Strange Sounds from 96.7FM 

“Let’s have a listen...” “RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS IS ONE OF MOST AMBITIOUS RPG PROJECTS OF 2019!”

"Let's have a listen." *"If* *you* *or* *a* *loved* *one* *has* *been* *diagnosed* *with* *mesothelioma,* *you* *may* *be* *entitled* *to* *financial* *compensation."*

I was a broadcast engineer for 47 years. Transmitting off beat garbage is common when a new station is testing before going on the air for the first time, or sometimes when a station changes format. it's no big deal. It's to keep the frequency occupied so the FCC doesn't declare the station dead and assign it to a new licensee.

Oh God... When Nexpo says "let's have a listen..." and the background music cuts off, you know something very spooky is coming on

96.7 is a music station here in Australia, and it sometimes makes weird noises here too, usually when a Cardi B song comes on.

“Let’s have a listen” *JONES BARBECUE AND FOOT MASSAGE*

Several years ago, I had a local radio station on and suddenly, a sequence of repetitious sounds that were very discomforting began and lasted about 3 minutes. I called the station and they assured me that it was only Nickleback.

The fact it occurred during night time,just added to the feeling of eeriness.When Art Bell on Coast to Coast am had his radio signal cut off right across the am dial all through America and Europe when discussing the HARP program in Alaska,the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.Night time adds a lot of fuel to the imagination.

96.7FM is my local "alternative" station, I guess Imagine Dragons is pretty horrifying at 3AM.

Viewer beware: 90% of the comments are the same thing with one change. You have been warned.

I'm a truck driver and in 2017 i was doing runs along the I-5 corridor, from Washington down to California, and one night as i was driving through Oregon via I-5 i was browsing through the radio stations and found one that genuinely gave me the creeps. I don't remember if it was this station or not, but from the sounds of it, it probably was. It was playing some creepy sounds and chanting almost like from a cult in a movie doing some kind of ritual. Kinda wish i had recorded it, but i wasn't even thinking of that, i was like "what the fuck?" Before turning it off.

This reminds me of something that happened with my little sister and I. This was during February 2003, in CA. I'm sure it was a weird prank but it scared us so bad we were terrified of the radio for a while after that lol. We had the radio playing while we were doing homework, and I started fiddling with the stations. We stopped on this one station that was playing sort of angelic, dreamy sounding music. It kind of sounded like Enya's music. About a minute in, it switched to this loud, rhythmic thumping. Not like a musical beat. It was like someone was violently hitting a wall with a hammer over and over again. Along with that, there was a woman saying "Wake up," repeatedly. At first she sounded kind of goofy, like she was holding back from laughing, and then she got more and more frantic. This went on to the point that she was full on screeching "WAKE UP." Just awful screaming, like this person saw something horrible. We were freaking out loud enough for my mom to come running in. She heard it too, and was equally freaked out. She ended up just yanking the radio from the wall. She tried calling the local radio stations about it, but idk what came from it. I didn't remember the full statio number (besides two 9's I think,) so that probably made it hard for her to find out anything. Our town had a similar "artsy" community, so it makes a lot of sense if someone was doing a prank/avant garde project.

“Let’s have a listen” “COME ON DOWN TO OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE”

Imagine if there's just a random guy who tunes in to that radio station and says to himself "now this is my jam"

In the e-mail you showed she didn't say that they were not responsible for those broadcasts, she said that the radio station was theirs and that they weren't aware of any interference. If they were responsible for those broadcasts then there wasn't any interference to be aware of and she was being entirely truthful while using implication to lead you in another direction.

here in liverpool, england, we have a massive radio station called "Radio City". it's frequency is also 96.7, and it is also constantly broadcasting incredibly strange noises. these strange, grotesque noises are the native scouse accent.

I feel like the people at CATS are probably just a bunch of old people who don’t know how to properly run a radio station and didn’t even realize that it was messed up audio.

5:29 “Let’s have a listen...” “Liberty Mutual customizes car insurance. Liberty Liberty Li-berty!” Holy shit that’s freaky!!

