The Mysterious Phone Number From The 90's
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2019
- In the early 90's one phone number would catch the eyes of many users in canada. It's cryptic nature and speculation to this day has left this an unsolved mystery. In today's video, we're going to take a look at one of the most enigmatic phone numbers and try and figure out what happened.
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Update:
The recording was Found in a recording from an audio engineer in 2014!
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Update 2: Pretty much solved.
Here’s a full reddit thread
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FIRST REPLY *stupid giggle noises*
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Barely Sociable Damn, impeccable recommendation time TH-cam!
I love how you give updates! Tbh one of the best channels and I can’t wait for more content
this is epic
I was born in 80 and idk wtf this is. I was too busy calling KFC to ask them how big their breast were.
noahkb80 did you get an answer
It went extremely well! I received a broad range of answers. From "I dont know" to " 3 to 5 ounces" to "baby, you can't handle all these breastses". 😳👐😍🤣
The advent of *69 really threw a wrench in my prank call game.
I remember the first time I got called back. I didnt even know it was a thing!......
"Hello? Who is this ?!?!? Uh uh uh uh ....f*** you!" click
🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️ run my tail off outside. "Nope I been playing outside all day"
😰
KFC got dat big breast energy
My mans is a LEGEND 😂
"they tore the theater down to make a tim hortons"
everything starts and end at tim hortons
ashes to ashes, tim hortons to tim hortons
This made me laugh more than it should've
T I m h o r t o n s
in a few years the whole country will be tim hortons.
Why My TH-cam channel is Tim Hortons (obvious plug).
Tim Hortons takes over.
All phone numbers were mysterious in the 90's. When the phone rang, you didn't know who it was until you picked it up!
And you couldn't just Google a number either. I miss the mystery of the 90s
@Newsbender I dunno how to tell you pal, but the 90's fuckin sucked too
@Newsbender sorry but uh, nothing changed other then technology advanced, but its always been fucked
@Newsbender the fuck type of life did u think we lived in the 90s???? Shit has been fucked for the longest time you shelter baby
The 90s Aesthetic was nice but things were the same
In 97' me and my siblings were home alone one evening, and we got call after call to our home phone from an unknown number, every time we answered we could only hear loud, deep, heavy breathing, naturally we panicked and made sure all the doors and windows were locked so we could listen & wait for our mother to get home. Turns out it was my mother's new squeeze unknowingly leaning on his old school mobile, speed dialling us over and over while he ate a takeaway like an orc.
Someone once called me at like 7:30 in the morning before I went to work. I answered because the number had tried to call the previous day but I didn't pick up. They called and sounded like they were choking to death on the other end. I called back with no response and left a strongly worded voicemail and then proceeded to call the non-emergency dispatch line in my small town.
Later the number called back again. It was a 11 year old kid who told me that someone was "using their phone number to do prank calls" and got spooked because the police came to their house to check out of their was an issue (I guess they found the location from the phone number I gave to dispatch).
Never got another prank call from that number (wonder why!)
This made me laugh so hard omg
I thought you were going to say it was Jimmy Savile
I cant stop rereading the end and cackling like a maniac omg
😂😂😂😂😂@@un_ubcribed
I believe it means: To improve your golf game, count to 10, then scream like a siren before teeing off. That's my theory.
I worked in telecoms in UK, we used to play a 'screamer' tone automatically if a phone was left off the hook for a long time. The idea was, by attracting attention to the noise, the subscriber would get irritated and hang up the call. I assume 1-800 numbers have to pay something to their phone provider despite giving free calls to incoming calls. Perhaps this was to prevent the 0800 number accruing unnecessary charges for incoming calls..?
@@whowhatandwhere5477 wow that is quite possibly the smartest thing ive heard all year
who what and where 😹😹😹😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'd do this:I'd start saying "hello?" for about 3 minutes, then I'd put the caller on "semi-hold" after warning the caller, where I can listen and I do a "dut-dut" noise and if he replies, or if he touches any number, the "semi-hold" will be canceled.
