I think what makes this video particularly unnerving is the presence of familiar locations and sights, but with one thing missing: people. There's only still life, and the tune that sounds like something from your childhood, but a mockery of that, takes you away from the familiarity.
stuff like this is fascinating, the same way we find spies and the unknown interesting. its very cruel, we will never know what these freaking numbers mean, or what these intervals of musical melodies playing over and over mean. It's creepy knowing that these messages could reveal rendevouz points with local assets or assassination commands.
Essentially the song in the middle is an interval signal
It helps people tune in as it also helps people know that the frequency is being used. Either way, it's very creepy. As for the numbers, I don't really know.
so wierd mysterious. somebody is planning something somewhere. we are all doomed! all our hopes our dreams! NO NO NO please god help me! Or it could be just some people fooling around on the radio. Who really knows? Cept the dudes who are actually send out these "messages".
It´s German eins (AAINS) - one zwei (SWAII, sometimes spoken ZWO) - two drei (draii) - three vier (fia) - four fuenf (funf) - five sechs (seks) - six sieben - seven acht (akt) - eight neun (noin) - nine just german numbers :'D very interesting and mysterious...
It´s German eins (AAINS) - one zwei (SWAII, sometimes spoken ZWO) - two drei (draii) - three vier (fia) - four fuenf (funf) - five sechs (seks) - six sieben - seven acht (akt) - eight neun (noin) - nine just german numbers :'D very interesting and mysterious...
Number stations are rumored to be used for spys, so they can send each other messages, It's very confusing and Doesn't make sense, Morse code is the best idea to use, I agree with a few people on it being creepy, @Xmar4 Same :)
My favorite, High Art, a Classic. Interplay of images, light, shadows, breeze, sound, motion... contribute to a sense of mystery. Lack of Context is the primary feature of these transmissions. Without physical possession of One-Time Pad Decrypytion is Mathematically impossible. I'm no authority on the Subject; but have heard: V13, VTN, V2, M8a, SK01, V24, M94... on the Wireless. Takes a little getting used to, but is fascinating subject as is these HF Bands themselves, allways something new.
I dislike this, it's dishonest. Numbers stations have nothing at all to do with this opportunist's bedsheets, flaking paint, imported European antiquities or brass door knobs. We will not never know if I could enjoy a double negative. You can actually see the machines which made these noises being dissected on spewTube
If you transmitted on 500,000 Watts for a few seconds the communication department would have you in prison in a flash. But number stations.
They say what number stations. But I have been hearing them for the last 40 years.
Maybe they are just crackpots Hey Yea the hundreds of number stations are just all crackpots and they all happen to have 500,000 Watt transmitters in the shed and they have been doing this for about 50 years. Time to wake up sheeple.
@nasamanharry Nobody is denying the existence of number stations but I think you are confused when you mentioned 500kW transmitters in sheds.
Numbers broadcasts (or more correctly narrowcasts) are one way messages sent by an intelligence agency from their own country or a friendly nation which is hen received by their operatives who are working covertly overseas. The operatives themselves as a rule only use receivers and do not transmit.
@nasamanharry Nobody is denying the existence of number stations but I think you are confused when you mentioned 500kW transmitters in sheds.
Numbers broadcasts (or more correctly narrowcasts) are one way messages sent by an intelligence agency from their own country or a friendly nation which is then received by their operatives who are working covertly overseas. The operatives themselves as a rule only use receivers and do not transmit.
@nasamanharry Here USA Max for Amateurs is 1500 Watts. Top end for AM (MW) Broadcasters is 50,000 Watts. You must be in Europe and have listened to a lot of them. Often the same transmitters are used For international short wave Broadcasting. I've heard South Korean, Cuban, and Taiwanese (V13) "New Star Broadcasting" Number Stations- Morse Code, Digital, and Voice Moods. Also, do I dare mention: The High Frequency Global Communications System? unbelievable, but true.
It is a little different from an 8 year old girl saying numbers with background noise. Because an 8 year old girl would not be transmitting on around 500.000 Watts. To give you an idea of what 500.000 Watts is. CB Citizen band radio is limited to 4 Watts the Police 9 Watts. 500.000 Watts is common for numbers stations and yet they can interfere with air traffic control without any consequences. Your Governments don`t want to know.
the lil' song starting at 0:16 is the starting song of submarine symphonika by the submarines(song used in the iphone ad), i wonder why are they allways using this song with number stations :/
What the shit is a number station and why is it any more significant than a simple 8 year old girl saying numbers with a bit of shitty background noise?
Numbers (note the plural) stations are shortwave radio stations. Although various guesses can be made for the location of them, at least most if not all of them haven't been located 100% accurately. Their purpose is also unknown, though the most accepted theory is that the stations transmit messages to spies working in foreign countries. These messages often come coded as numbers or in Morse code. Anyone can listen to them, so nobody can ever know who is transmitting what to who.
The way these messages could be sent is what makes them so interesting. You tell the spy to listen on the 3rd of every month at 7:45 pm, and the first 5 numbers after the chimes are his message. He checks his pad, and the numbers translate as "no new instructions, continue as before." Or maybe "they suspect you, use plan B to escape country" or whatever. The rest of the numbers being read are just gibberish. Without knowing the pad and schedule, there'd be no way to figure out the code.
