{"id":5272,"date":"2007-12-22T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2007-12-22T03:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T22:01:00","slug":"a-giant-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/a-giant-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"A Giant Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/span><\/p>\n National Geographic<\/i> has the details<\/a> on the hoax behind the picture above. It was first created for a Photoshop contest, and then quickly became the subject of various rumours. Here’s one:<\/p>\n An often cited March 2007 article in India’s Hindu Voice<\/i> monthly, for example, claimed that a National Geographic Society team, in collaboration with the Indian Army, had dug up a giant human skeleton in India.<\/p>\n “Recent exploration activity in the northern region of India uncovered a skeletal remains of a human of phenomenal size,” the report read. <\/p>\n The story went on to say the discovery was made by a “National Geographic Team (India Division) with support from the Indian Army since the area comes under jurisdiction of the Army.”<\/p>\n The account added that the team also found tablets with inscriptions that suggest the giant belonged to a race of superhumans that are mentioned in the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic poem from about 200 BC.<\/p>\n “They were very tall, big and very powerful, such that they could put their arms around a tree trunk and uproot it,” the report said, repeating claims that initially appeared in 2004.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If such giants actually existed, and were alive today, I have absolutely no doubt about the industry in which they’d be most gainfully employed: Porn. So instead of shuddering at the sight of nine-inch thingies, we average males would be fighting despair at the sight of nine-foot<\/i> thingies. Horrors.<\/p>\n (Link via email from Sanjeev<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [embedded image]<\/p>\n\n