Makes sense
I did computer maintenance during the 90's and used to use that number to check if my modems could dial successfully. I knew it would always answer and that nobody would be on it except a recording.
at least that's confirmation it existed. Im struggling to find anyone who remember it, and I grew up near St Catherines.
I had a man call me up and tell me that he was going to shoot himself in his head.
@@laurieberry4814 what?
@@emilyd.6371 yeah lol wtf
Lol
"List Trading" was a big thing in the late 80's and 90's, when you brought that up at the end it made perfect sense. Getting active phone numbers and selling lists of them made you lots of money.
"This call is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends."
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'Google Search' isn't even the top hit.
@@Enzaio it is now lol what was it before??
@@wrytte It probably varies from person to person. For me it was an ad.
@@panicattack8284 Fair point haha.
I looked up SEARCH and all I got was a 2018 thriller movie
Saying this is the most mysterious in the 90’s implies the existence of 00’s mysterious numbers, and 10’s mysterious numbers
I am fan of trilogies
If he can get a video up on the 20's most mysterious number before the end of the year, I'd appreciate it.
The sequel is never better than the original
RanDoom guy Clearly you've never watched Terminator.
In a year we can get a tetralogy
80s?
Contact the company that owns the billboard, or whoever they bought it from. Maybe they have a record of the ad, or they remember who ordered it, etc. Maybe a dead-end, maybe not.
The phone number collection makes the most sense honestly. The person who thought it up probably was regarded as a marketing genius in their office.
Never heard of this one, time to sit back and get educated
education usually doesn't involve useless internet meme culture references.
but sure , enjoy becoming dumber i guess.
@@catnium Wow, you must be a real riot in the comment sections of all those super genius videos that you watch, like this video that you're clearly watching.
Go back to grade 6 English, kiddo.
@@catnium please tell me you didnt just call somebody dumb with a fucking my little pony avatar.
@@catnium - my little pony avatar
@@catnium education means learning something, useless or not. Like gender studies
“This place has since been torn down and replaced by a Tim Horton” - most Canadian sentence ever spoken
Harvey Manfrenchensen That Tim Hortons was then torn down and replaced by a Canadian Tire
And then the harveys got replaced by a fountain tire
Scrambled Eggs then the fountain got replaced by Canadian milk chocolate
Haha my dad remembers the old building before Tim's was built. St kits is my hometown. Can't believe I didnt know about this phone number.
Tom Horton's or a gay bar
I worked at a hospital in the 90's in NM, but very close to the AZ border. They installed a 1-800 number so patients calling from AZ wouldn't have to pay long distance fees. At some point,, someone hijacked the number and was using it as a porn line. I once had an angry patient who came in and complained that he tried to call for a doctors appointment, but he got a woman named Candi who talked dirty to him. One of the nurses called the number and sure enough, Candi answered on the first ring! I love these phone mysteries.
Funny enough, I just tried the number and it gave me a medical center.
In the 1980's we had the Devils phone number, so way more entertaining! Being a disgruntled kid forced to attend Catholic school I loved it. You dialed 666-6969 and it made horrid sounds, clicks, and screeches. By the mid 90's we learned what a modem sounded like and had flashbacks. :P
Lol I remember that and also another one that I can't mention..wouldn't want to get canceled
@@dalton7145 please?
@@dalton7145 nobody cares just tell us lmao
Lmao yooooo! I remember that shit, i called once bc that scared me so bad🥴🤣🤣
Wow I would have never remember that
Everyone gangsta until someone searches "SEARCH"
*gasp* what it do nephew?
@@davethescrub858 look at the first 5 seconds of the vid and pay a ton of attention
@@sbuppy8713 on youtube?
Is the start a man pulling a shopping cart
What is it ? Do you mean search it on TH-cam or Google ?
why have i spent almost 13 minutes staring at a spinning rock
Cause it's fun
Iceberg
Polygon
I had to turn away for a minute because I realized I was staring at the Iceberg, Polygon.
