SpongeBob Hijack 7/25/2005 Retake

A broadcast signal intrusion (or signal hijacking) is a term to describe television cable broadcast signals being suddenly interrupted by a usually unknown party without permission. Such events of this topic that are of notoriety are the 1987 Max Headroom Hijacking and the 2007 Playhouse Disney Pornographic film incident.

This incident in particular has less coverage on the internet and media, due to the scarcity of information given. On the morning of the 25th of July 2005, on the Nickelodeon channel, what was intended to be a casual, uninterrupted rerun of the animated series SpongeBob Squarepants, would be unexpectedly disrupted, and would display bizarre visuals in its place along with "unsettling glitches".

This broadcasting glitch was only isolated in the northeastern region of Washington so this wasn't a nationwide event. It's currently unknown what the hijacking contained, although according to a few archived news posts, where a parent stated that all that was mainly featured was typical distorted imagery and "confusing subliminal messaging". Nickelodeon and world renowned cable broadcast company "CloudyCAST" would respond, apologizing for the inconvenience and CloudyCAST even stating it to be an isolated issue that occurred at a nearby facility. No other details were provided, on exactly what the hijacking contained or its length. Nickelodeon and CloudyCAST would conclude that they will try to figure out the source of the incident, and try to catch the culprit responsible. Unfortunately, no other updates or further details on the aftermath ever surfaced, at least not to the public, and the broadcast itself was never found, becoming lost media.

On October 11th of 2007, a video would be uploaded onto the internet via YouTube and frequently shared on 4chan by user "Brianmatthews4", presenting the entire hijacking that occurred that morning. The video spread across the web like wildfire. However, all known traces of the video would be removed off of YouTube for an unknown reason at the start of 2008, becoming lost to time...

Until now.

I have just got into contact with the original uploader on Discord, now going under the username "Ternip". They have just provided me the original video that was left on one of their old flash drives and have given me permission to reupload it here today.

This is the only surviving recording of this hijacking left. Please do the best you can to prevent this video from getting lost, share it to other media-sharing sites, save it to your computer, prevent it from any terminations.

Keep 7/25/2005 alive.



A retake of a well known SpongeBob creepypasta video. Original concept and music by @niceANDcooll .

VHS filter originally by @igiroitsu1771 .

I do not own any footage used in this video, all rights go to Nickelodeon and Paramount. Therefore it is protected under fair use.

#spongebob #analoghorror #vhs