My father was a little boy when Orson Well's 'War of the Worlds' aired in 1938. He listened to it with his father. Unlike other people, they knew it wasn't an real broadcast because they had heard the beginning of the show in which Wells clearly stated that it was a theatrical rendition of the H.G. Wells story being aired as a radio Halloween special. So they were shocked the next day when the news reported that some people actually believed the country had been invaded by Martians! PS: Great Video guys!

@bigpoppadarb9940

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Don’t reach out man it’s probably a scam‼️‼️‼️

@calessel3139

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@@bigpoppadarb9940 I reported him (it). Unfortunately, Grimm Collective's comment section is infested with these scam bots.

My grandfather had this on a vinyl record and I was lucky enough to get his record collection!!!! Happy Halloween 🎃 from Minnesota!!!!

Reminds me of the Hey Arnold! Halloween Special where Arnold and his friends dress up as aliens and terrified their neighborhood with a fake news report aka it was a perfect parody of this. It's still one of my favorite episodes that I still watch every Halloween.

Can't even imagine how scary that night was for those people! Great video as always. Happy Halloween 🎃

My grandparents used to talk about this. They said it caused a nationwide panic.

Can you imagine the people being so scared back then. Thank you for showing the real town .

Legendary!! I would love to go back in time and see everything happening as it happened. That would have been so cool!! But dangerous, you don't know if they were crazy enough to take shots at you. Also, people forget, this was in a time before television was invented, so people got their news from the radio and newspapers, and of course film reels in the theater if there were one. It was a different time back then.

i was introduced to War of the Worlds by a youth pastor. he brought the record and we all sat around and listened to it one night. been a huge fan ever since. great stuff as always!

Micheal, Jessica this was such an epic look back!! So awesome that the town is still there, and the history remains!! Love that coffee shop, with the posters and actual newspaper headline!! I remember as a kid seeing the original black and white movie, the martians scared the heck out of me!!🛸🙏🏽👍🎃🐈‍⬛😂

The old farmer with the shotgun wanted all the smoke 🤣🤣 Always loved this story, I was first introduced to the War of the World's broadcast when I was listening to Art Bell on coast to coast am back in the day and he did a whole program on it and played the actual broadcast! I would really have loved to be a fly on the wall during that time 😅😅 Happy Halloween 🎃🖤

Man, what a time!... I love that monument with the embossed people fearing for their lives... Great Americana!... Thanks, GriMms for this episode!.... :^)"""""""

Thank you for visiting my town! I'm glad West Windsor has come around and embraced the broadcast as a part of town history. Every October, there's a festival held at the park celebrating the broadcast and many come from out of town to visit. I remember hearing parts of the broadcast in a middle school and was shocked at how realistic it sounded. While the hysteria may have been more minor than imagined, I can imagine it gave quite the scare to unassuming families across the country. Speaking of the statue, there will actually be at least a few more Martian statues that will be scattered around town soon. PS: The house and mill by the water tower was owned by Joseph H. Grover and his son Walter S. Grover, thus the name Grover's Mill.

I remember being about eight or nine, sleeping over at my grandparents, listening to the radio and the radio replayed the war of the world's. I screamed for my grandparents. They remembered the ORIGINAL airing. Creepy story. He was a master story teller. Great video!✌️

Awesome production as always. I remember my moms mother telling me the story of that night and how terrified they were. My mom was 11 years old at the time.

Thank you to the both of you for another great entertaining and informative video. Couldn't have asked for a better channel to watch.

Wow, this must have scared the crap out of people! I heard of it of course but didn't know what town it " happened" in. Can you imagine people shooting at the water tower? LOL 😂 very cool you guys this was fun! Happy Halloween 🧡🖤🧡🖤🎃

Love this episode so much!! My dad would tell me how his parents reacted to this broadcast. It makes it much more personal. Thank you.

We are numb to all of this. They weren’t and May have been the first time they even thought about Martian’s yet alone being screamed at via the radio news casts. Lol. Could only imagine. Thanks to the both of you for the constant great content 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼 💎 😊

Yet another excellent video, I have listened and watched every version of the war of the worlds, I even have the musical version on cd in the car. My father when he was alive introduced me to the Orson Welles version and this video brings a tear to my eye but in a good way. Thank you Michael and Jessica...

How great that the Town has acknowledged and celebrated this slice of SciFi legend.

Best thing about your videos is the great work and care you put into getting as many correct facts and extra info you can find! Of course, both of you having such enjoyable personalities doesn't hurt either. Thank you!

