5 Creepiest Number Station Sounds Ever Recorded 

the background sounds make it way creepier than it actually is.

I think it scares me the most knowing that these kinds of things we learn about the government are only the tip of the iceberg.

Imagine being a spy and having to listen to these creepy stations just to know where to go.

And now, the weather

Fun fact: the transmission tower in the thumbnail has nothing to do with number stations, it belongs to a regular radio station near Nauen, Germany, near Berlin.

Sure, lets watch this at 1:06 AM in a dark room.

THE NUMBERS MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

I use to listen to a radio station with classical music back in the day to fall asleep, I remember one day waking up around 4am to a sort of loud voice shouting out numbers, I was half asleep so I thought it might’ve been a dream but I see that it wasn’t, I’m glad i got to hear these secret codes, I wonder if there still around?🤔

I was in Germany during the 80's in the Army. There was more weird shit going on between the east and west when it came to radio traffic a person could hardly keep up with it or even notice it all for that matter. The closer you got to the east/west border the worse it became. I heard everything from numbers to crazy music and voices, bag pipes, Latin.... it was endless.

So these are probably the most well-known numbers stations, but there are a lot more obscure ones out there... Are there any crazy weird broadcasts I should follow up on?

4:26 "Sir, I am fluent in over six million forms of communication. This signal is not used by the Alliance, it could be an Imperial code."

*"Russian military code known as monolyth"* AH NU CHEEKI BREEKI IVE DAMKE

"I keep hearing the fucking numbers!"

I've heard all of them. There are many still in operation. Get an old vacuum tube communications receiver (boatanchor), and you will hear loads of stations all over the world on a coat-hanger antenna, if you use headphones.

Mason: I know where the numbers station is. It’s a ship. I saw it a long time ago, The Rusulka Hudson: Where? Mason: Cuba *bad ass music plays as Hudson puts on his bad ass glasses*

After 4 years, I found the background music name, it's called : Here Damien by Steve Gracy .

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program...

why the fuck do i watch dark 5 videos at 3:30 in the night

0:04 Gong Station 1:03 Backwards Music 2:02 Lincolnshire Poacher 3:01 Swedish Rhapsody 4:00 The Buzzer MDZHB (UVB-76)

I use to love to sweep through all the short wave radio frequencies when I was a child in the 1970’s using an old 1950’s valve filled short wave receiver late at night. You would often find strange and mysterious signals. Most seem to be gone now, certainly was intriguing during the cold war years.

Why the creepy images and music. Most of these messages were most likely communications that held secret information such as strategies or relay sensitive information. To think that some towers would be in the woods on nice sunny days with some guys who sent messages on direct order doesn't seem that ominous.

Porsche did 9/11.

Your videos always make me feel paranoid as shit for some reason. Even in broad daylight.

Growing up, my grandparents had a large console radio from the 1930's (my brother has it now, don't know if it still works), with shortwave bands on it. We'd hook up an additional antenna outside, and on clear nights, it would pick up some really weird transmissions. We figured they were from Europe, too bad we never recorded anything. I'm wondering if we didn't hear one of these. This was the late 70's/early 80's.

I'm fairly callous but something about numbers stations genuinely unsettles me.

I do love creeping my self out before bed.

Imagine sitting on your porch listening to radio, them listing off your coordinates and the lights in your neighbors’ houses turning off

Once back in 2006 I heard a strange radio sound during a vacation to Florida , and at Walmart some other guy also was talking about it to his family and we told him and he was like wtf

MY NAME IS VIKTOR REZNOV! AND I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!

Could've been worse.... Imagine if your radio only played Miley Cyrus.

I need more videos like this with the creepy soundtracks, it gives me a rush and when the videos are over it always leaves me wanting more

One of the best numbers stations presentations I’ve seen. Ominous music, short descriptions, and no commentary. Thank you!

Why does it feel that someone is behind me when i watch this video?

The numbers mason, what do they mean!?

2:18 tf2 red heavy spinning in cp_degrootkeep while a posing and spinning in circles

Love these vids! I love how creepy the backround is and how freaky the music can be! Keep up the good work (^: ahah

Nothing worse than trying to sleep after getting the sound of the Lincolnshire Poacher station stuck in your head.

