There’s a specific kind of unsettling that happens when your TV does something it’s not supposed to do.

Not buffering. Not lagging.

Just… wrong.

In this episode, I'm getting into real cases where broadcasts were interrupted, hijacked, or taken over sometimes for seconds, sometimes longer and left people genuinely confused about what they were seeing.

From the 1987 Max Headroom incident, to the Southern Television interruption in the UK, to real emergency alert hacks that exposed how vulnerable these systems actually are… this one gets weird fast.

We’re talking:

how broadcast signal intrusions actually happen
why these systems aren’t as untouchable as we think
real cases that were never fully explained
and why your brain reacts so quickly when something feels “off”

Some of these are strange.

Some are unsettling.

Some are just… no. I don’t like that.

Because it’s not just what people saw it’s the fact that something was able to interrupt a system that’s supposed to be controlled… and no one could stop it.

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/patternicity-finding-meaningful-patterns/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_signal_intrusion

https://rewindtv.com/2021/11/22/wgn-max-headroom-signal-intrusion/

https://www.pbs.org/video/max-headroom-attack-yffnrt/

https://www.pbs.org/video/30-years-later-max-headroom-incident-remains-mystery-ugz9gm/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIop2MsmMTQ&t=7s

https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/vrillon-the-broadcast-that-hijacked-britains-imagination/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmXsvyOpPJk

https://transdiffusion.org/2023/08/21/southern-interference/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/vrillon-hacking-alien-voice-seventies-extra-terrestrial-hoax-unexplained-mysteries-a8069926.html