The War of the Worlds is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938. Directed and narrated by actor Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds from 1898.
The first two thirds of the 62-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested to some listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. The episode became famous for causing mass panic. Here's the story about that night told by 80-year-old Joan Geraci from New Jersey.
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