This Gives Me The Worst Anxiety I've Ever Had... 

Big apologies if the background rumble sounds a tad to harsh under certain conditions. I didn't factor a lot of bass headphones under the edit and stuck to my speakers as the reference. Will fix this for next time

I’m surprised Muta isn’t desensitized to this, him being a Canadian and all. Our EAS alarm is really abrasive and we use the same one for every single emergency level. Every time a kid goes missing in the next province over due to some custody battle my phone makes it sound like the nuclear apocalypse is about to commence.

this actually happen to Hawaii in 2018, a false missile alert was sent telling people to take shelter and hide because there was an incoming ICBM. I remember because I was there, and even after hearing the broadcast say "this is not a drill", it still felt so unreal. I found it so hard to believe what was going on, and by the time I started to actually worry they announced that it was a mistake.

It's downright horrifying how much destructive power humanity wields, we're literally eggs wielding hammers.

24:00 You can save the world by not doing your job. Slackers are the real heroes of this world.

EAS scenarios are one of the few things that are really effective in giving me anxiety.

EAS mock scenarios are one of the most unique things ive come across on this platform, and its great to see you covering them!

Hope this video ages well and everything keeps on being theoretical

"this may not be the video for you if you have bad anxiety" Me, who has terrible anxiety about world-ending scenarios: eh, I'm sure it'll be fine

It's a terrifying situation. I always joked about seeing a WWIII or situation similar in my lifetime, but now it seems a lot more plausible and I'm not even 20 yet.

You are perfectly fine to put EAS header tones in your RU-vid video. RU-vid videos are not broadcasts, and the reason EAS tones are illegal to put in broadcast media is because every commercial TV and radio station in the United States is required to have equipment that hears those tones and generates the visual and audio messages required per the emergency information contained in the tones. One radio station (referred to as the "local primary") in each of several dozen regions across the country (average-sized states generally have about three of these regions) is used to dispatch the tones after an EAS activation is ordered by authorities such as NOAA offices or police, and the equipment also listens to the Primary Entry Point System (what would be used for national emergencies and any other nationwide alert). All the other stations in the region have their EAS equipment listen to that local primary station, as well as at least one other station. TV and radio shows using the tones can cause that equipment to be set off, and if the tones used in the show were acquired from a recording of an actual EAS alert (as opposed to being inert gibberish tones generated for the purpose), they could cause the equipment to produce messaging for that emergency. So, as long as no TV station decides to play this video when they're short on programming, you should be fine.

For correction, AMBER Alerts are specifically for when there is Child endangerment, its not an umbrella term for all EAS alerts.

It's important to note that not *ALL* EAS alerts are known as "Amber Alerts", that only happens when a child goes missing or is abducted

Man's gonna pour himself a glass of bourbon when the world is bout to end instead of downing the whole thing. A man of culture indeed

I sometimes watch mock scenarios using the Emergency Alert System, I honestly don't know why.

I remember I once fell asleep watch TV, then at like 2:00 am, I woke up to the EAS being tested. Was the most scared I have been in a while.

Regarding the Japanese EAS, it's actually super clever - the jangly instrumentation is purposefully there to make sure you don't immediately freak out, but the notes its playing are an escalating tri-tone, perhaps the most unsettling combo of intervals (the tri-tone is literally known as the devil's tone for a reason). It's the perfect way to go "Hey, not to scare you, but something really bad is happening that you might want to know about"

As much anxiety as this topic gives me, I genuinely feel more comfortable when you speak on it. Thank you for making content for us muta. Genuinely glad I've stayed around for so long.

I feel like the USA has one of the more terrifying eas alarm sounds since the sound is so loud and unique. Once you hear it you know exactly what it is.

That moment around the end of the video when you start hearing low noise rumble and Muta looks back saying “Oh my God” sent chills down my spine for real for a moment, despite that I don’t get scared by these Emergency broadcasts. This unintentional spook was a cherry on top

In the UK, when i was a kid back in the 80's, we were all going through the cold war (again with Russia) and the TV used to play an advert "in the event of a nuclear war" around 3 or 4 times a week. It began with 3 'bongs' or chimes. These sounds became ingrained into mine and many peoples subconcious. I've spoken to many, many people about these ads and they all associate the chimes with imminent death, creating over the years a form of PTSD.

Oh mate honestly the EAS tones and alarms gives me so much anxiety. I'm not sure why its horrific though.

The way I learned to deal with my anxiety is to realize the fact that there are forces out of my control, and I can either worry about them or accept I cannot control every aspect of my fate.

