The story of how early Mormon leaders allegedly believed six-foot-tall Quakers were living on the moon is stranger, funnier, and more complicated than the memes suggest — and it involves a newspaper hoax, bat-men, a German professor who saw cities on the lunar surface, and a game of telephone spanning four decades.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Six Foot Quakers On The Moon (Prologue)00:01:56.930 = Show Open
00:03:12.528 = The Urologist Who Saw Cities On The Moon (Part One)
00:19:34.761 = Fire Beavers and Bat-Men (Part Two)
00:44:52.116 = The Telephone Game Spanning Four Decades (Part Three)
01:01:35.145 = Write It Down, Man Will Never Reach Space (Part Four)
01:12:49.342 = Show Close

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Previous Weird Darkness episode about Stanley Kubrick faking the moon landing:https://weirddarkness.com/stanleykubrick/
William Herschel’s paper, “On the Nature and Construction of the Sun and Fixed Stars”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/106944
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