4 Most Disturbing TV Hijackings in History
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- Here are 4 of the Most Disturbing TV Hijackings in History. Featured in this video are some of the most disturbing, creepy, shocking, and scary TV hijackings that have ever occurred.
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I'm astounded how calm the man being held hostage was. He didn't know the weapon was fake, and managed to not panic and do the best under the situation.
News anchors are trained in keeping their composure under pressure or sudden changes of script (breaking/shocking news, last-minute script revisions, problems during live coverage, etc). This man was exceptionally good at his job.
I was gonna say that too. He kept his cool like the guy ask him for directions
When you’re only other option is DIE… why freak out
He probably saw the letters CIA and knew the dude was Wacked
@BronzeXV70 holding it together until the police arrive. Got to give him credit there
Max Headroom was just the first modern media troll. Just a prank, nothing more. Troll level: Legend
Real
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He was funny
I've always been under the impression the Max Headroom incident was a hijacking for hijackings sake. They did it cuz they could, and nobody was hurt. Kinda like how some hackers operate, they do it to simply see if they can
I agree 👍 it reminds of those phreakers from the same era that hacked telephone systems
@Noodle Cat exactly what I was thinking. Tech evolves, and there's a community of people who simply like to push the limits to see what it can do. I don't think anybody lost out on 17 secs of football or 90 seconds of Dr. Who lol
@Abdelhalim BoDe @Abdelhalim BoDe I just watched And I'm going to give you my honest opinion, understand that this is constructive criticism, and in no way am I poking fun at you.
1st impression, the narration needs work. You have to have some sort of emotional range to your voice, it just makes it all the much more entertaining. However you were clearly spoken, and that Is a good start.
2nd, the writing needs work. I'm sorry to say but we aren't all great writers, so take a look at stories read by Mr. Nightmare, or chilling scares. All their stories read similar because they edit for grammar. Way too many sentences start with the proper name of the subject, when you're only speaking of one person you don't have to use their name every single time.
3rd, these aren't bad stories. They aren't bad stories at all, they just need some work.
Don't beat yourself up, Because if this is something you really wanna do then you can definitely work at it. It's A big deal to put yourself out there on TH-cam like this in general, so that is already huge.
some men just wanna watch the world burn
Yeah I find it funny how people try to make it sinister. It was a pre (mainstream) internet shit post.
I grew up in Los Angeles and was watching KNBC the day Gary Stollman walked onto the set live. It was incredibly scary to watch since I was only a teenager. To this day, I remain so impressed with how poised David Horowitz remained during the whole situation. He was a great consumer advocate reporter, and he handled this event so calmly, which I believe helped everyone around him to remain calm as well.
Cap
@@MooMoo69556 mf this guy literally has a video uploaded the year u were born wtf are u talking about
I remember this I was 19 years old in 1988 also grew up in Costa mesa which you probably know Orange County south of LA. Didn't see it live because I was working late, I did see it on the 11 pm news when I got home had a 13" Color TV in my room. In those days News Media was the only mass form of communication unlike today someone can startup a TH-cam channel.
Cap
@@snipers1871 how is it cap
"That does it, he's a fricking nerd"
Lol
🤣😂🤣😂
This glove is dirty my brother has the other one
N. E. R. D 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
That audio mad me on the floor
The Max Headroom prank was brilliant. Of course, people speculate on a darker tone to it. But c'mon, it was clearly nothing more than a prank. I actually applaud their skill for being able to hack into local networks back then.
My theory has always been that it was just a couple of drunk college kids playing with some new gadgets.
Well, back then it was much easier to get control of broadcasts, In the easiest way you just needed to set up a transmitter to the same frequency wich would "overpower" the original transmitter in a certain radius. Not what these dudes did but still.
I also used to do this with radio frequencies around 10 years ago.
That's why wondered that the fbi got involved for some kids playing with technology XD
Fr. I always thought it was just some buddy’s fucking around for fun. I never thought it was anything sinister.