Very happy to see you covering these scenarios, been watching them for years and they're (almost) always amazingly done

In Switzerland, every year on the first Wednesday in February at 13:30 we do a country wide emergency siren test. So everyone is used to it and knows exactly how it sounds. We have like eight different sounds for every type of severe incidents :)

They made a movie in the 80's about this same type of thing with Matthew Broderick called War Games. It was super similar to this.

I’m in Ukraine rn and my anxiety legit shot through the roof after this. Thanks Muta, I’ll consider moving my plans for getting outta the country forward 👍🏻

16:50 "I AM PIGMENTALLY CHALLENGED" I LOST IT

I feel you muta. This gives me the chills and trauma I get. It still haunts me till this day.

The scary thing about the Yellowstone one is that there is actually a supervolcano under it. That EAS scenario has a small but sure chance of actually coming true in the real world.

The abridged version of the Petrov story makes him seem a lot more reckless and stupid than he actually was. What he really decided was to hold off on making his call for a couple minutes to see if his system would show more than just five targets, since an actual nuclear first strike would consist of hundreds of missiles fired at once. He sat and waited for about ten or fifteen minutes, and when he was sure there were no more apparent targets, he called the Kremlin to inform them that his system was giving him inconsistent readings and that they should call the Arctic Fleet to have them monitor the north coast since he was essentially blind. It was a cold, calculated decision, made by an elite officer with several decades of training and experience in large-scale strategic theory and logistics, and a ruthlessly pragmatic approach to his command duties-not some "gut feeling" of an uneducated rube who just didn't feel like fighting a war he wouldn't survive, or a Luddite who didn't believe in radar. Also, how come nobody ever talks about Vassiliy Arkhipov?

it's so surreal when you're in public and everyone's phones start going off one by one with an amber alert or weather system warning that just got sent out. i've experienced it twice and it feels almost cinematic.

Wow, I was not expecting you to talk about something like this, but it’s really appreciated having you talk about a bit of a niche topic and one that I’m interested in

There's an EAS failure scenario called "Lost in Silence" where the EAS system malfunctions and keeps playing just small bits of the audio, but never properly updates what is going on, until it's too late. Check out Jakob Hill's channel for "Lost In Silence: An EAS Nuclear Attack Scenario" for some major stress

When I was stationed in Japan during the height of NK and US tension my phone did the EAS warning regarding a long range ballistic missile that was fired towards Japan. It said to take cover in a concrete structure. I was in a pet shop and no shit - my boy and I looked at each other and just shrugged. If this was it - this was it. The missile ending up shooting towards the coast nowhere near Japan but it really rustled some jimmies. I will always remember the helplessness of it all. Truly an eerie feeling when everyone got the alert, looked at their phones, and then at everyone else.

Oh wow, didnt expect you to a video on EAS, Muta. I used to make a bunch of EAS content for years, and really, for anyone wondering why, theres just something about a system designed to alert us that fascinated me for sometime. It even gave me a creative outlet to make some of those scenarios that you talked about to. Granted, it even helped me get into other bigger interests such as radio communications, as well as local emergency response teams. Also shoutout to some of my EAS friends featured in this video, i'm happy to see my former community getting some attention. (:

I have been down a rabbit hole watching these since this upload. Have freaked myself out good

Muta: "If you have some severe anxiety triggers, maybe you should skip this video" Also Muta: _has ominous anxiety inducing bass sound playing from the start of the video_

Two of the scariest one's for me was the Hawaii scare a few years back and that one where a radio station got hacked and there was this creepy woman reading off the names of people and the dates they died over a emergency broadcast. Bone chilling.

I try so many times to capture this in short stories. The effect is incomparable. Great video.

This is brilliant. I live in tornado ally, and the weather alerts are mad here. But now I'm turning EAS back on, so I have a reason to drink a glass of bourbon every time it goes off. I'm learning so much from this channel.

In the Netherlands we test our countrywide EAS system monthly. Every first monday of the month at noon sirens go off in the entire country just to make sure our alarms still work. That's why we have a common joke which is: If the germans want to invade the Netherlands again they will probably do it on monday at noon to cover it up :)

The Swedish emergency sirens are tested 4 times a year so it’s heard everywhere around the country. Tourists are sometimes caught off guard.

I remember discovering these a few years ago. Many bad dreams followed. One time a tornado was approaching our town, but no EAS alerts were broadcast, so none of my friends new what I was talking about as I was doing 80 towards the next town.

14:17 the timing of this...

