Eighty-seven years ago today, on October 30th, 1938 (September 8th, 1938 in the lunar calendar), American radio dramas caused great panic. On Halloween Eve, October 30th, 1938, CBS adapted the work of science fiction writer H G Wells into a radio play, which was broadcast on the "Mercury Theatre in the Air" program at 8 p.m. prime time. The colorful joke program actually made Americans who didn't know the truth believe it, which led to the most absurd scene-that night's program disappeared after the music being played suddenly weakened. At this time, the voice of an "announcer" came: "Dear listeners, temporarily interrupt the music program and report to you the important news of Intercontinental Radio News Agency: At 7: 50 tonight, Professor Farrell of Chicago Observatory found that there was a white hot gas explosion on Mars every once in a while! According to spectroscopic observation, this gas is hydrogen, and it is now moving to the earth at a very high speed. Professor Pearson of Princeton Observatory in New Jersey has confirmed this observation ¡­ "Since then, the music program has been repeatedly interrupted by news reports: the government has asked the observatories to continue to pay attention to Mars; Canada has also confirmed the explosion of Mars; Princeton shook violently like an earthquake; A huge fire-breathing object dropped in New Jersey, and a bright light was seen hundreds of miles around... Hearing the radio, women and children ran out of their homes screaming in Philadelphia, and an ambulance was dispatched in Newark, New Jersey. In the south, thousands of people knelt in the streets and prayed incessantly. Within minutes, newspapers, radio stations and police stations everywhere were exploded with urgent phone calls. People driving through New Jersey immediately turned around after hearing the broadcast, and the road was in chaos. People simply don't pay attention to the radio explanations, and there is chaos everywhere in North Carolina, Alabama, Atlanta, Tennessee, West Virginia... The police were dispatched, many people fainted with fear, and some suffered heart attacks. Hysterical Rhode Islanders cried and cried, asking the electric company to "turn off the lights! Let the aliens not find the city!" The radio play continued: fire everywhere; The 'Intercontinental Broadcasting News Bureau' issued a 'Press Bulletin'; A cluster of meteorites collides with the earth; The U.S. Army and Navy suffered heavy losses... The Philadelphia Inquirer, published on November 1, 1938, described in detail the chaos that occurred across the country the first day. The December 1969 issue of Reader's Digest was extracted from a news feature titled "Here Come the Martians" in Pace Magazine, which recorded the farce of that year by virtual comparison and became a famous news work.