Append-only living-dossier updates for “The War of the Worlds Panic That Mostly Wasn't, 1938”.https://theanomalyledger.com/en-ushttps://theanomalyledger.com/cases/war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-1938/https://theanomalyledger.com/cases/war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-1938/On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre broadcast a Martian invasion as fake news bulletins.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublishedhttps://theanomalyledger.com/cases/war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-1938/#update-1https://theanomalyledger.com/cases/war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-1938/#update-1Correction: the Evening Post cable says "hundreds of hysterical listeners", not New Yorkers. We changed the claim to match. — Sources: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19381101.2.87Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCorrectionhttps://theanomalyledger.com/cases/war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-1938/#update-2https://theanomalyledger.com/cases/war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-1938/#update-2Source re-check: we read the full New York Times front-page story of 31 Oct 1938 via the reproduction at war-of-the-worlds.org (the NYT page itself is paywalled). It supports the headline and the fleeing, switchboard and police-call claims; we now cite both links. — Sources: https://www.war-of-the-worlds.org/Radio/Newspapers/Oct31/NYT.html · https://www.nytimes.com/1938/10/31/archives/radio-listeners-in-panic-taking-war-drama-as-fact-many-flee-homes.htmlSun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTUpdate