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TV Broadcasts From The Future & Phantom Websites

Here's an experience I had a little more than five years ago and I still have no explanation for it:

When the news of Hurricane Katrina broke I found WWL TV's feed on the Internet and watched for an hour.

The news staff sat around in canvas camp chairs in the transmitter building. It reminded me of one of those "after the great disaster" novels or films where they've just got some electric power restored and technological civilization is bravely attempting to re-assert itself.

But what I was informed is that the water level in New Orleans was rapidly falling, with many of the canals already back in their banks and the others soon to follow.

Moreover there was a remote feed from a neighborhood which was now entirely free of flood waters and the residents were being permitted back into their homes. In fact several residents entered their homes and returned with trumpet, trombone and drums and they staged an impromptu parade!

The problem is that absolutely none of this happened for another two or even three weeks!
 
Re: message from the future

matt_tee said:
The original posting was made by myself (although it now says anonymous). Just thought i would update all those who may still be interested.

After 18 years of remembering the original event, I still cannot get it out of my head.

Amazingly, today (09/10/10) somebody contacted me to say that they experienced the same transmission, this was totally out of the blue! I am trying to contact this person and exchange details, and hopefully come to some sort of conclusion.

I have googled 'message from the future' or 'transmission from the future' and it seems that I am not the only who witnessed this event!

I was not dreaming, not on drugs or drinking, and it was not an advert.

If you want to read my account again, look at the very first posting.

If anyone else witnessed this then please PM me.

Kind regards,

Matt.
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Did you ever have the opportunity to communicate with the person who claimed to have experienced the same "event" as you, from the tenth of Sept?

If it was the First Direct Commercial, I'd be surprised as it seems an obvious ad, doesn't it?
 
Update...

If you were the person who sent me an email regarding this subject, please can you get back in touch with me?

Still puzzled.... :?:
 
I have just read this entire thread and it reminded me of something that I read on the BBC news using a cheap Nokia phone a few years ago. I work shifts and have an extremely awry body clock, so I often stay up all night. One time, I was trying to get to sleep and looked at the BBC News using my phone. The news was quite limited on the phone and it would give you little more than headlines. It was about 3am and one headline read:

"Somalian pirates are reported to have thrown the entire crew of a hijacked ship overboard - More follows".

I then fell asleep and when I woke up, immediately checked the news on my phone. There was nothing about this. I then logged on and scoured the internet - no trace. And to this day I have never heard any story which reflects that this ever happened!
 
It's around that time however I distinctly remember them saying that the 'entire crew' had been 'thrown overboard'.
 
Update...

Wow! there are some really interesting replies on my original post...

I am still waiting to hear from the original person who emailed me, I have searched all of my Emails, but cannot find the message..

So, please, if you did post a reply to me, please get back to me via these forums or email.

Matt
 
Intriguing letter about the Flixborough broadcast in FT 302, and specifically Reg Presley's memories of seeing the disaster occur on TV hours before it happened. I knew there was something odd about that story, even odder anyway, because it's the same story that a local woman told about the same incident.

So did she and Reg see the same thing? Or did he misremember the story as applying to himself? Or was it a journalist who got mixed up and it's passed into Reg folklore? Any ideas?
 
I am still waiting for a reply from the person who sent me the email....
 
My partner told me that sometime around 2005 both her and her father witnessed a subliminal TV message on multiple occasions. She thinks it was on Channel 4 & E4. The message was a very quick flash in a gold coloured font and said (seriously o_O) GAYLORD. I googled the word with combined combinations but haven't found any information on it. Does anyone else remember seeing this?
 
FrKadash said:
Does anyone else remember seeing this?
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Yes, vaguely, but as to whether it was a genuine attempt at covert subliminal message insertion, or standard C4 post-ironic artfulness, who knows?
 
FrKadash said:
My partner told me that sometime around 2005 both her and her father witnessed a subliminal TV message on multiple occasions. She thinks it was on Channel 4 & E4. The message was a very quick flash in a gold coloured font and said (seriously o_O) GAYLORD. I googled the word with combined combinations but haven't found any information on it. Does anyone else remember seeing this?
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Im thinking it might have been connected to the programme Brass Eye, I remember the insults flashing briefly when I watched it at the time. It was referenced by channel 4 here.

