The Anderson Cooper clip didn't have anything, and I browsed some broadcasts from 2012 and 2013 and I wasn't able to find anything. Either no one was recording CNN in the evening when the bump aired or no records of it exist.
Alright, I've found some new info and I'm also including info I forgot to mention in the original post. If you go on Yotube and watch the music video for "Combat Baby" by Metric (a band here in Canada) and pause it at 17 seconds in, you'll see that there's an image that appears on the TV in the music video that bears a resemblance to the TV bump on CNN. Now, it's not completely the same, the puppet in the music video has strings like a marionette, and the CNN puppet was a ventriloquist dummy, but the similarities are obvious. I think this image will help narrow the search. As for the info I forgot to include previously, before I switched to CNN and saw the TV bump, I happened to be a watching an episode of "William Shatner's Weird or What". The main focus of the episode was a supposedly haunted portrait known as "The Anguished Man". I don't know what the name of this episode is, but if we can find it and find all known dates on which this particular episode aired, I think we can really advance our current search.
Alright, I've found some new info and I'm also including info I forgot to mention in the original post. If you go on Yotube and watch the music video for "Combat Baby" by Metric (a band here in Canada) and pause it at 17 seconds in, you'll see that there's an image that appears on the TV in the music video that bears a resemblance to the TV bump on CNN. Now, it's not completely the same, the puppet in the music video has strings like a marionette, and the CNN puppet was a ventriloquist dummy, but the similarities are obvious. I think this image will help narrow the search. As for the info I forgot to include previously, before I switched to CNN and saw the TV bump, I happened to be a watching an episode of "William Shatner's Weird or What". The main focus of the episode was a supposedly haunted portrait known as "The Anguished Man". I don't know what the name of this episode is, but if we can find it and find all known dates on which this particular episode aired, I think we can really advance our current search.
Alright, I've found some new info and I'm also including info I forgot to mention in the original post. If you go on Yotube and watch the music video for "Combat Baby" by Metric (a band here in Canada) and pause it at 17 seconds in, you'll see that there's an image that appears on the TV in the music video that bears a resemblance to the TV bump on CNN. Now, it's not completely the same, the puppet in the music video has strings like a marionette, and the CNN puppet was a ventriloquist dummy, but the similarities are obvious. I think this image will help narrow the search. As for the info I forgot to include previously, before I switched to CNN and saw the TV bump, I happened to be a watching an episode of "William Shatner's Weird or What". The main focus of the episode was a supposedly haunted portrait known as "The Anguished Man". I don't know what the name of this episode is, but if we can find it and find all known dates on which this particular episode aired, I think we can really advance our current search.
Yeah, that's the one. The air date you listed might be the same date the CNN bump aired on, but I'm not exactly sure what year I saw the bump, I have a feeling that might be it though.
Yeah, that's the one. The air date you listed might be the same date the CNN bump aired on, but I'm not exactly sure what year I saw the bump, I have a feeling that might be it though.
"JULY 2012: Baghdadi [ISIS leader] announces a campaign called “Breaking the Walls,” designed to secure the release of prisoners and reclaim lost territory in Iraq. It is a yearlong offensive including car bombs, mostly aimed to kill Shiite civilians, and prison breaks."
It wouldn't be a stretch if you saw this in July 2012. I don't know how long "Weird or What" was running reruns, but based on the article it could've been anywhere from 2012-2014 as previously mentioned.
Okay. The article does eeem to match up with the whole anti-ISIS theme of the bump, I'm thinking now that CNN might have created the bump as part of, I don't know, some campaign to get more people to watch their news? I'm guessing here. The only way to find real answers is to find video evidence of the bump. LetDown, you mentioned thatin an earlier post that CNN has had some strange bumps over the years, any chance you'd be able to find records of these bumps?
UPDATE: Using Photoshop, I've managed to make a decent recreation of what the TV bump looked like. It's not completely accurate (the puppet's head is different and the suit is grey instead of white) but it will help with the search. The only problem is, I have no idea how to post the image to this forum topic.
UPDATE: Using Photoshop, I've managed to make a decent recreation of what the TV bump looked like. It's not completely accurate (the puppet's head is different and the suit is grey instead of white) but it will help with the search. The only problem is, I have no idea how to post the image to this forum topic.
Hit the button that says "Reply" in the top right corner, then click "Add Attachment" and you should be able to post it
Apologies for not seeing the comment mentioning me earlier, I haven't thought about this thread in awhile. I don't necessarily have any footage, but I do remember one around the time of the political debate that at least at one point had Trump and Clinton staring at the screen with a black background behind them with no sound. This was obviously years after yours but it has the same feeling attached. CNN for whatever reason has completely normal and upbeat bumpers combined with some rather unsettling ones. I'll see if in the web archive there is a bizarre one for example but that's why I believe this is out there, CNN has done this kind of thing before