The Balloon Hoax by Edgar Allan Poe

The Balloon Hoax

Edgar Allan Poe

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fiction classics science fiction short stories tense slow-paced
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This tale appeared in the New York Sun in 1844 and claimed a group of men successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a new type of balloon. Although the story looked real, it was completely fiction and created entirely from Poe's imagination.

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