"The second incident was transmitted as part of a programme called Brass
Eye, which was made by a production company called Talkback, on March 5^th
1997. This transmission consisted of a single frame using derogatory
language about the then Channel 4 Chief Executive, Michael Grade."

That was first shown in 1997 when I saw it but it has been on again a few times. Maybe that was what she saw?
 
17Sealeopards said:
Im thinking it might have been connected to the programme Brass Eye,
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Yeah, I thought it would be something like this, a promotional gimmick maybe? As they saw it between the adverts apparently. I'm sure E4 did something similar (but unrelated) to do with gay pride two years ago.
 
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Can't be bothered checking back to see if it's already been mentioned, but Channel 4 got into a spot of controversy in the 1990s when they put smiling faces at the back of their idents, nothing too clear but more of an arty impression. This led some people to think there was actually a ghost in their television, incredible as that may seem. So this channel has a history of such behaviour.
 
FrKadash said:
My partner told me that sometime around 2005 both her and her father witnessed a subliminal TV message on multiple occasions. She thinks it was on Channel 4 & E4. The message was a very quick flash in a gold coloured font and said (seriously o_O) GAYLORD. I googled the word with combined combinations but haven't found any information on it. Does anyone else remember seeing this?
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No info with regard to TV, but I just came across a reference to a "Gaylord Watson railroad map of the United States [dating] from the early 1870s."

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30840318

:D
 
A little tv glitch back in 2000 that has stayed with me: I was watching a local news broadcast in which the first Mayor of London candidates were being interviewed. The presenter was stood outside with the line up of hopefuls and it was raining. She asked Frank Dobson a question, IIRC it was about transport, he started to talk and the tv "glitches" and it sounded like he said "Child killer". Then they spoke to Ken Livingstone and the glitch happened again and it sounded like he said "welly boat". Me and my O/H at the time couldnt believe how clear these words sounded, it was clearly due to the bad weather, an outside broadcast and technology all playing up. Or was it.......
 
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This is a weird one, In 1992/93 ( can't quite remember ), I was on a training course with work, it was an overnight thing, so we were given lodgings at a hotel in Nottingham, U.K, just down the road from Trent Bridge. That evening, after quite a boring day, I retired to my room and decided to watch satellite T.V. At about 7.40 ish, during an episode of coronation street, the television faded out, no adverts, just faded out of corrie, i thought there was a problem with interfearence or something, but then straight away, the t.v faded back, same channel but not corrie, this was scenes of a celebration due to the first ever television time transmission! the scene was jubilant and the commentator said that this 'corporation' (can't remember the name) would go down in history for the first ever time travel transmission. The future, from what i could see looked o.k, nice blue skies, with sunshine, trees everywhere. No sooner had it came on than it faded back to coronation street! about two minutes later the adverts came on. Did anybody else experience anything like this? I would be interested
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I experienced something very similar around the same period and it bugged me for years, I contacted Fortean Times mid 90's but got no reply, I searched everywhere but found nothing. Then I read "it happened to me" Vol 6, Ben Torgerson describes the broadcast perfectly, I remember it claiming it was a broadcast from the future, I remember installing about breakthroughs in technology, I also remember the women dressed almost like they did in the old TV series UFO (I even think one or two had purple hair, dressed in silver), it lasted around three minutes, my ex girlfriend and her mother both witnessed it and dismissed it almost immediately to move on to more mundane things. I met one other person a few years later who also saw something similar. It must have been mid to late 80's? I'm relieved other people saw it, but what was it?
 
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The presence of retrofuturistic hairstyles and silver clothing instantly rings the authenticity alarm bells with me. I think that there was a tv advertising campaign in the early 1990s that did a partial parody 'Futurevision' sequence of adverts, possibly via C4. How sensitive to television false realism were you, back then? Some have always been aware of this, and instantly can apply a reality filter.

