@@roxassora2706 I mean it could be. But I highly doubt the people surrounding it would be so hostile and secretive if it wasn't shady. And laundering would explain why they got so much money from so few donators
The funny thing about some lost or rare media is the fact that if it wasn’t lost or rare to begin with most people probably wouldn’t care about it in the first place for example The Mean Girls DS game or A Day With Spongebob SquarePants.
I know if Toonami: Trapped in Hyperspace wasn't lost, I would still care about it. It's how I got my kink for New Zealander accents (Swayzak) and endo (you going inside TOM in the final stage.)
Yoooo it’s Stan Smith from 20th century era btw the CIA has been disbanded after the Creation of humanity’s government the UNDF in the year 2097 right now it is the year 2437 humanity’s under a galactic civil war against the Insurgency of Confederate Systems
We humans are curious creature, and whenever a mystery is presented, as innocuous as the source may be, we crave to find out everything about it. Sometime it gives you a glimpse of some alternate reality of what could've been, a possibility that might not affect the world in the long run, but different enough to garner your attention to think "what if?"
@@8Kazuja8 that's what Attack of the Giant Vulture was to me. I remember it being so dark and frightening as a kid, and I think I only saw it a few times. Funny enough, that too was lost media for the longest time until I think 2013
Kids usually get scared from normal things and then memories betray you. From several lost media commercials in my country, once found, they’re nowhere as “creepy” as explained
I distinctly recall that 'Cracks" video, from Sesame Street, when I was a kid. I never thought it was scary--- in fact, I loved the idea of the cracks forming into imaginary animals... so much so, that I even asked my Mom if I could put cracks on my bedroom walls if I hit them with a hammer.
@@ginxxxxx lol fuck the law, there's no real reason to keep it secret. also, the middle east has laws they're just shit ones and also a huge chunk of the mid east's problems are because of the US. what.
I really hate that feeling of being the only person who remembers something when you remember it so vividly that there's no way it wasn't real. I had that happen with a board game I remembered from my childhood where I could distinctly remember the art style, some of the art, the green button you pressed to roll an electronic die, etc. Thankfully for the sake of my sanity I managed to find it one day in my house. But none of my 3 siblings remembered it existing, and it made me feel crazy.
Yeah I hate remembering something just vividly enough that you can recall certain stuff but can’t remember the name or anything, it’s made worse when you’re the only one that remembers it. I have that with this weird TV movie that aired on CBBC once around Christmas during my childhood that I frequently trail off trying to recall. It was about a family consisting of a kinda stupid and impulsive mother and her two daughters one being around 5 and the other being older and done with her mothers shit having to secretly live in a shop after their house burns down. I don’t remember the title except that I’m certain it began with an S and was the name of a security guard character in the movie who never smiled and the family were always trying to avoid, I remember there was a scene where the daughter had to do a nativity play at school and because her mother forgot to get her a costume for playing an Angel she ended up giving her a bee costume and she had to bullshit her way out of why she was a bee in the middle of the play and I remember it ended up ripping off Bad Santa as the movies climax was the family finding out the guys the shop hired to play Santa and his elf were thieves and they had to stop them from robbing the place on Christmas Eve
The thing I love about the Clockman and Crackmaster searches is that they were remembered by those who were little kids at the time they saw them and were clearly spooked by those cartoons, so we wound up getting descriptions of the shorts warped by memories of being freaked out by them when they were kids. That way, when we finally found them, they turned out to be so much more mild than our imaginations filled in. Though, the Sally cartoon does look pretty damn freaky, but for different reasons. Hell, some of us found the "Evil Wizard" to be pretty chill and Sally to be a spoiled freaking brat that deserved what she got.
Oh hey I saw the crack master at the gas station earlier, he was trying to fight the store clerk for stopping him from attempting to steal a propane gas bottle.
I always liked the smaller searches, like ones with only a few people. It shows a small group dedication to a search. Also, I think an interesting video would be on wrestling lost media, since there's a bunch of interesting (and tragic) lost media involved with wrestling.
@@joshhale9355 there’s a ton of stuff no one talks about either. Like in 1998, during Halloween Havoc the live feed cut off before the last match, the footage of the last match is found but footage of the live cut off is lost
That's funny you say that. Molly, my wife, usually makes the thumbnails and she adds a ton of detail. I always tell her no one is going to notice, but after reading your comment, I guess I'm wrong.
For some reason I feel that one day with spongebob is scarier than go for a punch, shit feels like some kind of money laundering scheme or other kind of scam and that people can get injured or worse for getting their nose stuck into it, or something.
Definitely agree. Something about it at least makes me uncomfortable. Go for a punch really doesnt sound that out of the norm compared to a lot of older hyper violent anime.
@@De19thKingJulionFun fact about me : I was somewhat in the search of the pink morning cartoon but I gave up when I heard the clock master because The story of Clock master was more mysterious to me so I gave up on the pink morning cartoon but here the pink morning cartoon th-cam.com/video/yspEI8QO2FM/w-d-xo.html
I have a theory for Go For a Punch; While there is still speculation on whether or not it is real, a lot of clues from both the original post and the 'confession' post has made me think that the original poster was playing around BUT their inspo was based on real series. The title 'Go for a Punch' calls to the original title of Gunbuster which original Japanese title is translated to 'Aim for the Top!'. The over the top gore, old animation style also brings to mind 'The Curse of Kazuo Umezu' (which you showed in the video) which had a story about several girls ending up trapped in a haunted house only to be dismembered by the spirit inside as well as their own friend. It's POSSIBLE that Saki Sanobashi was a creation based on a combination of many old school and influential anime series but to seem more 'deep web' the creator pulled out the most familiar aspects of them and used them where they felt it sounded the best.
It genuinely warmed my heart to hear that your wife helps with your videos, providing narration and creating thumbnails (the last point being something I read in another comment).
Thanks. Molly, my wife, makes the thumbnails and I always tell her no one is going to notice all the little details she puts in them. Sounds like I was totally wrong.
