What makes me think that this is a hoax is the recording of the first phone call. Why would it have been recorded? Most people don't automatically record all phone calls. I can see getting a call, then recording the following calls, but why was the first call recorded 🤔 ?
Rural* southerner. You’d be surprised how many of us sound “normal” per se. I’m told often in my field “oh wow, you don’t even sound southern!” Which honestly I find kinda condescending haha, but it’s all good. The older gen of my family all have the thick accent, but I guess it didn’t stick for the rest of us. Although I will say that when I get drunk or angry it’ll come out sometimes, and I can easily fall into it if I want to.
Yeah, that makes sense. Some extraterrestrial came from Orion, which is a constellation of stars, not a place, and decides, for shits and giggles to prank call a guy named Gary Sudbrink ... right ...
Lmao His uncle legit was like “I had a naughty encounter with an alien in West Virginia back in 62 but you knew that already because you were there.” 😂😂😂
As a West Virginian….😅 I don’t doubt at all that the man had a naughty encounter with an alien here…Hell now that I think bout it, maybe I did a few times too honestly 🤯🤔
I think it’s important to also remember this happened in 1993, when one of the most popular toys was the Talkboy, from Home Alone in 1992, which lets you record your voice and play it back in a slower speed.
It makes me wonder if the world is really so different from 1992. I can't imagine engaging with this. I'd just block the number and be creeped out for a few days
Having just had some very strange amateur astronomer video of Orion and some fast moving objects fly across the night sky in the video is just the spooky coincidence I didn't need.
They definitely knew him and were 100% pranking him. They started to angle it as if it were a creepy stalker, then once someone mentioned UFOs they latched onto that
Definitely someone messing with him, but I'm not sure it was someone who knew him. The two men who were asking him questions in the airport at least didn't know him.
Being a Long Islander, I love how this can be both extremely unnerving yet hilarious at the same time with the guy just being aggressively old school new york and threatening to kick the guys ass hahahahahaha
great video man. not gonna lie though I laughed at the parts of the calls where you hear his parents yelling with their new york accents "I don't know who it is!" and like "It sounds like a robot!" lol
I think anyone would have been freaked out initially 🤯 But then, in typical New York fashion:🗽 "I can't hear so well.... "So I in an effort to hear you better 🙉, instead of listening, I've decided that I'm going to talk over the top of you & repeat everything you say 🦜 in a 3 Way Conversation, with running commentary & opinions & take everything literally so I can pick up on subtle clues 😂 lol
They stumbled onto gold with “you are being impersonated by the other voice”, unsettling, opaque, creepy. Then they went all in on the obvious alien crap and it’s hack.
Yup, the doppelganger/bodysnatcher angle was way more unsettling then the alien from orion's belt mumbo jumbo. Especially when it involves pranking two guys who are way to into ufos and alien conspiracies. It became way too obvious of a setup to go the extraterrestrial route.
@@brookhaven86 Hey, if humans want to defeat any aliens, all we need to do is let them talk to a bunch of Long Islanders & they'll never want to come back lol
I didn't find that creepy at all. I found it infuriating. "So you're telling that I'm being impersonated, and all you say is "the other voice"? Are you friggin brain dead? That's not useful at all, and you can barely even speak! "
I love his parents! You can totally picture the scene going on in their house! Then, here comes sweet, earnest Dad: "are you an intergalactic person? I had a UFO experience..... " This is so creepy, but also hilarious. I can see Gary waving his Dad away while his parents hover around the phone, bewildered. Dad: "tell him I wanna talk to him." Gary trying to hear Phone Creep. Dad: "tell-tell him I wanna talk to him.." Gary: swatting his dad away so he can hear what Phone Creep is saying. Dad: "tell him I wanna talk to him...." Gary, mouthing "shut up, Dad, I can't hear him!! Go away!! Just...go!" 🤣🤣🤣
It reminds me of Archibald "Archie" Bunker who is a fictional character from the 1970s American television sitcom All in the Family and its spin-off Archie Bunker's Place, played by Carroll O'Connor. Bunker, a main character of the series, is a World War II veteran, blue-collar worker, and family man
Hey, former criminal/90s kid here. Hate to rain on everyone's parade, but this isn't really anything exciting. What you're witnessing is called social engineering, and it's a hacker thing. That whirring sound you're hearing is a tape recorder, and the caller is recording everything Gary is saying. All he's doing is trying to lead the convo in a way as to get Gary to say certain phrases that the caller needs. The alien crap is just a red herring to keep Gary talking by playing on his curiosity. The most important phrase is "Is This Gary Sudbrink". This is because Gary keeps frustrating the crook by not responding with "This is Gary Sudbrink." That's the final piece of the puzzle. You can tell when he gets what he wants because that's when he stops repeating the phrases. I especially love the "The second voice is impersonating me." Because it means that if Gary should somehow catch on they can accuse Gary of being the imposter after he repeated it. Chances are they're looking to get into some air force records or something via telephone which was a thing in the 90s before Web 2.0, and picked Gary because of his clearance levels. It's just a con, someone farming a vocabulary so they can gain access to something. For all I know, Orion is a password or clearance level or something. I don't know much about the specifics of US infosec protocols since, y'know, that's the point of them.