The context in which you saw this footage, though, is interesting. A hotel and similar large locations often had (in the pre-digital era) a SMATV television cable distribution system, which, with varying degrees of technical success, rebroadcast selected mainstream channels and certain other...specialist content. It did/does this by allowing the transcoder interfaces to have either live satellite/terrestrial or other video and audio content presented to it, and as such would present an ideal platform for a mischevious insider to do their own little alternative reality reaction experiment.
 
Yeah, it was in the FT and explained as an advert. Plenty of people saw it, but have conflicting ideas what it showed, never mind the product advertised, so its efficiency for its purpose as a commercial is dubious.
 
I knew a fellow whose father is still involved with the filming and editing of live Sport. Folks its not always "live", what you often see is a up 20 seconds behind "real time" and news networks, radio and the rest are fed this as being "in the now". The fellow in question answered my question - why? - with - its all down to money making and gambling.
 
I think it's a lot more to do with the unpredictability of live TV and the fact that broadcasters don't want to be hit with a fine if someone starts effing and blinding.
 
Hey matt_tee, this account of a TV transmission from the future has just been posted on Reddit which has a few similarities with your memory.

"...a lab type room, there were scientist looking people (dressed in lab coats etc) in the room and they were having a Christmas party, party hats / little paper trumpets etc, from what I remember one of the people came to the camera and said happy Christmas (it wasn't Christmas) and went on to say they were testing to see they could send a television broadcast back in time, time travel was impossible but they experiment thought they could send a signal back..."

http://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_t...z/a_tv_advert_no_one_else_seems_to_have_seen/
 
Ermintrude said:
The presence of retrofuturistic hairstyles and silver clothing instantly rings the authenticity alarm bells with me. I think that there was a tv advertising campaign in the early 1990s that did a partial parody 'Futurevision' sequence of adverts, possibly via C4. How sensitive to television false realism were you, back then? Some have always been aware of this, and instantly can apply a reality filter.

The context in which you saw this footage, though, is interesting. A hotel and similar large locations often had (in the pre-digital era) a SMATV television cable distribution system, which, with varying degrees of technical success, rebroadcast selected mainstream channels and certain other...specialist content. It did/does this by allowing the transcoder interfaces to have either live satellite/terrestrial or other video and audio content presented to it, and as such would present an ideal platform for a mischevious insider to do their own little alternative reality reaction experiment.
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Thank you for the first reasonable answer I've had on this.
 
This may not be the right thread, but I haven´t come across a 9/11 oddities thread, so here goes on media oddity:
On Sept. 11 2001, I heard the radio news here in Berlin, Germany reporting on the events as they unfolded. On the situation at the Pentagon, they first said: There has been an attack on the Pentagon, possibly a car bomb. Later, when I read about the improbabilities of the Official Report, I remembered that first news report which didn´t mention a plane, obviously, as there was no wreckage on the site of the "crash" ( the official explanation being that the plane pulverized on impact, an unheard- of event ). Leaving that wing of the building with very little damage and on fire. Be that as it may be.
The other, creepier event had me looking at a 911- truth website weeks after the events. At the time, I had a dial-up modem and picture links were opening slowly. One picture took very long loading and as it opened it was very big on my screen- very high resolution- and as I scrolled/ scanned across it, I saw it was a photograph of one plane as it is just about to impact the building, taken looking up from the foot of the tower. Clearly visible was a torpedo- shaped structure attached to the fuselage. At that moment, my girlfriend entered the room and looked at the screen. Seconds later, the window with the image just vanished. " Did you just see that? " I asked her. "Yes, there was a plane with a sort of rocket attached to it." she answered.
Try as I might, I couldn´t get to open that link and see the image again.
There is an image like this, it was on the cover of "Der Spiegel" ( the german version of Newsweek ) at that time, but the resolution of the print is too grainy to see the plane as clearly as I did then.
 
GNC said:
I think it's a lot more to do with the unpredictability of live TV and the fact that broadcasters don't want to be hit with a fine if someone starts effing and blinding.
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or subjecting TV audiences to pooing elephants.
 
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