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  • I'm directing a one act about a post-nuclear London this semester. The characters have paper bags over their heads the entire play, and at first I laughed thinking this would be a riot, but then realized that people seriously thought things like that would help. I can't say I don't expect laughter from the audience, but if I can get my actors not to play for laughs, I think people might realize the implications. (Right up my alley, too, as I'm a political science major!)

  • I live in leicester

  • scariest sound ever

  • This sound plays when I gotta go to the bathroom really bad.....

  • No matter what people say the siren worked. Perhaps too well No matter how frightening it is you secretly want one of these on your phone to scare people :P

  • I live around 8 miled away from Leicester, it's scary to think that where I live right now might have been bombed if the Germans didn't miss us and hit Coventry. Also it's cool to think that we once had such powerful production power, leading to the multi-cultured city that we are today.

  • scares the shit out of me.

  • Absolutely terrifying.

  • Love this noise... Although it's connotation is bad

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  • CONFESS!! Who woke Chuck Norris

  • I love that sound but hate wat it ment

  • its scary :(

  • where can i get one

  • This siren is either Gents of Leicester or Carter of Nelson, Lancs, it cannot be both!

    These firms both made sirens for WW2 and were competitors. If the photograph is anything to go by, then it is a 4HP Gents "Tangent" siren, the standard Government recommended issue for civilian use.

  • Theres a quarry near my house and i can hear a siren similar to this. i want it...

  • @1985woooman @Schutzraumtechnik999 You both are messed up for saying it is calming. Sickos like you shouldn't be on You Tube. Makes me wonder if you two spend time wanking off to this. Just sick!

  • @Luka2234 The only thing that is "calming" about an air raid is the all clear, am i right? D:

  • @maccamacca87 I'm not sure how to take that remark though I get what you're joking about. I just hope you're not one of those sick freaks who actuall like this.

  • @Luka2234 No, i just heard this on silent hill a couple of times, then bought some surround sound and played a VERY fucking funny prank on my roommate.

  • @Luka2234 why whats wrong with people who like this?

  • Imagine hearing this and the siren of the Stuka at the same time!

  • This was the all clear siren sound, so people listening to this would be more thab thankful to hear this.

  • The school was built from 1937 - 1939 and opened 5 months before the war.

  • My primary school had a civil defense siren System (it was so loud) that was used as a fire alarm system when I attended.

  • where I live they use an air raid siren to call the volunteer fire dept to duty, I hear it a lot too!

  • i live in a town that has one of thouse for firers its broke know sad i liked it :(

  • do you have a picture of a guy droping one off a roof?

  • i remeber hearing this and running to a shelter with my mum and brothers

  • Brings back bad thoughts of when I was a kid.

  • @Mattheweueu how old are u?

  • This is music to my ears, as long as the eminent destruction doesn't happen along with it. Kate Beckinsale was actually the British siren I was looking for and thank you @bestshowontheweb for allowing us to relive the frightful terror of a sky full of ME109's with your play by play broadcast.

  • What is it with all these comments about Silent Hill? Was there a siren in one of the Silent Hill videogames that sounded like this?

  • @Th3King86 yes. in all the silent hill games and the film the siren going off is the warning that the world is going to become all twisted and full of dangerous monsters.

  • That would scare the shit outta me...  ** just watch silent hill 2 siren theme *** same shit

  • the castle siren sounds very similar but used for a different reason for nukes, if you heard a castle siren and it was a nuke it is pretty much useless to get to cover

  • @27harrier lol yeah plus you could proably hear the nuke come down anyways

  • "All pilots to your planes. Repeat. All pilots to your planes. Coastal Defense radar has picked up five rafts of jerry bombers with fighter escort inbound over Dover. Intended targets include London and Coventry. All pilots are requested to be airborne immediatly."

  • @bestshowontheweb *Ring Ring* Dispersal? Squadron SCRAMBLE!!! Rabbit Squadron airborne, tophat control do you read me over?? Roger Rabbit leader this is tophat control, bandits 10 miles east of you heading north west, alter vector 3.2.0 and make angels 2.0, bandits 100 plus, repeat bandits 100 plus. Roger Tophat!

  • @bestshowontheweb Where I grew up there`s a field in which a WW2 bomb landed intended for Coventry, probably Peugeot as it`s about 400 yds from where it landed. A huge crater known locally as the bomb hole

  • @LudaMusser Coooooooooooooooooooool!

