89.9 NY WKCR Hijacking

The WKCR Hijacking/The Old Tape is a known broadcast interruption that was captured on an old radio that had a built in tape player. WKCR is a radio station at Columbia University in New York City.

Originally posted to 4Chan by an anonymous uploader that had stated that the incident occurred in 1994/1995. The user had stated they were listening to the radio listening in for stations to see if there was anything worth recording.

In the recording there's classical music playing before a really loud high pitched squealing mixed in with heavy breathing which later is revealed that a woman was making the deep breathing and a brief fading in of the squealing. Eventually loud inhaling can heard with the loud exhaling. Further in the recording a woman's voice is heard in a fast pace speaking which what possibly was snip-its of obituaries one of them died in the Pan AM Flight 103 crash the loud reading starts becoming whispers of more names and then gibberish. After a while the station was able restore order. The host apologizes for the music being delayed.

There's been speculations on if the recording was actually genuine, faked or a prank by the radio station itself as some pointed out the woman's voice reading the names and the host both sound similar and that the recording sounds too modern.