The Max Headroom Signal Hijacking | Case File 362

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

On a chilly November night in 1987, viewers in Chicago sat down for what they thought would be a normal evening of local news and sci-fi reruns. But what they got instead was something far stranger—a sudden flicker, a buzz of static, and then… him. A man in a rubbery mask, bobbing and weaving before a swaying metal backdrop, his distorted voice crackling through the airwaves like a ghost in the machine.

The hijacker’s messages were bizarre, disjointed, and vaguely menacing—mocking television stations, corporations, and perhaps the very nature of mass media itself. For 90 seconds, the intruder took over WTTW’s broadcast of Doctor Who, turning public television into a surreal and unsettling performance art piece—or a warning.

This case file,tune in as we sift through the static and rewind the weird in…The Max Headroom Signal Hijacking

-Rebel Moon, Zack Snyder, Max Headroom, hijacking, pop culture, 80s television, signal interference, media history, Doctor Who, conspiracy theories, Max Headroom, signal hijacking, broadcast television, AI, media, 1980s, unsolved mysteries, pop culture, technology, communication

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