  • Its scary to think that its main function is to pretty much tell you. "Death and destruction is on its way"

  • Imagine sitting with your family, eating dinner. It is a little past 9pm. You are listening to the radio about the war (WWII) and hearing all sorts of horror stories. then 0:00 occurs.

  • Gives me goosebumps.

  • i hate the drop

  • i love tht sound, but they must be shit scared when they heard it!

  • just imagine how familys must of felt when they heard that sound in the 1940's

  • @27harrier What? The all clear? Very pleased?

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  • sound slike my old primary school fire alarm if only it was slightly quieter.

  • Nazi pyramid head is hear

    

  • comment six hundred and sixty six

  • this is the all clear

  • TSEEEEE GERMANS ARE COMMMMMIIIIINNNG !!!!!!!!

  • Corran cabrones, corran !!!!!!!!!!!

    Si los niños no pueden correr, dejenlos atras...

    xD

  • @camoelf initially you did not know it happened, then after you feel the air hit the blood, it tingles then hurts like a bitch. I think (for me anyway) the hearing protection interfered with processing the fact that my thumb was mangled and dangling by a chunk of skin. I stil cannot feel anything from it. Hey, at least we didn't turn around and sue like the dumbass at McDonald's.

  • @camoelf Actually... one night my friends were drunk and I was just bored (very bad combo). We have an STH 10 siren (among others) It clearly states on a decal not to put fingers into the ports. OK so Jorg goes ahead and sticks his middle finger in there and loses it, I think it through alittle and put my thumb (not a finger!) in. Well my thumb looks like a spiral-cut ham now, but is still there, unlike Jorg's finger.

  • @Schutzraumtechnik999 you're an idiot. Burn in hell devil worshipper.

  • 0:13 was that from the forst "Sound an alarm" film?

  • I want these sirens back!! The modern day sissy sounds do shit to me. If I hear this, I'd head to the nearest basement, like I'm supposed to.

  • this brings back old memories that chilled me to the bone.

  • @Aztexwarrior Hello sir, are you a world war two veteran?

  • Unimaginable the terror one felt when those echoed across London and Birmingham.

  • if we are here now it is because those sirens worked very good :-)

  • I really REALLY love this :P

  • this siren is so much better that the american one

  • why from 0:05 to 0:12 ,there is a background?

  • @namaikput Maybe it's folds in the photographs in stead of a background. Not sure though, thought the same as you at first.

  • It gives me the creeps

  • I feel weird when I hear this. I love it but at the same time I feel like I should duck and cover lol

  • Dont diss anyone this is serious shit btw  imagin it was u getin bombed or witnessing the sound of that alarm not very nice is it?

  • OMG ITS THE NAZI ZOMBIES!!! EVACUATE!!!!!!!!!

  • @SuperRaider22 You play too much Call of Duty.

  • One day u will hear this noise again at 7am. That will signal WW3!

    Hate to say it but one day! when?????

  • imagine what this sound meant to millions of people

  • when i played this my grandad jumped for his LEE - ENFIELD

  • This sounds is awesome and extremely scary at the same time.. it would make me shit my pants thinking about whats going to happen.

  • I love this sound :)

  • I would freak out when I hear this knowing what was to come shortly after.

  • Scary...Just imagine the people having to evacuate for fear of bombs. Those were the days.

  • I think the first 5 seconds is the scariest bit. Imagine just hearing that winding up.

  • @L0ND0NITE We used to have a Carter siren exactly like this on the fire station roof in my town when I was little in the days before mobile telecommunication. When it went off it was really un nerving. Must have been really scary in WW2 just before a raid started.

  • @L0ND0NITE We used to have a Carter siren exactly like this on the fire station roof in my town when I was little in the days before mobile telecommunication. I used to hate going by the fire station in case it went off. It used to go off every week for a practice run (short burst) but if there was a fire it went alot longer.Used to make my stomach have butterflies when it went off. Must have been really scary in WW2 just before a raid started.

  • I agree with @JohnDeereRB, I have no idea why but i love that sound

  • @Reilyo Imagine someone that saw his people dying while listening to it.....hear it again

    Bad memories will come in mind

  • @77elvistheking Like my mother, who was a little girl in Berlin during this time and never saw many of her relatives again after this...