I find it absolutely fascinating to hear that pinwheel is such a massively lost show. When I was a kid, pinwheel was broadcast a lot. I mean A LOT. It was always on whenever I was home sick from school. and since my living room TV was constantly tuned to Nickelodeon whenever I was home, I saw a shit ton of pinwheel. I even recorded a whole tape of it once in slp, but I unfortunately later recorded over it for a TV broadcast of back to the Future in sp. So sadly that recording is gone.
I don’t use Reddit, but sometimes I’ll just scroll through Subreddits on my favorite games or shows, like Sims or Pokémon, then an add will come up with like 15 awards. Why tf would you waste awards on ADS??
One thing to remember re: Doctor Who is that the destruction of old episodes was not just the BBC being shortsighted jerks. Per older agreements with the actors' and other talent and behind-the-scenes technician unions, they were limited to a specific number of re-runs of a recorded broadcast, after which they had to get everybody back in to redo the show from scratch. That meant that after the allowed number of reruns was used up, the Beeb really did have a useless brick taking up space from their viewpoint. Fortunately, those agreements were revised and the junking policy was able to be stopped.
I love the search behind the Doctor Who episodes. It’s fascinating seeing the different ways they’re getting their content back. I also feel Saki Sanobashi will lead to nothing. At this point, it made a very fun internet mystery to follow but that’s about it. I’d LOVE to be proven wrong, however.
The Clockman and Cracks were so satisfying to finally see again. I grew up watching Pinwheel in the 80s and I always half remembered it, and it's great to see people working to find and archive things like this.
@@toongamer2810 not that I can recall. I had a big storybook with pictures done in a very similar art style (I think the artist was Czech) and I loved that. I wish I knew where that book was actually.
@@CinnamonGrrlErin1 I just found out about this around a year ago. Clockman is terrifying to me. The way he comes up the stairs and steals the girl, how uncanny the girl looks, and how he comes out of the clock. It made me fear clocks for awhile, not to mention his scary appearance. Also nice Jane profile picture
Even though the OP said he made Saki Sanobashi up, I still respect them for leading 4Chan to search for and eventually recreate something that might not even exist.
Mike, I love your lost media videos, and I'd love to have more videos like this where you tell a more detailed story of a hunt. I especially love those where the media is either found or there's some kind of conclusion to the story, I find them very satisfying!
I remember that "Cracks" short. I'm pretty sure I saw it being played on Sesame Street in Mexico around 1993 - 1995. I completely forgot about it but now I remember having watched it when I was around 4yo.
I always am skeptical of lost media that no one else seems to remember. So Saki Sanobashi is probably fake, and the explanation of why it's fake seems perfectly reasonable. My day with Spongebob also seems fishy to me. Why would anyone allegedly involved be so hostile or unwilling to talk about it? Seems like an unlikely response to such an inquiry. The doctor who episodes intrigue me the most as they were destroyed by the BBC themselves for a show they still make and has a huge cult following. I really hope most of those tapes are one day found!
I'm not sure if it exactly counts as lost media, but I'm really interested in The Most Mysterious Song On the Internet. The full song is apparently found, but nobody knows who made it. Whang has a good series of videos describing the search so far.
Its funny but, I remember seeing the "Cracks" short in the late 90s early 00 when I was growing up in "Plaza Sesamo" which is the Spanish version of "Sesame Street" heck when I fist saw it in one of your videos I was like "Wait a minute, I know this short" and it brought back a lot of fun memories of me watching it when I was a kid. Also, about the missing 93 Doctor Who Episodes, I have a theory that they might be copies here in the Dominican Republic of some of those Doctor Who episodes, probably rotting away in a library of the few channels we had back in the 60s
Hey man! I've been a long time viewer and an interesting idea I've been stewing on for a few days could be a series where viewers submit various lost media that may not be well known enough to warrant a full video. I can think of many things that would be considered lost media but can't seem to get a good search going. Having a series where viewers can submit lost media they're aware of but haven't been given the spotlight seems like a fun way to both bring more attention to lost media as a while and even help the search of said submitted lost media
I have never done or participated in one of this researches, but i bet it feels just like when you loose a small eraser in school in a classroom with white dirty floor... You just stand there... Looking... And hoping you can see it... I miss my eraser...
Do we know the name of the BBC employee that intentionally destroyed all that media? I've been making myself custom t-shirts lately and I'd really like to get one that says SUCKS
@@Bacony_Cakes That makes me hope the guy that invents the time machine was inspired by Doctor Who and uses his inaugural mission to go save those tapes, haha. And get me that employees name for my shirt.
But what if it’s a bootstrap paradox and by going back in time to save the tapes it ends up freaking that guy out and he decides to start wiping them so no more time travellers can come back to steal the tapes?
I spent so long with the search team for Clockman. I remember late nights translating shorts from French into English the week before we found the thing on TH-cam. I definitely think that’s what blew the wiki up. It’s definitely creepy.
There is a mexican tv show called 'El chavo del ocho' (Roughly translate to 'the boy from the 8th'). It's a show about the shennaningans of a 8 year old (played by a man in his 70's) homeless boy who lives in a village. It EXPLODED here in Brazil, wich was still on air until last year, making it stay 49 years on air, non-stop. It's loved by everyone of all ages here, and it's incredibly funny. It's notorious for it's remakes (They had maybe 4, 5 versions of some episodes, sometimes with different characters) and it's lost episodes. It's worth checking it out.
Hito Gata 人 形 means human shape. It's a supposed commercial about the dangers of railway crossings. The text on screen at 0:38 reads "On earth, every two seconds somebody dies". If you search 踏み切りヒトガタ you will find information in Japanese. This is in my wheel house and I can read Japanese so I suppose I should make a video about it.
I think it would be cool if you talked about old Roblox clients sometime. The oldest one we have is from March 2007, and it was literally discovered a few days ago when I’m writing this. Anything from the earlier days is pretty much lost.
Thank you for getting me interested in lost media along with all the other channels who made me aware of the community! I've been involved in finding and archiving obscure musicals even before I really knew how many people were invested in lost media, and now I've joined the effort to revive the partially-found cancelled Broadway musical Rag Dolly!
