On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles gave the nation a Halloween scare with his radio broadcast of an adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds.

There are at least five well-known versions of War of the Worlds still in circulation (the novel, Orson Welles’ 1938 broadcast, a musical version by Jeff Wayne from 1978, the 1953 and 2005 big ...

Over 12,000 articles were published about War of the Worlds in the two weeks following the broadcast. Time and again, editorial pages blamed the listener. To journalist Dorothy Thompson ...

The panic in New Jersey and across the nation is very real as there is still no explanation for the multiple drone sightings over the state. Reports of these drones have poured in nightly after ...

In 1938, Orson Welles and a group of actors interrupted a radio broadcast to warn the public that the planet... had been invaded by aliens. Trump signs 4 new executive orders, transforming ...

On Halloween Eve in 1938 ... titled "War of the Worlds," most listeners didn't realize this. In fact, according to NPR, "about 12 million people were listening when Welles' broadcast came on ...