Update: The recording was Found in a recording from an audio engineer in 2014! th-cam.com/video/r7miXlC0C_s/w-d-xo.html Update 2: Pretty much solved. Here’s a full reddit thread www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/egk7dc/1800golftip_updates_at_the_end_of_2019/?
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" 😰
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.
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.
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..?
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.
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!)
@@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.
"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.
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.
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.
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
“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. 🤣
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
“Remember to like, comment and smash that subscribe button!” Oh wait, you said none of those things but provided a pretty interesting video with quite a bit of effort put into it. Liked, commented and subscribed.
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.”
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).
"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 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.
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!
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.
spoiler: unless you lived in a very specific part of canada in the 90's (and by specific i mean a tiny town ive never heard of in my life) this will mean nothing to you.
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.
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.
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 🤍🤍
Do you remember the phone lines used for movies? The movie would have a phone number associated with it and you would call and here a recorded message from the movie for marketing, maybe this was one of those
I was actually thinking that. Possibly a horror movie, exclusive to Canada OR with the most marketing there? I mean, it’s logical with the counting and jump scare elements.
I found this other comment saying it was and i.t. doing call test counting to 10 and the screech was the tape being rewound. idk its correct tho so dont quote me
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.
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.
The "Loud Scream" or "Synthetic Siren" at 2:53 is what was called the "No-such-number Tone" from Bell Telephone. Phone fanatics and phreaker called it the "Cry Baby" tone. This was often heard when you would start to dial a number and not complete it in a certain amount of Time. I believe this tone appeared after the voice in an effort to either automatically disconnect the call, OR it signaled a failed attempt at forwarding to an extension after the male voice.
Yup, in the UK British Telecoms had a 3 sequence high pitched beeping tone, with a female voice that said 'The number you have dialled has not been recognized. Please hang up and try again'. I'm pretty sure the noises were so loud in order for someone to overhear it from a distance, say if their kid had been randomly punching numbers into the phone and leaving it off the hook or something.
@@victorymansions It could also be to ensure a good strong signal since the tones were often intended to be machine readable. That is to say they existed to tell computerised devices why placing the call failed. By that point you already had devices like computers and fax machines able to communicate with some amount of autonomy so it was useful for the network to provide machine readable error tones to allow them to decide how to proceed eg queue the task for later if it gets a busy tone or report to the operator if the number is not valid for example.
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.
I'm just curious if there is anything else in the recording after the scream/siren... Perhaps there was a message after the scream/siren which most of the people didn't even bother to listen to after, probably, having a fright from the noise...
It's actually been thought that that sound is actually the noise landlines make after being off the hook too long, which is what I thought upon hearing that. The number would hang up on you, the pause after being disconnected, then the sound. It's apparently called a 'howler', but I just called it "that annoying noise". I'm 21 but I grew-up with landline phones, so I'm familiar with that sound. Obviously I'm not sure if you know what I'm talking about, but if you Google it you'll probably find it and most likely recognize it. Edit: I found this article which has a very likely-sounding explanation, including the noise. www.payphone-project.com/my-take-on-the-1-800-golf-tip-mystery.html
@@456puff I myself have used a landline too, and just out of curiosity I have kept the receiver off the hook quite long to explore what happens (as a kid) and I distinctly remember that at the 5 minute mark the constant ring switches off for the next 15 minutes and then the phone is classified as dead for the next half hour.
@@456puff Here in the United States, if you left the phone off the hook for too long it would just go to the 'busy signal'. Im not sure what noise would play in Canada, but Im assuming it was the same tone or similar to it.
@@456puff Maybe. But these kids in the 90s would be very familiar with the busy signal. Maybe it's just that the joke would be the busy signal would come after a long pause (a pause before disconnecting), and they were waiting to hear something and then *Blam* *Blam* *Blam* *Blam*. It could work as a jumps care. But even if that was the case, these redditors and such would say it was the busy signal, and not just some crazy siren. I think it might be something on the telemarketer's end, probably unintentional, but connected with their systems, that broadcast a loud, unknown noise after the recording finished. I know it's sketchy, but contacting PrimeTel/Mayfair and asking about their purchase might lead to some results. This is all free publicity for their erotic chat line forwarding business.