We need your music in some horror game. It would be amazing...

Great soundtrack, really adds to the overall creepy feeling without being distracting.

I first began as a "Shortwave Listener" back in the 60's. But I only heard tons of these spooky "Numbers Stations" beginning with my Sony portable receivers in the 90's. If you stayed glued to your radio, with a long wire, outdoor antenna attached, you could hear them almost every day of the year! Monitoring Times printed articles about them!

*5. DONG STATION*

Number 2 was the audio from Sad Satan, just like that the game's creepiness has gone away.

*finishes segment about russian transmission* *shows NBC hazmat soldier using an M4 United States assault rifle* *makes perfect sense*

This is only top-5 channel that i like to watch! Good work.

Sometimes when I turn on my car radio...... I can hear people...... a woman singing, that goes by the name of Justin Beiber.

God, I love your videos! The music and the font and the entire atmosphere just completes the whole creepy factor. Gives me chills! Keep at it, Dark!!

I wish it was possible to get a hold of the creepy/sinister background ambience you use for your videos. There is something darkly relaxing about the one used in this video.

I used to dial through the SW bands at night in the 1960's and my friends and I heard some very odd things. Lot's of number stations where broadcasting, sequences of musical notes and there where frequencies with weird roaring sounds and tones, English broadcasts from Radio Triana (Albania) and Radio Havana. Fun stuff.

If you're gonna do audio, please do away with "spooky" background music.

Dragovich, Steiner, Kravchenko, all must DIE!!!

The "backward music" one reminds me quite a bit of the very common Stanag 4285 military and intelligence communications on HF. Similar phasing effect, maybe it was an early use of that type of transmission technology. I love this stuff, heard my first numbers station as a kid back in the late 70's. Ocho, ocho, cuatro, uno, tres, siete. My older brother told me it was Russian spies in Cuba and man I was totally hooked on HF after that. Never really stopped... Now I have a full wave mag loop on my ceiling for 20 meters and 10 meters and three small resonant mag loops for 80, 40, and 11 meters... and a discone in the attic because bro, everyone needs a discone whether they know it or not. I have two of the good RTL-SDR sticks and a Ham It Up, but they're just gathering dust now because the real bad boys are my SDRPlay RSP 1 and 2 units. Not cheap, but oh so nice. Pair one of those with a strong computer running SDR Console and some digital decoder software and you'll be having fantasies of being an NSA spook just about instantly. ;-)

The tone of the subjects and the perspicacity of your research makes you my favourite channel, Dark5. Thank you for your good work and worthy of watching videos.

Dark5, you might want to research the "Russian Woodpecker" from the Cold War. It was an attempt to use radar at HF frequencies. The theory was radar that could detect aircraft well beyond the horizon. It was well known by amateur radio operators at that time because of the unique sound it produced.

Why do I decide to watch these videos in the dark in my room by myself 🤦🏽‍♂️😂

This may be my favorite Dark5 video.

This video is very well-done. Graphics looks very professional and the typeface used for each heading really works. The "music" ups the creep factor.

Your videos are so simple but at the same time so well done. Congrats to you for spending time on this stuff. And always interesting topics, like this one, wich is obscure to most people

Thanks for the narration.

Most of these messages were stuff like “don’t forget the milk” and “send more drugs”, not stuff like “blow up the railway”.

"Because the numbers were telling me to!" -Alex Mason

Have to say I'm impressed with how well put together this video is in terms of images and sound.

Very cool. Shortwave used to have lots of weird stuff like this. I miss it.

A true Dark5 classic..the one that started it all for me. Have been a fan ever since..

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Finally, I found someone that has a bit of information to go along with the recordings. Thanks for uploading the video.

Hey classic Dark5! lovin' it.

