5 Strangest Radio Stations & Most Mysterious Transmissions

From an unexplained Russian radio station playing strange sounds, to the infamous Yosemite Sam broadcast... Here are five eerie radio stations and transmissions from around the world!
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[MissStayingStrong]

I just imagine someone sitting in front of a microphone and making strange sounds, only to confuse the listeners xD

[QuintonReviews]

Fuckin' up at 5 am watching these videos instead of sleeping

[assaulttoad]

*_THE NUMBERS MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEAN?_*

[rollandstewart]

Russia's techno scene is off the chain.

[mht]

Fascinating, I remember my Mom listening to radio stations late at night (she liked having it on while asleep), and as we lived in Connecticut at the time, she could receive stations as far away as Canada, which impressed me.

[scantron]

In Soviet Russia, radio listens to YOU!

[MrBlueatlantis]

Top5s could easily give us all heart attacks by startling us with a big scares in his videos but he doesn't! Thus saving many lives of his fans trust him with.. What a man

[catchgenerics]

I was walking in the forest trail near my house alone at 10 pm, and this video popped up, and I was like fuck it, I'll watch it, so I watched it in pitch black at night in the forest. Booom

[salvaxevisuals]

wait am I the only one who watches that in the morning

[CamposMann]

Your voice is soothing as fuck...Thinking of making your voice into my alarm clock.

[themagus]

Most of these transmissions are what's called "channel markers". They are meant to monopolize a certain frequency most of the time, and allow a certain receiving entity to tune in on them exactly. They may be songs, language loops, tones, digital bursts, or just the repitition of a letter in morse code. The receiving person tunes in at a specific time for a message (in the case of spy stations), which are sent briefly and not often heard. Some may be military use instead of spy transmissions. The reason why spies continue to use shortwave for info is because anyone can be expected to have a shortwave radio, so no suspicion there. Receiving long-distance messages any other way can be tracked down or recorded. Many of these stations have been tracked down to specific sites overseas; some at commercial broadcast sites sharing an antenna. Spooky, creepy, strange, yes... but only because they are "not intended for public consumption". Plenty of radio geeks spend hours listening to and logging this stuff!

[timothykearns]

As an avid Amateur Radio Op for over 50-years, I've found that the USSR/Russia very often used/uses the 40M ham band (7.0-7.3 Mhz) for all manner of odd signals. Between 9 PM and dawn (LA time) is the best time to listen, especially when Japanese/European stations are heard. Propagation is very poor these days due to the sunspot minimum, but 40M can come alive occasionally during these hours.

[multiyapples]

i don't know why but Top5s always reminds me of Ferb from Phineas and Ferb

[Hauke]

The gong station plays a german song for kids, for me it sounds like its sung by grown men the lyrics are "Alle meine Entchen, schwimmen auf dem See, schwimmen auf dem See, Köpfchen unterm Wasser, Schwänzchen in die Höhe."

[Mortthemoose]

These don't actually sound creepy to me. I suppose if you grew up in the era of old radios (like I did), most of what you picked up inbetween proper radio stations, was static, and other strange noises. We were very poor growing up, and our only source of music was the radio. I am sure I actually remember picking up morse code in static between radio stations, which fascinated me. Kind of miss those Radio Caroline etc lol

[capt_pancakes_]

Number 4 is actually a standard radio transmission signaling all clear. Almost as in explaining orders are to go as normal. It is easier than broadcasting in voice as the patterns are more secretive

[Internaldegradation]

I remember when I was younger a friend and I were messing around with some walkie talkies in the woods. I think we accidentally picked up the frequency of a pilot talking to ground control (we live close to a small runway) and we started freaking out thinking someone was spying on us and planning to kidnap us. Needless to say I didn't use anything radio related for the next year or so.

[tammypace]

Great video..My dad was stationed in Arizona and was a huge ham radio fan... back in the 70's.. He heard some strange stuff to say the least..

[observerofmadness]

I have an even more puzzling experience. Sometime around 2000-2001, I was listening to some CD's via headphones at home on my stereo. I had ejected the disc, and was rifling through the stack of CD's picking out the next one to listen to, and I was hearing this strange sound faintly over my headphones. I reached over and turned the volume up, and I was hearing a long string of numbers, and letters in military style. Alpha, delta, Lima etc. The receiver wasn't even on. I had to strain to hear it, even with the volume all the way up, but it was definitely some type of communication in code.

[ripmo]

What they’re saying in The Pip:

Alright comrades, we need to rush B, alright?