War of the Worlds: The Panic That Never Happened

<p>On the night before Halloween, nineteen thirty-eight, Orson Welles broadcast an alien invasion as a series of fake news bulletins — and, so the story goes, threw America into mass panic. Millions fled. It is one of the most famous events in media history. And it is almost entirely a myth.</p><p>August Mercer reveals who really invented the panic, and why the true deception wasn't the radio play — it was the news reporting about it. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p><p><em>#history #truehistory #truestories #truestory</em></p>