A few of the words from the caller were said in a Long Island accent. Doubtful that any alien would choose that accent to communicate with the rest of the world.
lol right. also doubtful that an alien would make his voice sound silly and play a loop of gibberish down the phone to some random guy. a bored loser with a s-stammer might though... after finding out he can make his voice sound all scary woooo. why they entertained this tit for so long is the real mystery.
In John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies there is a lot of telephone shenanigans, and it started to seem to Keel like people were being hypnotized by unknown entities into making the calls. This seems more like a prank as it goes on (especially call 4), but its not out of the range of possibilities
This the most New York reaction to someone trying to spook you lololol "Call out of area? Honey, who do we know out of the area?" "How should I know?" "What do you mean how should I know!?"
I don't answer.. if they have something important, they'll send a text or leave a voicemail.. back then, you had no way of knowing who was calling, it was the wild west of the telephones.. 😅 On top of it all, my dad and the police chief had the same name and were on top of each other in the phone book, so I spent a lot of time convincing people they had the wrong number.. lost pets, stolen bikes, drunken people, questions about gun licenses, hunting season questions, fishing license cost.. That damn book had your name, (+name of your spouse), number and address.. creepy times..
That's probably the response he got from everyone he tried it on til he got a bite. He loved it when they started asking if he were an alien. Watch the skies lol... jesus christ what a tool. No way would I have indulged this fool from the minute he started with the silly voice.
That was before spam calls and fraudster calling you ten times a day saying either you owe the IRS taxes in an Indian accent or that your bank account has been stolen and you need to wire yourself money. People were more innocent back then and would answer the call just in case. As a kid, I grew up answering phone calls but now as an adult, my phone is always on mute.
One thing I find strange is that he listens to the exact same phrases repeated in a loop for in total about 15 minutes _while he himself is recording the call with a tape_ and at no point does it occur to him that he is listening to something recorded on a tape. The way he tries to sound like he is genuinely responding as if he is talking to a live person responding to him actually sounds very unnatural to me. A person getting exactly zero interactive novel responses would stop participating. I think this is just a hoax and Gary is likely in on in. All of the back storey surrounding this also relies on Gary's credibility to believe and I'm not convinced Gary isn't in on it.
@@Kayla-Butterflyis that the same guy that was like " Maaa theres two moose fighting " while these two moose are fighting in a parking lot all falling all over cars and hes like" oh fuck oh shit Maaa call the cops or national geographic Maaa! " he goes on i think threatens to kick their asses if they fucked up his car or something and i think finally they stop fighting but hes hilarious the shit hes saying while they fight is that the same guy?
I would be careful of these kinds of phone calls these days. They want you to say specific things like your name or Yes to be able to use it to pretend to be you. and now with ai voice if they get enough words from you they can create whole conversations and pretend to be you over the phone.
These New Yorkers aren’t having any of it. Their responses turned a creepy call into nothing more than a hilarious prank. Mr. Space Alien must’ve been disappointed. 😂😂😂😂
You just know that with how fast Gary's dad jumped to it being an alien, that he makes this claim about a lot of mysterious calls. AT&T rep: "Sir, if I said I could save you 100 dollars a month on a phone, internet bundle would you be inter..." Dad "I KNOW IT'S YOU SPACE MAN!"