Well, maybe not, but if anyone other than a government agency does it, the station gets raided and the operators get fined heavily or jailed. We're talking multi-kilowatt broadcasts, to schedule, on schedule, every day for the past 50 plus years. They'd have been found and busted years ago.
This is in german. In the beginning the voice counts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, zero and so on. I think it's adressing someone especially, then it says "attention" and is voicing a code of numbers from 0 to 9.
The numbers are spoken in military manner, so I think it's code from an intelligence service.
From when is it? It could be from the MfS (GDR intelligence service).
god this is so creepy. it's the middle of the day and I listen to it and I'm a little freaked out. I feel like something is going to happen or something is going to get me. WHY IS THIS SO INTERESTING THOUGH? no matter how freaked out I am I can't stop looking stuff up about it. so cool
It's human nature. We are intrigued by that which we do not understand no matter how creepy it may be. And you're right, this is really creepy. The seemingly unrelated video with no radio or people in sight adds to it.
@Xmar4 this one is the creepiest of all numbers stations for me. OThers are kinda beautiful. Once i heard one by myself, they dont sound so scary anymore
@Xmar4 Just like how you look at a word spelled backwords and hearing a song your brain recieves a message that is sent to the body. The brain understands the message before your body does, however your brain tells your body how to react. This message is a threat, a out dated threat. Your brain is preparing you for any future situation like this.
surely if number stations were some super secret international government conspiracy they would switch to a method of transmitting messages that not everyone could listen in on?
No, on the contrary. That is the strength of it. Since anyone with a standard shortwave radio could hear this, there is no way to identify the intended recipient. As well, since the code is not crackable, there is no danger in the mesage being compromised regardless of how many people hear it.
It's like Area 51. Personally I don't believe there are aliens there (maybe experimental aircraft). What if it's all true though? Most people who believe it are thought of as crazy or stupid. So why would they bother trying to cover it up when no one will believe the truth?
@pitcalco Uncrackable you say? Are you a cryptography professional? It's not uncrackable if for example you send out a similar message back in a different voice. Or try sending back several similar messages until one is returned in response. This is known as a chosen cipher text attack. It may not be easy, but no cryptographic scheme is completely secure.
@deusprogrammer Yes, it is literally uncrackable and can be mathematically proved to be so. Part of the uncrackability (if you can say that) is the manner in which it was used. These were/are one-way communications and you would never "send back" a similar message and try to get a response. These codes are generated from so-called "one-time pads", used once and then discarded. So far, it is the only truly uncrackable cipher devised.
It doesn't matter that he's not a cryptographer. There is a mathematical proof that the one time pad system if indecipherable when used properly. It is no more up for debate than 2+2=4.
This is mildly disturbing... Just the background pictures (which in any other case would appear rather comforting) are stressing the hell out of me as I listen to this.
I first read about these things in a book called "Big Secrets" and my hair stood straight up. It still creeps me out. At the same time though, all this skullduggery in a way kinda keeps everybody honest.
These are known as "numbers stations", said to be transmitted to spies in foreign countries, by the spies homeland. A series of numbers to be decoded by the spies.
@sullywully182 the scary thing about these number stations is that they are supposed to be illegal to listen too. they are from the cold war and are still being transmitted to this day. no one know where the broadcasts come from or who transmits them and most world governments still deny that they even exist. although you can be arrested in many places for recording or being caught listening in on them. so its scary that governments deny that they exist and then pass laws about them.
I haven't heard one in ages, and this one apears to use a few different languages. It doesn't sound like Spanish either but an occasional Eglish number.
I remember listening to these sounds under the covers as a kid when I shoulda been sleeping. I found it completely compelling then as I do now. I knew I'd come across something I shouldn't have...
By the way I love how you put these shots together. So normal yet so, so sinister. The shotgun against the chair... And the door at 0:27 ; I swear I was waiting for someone to start pushing it slowly open... I ain't gonna sleep tonight.
Also, fun fact: The newer Swedish Rhapsody recordings have replaced the music with NO music, and the Female German's voice is now replaced with an American woman's voice.
The actual message starts at 1:20: "attention-17277-17277-attention." At 1:33 a list of 5-digit numbers is given, each one repeated: "[garbled]-17768, 19999-19999, 22227-22227, 81871-81871, 54198-54198." At 2:08 it pauses and goes to the next group: "28956-28956, 81154-81154, 20802-20802, 18412-18412, 41785-41785." At 2:44 it pauses and then: "Ende."
I think it says, "I'm in your closet, deciding whether or not to murder you in your sleep. Ende."
If you're referring to the numbers, I'm pretty sure they're crap-free. If you're talking about my facetious decryption at the end, "full of crap" doesn't apply because that phrase connotes ignorance or an intent to deceive, and I assumed most folks would see it as obviously made-up.
pa treci put kada posle onog usporavanja glasa pustaju, isfirtriran glas poslusaj malo bolje, jedan, šest, sedam, a neke brojeve govori i na nemački tu jesi u pravu1
you speak Serbian language? šest, sedam, pet .. ovde se jasno čuju brojke na srpskom, ali ono alt, bi moglo da bude ili razmak ili crtica, ili tačka izmedju brojeva u nizu. Neka malo bolje poslušaju ljudi koji poznaju srpsko-hrvatski, pa će vam isto reći, da su brojevi izgovoreni na jugoslovenskom ajde da ga kazemo posto isto se izgovara i na srpskom i na hrvatskom!
my 6-year-old sister said that it was a little girl talking about ice cream, then at the end of the video, she told m to tell 'them' that her friend wants ice cream. then she left the room.
