GT MINI FAILS: Max Headroom Video Hack
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A Chicago television station gets hacked with a bizarre, and somewhat disturbing video resembling popular 80's icon Max Headroom.
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| 0:00.0 | A terrifying TV takeover. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Rebecca Leib. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Jason Horton. |
| 0:05.0 | And this is Ghost Town. The Max Headderoom broadcast signal intrusion invades the airwaves, hijacking and unsuspecting |
| 0:31.7 | television station. This is weird. This could never happen now. Like this |
| 0:36.9 | could ever this could barely happen then. I love when it's like this is a one time |
| 0:41.8 | deal. Can you imagine we don't even really |
| 0:44.6 | have TV stations anymore it would be I mean you it would have to be done from the |
| 0:49.1 | inside yeah which no one knows who did this with some mystery. |
| 0:54.0 | I mean I love that. |
| 0:55.0 | It's very bizarre. |
| 0:58.0 | The video is out there. |
| 1:00.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:01.0 | Played some of it, but you have to see it. It's a very visual thing. |
| 1:05.0 | Okay. It's strange, but you don't know who Max Hedrum is. |
| 1:08.0 | No. While I'm talking, look up Max Hedrum and see if it looks familiar. |
| 1:12.0 | We'll do this in real time. |
| 1:13.0 | Headroom? Max Headroom. |
| 1:15.0 | Max Headroom. Like this chair, like this, uh... |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, like this car has... |
| 1:21.0 | This car is... |
| 1:22.0 | Extra. Yeah. This does look familiar. |
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