Ran it through an inflation calculator (which coincidentally it pointed out was the highest since 1982). $33.52 a month in 2022. That would be insane to pay.
You need to read about the Operation Sundevil busts that happened in the US. In the early 90s hackers, even kids stumbling upon random totally unguarded systems were pretty much treated as akin to terrorists because the phone company managed to crash their exchanges with a shitty software update and blamed it on them
Takeaways: 1.) I think the audio of the Vrillon speech is real. Why would the reproduction recreate the voice becoming inaudible due to interference? 2.) “Your love is fading” is a reference to the Temptations song “I’m Losing You”, further evidenced by Max holding the Pepsi can like a microphone. 3.) The jump cut in the second Max Headroom broadcast shows that it wasn’t a live performance, but a recorded skit that had been filmed at an earlier time.
@@Noel_Wood now, I don’t think it’s really an alien. What I’m saying is I think the audio recording itself is a genuine recording of the event that took place.
1.) Could be for authenticity, if you are reproducing something it's not that crazy to assume you want to recreate it as accurately as possible, which would include the interference
@lc_games_the_og yeah, I was gonna say it would probably be hard for the actual guys who did it to prove they actually did. All I could think to do is prove they have the fly swatter, suit, and mask still but they may have thrown them out just to be safe.
Im finally done Timestamps: 1:17 intro 1:44 Captain midnight explanation 5:44 Captain midnight broadcast 9:53 Zombie EAS alert explanation 10:57 Zombie EAS alert broadcast 12:54 Aliens hijack UK tv explanation 13:48 Aliens hijack UK tv broadcast 19:43 Max headroom Incident explanation (click for jumpscare) 22:04 Max headroom first hijack 23:43 Max headroom second hijack
I saw a theory that the Max Headroom hijackers weren't just pranksters messing about, they were trying to get revenge on their former employers (the TV channel they hijacked) and the bit with Max getting spanked with a fly swatter may actually have been more malicious than funny, it may have been a deliberate attempt to get the channel fined for indecency. This is just a theory floating around though, and I don't expect we'll ever find out.
I love stuff like this. That Max Headroom one is something that is just so legendary, yet most likely will never be fully explained. I'm rather surprised that here in the UK we didn't get more of this kind of stuff before we went digital.
The Max headroom incident I was watching this guy and he was trying to figure out who it could have been someone who knew on the internet could have been someone that followed him or you know just a random person that knew or might have known that's what I'm trying to say they thought they knew who the guy was and the way his mannerisms and the way he acted like they think he was an autistic male around like 25 years old other than that they don't know anything else about it I don't know what video it was but that's what it was that's what they said so from 1986 I'm pretty sure to 2022 and still got away with it that's one pretty intelligent mildly autistic man for sure again I don't know where I saw that or heard it but that's what they said something like that
@@HeidenMikael I know the video. He later changed his mind, I decided it was somebody else. I think that was just to throw people off the scent though.
Fun fact about the EAS. That "attention grabbing" sound isn't actually intended to be so. That's the sound of the SAME code, the encrypted information of where and what is happening, being decrypted. That dinky little dial tone after is the "attention tone".
@@bcj842 Nice! Need to find those items and try that! Been looking for a Commodore 64 as a gift for my dad since he had one growing up. Still has the manual.
The second hijacking was originally a Halloween prank - not on TV of course. It was uploaded to TH-cam, and the hijackers must have had the video to hijack TV.
@@ethanpender9586this is actually a cool discover. I was under the impression that the guys who mad the zombie hack were fans of anthrax as it was used in the intro in one of there songs. Apparently they ripped of that original video. (The song I’m talking about is Fight Em’ Until You Can’t by Anthrax which was released in 2011)
30:15 The statute of limitations has to be up by now on the Max Headroom incident, so it’s weird the perpetrators don’t just come forward. They’d definitely be seen as some sort of icons by certain groups.
@Sebastian Belcher There is also always the possibility that the perpetrators may simply no longer be among the living. 30+ years is a decent chunk of time.
One explanation could be that they may have been successful later in life. If they were to come out and say they did this, it could get them fired. Sure, they won't be prosecuted for it, but their reputations and livelihoods could be severely damaged.
the max headroom thing is actually scary to me for whatever reason. just someone in a mask, moving really weirdly, the buzzing silence, the erratically moving background, not sure, it's just really eerie. then the one with sound, it's really eerie too, the weird voice just sounds like an AGI or whatever those things are like "I Feel Fantastic", and again, the weird movements & the erratically moving background.
