Emergency Alert System: 'dead bodies are rising from their graves'
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana television station's regular programming was interrupted by news of a zombie apocalypse.
The Montana Television Network says hackers broke into the Emergency Alert System of Great Falls affiliate KRTV and its CW station Monday.
KRTV says on its website the hackers broadcast that "dead bodies are rising from their graves" in several Montana counties.
The alert claimed the bodies were "attacking the living" and warned people not to "approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous."
The network says there is no emergency and its engineers are investigating.
A call to KRTV was referred to a Montana Television Network executive in Bozeman. Jon Saunders didn't immediately return a call for comment.
The Great Falls Tribune reports the hoax alert generated at least four calls to police to see if it was true.
The Montana Television Network says hackers broke into the Emergency Alert System of Great Falls affiliate KRTV and its CW station Monday.
KRTV says on its website the hackers broadcast that "dead bodies are rising from their graves" in several Montana counties.
The alert claimed the bodies were "attacking the living" and warned people not to "approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous."
The network says there is no emergency and its engineers are investigating.
A call to KRTV was referred to a Montana Television Network executive in Bozeman. Jon Saunders didn't immediately return a call for comment.
The Great Falls Tribune reports the hoax alert generated at least four calls to police to see if it was true.
Itâs Montana. The reason that only 4 people called in is because everyone else was running out the door with their rifles shoutingâREMEMBER! HEAD SHOTS! HEAD SHOTS!â¦â
Stupid. What a waste of my time.
I remember seeing the zombies in a movie. They couldn't be stopped because bullets would pass right through them.
Anyone who called wanting to know if it was true has been watching too much Boris Karloff. Dead is dead, not ever coming back to life.
This would have been a great April Fools joke..
Who controls our world? With Tumnus, I can lament: "Always Halloween, never All-Saints Day."
If this would have happened in Seattle, the police would have been bombarded with phone calls asking if it was real. Seattle cant live without have some sort of government agency telling them how to live. The panic alone would have been disasterous......
 @Busyhands True.  Every little snafu is 'apocalyptic.' We live in a city of Nervous Nellies.
That's their whole audience. 4 people.
Just four calls -- hey, is this 411? ....good, can you tell me the number for 911?
"The Great Falls Tribune reports the hoax alert generated at least four calls to police to see if it was true."
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Really?
 @Vince FOUR! haha!!
 @LeslieLouAnn That's just the four who were paying attention.
 @LeslieLouAnn Yup, and they walk amongst us... THAT is the scary part.
@Bornhere :-|