Tell Me a Hoax
Telling you about the hoaxes, humbugs, and pranks that capture our imagination.
Tell Me a Hoax
Great Moon Hoax
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Craig Renfroe & Sarah Creech
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Episode 22
Did people in 1835 think there were bipedal beavers on the moon? I mean, some of them might have, but that was thanks to the Great Moon Hoax pulled off by Richard Adams Locke. And boy was Edgar Allan Poe mad about it, thinking Locke had copied his earlier moon hoax. We get into it. But it's not all fun and games as we also look at Kevin Young's reading of the hoax's racial context.
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