In 1987, Chicago viewers were watching the nightly news when the screen suddenly glitched… and a man in a Max Headroom mask appeared.No warning. No explanation.Just a bizarre, chaotic broadcast interruption that no one has ever solved.

Tonight, we’re diving into one of the strangest unsolved media hijackings in history — a case involving distorted audio, vintage tech, FCC panic, and a masked intruder who somehow pulled off a stunt that should have been impossible at the time.

Who hijacked the signal?How did they do it?And why has no one stepped forward in nearly 40 years?

Let’s talk about the Max Headroom Broadcast Interruption — the weirdest TV takeover ever recorded.

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About the show

Kat Has Questions is a curiosity-driven podcast about real stories that sound unreal — from unsolved crimes and strange history to the quietly weird corners of human behavior.

New episodes every week.

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Sources & Further Reading

- FCC Investigation Archive: “Max Headroom Incident Official Report” (1987–1990)

- Chicago Tribune: “Who Hijacked the Max Headroom Broadcast?” (1987, 2007 retrospective)

- Chicago Sun-Times: “25 Years Later, the Max Headroom Hack Remains Unsolved"

- Vice Media (“Motherboard”): “The Mystery of the Creepiest TV Hack of All Time”

- BBC Archive: “The Max Headroom Incident Explained”

- The Verge: “Inside the Max Headroom Broadcast Hijack”

- RetroTVTech: Documentary – “The Day Chicago’s TV Was Hijacked”

- WTTW Oral History Project: interviews with former employees (2014–2018)

- “Signal Intrusion Cases” – IEEE Spectrum, 2012

- Internet Archive: preserved broadcast footage from both hijackings

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Is the Dybbuk Box truly cursed, or is it the internet’s biggest haunted hoax? In this episode, we break down the story behind the infamous “haunted wine cabinet” that allegedly caused illness, nightmares, shadow figures, and destroyed electronics. I walk through each owner’s experiences, what a dybbuk really is, and why this object became one of the most viral haunted artifacts online.

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About the show

Kat Has Questions is a curiosity-driven podcast about real stories that sound unreal — from unsolved crimes and strange history to the quietly weird corners of human behavior.

New episodes every week.

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Sources & Further Reading

• Haxton, Jason. The Dibbuk Box. Truman State University Press, 2011.

• Mannis, Kevin. Original Dybbuk Box eBay Listing Archive (2003).

• “The Dibbuk Box.” Haunted Museum – Zak Bagans, Las Vegas.

• Kaplan, Jeff. “Dybbuk Box: The Story Behind the World’s Most Haunted Object.” LA Times Interview, 2020.

• Jewish Virtual Library – “Dybbuk: Jewish Folklore Origins.”

• Snopes.com – “Is the Dybbuk Box Real?” (2021 investigation)

• Vox – “The Dybbuk Box and How Internet Creepypasta Became Modern Folklore.”

• NPR – “Haunted Objects and the Psychology of Belief.”

  
  

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Two mysterious children appear on the edge of a medieval English village… with green skin, unusual clothing, and a language no one can understand. When the surviving child finally learns English, she describes a place where the sun never rises.

In this episode of Kat Has Questions, we dive into one of history’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries: The Green Children of Woolpit.

Were they lost refugees? Victims of poisoning? A folktale gone wrong? Or evidence of something far stranger?

Join me as we explore the theories, the legend… and what might actually have happened.

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About the show

Kat Has Questions is a curiosity-driven podcast about real stories that sound unreal — from unsolved crimes and strange history to the quietly weird corners of human behavior.

New episodes every week.

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Sources & Further Reading

• Historic UK — The Green Children of Woolpit https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/The-Green-Children-of-Woolpit/

• Smithsonian Magazine — Medieval Mystery of the Green Children https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/medieval-mystery-green-children-woolpit-180975498/

• Ancient Origins — Theories Behind the Green Children https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/green-children-woolpit-003602

• Encyclopedia of British Folklore — Woolpit entry https://folkcustoms.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/the-green-children-of-woolpit/

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