Moon Hoax
Author: first_name: Richard Adams
last_name: Locke
Language: English
Year: 1859

This hoax, subtitled “A Discovery that the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings,” was originally serialized in 1835 in the <i>New York Sun</i> newspaper. It purported itself to be a true account that had been published in the <i>Edinburgh Journal of Science</i>. Sir John Herschel, a well-known astronomer at the time, was credited with authorship.
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Herschel’s telescope, according to the story, was able to see man-bats and other animals, as well as a variety of geographical feature