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Max Headroom Incident

Red Web

Red Web

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

A video pirate hijacked Chicago, Illinois television airwaves dressed as a popular TV character of the time, speaking and acting in a strange manner. Today, we look at the bizarre case of the Max Headroom Incident. Sponsored by The Jordan Harbinger Show (http://JordanHarbinger.com/START) and HelloFresh (http://HelloFresh.com/REDWEB14 + code REDWEB14).

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0:56.8

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1:13.2

In 1987, a local Chicago Illinois broadcast signal was hijacked.

1:18.1

Viewers were subjected to a person dressed as a popular TV character of the time acting

1:23.2

and speaking in a strange erratic manner. Today we look at the bizarre case of the Max Headroom incident.

1:29.9

This is Redweb.

1:38.4

Welcome back to another weekly episode of Redweb. I'm Trevor Collins. That's Alfredo Diaz.

1:42.9

If you're new to the show, we cover a new mystery every week.

1:45.2

Alfredo, how you feeling about this one? Yeah, we do.

1:48.8

Hey, like a hijacking of like a TV station. That's insane. Either inside job,

1:56.0

which I'm sure is part of one of the theories, or they have some exposed...

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