Thank God some random Dr. Who nerd happened to be recording a rerun one night in Chicago, otherwise the proof the Max Headroom incident happened might not even exist
I'm not so much creeped out by the Max Headroom incident as I am just fascinated by it. The whole thing is just so bizarre, like a prototype to the weirdcore stuff you see on TH-cam today. None of it is necessarily creepy, but just weirdly fascinating.
God, I'm so happy to not have to see any of these as a kid. I would've been freaking out, screaming. Also, the ending of the video caught me off guard. Scared the hell out of me haha
The Southern TV interruption only affected those picking up their signals from the Hannington relay, which rebroadcasts Rowridge to the north of the region - sort of Oxford/Thames Valley area. It was the last IBA relay that had been broadcasting in this manner, which is how they managed to interrupt it.
A radio station in Belgium was hijacked in this way for a few years: they only hijacked the carrier frequency at night when the programme feed was disconnected so nobody noticed.
The Max Headroom incident is still unsettling but brilliant. They got away with it and didn't push their luck by repeating it. That's genius, however disturbing it is.
I haven't heard people suspecting that the other person in the Max Headroom incident is a child before. I think that's extremely unlikely. It seems to me that there were two people involved in it: the guy as Max, and the person who was operating the moving background (seems like a simple pulley system) - which is completely motionless when she's on-screen. That, plus her movements not seeming at all like a child; I think it's safe to say that they're an adult and whoever started the rumour just wanted to make the story sound creepier.
I have never heard that the other figure is a child! Thank you for bringing that up! While the Max Headroom Incident is creepy/scary watching it now, I can't imagine how creepy/scary it was when it actually happened.
I remembered the Max Headroom incident. I lived in Chixago at the time. Rumor was, it was someone in North Suburban Woodstock who created it using one of the station relays. Never knew if it was true, but it still is an interesting story. Guess we'll never know.
If you want to know more about the Southern Television interruption, I strongly recommend "The Interruption" podcast, the guy tries to solve the case and actually finds out who did it, it's really good and only a couple episodes long
@@gandalfthewhite The audio used in the alert (and in the Anthrax song you mentioned) was actually taken from a youtube video titled "Zombie Emergency Alert System Warning (EAS)" uploaded by Tyreehot in 2008
In the 1980’s the cable tv company here had a tower with receiving antenna’s for receiving the tv signals from neighboring countries. This tower was installed close to a city. At midnight these tv stations stopped transmitting. So, a little tv transmitter of a few watt’s and a yagi was enough to get a signal on the cable via the cable receiving antenna. Several ‘nature’ films where shown after midnight.. But after a few weeks the cable company did put a timer on there receivers to block the signal after midnight.
That only works the first time. The first Max Headroom incident was seen as a test run before they hit their actual target. The network quickly overpowered the pirate signal after just a few moments. They then aimed their transmitter towards the intended target and knew the minimum amount of power they had to throw behind it to overpower the legit signal. During this time the network was completely aware shit was going on and kept trying to overpower the pirate signal by increasing the power. The pirates did the same. At this point it wasn't simply a yagi and a few watts, they were dealing with professional broadcast equipment at that point which is why many people suspected it was an inside job with a tech who worked at the station, possibly with a grudge.
i feel like why in the max headroom incident why he’s saying mostly complete nonsense is because he is either extremely intoxicated or was not expecting to be on for that long
5:03 Everything major seemed to happen the day my parents got married, including my parents getting married. That and a major nuclear disaster on the other side of the world.
The thing about the Max Headroom incident, is that it's freaky from the outset yet gets even more disturbing the deeper you look into it. With the likes of Captain Midnight and the Southern TV interruption, there's ultimately a point to them. Sometimes to make a serious point, other times to stage some sort of hoax threat. And that's understandable. But with Max Headroom, the randomness of it is just so unsettling. It wouldn't be of much, if any, concern today, if someone made it and put it on TH-cam. Just a jackass trying to creep people out, no big deal. But the fact that someone went to so much trouble, the effort to achieve it would have been very significant, to broadcast something so bizarre, is really odd. In a way, I get the impression that whoever was responsible did not really intend it to be freaky. But it's truly a disturbing incident. It's the fact that they made no discernable point. They just did it. It raises so many questions, and has provided next to no answers.
Honestly I think the max headroom incident was just 2 friends trying to test what they could do with tv and decided that if they were gonna hack a station they might as well do something funny to get a laugh out of people
@@Matthew27567Even as far back as the day of the incident, it's been widely speculated that the people involved were part of a local network channel. The amount of technical skill and physical access it would've taken to pull off was beyond the average person at the time. You're talking tens of thousands of dollars of hardware to hijack the signal. So just like Captain Midnight, this was very likely an inside job with one or more people working at one of the stations. The network knew that too and looked into their own employees during the investigation.
