What Is the Scariest/Freakiest Traffic You Have Ever Heard?

[citygirlleosprtr]

Hi, I am Chloe. Forgive me if this isn't the correct area and/or a restricted topic.

Has anyone ever heard any of the following traffic on a radio/scanner:
-Unexplained
-Paranormal
-Freaky (You just thought, what the h...?)
-Unidentified
-Or otherwise just weird?

Links to audio or 'video' isn't necessary, but, you may include if you wish.

Anything from first-hand accounts from other scanner enthusiasts, or public safety/security/military/ATC/public works officials to linking other RR posts to 'Well, my uncle once told me he heard'...' to 'Once I had seen on...' is welcomed!

ANY scary, etc traffic from ANY frequency! kHz, mHz, HAM, VHF, UHF, shortwave, SSB, or CB.

Please include, to the best of your memory:
-What the comms were, ie why was it scary or unexplained.
-Freq and type.
-Year
-Location (DO NOT INCLUDE ANYTHING THAT COULD GIVE YOUR PERSONAL LOCATION OUT! I DON'T WANT THIS AT ALL!) [You could say, 'in Southeast Idaho', or the 'North Island', or a 'Northern New York County']

Thanks in advance! Happy Holidays! Cheers!

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I must give credit to @K4EET for the inspo! Cheers mate!

 

[pb_lonny]

Many years ago we had a major car accident on a main highway, three people passed away. On the same night, somebody tried to firebomb the police station. I have recordings of both incidents and the mess of communication. One police officer was told that a family member of theirs had been killed.

 

[citygirlleosprtr]

Many years ago we had a major car accident on a main highway, three people passed away. On the same night, somebody tried to firebomb the police station. I have recordings of both incidents and the mess of communication. One police officer was told that a family member of theirs had been killed.

Soooo tragic. 😢

Thank you for sharing, mate!

 

[K4EET]

I must give credit to @K4EET for the inspo! Cheers mate!

🤠

 

[ecps92]

a. Finding out my friends neighbor was a B&E artist, when we caught him on 49 mhz calling his fences to sell the camera equipment from a major Camera Store break-in. We hit the record button And turned it over to a Det who executed a search warrant within days

b. Driving home from VAC and listening to the SPEED Trap Plane as we approach the tolls
"The Motorcycle in lane 5 approaching the tolls, right in front of the unmarked - take only the Cycle for 100"
I was driving a Crown Vic at the time, guess I was the unmarked and doing 80, phew in the 60 zone

c. Boston Marathon Bombing/Shoot out activity
d. Aerial Federal Surv and Raids on neighboring street
e. Out Shopping and drive into a Federal Surv - as the bad guy decides to do a 4 lane shift to exit
Atleast we heard it on the scanner as the Plane warned the ground units he does a Crazy Ivan to elude any Surv

Tons of others with over 45 years of monitoring as a hobby and professionally

 

[ArloG]

Two very memorable times. Once when I was around 9, listening to the BC348 my dad brought home from the salvage yard in Columbus Ohio.
Spinning the dial after everyone else went to bed I was listening to an English broadcast from Czechoslovakia Radio. A very uneasy broadcaster said something similar to:
At around 11 pm troops of the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact states entered the country without the awareness of Czechoslovak officials."
Very shortly after that, the station went silent.

9/11. In Orlando getting ready for work and watching the last few minutes of the morning news. Seeing the Twin Towers getting hit.
Planes lined up in the flight path there like nobody could believe to get out of the air ASAP. Military jets zooming all over.
My Icom was tuned to the national Pagenet frequency decoding POCSAG.
Streaming pages from NYC with urgent messages for people to call, if they were okay, where they were. Expressing love and concerns.
Very creepy times.

 

[pto]

Two very memorable times. Once when I was around 9, listening to the BC348 my dad brought home from the salvage yard in Columbus Ohio.
Spinning the dial after everyone else went to bed I was listening to an English broadcast from Czechoslovakia Radio. A very uneasy broadcaster said something similar to:
At around 11 pm troops of the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact states entered the country without the awareness of Czechoslovak officials."
Very shortly after that, the station went silent.