It isn't a little girl talking about ice cream. It is a Woman, who sounds Swiss speaking Standard German, counting from 1-10, then in random intervals.
IDK. I think she sounds Swiss. I only say it because the only form of German I can speak is Swiss German. I was telling F2tusRape on another video that I thought she wasn't a native German speaker because some of the things she said in her video sounded like common mistakes made by American speakers speaking German. How would you say she is? She does sound around 20ish, but other times she sounds like she's a small child.
It's "zwo" German 'zwei' can not be distinguished "zwei" and "drie" sound the same on a static filled radio. It's all in German (actually, this voice is from mid 1980s East Germany.) I was living in Fulda at that time.
Yet, people in Eastern Germany tend to say "Zwee" instead of "Zwo" or "Zwei".
Maybe she just added an "H" to the end of the "Zwo", kinda overemphasized, just to make it clear. Of course you could just blame it on the "bad" audio quality.
But the "Zwo" would sound like that in East German, yes.
That song is called "Swedish Rhapsody" It was used by the Swedish intelligence service as a 'confirmation of reception' by the people who were the intended recipients of the number transmissions.
Darkgrammer is correct, it was how spies got orders from their home countries.
Some number stations are pretty freaky since they don't have good sound quality since they're on shortwave stations
The freakiest part about this one is the little girls voice along with that jingle that sounds like a ghost ice cream truck coming for you when you're all alone at night and you can't get away
I really don't know how spies can listen to this in the middle of the night without needing new pants afterwards
weird video, i dont get all this number thingy whats it all about whos it from whos it to etc is it some sort of secret code does the numbers in sequence deliver a message.
she is saying "ein zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht neun null" She is pronouncing the neun (nine in english) as nevun. This is phonetic german numerals like American military says niner for nine.
At 1:21 the transmission changes (I assume this is what you are talking about..now I see) to "Warning one seven two seven seven one seven two seven seven" she then goes on to read other seperate numbers. I think at the end she says "ende". Maybe mispronouced due to computer used.
Its a german number station off of the 2nd disc of the conet project (a series of recording from various number stations.)Those numbers are in german,the music in the middle is a filler just incase someone tuned in,Its from the radio.If I knew german,I could be able to extract the numbers and decode it.
Without the legend key you wouldn't get very far the numbers correspond only one time for one message then they are changed, so it is practically undecodable by major governments listening to one another, not saying you couldn't do it but I doubt it.
At the beginning if it had a three digit number,you would decode corresponding to the three digit number.If not,there are programs that can run all the numbers through various cypher patterns.
No, numbers station messages are widely believed to be encrypted using one time pads, which are unbreakable. Unless you have a copy of the decryption pad, it's literally impossible to decrypt the messages, as they could be anything.
yup its true.. google 'one time pad' the only way to decode these messages is with the SPECIFIC pad the message was for, otherwise transmitting secret codes over sw frequencies would be pointless.
You are correct. Today's clendestine service oficers key in their information to their laptops, or simply download the message and decode the burst data.
even if you had all the numbers laid out it doesnt matter they would be ust numbers to you...its more than that, its how many times the song plays how many times she says the numbers, the intervals in between, its also a code from a one time pad. so it only ment something for the transmitter and the recipient.
These things are so creepy and fascinating at the same time. I've got the alternate version of this recording with the creepy-eyed girl already saved to my Favorites, but I'm also adding this version.
so eerie becus is actually telling spys who to kill and where
picaticatara 10 months ago
[insert black ops quote here]
Zaroon115 10 months ago
Good video made...!
s52ab 11 months ago
I find it difficult to masterbate to this video.
UncleSickey 11 months ago 5
O.O Must kill Lincoln
codemonkey155 11 months ago 2
Sorry, wrong number....
aqdrobert 1 year ago 4
@aqdrobert ...... hot damn, I remember that play......
vyperhawk71 11 months ago
Just remember kids, they know more about you than you know about yourself.
shoplifting1is1fun 1 year ago
Ice cream for everyone! HYEZ.
Xjreme18 1 year ago
im sitting alone in my room with the lights turned off...i shouldnt have watched this o.o
Yokonono99 1 year ago
hey they DSL sweet lol
Mbit100 1 year ago
1:55 MEDICINE BALL!!!!1111!!11!
catchingthesignals 1 year ago
@catchingthesignals Those things are handy for dodge ball :P
pivotjuggalo 1 year ago
ICE CREAM :D
blatten123 1 year ago
@blatten123 The Romans said to control the masses give them bread and circuses but maybe ice cream and short wave stations are are a better way!
5456thasmynumber 1 year ago
Ice-cream truck drivers are spies.
lesliekwan80 1 year ago 3
Cow four cow four four.
Six singin' knock now cock.
HarvestmanMan 1 year ago
MASON! THE NUMBER BROADCAST! WHERE IS IT!
Packerton 1 year ago 4
Quite correct, only a select few know! Without the OTP it's just random numbers! Still good stuff though!
VoiceDudeUK 1 year ago
I think what makes this video particularly unnerving is the presence of familiar locations and sights, but with one thing missing: people. There's only still life, and the tune that sounds like something from your childhood, but a mockery of that, takes you away from the familiarity.