Well, we do live on a spinning rock
By some odd glitch in the matrix, my wife and I had dinner at the Arby's across the street from Lands End Landscaping and the billboard in the north end of St. Catharines earlier this evening. And then later your video comes up in my recommendations - which got me hooked on the mystery. Never heard about this until just now (and I've lived in Niagara region 25 yrs).
I freaking love how weird the 90s were.
I can't remember at what time they were.
I was born in 2008.
9 years after the last year of the 90's.
1999
@@Q--_--90909 ok
I called it. Was not disappointed 10/10 will call again for sarah
Ok sir'
I liked evie she was nice
On then
I got Sarah as well lol
I called and got a dude...
“Let’s take a listen to this impersonation”
“LET’S PLAY RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS”
Lmfao these ad comments almost make me wish I didn't have an ad-blocker 🤣🤣🤣
"WHY ARE YOU WEARING POLKA DOTS?? POLKA DOTS ARE OUT, POLKA SQUARES ARE IN."
UltraViolet it’s polka stars now
@@umers2122 Its polka dinosaurs now.
@@lover7669 its polka atoms now.
I remember this and I was always under the impression it was meant to be a joke. If you get frustrated with your game, count to ten until you calm down.
I just called the number and an automated msg asked me to press 1 if I'm over 50 and press 2 if I'm not. I pressed 2 and the lady said "Thank you!" And hung up....
"Let's Take a Listen to His Impersonation"
(ad plays) *"FRANKS* *RED* *HOT,* *I* *PUT* *THAT* *S###* *ON* *EVERYTHING*
lol I got the same ad lol
Kek
I got a BitLife ad lol
😎👌 LMFAO!
I got a Geico add lmao
I won't lie when the guy imitated the voice recording I laughed.
Georgia B come on, it was cute!!
He should have paused lol
@@lunarpanda7436 ahaha i agree but it did make me chuckle
Georgia B thats fair
because it suspiciously _sounds_ very much like Barely Sociable. Hmmmmmm
Our local bank's time and temp phone number (remember those) became a kid's party line. Someone found out if you stayed on after the time and temp message, you were on with other callers. So of course kids from all over the county called and talked to each other. It was the forerunner of a chat room where you actually chatted verbally. 😂
That's awesome. We used to sneak into the head masters office at lunch and use his phone to call random numbers in the U.S (from Australia) and chat to Americans.
@@jesselore6374 That's awesome. Did they catch on once they saw the phone bill? 😂
Subliminal hypnotization. Anyone who listened to that call and then hears the "code" again will be really good at golf
“They tore down the theater for a Tim Hortons”
Oh Canada
Our home and native land.
D’oh Canada.
@@MsPaintMr true patriot love!
@@davethescrub858 In all t̶h̶y̶ ̶s̶o̶n̶s̶ of us command!
@@MsPaintMr I thought if the exact same fucking thing lol
If you can give me a day or two to move a cassette recording to a digital format, I can email you a copy of the audio from calling golf tip
.
Post on subreddit!
@@danhunter5680 Send him a direct message dude!
Ya, I'd like to take a look at this. I want to take a look at it in Audacity and see if I can't figure out whether the number playing is actually a recording of a person reading through a set of numbers, or some sort of digitally generates speach.
@@BarelySociable I caption phone calls- I often hear a screaming noise come through the lines. A lot of times, it's a really weird tone used for the hearing impaired to be able to hear, I believe. Maybe that's the "screaming/alarm"? I'm not sure if these tones were all to frequent at that time.
Just came across your TH-cam feed… Good stuff men keep it going… One of my favorite from the 80s is the story of the arcade game Polybius. Subbed
Dang, I'm not familiar with the number but that telemarketer theory sounds pretty spot on to me. The 90's way of collecting data and selling it to other companies. Hope everyone watching this video is having a lovely night though. You're a huge inspiration to me and my little horror channel, much love 🤍🤍
Let’s take a look at his impersonation
Me: *Gets an ad for the new Motorola Razr*
3Dcubing no they don’t
They dont it like me no more
DodgerBoy 05 hello moto
They don’t like me no mor-
Let's take a look at his impersonation
"When I learned that smoking cost me over 3000 a year,"
“It’s owned now by an erotic hotline. Just wanted to give you fair warning.”
