Real or Fake #2 Discovery of Giant Skeleton.

in #science7 years ago

Hey everyone, welcome to second post in this series. For new readers, in this series i will investigate the viral pictures and videos on the internet and find out whether it is real or fake.


There are many giant skeletons pictures circling around the internet but the picture that we are going to investigate is this one.

So Is this Picture real or is it fake?

Firsts things first, this picture went viral on the internet because it was claimed to be the picture of the giant that was dug up by National Geographic Society of India. Also It was Reported Real in the "HINDU VOICE NEWSPAPER". But was it the truth?

Well it turns out this Picture is actually 100 % fake.

Even though it was reported in an official newspaper of being true it turned out to be a fake one.

Here is the full Story:

When National Geographic Society came to know that there is a picture of a giant skeleton that they have discovered, they completely denied it and  also they went to the bottom of this picture. They found out that they were the victim of the hoax in their own magazine.

They actually traced the picture back to a Photoshop contest on the website called worth1000. The contest was about coming up with the best photo-shopped pictures of the archaeological discoveries. This picture was posted by a username "ironkite" with the picture name "Giants". It also won 3rd place in the contest.

When National Geographic asked him about his real identity, he didn't revealed it but he did tell them, how he managed to cook up this picture. He told them that he started out with 

1.A real picture of mastodon excavation in the US. 

2.The next step was to very precisely superimpose the human skeleton over the mastodon. 

3.After that he added a man digging.

This one here is the original picture.


So here it is , this picture turned out to be 100 % fake. Do you want more of Real or Fake. If you do please let me know in the comments. and yah follow me too. Thank you.

Here is another one.

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