This story was first published on October 13, 2014
Outline
Circulating message featuring a photograph of a gigantic human skeleton laid out in a city plaza claims that the image shows the body of Ghatotkacha, a character from an ancient Indian epic.
Brief Analysis
The claims in the message are nonsense. The image depicts a sculpture by the late Italian artist, Gino De Dominicis. The sculpture was unveiled in Grenoble, France in 1990 and is now housed in an Italian art museum. An earlier version of the Ghatotkacha hoax used fake giant skeleton images taken from a Photoshop contest website.
