On 1/14/89 as a Chicago NBC affiliate was going off air in the early morning hours after the conclusion of the national anthem, a bizarre missing person ad displayed on the screen. It was a very low quality, extremely non descriptive missing person poster of Joanna Lopez. As you can see, the picture itself offers little in way of identification of this young lady.

The screen remains as is, with this photo, no voice-over explaining the case, nothing but a phone number of the Chicago police missing children division. The image stayed on the channel for hours with nothing but the eerie sound of static in the background.

From there, it only gets weirder. Till this day, no one has been able to identify Joanna Lopez. That is, if she even existed at all.