August 25 in strange history
What strange thing happened on August 25? Here is the story from our files for this date, each checked against sources.
The Great Moon Hoax (1835)
In August 1835 the New York Sun ran a series claiming the astronomer John Herschel had seen bat-winged people, unicorns and temples on the Moon. It was a hoax, and it is still one of the most famous in newspaper history.