9/11. In Orlando getting ready for work and watching the last few minutes of the morning news. Seeing the Twin Towers getting hit.
Planes lined up in the flight path there like nobody could believe to get out of the air ASAP. Military jets zooming all over.
My Icom was tuned to the national Pagenet frequency decoding POCSAG.
Streaming pages from NYC with urgent messages for people to call, if they were okay, where they were. Expressing love and concerns.
Very creepy times.

I concur about 9/11

Northern Illinois public safety, radio traffic, went "cryptic",
so to speak.
It's hard to explain, but, it was chilling.

Those who know, know what I'm referring to.

roninjoliet, understands, as well as,,,,
Maybe He will respond to this as well.

 

[nd5y]

-Unexplained

No.

-Paranormal

Hell no.

-Freaky (You just thought, what the h...?)

It seem like I just posted this in another thread recently.
I used to live in El Paso, TX over 40 years ago. One time I heard on the Southern Pacific PBX channel a train in Carlsbad, NM telling the dispatcher in Tucson, AZ that they just hit a pickup truck.

About 15 or so years ago in Mineral Wells TX I heard a single engine airplane that just took off make a mayday call when he lost power. Then sucessfully landed on the highway.

I lived in the DFW area in 2001. After 9/11 when they shut down the airspace I heard a combat air patrol on 121.5 tell some pilot to "fly heading xxx degrees immediately or you will be fired upon".

-Unidentified
All the time.
Except for hams very few radio users follow the FCC station identification rules.
Some types of stations in some services aren't required to identify.

-Or otherwise just weird?

A lot of that on ham radio and CB.

 

[WX9RLT]

People were reporting a topless woman, bloody and carrying a knife.
Inside a local cemetery.

Many police arrived quickly, and she was never located....
Nowhere for her to go, just vanished.

 

[hanlonmi06]

Unexplained/Weird:

I got my start in CB radio around high school, late 90's. During one summer afternoon I had a friend call for me on his was home from work (him in a mobile, me on my base). We got to rag chewing, and he asked what I was doing on the radio at 5/6AM that morning. I was very confused, saying its summer vacation and was fairly certain I was very much not up at that hour of the day. Tom swore he had a whole conversation with me that morning on his drive into work. This went back and forth where he was absolutely sure it was me, the genuine concern in his voice told me he wasn't messing with me, and to this day I have no idea what happened...sleep-CB'ing?

In that same era, my parents neighbor had a heating and cooling business he ran from his home. Very cool guy, nice neighbor. He knocks on the door one saturday explaining that he needed to talk to my parents about something pretty serious. Essentially, that same Tom had loaned me a splatter box linear that I would run here and there when the local channel would get into a kerfuffle and everyone tried stepping on everyone. Well, that splatter box would trigger his answering machine and it would record my voice on the air. 'Twas embarrassing to say the least, to have my stupidity on the CB bands being recorded in that fashion. This was one of those old school tape recording answering machines, and he had recorded the whole series of events with his VHS cam-corder. Very 80's/90's. I absolutely owned up to it and gave the box back to Tom.

I may still have that VHS tape laying around...

 

[vagrant]

- An actual military aircraft scramble for a passenger plane a couple hundred miles off the coast of California. Aircraft failed to respond to their calls on 121.5 once they were airborne. Later found that the civilian plane comms had failed.

- Local PD/SWAT at a neighborhood house, but no comms on known freqs. I set my SDR 10 MHz wide and found them using simplex on an unlicensed UHF frequency.

 

[Tobydog]

Sept 11,2001, Atlanta and Jacksonville ATC centers ordering all flights down by Presidential Orders. Very haunting traffic given the issues

 

[Tobydog]

Thought I was hearing things as our comms had gone down and this was only radio in command car working

 

[KevinC]

Closing. Feel free to post in the below very similar thread...

Funny/Odd things heard on the scanner

Everybody post funny things that you've heard in the past.I'll go first. Engine 101 dispatch, we got the plug behind engine... uhhh....We got the plug. P.S. I got this idea from another website.

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