Bonus points if there's a known onomatopoeia to describe the sound.
What caused this? Shit used to terrify me as a kid
Essentially the TV just plays whatever data is there on that frequency band. When there is nothing on the channel, it picks up background radiation from space; cosmic gamma rays that just happened to have lengthened to the wavelengths that the TV happens to be playing on.
Snow flakes
In my circles it was just ants but seeing all the mentions of snow makes me think of the book Snow Crash which more or less refers to just that :)
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