An unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask hijacks Chicago television broadcasts in one of the strangest unsolved media incidents in U.S. history. Chicago, Illinois, November 22, 1987 [1244×935]

Late on the night of November 22, 1987, an unknown person interrupted broadcasts on two Chicago television stations while wearing a mask resembling Max Headroom, a glitchy, distorted futuristic TV character popular in the 1980s. The hijacker rambled, made strange jokes, and behaved erratically before the signal abruptly ended. Despite an FBI investigation, the “Max Headroom Incident” was never solved.