Stuff You Missed in History Class
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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Offbeat History: The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, Part 1
24 minutes Posted Mar 19, 2020 at 6:25 am.
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This offbeat 2015 episode covers a series of 1835 news articles about some utterly mind-blowing discoveries made by Sir John Herschel about the lunar surface. The serial had everything: moon poppies, goat-like unicorns, lunar beavers and even bat people.

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