I used to listen to these as a teenager and recognise them all apart from '4 (backwards music station). The Buzzer is the only one I think is still going to this day (I know because I tuned into it this morning on my amateur radio kit to show a visitor to my radio shack here in the UK of what a "cold war relic" radio signal sounds like). These days, the Buzzer in on 4.625 Mhz using Upper Side Band modulation (unusual for that low a frequency). but can be clearly heard using more basic AM short wave radio equipment too. A lot of analysis of this signal has been made over the years and what I've read is that, to this day this is a physical buzzer inside a room with a microphone in front of it rather than a purely electronically derived sound... people have said they can on occasion hear voices talking in the background... Some have also suggested that The Buzzer is a continuous high powered radio signal transmitted to the Soviet / now Russian submarine fleet that nuclear war hasn't happened - it's sudden disappearance would indicate that a new state of alertness should take place.... What's for sure though - the Buzzer can be heard almost anywhere on Earth at some point in the day, when the atmospheric propagation is in alignment!

"Number 8 *BURP* number 8 *BURP*"

Cool info, but background sounds (added) distracts from actual SW recordings, and actually gave me a headache.

great concept! very useful still

I am always reminded of the old joke of the verbal message sent from the front in WW1 which started as “send reinforcements we’re going to advance” and after a relay of message runners had got it to headquarters it was modified to “send three and four pence, we’re going to a dance”! Messages get garbled easily. 😂

4:26 Mikhail, Dmitri, Zhenya, Boris, 84 576, Yura, Zhenya.

I'm old enough to have heard many "numbers stations". However, one of the latest and weirdest mystery transmissions are on 27.5xx MHz (Upper Side Band) and is a repeated (often profane) latino voice saying in English, "This is to all the beautiful ladies on the beach who get sand in their coo***'s, coo***'s...coca cola". They'll repeat with some variation for several minutes then stop. Has anyone heard these?

I've been trying to figure out which song Dark 5 used for this video; it's really ominous and intriguing

Man I miss the old format, text only, that was back when dark 5 was the king of YT channels.

HOW DID IT TAKE YOU THIS LONG FOR THIS? NUMBER STATIONS ARE SO... MYSTERIOUS AND CREEPY... I LOVE THEM

The overused meme Mason, what do they mean?

Where did you get the footage in the backgound from. The antennas and stuff?

I remenber having a short radio back in the 90's and picking up some of this radios.

4 8 15 16 23 42

It's 5 am, aaaaaaaaaand i'm on this side of the internet again...

Where did you find this backgroud sound ? It's really good

This video is so good it keeps appearing on my suggested

I will always enjoy this channel much more than top 10 or all time conspiracies. Not that they're bad, but this channel has the best content I've found and not having voice overs keeps it "dark".

Do you make the transition scenes yourself/selves or are they stock footage of random stuff? Because they are always extremely well-done, its very impressive

Any message or signal can be encrypted and also decoded, if you know the key/cipher. In the modern world, many things are in the open and most would never detect it. Cool recordings none the less, especially the "monolyth". Rock on !!!

Swedish Rhapsody is just terrifying

Listen to all of them in my car on full volume Bass up all the way

KMS for watching this before sleep...

Any radio capable of receiving the shortwave band can listen to them. The best thing about them is the fact they're in plain sight, and yet the information they provide is useless without their respective one time pad. No computer is capable of deceifering the numbers either. And their short transmissions make them almost impossible to trace the exact location.

"Code format: Monolith" Ay cyka we going back to Chernobyl.

I think these are more mysterious, and less creepy^^ Well, there isn't that much strange about these things really, as radio is a very good way of transmitting asymmetrically encrypted messages to an unspecified number of individuals constantly on the move without needing any intermediaries. Actually, I believe that with the rise of better interception on the web with super AIs like Watson, we will see a lot more of this kind of encoding going on.

i still listen to the "buzzer" station

3:15, that melody and counting is played in reverse in Sad Satan

My dad served with the RAF in Germany from 58 to 67 as a linguist and his job was listening in to East German and Russian radio transmissions. I didn't realise his job had been so secretive until I watched a documentary about the cold war!

who wants some ice cream

This video should really be called "5 creepy numbers stations" because the actual broadcasts weren't in the spotlight, the stations were.

I listen to my music backwoods all the time. I'm a country boy.

I was once listening to UVB-76 and cought a message . Creeped me out a lot. I still keep the recording

the poacher one keeps me up at night