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ARNB19 t1_it7tioe wrote

Have you heard of the original War of the Worlds?

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Bubbagumpredditor t1_it84l2g wrote

I had this happen to me when I was in grade school. It was some movie that was meant to look like news about ww3, and it looked like cnn talking about a nuke going off in the Mediterranean. I had to get my dad, he pointed out it was fake.

With the world events at the time it was fairly plausible

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PN_Guin t1_it8j83y wrote

Or the Spaghetti Harvest, also by the BBC.

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Fenrir101 t1_it9ksms wrote

Also the "news" report that woolworths had accidentally sold triffids

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SmittyFjordmanjensen t1_it815vg wrote

Exactly what this headline made me think of, lol.

Some radio station redid War of the Worlds in the mid-70s to make it sound contemporary. It scared people all over again.

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granyiyght t1_it8j4xl wrote

Some guys recreated this somewhere on south america. People were murdered afterwards. Specificaly the guys responsible.

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bolanrox t1_it82nhf wrote

they even did a "new" reading led by Leonard Nemoy at one point in the late 90's

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