Hey Muta, just a reminder, AMBER Alerts do not apply to weather warnings or civil danger warnings. AMBER only applies to child abductions.

Mock EAS have the hyper-realism that creepypastas only wish they could attain.

I do remember watching these EAS Scenarios so it is good that big RU-vidrs like you are giving the community some attention.

"Russia vs NATO" A little too real there muta...

The EBS systems are the one thing that’ll scare anyone in this world, it’s crazy.

That MW2 mission that started with the EAS will always give me chills….

I'm from Ukraine. Air raid sirens were blaring. We took shelter in the nearby subway. Spent ~2hrs there before returning to our apartment. Heard explosions afterwards

as someone who’s had to survive a full year of a full-scale war, i definitely think i’ve grown a little desensitized to air alerts and whatnot. i don’t check the news as frequently, but the first 2-3 months of the war, i couldn’t stop; i was terrified of losing sight of it, if anything. i was sure that at any point, one of our NPPs would go boom, and that’d be it for a lot of us. it really isn’t an experience i’d recommend anyone to go through. war isn’t fun, and it messes with people in a really unpleasant way.

24:20 for a second there, I thought that was two bears getting down and dirty.

The first “Dial-Up” sounds actually do contain coded message about the emergency, time, affected area, etc. that emergency radio automatically picks up.

Anyone remember that CoD Modern Warfare 2 mission intro? Nothing but that scary EAS-SAME data sound and the text saying to evacuate. It was the most haunting thing ive ever seen, it still gives me chills. Also brings back memories of terrible storms and hearing the tone on the weather radio.

The rumble that Muta added really sets viewing these EAS videos really does set the creepiness mood 100%

I remember my fiance and I fell asleep on the couch and was startled awake by one of these that spoke of an impending airstrike. After gathering our son from his room and calling our parents (at 2:40 am), we paced the living room thinking of the best way off of Florida grounds. We chose the boat. After making a quick bug-out bag, I, for some reason, decided to turn off the TV before we left. And that's when fucking Michael from Vsauce was explaining the goddamn EBS system and had played a real one that woke us up! I'll never ever forget that feeling.

I’ve been SCARED of EAS scenarios for like 2 years now exactly because those weird sounds give me some serious anxiety.

5:41 I can confirm that this is Japan’s EAS alert. A streamer I watch lives in Japan and in the middle of the stream he got an EAS alert with this exact sound, except with a female voice and for a tsunami warning

Thank you for recommending this video at 2AM just as I manage to calm down my anxiety, RU-vid. Really cool of you 🤠🤝

I've always had a phobia of EAS alerts lol, one in the middle of the night will make me anxious until sunrise

24:11 when the shadow in the corner starts moving

Dude I love stuff like this alongside creepy stories and alternate history situations they just fascinate me to a limitless extent

As someone who's both: a fan of yours and a member of this community, I was kind of surprised to see it getting the attention it got. Great video, might I add.

EAS is essential in the Midwest and the South of the US with the amount of severe weather we get. Especially for weather events such as tornados where warning need to be sent out almost immediately. One can even buy special radios that silently listen to weather radio frequencies and will alert the people of the emergencies.

Any ARG involving a emergency broadcast noise, fucks with my brain.

I remember last year when I was completely obsessed with EAS Alarms. I used to even look for "purge" and second coming of god warnings. its truly fascinating stuff

I’m not scared of end of the world scenarios. Not because I’m tough or anything, but because I’ve accepted that I’ll be dead first regardless of the scenario and that shiz won’t matter to me cuz I’ll be in the dirt lol

Cool to see someone like you talk about a genre that’s so niche and small. Also to see my channel featured on here, even for a split second is insane. Awesome stuff, keep it up man

The thing with the Tzar bomb is, that it wasn't even at full load. The soviets were scared of what effect it would have and cut the payload in half. Considering that and that the shockwave of this halfed bomb travelled three times around the earth... They could have probably ended humanity right there and then.

Some kinds of alerts can't be disabled or even sileneced on phones in the US... it's always terrifying when I'm on a train in the subway and everyone goes off. Feels dystopian every time.

1. italy has a banger EAS alarm 2. thought i would mention a related story, details are fuzzy though. a city in the US had their EBS and train station compromised at the same time, the normal EAS test message played twice overnight but with "would you, could you on a train?" at the end. the next morning a train's brakes malfunctioned and ran into the stopper at full speed. no casualties iirc but the whole situation gives me chills

Canada's alarm is S tier bone chilling. They play that on tv and on the phone all the time for whether emergencies and even missing persons.

