It was long thought to have be just a hoax, but the National Geograhic finally put the story to bed in December 2007 when it announced that the Giant Skeletons the National Geographic Society allegedly helped to “discovery” in India, was nothing more than an image manipulated hoax.
The original story was picked up by hundreds of blogs and news sites round the world earlier this year and at one point it really did look like part of the story was based on some fact… but alas not!
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“Giant Skeletons” Fuel Web Hoax [source: National Geographic].
