot, but it makes you wonder.

It seemed so convincing because of the low tech properties of the film,(no sound,just the sound of the projector running and his voice) he had run it from a small projector and simply turned the TV camera at the screen while talking about it.
It could all have been a hoax,but there just seemed something authentic about it.
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Funny how the more low tech these things are the more authentic they seem. I've never heard of such a film before, I must admit.
 
Sallywaffle said:
There's an account of a monk and other ghostly inhabitants using computers here.

And there's also the Evil Muppets story... :shock:

Link is dead / obsolete. The original version of the Muppet Dream story can be accessed via the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/19980125122107/http://ghosts.org/stories/tales/muppet-dream.html
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That evil muppets story sounds just like an episode of "Angel"
where the demon muppets from "Shining time" were stealing the life force from children through the telly
and storing it for some strange purpose.
 
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Here's a good page devoted to weird TV broadcasts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_signal_intrusion

There seem to have been far more this year than any other, is the technology getting cheaper?

Did any of the Australian readers see the Mayday documentary detailed here:
http://danwarne.com/was-channel-7-hacked-by-jesus/
?

I'd be pretty disturbed by someone interrupting the TV saying "Jesus Christ, help us all Lord!" for five minutes. The fact that the phrase is sampled from Iraq war footage makes me think a political motivation might have been behind it?
 
Not very scary, but does anyone recall a news report around the late eighties or early nineties about a pirate TV station that used BBC2's frequency after it had closed down for the evening? I remember seeing a man sitting in an armchair introducing a film.

I can't find anything about it online, but a friend of mine vaguely recalls it, so I'm not making it up. Anyone know more?
 
Another not-very-scary one but which never seems mentioned was a break-in during the 1990s on an episode of "Blackadder Goes Forth", where the audio was temporarily replaced with a recording of some government business relating to council houses in Peterborough. The speaker in the recording made a somewhat racist comment and then another speaker demanded he retract the comment, then the audio returned to normal.

I happened to video that episode that night and still have the tape, complete with break-in.
 
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