The weird tones sound like an early satellite, like Sputnik or Telstar. They were huge deals when they first went up and I remember going outside as a small child with my friends to watch for Telstar crossing the night sky. The recordings of them passing overhead were touted as signals from space in your living room.

Around 2004, I remember one of our local stations played nothing but cartoon sound effects while a man's voice would cycle through names every once in a while. This happened for an entire weekend. It still hasn't been explained.

"We don't know about any interference" reads either like they didn't bother checking and didn't care OR like a cheeky way of saying "Those broadcasts are all us"

One time, for the morning announcements at my high school, they decided to play "calming" whale sounds over our shitty PA system. It ended up being one of the most terrifying sounds I have ever heard.

The creepy beeping noises are actually simply recordings of the radio transmissions put out by Sputnik 1 over the course of 3 weeks. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.

I remember about 4 years ago, I was driving through the mountains near Mammoth, CA at around 10pm. There was no reception where I was but I had my radio on, I forgot the station, but all of a sudden, I heard yelling for help on my radio. I pulled over because I was so scared. The voice was of a young woman. She sounded like she was panicking, begging for someone to reach her. Her voice sounded helpless as if she knew no one could hear her. I remember yelling back into my radio as if she could hear me, but her voice began to fade. Not knowing what to think, I got back into my car and kept driving. I still think about that night every once in a while....and I always wondered about that woman.

I'm gonna get my own radio station and just play Minecraft ambient music, and sometimes cave noises to mix it up a bit

Let's have a listen... "You're not a dish! You're a man!" Terrifying

I've been holding off on watching this for 2 years simple because I listen to this mostly at night and the strange sounds might stop me from being able to sleep that night. Here we go! Let's do it!

I don't know if it's the lack of a visual component, or my layperson fascination with pirate radio stations, unsourced audio, odd samples, etc., but I love this kind of mystery radio broadcast shit. It would be super fun to renegade broadcast like this, or catch one sometime.

“Let’s have a listen...” *“ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING PARTS OF MEDITATION IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE DARK SIDE OF THE MIND.”*

"Let's have a listen:" "I AM ONCE AGAIN ASKING FOR YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPOHT"

Thank you for doing stories not heard before. So many topics on RU-vid have been presented ad nauseum. It's refreshing to hear the hidden gems you present. I'm 64. I've heard most everything in life-until your channel. Thanks. And great presentation and research as well. Good job.

My dog went absolutely NUTS when the high pitched noises started playing at 5:41. Head tilting, whining, barking, the works. 100% confident that's just a coincidence and not an intended result of these noises, but he's never reacted that strongly to noises coming from a speaker.

In Portland people often say, “Keep Portland weird” so maybe that’s their way of upholding that weirdness?

"And now... Human music."

Here, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA, the channel "96.7 the beaver", one of our popular country stations was suddenly interupted back in 2020 with similar audio, I was listening to it while getting ready for bed, when what was just some Allen Jackson playing on the radio turned into this creepy audio. I freaked out, and ripped the cord from the wall, too afraid to sleep, feeling my house was haunted.

I just recently discovered your youtube channel, and going through a lot of your old videos, and man the intro to this video is awesome.

This is equivalent to Spotify ads you get just pure fear and agonizing noise

"Let's have a listen." *"A man has fallen into the river in LEGO City! Start the new rescue helicopter! HEY! Build the helicopter and off to the rescue. Prepare the lifeline, lower the stretcher, and make the rescue. The new emergency collection from LEGO City!"*

I like hearing your voice, it calms me. Thank you for always being a constant. You create wonderful works. Hope you are doing alright!

honestly you sending this thorough, polite email and CAT just coming back with essentially "hmmmm weird! thanks!" is very humorous

5:40 "let's take a listen...." [Loud ass youtube ad] me: That's disrespectful, man!