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....
10:12 The "siren" heard on the calls was probably an off-hook siren. Some older telco switching equipment used a siren sound called a howler tone to alert the user of an off-hook condition, instead of the more common tone used today
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.
okay WOAH! I’ve never heard of this GOLF-TIP number before until watching this video. I got to the part in the video where the guy recreates the audio from the phone and after that, there’s an explanation on what the billboard looked like. I swear to god, my jaw dropped. That same billboard, with the green grass, big yellow lettering, and golf ball is buried so deep in my memory. Every time as a child we would go annually to camp at West Hawk lake here in Canada in the summer, we would pass by that same exact billboard. I remember being so intrigued by it because i didn’t get what it was advertising. I’m gonna try and look for a picture RIGHT NOW because i believe it’s still up. Holy shit I’m shaking Edit: I forgot to mention that West Hawk lake is right on the Manitoba side of the Manitoba/Ontario border. I live in Winnipeg so somewhere along the way, that billboard should stand
@Space Ziggy thank you!! Ive been looking at the route we would take to camp on google maps to see if i can see it on the detailed viee but no luck yet. My mind is still so blown
@@tylergarza8695 actually the one i remember was basically in the middle of no where on the side of a highway! I think there have been multiple signs up
and somebody ran out of money/died/won the lottery/lost interest/was lazy/etc. Most likely ran out of money, but never discount lazy. Lazy explains much of human history, as we all want someone else to do it for us.
@@300Z31 I would have used something like testing. Testing, check 123 test. But Canadian _Indian_ (from India) C store owners who think they speak perfect English, that's another subject entirely. Hell I have a hard enuff time understanding them on customer support lines. Tank u berry much for calling. My Name is ZAthtwaher--BILL. BILL BATHWATER. How can I heelp you, Eh?
I could have done it, but I'm from the UK so.. yeah. I DID get into trouble for calling adult hotlines though LMAO..... I can't have been much more than 13 or something. fuckin whoops.
I'm an older millennial who was also an early adopter of the Internet and everything tech, and was in high school in the mid-late 90s. I'd literally never heard of this number, ever, until this video came out.
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.
The "siren" at the end was probably just the caller's local telephone exchange's off hook tone. If you call an 800 on a landline and they hang up on you, you will get that tone after about 30 seconds on some systems.
I agree this isn't a mystery at all. Guy bought the number was going to do something with it and for reasons unknown never did. Thanks for wasting my brain matter.
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.
Just found your video in 2020. Working in the telecom sector I can confirm it was a number sponge. Their caller ID needed between 4 to 10 seconds to verify the number and they knew people generally listen to the number string out of curiosity. They amassed over 20 million unique numbers that were later sold as a package tier program. Other tiers of the packages that could be bought could also include names and addresses associated with the number. There was cross-referencing with the LexisNexis service.
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
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
In the 70's, there were two local phone numbers that I had. One would be a tone that would sweep from a low to a high frequency. The other would count from 1 to 10 over and over. They would both last about 2 minutes before giving you the loud phone-off-the-hook screech. The counting voice was definitely American without trace of accent. There were pauses between each number. I had gotten them from a telephone guy. They were used for a phone line quality check. These were mainly used for radio stations that paid for a higher quality line, but could be used to check the quality or noise levels on normal POTS lines. The sweep tone was used for a frequency level check. The counting guy was used to check on voice clarity. There was enough of a pause that you could do a signal to background noise measurement even with an old analog audio voltmeter. I have no idea why someone with an accent would redo the counting number, nor do I know why they would publish a 1-800 version on a billboard.
@CakeCherryBlossom Not this one. Nothing so cool. This was the 1970's. It was just a low frequency to a high frequency sweep that would restart back at the low frequency.
I remember that! A friend of mine got that number and between being silly teenage girls and potheads it was all we needed to call that number and get all freaked out about!🤣🤣🤣
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.
