March 3, 2026
When the comments go full eclipse
The term 'Blood Moon' wasn't invented until 2013 (2014)
Internet calls BS on claim ‘Blood Moon’ was invented in 2013
TLDR: The article claims a 2013 religious book kicked off the term “Blood Moon,” but commenters swarm in with games, cards, movies, and century‑old books proving it’s much older. The real story is the community gleefully fact‑checking and roasting a misleading headline in real time.
The article calmly explains how a lunar eclipse can turn the Moon a spooky red and credits a 2013 Christian prophecy book with “inventing” the term Blood Moon. The community’s reaction? Instant dogpile. Commenters basically yell in unison: no way did a preacher in 2013 come up with this. One user immediately pulls the gamer card, pointing out that hit video game Terraria had a Blood Moon event back in 2011 and quips that the game is “much more popular than that book.” Another drags in a 1994 Magic: The Gathering card literally called “Blood Moon,” blowing the 2013 origin story to pieces.
From there, it turns into a full-on internet fact-check party. Someone finds a 1990 movie titled Bloodmoon, another dives into Google Books to show the phrase appearing in texts from the early 1900s, and yet another notes it was frontier slang for a full moon in Texas and a Wiccan term in the 1990s. The most savage take calls out the headline as “not true,” accusing it of being clickbait that doesn’t match the article. The mood is half science class, half roast session. The real eclipse isn’t in the sky — it’s the community eclipsing the article’s claim with receipts, links, and a lot of snarky fun.
Key Points
- •The article discusses a total lunar eclipse on October 7–8, described popularly as a “Blood Moon.”
- •John Hagee, a Christian pastor, is credited in the article with popularizing the term “blood moon,” particularly via his 2013 book *Four Blood Moons: Something is About to Change*.
- •Hagee uses “blood moon” to refer to the full moons of a lunar tetrad—four consecutive total lunar eclipses separated by six lunar months with no partial eclipses between—and links them to Biblical prophecy.
- •Astronomically, a totally eclipsed Moon appears red because Earth’s atmosphere filters out most green to violet light and allows refracted red light to reach the Moon.
- •Atmospheric conditions such as dust, humidity, and temperature determine the precise shade of red, ranging from copper to deep red, observed during a total lunar eclipse.