I think the Cracks secrecy was all a ploy for someone's own entertainment. I definitely believe the anonymous figure who sent the tape and made the contract up was laughing it up, and he probably found the VHS in his basement because his mom recorded hours of Sesame Street or something. Being able to tease the guy who sought after it and start an internet firestorm was probably the best kind of fun, and basically immortalized the lost media search. As for the production mysteries, there have been so many lost episodes of different variety shows (like Sesame Street) at this point that I'm not surprised production was weird and rushed. It could have very well been made by a bunch of nobodies, or the people who have been contacted are just playing it up for some extra hype. All in all, amazing video and awesome searches.
Damn, Cracks went from Lost Media to reverse Lost Media. We HAVE the footage, but we have no idea how or who made it besides knowing it was a sesame street cartoon.
The master tapes for Megadeth's album "Countdown To Extinction" ("The Symphony of Destruction" album) were lost for a couple of decades because when they were recorded Lead Guitarist Marty Friedman labeled all the tape cases in Japanese and everyone forgot. They were only found because Bassist David Ellefson remembered it about 20 years later after Dave Mustaine called him to see if he knew where they were.
A very big part of me wants to create things like these and then bury them, so to speak. Upload screenshots to be found, partial clips, download links... Just for there to be more fun to be had for future sleuths. I suppose that would just be an ARG-lite then, haha.
Been really enjoying your channel. I’m sure you’ve thought about covering the many, many lost films from the silent era, which is a daunting task, but if you’re ever interested, I think 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera would be a really interesting one. Much of it is missing, much of it isn’t, and the regularly seen version today is a mysterious frankenstein version that we still don’t know where it came from.
One time on a forum, we were discussing the once-plethora of cartoons based on live-action shows. They used to be legion, and some of them were fairly out there from the premise of the shows they were based on. So as a joke, I made one up called 'Mary's Major Mysteries', a cartoon based on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' since the MTM family of shows seemed like the only ones not to get an adaptation or some sort of parody. My premise was, Mary and the cast were teen journalism students being driven around in Lou Grant's journalism school-bus-school, searching for 'Scoops', which at least once Lou denounced on the actual show, feeling that 'scoops' was something the Daily Planet got on the old George Reeves show. I even told a story of how Mary's divorce from Grant Tinker tied up the rights as to why it was never rerun or seen again. I think people caught on in three to five days. I now wonder if my details either weren't thorough enough or vague enough so that people filled in the gaps. If 'Go For A Punch' was real, I could see it existing. Thanks for posting this.
Thank goodness for all the fans and obsessive folks who try to keep cool, interesting and weird stuff alive. I wish a high-quality copy (or original) of every single movie, tv show, book, comic, video game, song/album, website, or work of art ever made could survive for all to enjoy for generations to come. Sadly, some things will disappear forever.
Another incredibly high profile and bizarre search is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood We have artwork, commercials, merch, leaked clips, a teaser the public was never meant to see, everything BUT the movie itself
The only lost media that's a true shame that is truly lost is a video I made for TH-cam in 2007 when I was 13 and I deleted it in 08 it was called babushka, man what great content it was such a shame
The Doctor Who lost footage story still makes me mad. I can’t believe some jerk intentionally destroyed the footage. I’m glad they’re finding some but still, what a horrible thing for someone to do.
I am pretty sure the church being a former BBC building was debunked ,which makes the mystery even more interesting because how the hell did the tapes end in that basement in the first place.
I don't know if this would still count as lost media but there was once a Chinese plants vs zombies mmo called pvz online. To sum it up quickly, it had 3 main game modes. A normal mode, adventure mode that's similar to a mobile game called I am mt, and a mine mode where you could send your plants to get items. The game closed in August of 2018 due to "changing business strategies". A while ago, a user on the pvz wiki found the game's code and is currently trying to get it to work so I guess its only partially lost now. Its still interesting none the less
20:00 Don't focus so much on whether it's real or not. Many things have been made real by searching the darkest corners of the mind - things made by neither creation _nor_ discovery. There is a third way to come to know something - that it was true from the beginning, part of the human mind, an integral piece of the phobias we created to protect ourselves before recorded history, before fire, before we had a light to protect us in the dark. Some fears are too randomly specific, and too widespread, to come from anything but real experiences in mankind's past. Tall, pale faces, black eyes, spindly fingers rippling through the air, or a silence behind you that just sounds... corrupt. Some fears were so important to our survival that they may endure forever. Some are so real, and stay with us so well, that it seems like they might be needed again soon. So what's so weird about the mandala effect applying to a bathroom horror anime? Maybe there's something that all of the people who found it in the back of their minds need to learn from it before they can be prepared for the real world, or safe from some very specific danger. Maybe this "memory" came to them a week before they would really need it. The mind works in mysterious ways.
Some thoughts on Cracks: There's obviously some kind of need for secrecy beyond anything legal. Further, we have additional unsettling information such as the woman in all white with a name like "Sky." This, especially given the era it was made in, indicates the possibility of the creators being part of either (a) a cult or (b) a commune, with my money favoring the former. P. Imagination was likely just their front for the sake of interfacing with Children's Television Workshop, and the actual people behind the short are part of some other larger group. Hell....I could be wrong on the cult/commune part, and it could be that the artists were actually part of a government in some form, be it the US government (the "Jimi Hendrix is Morgan Freeman" theory comes to mind, with the CIA's supposed interest in entertainment) or a foreign government (some kind of KGB influence op to gain access to children's programming, and the cell members just stayed in the US post USSR-fall, hence the need for a low profile, and the use of a non-courier dead drop that was undetected on a rural farm?)....huh....that second theory isn't so bad, actually. Regardless of the creators being a cult, an alternative commune, a CIA psy-op or cultural op, or a KGB influence op, or something entirely different, I think one conclusion is clear: someone wanted us to have "Cracks" because they were proud of their work being appreciated even after so many years, but at the same time they are having to make pains to avoid too much getting out about it or its creators. This may be a time when it's best to just let sleeping dogs lie, because people might actually get hurt by digging too deep on this one. The Cold War was a very different time, and the survivors of the Cultural Revolution (or whatever you call the hippy drug craze with LSD etc) and the Cold War probably deserve to be left in peace, regardless of their side or what parts they played....they surely have families by now, and have left all of that life behind them. An additional thought: We *did* more or less have it confirmed that drugs had a part in this short falling into obscurity, I just noticed, so to me, that might be a little extra pointing towards it being made by a drug-friendly psychedelic-using commune. So...that's my two cents. Leave the creators be on this one, as they already did some minor cloak and dagger shit to get the short out to the public...it's wrong to ask more of them.