Weirdly enough, I recognize Max Headroom from the Broadcast Intrusion more than the actual character. Maybe I didn't grow up in the 80s, rather admire the culture back then, but what I've said is for sure convincing for modern day viewers. You missed the glove thing, I think it's in relation to Michael Jackson ridding of his Visage.
Your voice is very great for this! Made the video very easy to watch, as someone with PTSD towards the EAS and someone that reacts terribly towards analog horror. First time it didn’t bother me at all.
The way that Vrillion just seemed so concerned for us and the way we treat each other... Even if it was a hoax of some kind, we should've listened to him.
I've always believed that "Max's" exclamation of " Oh Jesus!" was because someone on the other side of the camera confirmed that they'd broken through again. xD Like, the person providing the voice wasn't expecting it.
It would have to be a live broadcast for that explanation to make sense, and the fact that it cuts to a different video clip suggests it was pre-recorded. I suppose it's possible that it was partially live and partially pre-recorded, but I frankly doubt it.
Captain Midnight/John MacDougall was way before my time, but he's definitely a badass for sure. And all the press photos of him show him smiling and laughing. Gigachad energy.
16:22 - The idea of a supposed alien race saying "Worthless Dross" just tickles me a bit - such a quintessentially English colloquialism being used by a higher species 😂
You know what? I was today years old when I realized he's saying "bend over bitch" at the end of the Max Headroom intrusion, and not "well come and get me!"
Does anyone remember an episode of General Hospital that was interrupted with what looked like a scene from the apocalypse ? (1987/1988, Orlando, FL) I saw it and it has bothered me since and what more, nobody seems to know anything about it. IMO, that is the holy grail to look for.
I imagine the sound at 10:57 is similar to the noise we will hear on all our mobile phones on 23rd April at 3pm! It's going to catch a lot of people off guard, especially people with anxiety like me!
There was a high jacking on tv in the 1990's in uk England. On a Saturday afternoon. Saying " DON'T PANIC,this is a voice from the future ".it had z big head alien looking and the BACKGROUND was a futurist view of a city
Great work on the video, there was a podcast series on the Vrillon interruption called "The Interruption" that came out last year with the effort of finding out the actual culprit. I won't spoil it for you but it's well worth a listen
On one hand the max headroom incident is fucking hilarious and the people who did it are legends for making the first shitpost but I really, really hate watching it. There’s just something about it that I don’t like.
MAX HEADROOM STORY: This is most likely Rafer and Jennifer Weigel at the ages of 17 years old. Their father was Tim Weigel a TV news sportscaster in Chicago and they are part of Weigel Broadcasting Co. They would have had knowledge and access to the equipment to do this and maybe the FCC knew they did it but in Evanston Illinois. it's all about who you know and if you are wealthy that gets you out of trouble. They have some nice careers in broadcasting now and won't come forward because they will disgrace their father legacy and their own careers.
I'm sure plenty of people have commented this exact same thing before, but the videos on your channel are so well made and thoroughly researched. Binge watching loads now and they're all tremendous
The EAS hijack was partly caused by TV stations leaving their EAS equipment with the default password. P. S. A. Incidentally have you changed the Administrator password on your router? This is not the same thing as your WiFi password and if you haven't please google the model of router you have and change it.
Yes I have . Unfortunately I then forgot what I changed it to so my router is so secure now even I can't get into it ! Seriously though amazing how many are stick on the default.
Also, who would even fall for it other than delusional people who watch too many horror movies and show and read too many comic books and horror novels?
Well, I've heard that the Guy in the Max Headroom Mask was a former WGN-9 Employee. But, I've never heard that the person in the made outfit was a child. Maybe a Women, but never a child. Seems more or less an attempt to make people less amused with the Max Headroom culprit.
I heard it was a guy with autism who constantly mumbled tv theme songs and commercial jingles one minute and shouted out vulgarities the next. He and his brother also everybody to watch TV that night.
The good old C-band days. Once all the channels started scrambling and using different decoder types, the fun was over. I actually remember watching the Captain Midnight incident as it happened. I thought it was a pissed off HBO employee.
hi, I’m Saul Goodman. did you know that you have rights? …the constitution says you do, and so do I. I believe that until proven guilty, every man, woman and child is innocent. and that’s why I fight for you, Albuquerque!
Lift a glass for Captain Midnight. He spoke up for us in the cheap seats.
Nosebleed Gang 4 Life
Ran it through an inflation calculator (which coincidentally it pointed out was the highest since 1982). $33.52 a month in 2022. That would be insane to pay.
@@jamst5913 That'll be what Netflix will charge by next year at this rate.
Uh
Plus the cost of the decoder box is nearly $1k in today’s money!
