The sound comes from a 2010 local television interview in Huntsville, Alabama, where Antoine Dodson warned viewers about an intruder who had entered his sister's bedroom. The Gregory Brothers remixed that interview into the Bed Intruder Song, autotuning Dodson's words into a chorus that quickly spread on YouTube and social media. It became one of the defining viral news remixes of the early 2010s, inspiring covers, parodies and countless edits, and it remains popular today as a nostalgic meme shorthand for an unexpected intruder or a dramatic warning.