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!!!!!!
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
My daughter's two bunnies got out of their hutch. I caught one and found the other other one but I cant catch it. Tried everything. Then it ran into the garage where I cant see it. gotta stay up and defend it from coyotes, saw two big ones earlier. The rabbit is all white and born in captivity. It wouldnt stand a chance
@stfu I'm sleeping No worries I saw an opportunity to be one of those annoying people on the internet who correct others grammar or spelling mistakes and I just had to do it once. Your just the unfortunate soul I found first....
Update:
The recording was Found in a recording from an audio engineer in 2014!
th-cam.com/video/r7miXlC0C_s/w-d-xo.html
Update 2: Pretty much solved.
Here’s a full reddit thread
www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/egk7dc/1800golftip_updates_at_the_end_of_2019/?
FIRST REPLY *stupid giggle noises*
wat
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 😂
Add a public comment...
'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
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...
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
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
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.
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
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
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?
"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.
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
"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.
"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
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
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.
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*
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
“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...
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
“Remember to like, comment and smash that subscribe button!” Oh wait, you said none of those things but provided a pretty interesting video with quite a bit of effort put into it. Liked, commented and subscribed.
Yes love the gesture of creators making quality content being humbled and keeping it for the end lol everyone else pushes you n shiiiit
But did you smash the button or press it gently?
cms1999 I thought you typed “wash that subscribe button”
copypasta of the year
800th like let's go!!!!
“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 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
@AdolfHitler-wo1myth-cam.com/video/1g9DtUrrHgE/w-d-xo.html
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.
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 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
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,"
"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 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.
“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
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.
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
"This call is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends."
Your profile pic goes very well with your comment
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
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!
“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
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.
The frequency of these videos coupled with the quality puts you up notches above so many channels. Just keep doing what you're doing!
th3highwayman mr piiiiiiink
@@overseas4228 mista pink
spoiler: unless you lived in a very specific part of canada in the 90's (and by specific i mean a tiny town ive never heard of in my life) this will mean nothing to you.
St Catharines is about 130,000 people. It's in-between Niagara Falls & Hamilton, about 65 miles from Toronto. I've been there several times
Thanks for that. Now I don't feel strange about wondering what the fuck this was about.
*lives in specific town* born a little to late to remember this
ok
nobby styles i was your 420 like 😌
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?
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
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 look at his impersonation
*ARBYS WE HaVE THE* _MEATS_
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
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.
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.
Clearly this was Tyler the creator time traveling to market golf brand
lolo27234 lol
Lmao
GOLFTIP - Newest Album by Tyler The Creator
Stream on Spotify and Apple Music today!
lolo27234 yes please
golf wang
“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
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 🤍🤍
Do you remember the phone lines used for movies? The movie would have a phone number associated with it and you would call and here a recorded message from the movie for marketing, maybe this was one of those
I think the Ghostbusters had one, cool stuff really
I was actually thinking that. Possibly a horror movie, exclusive to Canada OR with the most marketing there? I mean, it’s logical with the counting and jump scare elements.
I found this other comment saying it was and i.t. doing call test counting to 10 and the screech was the tape being rewound. idk its correct tho so dont quote me
Freddie Kruger had one
Or the POPCORN # for the time here in cali
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
"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
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.
“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"
"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
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
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.
“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."
The "Loud Scream" or "Synthetic Siren" at 2:53 is what was called the "No-such-number Tone" from Bell Telephone. Phone fanatics and phreaker called it the "Cry Baby" tone. This was often heard when you would start to dial a number and not complete it in a certain amount of Time. I believe this tone appeared after the voice in an effort to either automatically disconnect the call, OR it signaled a failed attempt at forwarding to an extension after the male voice.
this should be higher!
Phreaker.... how long has it been since I remembered that part of my younger life. Too long.
You forgot to mention that it was freakin scary too, especially if you were a kid in the 80s.
Cheers.
Yup, in the UK British Telecoms had a 3 sequence high pitched beeping tone, with a female voice that said 'The number you have dialled has not been recognized. Please hang up and try again'. I'm pretty sure the noises were so loud in order for someone to overhear it from a distance, say if their kid had been randomly punching numbers into the phone and leaving it off the hook or something.
