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In this episode of Compact Mysteries, we explore one of the strangest unsolved media incidents of the twentieth century. On 22 November 1987, viewers in Chicago watched in disbelief as the signals of WGN and WTTW were interrupted by a masked figure dressed as Max Headroom, delivering a surreal pirate broadcast that has never been fully explained. We look at what happened, how the hijack may have been carried out, why investigators never publicly solved it, and how a brief act of television trespass became a lasting piece of modern folklore.

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