I don't know how people have made something so scary out of some dudes messing around
But it’s still freaking disturbing!!!Whoever those people are they are dingus!!!
Imagine watching TV and a hijack ensues, completely catching you off guard. Especially if it were at night. That’s a very chilling thought😰
I had a similar experience last December when SBS's live feed of the World Cup crashed and was down for ages during Argentina's match against the Netherlands…
(Thank God the TV coverage of the match still worked… SBS's website blows)
Pun intended? 😄
@@RachelParker-1977 not initially, but now it is!😅
@@silashurd3597 🤭
@@JohnGardnerAlhadis so you do t question this so Americans are not the only brainwashed fans
The Max Headroom hijack wasn't disturbing, it was freakin' hilarious.
Razorfist needs t do that nationally. God f uckin' speed!
Ikr
He just ranted about new coke and show his bare ass get spanked
I found it creepy as a kid but yeah it’s just silly and funny now. It totally was jus some young adults fuckin’ with the viewers.
I've been thinking is this an Eminem's Rap God?
gary: points a gun to reporters back “read the paper”
reporter: “what’s your name?” “and gary, where are you from”
i love how he just casually interviews someone who has a gun (which i know isn’t real but the reporter didn’t know that) he really took acting casual to a new level
The highjacker's actual name was Gary Stolman
Professional!
He’s from America 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
He could probably tell that it was a bb gun, they have different feel to them and he pressed it onto him, probably thought it was an office prank.
i believe it was done deliberately to waste time and give the broadcasters more time to take the broadcasting off the air before he started reading it while also serving to possibly get information that would help identify the man
probably part of a procedure for this sort of thing rather than something he just "did"
I remember the Max Headroom one happening. I was 11, my dad was pissed because it was during the sports. 😂
I was going to say, how many dads were pissed that the broadcast was disrupted during football lol
What sport was it?
@@unknown11215American football
Is your dad still a sheep and brainwashed I to caring about a game that doesn't give a crap about it's viewers
@@unknown11215probably American football
The Max Headroom Incident to me is probably the most fascinating, because they never caught the guy. I wasn't alive in the 80s to witness this, but to this day like everyone else I have so many questions about it and am left intrigued. I actually get a kick out of it and laugh each time I see it. Its trolling before trolling was invented.
Part of me thinks it was someone with access to the tv station.. part thinks it is some unknown figure lost in 7 or 8 billion lives. My bet is on him knowing someone at the station especially since it was 1987.
Hopefully someone proves me wrong but I think it was an inside job of some kind
@@silas6691 Same.
did you just create two accounts to make an argument against yourself? pathetic.
Oh they definitely just wanted to troll everybody. It’s actually more funny then terrifying.
Damn, that news anchor was gangster. Never flinched, just maintained professionalism. Acted calm the whole time.
David Horowitz was known for his nerves of steel.
gangster?? how is being a gangster cool?
@@zipf it's a eupemism for being a bad*ss in tense situations.
@@Stable_Genius Ah I see
@@AbdelhalimEhab i know where you live
Seeing the photo of the 2 human faces suddenly appear on you TV would give me nightmares for sure. That’s textbook horror.
I had to turn my phone up towards the ceiling cause I didn’t want to keep looking at it
@@lydia3832same. Weird.
I have an irrational fear of my PC monitors turning on in the middle of the night with faces exactly like that stuck on it
@@khaosB47same
@@khaosB47 DUDE SAME
If anyone hijacked the tv they would just do a josh hutcherson jumpscare
As a april fools?
Idk how they would do it but it should be bass boosted
“Can you blow mah wissel bebe wissel bebe let me knooo” 😫
LOL YESSSSS
that would be way too funny
"...The computer that we have running our news from time to time took off and went wild..." The 80's tech was far more advanced than we reckoned!
I remember when Max Headroom came on and I was absolutely rotten drunk and Max Headroom came on and we were ALL like..." WTF " !! 😂😂
Thought it was a NEW MTV music video !! 😂( Back in the day when MTV actually played REALLY GOOD MUSIC !!...Then again ALL music was GOOD back in the good ol days !!) 👍
@@juliecook6057 that seemed so cool!😂
we need more funny hacks like that tbh!