  • @ol2fiddy My Grandfather fought in the war against the Italians and after that against Germans here in Greece.

    I really don't know if he ever heard one of these.

    He died when i was 7 so i never had the chance to ask him and the only thing i remember is some stories from the war,though usually he didn't want to tell me about the war.

  • Oh and having to wake up to that late at night I would have crapped my pants

  • woo leicester :D

  • This sound is shit scary! Its really spooky and makes you feel really cold!!

  • the shelters are full of zombies

  • I was born in London in 1940. Bombed twice and that sound still gives me a knot in my stomach. Couldn't they've done a sort of jingly bell one like ice cream sellers?

  • much more creepy than the german E57-sound...

  • @Vanta8008 lol yeah true but the german one seems to get you more pumped this one just makes you feel like the world is going to end

  • I remember one of these was mounted on a police box right outside our school in the 70's. They used to test it now and again too.

  • oh boy silent hill

  • ilovethis sound

  • this striked fear and displeasure into people to attract attention. they also used them to tell planes that 'surprise has failed you german scums'

  • @lukekellycopy A nice thought, but there's no way on earth you'd hear an air raid siren from the air, especially over the drone of a bombers engines, even at low level.

  • creepy gives me goose bumps

  • OHH SHIT HERE COMES PYRAMID HEAD!!

  • atleast ours does not sound like a Rabid cat in a blender

  • LOL my city has exactly this one LOL!!!! idk how I found it but it's the same :D I live in San Carlos, Chile ^^ lmfao anyway it's scary o.o lol if any gringo comes to my city u'll hear this scary siren everyday xD!

  • o som do terror

  • time to get into the bunkers

  • EPIC! So scared you die where you stand

  • where i live (france brest) a air siren goes off every first wendsday of the month at 12 o clock (lunch time) and i allways look at the sky to see if any bombers are coming cause you never know....

  • this siren sound is always used in WW2 movie trailers :)

  • @mEtzG3rX That's disrespectful to the people who had to fight in the war.

  • this just sounds like a i dont knwo the oldest car in the world

  • Scary world when schools have built-in sirens.

  • we got fed this propaganda shit via movies and even our local school that the russians would nuke us at anytime , and fed us fear mongering from ww11 video clips and these fuckin air raid sirens and it was all a lie to justify the cold war.

  • personally these: sirens creep me out. didn't they call them back then "when the banshee wails?"

  • For fucks sake, call of duty! Thanks to you, I shit my fucking pants when I hear this!

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  • when i hear this i remember mt. pinatubo eruption and iwas 12 back then now im 33.i miss clark air base philippines

  • ALL CLEAR!!!!

  • Those sirens save lives.

  • yeahhh!!!

  • As a child I was outside our kitchen back door and looking up at the paint tins on top of the wall when the air raid siren started. For some reason I was fascinated by the golden sun on one of the paint tins when suddendly I was grabbed and quickly rushed indoors when seconds later a German bomber came across the houses straffing them and the bullets went straight down the path where I was playing.. Close shave for me But thanks to my Grand mother she saved my life that day.

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  • "This is London......"

  • @Lockbar This is london after bombs. Any questions?

  • I dont know why I love this freaking sound

  • @JohnDeereRB same here, but if you heard this back in the day you shit bricks instead of liking it.

  • @JohnDeereRB because it's so generic

  • @JohnDeereRB Same here.. which is strange because I know that a lot of people actually came to their death after hearing these sirens all over Europe.

  • @JohnDeereRB So do I but it scares me sometimes if it really happens.

  • @JohnDeereRB Are you English?

  • @JohnDeereRB lol Same. Used to scare the shit out of me as a kid, but for some reason now I can listen to it like I can rock music or something

  • Unfortunatly the V2 did not announce its arrival to everyone, just an almighty bang and a hole 30ft deep. It vapourised anyone it landed on as it did on Bauwns factory in Walthamstow London at 14.22 one afternoon when everyone had just come back from dinner and 108 were injured and lost.

  • this makes me think what if this was me and the war siren was going off

  • man, i love war

  • @mEtzG3rX who the hell loves war ?

  • @TheImmigrantsong everybody

  • ur right if i had a chance to fight even though im not military i would or die trying.

  • @TheImmigrantsong .MARINES!!!!

