Hogzilla — The 800-Pound Wild Hog That Became a Legend

On June 17, 2004, Chris Griffin was hunting on Ken Holyoak's fish farm and hunting reserve near Alapaha, Georgia, when he encountered a hog of almost mythical proportions. The photo of the beast hanging from a backhoe went viral before "going viral" was even a phrase. Skeptics called it a hoax -- until National Geographic sent forensic scientists to exhume the remains. Their verdict: Hogzilla was real, a wild boar-domestic pig hybrid weighing a verified 800 pounds and stretching between 6.9 and 8.6 feet long.