Wyoming State TV Hijackings

[ToucanSpam]

I'm sure at some point some of you have heard that in Wyoming there were some mysterious TV satellite hijackings that broadcasted a series of five videos with some incredibly creepy and questionable videos. Well, here's one of them for your viewing pleasure. I have to warn you, if you are wearing headphones or scare easily, don't watch these, they will scare the shit out of you.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5842249231277080442&q=Danny

You can find all five on google's video or on youtube, but man it game me goosebumps. It's probably some stupid thing sone by a pretenious art student trying to freak people out, but it reminds me of the infamous Max Headroom Pirate Broadast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_Pirating_Incident

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OnDYssFcNxc&mode=related&search=

The Pirating Incident is pretty LOL when I think about it, but those other 5 videos with creepy messages gave me goosebumps. Any thoughts?

[ToucanSpam]

Since we're on the topic of wierd television moments, who was the anchorwoman who killed herself on live tv?

[ToucanSpam]

BUMP

[The Notorious LOL]

Since we're on the topic of wierd television moments, who was the anchorwoman who killed herself on live tv?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck

[Bob]

guys, i know this is a toucanspam post, but it's actually kind of interesting

apparently, people who saw this on TV complained of headaches, vomiting, and hallucinations

i've had 10 beers but after i watched the video i felt a little pain in my head

and my beer looks fuzzy

i haven't vomited, but i don't do that because i'm a fucking man

for real though, it's actually kind of an interesting thing, i wish toucan had posted more information about this, i found a better post on the something awful forms, i'll quote it here. apparently something about the frequency used in the video fucks with peoples heads in a medical sense or i dont know


Hey all, I don't know if this story has already been debunked or, more importantly, posted already. A preliminary search around the forums didn't turn anything up. I'm sorry if a thread already exists, if it does let me know where it is and I'll post there... now on to the story..

Yesterday I came across a really bizarre series of videos on Youtube. I also found another one of the videos on Google Video..

Here are the links to the videos I'm talking about:

YouTube Video link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K21YdhuxjlM)

And here is the Google video link

Google Video Link (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3975322056162184320)

Now the STORY:

As far as I can tell, apparently a local TV station in Wyoming found it's broadcast signal hijacked and replaced with the videos I linked above. Sounds bizarre enough already right? Well I looked in to it a bit more and around some forums people have been able to uncover some seriously weird details...

First of all, here is the information that went along with the Google video link:

" The Wyoming Incident (or The Wyoming Hijacking) is a lesser known case of television broadcast hijacking/hacking. A hacker managed to ... all » interrupt broadcasts from a local programming channel (believed to serve several smaller communities in the county of Niobrara) and aired his/her own video. The video contained numerous clips of disembodied, human heads showing various emotions and "poses". The camera position changed often (usually every ten-to-fifteen seconds) and the video was often interrupted by a "SPECIAL PRESENTATION" announcement. This clip is taken from one of these intervals.

The video is mostly locally well-known, and would probably not even be that popular if it were not for the effects it had on the few residents who watched it for an extended period of time. Complaints included vomiting, hallucinations, headaches, etc. While some believed it was paranormal, specialists have determined that the cause of these afflictions were frequencies played regularly throughout the broadcast. In this clip, the frequency being played is somewhere between 17 and 19 hz. This range of frequency, when played for long periods of time, causes the eyes to subtly vibrate, sometimes inducing visual hallucinations.

This video is significant in that is one of the most recent television hijackings. Such actions were rare even in the '80s (search for Chicago Max Headroom Incident) and are even more rare today. The hacker has not yet been caught, and all attempts to trace the video have proven futile."


The mystery gets even weirded when you begin to take a look at who is posting the links to these videos and following the "trail"... This was done by a member of another forum and he made a pretty large post detailing his findings:

Link to the forum post here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18374)

Other than that I found something on my own which I haven't seen links to anywhere else on the internet...

