Could be a fake?
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I found this picture today, dunno if you guys already seen it, but wow! That freakin thing is huge!
Could be a fake?
Could be a fake?
I heard Jack Hannah talking about it, he thinks it is fake and is just a promo for the new movie Hogzilla.
im gonna agree with tyler on this one...a fake...most likly a promo
Doesn't sound like a very good movie.
Its real its on wierd facts and on gueiines world records. The boy had been chasing it for 3 hours lo. true story and its the biggest since the ice age.
Heard it was a true story, however, it wasn't a wild pig... It was a domestic pig that was released about a year ago
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Doesn't sound like a very good movie.
ha! to true....im not gonna waste my money on seeing it
Copyed from a google search result:
In Georgia, they call it Hogzilla: a 12-foot-long wild hog recently killed on a plantation and now quickly becoming a part of local legend.
The plantation's owner claims the hog weighed 1,000 pounds and had 9-inch tusks. But few people have actually seen the hog -- the only proof being a photo that shows the dead beast hanging from a rope.
Whether the hog ever actually existed or is some sort of myth, it has definitely been the topic of conversation in small towns across southern Georgia.
"People just back up and ask 'Is it real?' They can't believe that there's a hog that big in the woods," said Drew White, who has a copy of the photo on display at an auto parts store in Tifton, about 17 miles away.
Chris Griffin killed the beast in June, 2003 at the River Oak Plantation, where he is a hunting guide and has been showing off the picture around this small farming community ever since. The hog is nearly twice as long as the 6-foot-tall Griffin, who is seen standing next to it in the photo.
"They say 'Man, you look like a dwarf compared to that thing,'" he said.
The picture is all Griffin had to back up his claims. He and Ken Holyoak, owner of the plantation, buried the beast on the property and did not want to hassle with slaughtering it since the meat of large feral hogs is typically not very good.
Holyoak said he decided that the hog's head also wasn't worth keeping because it was too large to mount on a wall. He said the head has the diameter of a tire on a compact car.
"We had to lift him with a backhoe," he said.
Hog problem getting worse:
No one maintains official records on hog kills in Georgia. But Department of Natural Resources biologist Kent Kammermeyer, who helped write a booklet on feral-hog problems in the state, said he has never heard of one as large as Hogzilla.
Holyoak said the plantation's previous record was a 695-pound hog shot several years ago. Enough wild hogs roam Holyoak's plantation that he has made it a side business to allow people to hunt them, but he said "Hogzilla" was too big to let someone else shoot.
"We killed it because we didn't want to take a chance of him getting away. Somebody else would have shot it," he said.
Feral hogs, popularly known as wild hogs, are domestic hogs that escaped from farms and began living off the land. They lay waste to corn and peanut fields and deprive more than 100 species -- including squirrels and deer -- of food.
"It's a big problem and it's getting worse," Kammermeyer said. "If you have a lot of hogs, you're going to have problems. Hogs are very aggressive. They run deer off and they can be dangerous if wounded or cornered."
Holyoak said he had to climb into a deer stand a few years back to escape a raging hog that circled around for six hours, foaming at the mouth and snapping at branches.
"They say bears get mad when you mess with their babies," Holyoak said. "Hogs don't need a reason to get mad and come after you."
UPDATE:
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Hogzilla is real. And now, he's real dead!
A team of National Geographic experts has confirmed south Georgia's monster hog, known to locals as Hogzilla, was indeed real -- and really, really big.
They also noted the super swine didn't quite live up to the 1,000-pound, 12-foot hype generated when Hogzilla was caught on a farm last summer and photographed hanging from a backhoe.
Donning biohazard suits to exhume the behemoth's smelly remains, the experts estimated Hogzilla was probably only 7 1/2 to 8 feet long, and weighed about 800 pounds.
The confirmation came in a documentary aired on the National Geographic Channel; it will be rebroadcast.
"He was an impressive beast. He was definitely a freak of nature," said documentary producer Nancy Donnelly.
