Tsunami giant causing a stir

Been getting a ton of hits over the video of the tsunami giant, and lots of comments from visitors. I don't have time right now but I'll post my response to comments later.

If you haven't seen it yet, click to see it as a .WMV or .MOV file.

I'm at the top of today's news at this "mysteries of the unexplained" news site!! How cool is that!

Comments

[im a colossus hear me roar]

sweet baby jesus people! we all know it's just viral marketing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_colossus (scroll to the bottom), see?! just play along and have some damn fun!

if anybody actually believes this, man you need common sense. Its so viral marketing.

dudes. Its an ad for shadow of the collosus
for PS2.

[Logan]

Man how stupid are all of you. Ever heard of the game "Shadow of the Colossus"...All these videos are a marketting ploy, an advertisement for the game.

[Chris]

I'm pretty sure this is a hoax and all, but can i just ask what all the markings are? all them rightangled engravings on the "bones". or are they just on a rock?

and also a point that was made earlier about it wouldn't have been Archaeolgists but anthropologists, well if they were researching them city ruins couldnt it have been the Archaeolgists that came across it any way?

[ggg]

It is true believe me. God will have wrath upon all that do not believe! Wrong Doers!!!!!

[Anoop]

Me from India. I am absolutely sure there is no channel like that here. :)

[Scott]

I live in India, was just down in Tamil Nadu and was briefly in Mahabalipuram, and here is what I noticed wrong with the video...

-On the map, Chennai was spelt wrong, they spelt it Chenai.

- I am almost positive the newstation they mention does not exist, the logo looks a bit like Doordarshan, but they broadcast in Hindi.

- I don't think the woman they interviewed was even from Tamil Nadu...

-It just doesn't look anything like a news report, it's missing all of the messages at the bottom.

- I think it got the languages mixed up as well...

[me_not_you]

there's also a video that looks strangely similar, it involves a giant siberian ice creature, this seems to be an obvious promotional stunt

[Rob]

Things like this always interest me, but...there is one big thing missing that makes me believe it to be not true, it's the fact that there has been no reports of this on our national channels " Canada or the USA" . If this were real, it would be something worth telling on a real news broadcast dont you think?

[Buster]

This isnt real. That bird you see walking on the beach is a Blue Booby, NOT native to that area.

[SluttyButty]

slutty butt.

smelly smelly slut butt.

[Actual Archaeologist]

We do study animals as they relate to humans.

[Jayson]

I think the fact that it is redubbed says a lot towards a hoax. It could be about some random thing and then some americans saw it and were like, "whoa, that's looks like a huge torso of some creature!" and then they redubbed it.

[Tony]

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!

[Eric]

You call this archaeology??

[Idiots.]

You people are retarded.

[Pho Z]

archaeologists will still be there to help with excavation. my uncle is an archaeologist and if he happens to find animal bones he stays and helps excavate them

[ArchaeologistInTrainingIsAMoron]

Hey buddy, Anthropologists do humans.

[octalus]

If you were a news team, and you just got the job reporting on something that COULD CHANGE THE WORLD FOREVER, would you insist on having chilled, serene shots of the beach, birds and general populace having a bit of a stroll on the beach and looking pretty relaxed?

Honestly, the whole 'news report' seems more like a holiday guide to me. People are far too chilled - even the news reporter is reporting this as if it were an annual beach strolling competition. IT MAY CHANGE LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.

So, in conclusion, WTF are you doing believing this? The CGI is beyond obvious.

[Mike]

Archaeologists are there because they know how to dig bones out of the ground.

[Andrew]

dude the giant is basically a giant person, why wouldnt the archaolegists be there?

[jp]

Archaeolgists do artifacts and buildings, anthropologists do people.

[OJLB]

I was trying to figure out exactly where these bones might be located if they really exist. So I looked up Mahabalipuram, and found this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4257181.stm

Which basically says that the tsunami uncovered parts of an ancient city nearby. Also, I'm going to travel through India this year, and if I had more evidence or new exaclty where it was supposed to be I could maybe check it out.

You have to realise that its a translation; the woman likey said the Indian word for Palaeontologist but the translator made it Archaeologist.

[Kyle]

Archeologists are there because it's a stupa, a Buddhist burial temple. Not some giant's bones...