As you can see, in the weird video the number 333-333-333 has raised quite a bit of suspicion.. well I simply searched that number sequence in quotes within Google and a few pages down I found a weird posting on a website called Topix.net

From what I can tell Topix.net is some kind of community forum thing but I'm not sure. The point is I found a rather obscure post on the website.. check it out..

Topix.net Link 1 (http://www.topix.net/forum/city/antelope-hills-wy/TOB52RJNC5CMCTB57)

In that first link someone apparently from Japan, named "Smith" asked the question "Did you see it?"

So someone from Canada responds "Yes" ... WHat the hell?!

And the topic of this post is 333-333-333 .. now if you look at the bottom of the page it shows you other topics posted in this same section and all of them seem to be about and from people in Wyoming.. the place where the TV Hijack took place..

What I gather is that this is a news community website forum type thing where people post about goings-on in Wyoming? I guess? And someone must have seen the broadcast and jumped on the net and asked "Did you see it?"

The reason I find this to be an important clue is that it suggests that this isn't an elaborate prank in that the video was never broadcast over a hijacked signal.. apparently it really was because people saw it on TV in Wyoming and are asking others if they saw it too...

There was another forum post on that site but now I can't find it, it had 3 responses and one of them was from a guy who said something like "yeah I saw it" and then under that posted a link to his blog where he had a link to the video, but the blog was in another language... weird.. but now I can't find that link.. grr



Anyway, this whole thing is really weird and I can't make sense of it. What exactly does 333-333-333 even mean? Why are the videos do damn bizarre? What is the message, if it is just one elaborate prank, then why all the evidence and coincidences?

Again, sorry if this was already discussed on SA, I'll just close the thread if it was... all in all, I think it's a pretty creepy little mystery, maybe someone on SA can make sense of it all...


http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2345461

[Bob]

alright, shit, the videos are starting to freak me out

i'm sure it's just hype, or maybe the 10 beers, but i'm starting to hallucinate a little

it's not that i'm SEEING the disembodied heads

it's that i'm EXPECTING to see the disembodied heads

i just went out to go to the bathroom and every time i opened a door (and the toilet seat) i had to brace myself a little

like i said, it's probably either the hype or the beer, but i'm feeling something

[Bob]

here's all 5


http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...322056162184320
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K21YdhuxjlM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...7080442&q=Danny%27s+Collection&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsYX...related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDnW...related&search=

and when you're done with them, look at this

http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=portal3410sj1.jpg

it's got nothing to do with the wyoming incident, i just think it'll fuck with your head a little

[TurdBerglar]

i don't see what the big deal is

[The Notorious LOL]

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=49944

[icy manipulator]

guys, i know this is a toucanspam post, but it's actually kind of interesting



hahaha. nice one

i'll watch them after i've had my Phil Collins fix

[Freebasser]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck

It says at the bottom 'See also: List of unusual deaths (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths)'. Follow the link and there's a page about some guy a few years ago who had a bomb round his neck that went off when he failed to rob a bank in a certain amount of time :/

[befsquire]

they think they have enough info to make an arrest in that case you mentioned, freebie, and they're looking to arrest a person or persons in the next few weeks.

[na§tee]

bob! :(! i am worried!

okay, so i really want to watch these when i get home and either call BULLSHIT or cut my ear off in a frenzied panic.

that 'list of unusual deaths' link sounds so much like my sort of thing.

[na§tee]

1975: On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn literally died laughing whilst watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye." After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure.

psychopathic black pudding, lolz. probably a black pudding supper, eh?

[Yorkshire~Rose]

bob! :(! i am worried!

okay, so i really want to watch these when i get home and either call BULLSHIT or cut my ear off in a frenzied panic.


Me too! After reading all that and the other forum stuff I am actually too shit scared to click on the link. :( This is the woman who can watch the goriest of horror films without flinching.

I think it goes back to the time when someone sent me a link and told me to stare at some picture in the background...then a face jumps out and screams. 'twas awful and i (almost) wet my pants.

[ToucanSpam]

guys, i know this is a toucanspam post, but it's actually kind of interesting


Jesus Christ, man. Seriously.(n)

[befsquire]

don't be scared. only one of the links works and it's under a minute.