@@MusculosoDigital
Absolutely 👍😂😂 It was a gooden !! Everything was so fresh and unique and untried, and it made for really interesting and intriguing and cool super FUN times !! We just went along for the ride and absolutely bloody LUVED IT !! ❤️👍
It was probably Hal 9000
Max Headdroom was huge for kids who grew up in the 80s. What'll always be weird to me is that my kids primarily know the character from that weird-as-hell broadcast hijacking.
Same here. That's what I was thinking too. I was like "What's this weird-ass mask he's got and what's the reason for this mask?" I personally think it was a bunch of college nerds who were into hacking and seeing how far they could push the systems.
I grew up in the 2010's and I quite like max headroom. ever seen the TV show?
Dang, this was a very interesting topic!! Great Job Chilling Scares. You never disappoint.
@@AbdelhalimEhab that was awesome!!! Keep it up buddy!
D riders
@@WyaSlay oh yeah forgot your content is just as good babe :*
That David Horowitz one was definitely the scariest out of all of them. It's amazing how he handled the situation
A true professional. Even starts interviewing him before he reads the statement.
😅
The only thing that worried me were his coworkers yelling call the cops right in front of the crazy guy, and cutting the feed. But David himself, had a perfect demeanor. I feel like the guy could have put the gun down, and he would have read it anyway.
@@ytsn_THE_OG They didn't know it was an empty gun though, so it's better if they called the cops or told someone to because they didn't know what that man was capable of, especially he was armed. I don't understand how that's worrying.
You should definitely make a part 2, keep up the good work CS!
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The Maxheadroom one is actually kinda funny when you watch it but I understand how it would have creeped people out when it happened.
It cracks me up every time. But yeah, I bet it was creepy at the time. Its brilliant.
I remember that Max Headroom incident. At the time it was super weird and kind of eerie. 😬
I was 19 and in a Cairns nightclub and was totally rotten drunk and when Max Headroom came on we were ALL like...WTF 😂😂 Thought it was a new MTV music video !! 🤣🤣👍
Same. Glad I'm not the only old person here!
I don't know about eerie, but holy _hell_ it was irritating. 😒
That character always creeped me out!
@@JohnGardnerAlhadis Yeah, maybe it was eerie at the time, I dunno. Looking back, these just seem like the precursor to internet trolls.
This type of stuff is my favorite due to how truly mysterious these occurrences are to this very day.. goes to show how diabolically genius some people can be
The creepiest part (to me) is how calm that news reporter was throughout the video. His face stayed the same throughout.
I think that news reporters are trened to be calm and professional
I don’t think it was creepy. I think it was very brave, actually. But he was probulary shaking on the inside. Because he had no proof whether the man would’ve shot him even if he did read the paper.
Props to David for staying completely calm throughout the whole ordeal
This channel is like a digital version of sharing scary stories over a campfire.
Those two images at 9:19 were actually a part of another Broadcast Hijacking that took place in Wyoming. It was known as "The Wyoming Incident". It was a popular unsolved ARG at the time.
Wyoming Incident wasn't a real hijacking tho
@@Mari_Izuthat specifically no but yes there was a hijacking in Wyoming back in the 90s
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True, but thats not the actual image that showed up during the WJLA-tv broadcast. The real image can be found on a wiki, but its cropped and very low quality. From what I can see, it shows a man wearing sunglasses and a woman.
@@raJraJ-jr2hj Yep. It's not that disturbing, so I don't know why the news channel erased any footage of it (according to the Broadcast Interruption Wiki)
When my cousin and I we're younger, something really strange happened while watching TV. Til this day I have no explanation for it and I've tried my absolute hardest to find an explanation for it. I've chalked up to possibly being an auditory hallucination but still, nothing I was searching up was even close to what we experienced. One time while watching TV, the screen suddenly turned to static out of nowhere and what I could describe as disembodied voices came from the TV. I thought I was going crazy until I looked over to my cousin and saw a face of pure terror. I can't even describe the voices but it sounded almost like military chatter? It was definitely men speaking but very low and then the TV went back to normal. I just remember having a headache after it had happened but til this day, that's one of the strangest/unexplained things to have happened to me.
