2015 Halloween Special [Part 1] - Orson Welles' War of the Worlds

In part one of this very special Halloween edition of the Golden Age Radio podcast, Bob Gariepy presents the legendary "War of the Worlds," a spooky suspense story about martian invaders attacking Earth. Originally broadcast in October of 1938, the show was said to have been so convincingly produced that listeners who missed the intro feared that an actual alien invasion was taking place.

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