She said Hogzilla's tusks -- one measuring nearly 18 inches and the other nearly 16 inches -- set a new Safari Club International North American free-range record.
That wasn't good enough for Ken Holyoak, owner of the 1,500-acre fish farm and hunting preserve where Hogzilla was shot by guide Chris Griffin.
"I need to stress that they did not have that much to work with, seeing as how the poor beast had been underground for nearly six months," he said.
Holyoak said Hogzilla weighed in at half a ton on his farm scales, and that he personally measured the hog's length at 12 feet while the freshly killed beast was dangling by straps from a backhoe.
"As with any organic being after death, tissues will decompose and the body will atrophy, making actual measurements change over time," Holyoak said. "Have you ever seen a raisin after it was a grape?"
Donnelly said the experts allowed for some shrinkage in making their final estimate.
Despite the dispute, this town 180 miles south of Atlanta has already adopted Hogzilla as its own. It went with a Hogzilla theme for its fall festival, with a parade featuring a Hogzilla princess, children in pink pig outfits and a float carrying a Hogzilla replica.
"Our insides were just bubbling," said Darlene Turner, who hosted a party to watch the documentary. "At first, I was afraid it might be an embarrassment. But now I wish everybody could see the documentary. It would take the doubt out of people's minds."
In Georgia, they call it Hogzilla: a 12-foot-long wild hog recently killed on a plantation and now quickly becoming a part of local legend.
The plantation's owner claims the hog weighed 1,000 pounds and had 9-inch tusks. But few people have actually seen the hog -- the only proof being a photo that shows the dead beast hanging from a rope.
Whether the hog ever actually existed or is some sort of myth, it has definitely been the topic of conversation in small towns across southern Georgia.
"People just back up and ask 'Is it real?' They can't believe that there's a hog that big in the woods," said Drew White, who has a copy of the photo on display at an auto parts store in Tifton, about 17 miles away.
Chris Griffin killed the beast in June, 2003 at the River Oak Plantation, where he is a hunting guide and has been showing off the picture around this small farming community ever since. The hog is nearly twice as long as the 6-foot-tall Griffin, who is seen standing next to it in the photo.
"They say 'Man, you look like a dwarf compared to that thing,'" he said.
The picture is all Griffin had to back up his claims. He and Ken Holyoak, owner of the plantation, buried the beast on the property and did not want to hassle with slaughtering it since the meat of large feral hogs is typically not very good.
Holyoak said he decided that the hog's head also wasn't worth keeping because it was too large to mount on a wall. He said the head has the diameter of a tire on a compact car.
"We had to lift him with a backhoe," he said.
Hog problem getting worse:
No one maintains official records on hog kills in Georgia. But Department of Natural Resources biologist Kent Kammermeyer, who helped write a booklet on feral-hog problems in the state, said he has never heard of one as large as Hogzilla.
Holyoak said the plantation's previous record was a 695-pound hog shot several years ago. Enough wild hogs roam Holyoak's plantation that he has made it a side business to allow people to hunt them, but he said "Hogzilla" was too big to let someone else shoot.
"We killed it because we didn't want to take a chance of him getting away. Somebody else would have shot it," he said.
Feral hogs, popularly known as wild hogs, are domestic hogs that escaped from farms and began living off the land. They lay waste to corn and peanut fields and deprive more than 100 species -- including squirrels and deer -- of food.
"It's a big problem and it's getting worse," Kammermeyer said. "If you have a lot of hogs, you're going to have problems. Hogs are very aggressive. They run deer off and they can be dangerous if wounded or cornered."
Holyoak said he had to climb into a deer stand a few years back to escape a raging hog that circled around for six hours, foaming at the mouth and snapping at branches.
"They say bears get mad when you mess with their babies," Holyoak said. "Hogs don't need a reason to get mad and come after you."
UPDATE:
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Hogzilla is real. And now, he's real dead!
