GROVERS MILL, N.J. (CBS) -- It was a spooky pre-Halloween treat for radio listeners that got out of hand. Seventy-five years ago tonight, a CBS Radio broadcast of the H.G. Wells classic "The War of ...

At 8 p.m. on Oct. 30, 1938, a 23-year-old Orson Welles went live on the air from Mercury Theater with his original radio play titled, "War of the Worlds." Despite the dramatization being introduced as ...

Grovers Mill, a small village in West Windsor, was the site of the fictional Martian landings as reported in Orson Welles' famous adaptation 1938 adaptation of H. G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," on the ...

Six-year-old Bob Sanders was not fooled by the Halloween Eve broadcast of The War of the Worlds of 1938. "Dad said, 'Sit down and enjoy. Something unusual is going to happen," said Sanders in 2013.

Looking for a little out-of-this-world fun before Halloween? A “War of the Worlds” 85th anniversary “broadcast bash” will take place Sunday, Oct. 29, on a farm in the Grovers Mill section of West ...