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by iamdanfox 4069 days ago
Otto Lindberg did exactly this to for a whole town in the 1930s!

Amazingly, the fake town (called 'Agloe') "became real — and then, strangely, undid itself and became a fantasy again" [1]

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/03/18/290236647/an-im...