Found a VHS labeled 'Garage Sale 98' that was actually a weird local commercial for a pet cemetery.

I realized I was doing it wrong the whole time when I finally cleaned the tape heads on my VCR after months of fuzzy playback, and the first clear frame showed a guy in a giant squirrel costume waving a shovel (which, honestly, explained a lot about the weird audio I'd been hearing).

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emmafisher2mo ago

Read a blog post last year about lost local commercials, the kind that only aired at 3 AM. They said a lot of small businesses in the 90s had zero budget, so they just got the owner's weird nephew to make something. A giant squirrel with a shovel totally fits that vibe. Makes you wonder what other bizarre stuff is decaying on old tapes in basements. Did the cemetery at least get good business from that ad?

christopher_west12mo ago

Lost local commercials" reminds me of a podcast that talked about exactly that.

the_rose4d ago

My cousin found a tape of a demonic clown selling used cars in this exact same rabbit hole.