This was genuinely creepy and unsettling until call 4. In call 4, the phrases that the mysterious caller used -- "we come to be within this planet", "government interference", "the sun will rise on the dark side of the moon" -- are way too on-the-nose. The whirring sound effect, which is ostensibly supposed to be an engine starting, certainly doesn't help the caller's credibility. When the caller started to use explicitly extraterrestrial-related phrases, he basically revealed himself to be a prankster. For that reason, it's impossible for me to take it seriously after call 4. However, I don't think the Sudbrink family were in on it. I think the caller was somebody they knew, perhaps a neighbor or a coworker, who wanted to play a prank on them by frightening them with these phone calls.
People have UFO experience- people start getting phone calls- people then report previous "high strangeness"(whatever that is) Can you see what is happening here... Paranormal People Having Paranormal Experiences. Crock of Shit man
Love the video, never heard of this before. But I've dealt with a lot of creative scam callers before and what always makes them break character is playing fart sounds. They either cuss me out or double down.
I actually was lololol 😂, just thinking of an older dude and his parents freaking out, then running outside looking up at the sky. It's funny to hear, but no doubt freaked them out...interesting video though, and it made me laugh too, which is an unusual combo! Keep up the good work pandox!!
This is unintentionally hilarious. The guy has 3 pre-recorded phrases but quickly realizes his plan of scaring this guy isn't working and not only is he not intimidated but he's actually willing to talk with him but all the caller can do is repeat the 3 phrases cause apparently he didn't record anymore. That and the constant interruptions just make the whole thing ludicrous! I picture the creepy guy eventually hanging up and sitting in his dark room sad and frustrated. 😂
Imagine being a space alien or ghost or demon making these creepy calls and the person you're calling has people in the background who won't shut the hell up, ANNOYING!
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People at Gary's air base would know he was leaving for home. And when he got home his family would naturally tell others that their son, brother or nephew was home too.
This honestly to me just sounds like one of those phone scams where people record you so they can use your voice again in other scams. The scammer heard them talk about E.T and decided that would be a good hook to get Gary to talk more.
yeah my immediate thought fromt the first call was that the voice was trying to get him to say "Gary Sudbrink" probably for scam purposes perhaps relating to his job in the military which is also why it asked how long he'd be gone for. if his story about the guys at the airport is true it'd lend more credence to this theory but theres no way to verify it. however, if this was for a scam job idk why they would start going on about alien space shit.
@@maddieb.4282 I was referring to the original comment who mentioned of recording phone calls and use the voice in some other scam. I find that just a little bit before it's time, back then.🤷♀️
He was visiting his parents in NY and just decided to tape calls coming in??? The first call has the ringing tone before the speaking starts so that would have had to be recorded by the caller, not the receiver of the call...
Oohhh the good old days where kids could still have fun making prank calls. Not that I think this one was a kid. But I used to love getting drunk and smoking weed with friends and planing and playing prank calls on ppl. And Gary and his family where the perfect kinda of ppl to get on the hook lol
Me too. Some of my funniest times were prank calling. Like 4th-5th grade maybe? Our favorite was Chinese restaurants 😂😂😂😂 OMG did we laugh…..😂😂😂they’d get SO pissed and YELL and we’d have NO idea WHAT they were saying - so of course we’d laugh even harder!! 😂😂😂😂 ahh, good times!
When caller ID weren't mainstream. The guy answering seems more annoyed than anything else. I would have hung up. The ''space alien'' must have been very disapointed lol.
I had a friend who would use a synthesizer with a mic to distort her voice to crank call people. Someone figured out it was her and the cops came and took her synthesizer away until she was 18. That was back in the 90’s. So, I suspect that’s what this is. That being said, I can’t find ANYTHING online about what Sudbrink is up to these days. There’s just a really pathetic Twitter account with his name on it, but I don’t think it’s him. Would have liked it if this video maybe touched on what he’s up to these days.