[ToucanSpam]

Last night I watched them again with a group of people and we kinda laughed at them. But alone, in a dark, damp basement, those films would turn any person white as a sheet.

[Bob]

Me too! After reading all that and the other forum stuff I am actually too shit scared to click on the link. :( This is the woman who can watch the goriest of horror films without flinching.

I think it goes back to the time when someone sent me a link and told me to stare at some picture in the background...then a face jumps out and screams. 'twas awful and i (almost) wet my pants.

it's not so much of a "OH GOD THAT THING CAME OUT OF NOWHERE" shock type scare, it's just more of a general creepiness. the sound is especially what does it, and not the SHOCK sound, but just the music leading up to it mostly

[ToucanSpam]

YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING




NOTHING IS PRICELESS

[Yorkshire~Rose]

I watched them.

What was i worried about eh? :) (note to self: turn down your fuckin headphones or you will give yourself a heartattack)

[ToucanSpam]

Don't play them on a television, they do in fact induce headaches, naseau and vomiting. Last night I got freaked from it. Maybe part of it was psychosematic, but the frequency is low enough to cause rapid vibrating in the eyes.

[jackrock]

I'm glad you said that ^, I don't have sound on my PC and I was about to open it up on my TV.

I haven't even watched the videos and I'm already expecting to see heads in my toilet. THANKS BOB.

[Teh]

Don't play them on a television, they do in fact induce headaches, naseau and vomiting. Last night I got freaked from it. Maybe part of it was psychosematic, but the frequency is low enough to cause rapid vibrating in the eyes.

I thought the FCC had set guidelines so that your tv can't physically emit sounds of that frequency. I think you are telling porkies young man!!

[ToucanSpam]

The FCC can't fuckin approve of a hijacked broadcast. It's all a bullshit hoax anyways, but it is true, do not play them on your tv.

[Teh]

The FCC can't fuckin approve of a hijacked broadcast. It's all a bullshit hoax anyways, but it is true, do not play them on your tv.

You misunderstood. It's physically impossible for a tv/subwoofer/whatever to emit certain frequencies or something, i read. Those frequencies were 17 to 19Hz? The lowest most tvs can go is 40Hz, regardless of the program.

[The Notorious LOL]

even the most high high end stereo equipment usually has a low frequency rating of maybe 18 Hz at best

[Teh]

Ayeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[The Notorious LOL]

http://www.csgnetwork.com/tvfreqtable.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_broadcast_television_frequencies

[ToucanSpam]

Look I don't see how this is confusing, the lowest frequency your tv can play is exactly what causes the wierd vomiting and naseau, and that's what the sound of these videos emit. I may be off by like 1 or 2 mH, sorry lol.

[Teh]

Look I don't see how this is confusing, the lowest frequency your tv can play is exactly what causes the wierd vomiting and naseau, and that's what the sound of these videos emit. I may be off by like 1 or 2 mH, sorry lol.

It said 17Hz and 19Hz...

[ToucanSpam]

Okay, update is that apparantly this is all part of some elaborate game from either Happy Cube or Something Awful. Not real, just part of a game in which one tries to evoke fear into themselves by various means....I think.

[Echewta]

I remember in the mid 80s watching HBO getting hijacked. It wasn't captain midnight but someone on the west coast.

My friends and I thought it was cool but then it went back to the movie and we missed a good chunck of it so we fired up the Atari. Probably played Superman or Barn Stormer.

[abcdefz]

I don't find that video scary at all. :confused:

[Echewta]

because you aren't a child. Thats why.

[ToucanSpam]

because you aren't a child. Thats why.
Sorry there Grandpa but they have disturbing music which I find creepy.

[Echewta]

because you aren't a child. Thats why.

[ToucanSpam]

That doesn't even make sense as a responce.

[afronaut]

responce doesn't even make sense as a word.

[Teh]

Like someone on a linked forum said, i'd love to see some of your reactions to an aphex twin video.

Windowlicker!