HeavyxMedic53 1 year ago 4
ICE CREAM MAN!!!!! mom i need a dollar now!!!
dcoy360 1 year ago
love the ice cream van, know any good active freqs?
20122017 1 year ago
stuff like this is fascinating, the same way we find spies and the unknown interesting. its very cruel, we will never know what these freaking numbers mean, or what these intervals of musical melodies playing over and over mean. It's creepy knowing that these messages could reveal rendevouz points with local assets or assassination commands.
yurikomuro 1 year ago
@yurikomuro
Essentially the song in the middle is an interval signal
It helps people tune in as it also helps people know that the frequency is being used. Either way, it's very creepy. As for the numbers, I don't really know.
IHateStalagmites 1 year ago
the pictures really add to the creepiness factor
Xmar4 1 year ago
xD Next time the ice cream car comes around i'm gonna ambush it and held the man in custody for transmiting a number station D:<
olmaho 1 year ago
It's that damn tinkling music that makes it so unnerving.
StickWarrior 1 year ago
I have seen a lot of these videos and none of them really creeped me out til 1:30 in this one. Then I almost shit my pants
AlmightyPooba 1 year ago
so wierd mysterious. somebody is planning something somewhere. we are all doomed! all our hopes our dreams! NO NO NO please god help me! Or it could be just some people fooling around on the radio. Who really knows? Cept the dudes who are actually send out these "messages".
abcedy123456 1 year ago
That voice is in german
Witzigerjoker 1 year ago
MrAce357 1 year ago
MrAce357 1 year ago
Number stations are rumored to be used for spys, so they can send each other messages, It's very confusing and Doesn't make sense, Morse code is the best idea to use, I agree with a few people on it being creepy, @Xmar4 Same :)
ZachTLehner 1 year ago
@ZachTLehner You know numbers stations also broadcast in Morse right?
clapton1958 1 year ago
@ZachTLehner Morse is standardized, so everyone knows. they need something no one but the intended listener can understand
F0reseer 1 year ago
hahahahaha
N64Guy 1 year ago
My favorite, High Art, a Classic. Interplay of images, light, shadows, breeze, sound, motion... contribute to a sense of mystery. Lack of Context is the primary feature of these transmissions. Without physical possession of One-Time Pad Decrypytion is Mathematically impossible. I'm no authority on the Subject; but have heard: V13, VTN, V2, M8a, SK01, V24, M94... on the Wireless. Takes a little getting used to, but is fascinating subject as is these HF Bands themselves, allways something new.
956jbjurt8g 1 year ago
Achtung(=Caution) 17277 17277 Achtung (Distortet Noise) 17768 10000 10000 22227 22227 81871 81871 54108 54108 28056 28056 81154 81154 20802 20802 18412 18412 41785 41785 Bingo
FoXakaFoX 1 year ago
@FoXakaFoX
the first arent zeros, they are nines.
9 = neuen = neun
0 = null
dakahless 1 year ago
@dakahless yeah youre right.
FoXakaFoX 1 year ago
I dislike this, it's dishonest. Numbers stations have nothing at all to do with this opportunist's bedsheets, flaking paint, imported European antiquities or brass door knobs. We will not never know if I could enjoy a double negative. You can actually see the machines which made these noises being dissected on spewTube
g7txu 1 year ago
1...337....1337 15 4\/\/350/\/\3.......
that would be so cool if the code was half leet....
but that would be so easy to crack the code then....
pokemonLinoone 1 year ago
sounds sexy she sounds HOT
N64Guy 1 year ago
@N64Guy Dude, that's a child's voice. What's wrong with you???
jedihunter176 1 year ago
THATS FINE I WASNT GOING TO SLEEP TONIGHT ANYWAY
Wars0ngGlutch 1 year ago 19
If you transmitted on 500,000 Watts for a few seconds the communication department would have you in prison in a flash. But number stations.
They say what number stations. But I have been hearing them for the last 40 years.
Maybe they are just crackpots Hey Yea the hundreds of number stations are just all crackpots and they all happen to have 500,000 Watt transmitters in the shed and they have been doing this for about 50 years. Time to wake up sheeple.
More going on than you realize.
nasamanharry 1 year ago
@nasamanharry Nobody is denying the existence of number stations but I think you are confused when you mentioned 500kW transmitters in sheds.
Numbers broadcasts (or more correctly narrowcasts) are one way messages sent by an intelligence agency from their own country or a friendly nation which is hen received by their operatives who are working covertly overseas. The operatives themselves as a rule only use receivers and do not transmit.
g7txu 1 year ago
@nasamanharry Nobody is denying the existence of number stations but I think you are confused when you mentioned 500kW transmitters in sheds.
Numbers broadcasts (or more correctly narrowcasts) are one way messages sent by an intelligence agency from their own country or a friendly nation which is then received by their operatives who are working covertly overseas. The operatives themselves as a rule only use receivers and do not transmit.
g7txu 1 year ago
@nasamanharry Here USA Max for Amateurs is 1500 Watts. Top end for AM (MW) Broadcasters is 50,000 Watts. You must be in Europe and have listened to a lot of them. Often the same transmitters are used For international short wave Broadcasting. I've heard South Korean, Cuban, and Taiwanese (V13) "New Star Broadcasting" Number Stations- Morse Code, Digital, and Voice Moods. Also, do I dare mention: The High Frequency Global Communications System? unbelievable, but true.
