August 25...The Great Moon Hoax

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 131. This time we examine the year 1835 as Richard Adams Locke begins publishing a satire article in 6 parts about finding inhabitants on the moon in what has become known as The Great Moon Hoax.

Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

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Sources:

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Question:_Did_Joseph_Smith_state_that_the_moon_was_inhabited,_and_that_its_inhabitants_were_dressed_like_Quakers%3F

https://wallaceandgromit.fandom.com/wiki/Cooker

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2015/10/25/the-great-moon-hoax-of-1835/

https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2013/09/04/the-great-moon-hoax-or-was-it-the-jokes-on-who/

https://earthsky.org/human-world/great-moon-hoax-august-25-1835/

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/08/the-great-moon-hoax/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-moon-hoax

http://hoaxes.org/text/display/the_great_moon_hoax_of_1835_text/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNAHcMMOHE8

https://www.gaia.com/article/the-hollow-moon-theory-is-the-moon-an-artificial-satellite

Photo: 

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2015/10/25/the-great-moon-hoax-of-1835/