  • @TheImmigrantsong It's not a matter of loving war itself, and all the horrible things that happen during war. It's a matter of having a loving interest for war...

  • @xBrutalB Can you explain the difference?

  • @TheImmigrantsong The technology, the strategy, the weaponry, etc. All of it is fascinating. Just because you love all of that doesnt mean you love the deaths that occur during the war. Your pretty ignorant if you think that...

  • @xBrutalB I wanted to say that people see movies and games and think that war is cool and so on. And you know what I mean. Just whatever.

  • @TheImmigrantsong Yeah, those are the ignorant people that have no understanding of what war is. I love the honor, camaraderie, heroism, patriotism, technology, strategy, weaponry, etc. that you only see in times of war. Which is why it is so damn attracting to so many people including myself.

  • @TheImmigrantsong in my city that's the fire department's alarm....

  • @TheImmigrantsong anyone with a penis

  • @tigerbait134

    let me guise- born in Switzerland, Canada, Australia or any other country in which your only experience with war is playing computer games. I hear this sound- my body almost runs by itself to the closest shelter- an action I'm quite familiar with. War is man kind at its worst. NO ONE likes war.

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  • @Akoplewitz Dunno if you know mate but Canada and Australias soldiers fought valiantly for the Commonwealth in both WW1 and WW2. We owe them a debt of gratitude. Not to mention they continue to help us in current conflicts.

    So in future, keep schtum.

  • @Akoplewitz and there's sickos here who actually enjoy the sound and get off to war. I bet if they were in the front lines, they'd be singing a whole different tune!

  • @Luka2234 Oh Christ, I'm in this part of YouTube again, but seriously Sirenophiles exist now?

  • @mEtzG3rX are you loose in the head or are you some call of duty addicted teenager who knows nothing about war. i have Served in afghan and the 2nd gulf wwar. they are nothing compared to the 2 great wars but i can tell u i have seen some nasty shit and your tone makes me fuckin sick. i wish they would ship dis-respectful arseholes like your self to the front lines, then tell me what you think of war!

  • Oh Hitler is a stupid

  • This is actually the sign for all clear

  • A truly chilling sound and very reminiscent of WW2- I can imagine the fear but necessary stoism that residents of London's East End had to face night after night. And not just the East End, but many other parts of London, Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, Belfast, Sheffield, Liverpool, Clydebank, Manchester, Plymouth, Cardiff.... the list goes on....

  • my heart dropped hearing this.

    my great gran was born just before ww1 & looked after evaquees in ww2, i used to love listening to all her stories, and The Imperial War museum in London will never get boring, no matter how many times i visit it.

    i remember going in an Air raid shelter (simulater) at the museum, was so emotional. R.I.P all our fallen soldiers, brave heroes. xx

  • i never really understood wat really happened wen that siren alarmed

  • @cottoncandy443 AIR RAID!

  • YEEHAW

  • Fuckin brings back wierd chills down my throat

  • Look ma planes GET AWAY HURRY!!!!! 0:35Why ma THERE DROPPING BOM-er just get in Whats the bang sound Fireworks why are sirens goin off cause there dangurous and may hit somthing So fire works are dangurous wit fire works yes highly exsplosive fireworks

  • RENNT UM EUER LEBEN! ER HAT 'NER PANZERFAUST!

  • @bestshowontheweb it is "lauf um euer Leben! er hat Panzerfaust!"

  • @Schutzraumtechnik999 It's from the MOH trailer. that probably explains it.

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  • During the war this is one sound you hope to never hear because it meant iminent air raid, 

  • @andrewwatson39 Or incoming missles that the Germans used against the British.

  • @andrewwatson39 Actually, this is the one sound you wanted to hear, because the sustained 30 second siren was the all-clear signal.

  • my next door neighbors are jewish I wonder what will happen when i.....

  • Hide your kids, hide your wife and hide your husband cause they bombing everyone out here.

  • all I think of when I hear this are the Morlocks from the original theatrical version of HG Wells The Time Machine...it's the dinner bell!

  • A very chilling sound. Does anyone know did the sirens vary from city to city; did every major industrial centre even have them. Birmingham, Portsmouth, Coventry, Sheffield, Bristol, Belfast, Liverpool and many other British cities were also badly bombed but im not sure if these particular sirens were unique to London?

    Thanks