"Let's have a listen." "18 NAKED COWBOYS IN THE SHOWERS AT RAM RANCH"

My late great Grandfather showed me and friends how to make an AM radio using toilet roll and lots of copper wiring. It had to be nailed down on a wooded board about 8X10. We used a mono mic piece to listen to radio stations using a razer blade to scan over the copper wire. My Father saw this and was very angry because - it wasn't the radio hobby thing, it was because we played with a razer blade. I had no trouble handling with razer blade skimming through copper wire. So, most of my friends gave up on this hobby. We did pick up AM stations. It was very, very soft and jaggit sounds. My Great Grandpa said - this is what he learned during WW1. Thank you for this story.

5:43 that's Sputnik's signal when Russia launched their first successful satellite. With the apollo 11 mission control audio as well, makes me believe that someone had this on a loop at this fm frequency

Why are those tones so freaky? I'm standing in a well lit kitchen at night right now, and I'm having to check behind me because those sounds make my brain go "not good. Something wrong. Bad times"

"let's have a listen." *"Hello everybody this is YOUR daily dose of internet"*

Love going back and watching these old Nexpo videos, these broadcast/number station ones always freak me out 🥶😱🥶😱 Hope everyone watching this is having a great day, you've been a huge inspiration to me and my channel 🤍🤍

We need more of these type of videos. Mysteries in radio or television!

Sounds like what that one friend who is deep into underground music plays

I heard once that when a station is changing formats or undergoing a management change they still have to keep broadcasting even if they don't have any material to put on air. If they don't the FCC can claim the frequency is abandoned and can reassign it to whoever they want, so I heard. There was a station here that had a text to voice program reading jokes and sayings for a few days while they switched from rock to hip hop.

Reminds me of when I used to listen to shortwave radio back in the very early 90's. Lots of really weird stuff to hear then.

Thanks for this deep dive!

If they really wanted to spook people, they shoulda played some good ol' Minecraft cave sounds.

"Let's have a listen." *"I am once again asking for your financial support."*

This is great investigative journalism. Keep up the good work.

Great video as always! I feel like CAT did not deny their involvement, if something, they almost admit being fully aware of this and probably didn’t care enough to explain further.

"Let's have a listen" *"EVER SINCE I DOWNLOADED THIS APP, I'VE BEEN ADDICTED, THIS IS DANGEROUS"*

Don’t touch that dial now, we’re just getting started.

Mad praise for actually having a short description overview, rather than just a sea of plugs

You could deploy an array of software defined radios SDRs. It would require a turntable (not a record player) and a yagi antenna to act as radar. This mystery can be solved with around 10k in radio gear. You could probably pinpoint the station quickly with a small team.

It's Portland, this is for sure just some weird art project lmao

"Let's have a listen." "Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporateeeeed"

Honestly such a bop with eerie music and a little bit of speeches and talks A great in between

In my area there are two local FM radio stations on 96.3 and 96.9. If you tune to 96.7 you get a mixture of the two stations 'fighting' for each other and it sounds extremely weird!

"Let's have a listen" "They are turning the frogs gay..."

Pilot here: The random beeping tones sounds a lot like when someone "steps" on someone else on the radio (meaning two people tried to transmit at the same time).

I was using today the app "Radio Garden" which allows you to listen to radio stations around the world (even in North Korea ;)) and "The numberz" from Portland is the ONLY radio station on which I had interference. Maybe it's because I live in Poland (a country in Europe, not a city in Maine, US), but then why do all other stations work perfectly? Even the one in Pyongyang

That was actually a really fascinating video. Very cool investigation.

5:45 Radiohead’s new single is fire 🔥🔥

As somebody who lived in Portland for years, Portland is known to have some pretty odd folks and do some avant-garde stuff so I wouldn't be surprised if this was a totally conscious thing that was done in an effort to keep some of the motto "Keep Portland Weird "going

Interesting. Decades ago I would often attempt to tune in to a channel whose call sign I cannot remember in order to catch 'Caribbean Night Sounds'. Nothing weird or supernatural... I just wanted to hear *something other than* the latest pop thing being hawked constantly on the regular stations.

To get the answer, you should have reached out to the FCC field office closest to your location in Portland. They would set up a field audit of the broadcast and find the location and the broadcasters.