956jbjurt8g 1 year ago
It is a little different from an 8 year old girl saying numbers with background noise. Because an 8 year old girl would not be transmitting on around 500.000 Watts. To give you an idea of what 500.000 Watts is. CB Citizen band radio is limited to 4 Watts the Police 9 Watts. 500.000 Watts is common for numbers stations and yet they can interfere with air traffic control without any consequences. Your Governments don`t want to know.
nasamanharry 1 year ago
I like the pictures of home! If that's where you live your one lucky man. I wish I lived there. Looks knda nice and peaceful
PAM2167 1 year ago
It kind of makes you wonder what stuff is happening all around you behind your back and exactly just how safe you actually are in this world.
Guilmon470 1 year ago
what the fuck happens at 1:35
MrStarlin666 1 year ago
the lil' song starting at 0:16 is the starting song of submarine symphonika by the submarines(song used in the iphone ad), i wonder why are they allways using this song with number stations :/
raxater 1 year ago
THE ICECREAM MAN IS COMING!
Protection220 1 year ago
@Protection220 We are all gonna die D:
ConfusedAndAwesome 1 year ago
This is just the German version of countdown!
Theanonymous1s 1 year ago
What the shit is a number station and why is it any more significant than a simple 8 year old girl saying numbers with a bit of shitty background noise?
someguy131415 1 year ago
@someguy131415
Numbers (note the plural) stations are shortwave radio stations. Although various guesses can be made for the location of them, at least most if not all of them haven't been located 100% accurately. Their purpose is also unknown, though the most accepted theory is that the stations transmit messages to spies working in foreign countries. These messages often come coded as numbers or in Morse code. Anyone can listen to them, so nobody can ever know who is transmitting what to who.
LosAztecas 1 year ago
Apparently, she used to get fan-mail !
guthywoodry 1 year ago
what the fuck, why is she counting in german? lol
Ar0n13 1 year ago
@Ar0n13 it's a german numbers station
NoNamesOnMe 1 year ago
@Ar0n13 shes german? its a german number station? take your pick.
CRileymcr 1 year ago
this is the swedish rhapsody numbers station.
google for
simonmason e23 swedish rhapsody
btw.. DONT watch the video named "achtung! the swedish rhapsody numbers station" with the little girl in the preview thumbnail... its fuckin creepy
Knaeckebrotsaege 1 year ago
this is the swedish rhapsody numbers station.
google for
simonmason e23 swedish rhapsody
Knaeckebrotsaege 1 year ago
The way these messages could be sent is what makes them so interesting. You tell the spy to listen on the 3rd of every month at 7:45 pm, and the first 5 numbers after the chimes are his message. He checks his pad, and the numbers translate as "no new instructions, continue as before." Or maybe "they suspect you, use plan B to escape country" or whatever. The rest of the numbers being read are just gibberish. Without knowing the pad and schedule, there'd be no way to figure out the code.
roentgen571 1 year ago 8
Why does he/she count to 9? For us it doesn't make sense at all. It's really weird.
That nobody has come up with a key of some sort is also quite unbelievable.
jabajabamaster 1 year ago
@jabajabamaster
If theyre counting 123456789, it's a null message. Which basically means no new info to send. (We believe)
BiATom411 1 year ago
Just wanted to mention something, it's not just governments that do this.
mk2389 1 year ago
Well, maybe not, but if anyone other than a government agency does it, the station gets raided and the operators get fined heavily or jailed. We're talking multi-kilowatt broadcasts, to schedule, on schedule, every day for the past 50 plus years. They'd have been found and busted years ago.
G0IFI 1 year ago
I can rmember hearing this one back in the mid '90s. Its like the worlds creepiest ice-cream van.
Hanglands 1 year ago
but who was phone?
PetjePetjePaard 1 year ago 5
This is almost just like Lincolnshire Poacher, the creepy repeating tune and the numbers.
Oh god, I have never been creeped out by children-song-like tunes till now.
Tryana103 1 year ago
been listening to them since the days of the woodpecker and still cant fathom out what the hell they are...
scottishsanny 1 year ago
This is in german. In the beginning the voice counts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, zero and so on. I think it's adressing someone especially, then it says "attention" and is voicing a code of numbers from 0 to 9.
The numbers are spoken in military manner, so I think it's code from an intelligence service.
From when is it? It could be from the MfS (GDR intelligence service).
PaganShredhead 2 years ago 3
The numbers in order at the beginning are a test exercise, then the real message begins.
arclight2012 1 year ago
It's just the Russian FSB, calm down.
XYZandTime 2 years ago
god this is so creepy. it's the middle of the day and I listen to it and I'm a little freaked out. I feel like something is going to happen or something is going to get me. WHY IS THIS SO INTERESTING THOUGH? no matter how freaked out I am I can't stop looking stuff up about it. so cool
Xmar4 2 years ago 66
It's human nature. We are intrigued by that which we do not understand no matter how creepy it may be. And you're right, this is really creepy. The seemingly unrelated video with no radio or people in sight adds to it.