I'm looking for eras of lost music. UK music especially from early to mid 00s. MSN, AIM song transfers of local bands, mcs, artists etc.. MySpace era and pirate radio sort of timelines. Pirate radio stations in UK are something you'd may enjoy reading about. They're still somewhat in use to this day, but nothing like the 60s and then again in 90s/00s. Rinse FM, Kiss FM, XFM all started as illegal broadcasting systems and were only broadcasted, rarely ever archived because it ended being classed as evidence if caught. Endless amount of hours of music that 95% of which will never be heard again in it's raw original form.
"I found it on the dark web" is the new "my uncle works at Nintendo"
My uncle works at the dark web
@@TheFernandinho my father works for nintendo into the dark web ... lol jk
A Day With SpongeBob Squarepants is surely just a money laundering scheme
i feel the need to make it real. shall animate it maybe
It was a way to make money. Not laundering
@@roxassora2706 I mean it could be. But I highly doubt the people surrounding it would be so hostile and secretive if it wasn't shady. And laundering would explain why they got so much money from so few donators
@@ISPwarrior Dude, it was. The creator said in an interview with another person, that it was just something to make a quick buck
@@roxassora2706 that's assuming they're not lying ¯\_(ツ)_/
But I don't know. I'm just saying the impression I got
The funny thing about some lost or rare media is the fact that if it wasn’t lost or rare to begin with most people probably wouldn’t care about it in the first place for example The Mean Girls DS game or A Day With Spongebob SquarePants.
@Prayingmantis 211 I doubted anyone in that movie would care about that game.
Well yeah but I think that's also what makes it interesting in a odd way
I know if Toonami: Trapped in Hyperspace wasn't lost, I would still care about it. It's how I got my kink for New Zealander accents (Swayzak) and endo (you going inside TOM in the final stage.)
Yoooo it’s Stan Smith from 20th century era btw the CIA has been disbanded after the Creation of humanity’s government the UNDF in the year 2097 right now it is the year 2437 humanity’s under a galactic civil war against the Insurgency of Confederate Systems
We humans are curious creature, and whenever a mystery is presented, as innocuous as the source may be, we crave to find out everything about it. Sometime it gives you a glimpse of some alternate reality of what could've been, a possibility that might not affect the world in the long run, but different enough to garner your attention to think "what if?"
i love how clockman was thought to be scary but the actual short is just wholesome and fun.
True! Kids get scared by random stuff I think and by the time their older they probably remember things as way more creepy than they really were
Same with Cracks.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 i actually found cracks pretty unsettling :/
@@8Kazuja8 that's what Attack of the Giant Vulture was to me. I remember it being so dark and frightening as a kid, and I think I only saw it a few times. Funny enough, that too was lost media for the longest time until I think 2013
Kids usually get scared from normal things and then memories betray you. From several lost media commercials in my country, once found, they’re nowhere as “creepy” as explained
I distinctly recall that 'Cracks" video, from Sesame Street, when I was a kid. I never thought it was scary--- in fact, I loved the idea of the cracks forming into imaginary animals... so much so, that I even asked my Mom if I could put cracks on my bedroom walls if I hit them with a hammer.
@@ginxxxxx Oddly conspiratorial.
I remember it too. I liked it as well.
There’s a lot of creepy stuff in older kids shows.
@@ginxxxxx lol who cares
@@ginxxxxx lol fuck the law, there's no real reason to keep it secret. also, the middle east has laws they're just shit ones and also a huge chunk of the mid east's problems are because of the US. what.
@@ProfessorYaoiI what did they say in the first place
I swear Go For A Punch is the one that bothers me the most because it actually sounds interesting, and its the most likely to be made-up
I know, it sounds so cool. I'm really hoping Team Saki can make it happen.
It is
Maybe the real “Go For a Punch” was the friends we made along the way
The biggest reason for Go For a Punch being fake is that there isn’t a single piece of evidence coming straight from Japan.
@@NolanCrossing it was bro😭😭
“Until 4Chan got involved” is a sentence that can break universes
I really hate that feeling of being the only person who remembers something when you remember it so vividly that there's no way it wasn't real. I had that happen with a board game I remembered from my childhood where I could distinctly remember the art style, some of the art, the green button you pressed to roll an electronic die, etc. Thankfully for the sake of my sanity I managed to find it one day in my house. But none of my 3 siblings remembered it existing, and it made me feel crazy.
Whats It called???
@Something Studios It was something called "Giant Game Board Book" that contained 6 games within
@@cauapereira1019 It was something called "Giant Game Board Book" that contained 6 games within
Yeah I hate remembering something just vividly enough that you can recall certain stuff but can’t remember the name or anything, it’s made worse when you’re the only one that remembers it. I have that with this weird TV movie that aired on CBBC once around Christmas during my childhood that I frequently trail off trying to recall. It was about a family consisting of a kinda stupid and impulsive mother and her two daughters one being around 5 and the other being older and done with her mothers shit having to secretly live in a shop after their house burns down. I don’t remember the title except that I’m certain it began with an S and was the name of a security guard character in the movie who never smiled and the family were always trying to avoid, I remember there was a scene where the daughter had to do a nativity play at school and because her mother forgot to get her a costume for playing an Angel she ended up giving her a bee costume and she had to bullshit her way out of why she was a bee in the middle of the play and I remember it ended up ripping off Bad Santa as the movies climax was the family finding out the guys the shop hired to play Santa and his elf were thieves and they had to stop them from robbing the place on Christmas Eve
I remembered an old Wii game called Boom Blox and neither of my sisters believed me until I found old let's plays of it on TH-cam
The thing I love about the Clockman and Crackmaster searches is that they were remembered by those who were little kids at the time they saw them and were clearly spooked by those cartoons, so we wound up getting descriptions of the shorts warped by memories of being freaked out by them when they were kids. That way, when we finally found them, they turned out to be so much more mild than our imaginations filled in. Though, the Sally cartoon does look pretty damn freaky, but for different reasons. Hell, some of us found the "Evil Wizard" to be pretty chill and Sally to be a spoiled freaking brat that deserved what she got.