I love the theramin music added to this vid. Very appropriate! Historical note: the actor who played Carl Phillips intentionally patterned his tense reports of the first heat ray attack on Herbert Morrison’s reporting of the Hindenburg crash almost a year before. Y’all could probably follow up with a report on that. I believe that was in New Jersey, too.

I remember my dad telling me about this story and he claimed a number of people actually tried to kill themselves by jumping off their rooftops or taking poison!

@joejones9520

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ha, Wikipedia has a good entry on it and explains that it has been blown up to be so much bigger than it was, most of the panic resulted only in excessive phone calls to police stations where the callers were told that it wasnt a real event. Welles himself later exaggerated the panic too just to add to his legend, then the tv movie in the 70s sealed it.

@prophetmargin7497

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@@joejones9520 Steve Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" with Tom Cruise had great potential even though it seemed to lose steam in the final stage!

I love your passion and respect for history, thanks for giving NJ some love!

Great video. Would love to go there some day. War of the world's is my favourite book of all time. Woking in England is decorated like Grover's mill with a tripod and other landmarks because it's where the Martians first land in the story. Also a local pub is called the H.G. wells. Also H.G.Wells lived in Woking during the time he wrote the story. His house is still there.

I love watching your videos for many reasons. I LOVE spooky stuff, but I also admire your relationship. You two seem like best friends and that’s so rare! You inspire me

The pic of the old Doc made me laugh, he wasn't having any of it !! haha 🤣🤣🤣

Never grim when the grimms are about happy halloween 🎃

Still love radio theater ! I listen to it every chance I get! Its on KZread, good old time fun!

I highly recommend the original Jeff Wayne musical - my Dad and I were on our way to play mini golf one night in June of 1978 and Richard Burton's narration started on the radio. We were so entranced by the time we got to the golf course we just sat in the car and listened to the whole production. We never did get to play mini golf that evening because when the performance was over the place was closed, lol - we didn't care. Dad told me about the Orson Wells fiasco on the way home. A few weeks later Dad came home from work with a surprise - the double lp which we played countless times over rate years. When he finally got a CD player for his car I bought him the CD and we went for a drive out to the golf course, we actually got tomplay mini golf that time :)

I got to listen to this in the 8th grade as part of a lesson on dramatic reading. We listened to this with the lights off and our heads down. I absolutely love this! Now to step aside from War Of The Worlds, they had a movie on CBS in the '90's - the remake of Fail Safe and that was in the style of a live news broadcast. The only warning of it was a few ads in TV guide and the paper. But if people didn't get either one, they freaked out, including my now late uncle!

Another great video. It's pretty cool when a small town can put itself on the map due to some strange event which happened years back. It's good for business in a small town, and brings life. Not sure what the town is where the Mothman is, but same idea. I say this because I know how difficult it is for small towns to survive economically, so when they have an interesting story to tell which may bring people, it's a bonus. It's you Michael and Jessica that help brings interesting facts and stories about people and places to our attention Loving your videos Happy Halloween 🎃🎃🎃

Yourself and Baby Ghoul has inspired me with this and now gonna watch H.G. wells version of The War of The Worlds

You guys are one of my favourite KZreadrs. Great content and extremely entertaining. Sending love and support from the U.K. 🇬🇧

I love the Grimmlife Collective. Horror Hound last year when I was able to meet you is still my highlight since then. You are amazing people.

Look up Woking Surrey England where it was actually set. There are some impressive sculptures there. Also if you find yourself in London, go to the WOTW immersive experience.

Traditional alcoholism must have been peaking on October 30th, 1938, on a Sunday! I love the eerie music.

I've just read that out of the 50 American states, the average American visits maybe 8 of them in their entire life, These videos are valuable showing us stuff we'll never get to visit, we didn't know existed, and will never be on TV. Thank you.

War of the Worlds is one of my favorite Sci Fi stories of all time, Especially the 1953 and the 2008 movies, both blew my mind when I was a kid, Till these day I still think they’re the only faithful films that adapted the original source material.

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Afraid not, in the HG Wells book the aliens landed in Woking, Surrey, England. Hollywood changed Woking for New Jersey for the American audience. They have statues of the alien tripods in the town centre to celebrate the book.

You brought back such memories, I'm 60, so way too young to know the original broadcast. But my mother, as a child, remembered it. My grandfather was a farmer back then upstate NY and was a "rum runner" during the time of prohibition, so he was a strong man. He gathered his children and my grandmother together in the living room, shotgun in hand with my older uncles armed, looking out the windows. Here is the best part, my grandfather shot the neighbors horse 🐎 in the dark thinking it was an alien!!

