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Is it true someone hijacked two one night and just vanished without a trace. Chicago, November 22nd, 1987. Someone cut WGN during the sports news and in a Max Headroom mask on screen for twenty-five seconds. Wait, that actually happened twice that night? Yeah! Two hours later, they hit PBS station WTTW during Doctor Who, and this time for almost ninety seconds before they ninety seconds of pure chaos on. Get this, the guy wore a rubber Max Headroom mask, hummed the Clutch Cargo theme, mooned the camera and spanking him and rambled about frisbees and Coke. The FCC and FBI investigated for months, spent thousands of dollars, to this day, nobody has ever been arrested. How does someone hijack a broadcast signal like that? Back then, stations used microwave relay links to send signals to towers. The right equipment nearby and overpowered that frequency, you the broadcast for a few minutes. So basically, some satellite dish rickrolled before rickrolling existed. The freakiest part, Stewie. Thirty-seven years later, of hackers and deepfakes, this mask from 1987 cybersecurity deepfake technology is still the one mystery nobody has ever solved.