This has always been one of my favorite cases, even if it ends up with a prosaic explanation (e.g. Richard Doty). I found it a bit dubious that Gary had a recording of the first phone call, unless there was a call before that which isn't documented. I'd be curious to know the contents of the conversation his impersonator had with his friend Mike the day before as well. If I had to guess, it feels to me like someone was asking him specific questions that would garner certain responses from Gary so they could record his voice for use in discrediting him or something. It's fascinating though.
To me personally, it actually sounds like he started recording the first call a little bit into it. The way the recording starts doesn't sound like the actual start of a conversation to me.
@@caneyebus In 1993 my best friend (we were in our Senior year of High School) used to record her and her boyfriend's conversations over the phone by using a tape recorder mic which she had spliced and extended the mic wiring so that she could put the mic in the receiver (ear piece) section of the phone. The quality was exactly the same as you hear here. You can also tell this recording was made on a cassette tape. That background sound is quite typical of cassette recordings not done on professional recording equipment. And while my bff's recording her boyfriend's conversations with her during phone calls, he knew he was being recorded and it was just that listening to the conversations when she was struggling to fall asleep helped her to get to sleep (she had anxiety related insomnia). Seems weird in this day and age, but back then it wasn't weird at all. Most people had some form of way to record their phone conversations...it was practical and also a trend to memorialize our conversations with loved ones. Not to mention, oftentimes the only way to have a telephone company block a caller was to have proof of harassment. Ahhhh, the good ol' days lol.
@@AraClaire that's cool and all, but that wasn't the norm for most of us back then. I'm a few years younger than you, but that wasn't something people just had laying around at the ready.
I used to have a voice changing phone in the early 90s, made this exact voice, we Effed with friends (not Gary) by typing out a phrase on on a loop on a computer, changing the voice to this one. but my brother decided to call our two female coworkers and it asked them if they were sure their door was locked, on repeat. I immediately realized how bad that was and called them right away on a normal phone and told them. we're all still friends somehow. my brother was a known prankster, but I had to reel him in now and again.
I got a weird call and voice message in the 90s as well that I cannot explain until this day. This video is similar to what I experienced. Basically a very weird and long message with the caller knowing some weird random fact about my life.
I used to make prank calls back in the 90s once my Friends Mom and I called a Hotel and convinced them that she got herpies from thier hottub it was pretty messed up because the person who answered was like extremely worried and thought they had a real problem on thier hands. Then we pranked her grandma and pretended we were a long lost Jewish friend from school and her grandmother was all confused but so nice and I was actually unnerved, it made me never want to prank call anyone again for the rest of my life! But it was mostly because of a popular underground tape collection called Crank Yankers it was later turned into a show with puppets.
@Biden-Hunter-007 I remember the Jerky Boys tapes, that’s funny you unlocked a memory and your right we definitely got the original idea from the Jerky Boys tapes.
So, I’m fairly high… laying in bed. Wife sleeping next to me. Middle of the night & watching this. I’m rarely freaked out by anything yet this is pretty creepy.
I liked that his Dad was willing to stand up for him and deal with the weirdo. But I didn't catch why they were recording the first time - the second etc yes, but not the first. Did I miss something?
i would be very leery if my friend told me he talked to me yesterday and that plane stuff happened , a sharp military guy would be ready for what was next
The dead giveaway to this being a practical joke on Gary’s father is the fact that Gary’s father recorded the very first phone call . Why would anyone record phone calls ? There are two reasons for this : #1 Someone knows that Gary’s father is a paranoid UFO nut who records all his phone calls , and thus a joke was devised. #2 Gary’s father or Gary himself are in on the prank . Im going with reason #1 Gary’s friends pulled a prank on his crazy father who records all his phone call.
Bruh the question "are you back from texas" is literally asking if youre back in new york, or wherever you were originally before texas. It's not that hard to comprehend, and sudbrink completely cant grasp it lmao.