1986: “$12.95 a month? No way! 🤬”
2024: “$12.95 a month? No way! 😃”
I was thinking the same thing 🤣
“$12.95 a month ? No way !” Some things never change.
Except $12.95/month right now seems really low compared to everything else
@@DMParodywell with modern inflation, it would cost 33.52 dollars now to pay for that.
No way man
@@genericname4583maybe captain midnight really was onto something
Would it be half of the price of cable...
I like how all these news channels treat these people like terrorists when most of them are just the 4 chan trolls of the 80s
You need to read about the Operation Sundevil busts that happened in the US. In the early 90s hackers, even kids stumbling upon random totally unguarded systems were pretty much treated as akin to terrorists because the phone company managed to crash their exchanges with a shitty software update and blamed it on them
@Schrunkley evil version I would've figured people with a name similar to "Skrunkly" had nice shoelaces or something
@Schrunkley evil version by chance, did you steal them from the president?
@Schrunkley evil version awh man I almost forgot that, we had a whole class about it in tumblr university
I mean lol you’re kinda right
I salute to Captain Midnight. Man had prepared himself to face off HBO and slapped them real hard in the 1980s.
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Looking closely at the Max Headroom hijack, it's possible he was intoxicated, judging by his haphazard movements
Yeah imagine he just got shitfaced and was like “You know what? I think I’m gonna hijack TV signals in a Max Headroom mask” lol
Don't think he was drunk. I think he was going for almost a Frank Gorshin Riddler (1960s Batman) gimmick.
@@someguy3752 yeah I don’t think he was actually drunk. Thats why I said “imagine”.
@@trippinatormachine He wasn’t replying to you, if he was there would’ve been an @
@@coolmanyea5030 correct
Takeaways:
1.) I think the audio of the Vrillon speech is real. Why would the reproduction recreate the voice becoming inaudible due to interference?
2.) “Your love is fading” is a reference to the Temptations song “I’m Losing You”, further evidenced by Max holding the Pepsi can like a microphone.
3.) The jump cut in the second Max Headroom broadcast shows that it wasn’t a live performance, but a recorded skit that had been filmed at an earlier time.
That’s what I was thinking. I knew the hijack was just a pre-recorded hijacking.
why do you think the vrillion speech was real?
@@Noel_Wood now, I don’t think it’s really an alien. What I’m saying is I think the audio recording itself is a genuine recording of the event that took place.
@@robertf614 ohhh, i see.
1.) Could be for authenticity, if you are reproducing something it's not that crazy to assume you want to recreate it as accurately as possible, which would include the interference
The Max Headroom hackers could go public now. The statute of limitations ran out on that a long time ago.
If they are still alive, that is
Dis is Chicago. We know how to keep our traps shut. Rats have a tendency to disappear, know wat I mean?
@@princeofcupspoc9073 wtf
@lc_games_the_og yeah, I was gonna say it would probably be hard for the actual guys who did it to prove they actually did. All I could think to do is prove they have the fly swatter, suit, and mask still but they may have thrown them out just to be safe.
there is a good chance they could be dead
Im finally done
Timestamps:
1:17 intro
1:44 Captain midnight explanation
5:44 Captain midnight broadcast
9:53 Zombie EAS alert explanation
10:57 Zombie EAS alert broadcast
12:54 Aliens hijack UK tv explanation
13:48 Aliens hijack UK tv broadcast
19:43 Max headroom Incident explanation (click for jumpscare)
22:04 Max headroom first hijack
23:43 Max headroom second hijack
Imagine Stewie sees this 💀
Intro was scariest part
Yikes
General Zod
god that was a huge jumpscare lmao
I saw a theory that the Max Headroom hijackers weren't just pranksters messing about, they were trying to get revenge on their former employers (the TV channel they hijacked) and the bit with Max getting spanked with a fly swatter may actually have been more malicious than funny, it may have been a deliberate attempt to get the channel fined for indecency. This is just a theory floating around though, and I don't expect we'll ever find out.
I love stuff like this. That Max Headroom one is something that is just so legendary, yet most likely will never be fully explained. I'm rather surprised that here in the UK we didn't get more of this kind of stuff before we went digital.
@@HeidenMikael I'm thinking more of an act than autism
The Max headroom incident I was watching this guy and he was trying to figure out who it could have been someone who knew on the internet could have been someone that followed him or you know just a random person that knew or might have known that's what I'm trying to say they thought they knew who the guy was and the way his mannerisms and the way he acted like they think he was an autistic male around like 25 years old other than that they don't know anything else about it I don't know what video it was but that's what it was that's what they said so from 1986 I'm pretty sure to 2022 and still got away with it that's one pretty intelligent mildly autistic man for sure again I don't know where I saw that or heard it but that's what they said something like that
Yeah you're probably right but that's just what I heard man
@@HeidenMikael I know the video. He later changed his mind, I decided it was somebody else. I think that was just to throw people off the scent though.
