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Giant Snake in the Red Sea. Real or Hoax?
Images of a giant snake loaded onto a truck are making their rounds, with a story of a massive snake that killed 320 tourists and 125 divers in Egypt. It has been reported on several websites, but are the images and the story real?
It is a hoax.
The story being circulated reads:
AMAZING GIANT SNAKE . Found in the Red Sea that killed 320 tourists and 125 Egyptian diver, and has been the killed by a professional team of elite Egyptian scientists and qualified divers in Egypt. Names of scientists who participated in the process of catching the huge snake were: D. Karim Mohammed, d. Mohammed Sharif, d. Mr. Sea, d. Mahmoud students, d. Mazen Al-Rashidi. And the names of divers who participated in the process of catching the huge snake were: Ahmed leader, Abdullah Karim, fisherman Knight, Wael Mohammed, Mohammed Haridi, spears Alvajuma, Mahmoud Shafik, a full-Sharif. The Snake body has been transferred to in the Egypt morgue at Sharm El Sheikh international animal.
News
Such a discovery would be headline news around the world, yet no major news organization has reported this snake or the associated killings as reported in the story. The only sites reporting this story are merely repeating the single report, without corroboration. Those who believe the photo point to the fact that Google will return several sites reporting this story. The problem is that all of these sites are merely referencing the lone story about the snake, and none of them are major, reputable news services. A few bloggers repeating a story verbatim is not sufficient proof as to the reliability of the report.
Not a single Egyptian news organization has reported this supposed massive creature and loss of life. There have also been no follow-up stories or photos.
The images
The images appear to be of a real snake on a toy truck and photographed at close range giving the appearance of a large snake. The images are usually circulated in a very low format, which makes it hard to tell if the photo is real or not. We were able to locate a higher-resolution version, however, and here it is very obvious that this is nothing more than a toy truck and soldiers alongside what appears to be an ordinary snake.
A snake with a size as impossible as this.. is almost certainly impossible.
First, let’s look at the low-res images circulating around the internet. It is hard to tell from these if the photos are real or not.
Now let’s take a look at higher-resolution images, where it becomes apparent that the truck and soldiers are simply toys:
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Article updated March 23, 2013
Filed under: Hoaxes & Rumors · Tags: Extreme Photos
The world is nearing the end when you see things like this happen
true…. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un….
Things like this never happen but may happen so can itbe the end of the world ? may be not.!!!
Wao i don’t think is truuuuuuu
This is not real. See carefully the 2nd picture. You will find a man on the truck, that is a toy. See how straight positioned he is. And his color tone is not also humans.
Why truck is so clean? Normally tires of any vehicle have little bit dirt or mud. It means truck is also a truck.
Snake is looking real but i am wondering how the divers killed him, because snake have a wound on mouth only. Were they punched with a huge hammer or tree? See, no bullet mark or blood or teared skin on the body.
So, how the hell people are thinking its real.
Its all fake. Someone shooted a snake with close range and composed wth background. That’s it.
ur right bout the toy soldier
this is very untrue story
Everything in the pic is real.. BUT the snake is actually 4ft long and mounted on a toy truck. Notice the toy soldier on top. The picture was taken at a low angle to give that perspective impression of size. And by the way, what is that toy military tank doing there i=f they claimed scientists and drivers killed it? And why hasnt the news flooded youtube with various camera and video angles? Ah let me guess, the citizens of Egypt do not have camera cell phones lol.
RUBBISH!!!
yeah! so damn rubbish
au fait on est dans le 21 eme siecle et il y a plusieurs moyens d’informations,vu que cette nouvelles n’a pas été diffusé dans les medias c’est faux et archifaux
its not true…………
It’s not true the army guy in the picture is a toy, notice how his outfit is lit up from the light. Since when does army clothes reflect light.
nice toy truck
Look too unreal to be true.
This a true lies, cos one tin I knw is dat, once a snake gives birth, its dies, cos d baby snake wil eat d mother snake frm inside inorder to find dre way out. Abeg, dis snake na barren or wat happen. Infat I wil travel to egypt, I wan go c am wit my korokoro eye. Liars!!!
Where did you hear this? Those snakes who do give birth (as opposed to laying eggs), and this is more common in sea snakes than land dwelling snakes, just squirt out the young and continue on their way.
