These Unidentified HOAX Shortwave Numbers Stations Were Terrifying! 

this is the best channel on youtube, period. its like mystery stories channels but these mysteries are real and everyone with antenna and sdr can immerse into this. and the pirate radio stories, the technical side, well, everything. thank you, man!

That final track sounds like a mix of very-slowed-down-music from the movie "Forbidden Planet" and German numbers taken from Kraftwerk's track called "Numbers" on the disc "Computer World". While Kraftwerk used a particular and popular voice chip, the inflections in the number pronunciation, pitches, reverb and rhythms were of their own....craftsmanship.

That fake number station with the Hispanic guy having a Tourettes episode is hilarious.

Can't believe even numbers stations have shitposters.

The last station gives me the same feeling of eerieness that I got from listening to Dad's shortwave radio when I was a kid in the 1960s. The drones, squeals, thumps, clicks, and alien voices (SSB on an AM receiver) in between the normal-sounding AM broadcasters gave me the feeling that "there's something out there." So of course I got a ham radio license. I wanted to be part of that something.

The Bangalore Poacher one cracks me up. Probably some guy in the GTA having some fun. 🍁😁

The last one, the gong and chimes one, the numbers in German sound like the German counting in the Kraftwerk song "Numbers" / "Nummern".

Good to hear some Kraftwerk 😊

That sounds like a combination of the East German Gong station and electronic music pioneer’s Kraftwerk with their song “ Numbers “

These recordings make me want to make my own fake numbers station. Let's see... I have my old speech synthesizer for my TI-99/4a... let's do this! :D

And these radio emitions are spreading thru the universe representing us all, no wonder no one wants to come 😂

YES! Number stations are getting creepier!!! YESSSSSS!! I love this shit. Question, if I just want to hear number stations in real time, able to explore the different frequencies, what's the minimum hardware I need? Will I need a huge antenna just to pick them up properly? I don't need to broadcast, I just want to be able to freely explore.

I love all these videos and you are one of the reasons i have gotten into amature radio and history of pirate radio stations ect

Number stations are so interesting to me. I just find it so cool how all of this has the creep vibe attached to it without even trying. CB AM UHF is something i should have gotten into because it goes hard as fuck

I must be really, really tough, Lewis. I felt no fear, but did get this sudden inexplicable urge to listen to Kraftwerk.

The Mexican food number station made me bust out laughing! And I became a member! Thanks for the great content!❤

The song at 14:06 is a US Civil War song called "The New York Volunteer." Tennessee Ernie Ford has a good recording of it.

The video title doesn't lie. I walked away terrified. No sleep tonight for this guy. 🙂 Greetings from Arizona.

The last bit sounds a bit like Delia Derbyshire's music and a German Speak n Spell. Specifically reminded me of her track "Falling", from The Dreams (1964)

This reminds me of something I used to do when I lived overseas. I knew my communications were being intercepted. I took a page of random numbers from the CRC mathematical handbook and faxed it back to the U.S. There are probable code breakers to this day trying to figure out my communications.

The number station with goat sounds probably worked on behalf of Taliban 😅

OOOOOOORGASM

Kraftwerk and Steely Dan in a Ringway video. The perfect trifecta

I read in an article that Russian forces in Ukraine still use Morse code over open & unencrypted wireless radio. I don't know if you could physically pick that up without a huge antenna but that might make for an interesting video

The Gongs and Chimes parody is using samples from Numbers by Kraftwerk.

Somehow, the "on-purpose" creepy numbers stations aren't as creepy as those stations that are creepy accidentally...

Brother Stair was a really winner 🏆, with serial assault charges against him in the past in South Carolina. 😅

Attention 69 sounds like Tourette's Guy.😂

Brother Stair looks like Alec Guinness as Obi Won Kenobi.

Shocking lack of security! They should at least be using ROT13 🙄

I speak German fluently myself. Even that voice was creepy, along with that music. However, the one video where you showed the atom alarm, where it said, “Würstchen Alpha, hier ist Würstchen alpha eins. Atomalarm, Atomalarm” was strange, but also kind of funny. It just, didn’t really make sense. Then again, many shortwave transmissions out there.

speaking of Rabbit Holes--there is one over in Manchester. laughing fit to cry... especially the Gongs and Chimes parody. If you mixed the Gongs and chimes with Attenttion-69 that would be perfect. Makes a person want to go out and do something in your wacky radio world. Thanks for the entertainment.

The last one looks like the mashup of numbers by kraftwerk and the music kraftwerk plays before their shows begin, i loved it!

The gongs and chimes is heavily influenced by Kraftwerk. The DVD of the live concert Minimum - Maximum plays a sound very similar to this during the DVD menu. It's a slowed down version of the sound from the menu minus the speech synthesizer. The speech synthesizer is also the one Kraftwerk used on the song "Numbers"

giving me the spookies before my bedtime hell yeah. Gonna bash a load of cheese too and have cool alien dreams.

You need to check out the K1MAN story...crazy dude outta maine.

8:30 - Sounded French to me, apart from a possible "ok" near the start

"Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn..."

The 1st/last one is awesome! The TTS voice is the same one used in Numbers by Kraftwork. As for the tones in the background, it sounds like a preset from one of waves synth vst's. It's either from Flowmotion or Codex.

6:52 "Depressing philosophical discussions" Sounds like most of the religious programming already out there.

i live about 10 minutes from east st.louis :) all on the iillinois side of the river :)

The idea of a numbers station using Roman numerals made me laugh out loud 🤣

I love stuff like this! Motivates me to get on the radio and listen.

ooh more strange signals, I love your channel! Keep them coming!

Curious, sure. But "Terrifying"? I'm not the least bit worried. Maybe ya' had to be there?