That ain’t a warning, that’s an advertisement. You even gave us the number to call after it. 🤣
That just makes me want to call it.
@@BigGirthyRod do it. I double dog dare you >:)
breadiscool I called it and couldn’t get far because I’m under 18.
@@BigGirthyRod damn. Sucks being a minor :(
breadiscool Yeah...
I was a teenager in the 90s but I don't remember this at all. It's definitely possible I heard about it but didn't make a lasting impression on me.
When I was a kid, the police used to call my house every time I misbehaved. They would tell my dad I was going to jail, but if I cried enough my dad would convince them to let me off again
Wut
Interesting
lol
you mean your dads friend called him and pretended he was the police but u were a kid so it doesnt matter
I saw you somewhere. I can't remember where. All I remember is that you're Indian. Right?
Let's take a look at his personal impersonation.
Ad: *anime girl starts singing*
Seems accurate
I hate those ads with a passion.
if it actually was his impersonation I would get wet 😳
I had an ad about misconceptions of bearded men
WHEEZE
I found this on a comments section in an article about the number:
I can explain to you exactly what this was all about. Around 1995 my uncle who is Lebanese(not Indian) worked/volunteer for the PGA. At that time members of the PGA decided to pay for a hot line where you could call and receive golf tips from around a hundred PGA members that were attending the Tommy Armour Teaching and Coaching and Summit in New Orleans that year. The line was active but for about a week until the board received a massive bill for all the toll free calls made that week. No one wanted to pay the bill and it remained in dispute for years. Now the message you hear is my uncle testing the line when it was initially set up. At the time you had to record numerous prompts so you can direct the callers what numbers to press. Upon filling the dispute, the phone company removed all the prompts and deactivated the numbers you can press and it defaulted to his initial test recording. now the funny part. My Uncle originally lived in Canada, his credit and address was based in Canada and he was the one that volunteered to apply for the account. After the bill was disputed we realized that if you called the number on certain regions in Canada, you would hear him counting and if you didn’t hang up you’d hear a screech that was actually the original recording being rewound. The phone company on paper deemed the number out of service and paid no attention to the voicemail millions of people heard. Prior to the summit the PGA board talked numerous outlets in both Canada and the states to print the number for free as an upcoming promotion and that’s why the number was posted in many papers and even on some billboards. in 1996 people caught on about this and rumors began to spread. Many college newspapers printed the number in ominous looking adverts as pranks and it went on for several years until the number was sold to a bulk dialer that was previously a bulk 976 erotic for pay number. My Uncles name was Basem, there was nothing ominous about the number, it was an ongoing topic in our family for years and then forgotten about until someone sent me the link to this.”
Awesome
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Actually I knew your uncle in 97, sorry but he's Indian someone has been lying in the family... Dost.
this comment should be pinned.
Seems legit.
There used to be so many fun pre recorded lines you could call. I don’t remember the name, but there was one for giving giving out as a wrong number if you didn’t want to give your real one to someone, and there was also one to give people that would tell them they had bad breath 😂 Those were from like 2007-2010 though, not the 90s.
I just found your channel today and I have watched every single of your videos, wish there was more but its the best quality I have ever seen. Definitely was surprised that your videos were so interesting because I didnt see most of those topics in any other channel that I have watched. Very original.
As a kid, I remember calling a "Santa Claus" hotline at christmas time. It was a flat rate call, where you got a new message from Santa each day leading up to Christmas. My parents let me call, and I remember staying on the line after the message ended for a few minutes. The line started beeping loudly, and then creepy recorded voices came on screaming "hang up the phone, hang up the phone!..." . They wanted to scare kids off the line, even if they put the phone down to free up the number for another caller.
