It was a quiet Sunday night in Illinois in 1987 when two separate television stations were hijacked by a man wearing a rubber Max Headroom mask, and to this day, no one knows who he was.
That night, television audiences in Chicago, one of the largest media markets in the country, were stunned when a man impersonating the artificial, glitchy TV character Max Headroom took over their screens in two separate transmissions. The bizarre “signal jacking” incident, which occurred on November 22, 1987, remains one of the most infamous mysteries in American broadcasting.