That kind of sounds paranormal 👻
They been monitoring our tv screens since day one.
I had this same thing happened to a TV me and my friend seen in high school and most terrifying part was the volume was completely down and the volume cord for my xbox 360 was unplugged
The closest explanation I could think of is an interference between the TV channel and some military equipment that was somehow on the same frequency
The 2nd one the news guy stayed very calm and I give him props for how he handled the situation given he didn't know it wasn't a real gun.. all of these are creepy glad I didn't see them 😮
It’s Mr Nightmare’s little brother! Just as good content as he uploads! You two are the best at narrating horror stories on TH-cam. Keep it up guys! 👍😀
IMHO, I'd say Mr. Nightmare is the younger brother of Chilling Scares. His material is so much more visceral, descriptive, and well-researched.
Both have the presentation format down pat. No odd accent or speech patterns to appear scary, just direct, smooth narration. No filler.
They pick interesting topics and edit their videos well.
They can both DP me anytime they want to
I think he must be related.
You all know it's a voice app thingy.
I was a teen in Chicago in the mid eighties...I didn't see the Max Headroom takeover of the sports news, but I did see the one on WTTW. Me and some friends were watching Dr. Who with Tom Baker and Louise Jameson, stoned and having fun, then boom! Hijacked! We all just stopped, stared at the TV and laughed after WTTW regained control. It was very surreal!
LMAO OMG
Love it... the content is so interesting! Keep it up Chilling Scares, thanks!
The most disturbing thing is his vids feel like they're 30 seconds long. I absolutely love your channel man. Thanks for another great one. 🤙
The fact that nobody has ever taken credit for, or admitted to, the Max Headrom hack is incredible. You'd think eventually it would come out.
When the video censored the gun I thought the hijacker pulled out something else even though it was discolored. 😂 😂 😂
That would be even worse than a gun😭😭
Imagine being held hostage by a shlong 😭😭
@@DryHotDabsHELP 😭😭
11:38 jesus christ help us all pluh
😂
13:19
I heard “cut”
9:12 imagine,,you minding your business watching TV at night and this happens...
God idk wtf I’d do bc I literally had to turn my phone away from me I couldn’t look at it
Reminds me of Local58's "Real Sleep"
Oh its uncanny mr incredible.
The max headroom guy is the G.O.A.T he managed to make the first major shit post mad respect
I remember the max headroom incident. I was a huge Doctor Who fan ever since I was a kid and as I was watching "The Horror of Fang Rock" when Max pops up. I didn't know it was a hijacking of the TV broadcast and thought it may have been some sort of commercial. Years later I found out what really happened. Was very creepy even at 16 years old!!
I absolutely love 'The Horror at Fang Rock'! - have you ever seen 'Twenty Minutes Into The Future' - the original TV movie that created 'Max Headroom' - if not then check it out, it's awesome and I guarantee you'll love it.
I adore Hammer Horror too, especially the TV show 'Hammer House of Horror' - 'Charlie Boy' being my fave episode!
*I was videotaping "The Horror of Fang Rock" when that crap started! I was so mad at Channel 11 for cutting to that garbage!* I stopped the tape and recorded over it because I also hated Max Headroom, so the whole thing was like a bad dream, like falling into hell. And when I told my brother, sister and mother about it the following morning they didn't believe me... Until the (then) major networks, ABC, CBS and NBC all did stories on their "Evening News" shows about the "pirate broadcast" that interrupted TV the previous night. I guess I might've had something special had I not impulsively stopped recording and recorded over it (I didn't want that nasty bit with that guy's butt on my tape) but I didn't know what it was so I didn't think long-term.