Creepy
o
Come for Santa, stay for Robot Santa
I remember santabot. Just a chatbot that talks to you as santa! He would somehow learn and change how he spoke, so there was a controversy where if you asked "Do you like pizza?" he'd say "Yes! I love eating pussy!". Very strange times
@@Xvladin LMAO
"Siren" at the end was common from landline companies, once the call content was terminated. As it was a free phone number, the termination comes from the server side. The scream/beep/siren is to awake/alert "you've left the phone off the hook" which would prevent you from receiving other calls and which ties up exchange capacity. Really not a surprise
This sound was especially loud, probably so that you could hear it from relatively far away since you may have set the receiver down wrong, missing the buttons that actually disconnected you from the system, and wandered off. (Sorry if that sounded confusing. I didn’t realize how alien an old telephone might be to some readers until I had already started this.)
This automatic off-hook sound was actually an improvement. In the olden times, when there was a human operator making the connection between the two callers, some poor lady (operators were almost always female - my mother was one in fact) had to scream as loud as she could “Hey, you left your phone off the hook! HANG UP YOUR PHONE!”
Jody Owen Knowing my Mom, she probably didn’t miss a thing. Though she likely only shared the best stuff with her friends, so yeah, relatively discrete :-)
I was only a kid, actually, so I wasn’t involved in the phone-company-employee surveillance. We did, however, have a party-line for much of my childhood. This was an occasional source of entertainment, but was usually pretty boring. Of course, it became more significant the day I cut the end of my thumb off and the neighbors wouldn’t get off the line so we could call an ambulance. But we kept pressure on it and by the time the line was free, most of the bleeding had stopped. A few stitches and I was good as new.
@@gitcheljr The Phone Cops! th-cam.com/video/cTPzTG1Lx60/w-d-xo.html Funny how Johnny was right. Just cuz you're paranoid _doesn't_ mean they're not out to get you , and in 2019 we know they are.
I love learning new things. I had never heard of this. Awesome! Thank you 🙏
Your videos are very pleasant to watch. Keep making this great content
Much like how all roads lead to Rome, all defunct phone numbers lead to porn.
I hope you know I'm good guy greg
Are you requesting Roman porn?
Oddly defunct porn websites lead to pages of ads. Though maybe those ads are for other porn.
There's a NES game and it's the same story
Robert Sides pi
“...the theater has been torn down and been replaced with a Tim Hortons”.
If that ain’t Canada 🇨🇦
tim's is only 4th on the ranking of places canadians like to get coffee, lagging far behind mcdonald's
@@lepidotos have you ever been to Canada
@@thisgamerguy3414 once or twice, and in any case the internet exists so if someone were to, say, run a poll and publish the results online...
I was thinking the same thing it had to be at Tim Hortons it was Canada after all.
Before Burger King bought Tims everyone bought their coffee from there
“let’s listen to his imitation” *ONLYFANS AD PLAYS*
Threw yourself under the bus. Targeted ads
I definitely think the last theory is more plausible. As it is, when you answer spam numbers nowadays, you'll end up with even more phonecalls so it'd make sense that before the age of random generated phone number algorithms, they'd come up with something more sneaky.
In 2007 when I was in middle school, we used to call 1-800-papertowels and every time we asked if they sold paper towels they’d hang up on us.
A Bee Lmao
Is your refrigerator running? You Better Catch It!
That number is too long tho
water bear idk what to tell you, every time we dialed it somebody picked up
A Bee yeah it’s a real number, I called it sometime in the early to mid 2000s also. I just called it and they’re out of business
“Let’s listen to his impersonation”
ad: *french colgate ad plays*
😊😄😂🤣😅😄😀
@@kingofmemes5147
that's hilarious!! 🤣
mike starr The emoji,s?
I don't have ads cause I have TH-cam Vanced. (:
@@illestvillain1971 ok
Your theories are always so good!!
This is definitely your best video. I think the creep factor is increased because its something from the 90s, a time we all look back on as a warm, fuzzy time when were were children/toddlers.
Thanks for the warning. I won’t watch any more of his videos. This is... the best?
“The numbers, Mason! What do they mean?”
Only true gamers will get this reference.
@@jackkoscak8501 "Castro, we went in to kill Castro"
LMFAO
Resnov... Where’s resnov?
My Name is Viktorv Resnov!
