Great Moon Hoax

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The "Great Moon Hoax", also known as the "Great Moon Hoax of 1835", was a series of six articles published in New York newspaper The Sun, beginning on August 25, 1835, about the supposed discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.

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Image: Benjamin Henry Day (1810-1889), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.