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The DPAD urges viewers to commit mass suicide to prevent the enemy force from capturing them. The message, printed on a telop slide, states that all Americans are 'called upon to ACT' to 'preserve the memory of the United States clear and bright… untarnished and uncompromised.'Īfter the message concludes, a heavily distorted rendition of " My Country, 'Tis of Thee" plays as the broadcast continues.
Johnson set to " The Star-Spangled Banner", claiming that the military of the United States has been defeated by that of a foreign nation. The broadcast is then suddenly interrupted with an emergency alert from the fictional "Department for the Preservation of American Dignity" (DPAD) and a written message from President Lyndon B. The station signs-off for the day and starts broadcasting SMPTE bars. After initiating a final message, the feed cuts to a live view of the Moon while distant sounds of people screaming are heard, before cutting to black. Local 58 briefly returns to normal programming for a few seconds before a final sequence of EAS messages air, in which it appears that the second party has been successful in gaining control of the station and posts a sequence of delirious, cryptic messages, detailing how they were brainwashed by what appears to be the Moon itself. While almost being completely obscured, the first party frantically attempts to issue warnings to the viewers to not look at the Moon, while the second attempts to cut off or modify these messages through the use of visual glitches. They then directly demand viewers to go outside.Ī struggle to gain control over the station then appears to take place between the station's staff and the hijacker. As the broadcast states that viewers should not look at the night sky, and that further information will be made available, the station is hijacked, with the hijacker claiming that the meteorological event is safe and that the warning has been lifted. Normal programming resumes with the schedule being shown again, but the only program shown is ominously entitled ‘Blood of the’, being cut off by a more urgent EAS broadcast, this time upgraded to a civil danger warning, before it can be fully shown. It concludes the message by warning that citizens should not view the event with the naked eye. No.Ī programming schedule broadcast at midnight is interrupted by an EAS message from the County Weather Service warning viewers of a meteorological event taking place, with the alert remaining in place until sunrise. The episodes were originally uploaded to a separate website, however, as of late 2018, all episodes are now uploaded to YouTube. Local 58 consists of nine episodes, each ranging from less than 1 minute to 5 minutes in run time.
DASHCAM VIEWER ONLY DISPLAYS END OF CLIP GPS ARCHIVE
The website features a "LookBack Web Archive" similar to the web archive service Wayback Machine, and features numerous Easter eggs and plot points for an associated alternate reality game that offers further detail on Local 58 's continuity. Ī website called was created in September 2021 as an extension of the main storyline.
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The series has since gained a cult following. The series was initially hosted on the now-defunct web domain in 2015 and was later uploaded onto YouTube in 20. The series describes itself as " analog horror", a term that has since been used as a name for a niche subgenre of similar VHS-themed found footage web series that were either inspired by Local 58 or use a similar style and techniques to the series. The series makes use of video and audio degradation to add to the realism and unsettling nature of each video. While the series does not appear to have a continuous plot, nearly every episode seems to include cryptic references related to looking at the Moon or at the night sky, as well as references to the in-universe organization known as the Thought Research Initiative (TRI). Currently hosted on the YouTube channel LOCAL58TV, each video in the series is presented as footage of a fictional public access television channel located in Mason County, West Virginia named Local 58, with the call sign WCLV-TV, created in the late 1930s, which is continuously hijacked over a period of decades with a series of ominous and surreal broadcasts. The series is a spin off of Straub's Candle Cove creepypasta. Local 58 is a horror web series created by cartoonist Kris Straub.
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