Yeah your right people are sketchy at times I mean you're not wrong I do believe that
Fun fact about the EAS. That "attention grabbing" sound isn't actually intended to be so. That's the sound of the SAME code, the encrypted information of where and what is happening, being decrypted. That dinky little dial tone after is the "attention tone".
So that sound is similar to what happens if you put a Commodore 64 cassette into an audio cassette player?
@@bcj842 Now thats a deep cut but yes lol.
Kinda like the dial up noise?
@@bcj842 Nice! Need to find those items and try that! Been looking for a Commodore 64 as a gift for my dad since he had one growing up. Still has the manual.
The second hijacking was originally a Halloween prank - not on TV of course. It was uploaded to TH-cam, and the hijackers must have had the video to hijack TV.
Absolutely not true at all. TH-cam did not exist in the 1980s.
watch the video yet?
@@ethanpender9586 Oh, whoops, I thought you were talking about the Max Headroom hijacking.
@@ethanpender9586this is actually a cool discover. I was under the impression that the guys who mad the zombie hack were fans of anthrax as it was used in the intro in one of there songs. Apparently they ripped of that original video. (The song I’m talking about is Fight Em’ Until You Can’t by Anthrax which was released in 2011)
30:15 The statute of limitations has to be up by now on the Max Headroom incident, so it’s weird the perpetrators don’t just come forward. They’d definitely be seen as some sort of icons by certain groups.
@Sebastian Belcher There is also always the possibility that the perpetrators may simply no longer be among the living. 30+ years is a decent chunk of time.
One explanation could be that they may have been successful later in life. If they were to come out and say they did this, it could get them fired. Sure, they won't be prosecuted for it, but their reputations and livelihoods could be severely damaged.
Nobody would believe whoever came forward probably anyways.
@@josephjones7828 well we saw earlier in the video that the dead rose from their graves in 2011, so it’s possible they may have come back
@@canaan466 lmfaooo
Plot twist: The alien message was a prank by a couple of bored alien teens hovering in their spaceship above earth.
Or it was some nerds that just watched too much Star Wars😂 Could be anything tbh
Alien parent “What did I say about this?!”
the max headroom thing is actually scary to me for whatever reason.
just someone in a mask, moving really weirdly, the buzzing silence, the erratically moving background, not sure, it's just really eerie.
then the one with sound, it's really eerie too, the weird voice just sounds like an AGI or whatever those things are like "I Feel Fantastic", and again, the weird movements & the erratically moving background.
Same here, I always get creeped out seeing it. Not knowing who did it or the reason for the hijacking makes it creepier too
Thank God some random Dr. Who nerd happened to be recording a rerun one night in Chicago, otherwise the proof the Max Headroom incident happened might not even exist
I'm not so much creeped out by the Max Headroom incident as I am just fascinated by it. The whole thing is just so bizarre, like a prototype to the weirdcore stuff you see on TH-cam today. None of it is necessarily creepy, but just weirdly fascinating.
God, I'm so happy to not have to see any of these as a kid. I would've been freaking out, screaming. Also, the ending of the video caught me off guard. Scared the hell out of me haha
Sad
I seen the Handy Manny incident live and I was mortified lol. I was literally toddler at the time
The Southern TV interruption only affected those picking up their signals from the Hannington relay, which rebroadcasts Rowridge to the north of the region - sort of Oxford/Thames Valley area. It was the last IBA relay that had been broadcasting in this manner, which is how they managed to interrupt it.
Surely Oxford was ATV though?
@@Dustydreams930 hannington covered South Oxfordshire amongst other countries.
this one is probably most interesting to me
A radio station in Belgium was hijacked in this way for a few years: they only hijacked the carrier frequency at night when the programme feed was disconnected so nobody noticed.
really corny intro "be afraid be very very very very afriad" then a scream LMAOOOO made me laugh so hard
🤣Same bro
The alien intrusion still gives me goosebumps it is motivating and creepy at the same time
Intergalactic multi dimension dwelling, all seeing benevolent overlord or not, that Vrillon lad wasn't wrong!
We should have listened to him.
I mean, he's got a point
that vrillon guy seems kinda chill ngl
I wouldn’t be too scared if they alien contact because they seemed nice and are genuinely trying to help
The Max Headroom incident is still unsettling but brilliant. They got away with it and didn't push their luck by repeating it. That's genius, however disturbing it is.
The Max Headroom one would definitely have scared me if it saw that as a child. Glad I didn't too be honest.
This one of the better videos on the TV hijackings! It's really in depth and well researched.
Thank you!