13:42 Looks more like a radio tower than a water tower...strangest water receptacle I've ever seen... 14:37 And that's one heckuva Speed Camera on that corner! :D

During the 90s I plowed snow for the county and one of my roads was cranberry neck rd, (for anyone that knows, I drove black 70 one of the old crane carriers, I was black 53),which is not far from we’re you guys were. I’d always think about the radio show when I was there. Great stuff as usual guys!

We were just in Grover's Mill a couple of years ago. There is a Geocache at the park that you have to go to the large plaque to get the needed answers to solve.

Another great entertaining video I actually participated in The War of The World re enactment at David Sarnoff I belong to the New Jersey Antique Radio Club they used to hold meetings at David Sarnoff library. Happy Halloween.

There's a "TailSpin" parody of this where Baloo lies to Rebecca because he wants off from work, so he lies to her and the lie escalates to a "War of the Worlds" scenario

Cool Coffee Shop. I'd love to go there, especially, since I love Sci-Fi.

I love this story. I bought a record of the broadcast a while back and listen to it since it aired on my bday as one of my traditions.🖤👾

You and Jessica are the best!! I love your channel, it's so interesting, always full of new sights and things to learn...but you guys are also so happy, so genuinely ready to learn and enjoy every experience. Love you both!! :)

The coffee house has an open mike every 2 weeks. It's a lot of fun and on Halloween they do special events.

This was cool! I live 35 minutes from there and did not even know this!! Thank you for doing this cause NOW... I have to take a trip!!

I think I'd rather have a martian death ray. Then Poison. To me it seems like Martian death ray would be a lot faster and less pain

Oh wow I live in Freehold, a few minutes away and I had NO CLUE this monument was there. I also have my parents original record of the broadcast. Love your channel & Happy Halloween!!

My father, born in 1920, used to talk about his memories of this event.

Thank you for sharing John Houseman passed away on October 31, 1988.😢 🏆⭐🇺🇲🙏

People were so much simplier then. No wonder this radio broadcast scared them to death. Thank you for covering this story and sharing it with all of us. Take Care You Two.

@frncy54

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They still are today

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Think about this though, and which the Grimm overlooked entirely. It was amid, and years into, the Great Depression when masses of the population were starving, homeless, no water, desperate, getting on railway cars trying to find any way possible, for themselves or their family to not die from exposure, malnutrition starvation. Millionaires jumping off of buildings to their death, people losing everything, and another harsh winter approaching. One of the doctors who co-founded alcoholic's anonymous (the other a lawyer) literally ate milk and bread to survive. The doctor's wife owned one dress. The free radio music and programs would be a source of comfort and refuge from the hell that was their inescapable reality. Now, who wouldn't have thought that would be a hilarious thing to do, and at such a time?

What a great idea to visit this place for a video. A great day to do it, as well. Weather was suitably grey. 👽

This story is still incredible today, probably the most famous fact in broadcasting history. Can you imagine if that happened today? We might think that no one would believe it because how fast the news spread around the world but actually I think there would be a lot of people who would believe it because of the level of conspiracies we have nowadays.

Really enjoyed your cool video! Thank you for taking me along with you! Love Jessica's hair!

I was born in 52 and as kid, I remember ol’ relatives delightfully talking about this!!

the radio show they did was brilliant. One of my favourite films also

Imagine if Carpetbagger was randomly already making his own video when you enter the coffee shop...

So much fun.....thanks! We're watching Mars Attacks tonight!

In the UK , 1992 , the bbc aired a spoof programme called “ghost watch “ which they even said was fictional but the public fell for it, over 1 million complaints and one poor soul even took his own life , it was never repeated but clips still emerge on the internet

Great video! Very informative. I never knew Grover's Mill was a real place. So good they still have information on the broadcast. That Martian sculpture is awesome! I've not long finished listening to the broadcast and found your video. I agree with you and Jessica; I'd have been terrified back in 1938! Certainly if I hadn't heard the warnings. Poor Orson looked so contrite and tired at the press conference; he didnt anticipate the mass reaction it caused. His voice acting (along with the other actors) was superb.

We had a simular reaction to a BBC broadcast in the UK called Ghostwatch back in the early nineties.

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I remember that, Sarah Greene with Michael Parkinson in the studio. They had me up to the part when Sarah went missing in the cupboard, then i thought bullshit!

This is so freaking Awesome and Very Impressive as Halloween Story of The Martians and The War. Great job Michael and Jessica!! Happy Halloween 💚🖤❤️🎃🕷️👽💀🕸️👾🌎🕳️

I fooled my Nephew for about a minute with the Zak Snyder Remake of Dawn of the dead extended news clip he walked in I had it playing Bad uncle lol!😅

Welles was 23 years old when he did the play., as Director of the Mercury Theatre. 25 years old when he did Citizen Kane... He must have been from another world...

