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So I tend to think this was either an avant garde music project someone at the station played over that evening’s playlist (that the voice in the hijack sounds very similar to the alleged disc jockey’s voice can lead one to that conclusion) or it was created by the 4chan poster and uploaded as a sort of audio creepy pasta. It’s not even mentioned on the Wikipedia entry for the station, it’s not mentioned anywhere on the station’s site, and I can find nothing that indicates the FCC ever investigated such a broadcast interruption (though I admit that my searches on that front may not have covered all potential information). Had this genuinely occurred, the mindset behind the station would have been more likely to acknowledge it happened and discuss it, especially since to many the “interruption” sounds like something Diamanda Galas would have performed. In 1994 or 1995, when the broadcast interruption supposedly happened, the WKCR was a student radio station in New York, NY, and promoted avant garde music. I have not been able to find any evidence that the radio channel has ever acknowledged such a broadcast interruption. However, I do not think this was a genuine radio broadcast interruption, hence the quotes used in the first sentence. The WKCR incident doesn’t make my blood run cold but it has an eerie vibe, and I think that had I been listening to a radio station when this happened without any explanation, I would have been alarmed. All we have to go on regarding the station identification is from the original poster – station ID does not appear in the recording but WKCR is an actual radio station in New York City. I believe the 4chan post was back in 2013 but has since been deleted, as most 4chan posts are over time. They recorded this audio in 1994 or 1995 and recently rediscovered the cassette and uploaded it so others could marvel at the creepiness.
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The claim is that the 4channer would randomly record radio programs they listened to as they fell asleep so they could play them back later. The lore is that a 4channer discovered the tape when listening to some old audio tapes he or she recorded on an old cassette recorder.
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The WKCR incident doesn’t have anything close to the level of verification as the Max Headroom incident. The WKCR incident, not so much – it’s fairly eerie and I wonder if some of the fear reaction comes from the extended shrill note at the beginning, which some call the “E-shriek.” Certain noises can inspire a fear reaction, and the religious sort of chanting that followed that shriek points to something hidden and arcane being revealed. Doesn’t explain all the people who say the Max Headroom incident made their blood run cold after they first saw it on Reddit or some social media site, but different people, different triggers. There was no Internet yet to make them jaded. It was a simpler time and some of them just wanted to watch Doctor Who. I can see the people who actually saw this happen in 1987 becoming alarmed. Lots of people were unnerved by the videos of the Max Headroom interruption and I never really felt strongly about it because it was just so puerile: a weird dude wearing a Max Headroom mask, muttering about “nerds,” humming a very old cartoon theme song and getting smacked on his bare ass with a flyswatter.
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It would delight me if anything I’ve done helps figure out the link between all the names in the audio or the person behind the tape.Īnd if you’re here just to enjoy the weirdness, both entries are hopefully still readable for those who just want to read something fun and creepy and move on to the next unsolved mystery.Ī few years ago, I first came across the WKCR broadcast “interruption” as I was revisiting the M ax Headroom incident. This is a weird and loose collaborative effort, solving this 4chan mystery, with people building on the research others have done. If any of this data is helpful in figuring out the intent of the speaker in the tape, please share. Hi, if you’re arriving at this entry via a link from others interested in this recording, I’ve done more research on the names and created a “master post” with all the data I’ve collected.