I haven't heard people suspecting that the other person in the Max Headroom incident is a child before. I think that's extremely unlikely. It seems to me that there were two people involved in it: the guy as Max, and the person who was operating the moving background (seems like a simple pulley system) - which is completely motionless when she's on-screen. That, plus her movements not seeming at all like a child; I think it's safe to say that they're an adult and whoever started the rumour just wanted to make the story sound creepier.
Child? No
Teenager? Maybe? 🤷♀
I wish i was a very immature adult in the 1990s so i could have interrupted the alien hijack with a video of me shooting a gun at the sky
Everybody would be awoken, wondering why tf their neighbor is firing off a shotgun at the sky
I have never heard that the other figure is a child! Thank you for bringing that up! While the Max Headroom Incident is creepy/scary watching it now, I can't imagine how creepy/scary it was when it actually happened.
Especially in the second one how he just pops up out of nowhere pretty much. People must have been terrified.
@@madamebkrt the sounds are so eerie too
@@Noel_Wood SO eerie.
I remembered the Max Headroom incident. I lived in Chixago at the time. Rumor was, it was someone in North Suburban Woodstock who created it using one of the station relays. Never knew if it was true, but it still is an interesting story. Guess we'll never know.
If you want to know more about the Southern Television interruption, I strongly recommend "The Interruption" podcast, the guy tries to solve the case and actually finds out who did it, it's really good and only a couple episodes long
Can you give me a link to the podcast
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About that 'Zombie EAS', that guy doing it must be a big fan of The Walking Dead
or of the band Anthrax, the same message appears ad verbatim in their song "Fight 'Em 'Till you Can't" from their 2011 album Worship Music.
@@gandalfthewhite The audio used in the alert (and in the Anthrax song you mentioned) was actually taken from a youtube video titled "Zombie Emergency Alert System Warning (EAS)" uploaded by Tyreehot in 2008
@ ohhh ok I didn’t know there was another source 👍
Nothing can hurt me as long as I'm not in full screen
Real
In the 1980’s the cable tv company here had a tower with receiving antenna’s for receiving the tv signals from neighboring countries. This tower was installed close to a city. At midnight these tv stations stopped transmitting. So, a little tv transmitter of a few watt’s and a yagi was enough to get a signal on the cable via the cable receiving antenna. Several ‘nature’ films where shown after midnight.. But after a few weeks the cable company did put a timer on there receivers to block the signal after midnight.
Epic
That only works the first time. The first Max Headroom incident was seen as a test run before they hit their actual target. The network quickly overpowered the pirate signal after just a few moments. They then aimed their transmitter towards the intended target and knew the minimum amount of power they had to throw behind it to overpower the legit signal. During this time the network was completely aware shit was going on and kept trying to overpower the pirate signal by increasing the power. The pirates did the same. At this point it wasn't simply a yagi and a few watts, they were dealing with professional broadcast equipment at that point which is why many people suspected it was an inside job with a tech who worked at the station, possibly with a grudge.
dang, you left out some fascinating ones. "Would you, could you, on a train?" and the Hawaii missile alert both had serious real-life effects...
Galactic Commander Vrillar is just as unnecessarily wordy as every other bleedin' politician. Makes you think.
Captain midnight wasn’t the hero we deserved but the one we needed
Captain Midnight is a real one. 🍸
i feel like why in the max headroom incident why he’s saying mostly complete nonsense is because he is either extremely intoxicated or was not expecting to be on for that long
Neither of those theories make sense because the performance was clearly pre-recorded so they clearly knew what they were doing
25:15 it is kind of fitting that Tom baker in doctor who said this the moment the signal was restored
Bruh
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Near 45 years later and nobody knows who Vrillon is/was .
it was: fake as fuck!
More Power From Vrillon, More Disaster From The Analogue Past
tbh using aliens is probably the best way to get people to actually be friendly
"I have one thing to say to you..."
*"ŒĀÆĄÂĂŐÆ"*
5:03 Everything major seemed to happen the day my parents got married, including my parents getting married. That and a major nuclear disaster on the other side of the world.
That “the day my parents got married, including my parents getting married” part is hilarious.
I mean my birthdays literally on the same day and same month the hiroshima nukes dropped.
@@theplaylistmaker1846protip: dont go to japan on your birthday
Wait, the day your parents got married includes YOUR PARENTS GETTING MARRIED?!
Loved that full length flying HBO bumper when I was 5. Had me knowing a good movie was starting.
