Local 58

Released on October 26th, 2015

The video starts with a programming schedule broadcast at midnight, which is interrupted by an EAS message warning viewers of a meteorological event taking place, and advises viewers not to look at the event with the naked eye until the alert expires at sunrise the following morning. Normal programming resumes, but the schedule briefly shows a listing for a program named "Blood of the-" The broadcast is then interrupted by a more urgent EAS bulletin, now upgraded to a civil danger warning, warning viewers not to go outside or look at the sky before the rest of the program's name can be shown. The station is then hit by a full scale hijacking incident, and the attacker begins altering the messages, first claiming the meteorological event is over, then directly urges viewers to "GO OUTSIDE NOW." A fight appears to break out between the first party, who issued the initial EAS alert, and the second who hijacked the station. The first party issues a message warning viewers not to look at the Moon and to avoid all windows and mirrors, which the second alters through ominous visual effects, encouraging the viewer to look at the Moon. Local 58 briefly returns to normal programming for a few seconds before a final sequence of EAS messages air, in which the first party appears to have been exposed to the moonlight after being overpowered by the second. The first party, now seemingly possessed, posts a sequence of delirious, cryptic messages in which they vaguely detail how a figure described as the Moon itself took control of them:

IT'S IN THE LIGHT

THE MOON CAME IN

HE FOUND ME

THRU THE MIRROR

MOONLIGHT WHITE

WHITE LIKE EYES

NOT LIGHT BUT BLOOD

I DROWN IN HIM

Finally, the first party slowly types "IF YOU ARE AFRAID WE WILL LOOK TOGETHER." The feed then cuts to a live view of the Moon while distant sounds of screaming are heard, and subsequently cuts to black.[2]

Released on January 16th, 2016

The video shows Local 58 ending their broadcast day, followed by SMPTE bars. Suddenly, the broadcast is interrupted with a prerecorded emergency alert from the fictional "Department for the Preservation of American Dignity" (DPAD) and a written message from President Lyndon B. Johnson claiming that the United States has been militarily defeated by a foreign enemy (implied to be the Soviet Union, given the expiration date of November 13, 1970). As a heavily distorted rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" plays, the message states that viewers must commit suicide to prevent the enemy force from capturing them, recommending suicide by gunshot via the "victory position." The message states that it "will repeat until there are none to read it," and concludes with "The 51st state is not a place" after instructing viewers to "tend to" (euthanize) their children and pets, referred to as "the smallest patriots." The hijacking stops, and Local 58 airs a retraction claiming that the message was a hoax, and apologizes for the error. However, a second card can be briefly glimpsed behind the retraction, which implies that the message was an accidental broadcast of an actual emergency alert prepared by the government for use in the event that such an invasion detailed in the alert had taken place.[3]

Released on June 19th, 2016

The video opens with a programming schedule for the Local 58 channel, when the view suddenly cuts to static and is replaced by a found footage-style dashcam video dated from 2014 involving a driver following a GPS satnav at night in a heavy thunderstorm. The GPS begins to direct the driver off the main road and into a forest.[4] The directions become more bizarre and ominous, instructing the driver to park the car and turn off the headlights. The driver complies, and a massive roar can be heard. The feed then cuts to the driver fleeing from a bipedal creature that begins to give chase, itself being the destination the GPS refers to. Eventually, the driver wrecks the car and is incapacitated as the creature begins to walk towards the destroyed vehicle. The GPS, now greatly damaged, says "You have arrived" in a distorted voice.[5]

Released on November 2nd, 2017

Station ID serves as the channel's trailer. The video consists of a series of cryptic messages flashing on the screen interspersed with the Local58 logo, accompanied by distorted music. The messages read the following:

ANALOG HORROR AT 476 MHz

WE BEGIN OUR BROADCAST DAY

LOOK AWAY

IT DOES NOT MATTER

THERE ARE OTHER RECEIVERS

SAFETY IN NUMBERS

The video then abruptly cuts to black.