Clearly this was Tyler the creator time traveling to market golf brand
lolo27234 lol
Lmao
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golf wang
Wow, I remember seeing/hearing ads for this back in the day. I would always think, who the hell needs golf advice on the phone?
Sounds like if chills didn’t talk like a valley girl
On point. Only reason why I won't watch his videos. Well made, but the valley girl thing, ugh
@@go-go3319 he cant control his voice.
@@win_ini haha, yes he could. How do you think actors can pull off accents for different roles??
I hope you know you're now forever trapped putting out content with this frequency and quality.
If you’ll watch I’m game
@@BarelySociable mate, you're one of the few people I'll watch on mobile data as soon as a new video is released
His content really is special. From the delivery, voice and the visuals, he nails it every time. I just hope he doesn't start making top ten videos of over saturated content and rehashed videos!
Not many ppl understand what you’re saying lol
@@mustbemeech 1k likes disagree.
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It became the reason our dismissal was evident. Mark my words. [[SibseDraft8ight.oo977]]
Ha!
Anthony Nicholson what?
You really got me enthralled!
Man, I was thinking about this vid for a bit! Finally found it and read the explanation about it.
I guess it seemed to be weirder/creepier than it really was just because no one knew why it made those noises. It’s also interesting to know that at one point it did give out golf tips but it wasn’t well-known until it went defunct.
“1800 GOLFTIP” sounds like the name of an Odd Future mixtape.
When I saw 1 800 GOLFTIP I Immediately thought of Golf Wang and Odd Future lmao
Or scp
@@monke6912 no just OF
Just The Tip
It would have to be an EP, because it’s just the tip
In the 1990s, somewhere in Jordan, my dad and his friends knew this mysterious phone number that you would call via payphone and would just repeat what you said in a deeper voice.
Lol 😭
Holy shit.
Creeeeepy
was it a different guy or just the callers voice deepened
Creepy!
Barely Sociable, you’re ridiculously intelligent & talented. Good shit, man.
I grew up in the late 80s, and 90s. I never heard of this
And now you’re old
Hehe just kidding
Same
Me neither. I do remember the "1-800-call-att" ads, and the one before that that was marketed heavily but didn't have enough digits to be a legit phone number.
@@aleksandram981 😲😲😲😲
*When you're a 2000's kid*
my man
Yep.
Yep
@@Manster-gy9ly Oj
All above are virgins, 90's kids are the Go.
you're a big fan of that rotating DARK NET vector rock stock footage huh
lol
Somebody say my name?
Vect0r85 r/beetlejuicing?
I think its the logo for ethyrium (a cryptocurrency) used on the dark web along with bitcoin
*NICE*
I remember in the mid-to late 80's (don't know if it works now), that if you dialed from say, your phone in the kitchen 450-and then your last 4 #'s of your land lined own phone #, that it would ring the other phone/phones in the house and you could talk like a walkie talkie. Strange I know. A phone tech showed me that trick as a kid.
Nice
I remember that too
I would use this to derail the girl I slept with the night before.
I would call my #,pretend it was work,and tell her I got called in to work and had to leave.
Worked every time!!!!!!
The movie, Mercury Rising, was based on this phone number and it's reason of existence. The guy with the Uncle Sam Lutfi, yes, you'll see this name in the movie.
“But now it’s owned by a erotic hotline”
Me pick up phone: I’m just gonna check my missed calls real quick...
Punk Rock Vixen 🤣
Sir Toastly lol
Sir Toastly F in the chat bois
Jake Gold F
*calls number*
*sitar music*
"I LUB U BBY JIRL PLS GET NEKID"
It’s home to an erotic hotline now?
And it’s called Golf Tip?
Oh boy.
Killer Queen has already touched this TH-cam comment
You gonna get the hands Kira?
oh boy indeed
why oh boy? wtf is erotic about golftip
XPCreeper ppl can use it without getting caught lol, maybe people who golf.
I used to call it in 1993. It was looped. I never heard any scream or siren at the end. It might have been the loud phone-off-the-hook noise.
