Hoax or ancient, hairy Horton?

There’s nothing we love more than incredibly lame fake video, and this one is a doozy. An engineer surveying for a planned road claims to have taken video of an actual wooly mammoth crossing an icy river in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia.

Now, these giant hairy beasts were thought to have died out thousands of years ago, and it’s next to impossible that there are any wandering around the icy wastes of Siberia! Right? Check it out for yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4jzSLX0mI

Except as the Internet giveth, so it taketh away. Online criticism of this farce has raged, with cunning eyed critics pointing out a range of flaws, including:

• Michael Cohen, who owns the copyright on this video, has released similar “smoking gun” nonsense footage of fabled beasties and aliens before, all to similar derision and incredulity.
• Why is this clip only 10 seconds long, and why, if it was filmed in the middle of last year, is it only being released now?
• Look at the interaction of the river water with the creature’s legs. Something smells fishy, and its not whatever that thing has in its mouth.

The general consensus appears to be that it is either a digital creation, or something that one might actually find in Siberia, like a bear.

What are your thoughts, 2oceansVibers?

[Source: Huffington Post]