An image (below) of what appears to be a giant 50ft crab on the coast of British town Whitstable is flying across the Internet, spread largely through tabloid online news sites.
The crab was apparently spotted on satellite imagery by one Quinton Winter, owner of a blog called Weird Whistable which details other oddities in the Whistable area. Winter also claimed to have seen the giant crustacean himself in “the flesh”, so to speak.
However many have been sceptical of the claims made by Mr Winter, with many believing the photo to be a digitally altered hoax.
And those people would be right, since the original satellite photo came from Bing Maps, which when you navigate to the correct area in Whistable, clearly shows the same imagery (below) used in the hoax minus the giant crab, thus proving the image to be nothing more than a hoax.
The photo was created by overlaying a photo of a crab onto the Bing satellite imagery in a program like Photoshop, something which any graphic designer could do easily.
So, it looks like it’s safe to go back into the water, after all.
P.S.
This isn’t the first time a fake photo of a giant crab has appeared on Winter’s Weird Whistable blog, this photo (below), reportedly taken last year, was also outed as fake.
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