I wouldn't worry necessarily about Yellowstone, I'd worry about Flagra di Campi in Naples Italy. It's a chain of volcanoes now but it use to be one large caldera that if memory serves covers the entire area of Naples and the bay and there are areas in Naples that have risen 10-20 feet in about 20 years. You can see pictures of them on line and it is chilling to see.

Jakob Hill channel makes some really great EAS content. Been a fan of EAS for a while, glad to see it covered!

this just reminded me of how i used to fall asleep to adult swim and there was an EAS test in perfect timing with a family guy cutout gag and i thought that the test was meant to be the joke

Emergency alarms ARE super scary. I had a really bad scare recently when an air raid siren started going off nearby. Turns out it was a routine test of the tornado sirens, which are identical to air raid sirens in my area. For some reason, I'd never heard them testing them before, so I thought the bombs were dropping.

Dude thank you so much for the anxiety warning. Seriously. 😍

Besides the ems, those light reflections on the TV behind muta creeps me out.

Honestly, one of my biggest fears in hearing the nuclear bomb alert. The day of my wedding had an alarm test that made air raid sirens go off and it added tons of anxiety to an already anxiety situation. I also really have a fear of volcanoes. I also have a weird affinity for this stuff. I feel you. Also I have had super wind the past few days and its super freaky.

EAS scenarios are my favorite side of RU-vid. It’s a very underrated genre of horror

in Holland they test the air-raid-alarm every 1st monday of the month at 12:00... so i grew up with it.... every time it goes off its like "what time is it? what day? ...oof ok where good."

24:11 Yo!!! My heart actually dropped when Muta looked outside, said nothing for about 10 seconds, and then says Oh my God!!! I thought some shit was going down or something!!!

There's honestly nothing that gives me primal shivers like hearing the emergency broadcast tone and voice. There's just something so unsettling about it.

These scenarios are something that can keep me up at night. Having less than an hour to decide what your last actions will most likely be. Who would I call one more time? What would I tell them? Would I not do any of that and instead try everything to find shelter, hoping to survive but risking some last interactions with loved ones? That reminds me of the movie "Threads" which was such a disturbing experience.

Keep going with topics like this they are very interesting!

There's something so beautiful about watching different Scenario's (Timelines) of humanity Falling into depths of Despair or Survivability. Personally, I would sit by in a Chair with a can of beer. I can't wait for the day

There's this RTS game called "Rise of Nations" that has a world apocalypse scenario, which is basically match ending in a tie if too many nuclear missiles are launched by players. It has strong strategic value if you want to disallow anyone to win. Since nukes are powerful, using them will definitely put you on winning side, but it also countdowns towards the apocalyptic tie.

As a member of the EAS community, putting stuff on RU-vid is perfectly fine. The problem is if you were to play the audio over things like FM radio, television or weather radio, you could set off legitimate equipment. That's why some of the scenarios and mocks will have disclaimers telling you not to play stuff over the air, because people have done that before and they have gotten fined by the FCC. Most people aren't stupid enough to do that, but there's a few that are. The equipment is set up by the operator to monitor specific frequencies of designated radio stations in certain areas, and unless you were to get on that frequency with a radio and play stuff, nothing would happen. Some broadcast equipment is owned by independent operators, but most of the time these are used for running virtual internet radio stations that could relay alerts for the person's area.

EAS videos stopped being scary for me a long time ago when literally every ARG or "analog horror" started using one, no exceptions. But, covering real ones, while not making me anxious or afraid, is a good video from big Muta.

Muta I absolutely love that you cover yourself legally. That’s some intelligent shit right there that other people wouldnt do. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 sensai

Thanks for the mention dude! Nice for this niche little community to finally get the attention it deserves

Yes! Finally! Someone discusses one of the most interesting and unique genres on RU-vid! Some EAS scenarios are so well done, it’s crazy. Happy to see it getting some much needed attention

This video aged well

If you're into Analog Horror like EAS/End of the world radio broadcasts, I highly recommend The Last Broadcast. It's centered around the Cold War and the events that would ultimately lead up to a nuclear exchange between the powers at the time. It's over an hour long, but incredibly well done, it almost feels real.

im actually apart of this community here. And im glad to see that you're out here kind of promoting the community, the most subscribers us creators get is about 30,000

I'm happy you did this, I fucking tired of people laughing this all off or meming it to oblivion or justifying the aggression. I don't want to live in fear, but I also don't want to be ignorant of the danger.

The speaker reference rumbling be making my head spin

what makes me anxious the most are the two yellow lights in the background doorway