Today's Weird History is certainly something weird! We are talking about a hoax so absurd; it doesn't seem real! In the 1820s two men claimed that the city of Manhattan was sinking into the harbor! Not to worry, they have an ingenious plan to solve everything. What was the plan? Also, stay tuned to the end for another bizarre, but true story that happened in 1939 at a nearby island.
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