4 Most Disturbing TV Hijackings in History 

News anchors are trained in keeping their composure under pressure or sudden changes of script (breaking/shocking news, last-minute script revisions, problems during live coverage, etc). This man was exceptionally good at his job.

I was gonna say that too. He kept his cool like the guy ask him for directions

When you’re only other option is DIE… why freak out

He probably saw the letters CIA and knew the dude was Wacked

​@BronzeXV70 holding it together until the police arrive. Got to give him credit there

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He was funny

I agree 👍 it reminds of those phreakers from the same era that hacked telephone systems

@Noodle Cat exactly what I was thinking. Tech evolves, and there's a community of people who simply like to push the limits to see what it can do. I don't think anybody lost out on 17 secs of football or 90 seconds of Dr. Who lol

@Abdelhalim BoDe @Abdelhalim BoDe I just watched And I'm going to give you my honest opinion, understand that this is constructive criticism, and in no way am I poking fun at you. 1st impression, the narration needs work. You have to have some sort of emotional range to your voice, it just makes it all the much more entertaining. However you were clearly spoken, and that Is a good start. 2nd, the writing needs work. I'm sorry to say but we aren't all great writers, so take a look at stories read by Mr. Nightmare, or chilling scares. All their stories read similar because they edit for grammar. Way too many sentences start with the proper name of the subject, when you're only speaking of one person you don't have to use their name every single time. 3rd, these aren't bad stories. They aren't bad stories at all, they just need some work. Don't beat yourself up, Because if this is something you really wanna do then you can definitely work at it. It's A big deal to put yourself out there on RU-vid like this in general, so that is already huge.

some men just wanna watch the world burn

Yeah I find it funny how people try to make it sinister. It was a pre (mainstream) internet shit post.

Lol

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This glove is dirty my brother has the other one

N. E. R. D 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

That audio mad me on the floor

Cap

@@MooMoo69556 mf this guy literally has a video uploaded the year u were born wtf are u talking about

I remember this I was 19 years old in 1988 also grew up in Costa mesa which you probably know Orange County south of LA. Didn't see it live because I was working late, I did see it on the 11 pm news when I got home had a 13" Color TV in my room. In those days News Media was the only mass form of communication unlike today someone can startup a RU-vid channel.

Cap

@@snipers1871 how is it cap

Razorfist needs t do that nationally. God f uckin' speed!

Ikr

He just ranted about new coke and show his bare ass get spanked

I found it creepy as a kid but yeah it’s just silly and funny now. It totally was jus some young adults fuckin’ with the viewers.

I've been thinking is this an Eminem's Rap God?

I had a similar experience last December when SBS's live feed of the World Cup crashed and was down for ages during Argentina's match against the Netherlands… (Thank God the TV coverage of the match still worked… SBS's website blows)

Pun intended? 😄

@@RachelParker-1977 not initially, but now it is!😅

@@silashurd3597 🤭

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis so you do t question this so Americans are not the only brainwashed fans

My theory has always been that it was just a couple of drunk college kids playing with some new gadgets.

Well, back then it was much easier to get control of broadcasts, In the easiest way you just needed to set up a transmitter to the same frequency wich would "overpower" the original transmitter in a certain radius. Not what these dudes did but still. I also used to do this with radio frequencies around 10 years ago. That's why wondered that the fbi got involved for some kids playing with technology XD

Fr. I always thought it was just some buddy’s fucking around for fun. I never thought it was anything sinister.

I don't know how people have made something so scary out of some dudes messing around

But it’s still freaking disturbing!!!Whoever those people are they are dingus!!!

The highjacker's actual name was Gary Stolman

Professional!

He’s from America 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

He could probably tell that it was a bb gun, they have different feel to them and he pressed it onto him, probably thought it was an office prank.

i believe it was done deliberately to waste time and give the broadcasters more time to take the broadcasting off the air before he started reading it while also serving to possibly get information that would help identify the man probably part of a procedure for this sort of thing rather than something he just "did"

David Horowitz was known for his nerves of steel.

gangster?? how is being a gangster cool?

@@zipf it's a eupemism for being a bad*ss in tense situations.

​@@Stable_Genius Ah I see

@@AbdelhalimEhab i know where you live

I was going to say, how many dads were pissed that the broadcast was disrupted during football lol

What sport was it?

