My understanding was that there was a studio building with a low power transmitter, and the transmissions from that were broadcasted to the high power antenna which would then beam it out to consumers. By placing their dish between these two points, the hacker was able to overpower the signal to the antenna and insert their own video feed.

Could it also be due to load/server issues? When I have trouble with page loads on .world I have a tendency to bounce and have a low average visit time.

Thanks for this! I’ve seen the same few posts in my r/all feed for a couple days now and this completely fixes it.

Great point. I always wondered if he fell into the river, but apparently it was searched extensively and nothing was found. There’s also been theories of Brandon falling into an abandoned well which is another possibility.

My pleasure, thanks for joining! And agreed, I always found the sub name to be a bit weird.

Thanks for sharing! I started the community a couple days ago with the goal of bringing interesting mysteries to light along with insightful discussion about them.

Same here. The desert angle of the story reminds me a bit of the Death Valley Germans.

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