Ganon1999 2 years ago
@Xmar4 this one is the creepiest of all numbers stations for me. OThers are kinda beautiful. Once i heard one by myself, they dont sound so scary anymore
linutas 1 year ago
the stations are supossed station for spys or something for sending secret messages every number means something
Si3z3 1 year ago
@Xmar4 Same ;3;
ConfusedAndAwesome 1 year ago
@Xmar4 same with me...i think its just cuz they are so mysterious
daladek 1 year ago
@Xmar4 Because life is boring. So stupid shit like this is fascinating.
sw0rd0fadvers1ty 1 year ago
@Xmar4 Just like how you look at a word spelled backwords and hearing a song your brain recieves a message that is sent to the body. The brain understands the message before your body does, however your brain tells your body how to react. This message is a threat, a out dated threat. Your brain is preparing you for any future situation like this.
ComicComet 1 year ago
This is pretty freaky. I wouldn't want to stumble across this at home while alone at 2am. Good thing its day or I'd be shiting myself. :D
SuperleggeraVW 2 years ago 4
Wow. It's currently 2:08 where I am. Good call. It is worse when the house is quiet.
Ganon1999 2 years ago
Cryptic as hell.
SpeedingStudent 2 years ago
surely if number stations were some super secret international government conspiracy they would switch to a method of transmitting messages that not everyone could listen in on?
polopnol 2 years ago
No, on the contrary. That is the strength of it. Since anyone with a standard shortwave radio could hear this, there is no way to identify the intended recipient. As well, since the code is not crackable, there is no danger in the mesage being compromised regardless of how many people hear it.
pitcalco 2 years ago 26
i see what you mean
polopnol 2 years ago
It's like Area 51. Personally I don't believe there are aliens there (maybe experimental aircraft). What if it's all true though? Most people who believe it are thought of as crazy or stupid. So why would they bother trying to cover it up when no one will believe the truth?
Ganon1999 2 years ago
@pitcalco Uncrackable you say? Are you a cryptography professional? It's not uncrackable if for example you send out a similar message back in a different voice. Or try sending back several similar messages until one is returned in response. This is known as a chosen cipher text attack. It may not be easy, but no cryptographic scheme is completely secure.
deusprogrammer 1 year ago
@deusprogrammer Yes, it is literally uncrackable and can be mathematically proved to be so. Part of the uncrackability (if you can say that) is the manner in which it was used. These were/are one-way communications and you would never "send back" a similar message and try to get a response. These codes are generated from so-called "one-time pads", used once and then discarded. So far, it is the only truly uncrackable cipher devised.
pitcalco 1 year ago
@deusprogrammer
It doesn't matter that he's not a cryptographer. There is a mathematical proof that the one time pad system if indecipherable when used properly. It is no more up for debate than 2+2=4.
truckerbomb1 1 year ago
@deusprogrammer
It's technically uncrackable, because you wouldn't send a message back anyway, so they would not reply to anything.
Mashermat 1 year ago
Me too, man!! Now I'm hearing stuff out in the living room!
cojoilustrado 2 years ago
This is mildly disturbing... Just the background pictures (which in any other case would appear rather comforting) are stressing the hell out of me as I listen to this.
Weird stuff...
thatianguy 2 years ago 7
I first read about these things in a book called "Big Secrets" and my hair stood straight up. It still creeps me out. At the same time though, all this skullduggery in a way kinda keeps everybody honest.
OttoRax 2 years ago
Wow! Most beautiful. Visual and sound. Thank you.
utwild 2 years ago 2
Isolation
FaithsInMyChest 2 years ago 3
This is beautifully shot and edited.
KahnBB6 2 years ago 3
yep i did the same......
late at nite listening to these oddd messages......
i find them most disturbing...
but i love em :)
kayway9 2 years ago 4
i dont get why this is scary?
can someone explain it to me, like what is is and everything
sullywully182 2 years ago
These are known as "numbers stations", said to be transmitted to spies in foreign countries, by the spies homeland. A series of numbers to be decoded by the spies.
ct1396 2 years ago
@sullywully182 the scary thing about these number stations is that they are supposed to be illegal to listen too. they are from the cold war and are still being transmitted to this day. no one know where the broadcasts come from or who transmits them and most world governments still deny that they even exist. although you can be arrested in many places for recording or being caught listening in on them. so its scary that governments deny that they exist and then pass laws about them.
audrey29tg 2 years ago 8
I haven't heard one in ages, and this one apears to use a few different languages. It doesn't sound like Spanish either but an occasional Eglish number.
manyvideoinerests 2 years ago
The numbers are in German
FractalBolt 2 years ago
@FractalBolt Interesting. Are there many German numbers stations on the air now? I hear a lot in English and Spanish.
manyvideoinerests 2 years ago
I remember listening to these sounds under the covers as a kid when I shoulda been sleeping. I found it completely compelling then as I do now. I knew I'd come across something I shouldn't have...
By the way I love how you put these shots together. So normal yet so, so sinister. The shotgun against the chair... And the door at 0:27 ; I swear I was waiting for someone to start pushing it slowly open... I ain't gonna sleep tonight.
djbethell 2 years ago 3
Also, fun fact: The newer Swedish Rhapsody recordings have replaced the music with NO music, and the Female German's voice is now replaced with an American woman's voice.
HurfinDurfin 2 years ago
But - so much seems pointless repetition. When did the real data come through?
richardyingren 2 years ago
The actual message starts at 1:20: "attention-17277-17277-attention." At 1:33 a list of 5-digit numbers is given, each one repeated: "[garbled]-17768, 19999-19999, 22227-22227, 81871-81871, 54198-54198." At 2:08 it pauses and goes to the next group: "28956-28956, 81154-81154, 20802-20802, 18412-18412, 41785-41785." At 2:44 it pauses and then: "Ende."