​@@unknown11215American football

Is your dad still a sheep and brainwashed I to caring about a game that doesn't give a crap about it's viewers

@@unknown11215probably American football

Part of me thinks it was someone with access to the tv station.. part thinks it is some unknown figure lost in 7 or 8 billion lives. My bet is on him knowing someone at the station especially since it was 1987.

Hopefully someone proves me wrong but I think it was an inside job of some kind

@@silas6691 Same.

did you just create two accounts to make an argument against yourself? pathetic.

Oh they definitely just wanted to troll everybody. It’s actually more funny then terrifying.

As a april fools?

Idk how they would do it but it should be bass boosted

“Can you blow mah wissel bebe wissel bebe let me knooo” 😫

LOL YESSSSS

that would be way too funny

I had to turn my phone up towards the ceiling cause I didn’t want to keep looking at it

@@lydia3832same. Weird.

I have an irrational fear of my PC monitors turning on in the middle of the night with faces exactly like that stuck on it

@@khaosB47same

​@@khaosB47 DUDE SAME

I remember when Max Headroom came on and I was absolutely rotten drunk and Max Headroom came on and we were ALL like..." WTF " !! 😂😂 Thought it was a NEW MTV music video !! 😂( Back in the day when MTV actually played REALLY GOOD MUSIC !!...Then again ALL music was GOOD back in the good ol days !!) 👍

@@juliecook6057 that seemed so cool!😂 we need more funny hacks like that tbh!

@@MusculosoDigital Absolutely 👍😂😂 It was a gooden !! Everything was so fresh and unique and untried, and it made for really interesting and intriguing and cool super FUN times !! We just went along for the ride and absolutely bloody LUVED IT !! ❤️👍

It was probably Hal 9000

A true professional. Even starts interviewing him before he reads the statement.

😅

The only thing that worried me were his coworkers yelling call the cops right in front of the crazy guy, and cutting the feed. But David himself, had a perfect demeanor. I feel like the guy could have put the gun down, and he would have read it anyway.

@@ytsn_THE_OG They didn't know it was an empty gun though, so it's better if they called the cops or told someone to because they didn't know what that man was capable of, especially he was armed. I don't understand how that's worrying.

Same here. That's what I was thinking too. I was like "What's this weird-ass mask he's got and what's the reason for this mask?" I personally think it was a bunch of college nerds who were into hacking and seeing how far they could push the systems.

I grew up in the 2010's and I quite like max headroom. ever seen the TV show?

@@AbdelhalimEhab that was awesome!!! Keep it up buddy!

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@@WyaSlay oh yeah forgot your content is just as good babe :*

I was 19 and in a Cairns nightclub and was totally rotten drunk and when Max Headroom came on we were ALL like...WTF 😂😂 Thought it was a new MTV music video !! 🤣🤣👍

Same. Glad I'm not the only old person here!

I don't know about eerie, but holy _hell_ it was irritating. 😒

That character always creeped me out!

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis Yeah, maybe it was eerie at the time, I dunno. Looking back, these just seem like the precursor to internet trolls.

It cracks me up every time. But yeah, I bet it was creepy at the time. Its brilliant.

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Wyoming Incident wasn't a real hijacking tho

​@@Mari_Izuthat specifically no but yes there was a hijacking in Wyoming back in the 90s

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True, but thats not the actual image that showed up during the WJLA-tv broadcast. The real image can be found on a wiki, but its cropped and very low quality. From what I can see, it shows a man wearing sunglasses and a woman.

@@raJraJ-jr2hj Yep. It's not that disturbing, so I don't know why the news channel erased any footage of it (according to the Broadcast Interruption Wiki)

I think that news reporters are trened to be calm and professional

I don’t think it was creepy. I think it was very brave, actually. But he was probulary shaking on the inside. Because he had no proof whether the man would’ve shot him even if he did read the paper.

That kind of sounds paranormal 👻

They been monitoring our tv screens since day one.

I had this same thing happened to a TV me and my friend seen in high school and most terrifying part was the volume was completely down and the volume cord for my xbox 360 was unplugged

The closest explanation I could think of is an interference between the TV channel and some military equipment that was somehow on the same frequency

IMHO, I'd say Mr. Nightmare is the younger brother of Chilling Scares. His material is so much more visceral, descriptive, and well-researched.

