10 Chilling Doctor Who Unsolved Mysteries
1. The Max Headroom Incident
On 22 November 1987, Chicago-based TV station WTTW was airing a re-run of the Fourth Doctor serial Horror of Fang Rock.
And while the Fourth Doctor was dealing with the usual monstrous goings-on off the south coast of England, a real life interloper was about to make themselves known.
The broadcast was hijacked by a person wearing a mask of the TV character Max Headroom, a computer-generated TV host. Nobody was on duty at the station at the time, so this wannabe pirate had a decent chunk of time to warble on about New Coke, a local sportscaster, and a pair of dirty gloves.
He was then spanked on the bottom by a woman holding a flyswatter before the regularly scheduled Doctor Who episode started back up again.
This is one of the weirdest and most disturbing things you will ever see, and the worst part is that the perpetrators were never caught.
To this day, nobody knows who was under the mask or why they did what they did. It's one of the strangest moments in TV history, and a pretty freaky unsolved mystery to boot.