The Wall / Conet Project - Numbers Station

[SpeakSwedishStupid]

This is interesting.. I myself am into Sweden a lot. But never even heard that Swedes have their own massage technics untill tried it on myself... :) Love to your cgannel and all the others channels like Speak Swedish Stupid that keep Swedish language alive!

Keep uploading good videos!

[Tanzanite800]

Oh my god this is so creepy. I feel like it would be playing during a horror movie or something and it sounds like a demented nursery rhyme.

[brianartillery]

Does anyone have the 'Sinister Bells' Ident? That was the creepiest of all. I used to listen to the numbers stations on a shortwave set, and there seemed to be no rhyme nor reason to the numbers. I used to jot them down, and a couple of times, the numbers could have referred to global co-ordinates, but I was not that eager to find out, lest it get me into trouble... Has anyone seen the movie 'Knowing'?

[MisterBramin]

scary.

[emisfer]

Creepiest thing ever heard.

[TheEloeo]

Is it possible that's the one BoC sampled in Gyroscope?

[Kenshiroit]

its incredible, how many numbers she knows...

[MrDevilzman666]

This kind of number station is not scary,just love this track.Only the infamous Swedish Rhapsody is scary enough,more than playing Amnesia:The Dark Descend..

[WayfarinStrangr24601]

@MrDevilzman666 This is the Swedish Rhapsody...

[MrDevilzman666]

@WayfarinStrangr24601 No way.I thought the Swedish Rhapsody is the other...Well,thanks for the info...

[thatdamnbrownman]

Black ops....

[KhedK]

is this an ARG?

[gmpm]

this is so unnerving and bizarre its something id seriously consider putting on my iPod to use for runs around the track or on the stationary bike, hell maybe even lifting weights. just totally fucking strange and wacky and cool. I kinda like it.

[Renagadepatriot]

spycraft shortwave numbers

[PerseoNoAplica]

for me, Germany is an enigmatic country. I hope to visit someday

[alvaro761b]

8.3.11

[GreenJokerToker]

@alvaro761b Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, November Oscar, Brian Howe, Still Alive

[victorialucas38]

I used to tune into this stuff on shortwave back in the late 80s/early 90s. Even though it was the dying days of the Cold War, I couldn't help imagining some John Le Carre scenario as I heard those eerie voices and Radiophonic Workshop-type bursts of music. It's amazing the pictures that radio can paint in your head!

[TechnoGlitter2048]

I enjoy this. Am I crazy? Yes, I'd say yes.

[CrocodilusPontifex]

The numbers Mason! What do they mean!

[car7000]

@CrocodilusPontifex lol epic win

[DJCooqieDough]

Sounds like the Tokyo subway system

[XxD1EAN0TH3RD4YxX]

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[ealaspada]

Amazing!

[jimmy4841]

Shee said the N word Thats racist!

[submit2520]

Im not sure why but i would love this recording on my iPod do you have a link or something that will send me to it?

[navyblue82]

It's available online. Look for Conet project, Disc 1, Swedish Rhapsody.

[submit2520]

@navyblue82 Thank you, Now I am happy.

[fintonomalley]

video is 4:20 in length, im smoking a joint right now, 4:20 point to me :)

[GMSamuelRhine]

lmao childrens toy melody. thats odd.

[zakkgames]

I KEEP HEARING THE FUCKING NUMBERS!!!

[ThePOKOkitty]

black ops has them in it.

Finally someone gets numbers stations out more.

[droan999]

boards of canadas sound source for geo.

[Rawffuls]

Number 9... Number 9... Number 9... Number 9...

[20122017]

nice movie, love those numbers

[Rcrby525]

is it just me, or does the number station (which is still broadcasting to this day) match perfectly with the images and sync up creepingly well?

[juustohoyla]

Somewhere out there some east german veteran spy is laughing in amusement as we all try to figure out the point of these encoded messages

[gildedlink]

@juustohoyla if they even remember which message this was. These messages are number codes likely meant to correspond with one-time crypto pads, so unless this person has the gift of perfect recall I doubt they know just which message this one was on that day (though, given the fact that the conet project recordings might have timestamps, they can probably narrow it down)

[milesmuhldoon1]

should be more Walls built today. I say wall off the creeps drug gangs neighborhood and cry me a river about it you fucking scumbag Liberal Left Wing Sissies!