Both have the presentation format down pat. No odd accent or speech patterns to appear scary, just direct, smooth narration. No filler. They pick interesting topics and edit their videos well.

They can both DP me anytime they want to

I think he must be related.

You all know it's a voice app thingy.

God idk wtf I’d do bc I literally had to turn my phone away from me I couldn’t look at it

Reminds me of Local58's "Real Sleep"

Oh its uncanny mr incredible.

Time flies by fast can you figure it out why.

LMAO OMG

That would be even worse than a gun😭😭

Imagine being held hostage by a shlong 😭😭

Lol

Considering it took at least a few people to pull it off, it is really surprising that to this day it still remains unknown who any of them where. The fact that the incidents are still talked about with a sense of mystery is perhaps is credit enough for them? Who knows, it still may be solved but only by someone coming forward with something more.

I absolutely love 'The Horror at Fang Rock'! - have you ever seen 'Twenty Minutes Into The Future' - the original TV movie that created 'Max Headroom' - if not then check it out, it's awesome and I guarantee you'll love it.

I adore Hammer Horror too, especially the TV show 'Hammer House of Horror' - 'Charlie Boy' being my fave episode!

*I was videotaping "The Horror of Fang Rock" when that crap started! I was so mad at Channel 11 for cutting to that garbage!* I stopped the tape and recorded over it because I also hated Max Headroom, so the whole thing was like a bad dream, like falling into hell. And when I told my brother, sister and mother about it the following morning they didn't believe me... Until the (then) major networks, ABC, CBS and NBC all did stories on their "Evening News" shows about the "pirate broadcast" that interrupted TV the previous night. I guess I might've had something special had I not impulsively stopped recording and recorded over it (I didn't want that nasty bit with that guy's butt on my tape) but I didn't know what it was so I didn't think long-term.

@@themirrorsofmymind Back then all the classic Doctor Who hadn't been released on video so if you missed the broadcast you most likely wouldn't have seen it again anytime soon. Horror of Fang Rock wouldn't be released for quite some time!

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13:19

I heard “cut”

😂 crybaby

Anyone can claim it though, doesn't mean the guy who does was the actual guy.

I thought it was someone else saying “Cut”

You are really scared lol

It was funny I’m pretty sure he was just trolling.

Even if he was just trolling it’s still unnerving yk?

Max Headroom's face is a digitization of a real actor - Matt Frewer - who played Edison Carter, the reporter in the movie 'Twenty Minutes Into The Future' who died when he was hit by a 'Max Headroom' signpost whilst trying to escape a parking lot on his motorcycle.

@@XXSkunkWorksXX I will need to watch that. Thank you for the heads up.

⁠@@XXSkunkWorksXXMax wasn’t exactly a digitalization. It’s Frewer wearing a ton of prosthetics and a plastic molded suit with some contact lenses to create the uncanny cgi effect. he was also sat in front of a blue screen to create the colorful background.

Really?

Why, it's literally just a funny hijack, nothing more

The first 2 have been done before however my first time hearing about the last 2

@@Imperialsummoner Ahhh... I wouldn't be surprised to learn they've all been covered at some point, but not necessarily in this context. Perhaps they've been in a documentary or mentioned some other way, but I just have not personally seen them in any format. Until now of course. 🙂

Of course.

That comment is so played

@@hankhill9780 No. You are over played!!! I'm just kidding I don't give AF

Dipshit

It is mr nightmare it's just a new account

Yea they wrote him off as mentally ill, or does he just know too much? I always like to think their is some truth to accusations like that. Who really knows?

According to William Cooper he’s very much onto something.

It’s a shame he got labeled off as a conspiracy theorist when now we do have all of the evidence to back this up, evidence going back to ancient tablets even (Gary has once mentioned annunaki). + we now do know about the CIA and their ties to the industry, so this didn’t come as a surprise to me. The man just wanted to be heard, he wasn’t even going to actually hurt anyone.

In today’s upside down world, Stollmans claims may have very well been right… 😮

Welp were gonna be enslaved

In my country Here is night..

​@@thegentleman1609 Amsterdam 23:30 lol

Saturday night for me

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WTH

The max one wasn’t that scary.

He meant the second one​@@bunchaidiots2065

@@bunchaidiots2065it was funny

Wyoming incident perhaps?