I still think it's odd that the station that took over is called "the numberz" considering the amount of people who had referred to it as a "numbers station" when cat still owned it

Of course it's in Oregon. I swear that place has the highest amount of weirdness per capita in the whole world

11 year old kid from Argentina here: in my town theres a lot of stations that make weird loud sounds, especially in my dad's camp (i dont know how to say it. english was not my first language) and so, everytime we/i get on the car we play the radio trying to listen music or something and imagine all the stations with some 90s TV Static sound

10.0 dive! 👏 ive alot a questions still but good job. Strange, but a fun to watch video.

100% worth the donation.

I miss the purple border. The purple border let me know I could feel safe.

The strange siren “dewuwuwe” sound and the beeping are actually recordings from the Sputnik 1 satellite launched in 1957 Which is interesting since the jfk speeches on that station were about the space race and from the 1960s

I lived in Eugene Oregon at that time! Half my skull is synthetic its made of hybrid fiberglass. I've always been sensitive to radio frequencies since my brain surgeries at OHSU in Portland... when I would fall asleep I could hear talking. Like walking through a crowd... it was so weird! It literally sounded like random ppl talking. It stopped after awhile which I thought was even weirder. I had to move away from Eugene a few months ago bc the EMFs were becoming so intense.

Radio enthusiast here: If it was a low power station, it wouldn't have been too hard to triangulate where the signal is coming from, and pinpoint the approximate transmitter location. A couple of enthusiasts could have done it

The guy who said “aphex twin marathon” deserves a medal

I am in Beaverton. Had I discovered this station back then I would have never turned it off. I love experimental/avant-garde/noise music. I just tuned in and it's KQRZ now. It's a weird independent station that plays "real oldies" along with old commercials. When they play a real modern ad it is usually for the Portland Hamm Radio club, or a local oldies related event. I know I heard this broadcast before and during the time of the weird sounds but I think it has been broadcast to a few different stations throughout the years.

It would be really cool if a local radio station had an unannounced Numbers Station hour that was part of an ARG.

The fact that no one hooked up a cheap yagi to a ham radio and triangulated the position of the broadcast antenna is an utter travesty, that wold have solved the whole mystery. Doesn't matter now I guess.

When I heard the description I thought “aliens” but when I heard the actual broadcast it just sounds like strange EDM

Thanks for giving some more publicity to LPFM! There was another application window a few months ago, so expect some new ones in the next few years!

Very good research!

"Let's have a listen" Are you struggling with ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION and can't afford that *blue* *pill?*

Jesus, right after he said “let’s have a listen” I got one of those awful new grub hub ads lol

Northwest arkansas FINALLY got a good alternative radio station back in 96. Right before it went on the air it played REMs "End of the world" over and over again for two straight weeks. In the last few days they began broadcasting short commercials explaining it was "todays modern alternative", etc. Until then people had no idea WTF was up with this station playing the same thing 24/7.

As a Portlander, It’s funny to watch this story get “spookified” by Nexpo 😂

-turns on radio- -demonic screaming and scary sounds- “shit slapping”

Maybe it's a Scooby-Doo situation and they're trying to create affordable housing by scaring off all the rich folks.

A quick Google search says that 96.7 FM in Portland first aired 14July2017. Wiki says this about the station: "KNUM-LP is a low-power FM radio station broadcasting on 96.7 FM in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is owned by the Community Alliance of Tenants and is known as "96.7 The Numberz", airing a rap and hip-hop format."

i know this is an older video but still one of my favorites :) and also this version of the intro is always my favorite, the trees and the deer and such

My stepdad always taught me about how radio frequencies from the war are still bouncing off the hemisphere so in rare cases your walkie talkie picks them up. It’s scary at the time but it’s very cool. Edit: Grammar correction

Why has no one pointed out the reply “Aphex Twin marathon” lmao

Forever will be an awesome video right here! ❤❤

Even your into music makes my blood pressure rise and gives me mild anxiety. I love it ❤