@@victorymansions It could also be to ensure a good strong signal since the tones were often intended to be machine readable. That is to say they existed to tell computerised devices why placing the call failed. By that point you already had devices like computers and fax machines able to communicate with some amount of autonomy so it was useful for the network to provide machine readable error tones to allow them to decide how to proceed eg queue the task for later if it gets a busy tone or report to the operator if the number is not valid for example.
“An erotic number”
*calls number*
Me: hello?
High pitched voice: Hi welcome to chili’s
Pete's Pizzeria and abortion clinic, where yesterdays loss is todays sauce. Get a large plane pizza for 911.
Edwood no doubt best reply ive ever heard xD
Confession, I’ve never been to a chili’s
Teenz
Cool
Green Rainbow me neither i just remembered the video in that instant lol
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? 😂
Barely Sociable: Don't call this number because it's a sex line now
Me: Don't threaten me with a good time
gg
“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
I'm just curious if there is anything else in the recording after the scream/siren... Perhaps there was a message after the scream/siren which most of the people didn't even bother to listen to after, probably, having a fright from the noise...
It's actually been thought that that sound is actually the noise landlines make after being off the hook too long, which is what I thought upon hearing that. The number would hang up on you, the pause after being disconnected, then the sound. It's apparently called a 'howler', but I just called it "that annoying noise". I'm 21 but I grew-up with landline phones, so I'm familiar with that sound. Obviously I'm not sure if you know what I'm talking about, but if you Google it you'll probably find it and most likely recognize it.
Edit: I found this article which has a very likely-sounding explanation, including the noise. www.payphone-project.com/my-take-on-the-1-800-golf-tip-mystery.html
@@456puff I myself have used a landline too, and just out of curiosity I have kept the receiver off the hook quite long to explore what happens (as a kid) and I distinctly remember that at the 5 minute mark the constant ring switches off for the next 15 minutes and then the phone is classified as dead for the next half hour.
@@456puff Here in the United States, if you left the phone off the hook for too long it would just go to the 'busy signal'. Im not sure what noise would play in Canada, but Im assuming it was the same tone or similar to it.
@@ganjaman407 Right, busy signal. I forgot what it was called. Thanks, lol.
@@456puff Maybe. But these kids in the 90s would be very familiar with the busy signal. Maybe it's just that the joke would be the busy signal would come after a long pause (a pause before disconnecting), and they were waiting to hear something and then *Blam* *Blam* *Blam* *Blam*. It could work as a jumps care. But even if that was the case, these redditors and such would say it was the busy signal, and not just some crazy siren. I think it might be something on the telemarketer's end, probably unintentional, but connected with their systems, that broadcast a loud, unknown noise after the recording finished.
I know it's sketchy, but contacting PrimeTel/Mayfair and asking about their purchase might lead to some results. This is all free publicity for their erotic chat line forwarding business.
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
*When you're a 2000's kid*
my man
Yep.
Yep
@@Manster-gy9ly Oj
All above are virgins, 90's kids are the Go.
The crystal thing is so confusing
It's the surface web - deep weeb iceberg
It's Neal Breen's cancer curing stone
Banana The Cat I wanna shove it up my ass lowkey
@@iwannadie7229 same, lets make it a girlsnight
@@pussyboi-lj2nc wait your turns, it's currently in my ass as I type this.
“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!
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....
When it's almost 1 am (here anyways) and you're like.. "Well, time for bed". But then Barely Sociable slaps you back awake for another sick video.
10:12 The "siren" heard on the calls was probably an off-hook siren. Some older telco switching equipment used a siren sound called a howler tone to alert the user of an off-hook condition, instead of the more common tone used today
I was thinking the same thing.
“...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
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.
The Count needed a side hustle when Sesame Street's economy took a down turn
One ah ah ah two ah ah ah three ah ah ah
Best comment!
It became the reason our dismissal was evident. Mark my words. [[SibseDraft8ight.oo977]]
Ha!
