Unusual history · 1835Sourced
Life on the Moon.
According to a hoax.
New York’s The Sun published a series claiming discoveries of lunar life and civilization. The reported observations were fabricated.
The Great Moon Hoax belongs
to newspaper history, not astronomy.
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