War Of The Worlds Radio Broadcast Part 1

[Thanks2uplease]

i remeber listening to this at school our teacher saying it was just happening the day before i was a little scared but it sounded to old i remembered the ahh ahh and that was creepy

[AgentPsychopath]

that astronomer at 7:28 sounds like the scientist from Half Life.

[Films0R0Us]

Was this the broadcast were people listened and thought it was real?

[briank212]

@Films0R0Us it is, yes

[Films0R0Us]

@briank212 Thanks

[jonesfamilyphoto]

@Films0R0Us Yes. It was set up like an actual news broadcast. If they missed the intro, they had no clue it was fiction. Some committed suicide because they didn't want to get got.

[thebuckrogers22]

i remember my 10 grade teacher told me about this years ago and we had to read about it lol. my class was shocked people believed this

[Sm0g881]

this is my history day topic. Best one i chose.

[rivergirlre]

We are doing this as a play at school and I'm the announcer or Orson Welles haha

[geandily]

If you missed the first 2 minutes then I could defs see thinking this was real.. Imagine flipping through the stations and just stopping to listen to the music at 3:00

[AngelKnight85268]

I can see how people might have freaked out with the important bulletin part. Orson did in a way that if you came on after the introduction it sounded pretty real. What a genius!

[PikiruMuzu]

@AngelKnight85268 yeah its sounds really real its scary o.o if i was a girl hearing this when it broadcast i would have a panic attack xD

[BlacklitFloater]

8:38 A wire from Dr. Dre? ALRIGHT!

[FlySpyGuy]

@BlacklitFloater He's older than I thought!

[BlacklitFloater]

One of the first great media trolls of America.

[D33PFRI3DMILK]

MrCombineGuy the reson they didnt here that it was a story was because there was a large synphony that ran at the same time but then a bad person came on and then people began radio surfing

[dtek40k]

thanks for posting this

[kefer123622]

how the fuck could anyone think this was an actual broadcast?

I dunno, maybe if it was the 1900's and i relied on the radio as my main source of information i would see it as a major event unfolding

[MaakaKarin17]

@kefer123622

Before this, nothing similar had ever been attempted before. People were used to accepting news bulletins as reliable.

[MrCombineGuy]

@kefer123622 Well, in this radio broadcast there were many noticable news archors and broadcasters. And people who hadn't tuned in to have heard that this was only a story... Well, you would've also have been fooled if you lived in the 19's with the radio as one of the few instant broadcaster sources.

[anDUHrs]

@kefer123622 dude we rely on tv for info now. what if the news had footage of all these things and broadcasted it? I bet you'd be scared shitless.

[Vamp61616]

Try listening to this in complete darkness. Scary. As. Fuck.

[ForceRecon198]

@Vamp61616 GOOD IDEA!!!

[mariahrose210]

You rock!!

[MsFlatEric]

I want to know who the ONE person is who pressed the Dislike button is. You know the only did it to get firsties.... :P

[zzzz2271]

anyone that thinks aliens definitely don't exist are completely ignorant. Earth is but a speck of dust compares to the milky way, let alone the whole universe. The chances of there being no planets other than earth that support life are slim to none.

[TheKadski]

Acrualt Zt, they made a Spanish language version in the 40's, but when they played it in Mexico, people rioted and killed the host, no joke.

[Churchx77]

@TheKadski They were the muslims of that time.

[ztanlei]

they must be guilty of hundreds of suicides lmao

[cam5478]

@ztanlei 20 to be exact

[ztanlei]

@cam5478 NO WAY! seriously?:| wow thats bad:|

[ztanlei]

this is great! ive been looking for this! but my english is not excellent so i cant understand everything they say:( if someone knows if there is an spanish subtitled version of it please let me know:) thanks!

[RyogaVee]

Only 1 dislike... must be E.T.

[samofnewyork]

@RyogaVee that faggot

[Hollywood1898]

"We interrupt this program" banned from airplay after this broadcast

[thealy45]

The original Harold Camping

[lewiebobie]

Okayseriously, if people actuallybelived it so much that they ran outside screaming, we are not the most intelligent creatures on earth.

[thisisextra3]

@lewiebobie ...and you thought we were the most intelligent creature before you learned about this? seriously? try being more observant; as animals come, we aren't very high up there when it comes to common sense and rational thinking.

[artemisiapersephone]

@thisisextra3 exactly! the worst things of our humanity: being arrogant and thinking were the best when in fact, we are destroying our own planet, which, none of other animals actually do :S

anyway this radio programme is so good!

[youbetterbelievehah]

@artemisiapersephone

No other animals are intellectually capable, that's why. If we traded our intellect with that of a lower species, then they too would destroy the planet, as you claim we are,

[Mircela23]

@lewiebobie no, goats are

[1a111a1]

@lewiebobie that's nice, but we actually ARE the most intelligent creatures on Earth. Unless of course you believe that super-intelligent aliens from Mars are here too, in which case you must one of the fools who believed this broadcast... jk lol :D <3

[livebbc1234]

Hee Hee! Ok The audio rocks....

[OnTheREDPILL]

To all of you who find this broadcast interesting..... check this out

youtube.com/watch?v=KAAIpe25H6­o

[123456789bleach]

"We now take you to the Princeton Observatory at Princeton." No shit, Sherlock.

[12OclockLow]

@BadCactus42 Lol, no one would believe it even if it WAS real.

[jasonchearn]

2 corrections:

1 - it's orson WELLES

2 - this is H.G. Wells

[12OclockLow]

@jasonchearn Negative, this really IS Orson Welles.

H.G. Wells wrote the book, 30 years earlier.

[4DEFE]

Greatest radio prank, ever.

[ppesa123]

welles not wells

[Fisherdafozil]

In all fairness, even though i know its a book, they do make it sound like its real haha

[childofdemonicwind24]

i've loved this broadcast ever since i heard it for the first time when i was fifteen.... i know, quite a while after it first was aired, but i heard it when my dad was given a collection of old radio programs for Christmas years ago.... i fell in love with it, and listen to it now every Halloween, trying to imagine what it was like to hear it for the first airing, back in '38, when it caused such a fuss....

[livebbc1234]

@childofdemonicwind24 WoW Sir! U must be reaalllly Old....

[childofdemonicwind24]

@livebbc1234 Actually.... i'm only 24.... my dad got a collection of cds that had recordings of old radio shows.... And i'm female... i may feel old sometimes, but physically, i'm not old at all....

[OnTheREDPILL]

@childofdemonicwind24 ur not old at all =) since you listened to this 1938 broadcast u might be interested in this video I made....check it out plzz youtube.com/watch?v=KAAIpe25H6­o

[OnTheREDPILL]

@childofdemonicwind24 haha I thought the same too.... the truth about the whole thing is darker and more sinister than it just being a big prank though.... check out this video I made you might be interested in it... thx

youtube.com/watch?v=KAAIpe25H6­o

[jckgoldness]

#1 Troll

[coolthang3]

k, im confused;

this guy was just reading a story.. but people thought it was real?

[1235link]

@coolthang3

He was reading it like a newsstory eventually people are going to get freaked out. One man even went outside with his rifle to shoot at the supposed alien invaders. seeing what he thought was one he shot it. In the morning he relized he had been shooting at the water tower.

[sauceykat]

It was never meant to be a prank, but ppl would tune in later and not realize it was just a play.

[CallOfDutyPaladins]

it was the story they were telling

but it was meant to be a prank for the people who were listening

[LifeIsABigPuzzle]

Well when people tune in at different times, then they don't know that it is just a story.  So maybe the broadcasters should have said every fifteen minutes "This is just a story."

[al1936ful]

It's Orson Welles, not Wells.

[frodijr]

We listened to this in 6th class (When I was 12), and I've always thought it was creepy, but cool

[supermandisco]

I am definitely from the 50s, and not of the radio era. This is excrutiatingly boring, where's Gene Barry when you need him . . .

[SpitfireBoy86]

Alot of people must have tuned into their radios after the broadcast introduction

[SnowPratol]

we are learning about this in English, and I have to write my own version of this, so I'm listening to this for inspiration :)

[avpkid345]

Lol. We get fooled really easily.

