 The following is a transcript of an interview that was recorded on January 7, 2016. It has been recently edited to cut out any personal information for release with a few exceptions. The interviewer is a retired Nickelodeon executive, he wishes to be anonymous, so he is hereby referred as executive in this interview. He agreed to publicly release this transcript so long as the edits were made. We are recording now. So you're a former executive at Nickelodeon? That is correct. How long have you been working in that field until you decided to retire? About 10 years now I think, before that I was working in two positions. Mainly as producer for SpongeBob and manager for the staff since my employment in 2000. I'm a family man, I have a son is going to be 16 years of age this year now. My wife and I are now preparing for his birthday. How nice, did you ever tell him that you were an executive at Nickelodeon? Yeah. I did but he didn't believe me at first until I showed the proof and you wouldn't believe the look on his face. Okay, back on track. So when you were promoted as an executive? 2004, just when the SpongeBob movie was released. My boss came into my office and said I was going to be promoted as an executive since I had a bachelor's degree and some experience in supervisory then jackpot. I got the promotion and another career map layout in front of me. When I got home, I told my wife and she was excited to hear that been promoted to an executive level since executives are well paid and why so. We're going to be rich. What's your opinion on the current status of SpongeBob and Nickelodeon? Well, it's clear that SpongeBob and Nickelodeon have fallen from grace in the past years. Nickelodeon just keeps rushing out mediocre shows with horrible ratings and on the other hand, has just been complete trash with horrible jokes and episodes such as the infamous one course meal or as originally titled Plankton got served. Now SpongeBob has touched on suicide before but not as disgusting and mean spirited as this one. It was so terrible my kid hates it and even the entire staff despise its very existence. But what about the other executives? Simply they don't care. They just want to get their money as soon as possible. And that means giving a pass on every horrible show and episode. Occasionally a few good ones do get aired. But there's rarely a good episode on Nickelodeon. I guess I'm the only guy that cares about quality. But since Steven Hillenberg's returning to SpongeBob, so I bet Nickelodeon is going to get better and return to what it used to be. Now you had sparked further my interest in you because of that phone call. What about it? Well, because you mentioned that there was an incident on Nickelodeon's channel over the phone. Oh yes, that was a few years ago. Now let me be clear. This is something I don't want to remember and know it isn't a lost episode that you see on the internet. They don't exist, but we did do a similar thing with the Sponge who can fly, but it wasn't locked away in a vault never to be seen again and we only used the lost episode word as a promotional tactic and nothing was strange about it. No, this is a completely different thing and no one's heard of it. Can you describe this particular incident? I've never told anyone about this, but here it goes. Basically it was a signal intrusion, but nothing of an intrusion I seen before, kind of like the Max Headroom incident, except longer. I was sick with the flu and so I stayed home. I heard that a new SpongeBob episode was getting aired that day, so I told my son and he reluctantly joins me. He was thinking it was just another poorly written episode to face Palm knowing how bad the show has gotten. We sat on the sofa, staring at the television, watching other shows and advertisements. At 12.17, the episode finally was about to air but before the SpongeBob intro was going to come on, there was some flicking static on an advert I can't remember nor I do care about it as I'm going to describe the following events. I can still remember my son saying, what's wrong with the TV dad, until the screen was fully engulfed by static. I immediately call my boss to see what was going on. He told me that someone was jamming the Nickelodeon signals and that he will call me back to keep me updated on notable developments. He hung up and resumed watching the television, the static vanished and there was a title card named, Insanity, but it instantly changed to, Heart and Mind, then kept changing to a number of titles in fractions of seconds. How long was this? It just lasted for a minute, and then the opening showed. It was corrupted text, but I'm pretty sure that it was just one person who made this fan made episode. So it was unofficial? Of course it was. The creators never created this obviously. Once the opening credits were gone, the episode started with an opening shot of the Krusty Krab from a bird's eye perspective late at night, then it jumped cut to the entrance of the Krusty Krab, the camera zoomed in to the doors and went past them. SpongeBob was at the cashier looking toward the screen, Squidward was nowhere to be found. A look on SpongeBob's face revealed emotionally that he was terrified possibly because he's the only employee currently at the Krusty Krab, a few minutes passed and an illuminated arm was slowly coming with the left side of the screen, then it quickly gripped SpongeBob's head with startling speed and the ladder screamed. The figure then ran to the entrance with SpongeBob in its hand and threw him out. It cuts to a shot of SpongeBob on the ground, then switched to a shot of the illuminated figure at the doors, it didn't have the physique of Mr. Krabs. It didn't have keely or tall eyes, it didn't look like any of the fish characters at all. It was