This scared this hell out of me as child when I heard it. Must have been around 1992 I would have been 7. think my mother was playing it on vinyl

Love war of the worlds! There an album about war of the worlds made in the 70s it music and telling the story! Happy Halloween !!

I listen to this radio play around Halloween time. It's great. I never knew there was an actual grovers mill, nj. 😮 There's a lot of speculation if there really was any mass hysteria as has been advertised.🎉 The whole mythology is tough to nail down.😅 Every person allegedly in the know tells a different truth IMHO. 😮 it's a great story regardless😊

So glad the media can't get the public in a frenzy like this anymore..... LOL

Don't panic, it's just Grimm Life posting another excellent video 🖤

War of the Worlds. I like the radio show. Orson Welles. Did a good job. I could see how people could believe it happened. I'm around the same age as Jessica. Thank you Michael and Jessica for showing us this video. Keep more coming. As they watched with envies eyes.

Another awesome story and I was born 30yrs to the day later. I never heard this story but it sounds like that would be the best Halloween ever. Totally scary! Happy Halloween!🎃

Plot twist: It wasn't a dramatisation... That isn't a water-tower! 🇬🇧👽🇺🇲 A terrifically terrifying tale told by a terribly twisted twosome. 🏆

Fascinating fellow ghoulies! I heard the 1978 soundtrack with Richard Burton narrating Blessings and happy thoughts! 🎉❤🎉Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇🎃👻🎉👻😳👽👾

❤❤❤❤❤❤. Cool beginning. I scared lol. That creepy music was awesome.

I love the Hey Arnold episode dedicated to this event

Ooooh brilliant! If you ever come to England you'll have to go the HG Wells version starting on Horsell Common and ending up on Primrose Hill. There is a place called 'The War of the Worlds immersive Experience' in London thar is amazing too.

Solid! Top KEK! Peace be with you.

I LOVE this episode. One of my top ten favorite of grimmlifecollective. Thank You both !!! Oh by the way.. Proof that truth is stranger than fiction

I still have the War of the Worlds record. This is so cool ❤

I really enjoyed that ❤ obviously a lot of people will be familiar with Jeff Wayne’s musical version of the fabulous album ‘War of the Worlds ‘ with Richard Burton doing the narration . Those first 6 chords are infamous .

It was read like a news program too and seemed real.

Road trip , my birthday , and a Grimm life video. Life's so great right now🎃❤️

🤖👾👽watching that switchboard light up must have been like diamonds twinkling before their eyes!

Just think if this happened today, there are many that would say " FAKE NEWS" . If the Martians said take me to your leader ,and I directed them to Washington D.C. The Martians would all die "FROM LAUGHTER" . I love GRIMLIFECOLLECTIVE ☮&♥, they are the real intelligent life on earth.

Thanks for the video! There is a 1975 made for T.V. 🎥 movie: The Night That Panicked America. Happy Halloween 🎃

@niteowl365

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Meant to mention that the movie “The Night That Panicked America” is about this radio program, War of the Worlds🙃

WE INTERRUPT THIS VIDEO to read the plaques.😂😂😂

My mom told me that she can recall listening to this live broadcast and her dad (my grandfather) yelling at my poor grandma about where the shotgun shells were kept. Jim C.

Glad you guys came back to jersey. There is so much interesting stuff in this state

An outstanding radio broadcast.

Wow a person comited suicide because of the broadcast I'm glad other people didn't get as shook up over it another great video 👍 👍 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃 👻 🐀

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I found the recording of this later. I even found the (I guess) soundtrack with Richard Burton featuring Justin Haywood of the Moody Blues.

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@@williammitchell4417 nice

Thank you for a fun adventure. Loved it! Wish I could hit "like" more than once to express my joy.

My 14 year old son who's home schooled absolutely loves this era, I'm sure he's from there lol. Really great video guys.

true story, my grandparents started making plans to go get my great grandparents because thy lived in the city and they thought they would be safer in the country where they lived. I loved hearing the story

Great video! Thanks! You excel best as a team, in your united love of spookiness!

You mean to tell me that there wasn't at least one rational person who thought, "Hold up-- this radio show sounds a *lot* like the War of the Worlds book!" ? 😀

Took the kids on this little trip myself. Very cool to see others make it. It's just outside of Princeton if anyone is in the Pa/NJ area. 👍🏻