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This is bizaar, thanks for the video. I've never heard of this before, what a wild experience. I wonder if anyone has ever sped the tapes up to try and normalize the voice. It sounds like someone's voice slowed down, I can't imagine there was type/talk software in 1993 Edit: BIZARRE
@@joearnold6881 it’s super reactionary to correct people’s spelling. classist, even. anyway, this is a tape effect, not computer voice manipulation. a voice either recorded fast, or played slow will sound like this.
there's something not quite right about the phrase "how long are you going to be back from Texas". "How long until you come back from Texas", is coherent. "How long will you be back in Texas", yep that makes sense too. The phrase in the call though, sounds like thought disorder or something a poorly programed language model would say. It has a fundamental flaw in it's syntax that renders it near meaningless.
This is some dude who watched home alone 2 and bought a talk boy and slowed down his voice. The reason he keeps hanging up and then calling back is so that he can record more phrases into it. It was a super popular toy back in 1992-1993 because Kevin uses it to impersonate his father to the hotel staff.. sounds almost the exact same.
This would have been within a few months of the talkboy voice recorder toy being released for the holiday season, so I'm thinking that's likely what they are using. I don't think Gary or his parents were in on it, though I don't think it's out of the question that it could have been one of the brothers. I think it's most likely it's someone they were at least acquainted with.
On the first call, you can hear the phone ringing at the beginning, meaning it's an outgoing call. Tbh, the weirdest thing about this whole case to me is the fact of recording a random phone call for no apparent reason. That usually requires some kind of preparation, especially back in 1993. It's not something most people would even necessarily know how to do unless they have a history of receiving prank calls.
I think it’s someone that is recording their voice and hence them speaking so low. Trying to hide the fact that they are actively slowing recording and slowing their voice down.
The first call reminds me of those three guys that mess with telemarketers and they keep handing the phone off to one another. Imagine this person trying to be weird and creepy and just ends up getting pissed off ol' Gary is giving them the run around lmao.
I had two or three strange encounters in 1983-1986. Missing time, managed to somehow end up outside of a hotel room where I was staying by myself, “awoke” in the hallway outside my room, realized i was in my underwear only, and ran down to my room, and tried to open my door and go in but it was still locked from the inside, with the chain on the door. I had to break the door to get back in, no one inside the room, on the twentieth floor, no other doors or exits, no balcony, and windows sealed shut. I never figured out how I got out of that room, or how long I was out. After I got back from that vacation, I noticed two men in a black car everywhere I went. I was working as a security guard at a huge factory, and I had to walk to the edge of a massive parking lot to lock a gate. Was all by myself, no other people or cars around. As I locked the gate, the black car pulled up on the road outside, stopped, the two guys (men in black suits literally) got out of the car, walked to the drivers side door, and one pulled a camera out of his suit pocket, took a picture of me, then they got back in the car and drove off. I was able to get the license plate number, 100% sure I got it written down right, they were in no hurry to drive away or conceal their identity or license plate number. I had a friend from HS who worked at the DMV, and so I went down there one day on ny lunch break, told her what happened, and she said she could look up the license plate number for me. She looked it up, which took her awhile, (it was 1985, before the internet). She came back to her desk with a puzzled look on her face. She said the number I gave her did not exist. I told her thanks anyway. Didn’t see them again after that. Im sure they were government agents, I just didn’t know what kind or what they wanted with me. But, what I do know, is I have decades of experiences like that, and have come to believe that I was a person of interest to the military or government. What I can say, is that the other people who have episodes of missing time, ufo sightings, etc, almost always have encounters with the “men in black”. Some people have more ufo/alien encounters, and some have more “men in black” encounters. The men in black are undoubtedly some type of military or government intelligence, and their purpose is to actually confuse people who have encounters or scare them. And I have also found out that if you are in the military and especially if you know people in military intelligence you are MUCH more likely to have UFO encounters than the general public. My missing time episodes have never really stopped, (Im now in my late 50’s). They now happen about every 5 years, but they also happen anytime I travel or move. They also happened with great intensity, during the three weeks I had Covid in 2020 (in the early days of the pandemic). That time they really altered me, my brain and my mind in so many ways, they completely changed my entire brain and nervous system in so many ways that I feel like I am a completely different person than before). I feel it was to actually help me survive that and prepare me for the future. But I don’t like it, but I also realize I can’t fight their interference in any way, so I kknd of look at it with detached amusement.