thin and had human features such as fingers and barely visible hair. And what was it doing? Yelling at SpongeBob I presume because of the head movements. I couldn't decipher what it was saying. There was no audio in this section and the figure was too dark to see its lip movements. After this, it closed the door on SpongeBob at this point, he was even more terrified than before. Eventually he calmed down and started walking home, the camera followed SpongeBob, then the screen wiped to a sideways shot of SpongeBob walking home with the night sky as the background. The sky wasn't like the usual SpongeBob night sky with darkened out flowers, but a time-lapsed sky of earth, if you have actually seen it, you could have recognized the stars of Mars and Venus, among others. The disturbing thing about that background sky was that they were photorealistic eyes in the sky and they weren't there in the opening shot of this made-up episode, they were moving left to right. During this section, my boss called and picked me up. He that Nickelodeon's engineers trying desperately to halt the broadcast, he also said they were looking into tracing the hijacker, but he said at this rate it was unlikely because the hijacker was using microwave-like signals from multiple locations, therefore whoever this was had some professional help, likely to set up that help later to cover his or her tracks. The shot of SpongeBob walking home with that sky lasted six minutes. Then SpongeBob reaches his destination, then jump-cut to an outside bird's-eye view of his home where he walked to the door, opened and closed it behind him. There was an eerie almost cracking noise that stopped once to went to the next scene. The next scene was in Squidward's house, there is a forward shot towards Squidward. He was reading a newspaper. The words in the newspaper were readable, it was describing an outbreak of an unknown virus. However a phone was ringing and Squidward folded the newspaper to pick it up once he did, there was a baritone voice, you know that sound effect they use in cartoons. Anyway Squidward responded with yeah and okay I will be there, presumably this voice was telling him to come to its location. He puts the newspaper on a table and walks out the front door but I could remember seeing an open doorway that Squidward did not include in his house, it looked something familiar. How did your son react to this episode? Nothing, he was just bland for some reason. Fuck me. Shit. Are you okay? Yeah, just overreacted, that's why I do not want to talk about this incident. It's just something, never mind. So anyways Squidward entered his car, which was rarely seen in episodes and started it, he began driving on a dirt road. I don't know why but it's just odd for a dirt road to instantly appear at his house. My boss texted me this time and asked me to bring a video camera or something, we didn't have a video camera, only just a late 90s camera that we never used after the 2000s that we put in our closet. I rushed there and pick up the camera, then rushed back to our sofa. Squidward was still driving on that dirt road, then a black van was soon following him. Then the van passed and turned right to what appeared to be an abandoned schoolhouse. The screen soon went to black and whispers were audible and an image come up for 15 minutes. I loaded my camera and took a picture before it faded away. It was an image of a man in a white shirt holding a sheet stained with an unknown substance. Then my boss called again and I rushed to pick it up, he told me that they are going to cut the station temporarily for 26 hours after tracing and halting the broadcast were attempted and continuously failed. He told me to bring the camera tomorrow and hung up, another image, no, video or gif. Oh god. What happened? It was an image, gif, or video, I don't fucking care. It was a gif or a fucking image of my house, in my bedroom. There was the theme of SpongeBob faintly in the distance, somewhere in some figure walked through the open doorway. I take my camera and took a photo. Then black out. The screen was black, they shut down the station. The broadcast had ended. But before that, text popped up and it read, be seeing you soon. My son and I were shocked, I turned off the TV and my son never went to bed that night out of fear of what would happen to him. I had to explain to my wife about this, which was less than stellar. Fuck this, I'm out. I should have never mentioned that over the phone. What about the camera? Oh yeah, short answer, I have it and the photos with it. Did they try confiscating the photos? That's a yes and no. Yes, they confiscated all photos and videos of the incident, but not mine when I came to Nickelodeon Studios and to my boss's office. He told me to leave and keep the camera. I asked why and he said that he always be better than the other executives and he mentioned that Nickelodeon CEO ordered all photos and videos to be confiscated and destroyed. He said that I should keep the photos but said that was a huge risk, but he was willing to take the chances. I left the studio but kept my job for a few years, but due to security reasons, I retired and I was at the right age. But the scary thing is that this whole incident was covered up quite well, so well in fact that neither news articles nor anyone mentions or is aware of its existence. Anyways, can we terminate this interview? Yes, if you wish. Good, I will scan the photos and send them you via email. One more question. Yes, what did your boss said before you walked out? He said, never mention this incident and to watch myself and the eyes. The executive was displeased of what the interview turned out, he is paranoid of his safety and privacy. It's unknown what happened to him or what his current status is now.