Anthony Nicholson what?
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
okay WOAH! I’ve never heard of this GOLF-TIP number before until watching this video. I got to the part in the video where the guy recreates the audio from the phone and after that, there’s an explanation on what the billboard looked like. I swear to god, my jaw dropped. That same billboard, with the green grass, big yellow lettering, and golf ball is buried so deep in my memory. Every time as a child we would go annually to camp at West Hawk lake here in Canada in the summer, we would pass by that same exact billboard. I remember being so intrigued by it because i didn’t get what it was advertising. I’m gonna try and look for a picture RIGHT NOW because i believe it’s still up. Holy shit I’m shaking
Edit: I forgot to mention that West Hawk lake is right on the Manitoba side of the Manitoba/Ontario border. I live in Winnipeg so somewhere along the way, that billboard should stand
@Space Ziggy thank you!! Ive been looking at the route we would take to camp on google maps to see if i can see it on the detailed viee but no luck yet. My mind is still so blown
He showed the same billboard in the video, I'm not sure it's still up.
@@tylergarza8695 actually the one i remember was basically in the middle of no where on the side of a highway! I think there have been multiple signs up
@@rhiannonclarke6894 oh well that's neat. but that'd be a 20 somthing year old billboard if this is true
@@rhiannonclarke6894 you got a pic?
Subliminal hypnotization. Anyone who listened to that call and then hears the "code" again will be really good at golf
Occam's razor--it _was_ going to be a "golf tip" line and that was just a test recording.
How has this not gotten more upvotes? Sigh. Great use of logical skepticism.
@@300Z31 Thank you. Though I am skeptical about everything, nobody ever calls me logical.
and somebody ran out of money/died/won the lottery/lost interest/was lazy/etc. Most likely ran out of money, but never discount lazy. Lazy explains much of human history, as we all want someone else to do it for us.
@@300Z31 I would have used something like testing. Testing, check 123 test. But Canadian _Indian_ (from India) C store owners who think they speak perfect English, that's another subject entirely. Hell I have a hard enuff time understanding them on customer support lines. Tank u berry much for calling. My Name is ZAthtwaher--BILL. BILL BATHWATER. How can I heelp you, Eh?
Case closed. Logical.
I just spent 12 minutes of my life watching someone else's nostalgic moment. :(
Thom Pabol I realized it like 6 minutes in
@@GankTown I guess I'm just getting old :(
I beat both of you, I stopped at 45 seconds and scrolled down here. :D
Don't you take my high school memories for granted!
Michael Nightingale I beat u lol I got here at 30 secs in the video
"If you don't [remember calling 1(800)GOLF-TIP], you're a fraud!"
*Sad gen-z noises*
I wasn't allow to use the phone wihtout permission in 1993 :(
I could have done it, but I'm from the UK so.. yeah. I DID get into trouble for calling adult hotlines though LMAO..... I can't have been much more than 13 or something. fuckin whoops.
I'm an older millennial who was also an early adopter of the Internet and everything tech, and was in high school in the mid-late 90s. I'd literally never heard of this number, ever, until this video came out.
@@soulmata I'm in your same age group and I never heard of it until now either.
Well he did say it was obscure.
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?
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...
@@SpittFiire OP never delivered
@@SpittFiire it was pinned after I made the comment.
The "siren" at the end was probably just the caller's local telephone exchange's off hook tone. If you call an 800 on a landline and they hang up on you, you will get that tone after about 30 seconds on some systems.
guys the guy on the phone was just trying to test the mic. The scream was when he coughed
Ethen Un he yelled to check if the sound worked
I agree this isn't a mystery at all. Guy bought the number was going to do something with it and for reasons unknown never did. Thanks for wasting my brain matter.
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?
Just found your video in 2020. Working in the telecom sector I can confirm it was a number sponge. Their caller ID needed between 4 to 10 seconds to verify the number and they knew people generally listen to the number string out of curiosity. They amassed over 20 million unique numbers that were later sold as a package tier program. Other tiers of the packages that could be bought could also include names and addresses associated with the number. There was cross-referencing with the LexisNexis service.
this should be higher
You can't really confirm anything that's still just an opinion. It's a good one, but there's no confirmation here.
