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Does anyone know good methods for searching for obscure, weird audio/video? (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by axont@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I like making weird noise music involving samples. Some of my favorites have been sample CDs from the 90s, and using archive.org to look through PSAs and old news broadcasts. But it's really difficult finding anything good in the piles of just...local community radio and the mountains of college lectures. I like finding stuff that's really eerie or odd, like that one recording of that time the US tried scaring the Viet Cong with scary ghost noises (which didn't work lmao :uncle-ho-2: )

Does anyone else have a more streamlined approach or do any of y'all have any favorite media that's esoteric/creepy?

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

the ghost tape allegedly never worked to make the Viet Cong abandon their positions, instead they'd just open fire on the Americans lmao

probably because uhhh the Vietnamese soldiers realized the sounds were audio broadcasts from speakers attached to boats or helicopters. American soldiers thought so little of the Vietnamese they thought enemy soldiers would hop out of their shoes and say zoinks g-g-g-ghosts and then run away with a little dust cloud. America was so racist they made continual severe tactical mistakes against a smaller, less technologically equipped army and then lost :uncle-ho: