> "War of the Worlds" aired on radio in America in 1938 and caused mass panic. It was mostly a panic in the newspapers. There wasn't actually any real mass pa

> "War of the Worlds" aired on radio in America in 1938 and caused mass panic. It was mostly a panic in the newspapers. There wasn't actually any real mass panic over the broadcast. It mostly just isolated people calling police stations to confirm whether it was real, and most of those were people who only heard a very small part and thought it might be a military invasion not space aliens.