Oh hey I saw the crack master at the gas station earlier, he was trying to fight the store clerk for stopping him from attempting to steal a propane gas bottle.
Lmao
Cocaine is a Helluva drug
Hank Hill : laser eyes
PLEASE-
Oh did you see your uncle
I always liked the smaller searches, like ones with only a few people. It shows a small group dedication to a search. Also, I think an interesting video would be on wrestling lost media, since there's a bunch of interesting (and tragic) lost media involved with wrestling.
what’s the massive difference between a small group dedication and a larger group dedication?
@@misseselise3864 im guessing a tighter knit community, more dedicated people, etc
Oh man, wrestling lost media is crazy. It’s rabbit holes leading to rabbit holes and so on.
@@misseselise3864 you get a lot more niche topics, stuff you wouldn’t have even thought about being lost.
@@joshhale9355 there’s a ton of stuff no one talks about either. Like in 1998, during Halloween Havoc the live feed cut off before the last match, the footage of the last match is found but footage of the live cut off is lost
I can’t describe how much I love the all the detail in the thumbnail.
That's funny you say that. Molly, my wife, usually makes the thumbnails and she adds a ton of detail. I always tell her no one is going to notice, but after reading your comment, I guess I'm wrong.
@@AllThingsLost Yeah, seeing the new thumbnails along with the new videos is always nice.
For some reason I feel that one day with spongebob is scarier than go for a punch, shit feels like some kind of money laundering scheme or other kind of scam and that people can get injured or worse for getting their nose stuck into it, or something.
Definitely agree. Something about it at least makes me uncomfortable. Go for a punch really doesnt sound that out of the norm compared to a lot of older hyper violent anime.
The lost media community always makes me impressed
A Day With Spongebob was and still is one of my favorite searches in all of lost media.
yeah it's definitely one of my faves too, especially considering it's part of what made me gravitate towards lost media research.
Out of all of them, it is probably THE search.
I like to think we'll find pink morning cartoon one day too.
@@De19thKingJulion no man, not that, that shit's fucking scary man
@@De19thKingJulionFun fact about me : I was somewhat in the search of the pink morning cartoon but I gave up when I heard the clock master because The story of Clock master was more mysterious to me so I gave up on the pink morning cartoon but here the pink morning cartoon th-cam.com/video/yspEI8QO2FM/w-d-xo.html
This guy could literally be talking about the most disturbing things on the internet and still say “Oh hi there!” in the happiest way possible
Day 1: Of Asking All Things Lost to do a Video About 10 Pieces of Lost Art
Lost art is something I've wanted to do for a long time. It will definitely happen.
@@AllThingsLost Glad to know that :D
@@AllThingsLost can you do 10 pieces of lost LEGO media and lost Nintendo media
@@societyofcriminals that would be a good idea for a lost LEGO sets video.
I have a theory for Go For a Punch;
While there is still speculation on whether or not it is real, a lot of clues from both the original post and the 'confession' post has made me think that the original poster was playing around BUT their inspo was based on real series. The title 'Go for a Punch' calls to the original title of Gunbuster which original Japanese title is translated to 'Aim for the Top!'. The over the top gore, old animation style also brings to mind 'The Curse of Kazuo Umezu' (which you showed in the video) which had a story about several girls ending up trapped in a haunted house only to be dismembered by the spirit inside as well as their own friend.
It's POSSIBLE that Saki Sanobashi was a creation based on a combination of many old school and influential anime series but to seem more 'deep web' the creator pulled out the most familiar aspects of them and used them where they felt it sounded the best.
Cuz their whose clues lost clues
It genuinely warmed my heart to hear that your wife helps with your videos, providing narration and creating thumbnails (the last point being something I read in another comment).
Unfortunately I pretty firmly believe Saki Sanobashi is fake. It’s literally a 4-Chan creepypasta
But the OP was proven to be a troll.
@@HeyJinx supposedly he went on reddit and said he was a troll but no idea if that was actually him or not
It's still a great story and even if it is fake people had fun while looking for it.
I agree.
"We do a little trolling"
Man that thumbnail is a piece of art
Thanks. Molly, my wife, makes the thumbnails and I always tell her no one is going to notice all the little details she puts in them. Sounds like I was totally wrong.
you sound so hype in this, really shows ur passion
Right, I can’t stand when the narrators of these videos sound uninterested.
I find it absolutely fascinating to hear that pinwheel is such a massively lost show. When I was a kid, pinwheel was broadcast a lot. I mean A LOT. It was always on whenever I was home sick from school. and since my living room TV was constantly tuned to Nickelodeon whenever I was home, I saw a shit ton of pinwheel. I even recorded a whole tape of it once in slp, but I unfortunately later recorded over it for a TV broadcast of back to the Future in sp. So sadly that recording is gone.
A Day with Spongebob Squarepants is what got me into lost media! I now frequently research lost media as a hobby!
Man, Reddit will give awards to anything.
yep
Literally will go on a subreddit for fights and find comments with awards clowning people being beat up while down reddit is scummy
On the r/sakisanobashi someone posted “saki sanobashi deez nuts” and they got a lot of awards
@@lamebright That doesn't even make sense!
I don’t use Reddit, but sometimes I’ll just scroll through Subreddits on my favorite games or shows, like Sims or Pokémon, then an add will come up with like 15 awards. Why tf would you waste awards on ADS??