The thing about the Max Headroom incident, is that it's freaky from the outset yet gets even more disturbing the deeper you look into it. With the likes of Captain Midnight and the Southern TV interruption, there's ultimately a point to them. Sometimes to make a serious point, other times to stage some sort of hoax threat. And that's understandable. But with Max Headroom, the randomness of it is just so unsettling. It wouldn't be of much, if any, concern today, if someone made it and put it on TH-cam. Just a jackass trying to creep people out, no big deal. But the fact that someone went to so much trouble, the effort to achieve it would have been very significant, to broadcast something so bizarre, is really odd. In a way, I get the impression that whoever was responsible did not really intend it to be freaky. But it's truly a disturbing incident. It's the fact that they made no discernable point. They just did it. It raises so many questions, and has provided next to no answers.
Honestly I think the max headroom incident was just 2 friends trying to test what they could do with tv and decided that if they were gonna hack a station they might as well do something funny to get a laugh out of people
@@Matthew27567Even as far back as the day of the incident, it's been widely speculated that the people involved were part of a local network channel. The amount of technical skill and physical access it would've taken to pull off was beyond the average person at the time. You're talking tens of thousands of dollars of hardware to hijack the signal. So just like Captain Midnight, this was very likely an inside job with one or more people working at one of the stations. The network knew that too and looked into their own employees during the investigation.
I’ve heard of all of these, but you’ve provided me with much more info than I knew. Especially the first one. Great video!
What wouldn't be a signal intrusion compilation without the notorious Max Headroom incident?
Am I the only one who finds the Max Headroom hijacking hysterical?
Nope I’m with you
Weirdly enough, I recognize Max Headroom from the Broadcast Intrusion more than the actual character. Maybe I didn't grow up in the 80s, rather admire the culture back then, but what I've said is for sure convincing for modern day viewers.
You missed the glove thing, I think it's in relation to Michael Jackson ridding of his Visage.
Your voice is very great for this! Made the video very easy to watch, as someone with PTSD towards the EAS and someone that reacts terribly towards analog horror. First time it didn’t bother me at all.
The hand holding the fly swatter is not a child's hand. The person is either short or kneeling, but appears to be an adult.
Plus they likely operated the background, which is a sheet of steel/iron so it'd have to be heavy
What a really interesting video!! Nice one Adam!!
The zombie hijacking from 2013 uses audio from an Anthrax song “Fight ‘em til you can’t.” That plays at the intro of the song.
The way that Vrillion just seemed so concerned for us and the way we treat each other... Even if it was a hoax of some kind, we should've listened to him.
I've always believed that "Max's" exclamation of " Oh Jesus!" was because someone on the other side of the camera confirmed that they'd broken through again. xD Like, the person providing the voice wasn't expecting it.
The first broadcast was definitely cut short because they couldn't get the sound working. That's probably also why they switched channels.
It would have to be a live broadcast for that explanation to make sense, and the fact that it cuts to a different video clip suggests it was pre-recorded. I suppose it's possible that it was partially live and partially pre-recorded, but I frankly doubt it.
The EAS hijack in 2013 is directly influenced by a song by Anthrax called “fight em till you cant” released 2 years before the incident.
Captain Midnight/John MacDougall was way before my time, but he's definitely a badass for sure. And all the press photos of him show him smiling and laughing. Gigachad energy.
16:22 - The idea of a supposed alien race saying "Worthless Dross" just tickles me a bit - such a quintessentially English colloquialism being used by a higher species 😂
That whole thing had a very seventies Dr. Who vibe to me, ironically enough.
I'm sorry, but I can't this video seriously with the "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" music playing in the background lmao
Although Max Headroom appeared in films and TV series in the 1980's, the character is best remembered for the Chicago video hijack.
Something is wrong I can feel it
Okay dude this intro is an eternity
You know what? I was today years old when I realized he's saying "bend over bitch" at the end of the Max Headroom intrusion, and not "well come and get me!"
Does anyone remember an episode of General Hospital that was interrupted with what looked like a scene from the apocalypse ? (1987/1988, Orlando, FL) I saw it and it has bothered me since and what more, nobody seems to know anything about it. IMO, that is the holy grail to look for.
Apocalypse like warzone or just decrepit? Was there sound? Sounds pretty interesting
I imagine the sound at 10:57 is similar to the noise we will hear on all our mobile phones on 23rd April at 3pm! It's going to catch a lot of people off guard, especially people with anxiety like me!
lmao I looked it up to see what this guy was predicting... it was a test of the emergency alert system
@@renakunisakiit was freaky I have to admit
I was waiting for it and it STILL got me!
There was a high jacking on tv in the 1990's in uk England. On a Saturday afternoon. Saying " DON'T PANIC,this is a voice from the future ".it had z big head alien looking and the BACKGROUND was a futurist view of a city
The moral of the story...
"Catch the wave"
Great work on the video, there was a podcast series on the Vrillon interruption called "The Interruption" that came out last year with the effort of finding out the actual culprit. I won't spoil it for you but it's well worth a listen
And did they find out who the culprit was or is??
