07/25/2005

Spongebob floating in a BLACK ROOM with the same pose and a different direction. (it's actually the photo.)
Spongebob floating in a black room

On the night of July 25, 2005 (currently known as 7/25/2005), Nickelodeon experienced a mysterious, weird, error and unexplainable glitch during the airing of one of the episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants. This strange glitch caused this specific Spongebob episode to glitch out and morph in strange ways. A few lucky people were able to catch a glimpse of the episode, and some clips of the episode made it onto to YouTube, making this occurrence known to the public.

I myself am alot of the people that witnessed the incident...

I was chilling at home one night scrolling through the channels on the remote and found that an episode of Spongebob SquarePants was airing Nick/Nickelodeon. I was bored at the time because I didn’t know what to do that would keep me entertained, so I decided to watch it for no reason.

The episode that was on was Your Shoe’s Untied/Gary Takes a Bath, though I believe I missed a part of the episode. I continued watching it, but I noticed something odd. When Patrick said, "Hey, Spongebob!" Spongebob wouldn’t move. He wouldn’t even reply or talk. He just stood there as the camera zoomed in to his body.

Patrick was confused at this for now. ".....Spongebob?" he asked, but Spongebob didn't reply still, he just stood there staring at the screen as the camera zoomed in on him. Then, Spongebob got up for a split second twice, which made it look like he was gasping for air. It continued to stay on Spongebob's body until cutting to static after a few minutes. Now I've seen this episode a million times, but this wasn't it.

It cut to Spongebob laying on the floor, but he’s now at the Krusty Krab in the kitchen. A few seconds later it cut to Spongebob's body in a black room, floating in the air in a different direction but its still the same pose. Then it immediately cut to Spongebob and Gary sitting in a big and huge shoe while Gary slightly moved up and down over and over again while a weird and creepy distorted music track played.

"What the heck is going on dude?" I mumbled to myself. After a few more seconds, it cut to static for a few seconds and then went to black. After a minute of nothing but a black screen, the episode Gary Takes a Bath! started playing after all. The episode started out pretty normal, but half way through the episode, there was a split second scene of Spongebob in a distorted visual with Gary. They were just staring at the screen, smiling creepily. It then cut to a lack of static. I was confused if this was even the real episode or just some glitch. I tried shutting it off and turning it back on, but the episode stayed the same still.

I decided to just turn off the TV and went to bed. The next morning, I went and turned on the TV and saw that everything was back to normal. To this day, I still have so many questions about this drug-trip of an episode. Was I having a bad dream? Was the TV hijacked? Or is it a hack? To this day, I still don’t know what the heck was going on at the time of the episode.

It's been a couple of years since the incident and I still don't have any answers, even after searching through the internet for hours on end. To this day, no one knows how this incident occurred or who or what caused it. But I am determined to find this out for myself.

One of these days, this mystery will be solved... The tape was found by "niceANDcool" from Youtube