A team of National Geographic experts has confirmed south Georgia's monster hog, known to locals as Hogzilla, was indeed real -- and really, really big.
They also noted the super swine didn't quite live up to the 1,000-pound, 12-foot hype generated when Hogzilla was caught on a farm last summer and photographed hanging from a backhoe.
Donning biohazard suits to exhume the behemoth's smelly remains, the experts estimated Hogzilla was probably only 7 1/2 to 8 feet long, and weighed about 800 pounds.
The confirmation came in a documentary aired on the National Geographic Channel; it will be rebroadcast.
"He was an impressive beast. He was definitely a freak of nature," said documentary producer Nancy Donnelly.
She said Hogzilla's tusks -- one measuring nearly 18 inches and the other nearly 16 inches -- set a new Safari Club International North American free-range record.
That wasn't good enough for Ken Holyoak, owner of the 1,500-acre fish farm and hunting preserve where Hogzilla was shot by guide Chris Griffin.
"I need to stress that they did not have that much to work with, seeing as how the poor beast had been underground for nearly six months," he said.
Holyoak said Hogzilla weighed in at half a ton on his farm scales, and that he personally measured the hog's length at 12 feet while the freshly killed beast was dangling by straps from a backhoe.
"As with any organic being after death, tissues will decompose and the body will atrophy, making actual measurements change over time," Holyoak said. "Have you ever seen a raisin after it was a grape?"
Donnelly said the experts allowed for some shrinkage in making their final estimate.
Despite the dispute, this town 180 miles south of Atlanta has already adopted Hogzilla as its own. It went with a Hogzilla theme for its fall festival, with a parade featuring a Hogzilla princess, children in pink pig outfits and a float carrying a Hogzilla replica.
"Our insides were just bubbling," said Darlene Turner, who hosted a party to watch the documentary. "At first, I was afraid it might be an embarrassment. But now I wish everybody could see the documentary. It would take the doubt out of people's minds."
I do recall they admitted that the hog wasn't wild but infact bred.
Wire service reports are flashing the news around the world, summarizing the reported truth behind Hogzilla II.
It was not a wild boar, and not even a hybrid. It was a farm-raised pig, named Fred, purchased for a canned hunt. That hunt ended on Lost Creek Plantation just four days after it was released into a 60 hectare fenced area, the animal’s former owner said.
Phil Blissitt told The Anniston Star that he bought the six-week-old pig in 2004 as a Christmas gift for his wife, Rhonda, and that they sold it after deciding to get rid of all their pigs. Blissitt said the pig had become a nuisance and that visitors were often frightened by it.
“I just wanted the truth to be told. That wasn’t a wild pig,” Rhonda Blissitt said.
“That was a big hog,” said her husband, Phil Blissitt.
The 11-year-old Jamison Stone shot the huge hog during what he and his father, Mike Stone, described as a three-hour chase.
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/hogzilla-not/
Wire service reports are flashing the news around the world, summarizing the reported truth behind Hogzilla II.
It was not a wild boar, and not even a hybrid. It was a farm-raised pig, named Fred, purchased for a canned hunt. That hunt ended on Lost Creek Plantation just four days after it was released into a 60 hectare fenced area, the animal’s former owner said.
Phil Blissitt told The Anniston Star that he bought the six-week-old pig in 2004 as a Christmas gift for his wife, Rhonda, and that they sold it after deciding to get rid of all their pigs. Blissitt said the pig had become a nuisance and that visitors were often frightened by it.
“I just wanted the truth to be told. That wasn’t a wild pig,” Rhonda Blissitt said.
“That was a big hog,” said her husband, Phil Blissitt.
The 11-year-old Jamison Stone shot the huge hog during what he and his father, Mike Stone, described as a three-hour chase.
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/hogzilla-not/
I found this a bit interesting and wow look at the size of the hog this kid shot and killed just freakin WOW 
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hogzilla.asp
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hogzilla.asp
yeh ive seen all of those pics/videos about them and its really amazing how big these "Monsters" can get.
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