Excuse Me Backrooms Sound: Free Tesla Lock Chime
The Backrooms started as a single unsettling photo on a forum: an empty, fluorescent-lit office space with yellow walls and no exit, captioned with a warning that you'd "noclipped out of reality." It grew into one of the internet's most durable horror mythologies, built almost entirely on Reddit threads and YouTube analog-horror videos rather than any official studio. The "Excuse Me" clip is part of that mythology: a polite, slightly-too-calm voice line that feels wrong the longer you sit with it. As a Tesla lock chime, it turns a routine act (walking away from your car) into something that feels like it's being observed.
What the Backrooms Meme Actually Is
The Backrooms is a piece of collaborative internet horror: an "infinite" liminal space you accidentally end up in if you clip through the wrong wall of reality, characterized by damp carpet, buzzing fluorescent lights, and the smell of moist cardboard. It has no single creator; it grew through the same open-editing process as most creepypasta lore, expanded across YouTube channels making found-footage-style "documentation" of different Backrooms "levels." The tone is less jump-scare and more sustained unease: nothing happens, and that's the problem.
Two sounds from that world are in the library, both free, both formatted as LockChime.wav.
Excuse Me Backrooms
The "excuse me" clip from Backrooms meme lore: polite, oddly calm, and unsettling specifically because it sounds so normal. It's the shortest and most direct entry point into the Backrooms sound if you just want the meme reference without a longer atmospheric loop.
Download Excuse Me Backrooms →
Best on: Model 3, Model Y. Voice-range clarity holds up fine on a single speaker.
Backrooms Ambient Hum
The droning fluorescent buzz that's become shorthand for the entire Backrooms aesthetic: no jump scare, just the sound of being somewhere you shouldn't be. If "Excuse Me" is the meme reference, this is the atmosphere behind it.
Download Backrooms Ambient Hum →
Best on: Model S, Model X. The low-level hum benefits from the fuller reproduction of dual speakers.
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Why a Liminal-Space Sound Works as a Lock Chime
Most lock-sound humor is loud: explosions, game-over jingles, celebration shouts. The Backrooms sounds work by doing the opposite. They're quiet, understated, and deliberately anticlimactic, which is exactly what makes them funny to install on a car. You walk away, your Tesla plays a mundane "excuse me," and anyone who recognizes the reference immediately gets the joke. Anyone who doesn't just hears something faintly off.
How to Install a Backrooms Lock Sound
Both downloads above are already formatted as LockChime.wav, ready for USB install.
- Download your pick (one click, no account)
- Create the folder: put
LockChime.wav inside a Boombox folder at the root of a FAT32 or exFAT USB drive, so the full path reads Boombox/LockChime.wav
- Plug in to a front USB data port (rear ports are power-only)
- Select it: Toybox → Boombox → Lock Sound, choose USB, select your file
- Lock the car and see who notices
Full walkthrough with screenshots: Tesla Lock Sound Installation Guide →
More Horror and Meme Sounds
Backrooms Ambient Hum lives in the Horror & Spooky category alongside creepypasta stingers and eerie atmospheres. Excuse Me Backrooms is filed under Classic Memes if you want more internet-culture callbacks in the same vein.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Backrooms meme?
An internet horror mythology that started with a single photo of an empty, fluorescent-lit office space, posted with the idea that you can accidentally "noclip" into it from reality. It grew into a large body of fan-made lore, mostly through Reddit and YouTube, with no single official creator.
Where does the "Excuse Me" clip come from?
It's a voice line pulled from Backrooms-adjacent meme content: a polite, oddly calm phrase that plays against the unsettling premise of the setting. It circulated widely as a standalone audio clip separate from any single source video.
Is this sound free to download?
Yes. Both versions on this page are free LockChime.wav downloads, no account required.
Which one should I pick?
Excuse Me Backrooms is the direct meme reference and the shorter of the two.
Backrooms Ambient Hum is the atmospheric option if you want the fluorescent-buzz mood instead of a voice line.
Will this work on Cybertruck?
Yes. Every sound on this site downloads as a properly formatted LockChime.wav file that installs the same way across Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X, and Cybertruck.
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