[HypaSonicDeathMonkey]

WHY THE HELL IS IT IN A LITTLE GIRL'S VOICE?!?!

[Schindlabua]

@HypaSonicDeathMonkey I've wondered about that too. Why would they make those number stations extra creepy? Just makes more people listen to them..

[FRSyndicate2]

@Schindlabua I don't think so.

[milesmuhldoon1]

eerie...very very eerie.

[NoiseMarines]

"All in all it's just a-nother bri-"

"Wrong wall, dumbass!"

[TallmanMike]

2:53 - "I'm free! I'm fre-*WHACK*-"....ouch".

[Olivier4322]

This is east-German/ DDR?

[mikesvampire]

I was watching the video then cat jumps up and makes me scream...

[evaunit143]

Communist ice cream trucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dsalimander]

HEAD BANG TO THIS SHIT

[SgtZippzapp]

2:31 xD

[jabajabamaster]

What is the purpose of the tunes?

[itachinaruto69]

Any chance number stations are still broadcasted?

[Ihatetoprocrastinate]

Every single day. Several of the old soviet-era stations have stopped broadcasting, but new ones seem to be popping up in asia. Here in the US Cuban transmissions are the easiest to find.

[PrivatePorky]

@itachinaruto69

yes they are but are rare

[grahamkeithtodd]

@itachinaruto69 yes mate every day of the week these odd number stations are boardcasting around the world.. just tune in on the short wave band near the end of the range and you will come across them!

[Darkgrammer]

@itachinaruto69 They still do, more than ever. Pick yourself a Ham Radio (Shortwave Radio) and scan for stations, you run into different variations of spook stations out there.

[Mashermat]

@Darkgrammer

It makes you wonder, all this just compounds the idea that spies are all around us in our own countries, governments are un-trusting and and filled with suspicion.

The integrity of global peace is much more delicate than we may thing.

[Tazzahbee]

I recognize these sounds from marilyn manson's current website ambience... Quite like him to reference something this bizarre

[RigoKellerColas]

Just went on the site to check it out. Man is it a boring site though.

[RigoKellerColas]

Manson also used another sample from a number station in two rusted horses. it's just weird noise half way through. It also happened to be taken from a recording of a broadcast that I had taken the same sample from TWO YEARS before THEOL came out!

[Skelic]

Bloody intriguing these recorded audiopieces from the Number Stations. They're played all around world and no one seems to know anything certain about them.

[hofnerman1]

Nver mind I just did a little research and had found this..."Numbers stations (or number stations) are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast artificially generated voices reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a spelling alphabet), tunes or Morse code. They are in a wide variety of languages and the voices are usually female, though sometimes male or children's voices are used."

[hofnerman1]

This sounds more like an ice cream trucks music with a small child rambling off a few numbers. What am I missing here.

[jacktorrance1978]

endurtekning villandi. númer framkvæmd, horn linsa. brothel fær 11 Prairie 35. lokun. hætta.

[l0lidude]

When i was about 5 years old, i heard a russian voice talking, and the words were very short, so i'm guessing maybe it was number. But it was on a walkietalkie, not a regular radio. Is that even possible?

[BinarySudoku]

raz dva tri cheritye; could be them?

[parasitex5]

I'm pretty sure that it is. That's kind of awesome.

[PlankKydo]

Yes.

[mistabiggz16]

Doubt it Numbers stations are usually on Very Low frequency and on short waves.

[superfunbad]

Are you sure it wasn't just a handheld shortwave? They can look a lot like walkie-talkies.

[LirinDassa]

Yeah, They work on short range signals and such. It's possible. I mean, if something messed with the signal you could have gotten some of it.

[Jaztee2]

Could've been a radio scanner instead of a walkie talkie. They look identical.

[l0lidude]

@Jaztee2 Well, yeah, but i don't see why i would have a radio scanner when i was a kid...

