As a general rule "555" numbers are prank numbers. No actual phone uses them. That's why people in shows call them so much because it wont bother any real people.
The 555 area code was unassigned for use by scriptwriters up until (I think) the early 2000s and only a segment of it is used for informational numbers. So the phone booth couldn't have possibly had this phone number. So either they hid the phone number or (more likely) the phone didn't actually work and it wasn't operational.
@@sabresister - hey thanks for your question. It led me to do some actual research and it turns out the phone booth did work but the phone number actually started with area code 760 in the mid/late 90s. So looks like the actual phone number is either unknown or they hid it (maybe because it's been moved to another line?). So perhaps all the calls are real!
God, I completely forgot about the Mohave Phone Booth! I vaguely remember hearing about it as a kid when I was really into looking up real life oddities.
The Internet actually began as early as the 1960s (yes I was alive then) but it wasn't the Internet as we know it today. In those days it was mainly a research network used by government, military, and academic institutions. The Internet somewhat more.along the lines as we know it today came.about in the early 1980s.
I drove through the Mojave Desert last month in SoCal. It's riddled with lots of tiny communities, some hidden away in canyons and behind rocks and hills. It's an amazing area. It's especially beautiful in winter, where things are green and the desert flowers bloom. I love exploring there.
Your explanation of Gmod maps was amazing The weight of the expectation of horror that brings us viewers across miles to emotionally connect on the same page, the details left in every turn and step into an almost foreign world tormenting us with the familiarity of our civilization - telling us the reserved horror of the sudden madness pictured perfectly by our civilization; violence, war and the treachery of truth by soothing each event’s effect. All of this carefully collected and distributed in the particular expansion of the nature of the map itself. 👏 Nice one, Sacrow
24:50, that's Bughuul from the movie Sinister. The whole time he was exploring and seeing the figure from a distance I kept thinking that's who it looked like.
@@SacrowHey dude your videos are super original please don't go to just making "Gmod map are creepy" videos it would suck to see these kind of videos be traded for those like what happened to the librarian.
There's so much more good content from UT2004 that is basically gone forever than there ever was for gmod. That's where we got red orchestra, killing floor and rocket league from.
There is a one-man band called "Festering Wounds" and this band has a song called "Propaganda". This song has a similar phrase: "Disenfranchised little rats with a stomach full of lies, pulling strings on a country full of lies".
Watching you get killed by a cardboard cutout PNG of Baghool from Sinister, made me crack up. I was expecting the G-Man or Slenderman, not the demon that haunted my dreams for a short while after the first and only time I watched Sinister. Lol
The pre 80s when cell phones didn't exist, a payphone was a critical link. So this was an emergency phone for a problem. People needed it. Some people probably still do. Especially since they don't have cell coverage out there I don't know if it is still a Federal Law, but it was till at least 2002, you are able to get phone service anywhere in the US. In fact, people who buy lots in remote areas like west Texas have a phone booth put in at their house. It is really strange but you see these long dirt roads leading to shacks and a 1940s style phone booth sitting in front of their shack. I think the government no longer has this law, but if a phone line runs past you the phone company will install a booth on your land. Vandalism didn't happen pre 1970s People respected the country and society They would not destroy something. Buildings that were over 200 years old would be in good condition in the 60s but the late 70 and early 80s every window was broken and people sprayed graffiti In Asian countries if you do this they publicaly whip you and put you in jail. And the disgrace you bring on yourself and your family is so extreme that you don't see vandalism in Asia. They also use a Social Score and if you litter or do other anti-social activities the government will downgrade you and your score is critical for getting a good job and for traveling. If your score is below a number say 2000 , you can not fly. Below 1000 you can't take a train, below 500 you can't get a bus and below 300 you can't get a cab. Likewise, if you help your neighbor carry their groceries or pick up litter the government adds to your score. So if there is a good job with benefits and they have 10,000 people that are good and they can choose from, they will look at who has the largest social score America needs to adopt this program
I have been there. I have actually used that phone booth, in the 1990s. I was in the army, training, and I used it to call home. I have a picture of it somewhere, in an old photo album, lol. For the record, no bullet holes in it back then :)
Those "Ghosts" at the end in gmod are actual players. It's a complicated process, but the map itself is connected to a private lobby that eventually lets other players go in and wreak havoc in your game. Freaky, yet it is actually a feature of the map.
