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Photoshopped Giants (and Other Misrepresented "Giant" Images)

Many of the images of "giant" skeletons that echo around the internet have been recently manufactured/modified or are misrepresentations of otherwise real photographs . Browse through the images below to find your favorite!

Related Topics
  • Giants
  • Giants in 19th Century America
  • Anomalous Footprints
  • Young Earth Creationism

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This image placed third in the 2002 "Archaeological Anamolies 2" photo manipulation contest by Worth1000.  Part of the image was from a mastodon excavation in New York.  
  • "They Might Be Giants" (Snopes.com, 3/11/2015)
  • "Internet Photo Hoax: "Skeleton of Giant Found in India"" (T. V. Antony Raj, 5/8/2013)
  • "The Giant Skeletons! Photoshop Speedwork!" (YouTube Video by TipzyPilot, 8/2/2012)
  • ""Giant Skeletons" Fuel Web Hoax" (National Geographic, 10/28, 2010)
  • "Solving the Mystery of the Giant Skeleton" (Sanal Edamaruku)

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This one placed 18th in the 2004 "Archaeological Anamolies 4" photo manipulation contest by Worth1000.

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This one was created by Photoshopping an image of human skull into an image of a dinosaur excavation.  According to Snopes.com, it appeared sometime in 2010..
  • "Giant PaleoBabble" (Michael Heiser, 2/10/2010)

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This comparison of the original and modified versions of the "giant skull in a cart" image appears here on Pinterest (Lisa Johnson)..

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This comparison of the modified and original versions of this photo appears here on Pinterest (Lisa Johnson).

The modified photo appeared in Richard Dewhurst's book The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America (page 46), with the caption"Giant skeleton from Serpent Mound of Adams County, Ohio." 
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This comparison of the modified and original versions of this image appears here on Pinterest (Lisa Johnson).

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This one placed 5th in the "Archaeological Anamolies 12" photo manipulation contest by Worth1000.

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This image is represented as a "5 m skeleton" discovered in Australia. The image is taken from a video of French archaeologists excavating a mammoth.
  • "Has a 5 Meter Human Skeleton Been Discovered in Australia?" (ThatsFake.com, 9/8/2015)
  • "Fake-News Report Claims Five Meter Tall Human Skeleton Found at Uluru" (Brett M. Christensen, 8/5/2015)

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​This image supposedly showing a giant skeleton actually shows a fake skeleton constructed for display at Erich von Daniken's Mystery Park.
  • "Creationists Claim Erich von Daniken's Model "Giant" Skeleton as Proof of Bible" (Jason Colavito, 9/5/2013)

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The image on the left shows Joe Taylor posing with his sculpture of a 47" femur (it's not a real bone - he created it for a museum display).  The guy on the right is posing with a copy of the bone - you can buy one yourself from the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum if you've got $450 to spare. 
  • "Joe Taylor's Sculpture of a 47" Femur: What's the Story?" (Andy White, 1/20/2015)
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This image was used as evidence of giants in a book by Young Earth Creationist Carl Baugh. It was (intentionally) blurred to look like a photograph and represented as such, but it's not: the original image was a drawing.
  • "A "Giant" Unearthed in Early Nineteenth Century Sicily" (Jason Colavito, 2/21/2015)
  • "The Failure of the Search for Evidence of Human Giants Over Ten Feet Tall, The Nephilim, et al. A Creationist Story of Obsession" (Edward Babinski, 10/21/2014)

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