There are rumors spreading across the internet from users unaware that they are spreading the link on Facebook. According to this circulating report, a Norwegian woman gave birth to a baby elephant.
The report claims that after the "half-human/half elephant hybrid baby" was born, millions of Hindus everywhere begun a pilgrimage to Norway to see the child. Many Hindu practitioners believe to be the reincarnation of the popular deity Ganesha.
He is commonly depicted as a man with several limbs and the head of an elephant.
Alexander and Lola Andersen first attempted to keep their child a secret from the world but soon pictures of the child along with the identity of the family leaked to the media. The Andersen found themselves celebrities in the country of India.
When asked of the child's name, father Alexander only answered, "We never really gave it a name. To be quite honest, we were just going to call it the creature that we keep in the basement. This does open up some new options. We might sell him to India. They'd probably let him live in the Taj Mahal."
It appears to have started on a fake news website called Huzlers.com. The fake article claimed that a Norwegian woman has given birth to a baby elephant and even shows a photo purporting to be of the genetically challenged child.
But, of course, the report is utter nonsense, no such hybrid birth - or subsequent pilgrimage has occurred. The bogus story comes via the fake news satire website Huzlers. Nothing published on Huzlers should be taken seriously.
The image used in the report is actually an art exhibit created by Patricia Piccinini, an Australian artist. She is renown for creating strange and fanciful animal-human hybrid sculptures.
Here are some art sculpture of Paccinini
Source: HoaxSlayer, Huzlers
