The Photoshop was designed for the project 'Size Matters 4'. The first image of an alleged giant’s remains ( here) can be found here as “Photoshop Submission for 'Size Matters 4' Contest, Design 8854061.” The caption under the entry reads, “Whitmath57, an American designer, created this Photoshop on 14th August, 2011 for DesignCrowd (Community Contests), a business in Australia. Two Facebook posts sharing allegedly authentic videos of giant skeletons can be found here and here in a group called “Ancient Giant Tree Truth.”Īs explained here in a previous Reuters Fact Check, the group speak to a belief among Flat Earthers, conspiracy theorists who contend that our planet is not a globe but a flat surface ( here), that “real” trees no longer exist.įollowers of this conspiracy contend not only that “the trees we see now are small ersatz versions of giant, 20-mile-high trees that used to exist on earth in ancient times,” as related in a Quartz article here , but also that giants who once roamed the earth were the ones who cut them down.Ī 2007 article in National Geographic states that “rampant reports and pictures” of alleged giant skeletons, which it describes as obvious “photo fakery,” have led to “a continuing flow of emails to National Geographic News” from “around the globe” ( here). In the article, National Geographic debunks many of these photos and surrounding claims.
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