[Jaztee2]

I had one :)

[Maximillion666]

I remember as a kid in the 80's hearing these weird sounds on my grandpa's old shortwave radio. As a kid it confused the hell out of me lol.

[PatriotCrusader]

The "Ice Cream Truck from Hell" station always freaked me out a little bit. It definitely sounds eerier than the other number stations.

[fritzski22]

Great video - thanks.

[Wa3ypx]

Man, how would you like to have the cigarette concession to those gaurds. Their lungs should be like leather!

[vizualnoize]

@ 3:00 wow....sooooo awsome! i lovve mixing this with dubstep!

[williamsdirect]

that is so awesome

[jacktorrance1978]

Spice stations, "only"

[konkursmann]

Nice video, but i don't understand why people find it so scary... Maybe with the exception of E25 who sound like she has eaten WAY too much sugar

[Darkgrammer]

Because of the mystery of the unknown.

Kinda when you stare at space and a galaxy and start to wonder nonstop until you start freaking out.

We humans are overwhelmed with our curiosity and it will drive us mad to the point of being scared.

[evaunit143]

@Darkgrammer our curiosity will no doubt be the end of us

[Mashermat]

@Darkgrammer

It's the disadvantage to being able to reason.

A human does not normally reason, as the low level cognitive version (daily thought process) is normal, but if we assess and look closely at the details, nothing is as it seems.

[TutorialClarity]

@Darkgrammer well said

[gaff2006]

The numbers station coupled with the imagery of Cold War Berlin convey a sense that big brother is watching secretly, and knows what you're doing, and if you're doing something the govt. disapproves...you will be caught and punished.

[metafication]

ehh...just spies, you know?

[u2basher]

Peter Fechter and his bid for freedom.........RIP

[richardyingren]

I'm hearing old friends.

[HurdyGurdyChallenge]

Ladeepodtron and Hurdygurdygirl agree... this is a TRUE JAM!!

[ladypodtron]

You said it!

a true jam indeed!

i'm scared.

HURDYGURDY, ARE YOU THERE?

[avgadget]

of all thew conspiracy stuff out there this has to be the spookiest

[BrutalDeluxe80]

it's not a conspiracy,check out the numbers stations page on wikipedia.

[LeoE08]

nor is the New World Order...

[avgadget]

Of all the recordings of numbers stations I've heard this one is the most creepy. The melody that plays between the numbers gives me goose bumps.

[meekrob]

LOL The ice cream truck in Hell!

[isolationeitheror]

what is this vid from/?

[navyblue82]

The video is a mash of scenes from the Cold War era film documentary "The Wall" from 1962. Check in the "More info" description box in the top right of the video's page for a link to the Internet Archives. You can see the entire original film with original narration there. Search for "The Wall 1962". It is a excellent academic and quite factual propaganda film about the effect of the Berlin Wall of the lives of Germans in 1962.

[Agentcapture]

I didn't say it scares me. LOL I explained what WWV was sense it was mentioned in the comments. WWV is not a numbers station. LOL

Numbers stations should not scare anyone. They've been around for years. The just give orders to Agents in the field. ;)

[ReorderTone]

I'm not sure why, but the Swedish Rhapsody and The Buzzer frighten me the most. But then, the WWV time signal scares me too. :) Great choice of visuals to go with the recording.

[Wa3ypx]

Do you know if WWV still gives the geomagnetic pull of the earth? THAT freaked me out when I was younger. I would think "Is this what it should be or are we spinning out of control??"

[Agentcapture]

They do give sun flare reports.. I live 15 miles south of WWV here in Colorado. :)

Google for "tunable HF receivers" and use the frequencies, 2500, 5000, 10000, 15000 KHz.

There is more than one WWV. They're all around the world.

[onelasssttime]

It scares me too, it's in Ft. collins, isn't it?? there's a lot of shady stuff in CO..

[Agentcapture]

What is there to be scared of? ! LOL I explained what WWV is. WWV is not a numbers station and there is nothing to be scared of! LOL

[Rcrby525]

@onelasssttime WWV is the signal that the atomic clocks in the US use to sync up, WWVb is that signal, it's broadcasted at 60hz.