One thing to remember re: Doctor Who is that the destruction of old episodes was not just the BBC being shortsighted jerks. Per older agreements with the actors' and other talent and behind-the-scenes technician unions, they were limited to a specific number of re-runs of a recorded broadcast, after which they had to get everybody back in to redo the show from scratch. That meant that after the allowed number of reruns was used up, the Beeb really did have a useless brick taking up space from their viewpoint. Fortunately, those agreements were revised and the junking policy was able to be stopped.
I love the search behind the Doctor Who episodes. It’s fascinating seeing the different ways they’re getting their content back.
I also feel Saki Sanobashi will lead to nothing. At this point, it made a very fun internet mystery to follow but that’s about it. I’d LOVE to be proven wrong, however.
The Clockman and Cracks were so satisfying to finally see again. I grew up watching Pinwheel in the 80s and I always half remembered it, and it's great to see people working to find and archive things like this.
Did clockman scare you?
@@toongamer2810 not that I can recall. I had a big storybook with pictures done in a very similar art style (I think the artist was Czech) and I loved that. I wish I knew where that book was actually.
@@CinnamonGrrlErin1 I just found out about this around a year ago. Clockman is terrifying to me. The way he comes up the stairs and steals the girl, how uncanny the girl looks, and how he comes out of the clock. It made me fear clocks for awhile, not to mention his scary appearance.
Also nice Jane profile picture
Even though the OP said he made Saki Sanobashi up, I still respect them for leading 4Chan to search for and eventually recreate something that might not even exist.
4chan is easily one of the best places to solve mysteries IMO.
He was proven to be a troll. So he's not really the OP.
@@alexiskuwata Proof?
@@alexiskuwata there's just as much evidence that it was the op
@@San-li9ml you could get a lot of videos as a proof just search it on yt
Mike, I love your lost media videos, and I'd love to have more videos like this where you tell a more detailed story of a hunt. I especially love those where the media is either found or there's some kind of conclusion to the story, I find them very satisfying!
Just wanted to say it’s so cool how new TH-camrs like you can still blow up
I remember that "Cracks" short. I'm pretty sure I saw it being played on Sesame Street in Mexico around 1993 - 1995. I completely forgot about it but now I remember having watched it when I was around 4yo.
I am really glad you included Dr. Who in here, its not obscure at all, but it is a massive loss of immensely popular media.
I always am skeptical of lost media that no one else seems to remember. So Saki Sanobashi is probably fake, and the explanation of why it's fake seems perfectly reasonable. My day with Spongebob also seems fishy to me. Why would anyone allegedly involved be so hostile or unwilling to talk about it? Seems like an unlikely response to such an inquiry. The doctor who episodes intrigue me the most as they were destroyed by the BBC themselves for a show they still make and has a huge cult following. I really hope most of those tapes are one day found!
Lovely video as always!
also, idea: 10 Pieces of Lost Media that Never Existed
Surprised this did not include London After Midnight. That movie is the great white whale for a LOT of horror fans.
I'm not sure if it exactly counts as lost media, but I'm really interested in The Most Mysterious Song On the Internet. The full song is apparently found, but nobody knows who made it. Whang has a good series of videos describing the search so far.
It's what the Lost Media Wiki would classify as unidentified media - not lost media, although they're often conflated.
we've gotten to the fact it was someone involved witg Statues in Motion :)
This might seem like an odd concept, but could you do a video on lost media prevention, or the ways people preserve media?
I really love that idea. It would give me an excuse to talk to Dycaite, and other Lost Media veterans.
@@AllThingsLost can you do tutorials on how to back up CDs or Preserve Games ?
Download them shits
Its funny but, I remember seeing the "Cracks" short in the late 90s early 00 when I was growing up in "Plaza Sesamo" which is the Spanish version of "Sesame Street" heck when I fist saw it in one of your videos I was like "Wait a minute, I know this short" and it brought back a lot of fun memories of me watching it when I was a kid.
Also, about the missing 93 Doctor Who Episodes, I have a theory that they might be copies here in the Dominican Republic of some of those Doctor Who episodes, probably rotting away in a library of the few channels we had back in the 60s
Hey man! I've been a long time viewer and an interesting idea I've been stewing on for a few days could be a series where viewers submit various lost media that may not be well known enough to warrant a full video. I can think of many things that would be considered lost media but can't seem to get a good search going. Having a series where viewers can submit lost media they're aware of but haven't been given the spotlight seems like a fun way to both bring more attention to lost media as a while and even help the search of said submitted lost media
You sound a lot like LSuperSonic Q, and that’s a compliment because he’s one of my favorite lost media youtubers.
Thanks, I love his videos. He was one of the reasons I got into Lost Media.
@@AllThingsLost you’re very welcome.
I'm really glad Go for a Punch doesn't exist. Based on only the description, it really disturbed me and made me super anxious and depressed man.
I have never done or participated in one of this researches, but i bet it feels just like when you loose a small eraser in school in a classroom with white dirty floor...
You just stand there... Looking... And hoping you can see it...
I miss my eraser...
Do we know the name of the BBC employee that intentionally destroyed all that media? I've been making myself custom t-shirts lately and I'd really like to get one that says SUCKS
Same I just wanna talk to his knee caps for a second
I'm stealing a time machine and saving some lost media.
@@Bacony_Cakes That makes me hope the guy that invents the time machine was inspired by Doctor Who and uses his inaugural mission to go save those tapes, haha. And get me that employees name for my shirt.
But what if it’s a bootstrap paradox and by going back in time to save the tapes it ends up freaking that guy out and he decides to start wiping them so no more time travellers can come back to steal the tapes?
@@mrcritical6751 fuck. i don't think any of us thought about that
anyone else get really happy when this channel uploads?
I spent so long with the search team for Clockman. I remember late nights translating shorts from French into English the week before we found the thing on TH-cam. I definitely think that’s what blew the wiki up. It’s definitely creepy.
Thank you for the kind words ^__^ Great video!
Can you help us find brainsurge episodes?
