8 Creepiest Broadcasts Ever Caught On Tape

1. The Max Headroom Incident

Considering Max Headroom was creepy enough on its own, it's pretty difficult to imagine that it could get any creepier. Well, never underestimate humanity's capacity for freaky sh*t, because boy did it get a whole load creepier. In 1987, an unknown pirate hijacked the airwaves, interrupting two TV channels, one showing the news and one showing an episode of Doctor Who. The first interruption over the WGN 9 o'clock news consisted of just video with distorted buzzing over the top. The second hijack was accompanied by the ramblings of a madman.

The intruding broadcast shows a person wearing a Max Headroom mask and basically embarking on a 90 second romp through the Twilight Zone. He dances around, uttering phrases like "He's a frickin' nerd/liberal" and "ooh, my piles" before singing the theme to Clutch Cargo then bending over to be spanked by an accomplice in a French maid's outfit. Nobody knows who was behind the incident, or even what the hell any of it means. One reddit user claimed to know who was behind it back in 2010, but those implicated have since been cleared.

The best we can hope is that it was someone's warped idea of humour as opposed to something with any meaning. The only thing creepier than the footage in itself is the idea that someone out there understood it. Sweet dreams.

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