We had a landline phone in the 90s and we kept playing it as kids. I still remember talking to strangers on a "crossline" and "partyline" traffic. Fortunately all the conversations I had with adults were wholesome and I never came across weirdos.
There was also a phone number back then and they said it led to a haunted house or a nonexistent place inhabited by ghosts. At daytime it doesn't work it comes off with a Busy tone or Not In Service tone but if you call starting around 12 midnight a ghostly voice answers and some say if you linger long enough it will mention the address were you live. They said it works and some ghostly voice answers the phone. I dialed it in the afternoon instead. The first tries was a busy tone as expected the last try I just heard someone picked up the phone but did not say anything seems like waiting for me to say Hello first and all I can hear was this old time music in the background. I immediately put the phone down and never called again.
BRO I WORK AT THAT TIM HORTONS IN ST CATHARINES THIS IS EPIC
say hi to the Hudson family for me. Its that building with the big Giraffe on it
Can I grab a donut?
Nobody cares
@@bearpodspro4132 go ahead
@@romeocano1919 ok boomer
“Let’s take a listen to his impersonation”
(Ad plays) Do you have a nicotine addiction
epic
I got an over the top, hammy-sounding Hardee's biscuit ad.
I got a mobile game ad
@Oudens
RAID SHADOW LEGENDS-
Yes lol
Love that you used bloody tears as the outro lol
"I advise against calling"
"It's home to an erotic hotline"
So why're you advising against it? Sounds like a good time to me.
"Let's listen to his impersonation"
Ad: *WELCOME TO SWORDS AND LEGENDS*
Peasants
Time stamp?
CodeBlox 4:55
C D E F E H I JK LMNOP Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Lol
What's with the image of a computer generated 3 dimension rock?
He's trying to make it more interesting than it really is.
Dan -n- Duke I think it’s supposed to be a Glacier, you can see there are some layers to it. It represents how deep the internet is, how you can only see the tip of the glacier all the time and don’t expect how big it is down there.
Visual Aids
Nut salad
Yeah its how ppl "rappresent" surface-deep web and various layers
Sounds like an over-the-phone version of a numbers station with the "scream" being a dialup data stream component for early computers that could get online.
so odd to watch this randomly this morning and to see a street 5 mins away from you, not much happens in st. catharines. this is cool
“Uh hello hello?”
WOOD MINER lmao
"Ummm I wanted to record a message for you"
LOL
"..to help you get settled in on your first night."
"Um I actually worked In that office before you."
There's probably some guy out there who recorded it on his portable cassette recorder as a teenager and he's like "damn" because he can't find the tape.
There was literally a comment from a guy who said he has it on a cassette tape lmao
@@melozanob alright so there's thousands of comments here and you expect me to know all of them word for word?
@@cherrypepsi2815 its pinned to the top if you wanna see it...
@@BunnyBear04534 OP never delivered
@@BunnyBear04534 it was pinned after I made the comment.
Never even heard of it. But I agree with your idea on the marketing tactic, or a combo marketing/social experiment tactic, to not only gather numbers to sell later, but to see how fast word of mouth actually can be. Also, the demographic of age groups and perhaps whether there were more males or females calling the number. How many times did any given number call vs one-shot callers who couldn't care less about it. Maybe the theater was part of it, since folks likely said the number was on the billboard across from the Bijou/Lincoln theater, thus part of the word of mouth advertising.
This is a cool channel. I subbed
I'm in Canada, and I remember the guy counting! I was about 12, and that was in 1993! What a throw back.
Was it scary?
the 90's called, they want their phone number back
HOw did they call with out the phone number?!?!?
@@diamond_3716 O: MYSTERY
All I'm thinking about is regular show
s saaame
Yeah well the jerk store called, and they’re running out of YOU
About half way through your video I guessed phone number farming and that turns out to be your best guess as well.
There is an alternative hypothesis. Espionage. There used to be radio broadcasts that were just a list of numbers and were used to secretly communicate encrypted messages to spies without leaving traces. This could be a similar thing, and the pauses could be significant for the decryption.