Before the Dark Web it was SW that carried the Dark stuff ;-)

Excellent work as usual!

That one with the Mexican food is interesting. Actually reminds me of one that somehow made its way on to the FM band, with the message, "Pizza Hut / Pizza Hut / Kentucky Fried Chicken /Pizza Hut."

If you have been to a live Kraftwerk concert in the last 20 years or so, the weird tones in that last station match what comes out of their PA for several minutes before they take the stage. The spoken numbers are one of the computer voices that opens their song "Numbers". Based on that, the station was probably put together by a Kraftwerk fan.

My son, who is a USN nuc told me it's nothing to worry about.

Of late we have had a Hawaiian numbers station running on 43 m. Nice to see your covering some North American content. Thx THW

As several people already pointed out, the last example uses the synthetic speech from Kraftwerk's "Numbers". However, the tones in the background also come from Kraftwerk. They can be heard on various bootleg recordings of some of their live concerts from the 2000s (example: v=LDfTrAhdvGE ) during the show pre-intro as filler sound used for ambiance. And as someone else mentioned, it can also be heard on the Minimum-Maximum DVD in the menus. And as a bonus, their old website played the tones on the landing page, but sped up quite a bit.

That last one would be good for a Halloween episode

The present day equivalent ? High power stations with beam antennas shouting 59 continuously ? They seem to proliferate mainly at weekends 73 .

Back in 2006, I caught the very end of a number station in SSB that appeared to be live. I heard somewhere that many of these strange number stations are connected with drug smuggling and other illegal activity?

At the beginning of the Ukrainian war I would go onto a Web based SDR (I hope I'm using the right terminology here as I'm not a radiohead) - and I came across some Asian station that might have been from Pyongyang - the music had this nightmarish surreal, distorted, potemkin village false upbeat sense to it. Your intro reminded me of that now

that opener just sounds like someone left their og xbox running

Hi Lewis, good stuff as always. Thank you 😊

The voice reading numbers on the last station are samples from the Kraftwerk song "numbers"

I wonder if drug cartels would ever utilize this kind of communication?

In the 80s when I was at secondary school my mate and neighbors Dad used to park his Artic cab outside their house and we would hide in the cab trolling and abusing CB radio users, who took it seriously enough to drive around hunting us

15:16 is straight outta this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r7miXlC0C_s.html It's the Golf Tip guy from the "cursed" Gold Tip number, which was nothing but a test recording from the number's former owner left behind because he did not pay his bill.

Exelente tu canal!!! Felicitaciones!!!

Every time you upload a video on number station I firstly pull the like button and then watch the video😂

Kraftwerk ~ Numbers (station)

The gongs and chimes reminds me of Forbidden Planet!

touching in again about the 'cousin of the buzzer' freq. on 8365 kHz USB the same tone can be heard on 4365 & 6365 kHz, same mode, and can be heard at certain times of the day intermittently (used the twente sdr to listen in) little to no info is out on it, i would love to see the community find out more of what it is cheers mate

The midi music station you mention makes me think, I'd assume it'd be trivial to use some degital mode to send midi control messages over the radio, have people recieve the Ikea equivalent of music to play on their own devices. Not that you'd catch me playing pirate music like that, but it'd be interesting to know how well it works.

The Poacher parody sounds like the numbers are sampled from TV ads in the Toronto area.

Nice overview, God bless.

one day i hope to make a pirate station that has its own story like podcast to listen to, next to numbers when " not operating"

There are so many interesting things to listen to on the radio. It's a pity that I can't listen to the radio because I live in a multi-story panel house.

Time to fire up my old valve turn dial radio, used to hear some weird crap on that classic piece .

i love the number station with the music box thats so creepy

8:40...sounds like it's back masked. Try playing backwards.

What is really terrifying is a lot of these "unidentified" number stations sounds just like my wife yacking at me !🤬

Thanks RM. Another Video Full of Great Information and Secrets**** Take Care.

The last numbers count in German is from a album from Kraftwerk

Thats some Kraftwork mix in there somewhere, or at least thats what it sounds like to me

3:54💀 WHAT IN THE WORLD I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THIS SCARY BUT OH MY GOD!!!

Dada number stations are audio gold ..love it

The music box at 8:15 is playing Edelweiss.

For the last recording, as anyone consider that the person could be using Numbers by Kraftwerk or using the same synthesized voice?

I'd like to hear more numbers stations with swear words in them.

That American broadcast where you can't understand the phrase sounds to me like it's playing backwards

Judging by the number of people promptly dismissing a number station as fake because its using mexican food items instead of numbers, tells me that at least one of them is real. Like using strange symbols instead of letters in a cipher. Most people are just going to give up before they start. Similarly when some people see chinese writing theyll almost insist its gibberish because they have no reference.

Visit Stafford before it closes completely !

03:59 Joan Rivers voice from the great beyond 👻

I would start numbers transmission soon. What frequency do you prefer to listen on and language ? Let me know in comments.

Thank you for this information 🙌

The fakers are just as fascinating as the real stations....very interesting video!

I wished I could afford to do more. But awesome video dude

Yooo, I wanna know more about that MIDI Radio station. That honestly seems like the kind of thing I'd do if I had the equipment. (Though, maybe I'd do CMF Radio, instead…)

Excellent, Thank You 👍

The end music is similar to the soundtrack for Forbidden Planet.

3:54 NPC..from tik tok

atención 69 sounded like a south park bit

The fake German station is legitimately terrifying… I'm into some really weird shit when it comes to music (yep, I like prog, metal, industrial, EDM and IDM, and the stranger and more complex, and even noisier, the better) and sound design, but it literally sends chills down my spine, oof. It's rare for sound to cause such a physical, visceral reaction in me, but it is what it is.

Shortwave, huh? I'll get one.

The music box is creepy