@@themirrorsofmymind Back then all the classic Doctor Who hadn't been released on video so if you missed the broadcast you most likely wouldn't have seen it again anytime soon. Horror of Fang Rock wouldn't be released for quite some time!
I feel we will find out about the max headroom guy with a deathbed confession. A final ego boost for whoever did it.
Anyone can claim it though, doesn't mean the guy who does was the actual guy.
Man, a lot of crazy shit happened in 1987 including my own birth.
Lol
Hogan slammed Andre
It must be so funny being the person who orchestrated the max headroom incident and knowing that you trolled so many people back in the day and you never got caught.
11:21 No one even mentions that after each loop of the man saying "Jesus Christ, help us all, Lord, " another man says "Fuck." But it isn't on the original.
I thought it was someone else saying “Cut”
Wow! That was so creepy yet very frightening!!! Thank you CS for that! That was different. Your definitely one of my favorites!! 👍
I loved this topic! Thanks, Scares!
Very cool. I’ve seen the Max one before but if you watch the original Max he seems so lifelike in his eyes. So creepy. The David Horowitz one was scary af. Great episode.
Max Headroom's face is a digitization of a real actor - Matt Frewer - who played Edison Carter, the reporter in the movie 'Twenty Minutes Into The Future' who died when he was hit by a 'Max Headroom' signpost whilst trying to escape a parking lot on his motorcycle.
@@XXSkunkWorksXX I will need to watch that. Thank you for the heads up.
@@XXSkunkWorksXXMax wasn’t exactly a digitalization. It’s Frewer wearing a ton of prosthetics and a plastic molded suit with some contact lenses to create the uncanny cgi effect. he was also sat in front of a blue screen to create the colorful background.
CS, you are the most talented at what you do. No profanity from you. Just calm, cool delivery.
The max headroom incident I’m so obsessed with
Really?
Why, it's literally just a funny hijack, nothing more
God, i absolutely love this sort of videos on youtube. Please never change your style. ♥
Really appreciate all these videos my guy! I hope you have a good week✨🖤
Who loves it when he uploads, his stories are so good and I just love to listen to them
I was expecting this to be the same ones as every other video on this subject, but I didn’t know about most of these. Thanks for showing some different ones!
I'm a very simple man, when chilling scares uploads, I click, simple as that.... great topic BTW
That comment is so played
@@hankhill9780 No. You are over played!!!
I'm just kidding I don't give AF
Dipshit
When Chilling Scares uploads, it's a good day.
Of course.
The second hijack of the masked guy was legit standing there like he didn’t know what to do next,
“I was expecting someone to already have kicked me off lol”
Something about the max headroom hijacking’s just…disturb me so much. I don’t quite know what it is about it, but it is just terrifying.
You are really scared lol
It was funny I’m pretty sure he was just trolling.
Even if he was just trolling it’s still unnerving yk?
Great topic! I don't think any other narrator had covered this. If they have, I just haven't seen it, but I'm subbed to at least a dozen or so channels of this genre and this is the first time I've seen this topic. 🙂🙂🙂
The first 2 have been done before however my first time hearing about the last 2
@@Imperialsummoner Ahhh... I wouldn't be surprised to learn they've all been covered at some point, but not necessarily in this context. Perhaps they've been in a documentary or mentioned some other way, but I just have not personally seen them in any format. Until now of course. 🙂
There was a TV Hijacking in 1981 of the Swiss national television. "Freedom and sunshine for Giorgio Bellini". I wasn't born then, but my parents remembered quite well!
Wow, I had no idea about any of these incidents, thanks! Now, the guy in the Headroom mask is having way too much fun and the presenter in the second story is a total pro.
One of my favorite channels man never disappoints
This guy is gonna be the next Mr Nightmare bet. Incredible videos,& incredible narration! Thank you ❤
It is mr nightmare it's just a new account
so refreshing to see this guy uploading. Going to watch this while I have dinner.
Awesome video! Hella creppy, but very interesting too! And your voice is just made these kind of topics! Keep it up!
Loved it! Thanks!