You're a legend
There is a mexican tv show called 'El chavo del ocho' (Roughly translate to 'the boy from the 8th'). It's a show about the shennaningans of a 8 year old (played by a man in his 70's) homeless boy who lives in a village. It EXPLODED here in Brazil, wich was still on air until last year, making it stay 49 years on air, non-stop. It's loved by everyone of all ages here, and it's incredibly funny. It's notorious for it's remakes (They had maybe 4, 5 versions of some episodes, sometimes with different characters) and it's lost episodes.
It's worth checking it out.
Chavo also has an animated tv series as well. Its first season was dubbed into English by 4Kids Actors.
Hito Gata 人 形 means human shape. It's a supposed commercial about the dangers of railway crossings. The text on screen at 0:38 reads "On earth, every two seconds somebody dies".
If you search 踏み切りヒトガタ you will find information in Japanese. This is in my wheel house and I can read Japanese so I suppose I should make a video about it.
I’ve subscribed.
It seems a lot of lost media is from other countries which makes it that much harder to locate.
"the crack master" made me laugh way too hard
I think it would be cool if you talked about old Roblox clients sometime. The oldest one we have is from March 2007, and it was literally discovered a few days ago when I’m writing this. Anything from the earlier days is pretty much lost.
Thank you for getting me interested in lost media along with all the other channels who made me aware of the community! I've been involved in finding and archiving obscure musicals even before I really knew how many people were invested in lost media, and now I've joined the effort to revive the partially-found cancelled Broadway musical Rag Dolly!
The day with Spongebob one always trips me up because I remember watching a commercial for it on nick.
My Personal List:
6: Super Smash Bros Slamfest 99
5: Hitogata
4: Go For A Punch
3: Cracks
2: A Day With Spongebob Squarepants
1: Clockman
15:23 the picture on the left bottom right corner, under the spongebob with his hands in the air looks like a good watch lmao.
love your vids man, keep'em coming!
I'm glad you liked my Saki Sanobashi intro to use in your video! Keep up the good work!
I think the Cracks secrecy was all a ploy for someone's own entertainment. I definitely believe the anonymous figure who sent the tape and made the contract up was laughing it up, and he probably found the VHS in his basement because his mom recorded hours of Sesame Street or something. Being able to tease the guy who sought after it and start an internet firestorm was probably the best kind of fun, and basically immortalized the lost media search.
As for the production mysteries, there have been so many lost episodes of different variety shows (like Sesame Street) at this point that I'm not surprised production was weird and rushed. It could have very well been made by a bunch of nobodies, or the people who have been contacted are just playing it up for some extra hype. All in all, amazing video and awesome searches.
Love your videos Mike!
Thank You!
Finally a new video from you bruh you gotta upload more you the only good lost media channel. Please do lost movie scenes.
Thanks, I've been trying to release a video every other Tuesday. Lost deleted scenes is in the works!
Damn, Cracks went from Lost Media to reverse Lost Media. We HAVE the footage, but we have no idea how or who made it besides knowing it was a sesame street cartoon.
The master tapes for Megadeth's album "Countdown To Extinction" ("The Symphony of Destruction" album) were lost for a couple of decades because when they were recorded Lead Guitarist Marty Friedman labeled all the tape cases in Japanese and everyone forgot. They were only found because Bassist David Ellefson remembered it about 20 years later after Dave Mustaine called him to see if he knew where they were.
You should do "Lost Chuck E. Cheese's/Pizza Time Theatre Showtapes and Showtape Segments"
A very big part of me wants to create things like these and then bury them, so to speak. Upload screenshots to be found, partial clips, download links... Just for there to be more fun to be had for future sleuths. I suppose that would just be an ARG-lite then, haha.
I love the cracks detail in telescope. Great job.
Thanks. My wife, Molly, did the thumbnail. I told her no one would notice the cracks. I was definitely wrong.
@@AllThingsLost her work did not go unnoticed, you better tell her she did a very lovely job!
Been really enjoying your channel. I’m sure you’ve thought about covering the many, many lost films from the silent era, which is a daunting task, but if you’re ever interested, I think 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera would be a really interesting one. Much of it is missing, much of it isn’t, and the regularly seen version today is a mysterious frankenstein version that we still don’t know where it came from.
One time on a forum, we were discussing the once-plethora of cartoons based on live-action shows. They used to be legion, and some of them were fairly out there from the premise of the shows they were based on. So as a joke, I made one up called 'Mary's Major Mysteries', a cartoon based on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' since the MTM family of shows seemed like the only ones not to get an adaptation or some sort of parody. My premise was, Mary and the cast were teen journalism students being driven around in Lou Grant's journalism school-bus-school, searching for 'Scoops', which at least once Lou denounced on the actual show, feeling that 'scoops' was something the Daily Planet got on the old George Reeves show. I even told a story of how Mary's divorce from Grant Tinker tied up the rights as to why it was never rerun or seen again. I think people caught on in three to five days. I now wonder if my details either weren't thorough enough or vague enough so that people filled in the gaps. If 'Go For A Punch' was real, I could see it existing.
Thanks for posting this.
I really love your videos! Keep up the good work! 😀
what is it with people that find lost media sending it to collectors anonymously. it's like they think they're a mysterious anime loner badass guy.
No joke I remember watching a episode of Sesame Street with Cracks in it when I was little.
I remember thinking the short was really cool
@@raftyfins I dunno it probably aired as a short separate from Sesame Street on PBS or something
Cool!
Without watching I shall predict all 5
1. Clockman
2. Cracks
3. A Day with Spongebob Squarepants
4. Doctor Who Lost Episodes
5. Cry Baby Lane
4. The rest of Mcu Fanboy2008's comment
EDIT: It was only finished up to line 3 when I wrote this :P
@@ImSquiggsYeah I accidently uploaded the comment so I had to go back and do number 4 and 5
@@totoro5874 Looks like You got Number 5 Wrong >:D
@@ducknotfound Sadly yes, but I got the rest correct, hooray 🥳
What’s Cry Baby Lane? I’ve heard of the other 4, but not that.
I remember watching the clockman as a smaller person, freaky as hell at the time.
