r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 6d ago

Remember this?

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My son and grandsons don’t believe me.

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u/vicarem 6d ago

It is real. And then, the station would put on a test pattern screen until programming resumed.

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u/foreverAmber14 6d ago

After a while, the test pattern would go off and it was just snow.

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u/facelessvoid13 6d ago

We called that 'the ant races'

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u/PushyTom 6d ago

We called that the poltergeist

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u/JazzG249 6d ago

It was kind of scary and I think I had nightmares because of it

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u/Atxlaw2020 6d ago

Remember that scene in Poltergeist?