[Robin]

You gotta be kidding me!?!? Is this for real??? Looks like Loch Ness or Sasquatch material to me.....but what if.......how cool is that?

[tanner]

I saw this last week and told some people about it and we tought it was pretty cool... even though it ws on kontraband.com so its not that believeable. After watching the clip several times i thought the helicopter shots looked CG... it would make a cool teaser trailer for a movie though.

[David]

The shots have me debating between CG or Reality, they are very good if the shots are CG and the close up objects could be set props. It is usually very difficult to tell the difference with cg objects, but its very easy with cg people....Well please let me know if this is a hoax, because Im very interested.

[Random Guy]

The reason Archaelogists are at the scene is...

If you listened closely to the report, they wee excavating an ancient city in the same location where the skeleton was discovered.

This story is a hoax. It was not covered anywhere else on any major news stations.

[mtprc]

that video is a hoax. there is no news channel like that in india. i don't think so at least.

[Jackson]

The "news footage" is clearly fake. Why would there be a "build-up" and only a few seconds of footage of the "monster" itself? You would only do that if you wanted to build tension. New programs are too matter-of-fact and air time is too valuable to muck like this. Also, archeologists don't look at dinos, they look at ancient cities and people.

And why would there be one lone local reporter and not an army of photograghers and journalists on cite? Time to use some critical thinking.

[Ionoc]

This video is a fake!!!
Check in the air take...you can see the thumb on the beach's side. But when they take a close up with people around the hand, you can whatch the finger on the ocean's side. Anyway its pretty cool video XD

[ArchaeologistInTraining]

I just saw the video. What are archaeologists doing there? Archaeologists don't do fossilized animals. Archaeologists do people, Palaeontologists do animals.

[Huasat]

no offense, but that's obviously fake. That screenshot you've got there is the most clearly fake part... The skeleton in the background looks like it's from a game. It's hard to see how anyone can be fooled by this. I'll try and transliterate the name of that Indian network so I can google for it; see if it actually exists - which i doubt - and if they have any further information.

[Bonehead]

If you take a close look at the skeleton and the area surrounding it, its a little blurry and pixelated, dark browns and beige are the dominant colors. These are typically colors used in CGI for skeletal remains, zombies etc. in video games.

[Thys]

This is obviously fake, for the following reasons:

- The item itself is just not a news item. It is too slow, gives too little information about the findings, has an interview with an anonymous bystander, has no interview with an archeologist, nor any other references.
- It just looks too sleek. Perfect quality. Beautiful horizon. Somehting you would see with a hour-long documentary, not a short news story.
- The parts shown from the air, are unidentifiable from the shots taken from the ground.
- Google "Tsunami throws up India relics" and you find articles that tell us that indeed there were some findings in the town mentioned in the video. Where do you think they took the shots from?
- Why doesn't the author of this website comment on it yet? He just wants to sit the hype out, and then tell us all it is fake.

Isn't that so? ;). It is nicely made, but with a few simple details it would have been way more plausible. It is not just a edited shot that does it.

Very nicely done. But typing this email took me longer than figuring out this is a fake.

[what is it?]

If there is any new information about this thing could someone email me please? Thank you.

[obvious]

This is an OBVIOUS FAKE!!!! But it would be cool if it were real.

[Peter]

Hi, this is a courtesy message. For your own sake, you should unshift your shift in focus... jebel-barez is a known dinosaur (around second largest ever found), the underwater giant is definitely a statue (not a dead creature), and most importantly, the tsunami video is patently computer generated. I know this not because I have any philosophical commitment to its veracity either way, but because I am a professional digital artist and I can see the flaws in it a mile off. It is probably the project of a media school student (ie not a hoax per se). It's also completely impossible that this could have been real and not globally reported... again that is an informed opinion based on an understanding of the global newsmedia.

Hope this helps...

- Peter

[HP]

I just left a comment at the original post, found via the Anomalist. The Anomalist is indeed extremely cool. I'm basically a skeptic, but I find the CSICOP-types insufferable, essentially out to defraud people. To get the nod from the Anomalist means I can trust you, because I trust the Anomalist.

[Eric]

Found this clip through Kontraband.com. It was pretty interesting, so I looked into it a little bit. Can't find the reporter anywhere on the net, or any other news reference. Also, it just looks a bit fake to me.