Hogzilla
You wouldn't want to run into this thing while out for a stroll in the woods. It's a 1000lb wild hog with 9-inch tusks, nicknamed Hogzilla, that hunting Guide Chris Griffin claims to have shot in Georgia last month. To put this in perspective, 500lb wild hogs are considered enormous. No one has ever heard of a 1000lb wild hog before, so it's raising a few eyebrows. Plus, the only evidence for the creature's existence is a picture Griffin snapped of himself posing beside it. He says that he buried the hog soon after killing it. In the picture of Griffin with Hogzilla, the hog sure looks big. Hogzilla could be real. Or the picture could be photoshopped, though I haven't seen a good enough copy of the image to make a judgement on that. Or Griffin could have obtained a large hog from a farm. In the hoax forum, posters have pointed out that tricks of perspective might make the hog look bigger than it really is... though even taking distorted perspective into account, that still seems like a big hog. If I were Griffin, I'd dig the skeleton up to prove that Hogzilla is real, because a picture alone is not indisputable evidence. Update: A better quality picture of Hogzilla can be seen at Kens-fishfarm.com, and David Emery notes that there have been previous stories about giant hogs caught in the wild.
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That things looks like it's made of wood kinda
Posted by Jenny on Thu Jul 29, 2004 at 01:06 PM
What exactly is this hog hanging from?
Posted by AqueousBoy on Thu Jul 29, 2004 at 02:46 PM
Oh, it's supposed to be hanging from a backhoe. Eh, still fake.
Posted by AqueousBoy on Thu Jul 29, 2004 at 02:48 PM
I'm going to say this is likely fake. Someone claims to have killed a record breaking animal, but noone is allowed to see it. That sounds a wee bit suspect.
Posted by Mike on Thu Jul 29, 2004 at 07:21 PM
C'mon!
You'd think he'd at least keep the tusks from the thing as a trophy.
Having said he buried the pig is like the kid who says the dog ate his homework.
A bit too convenient.
Posted by Peter L. on Fri Jul 30, 2004 at 01:56 AM
You'd think he'd at least keep the tusks from the thing as a trophy.
Having said he buried the pig is like the kid who says the dog ate his homework.
A bit too convenient.
He was there on his own when he shot, strung-up, photographed and then buried this huge hog, he must be ever so strong. I look forward to him getting the gold in the weightlifting at this summers olympics
Posted by Dave on Fri Jul 30, 2004 at 08:16 AM
Gotta say hoax...the thing that struck me was his comment "We killed it because we didn't want to take a chance of him getting away. Somebody else would have shot it"...so they wanted to be the ones to shoot it, but then hid all the evidence that they did...I doubt it very much. A record size hog and they're not gonna go around claiming the bragging rights?? And what would have made for an equally impressive perspective shot would have been to have the backhoe in the pic -- but that's omitted too.
Posted by LethargyTarTare on Fri Jul 30, 2004 at 10:17 AM
If it had been dead a couple of days, I would have understood because of the stank. But since it was killed last month, grave robbing efforts might have to wait a while...
Posted by Not You on Fri Jul 30, 2004 at 10:59 AM
Hey, Dave, I think it's even funnier that the guy goes hunting with a backhoe...
Posted by Ga on Fri Jul 30, 2004 at 12:04 PM
This has to be a hoax. Look close at the picture. The hog looks like he's 10 feet from the camera. Chris Griffen looks like he's 25 feet from the camera.
They used the same princliple to make humans Hobbit size in the "Lord of the Rings" movies...
Posted by Robin on Fri Jul 30, 2004 at 01:03 PM
They used the same princliple to make humans Hobbit size in the "Lord of the Rings" movies...
Posted by Jacob on Sat Jul 31, 2004 at 04:50 PM
Unfortunately Snopes doesn't shed any new light on the story. They basically copy the AP story about Hogzilla, and then offer the observation about the perspective in the photo looking a little funny.
Posted by The Curator in San Diego on Sun Aug 01, 2004 at 11:55 AM
I have to say this story is all HOGwash... as an avid hunter if i took a record size hog like that I would be alerting the news media right away.. plus he's a hunting GUIDE.. what better way to endorse your skills than by having it stuffed and in your lodge... plus the pic looks like a photo from from an excavation site not a hunting camp.. even if this was taken just before they buried the hog.. and lastly I know that if I was to take an animal like this and not have it mounted.. I would be having one hell of a pig roast...