I think it says, "I'm in your closet, deciding whether or not to murder you in your sleep. Ende."
tatermitts 2 years ago 10
I think you're full of crap, my good sir.
demonninjalachemist 2 years ago
If you're referring to the numbers, I'm pretty sure they're crap-free. If you're talking about my facetious decryption at the end, "full of crap" doesn't apply because that phrase connotes ignorance or an intent to deceive, and I assumed most folks would see it as obviously made-up.
tatermitts 2 years ago 5
what station is it?
horrorfromthedeep272 2 years ago
pa treci put kada posle onog usporavanja glasa pustaju, isfirtriran glas poslusaj malo bolje, jedan, šest, sedam, a neke brojeve govori i na nemački tu jesi u pravu1
miodrag2005l 2 years ago
jedan, pa sedam, pa šest, i tako nasumično ili je neki logični red, mrzelo me da tačno zapisujem ali bar sigurno priča na srpskom definitivno!
miodrag2005l 2 years ago
Ja govorim Svedski, Jugoslovenski, Engleski i malo Nemacki...jedino sto cujem je nemacki i tvo=dva na svedskom...gde se to cuje da racuna na srpskom?
sayyareena 2 years ago
you speak Serbian language? šest, sedam, pet .. ovde se jasno čuju brojke na srpskom, ali ono alt, bi moglo da bude ili razmak ili crtica, ili tačka izmedju brojeva u nizu. Neka malo bolje poslušaju ljudi koji poznaju srpsko-hrvatski, pa će vam isto reći, da su brojevi izgovoreni na jugoslovenskom ajde da ga kazemo posto isto se izgovara i na srpskom i na hrvatskom!
miodrag2005l 2 years ago
my 6-year-old sister said that it was a little girl talking about ice cream, then at the end of the video, she told m to tell 'them' that her friend wants ice cream. then she left the room.
HarmlessSharpThingCo 2 years ago
It isn't a little girl talking about ice cream. It is a Woman, who sounds Swiss speaking Standard German, counting from 1-10, then in random intervals.
HurfinDurfin 2 years ago
notice how she says- 1 eins, 2 zwei, 3 drei,4 vier, 5 fünf, 6 sechs, 7 sieben, 8 acht, 9 neun, 10 zehn, 11 elf,12 zwölf . This is the pattern it goes in: eins, zwei, eins, drei, vier, funf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, hello, out, through, drei, vier, funf, six, sieben, acht, neun, hello. Then: Auchtung, elf, sieben, funf, sieben, sieben, funf, sieben, funf, sieben, sieben, auchtung.
HurfinDurfin 2 years ago
I hear the numbers in German and she also says två [tvo] = Two in Swedish, so I don't think she says "hello"
sayyareena 2 years ago 3
Ahhh. So it sounds like it? I didn't think "hello" belonged because it didn't make sense lol, so I know why now.
HurfinDurfin 2 years ago
In Germany, the people say "hallo" frequently instead of "t'n Abend" or "Wie geht's?"....but at the end it did not sound like "endet..."
u2basher 2 years ago
IDK. I think she sounds Swiss. I only say it because the only form of German I can speak is Swiss German. I was telling F2tusRape on another video that I thought she wasn't a native German speaker because some of the things she said in her video sounded like common mistakes made by American speakers speaking German. How would you say she is? She does sound around 20ish, but other times she sounds like she's a small child.
HurfinDurfin 2 years ago
It's "zwo" German 'zwei' can not be distinguished "zwei" and "drie" sound the same on a static filled radio. It's all in German (actually, this voice is from mid 1980s East Germany.) I was living in Fulda at that time.
DrMotorDude 2 years ago
She actually says "Zwo", which is another way of saying "Two" in German.
The more you know.
F3tusRape 2 years ago
Could she be East German? The "o" in
"zwo" sounds very much like that pronounced by my Eastern German teacher in German 3.
HurfinDurfin 2 years ago
Maybe, yes. It's possible.
Yet, people in Eastern Germany tend to say "Zwee" instead of "Zwo" or "Zwei".
Maybe she just added an "H" to the end of the "Zwo", kinda overemphasized, just to make it clear. Of course you could just blame it on the "bad" audio quality.
But the "Zwo" would sound like that in East German, yes.
F3tusRape 2 years ago
Then: Elf, sieben, sieben, sechs, acht, acht, neun, neun, neun, neun, acht, neun, neun, neun, neun, neun, funf, funf, funf, funf, sieben, funf, funf, funf, funf, funf, sieben, acht, acht, acht, sieben, acht, acht, acht, acht, sieben, acht, acht, acht, acht, sieben, acht, drei, vier, acht, neun, acht, vier, drei, vier, acht, neun, acht, funf, acht, neun, five, six, through acht, neun, vier, five, six, acht, elf, elf, vier, vier, acht, elf, elf, vier, vier, through elf, acht, neun, through thru
HurfinDurfin 2 years ago
Then: neun, neun though acht, vier, acht, through elf, acht, vier, acht, though vier, elf, sieben, elf, sieben, acht, vier, finished.
HurfinDurfin 2 years ago
From the best I could understand it.