WWV is old, it was orginally a station that played concerts/miitary in it's earuyl days, then shifted to time keeping in the 40's, the numbers it repeats are the current UTC time

plus, it's run by the National Institute of Standars and Time.

[tuotierugif]

That's German she's speaking, not Swedish... very creepy sounding, though.

[planetery]

Swedish Rhapsody is the name of teh song taht punctuates the broadcasts.

[peterann1]

Excellent!! My parents generation seeking FREHEIT!!!!! I grew up in NYC Yorkville 'Germantown' so I know of the sacrifices made. One made it into West Berlin but leaving was another matter.

[Fallconn2]

has anyone decoded any of this stuff?

[peterann1]

No...one time pad transmissions had no available base. They were superior to Enigma coding types as assigned to one agent 'one shot'. When Wilson handed over punchcards to the Russians he gave info that would eventually lead to the cipher system process. Your computer has a far superior encryption system with a key....known by 'Big Brother'. Stay silent...stay deep.

[grahamkeithtodd]

yes fallconn2 quite a few years back one of the East German(DDR) Stasi spies was caught in West Germany and the BSG(West German intelligence) got his "one time pad" in eager anticipation they listened in to "MADGDERBURG ANNIE"(the east German numbers station based in MADGDERBURG East Germany and all they got was a long tirade about how there man in the west was spending far too much money for little or no result!

[peterann1]

BTW: Project Jenny?

[Fallconn2]

What was that? never heard about it

[peterann1]

SEARCH!!!! It was a MAC/SOVG airborne broadcasting platform over VietNam under Navy Blue Angels. VHF TV from 2" Ampex video decks gave GIs 3 hours TV a day. Had also AM/FM/HF broadcasting turned over to PsyOps for 'heart and mind' propoganda. PROJECT JENNY

[Fallconn2]

oh yeah. interesting. never heard of an airborne radio station before, indeed it was propaganda lol, if they wern't getting the shit blown out of them they were listening to this... lol

[peterann1]

I was just told they were night flights over VietNam. A Super Constellation aircraft was a big unarmed target but the Chinese/Russian MIGS generally flew for daylight resolution.

[mikolajev]

I recall listening to a station that resembled chirping birds, on the 41 meter band, in the 90s.

[rockgodmarty]

Numbers Stations are great fun to investigate.

[bulgravian]

It is hard to infer the origin of these transmissions from the accent used. First, these are synthesized or vocodered, in some sense denaturalized vocies. Second, the accent here represents operational necessity and not regional linguistic variants. Bundeswehr radio operators still say "fünnef" not because of any dialect, but to make it two syllable long. Also, zwei is pron.d as zwo in order to avoid confusion w/ drei. Null is pron.d zero to av. conf. w/ neun. Etc.

[navyblue82]

Good points. Radio transmissions for operational purposes can breed odd pronunciations. The FAA e.g. uses "Niner" for 9. Also, I believe the voice is automated in a primitive way similar to how Bell Telephone used a sampled female voice in the 1970s to say, "555-1212 is out of service." And I don't believe it is the voice of a female child. I believe the voice was sampled from an adult and then speeded up to an audio frequency thought best for radio intelligibility (like Alvin the chipmunk).

[peterann1]

Bell Telephone History: The womans voice you hear today on line AND asking you questions on your cellphone was found to be pleasing decades ago. She passed away over fifteen years ago! At the 63/64 Worlds Fair, an example of the electromechanical larayngth was displayed. Lady is ALIVE in my cellphone!!! Call..command not recognised...Dial number...say name or number...TWYLIGHT ZONE...calling achtneunneunfunfdreidreiacht neunsechssechsdrei

[anak1]

Isn't the pronunciation of "fünf" (five) as "fün(nü)f" considered to be East German?? If it actually was (as people suspect) an Austrian Scrt Srvc broadcast, why couldn't they use a West German or Austrian pronunciation for the numbers instead of an East German one??...

