How a 1937 hoax captured the imagination with giant grasshoppers

In 1937, a pre-photoshop hoax was spread by a man who decided to superimpose an image of a grasshopper into a guy's hand in a photograph. The photo makes it look like the guy has just shot and killed the mega grasshopper, and at the time, some folks believed it was real. — Read the rest

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