Although it does beg the question of why it was advertised on a billboard. Perhaps counter espionage or to intentionally make lots of people use it, so that individual spies couldn't be identified.
Let’s take a look at his impersonation
*ARBYS WE HaVE THE* _MEATS_
Good thing we bigfoots didn't even start using phones until like 15 years ago
You comment on like every single video I watch. I cannot tell if we just have exactly the same interest. Or there are multiple accounts with this name.
Noah Johnson
It’s a bigfoot, always hiding in plain sight. Just now, we’re beginning to notice
@@noahjohnson4211 Nah, I'm the only one of me. I've just currently got a lot of free time to comment 'everywhere'
I just saw you somewhere else too...
@D Zuke joe momma
its probably just counting swings before he hits a golf ball than makes a goal
Watch it actually be a giant troll and he/ she is just sitting the, nearly 30 years later, watching this video with a little chuckle.
Barely Sociable: Don't call this number because it's a sex line now
Me: Don't threaten me with a good time
gg
I don't know how these videos are so good. My standards are thrown out the window watching these.
This is worded in such a way that it’s sounds weirdly insulting but it’s not haha.
@@ElysetheEevee haha sorry im not the best at wording things
The editing is on point, the audio quality is fantastic, and he is one of the few narration based channels where the narrator actually has a voice that’s pleasing to listen to, and actually knows how to read properly.
@@woottastic You mean the same background graphics he probably bought somewhere or got royalty free is good editing?
now that you have lowered ur standards please call the number and get it in
This number went from 1 800 GOLF-TIP to 1 800 JUST-THE-TIP
I found this after two minutes of googling-
I can explain to you exactly what this was all about. Around 1995 my uncle who is Lebanese(not Indian) worked/volunteer for the PGA. At that time members of the PGA decided to pay for a hot line where you could call and receive golf tips from around a hundred PGA members that were attending the Tommy Armour Teaching and Coaching and Summit in New Orleans that year. The line was active but for about a week until the board received a massive bill for all the toll free calls made that week. No one wanted to pay the bill and it remained in dispute for years. Now the message you hear is my uncle testing the line when it was initially set up. At the time you had to record numerous prompts so you can direct the callers what numbers to press. Upon filling the dispute, the phone company removed all the prompts and deactivated the numbers you can press and it defaulted to his initial test recording. now the funny part. My Uncle originally lived in Canada, his credit and address was based in Canada and he was the one that volunteered to apply for the account. After the bill was disputed we realized that if you called the number on certain regions in Canada, you would hear him counting and if you didn’t hang up you’d hear a screech that was actually the original recording being rewound. The phone company on paper deemed the number out of service and paid no attention to the voicemail millions of people heard. Prior to the summit the PGA board talked numerous outlets in both Canada and the states to print the number for free as an upcoming promotion and that’s why the number was posted in many papers and even on some billboards. in 1996 people caught on about this and rumors began to spread. Many college newspapers printed the number in ominous looking adverts as pranks and it went on for several years until the number was sold to a bulk dialer that was previously a bulk 976 erotic for pay number. My Uncles name was Basem, there was nothing ominous about the number, it was an ongoing topic in our family for years and then forgotten about.
Claims someone called Sam Lutfi
-Don't call the number.
Me: *grabs phone*
Also me: Ok Boomer
It's just a recording of a test for the line when it was a line for golfing tips
It's a person's uncle I believe testing it and the large screech at the end is the record being rewound
2294300002 is the exact test message.
@@lucaskoring4500 why respond to this comment make ur own lol
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"The call is coming from inside the 90's!!!"
This video gives you a feeling of "Deja Vu"
When a Stranger Calls reference. Nice!
Rice Worker i have been to this place before
@@woottastic Higher on the streets
I graduated high school in '95, and I don't remember this. At all. But I *do* remember the paper-clip-in-the-tiny-hole-of-the-pay-phone-and-mouthpiece-to-get-a-free-call trick. I also remember you could dial 958 and the last 4 digits of the phone you were on, wait for the dial tone, hang up, and scare the shit out of yourself and your friends when it rang.