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Back to Episodes25th August 1835: The Great Moon Hoax begins to appear in The New York Sun newspaper as a series of articles
Published 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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The articles that formed the “Great Moon Hoax” stated that famed astronomer John Herschel had observed animals resembling bison, goats, and even humanoid bat-like creatures on the Moon alongside forests, oceans, pyramids, and ...