Keep doing your thing Bro 🤙 Best content
you are my favorite story teller. You have a perfect voice for telling these stories. I listen to others that do this but it is never quite the same.🙂
Pure solid gold and another great video from you so happy 😁👍😁😍
New content is great! Ty for the great upload 💕
We need more horror stories 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. Daily uploads Mr. Chills !!!!!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
turn in the subtitles at 3:18
HELPPP
On that Mayday hijacking, the episode was the only non aircraft related episode, telling of the events to the Hinton Train collision
Gary Stollman could be right...we live in a world with all sorts of creepy possibilities
Yea they wrote him off as mentally ill, or does he just know too much? I always like to think their is some truth to accusations like that. Who really knows?
According to William Cooper he’s very much onto something.
It’s a shame he got labeled off as a conspiracy theorist when now we do have all of the evidence to back this up, evidence going back to ancient tablets even (Gary has once mentioned annunaki). + we now do know about the CIA and their ties to the industry, so this didn’t come as a surprise to me. The man just wanted to be heard, he wasn’t even going to actually hurt anyone.
In today’s upside down world, Stollmans claims may have very well been right… 😮
Welp were gonna be enslaved
The picture seen in the WJLA incident is not the actual picture. That’s two of the heads from the Wyoming Incident creepypasta. The actual picture is of a man and a woman, and last I checked, was on Wikipedia’s article about Broadcast Signal Intrusion.
I love this channel even though I cant always watch because its scary.I love the readers voice.
It’s so annoying how they lie and make up bs like just own up to the fact you got hacked 🙄
I’ve been waiting for you to post! ❤️
A nice way to spend a Saturday Morning.
In my country Here is night..
@@thegentleman1609 Amsterdam 23:30 lol
Saturday night for me
I love this topic. Epic stories, Chilling Scares 🙂💯♥️
love these unique vid ideas! keep it up (:
Second guy held it down pretty darn good who was held hostage to a gun to his back. Props to that man's composure
love these chilling scares!
TV Hijacking then: *Scary and Disturbing*
TV Hijacking now: *Animan*
Aaaah the max headroom incident…can’t believe I remember that. Thanks for making me remember how old I am lol. Also, still just as creepy now as it was then 😮
Perfect timing for this video, especially when that fake nuclear bomb emergency broadcast was broadcast in Russia recently.
Who would’ve thought that the Max Headroom broadcast would become a real life Doctor Who episode? The broadcast hijack on WTTW occurred during the airing of the Doctor Who episode “Horror of Fang Rock”. Imagine how many people hid behind the sofa that night.
One of the first times I’ve been genuinely creeped out in a long time.
Yeah I know that creepy .😱
I'm more haunted that these studios can make a bold faced lie to the public and that's the end of it.
never heard of the david horowitz one,,, good vid!
This is really good compilation.
3:40. He was literally saying things about the newspapers. He obviously wanted to get on the papers for his tv hijacks
All of these are creepy as hell! Especially since there’s no answers for why or who did them!! I don’t know how the anchorman sat there reading that piece of paper so calmly and how he even asked him what some of the words were!! Wow!! Did his dad even get in trouble for having him there?? I bet they weren’t allowed to bring people with them in again after that!!
The max one wasn’t that scary.
He meant the second one@@bunchaidiots2065
@@bunchaidiots2065it was funny
"and Gary, where are you from" *takes off glasses quickly*
that sent chills down my spine for some reason 😶 especially when it cuts to a different screen
Love these vids keep going
the first radio takeover is literally the funniest thing I've seen yet
the max headroom one is just eerie
Good stuff! I've never heard of these
Always a pleasure to watch your vhs.
David Orowitz was calm and trying to get the story. Asking Gary questions 👍🏽
"The Max headroom incident, it's likely you've seen it before"
*nods profusely* 0:10
What’s good chilling scares love you man
Love your videos
The Max Headroom incident is always listed in these "Scary" or "creepy" TV takeovers but I always found it hilarious. It's just too goofy for me to take seriously