@@EXITLlFE stfu Joey you hater
@@EXITLlFE Yrp. That's pretty much the internet as a whole.
My dad is Superman
-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.
@@MrMorganEnjoyer why respond to this comment make ur own lol
E
im from st. catahrines. so weird hearing my small unknown city in a video like this
Ok Ethan
Rose city what's upppp🤘🤘 haha
Same!
Cant relate, im from new york city
Hi from San Diego 👋🙂
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?
It's all wrong the real mystery number is
Number 15
ARP Plays Burger King foot lettuce
The last thing you want on you burger king burger
Is someone's foot fungus
Burger king foot lettuce
Foot burger lettuce king
Damn, I can't handle another quality upload. Protect me brethren.
Ikr, this guy is great
He's definitely up there with Night Mind and Nexpo.
He protecc, he attacc, but most importantly, he has a knacc (for making good videos)
In the 70's, there were two local phone numbers that I had. One would be a tone that would sweep from a low to a high frequency. The other would count from 1 to 10 over and over. They would both last about 2 minutes before giving you the loud phone-off-the-hook screech. The counting voice was definitely American without trace of accent. There were pauses between each number.
I had gotten them from a telephone guy. They were used for a phone line quality check. These were mainly used for radio stations that paid for a higher quality line, but could be used to check the quality or noise levels on normal POTS lines.
The sweep tone was used for a frequency level check.
The counting guy was used to check on voice clarity. There was enough of a pause that you could do a signal to background noise measurement even with an old analog audio voltmeter.
I have no idea why someone with an accent would redo the counting number, nor do I know why they would publish a 1-800 version on a billboard.
@Steve Aimes I just remembered. 5X4-237-1000. I called it years ago, and it's now a personal number. Don't call it.
This needs more upvotes
@CakeCherryBlossom Not this one. Nothing so cool. This was the 1970's.
It was just a low frequency to a high frequency sweep that would restart back at the low frequency.
Sorrowdusk I love that you said “upvotes “like we’re on reddit. 😭😭
I remember that! A friend of mine got that number and between being silly teenage girls and potheads it was all we needed to call that number and get all freaked out about!🤣🤣🤣
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!!!!!!
Dude you’re gonna be massive, there’s no channels digging as deep and as frequently as you are. Keep mining the vein dude!
It's so refreshing to find a youtube channel that actually takes investigative work seriously and isn't just gullible and in it for the "mystery".
Dear TH-cam algorithm,
You did good kid, you did good.
And then you get 50 more reddit text to speech videos.
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
“Let’s listen to his impersonation” ad: doesn’t play and I don’t know why but feel left out :(
Same
Me too
I wanted to make the same joke.
Mine too, ad fully didn't even play
I didn't get an ad either but I'm glad lol so don't feel too bad
Who else works overnights and is just bored
4am to 4pm lol. Gonna watch this man's whole channel. @Barely Sociable
HispanicAtTheDisco damnnn i leave in 2 hours
@@ryxanp take me with you lol :(
My daughter's two bunnies got out of their hutch. I caught one and found the other other one but I cant catch it. Tried everything. Then it ran into the garage where I cant see it. gotta stay up and defend it from coyotes, saw two big ones earlier. The rabbit is all white and born in captivity. It wouldnt stand a chance
Nick Judson you’re a good man
"This building has been torn down and replaced with a tim hortons"
Me, a Canadian: sounds about right.
*aboot
Me, also a Canadian
How can you call yourself a Canadian and spell Hortons wrong?
@@jakegibson9685 haha sorry I guess it's just how I pronounce it, write it how ya read it.
@stfu I'm sleeping
No worries I saw an opportunity to be one of those annoying people on the internet who correct others grammar or spelling mistakes and I just had to do it once. Your just the unfortunate soul I found first....
@@jakegibson9685 just wait until someone decides to correct your grammar.