Richard Adams Locke

Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection

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This collection showcases fabricated documents and stories throughout history, and the diversity of purposes and contexts they were deployed…

The Moon Hoax

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Richard Adams Locke



This hoax, subtitled “A Discovery that the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings,” was originally serialized in 1835 in the New York Su…