[mred0950]

The most famous radio broadcast in history!

[MrAdal2161]

its like its really

[kamber56]

Cam to the decision that we could still not handle the fact. So they kept the fact hidden...

[kamber56]

This radio broadcast was a mental test started by the government to see if the people couldntake in that aliens were real, they monitored how people reacted. They

[DustedGlory]

@kamber56

you're dumb.

[TheHellbino]

@kamber56 Conspiricy stuff damaged your brain? I see...

[ridgerunner721601]

Mars is 40 million miles from Earth. I could make it there in an hour if only I could get my car to go 40 million miles an hour.

[BarackSays]

@ridgerunner721601 Cool story bro

[normmccabe]

@ridgerunner721601 actually if you could get a car that fast, you'd just rear end someone at a lethal velocity.

[ridgerunner721601]

@normmccabe I know. I was only joking. I'd be satisfied if I had a car that went 39 million miles an hour....LOL.

[dannyofthededd]

i wonder if this was sort of a dress rehearsal to see how we'd all react

[ihavtugo]

I wouldn't call people idiots for believing the broadcast. For example if tomorrow NBC aired an alert during one of there shows. And the alert stated a government created virus called "Captain Tripps" which has no cure was making it's way across the country. How many of you would know that that's from Stephen Kings most famous novel?

[TheAMShows]

This is when radio was pure entertainment! Oh how I wish I could go back to that time... Oh well...

[horsewriter2]

i'm recreating this for a project i'm doing :)

[rc17lite]

ha yeahhhhhhh yeah we gonna die

[ultimatedbz2]

Good I was afraid  that this no longer existed.

[killerboy1107]

i love the book its great and a perfect classic

[Apink420]

i uploaded some parts of the new version on my page feel free 2 check it out

[SlipKnoTdrummer04]

MARTIANS HAVE LANDED?! WE'RE GOING TO DIE!!!!

[kerbubbles1818]

@SlipKnoTdrummer04 this broadcast was fake. its all sound affects. u will be ok.

[TheAMShows]

@kerbubbles1818 Well it was a real broadcast but it was based on a book and a lot of people were scared!

[BadGirlOfAutism]

I don't understand how anybody could have believed that the broadcast was genuine and subsequently panicked. The book was first published in the late 1890s and people must have read it, so surely they could have recognised the thing for what it was

[DemonicRayquaza]

@BadGirlOfAutism People were idiots back then.

[ClimbersNirvana]

@BadGirlOfAutism i beleive yo there but remeber this was the 30s and he sounds so convincing lol

[makutateridax200]

@ClimbersNirvana not to mention 2nd worst economic crash in recent history (recent as in 100 years)

[TheIanful]

Lol, i can't believe how stupid some people were back then, to believe this. But Wells did a great job on these broadcasts.

[toiwin]

@TheIanful they are doing a similar thing now NOW with the paledians and the aliens and fear of disclosure. The only thing is, Why did they do that back then, ? to create fear and see reaction of public. So now if they exist they are going to arrive on a deluded and sleepy population. Maybe its best to sleep, then you cant be lied to

[LakeLouiseLosers]

there was a guy who filled his car up with gas and told the man at the pump "dont worry about money there wont be a tomorrow to spend it" lol, free gas.

[OnTheREDPILL]

@LakeLouiseLosers I noticed you listened to the 1938 broadcast check this out man youtube.com/watch?v=KAAIpe25H6­o

[vatoslocos247]

finally!!!!!!! THE Original Version. we read the broadcast in 3rd period

[GrumpyPancake]

I don't know how Orson Welles managed to be such a beast.

[Dusty696969]

Finally got to here the whole thing. Thanks for the post.

[Dusty696969]

damn i thought it woud be the whole thing fuck it

[dominater2156]

i heard this freaked alot of people out and many people killed themselves because they thought it was real that is fucked up

[naifamily]

im reading the book

[Sayd23]

This is teh shiz!

[dylan00132]

nice vid i always wanted to hear the real thing =D