The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: The Bat-Men That Fooled the World
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: The Bat-Men That Fooled the World In the last week of August 1835, the people of New York opened their newspaper and learned, in calm and confident prose, that life had been discovered on the Moon. Not microbes. Not moss. Forests and oceans, herds of bison, blue unicorns, beavers…