Posted by Mark on Tue Aug 03, 2004 at 09:36 PM
what a load of crap
Posted by fatty on Fri Aug 06, 2004 at 12:16 AM
Don't you mean, what a load of hogwash?
Posted by The Curator in San Diego on Fri Aug 06, 2004 at 12:23 AM
i cant believe that a bunch of rednecks can use photoshop. This is proof that they can. They may be able to use it, just not very well. Lovely advertising scheme for the river oaks plantation though. All the other hunting rednecks will think its real and want a big hog too.
Posted by Zero on Fri Aug 06, 2004 at 12:44 PM
Do hunters go hunting with cranes? What would they use to lift half a ton? Looking at the photo, there's a considerable difference in definition between the 'hunter' and the 'hunted' which shouts fake to me!
Posted by Nik on Mon Aug 09, 2004 at 07:58 AM
On a side note, Chris Griffin is also the name of the son on family guy. I haven't looked at the article or anything in alot of detail, are we sure the guy even exists or is perhaps making up a fake name?
Posted by Razela on Wed Aug 11, 2004 at 09:13 PM
omg look it's michael moore!!! both hogzilla and Chris Griffin look like the filmmaker.
Posted by john on Wed Aug 18, 2004 at 01:46 PM
bah, its a fake. his shadow's wrong and he's too sharp against the background.
Posted by surreal on Wed Aug 25, 2004 at 08:23 AM
ah, something else i missed - pay attention to his boots.
Posted by surreal on Wed Aug 25, 2004 at 08:25 AM
Hogzilla is and advertising ploy gone bad. The domestic boar was purchased from a producer to be released in front of a "paying client". The only problem was that he died of heat stroke before a client could be located that would pay the price. He was buried and after the fact dug up and photographed . He was about 6 1/2 ft long and weighed 700 lbs or so . Given he was a big hog , but not 1000 lbs and 12 ft. long. And not a bullet hole in him. I wish someone would go to Ken's Farms and question the witnesses using a polygraph. Then the truth would come out.
Posted by R. Burns on Thu Aug 26, 2004 at 10:10 AM
There are/were two images of this guy and his hog on the internet when the news first came out. Using stereoscopic imagery one can see that what should be normal 3-D is reversed.
Posted by Ray on Sun Sep 19, 2004 at 02:41 AM
:lol: I've seen LOTS of giant hogs at the local motorcycle hangout! :lol:
Posted by troubledexperiment001 on Fri Oct 01, 2004 at 07:48 AM
Stay tuned to: "National Geographic Channel Finds Hogzilla". It seems they have acquired the rights to the award-winning Explorer documentary series. Hogzillia will me among one of the first episodes of the Explorer documentary series. The program will start airing in January. It looks like they found the spot where Hogzilla was buried and had some forensic scientists look at the remains. No other information was given, you have to wait and see the program.
Heh and I don't get that channel, figures. I hope someone will let us know what the say.
source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=5&u=/ap/hogzilla_national_geographic
Posted by Myst on Tue Nov 23, 2004 at 03:45 AM
Heh and I don't get that channel, figures. I hope someone will let us know what the say.
source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=5&u=/ap/hogzilla_national_geographic
National Geographic says this wild Boar is not a hoax. Be careful before you label something you are afraid of as a hoax, it might not be. Remember the "X-Files"? You are not paranoid if they are really out to get you.
Posted by James Litchfield on Sat Dec 11, 2004 at 03:45 PM
For those that still are curious they are showing it Sunday, the 20th at 8pm.
Posted by Dale on Sat Mar 19, 2005 at 08:17 PM
I bet all of the paople that did not beleive that such a thing could be that big feel real stupid after seeing that discovery channel special which will be on again 2 mor times on the 28th of march and the following sunday
Posted by Joe on Tue Mar 22, 2005 at 09:58 PM
Ok for one thing its true and all of you who think its not are retarded because for one why would they lie about a stupid hog thats rediculousand for another they already have the world record for the biggest brim yall are just jelous because hes getting all the fame and glory right now and you aren't so get a life and get over it he's my uncle and i know for sure him and the hog are real and they buried it because they couldn't eat the meat and they didn't mount it cuz its head was too big if yall did your'e reading up on it you would understand but yet you might be 2 dumb for that .
Posted by UR MOMMA on Thu Apr 14, 2005 at 04:31 PM
Yep, we are all dumb. Then again, we do know a little bit about something we like to call "punctuation."
Posted by Razela on Thu Apr 14, 2005 at 05:02 PM
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