[navyblue82]

Nothing definitive is known about the origin of this station. But according to Langley Pierce's book "Intercepting Number Stations", Swedish Rhapsody was operated by Austrian Intelligence. As a result, several Austrians asked for recordings of this station so they could assess whether or not the announcer had an Austrian accent. Simon Mason of ENIGMA magazine sent sound files to them. The replies stated the announcer had no Austrian accent and indeed was not even a native German speaker at all.

[HurfinDurfin]

It sounded Swiss to me. Just by the way she said the numbers. She did have a good voice.

[C4eye]

This station also appears on the Disinformation "R&D" CD released by Ash International in 1997, check out the Disinformation clips on You Tube :)

[ryangassxx]

If you were to watch this not knowing what numbers stations were, in conjunction with this video, it's like someone's drug induced nightmare..

[amandalee7747]

I have been into num. stations since my 1st SW radio in about 83, 84.. 2 bad I rarely p/u anything these days. LOVE YOUR VIDEO A++++

[mooghammondb3]

What is that song which keeps playing??

[ArmyJames]

"Swedish Rhapsody"

[RevengeGoose]

how exactly can u listen to these stations? what equipment do you need?

[navyblue82]

You need a radio that can receive the Short Wave bands. The Shortwave bands cover from 3 MHz to 30 MHz. The simplest and cheapest way to explore the hobby is with an inexpensive portable radio that receives AM/FM/SW. One radio I currently use is a Kaito KA1103 that cost less than 90 dollars. You also need patience and an environment free from radio interference. Surf the internet or check with magazines like Monitoring Times for lists of currently active spy number frequencies and times.

[spicedjellybeans]

What's really creepy is how the voice spewing out the numbers sounds like a child.

[Spocko000]

That's because it is a child. It's known as the Swedish Rhapsody number station and uses the recorded voice of a female child. It's believed to be owned by the Austrian Secret service.

[Spocko000]

PS: Is this the swedish rhapsody file on the conet project?

[navyblue82]

Yes it is.

[sho887]

this happened the year i was born.

[Lonette]

I was stationed in West Berlin for two years with the 4th Battalion 6th U.S. Infantry Regiment. Never actually saw anyone try making it over to the free side, but I sure as hell observed a lot of East German and Russian soldiers. Visited the other side a few times and, man, was life ever friggin' bleak for the imprisoned citizens. Sure, it's different now. Wish all Americans could've then checked it out as we still take liberty and justice sooooooooo much for granted.

[redmustang03]

My mother went to Berlin in 1982 for a trip and she said that while on the train ride she was told not to look at the guards and keep your shut. I may have been young when the wall fell and didn't understand the price of freedom back then, but now I won't take anything for granted, neither will the Germans now today too.

[Lektrogrrl]

We don't take it for granted, there is no reason to. People should not fear their government; and people should not allow corrupt government. That is the only lesson to be learned here.

[r06u3AP]

"... the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern. The tacit contract between a government and the people governed is that the government will trust the people and the people will trust the government. (continued...)

[r06u3AP]

... But once the government begins to mistrust the people it is governing, it loses its mandate to rule because it is no longer acting as a spokesman for the people, but is acting as an agent of persecution." - Philip K. Dick

[Spocko000]

If living under Fuhrer Bush is your definition of Liberty and Justice, then let me live in a dictatorship.

[eckerbat]

You might not like that very much.

[eckerbat]

Really. You might not like that very much.

[dieselscience]

I was in Fulda '86-88. Not as far east as you but 11 miles from the East. I heard these on AM broadcast from time to time as well. You're right and of course everyone who hates the West will adamantly defend their preconceived notion that the East was always better. The boarder shootings were CIA lies - sure, as far as the 'useful idiots' know. O.P. Alpha and Ck. Pt. C are now museums, now if we could only get more people to see them.

[grahamkeithtodd]

@dieselscience i wish more people would old son...i used to be stationed at a small germen town called WOLFENBUTTLE near the west/east german border and our standing joke was that after Berlin and checkpoint ALPHA,we would be amosts the first to know if ww3 had broken out!

[kungfudapest]

Disneyland with spy number stations.  The man who was killed and dragged off in this movie had a girlfriend who crossed with him. She was successful in crossing into West Berlin.