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21. Headless Hessians and Alien Invasions


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A (sort of) lighthearted episode on Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow and that time Orson Welles tricked people into thinking aliens had come to annihilate us.

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Sources:
https://www.lohud.com/story/entertainment/2019/10/09/sleepy-hollow-halloween-events-food/3920210002/

https://www.history.com/news/legend-sleepy-hollow-headless-horseman

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41/41-h/41-h.htm

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/10/ready-martian-invasion/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/10/30/241797346/75-years-ago-war-of-the-worlds-started-a-panic-or-did-it

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g&t=144s

https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/shootout-with-martians-in-the-wake-of-the-1938-broadcast-panic/

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2749


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