Thank goodness for all the fans and obsessive folks who try to keep cool, interesting and weird stuff alive. I wish a high-quality copy (or original) of every single movie, tv show, book, comic, video game, song/album, website, or work of art ever made could survive for all to enjoy for generations to come. Sadly, some things will disappear forever.
12:46 A Day with SpongeBob: The Movie (Unauthorized *DOCUMENTARY* )💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Another incredibly high profile and bizarre search is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
We have artwork, commercials, merch, leaked clips, a teaser the public was never meant to see, everything BUT the movie itself
Idea: Lost media that may not exist
Jorge did that.
Saki
That’s certainly an interesting concept. One that’s definitely been covered, no doubt.
I Have never been this early for an All Things Lost video!
a little birthday present for myself 😝 thank you for posting this
Happy Birthday!!!!
10/10 thumbnail 👌
The only lost media that's a true shame that is truly lost is a video I made for TH-cam in 2007 when I was 13 and I deleted it in 08 it was called babushka, man what great content it was such a shame
I don't even get the point of destroying master tapes. Like what do you even get from doing that??
@@killiankeane7259 Okay. That actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
You should do a video on lost puppetry/puppet shows next!
Your videos are really interesting! Keep going!
The Doctor Who lost footage story still makes me mad. I can’t believe some jerk intentionally destroyed the footage. I’m glad they’re finding some but still, what a horrible thing for someone to do.
13:36 nothing is beyond the hacker 4chan’s reach.
also thank you for talking about Saki Sanobashi, i have been on the search for that lost media.
I'm sorry, but I can't stop laughing at the term "crack master"
One could even say that it cracks me up
Excellent video! Thanks for uploading!
Although, with some of these, I'm skeptic if the lost media was even real.
"Go away, there ain't no 'A Day With Spongebob Squarepants' and there never was!"
I am pretty sure the church being a former BBC building was debunked ,which makes the mystery even more interesting because how the hell did the tapes end in that basement in the first place.
Lol, I remember seeing Cracks on TV3 in NZ when I was in my late-teens (sometime prior to 2012)
I’m surprised that the “farming game where you kill your wife” isn’t on here
This is one of the more interesting TH-cam videos I've seen
10:13 the picture at that time stamp is of an empty film can once belonging to a copy of a currently still missing episode.
I don't know if this would still count as lost media but there was once a Chinese plants vs zombies mmo called pvz online. To sum it up quickly, it had 3 main game modes. A normal mode, adventure mode that's similar to a mobile game called I am mt, and a mine mode where you could send your plants to get items. The game closed in August of 2018 due to "changing business strategies". A while ago, a user on the pvz wiki found the game's code and is currently trying to get it to work so I guess its only partially lost now. Its still interesting none the less
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Don't focus so much on whether it's real or not. Many things have been made real by searching the darkest corners of the mind - things made by neither creation _nor_ discovery. There is a third way to come to know something - that it was true from the beginning, part of the human mind, an integral piece of the phobias we created to protect ourselves before recorded history, before fire, before we had a light to protect us in the dark.
Some fears are too randomly specific, and too widespread, to come from anything but real experiences in mankind's past. Tall, pale faces, black eyes, spindly fingers rippling through the air, or a silence behind you that just sounds... corrupt.
Some fears were so important to our survival that they may endure forever. Some are so real, and stay with us so well, that it seems like they might be needed again soon.
So what's so weird about the mandala effect applying to a bathroom horror anime? Maybe there's something that all of the people who found it in the back of their minds need to learn from it before they can be prepared for the real world, or safe from some very specific danger. Maybe this "memory" came to them a week before they would really need it. The mind works in mysterious ways.
Some thoughts on Cracks: There's obviously some kind of need for secrecy beyond anything legal. Further, we have additional unsettling information such as the woman in all white with a name like "Sky." This, especially given the era it was made in, indicates the possibility of the creators being part of either (a) a cult or (b) a commune, with my money favoring the former. P. Imagination was likely just their front for the sake of interfacing with Children's Television Workshop, and the actual people behind the short are part of some other larger group. Hell....I could be wrong on the cult/commune part, and it could be that the artists were actually part of a government in some form, be it the US government (the "Jimi Hendrix is Morgan Freeman" theory comes to mind, with the CIA's supposed interest in entertainment) or a foreign government (some kind of KGB influence op to gain access to children's programming, and the cell members just stayed in the US post USSR-fall, hence the need for a low profile, and the use of a non-courier dead drop that was undetected on a rural farm?)....huh....that second theory isn't so bad, actually.
Regardless of the creators being a cult, an alternative commune, a CIA psy-op or cultural op, or a KGB influence op, or something entirely different, I think one conclusion is clear: someone wanted us to have "Cracks" because they were proud of their work being appreciated even after so many years, but at the same time they are having to make pains to avoid too much getting out about it or its creators. This may be a time when it's best to just let sleeping dogs lie, because people might actually get hurt by digging too deep on this one. The Cold War was a very different time, and the survivors of the Cultural Revolution (or whatever you call the hippy drug craze with LSD etc) and the Cold War probably deserve to be left in peace, regardless of their side or what parts they played....they surely have families by now, and have left all of that life behind them.
An additional thought: We *did* more or less have it confirmed that drugs had a part in this short falling into obscurity, I just noticed, so to me, that might be a little extra pointing towards it being made by a drug-friendly psychedelic-using commune.
So...that's my two cents. Leave the creators be on this one, as they already did some minor cloak and dagger shit to get the short out to the public...it's wrong to ask more of them.
I'm looking for eras of lost music. UK music especially from early to mid 00s. MSN, AIM song transfers of local bands, mcs, artists etc.. MySpace era and pirate radio sort of timelines. Pirate radio stations in UK are something you'd may enjoy reading about. They're still somewhat in use to this day, but nothing like the 60s and then again in 90s/00s. Rinse FM, Kiss FM, XFM all started as illegal broadcasting systems and were only broadcasted, rarely ever archived because it ended being classed as evidence if caught. Endless amount of hours of music that 95% of which will never be heard again in it's raw original form.
Lost media is a great way for people to come together and find an equal goal!