HurfinDurfin 2 years ago
she associated it to ice cream because of the music, typical music youll hear on ice cream trucks.
aslxk 2 years ago 3
aslxk,
That song is called "Swedish Rhapsody" It was used by the Swedish intelligence service as a 'confirmation of reception' by the people who were the intended recipients of the number transmissions.
Darkgrammer is correct, it was how spies got orders from their home countries.
DrMotorDude 2 years ago 2
it sounds like a little girl talking about ice cream....
HarmlessSharpThingCo 2 years ago
Some number stations are pretty freaky since they don't have good sound quality since they're on shortwave stations
The freakiest part about this one is the little girls voice along with that jingle that sounds like a ghost ice cream truck coming for you when you're all alone at night and you can't get away
I really don't know how spies can listen to this in the middle of the night without needing new pants afterwards
Nintendomon 2 years ago 3
haha a ghost ice cream truck, what a great image
tbtbtom 2 years ago
Haha omg, this comment is win! xD
nozomiwhitewolf 2 years ago
That's the Rhapsody numbers station (they count in Swedish).
corkkyle 2 years ago
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Mimerq 2 years ago
weird video, i dont get all this number thingy whats it all about whos it from whos it to etc is it some sort of secret code does the numbers in sequence deliver a message.
RIDDICKorigional 2 years ago
this is why some people go crazy and shoot everybody in the house!! spooky shit man. scary
neper1982 3 years ago 2
These things creep me out.
avgadget 3 years ago
huh
Idioth312 3 years ago
numberstation?
they are what you think they are
DrCarl 3 years ago
"They are not for, shall we say, public consumption."
TiredMired 3 years ago 5
She's just saying 1234567890 over and over again
IrishLincoln 3 years ago
Your a smart one... (Wrong.)
daestathsh 3 years ago
Well, what's she saying then?
IrishLincoln 3 years ago
if she was saying 1234567890 then how come the "NEVEN" sounding word is repeated 3 times in one of the number groups?
daestathsh 3 years ago
she is saying "ein zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht neun null" She is pronouncing the neun (nine in english) as nevun. This is phonetic german numerals like American military says niner for nine.
At 1:21 the transmission changes (I assume this is what you are talking about..now I see) to "Warning one seven two seven seven one seven two seven seven" she then goes on to read other seperate numbers. I think at the end she says "ende". Maybe mispronouced due to computer used.
IrishLincoln 3 years ago
Yes, you were absolutely correct in what you heard. I don't know why others were giving you a hard time about it.
pitcalco 2 years ago
I don't know. Not worried.
You will be happy to know this is a UNDK tansmission.
IrishLincoln 2 years ago
What is UNDK?
klkl2001 2 years ago
Underrättelsekontoret (Intelligence Office) of the Swedish military.
IrishLincoln 2 years ago
@IrishLincoln Why would they broadcast in German?
portsy101 1 year ago
@portsy101
You'd have to ask the UNDK that question.
IrishLincoln 1 year ago
This was a Stasi station operated by East Germany.
R0773N 1 year ago
It's still active, Polish operated I thought.
Ihatetoprocrastinate 1 year ago
@R0773N I heard it was running as recently as 2002 and is probably now operated by the BND.
UK31337 1 year ago
Just triangulate on it xD
redsbr 3 years ago
CREEPY
marcelomar2 3 years ago
Its a german number station off of the 2nd disc of the conet project (a series of recording from various number stations.)Those numbers are in german,the music in the middle is a filler just incase someone tuned in,Its from the radio.If I knew german,I could be able to extract the numbers and decode it.
andyjr92 3 years ago
Without the legend key you wouldn't get very far the numbers correspond only one time for one message then they are changed, so it is practically undecodable by major governments listening to one another, not saying you couldn't do it but I doubt it.
AlterEgoJohnnyB 3 years ago
At the beginning if it had a three digit number,you would decode corresponding to the three digit number.If not,there are programs that can run all the numbers through various cypher patterns.
andyjr92 3 years ago
No, numbers station messages are widely believed to be encrypted using one time pads, which are unbreakable. Unless you have a copy of the decryption pad, it's literally impossible to decrypt the messages, as they could be anything.
nilsine 3 years ago
yup its true.. google 'one time pad' the only way to decode these messages is with the SPECIFIC pad the message was for, otherwise transmitting secret codes over sw frequencies would be pointless.
pinchefacio 3 years ago
You are correct. Today's clendestine service oficers key in their information to their laptops, or simply download the message and decode the burst data.
IrishLincoln 3 years ago
govenrments dont ackowledge number stations
thorshammr 3 years ago
even if you had all the numbers laid out it doesnt matter they would be ust numbers to you...its more than that, its how many times the song plays how many times she says the numbers, the intervals in between, its also a code from a one time pad. so it only ment something for the transmitter and the recipient.
thorshammr 3 years ago
I have always found them relaxing--- oh well, lol
onelasssttime 3 years ago 2
scary shit
TranceMan1818 3 years ago
These things are so creepy and fascinating at the same time. I've got the alternate version of this recording with the creepy-eyed girl already saved to my Favorites, but I'm also adding this version.
littlemissoyashirou 3 years ago
ooo god not gonnna sleep tonight!
avstar88 3 years ago
there is a pretty nice east-german accent in the synthesize voice. probably an old station from the DDR.
Realitaetsroboter 3 years ago
Freaky video. I'm just glad nothing pops up. If that happened, I would have went into shock and probably die :P