Released on July 30th, 2018

The broadcast opens with a programming schedule with a visual style mirroring that of the 1980s. The first program on the schedule is "Show for Children" at 4:15 AM. The video then transitions to a black-and-white cartoon (presumably the titular show for children) titled "A Grave Mistake," featuring a fictional anthropomorphic skeleton known as Cadavre (a character from Straub's web comic series Broodhollow). The cartoon opens with Cadavre jovially strolling through a graveyard at night under the watch of a smiling Moon. He comes across an open grave, wonders if his lover may be inside, and decides to peek. Inside the grave is a realistically-drawn skeleton, which frightens Cadavre and causes him to run away. He finds another grave and decides to check inside again, only to be frightened by a second creature inside resembling a rotting bird. As the soundtrack completely cuts out, Cadavre, now visibly frightened, continues through the graveyard while the Moon stares at him intensely. He looks into another grave and descends into it, entering a long and dark cave. After wandering through the cave for some time, he reaches another open grave, but cannot climb out to escape; instead, he lies face up on the ground under the light of the now realistic moon, his pose coincidentally resembling the 'victory position' described in Contingency. Cadavre apparently dies, turning into a lifeless skeleton.[6][7]

Stock music in the cartoon was reused from scores by Carl Stalling and Sammy Timberg from The Brementown Musicians (1935) and The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (1939) respectively.

Released on August 27th, 2018

A Look Back, stylized in the video's title as "Ａ Ｌｏｏｋ Ｂａｃｋ," is a compilation of the history of Local 58 as it shuffles through different logos. It is then hijacked, and messages begin to flash on the screen similar to those shown in Station ID:

WE SEND SIGNALS TO OURSELVES

THRU THEIR DOMAIN

DID WE REALLY BELIEVE

THEY WOULDN'T ADD THEIR OWN

It then shows clips of all of their hijackings. Afterward, more messages appear, saying "DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL," "MORE TO COME," and finally "WE BEGIN OUR BROADCAST DAY," after which the station's broadcasting returns to normal.[8]

Released on December 19th, 2018

The broadcast appears to contain a personalized VHS recording, recorded by the fictional "Thought Research Initiative" in 1983 for a man named Philip Gerhardt. It starts with a simple myth or fact game about sleeping, which claims that dreaming is not essential to mental health. It then displays a visual of monitored brainwaves called the "Kleitman Map," implying that the video was personally designed to prevent dreams by applying an inverse of the map. The video then cuts to a segment where four sequences are introduced in a manner similar to the flashed face distortion effect. Sequence one tells the viewer to look directly at the center of the screen before faces flash at the viewer, then the sequence ends on a distorted face. Sequence two has two faces slowly merge until the face fades away. Then, sequence three instructs the viewer to repeat the phrase "There are no faces," while the faces flash faster and faster and become more distorted. Sequence four then begins to flash a number of ominous subliminal messages discouraging sleep on the screen while a distorted face appears in the background, having been seemingly burnt in to the screen on which the recording is being played. The video concludes with the viewer being told that they have now completed the real sleep program, and to avoid seeing a doctor as the screen fizzles out.[9]

Released on November 1st, 2019

Skywatching, the channel's most recent upload, begins as an educational program similar to shows such as Cosmos and Star Gazers which were commonly broadcast in the 1990s. After the introduction, the show is hijacked by a camera feed by an amateur cameraman, showing footage of the night sky with the same title as before the hijacking. The camera displays different asterisms, and then turns to the Moon. The words "HIS THRONE” are displayed on the screen as the cameraman begins to switch lenses. The camera then displays close ups of the Moon's surface with strange constructions and seemingly organic formations. The Moon then slowly fades away as the camera zooms. As the cameraman begins to switch lenses, the Moon reappears, now far larger in size and with a creature visible inside. An air raid siren is then heard, and the video ends with the cameraman setting down his camera to point at the moon, then walking towards the Moon with his hands raised. The word "REJOICE" in red appears on the screen, just before the siren abruptly cuts out and the hijack concludes. After the credits, the video ends with the message "Keep Looking Up."[10]