Sea snakes don’t breed often, either, so this would not be much of a survival tactic for the species.
Me too travel to Egypt to c dat small creature
Me too me too wanna travel to Egypt.
I eagerly want to c dat huge snake with my
Eyes. M comin soooooon
is it real, then y nt it published in news channels or news papers. Its a fake ….
Real snake bt fake soldier A??????d????? truck
Is that true!
it is fake. these are just toys with photoshop effects.
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Niboza kuribe zinthu zaso. Akona kutiita vitsiru
Its real snake loaded on a toy truck. That’s all. You can easily recognize the soldier toy”s look on the truck.
FAKE! If you want to see a big snake as huge as that. Dont ever think so coz that kind of snake ( if ever ) is genetically mutated by nuclear effects for those who survived. Thats why nuclear testing is trictly prohebited by the u.n. Law. Coz its realy dangerous for health and ecological balance of nature.
It is all lairs, to create argument all over the world. Tell me the place where the snake is kept, i will go and see by my self. the maker of the photo has achieved his aims, as every one want to know about the snake. it is similar to the story my mother told my about the rain bow when i was a child
OMG! This is could pass for real (PICS 1, 2, and 4) except the pic where the soldier’s in.
Guys can u see a a small kept on the second image………….totally fake.Notice the Tyre is totally brand new and see the sky in last picture you could edited sky…………bye
total fake the wheels if inspected properly are plastic
Is it true? I can’t believe it
Its fake,u can just c it,toy soldier n truck,n to be honest I don’t think does dudes cud even get close to a snake dat hugenlet alone kill it
If its true.. Cool! If not, then i wish people would stop putting bullshit on the net… But do your self a favour and go look at the biggest snake fossils that they have found since the dinosour times.
Amazing, but terrifying!
Agreed and there was once a big snake its called the titanboa it was 40ft long and over 2 ton, the biggest snake now is a captive bred reticulated python named fluffy at 27ft . The second is baby a Burmese at 24ft and the third Twinkie a reticulated python at 22ft beautiful creatures but bad reputations just like pit bulls
It is a real snake, but magnified about 40 times it’s size.
This is so fake its a toy solider and a toy truck zoomed in at a high percentage ,that is also a king snake or yellow bellied racer , and for who ever said young snakes eat there mother WOW HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE. Do your facts first yes only some snakes have live young , and others have eggs. The mother will lay her young or eggs she will stay with the young for a Little bit then they will slither off on there own the mother will go on in her own way as well as for eggs the same thing once they hatch . Advice learn and go back to school seriously is this what humanity has brought.
Agreed and there was once a big snake its called the titanboa it was 40ft long and over 2 ton, the biggest snake now is a captive bred reticulated python named fluffy at 27ft . The second is baby a Burmese at 24ft and the third Twinkie a reticulated python at 22ft Amazing creatures bad reputations like pit bulls
ahaha! exaggerated pictures! who would believe on this?
in the picture number 2 the soldiers looks like a yoy soldier, so, you imagine the news wrongs or true. I like snake too, so, the most biggest snake in the world you will find in the Kalimantan Island on the deep forest.
this is not a true picture all seem to be toys
its too real to be true
Dude,toy truck, toy soldier, CARPETTT, but Thts a real snake on a toy truck bro
Any scale modelers around? You will notice that the truck may be a MAZ-537G by Trumpeter in 1/35 scale. It seemed well-modeled, but it’s obvious that it is a model.
Giant snake from Vietnam War!
Look at the toy soldiers, they are North Vietnamese Army and Vietcong.
Ths is nthng bt lies.if ths was real we know egypty was going to make lost of profit throght media.so many media around the world would like to break the story.and how did thy kill a big nake like ths on 1sport.mouth only.nah.ths was a 8mm long snake and a truck toy wit a toy man on top then they put a background and photograph the pic so that i wll look really.they tried to backd up thy story bcoz thy used big names.whe r those ppl bcoz thy were suppost to shot wit the snake.y only ths photos around the glob.y only annonimous sites break ths story out.why on youtup we dont c a proper vedio bt the same pic.y does it nt on biggest News channls on Tv.y did they captured it at the same sport.
its all fake, but good effort to make fool