@@troyjohnson5983 I can't remember the name of the channel, but I've seen a video that completely went over the many secrets of this haunted GM Construct. Just look them up on YT, and eventually you'll find one that talks about this oddly added and active feature in the map. It's honestly pretty cool and also terrifying that so many of them can show up at random people's servers. I guess that shows how gmod is still popular to this day.
@@troyjohnson5983 in the map files of gmconstruct13 beta there is a file that connects to a website which allegedly connects you with other players! i havent checked it out in over a year so yeah.
What?? Who are you and how have i only just found about this channel til now?? I love abnormal/paranormal/horror/strange/unsolved/alien-type content! Lemme binge some of your videos so you'll probably see just a deluge of comments from me across a bunch of ur old videos
Dude, let me tell you, there's so many Garry's Mod servers that have been abandoned that you may never see again. Here's two that I can think of: Industrial Nightmare - A really surreal, dark, and brutal roleplay server. There's some videos on RU-vid Begotten 3 - Technically not abandoned, but it's on and off, generally for the weekend but I don't know the full lore. The idea is God removed himself from life and the world went to shit. There's videos of it and if you play on the weekend, you can try it yourself.
I believe that's the same phone booth i heard about on Art Bell radio. At the time there was supposedly a guy camping at it, answering it. Art talked to him on it
With the Mojave phone booth and liminal spaces and relics from the past and the feelings you get and stuff - I've thought a lot about that kind of stuff. Specifically like with malls and stores/buildings/businesses that were once bustling but are basically abandoned now.. I'm 38 so I've been here long enough to notice these sorts of things and it's definitely a weird feeling. I don't even really know how to explain it. The cycles of culture and technology kind of remind me of the cycle of human life - seeing things fade away that I remember being active in my lifetime reminds me of getting older. The "old internet" reminds me of all of this too. I'm just old enough to remember the internet going public and I remember making tons of cheesy websites/pages with my friends with Angelfire - they looked like the Mojave phone booth one basically - except maybe not even _that_ advanced lol.
Strange you mentioned the movie Phone Booth, I watched it last week after a very long time. It's not related to the Mojave lone phone booth but it's a great movie that encapsulates pre-9/11 NYC.
We’re just glossing over the completely fabricated phone number to the phone booth? 555 numbers are the same numbers used for movies because they don’t actually work.
If I close my eyes you sound just like Blameitonjorge lol. So much I’m Wondering if this is his side channel. Not a bad thing at all that’s good quality stuff
The irony of you saying nobody makes machinima and i just started some bodycam GMOD films, i guess it is a very old niche and hobby, i am very late haha! Love your videos man, you rock
Ok. The so called "alien" seen along the road as was described in the second topic was probably not a space alien at.all. It was most likely a skinwalker or possibly a wendigo. Not something you would want to meet up with day or night.
2.47 You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.
Now for the next Exploring the Abandoned Internet you should Add team fortress 2 in your list since that game is abandoned. And there are also many community servers that are even Abandoned too aka ones that I know of that I used to play before That are dead and abandoned.
In 1986, after a week long cocaine binge, I lay in bed and laid a fart that went on continuously for a full 60 seconds. My personal best, and possibly the greatest fart ever laid in human history.
The last stragglers on the phone booths where the drug addicts who would sell the mobiles phones and resort to using a pay phone. In the UK they were BT pay phones. They are actually still here but only a handful in Norwich city are still operating.
i live in the mojave desert wish they didnt remove the phone booth sadly they destroyed the booth after removing it their was a headstone their for a little bit but that also got removed
Ok, do you guys know more horror games with this same feeling of the gmod map shown at ~ 26:00-31:00? I know some of Chilla's Arts games have this kind of vibe, but I'd like to know more. The eeriness is disturbingly comfy, idk how to explain
Only someone from the US would think that the suburban map in GMOD could be relatable to anyone in the world 😂 nope. No where in the UK looks like this. Way too spacious 😂 great videos though!
not sure if the story about the phone booth is really true or not,but I CAN tell you that the number he said it was is 100% FAKE......."555" is a generic prefix they've used on tv for years,and there is not a 555 area code.
No one mentioned that on the website for the Mojave phone booth, there are at least two other updates, one in 2004 and another in 2018 that seems to be advertising thr availability of a book about the phone booth. So maybe not so abandoned?
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