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Mysterious Carved Tree Hoax

Fact-check by Hoax-SlayerPublished 1 min read

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The claim

Email claims that attached photographs depict a huge living tree located in India in which figures of animals have miraculously grown naturally all over the tree’s trunk without human influence.

Subject: A Mysterious Tree in NALGONDA — Andra Pradesh — India

Rated Hoax by Hoax-Slayer.

What the fact-checkers found

The claims in the message are untrue. The “tree” in the photographs is completely artificial. The tree is, in fact, the famous “Tree of Life”, an icon of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, a theme park located in Florida, USA.

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