On one hand the max headroom incident is fucking hilarious and the people who did it are legends for making the first shitpost but I really, really hate watching it. There’s just something about it that I don’t like.
It starts out funny but gets unsettling real fast
uncanny valley honestly
It's a pain in the ears but it is absolutely hilarious.
MAX HEADROOM STORY:
This is most likely Rafer and Jennifer Weigel at the ages of 17 years old. Their father was Tim Weigel a TV news sportscaster in Chicago and they are part of Weigel Broadcasting Co. They would have had knowledge and access to the equipment to do this and maybe the FCC knew they did it but in Evanston Illinois. it's all about who you know and if you are wealthy that gets you out of trouble. They have some nice careers in broadcasting now and won't come forward because they will disgrace their father legacy and their own careers.
I'm sure plenty of people have commented this exact same thing before, but the videos on your channel are so well made and thoroughly researched. Binge watching loads now and they're all tremendous
ooo first hijacking showcase I've seen where the Wyoming Incident isn't mentioned
The what?
The EAS hijack was partly caused by TV stations leaving their EAS equipment with the default password.
P. S. A. Incidentally have you changed the Administrator password on your router? This is not the same thing as your WiFi password and if you haven't please google the model of router you have and change it.
Yes I have . Unfortunately I then forgot what I changed it to so my router is so secure now even I can't get into it !
Seriously though amazing how many are stick on the default.
My ISP will not allow me to change it
The zombie one is hilarious is some weird way.
Also, who would even fall for it other than delusional people who watch too many horror movies and show and read too many comic books and horror novels?
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815children?
Thank you for blowing my eardrums out with that ending 👍
that last part's scream though 😨 happy halloween indeed
8:16 - I know travelling with the Doctor can change a person, but I never knew it could change one's appearance completely.
I was thinking that
@@chronicnose Honestly, with that name, a joke had to be made.
dang I never knew a guy could have 21st century humor in the 20th century
Rowan Atkinson's "Zak the Alien" sketch must have been a joke about the Vrillon intrusion, I think
fun fact: the Captain Midnight incident and the Chernobyl disaster happened on the same day
what a throughly excellent and engrossing documentary thank you
Well, I've heard that the Guy in the Max Headroom Mask was a former WGN-9 Employee. But, I've never heard that the person in the made outfit was a child. Maybe a Women, but never a child. Seems more or less an attempt to make people less amused with the Max Headroom culprit.
I heard it was a guy with autism who constantly mumbled tv theme songs and commercial jingles one minute and shouted out vulgarities the next. He and his brother also everybody to watch TV that night.
Imagine having the opportunity to hijack major TV channels and get a message out to millions, and you use it to shitpost
Okay-- YOU JUST MADE SUCH A GOOD POINT.
How did the attacker trigger the Emergency Broadcast System and get a unique voice message played?
i read a few reports, i believe the station left the password for the eas console as the default, and whoever did this just guessed it
@Lu0z9 alternatively: 1234
@@woffyrealclose- it’s actually 4321 for the box that was hijacked
@@ohitshammy ah, at least it’s not just 1234
People in 1988: "I don't remember That part of Dr. Who."
OK But the Max Headroom incident is still the funniest tv hijacking I have ever seen. LOL
The galactic council one always amazes me.
The good old C-band days. Once all the channels started scrambling and using different decoder types, the fun was over. I actually remember watching the Captain Midnight incident as it happened. I thought it was a pissed off HBO employee.
Some of those incidents are legendary
Just knowing there's someone roaming this earth the title of being "the max headroom guy" is wild
I was actually watching TV with my mom when the zombie one came up. We were laughing so hard. Good times.
“If you get scared easily this program is not for you”
“Yeah I will totally be ok”
Imagine watching a show and out of nowhere you see some guy's ass getting hit with a fly swatter
I love how you can hear and see the hacker and broadcaster fighting
I love how Adam Martyn uses The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire $125,000 Question theme song.
The Max Headroom guy looks like something I could watch, pretty retro but def. interested.
the person who did the Vrillon incident just wanted world peace.
I remember the zombie eas one, i was visiting my mom in the hospital when the tv made that announcement. I was like 10, so i was terrified
There should be a video scaries of law firm commercials.
hi, I’m Saul Goodman. did you know that you have rights? …the constitution says you do, and so do I. I believe that until proven guilty, every man, woman and child is innocent. and that’s why I fight for you, Albuquerque!
One huge advertisement for the law firms. Would actually be good for the firm.
I clicked on this video and then clicked on a short I wanted to watch first, but this kept playing in the background and it scared me so bad 😂😭