Monster Pig

They hauled the pig by truck to the Clay County Farmers Exchange in Lineville where they used a scale, finding out it weighed 1,050 pounds (480 kg).

[citation needed] A later claim said that Mr Stone had paid $1,500 to Eddy Borden, the owner of Lost Creek Plantation, so that his son could shoot a trophy wild hog in the commercial hunting preserve.

[10] The Associated Press (AP) continues to keep the monster pig image in their archives with no disclosure of the forced perspective trick; the AP's archive caption presents it as if it is a legitimate photograph, stating: "In this photo released by Melynne Stone, Jamison Stone, 11, poses with a wild pig he killed near Delta, Ala., May 3, 2007.

Stone's father says the hog weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds (477 kg) and measured 9 feet 4 inches (2.84 m) from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.

"Monster Pig" was a domestic hog named "Fred", partly of the Duroc breed, and until four days earlier had lived on a nearby farm.

The farm's owners, Rhonda and Phil Blissitt, stated that the pig loved to play with their grandchildren and his favorite treat was canned sweet potatoes.

[14] Later news reports brought forward allegations that the entire story was the result of a canned hunt scheme cooked up by Eddy Borden, the owner of Lost Creek Plantation, and Keith O'Neal of Southeastern Trophy Hunters, to build up business for the then four-months-old Lost Creek hunting plantation, trying to create their own news event along the lines of the 2004 "Hogzilla" event.

[6]January 29, 2008, saw reports that an Alabama grand jury was investigating Keith O'Neal, Charles Williams, and Lost Creek Plantation owner Eddy Borden, over the killing of the pig on grounds that since there was no "kill shot" delivered by Jamison Stone,[16] it was animal cruelty to allow a pig to be chased and continually shot by an 11-year old until it bled out when there were experienced marksmen present who could have dispatched it.

[17] Clay County District Attorney Fred Thompson later cancelled the grand jury without a public explanation, and the case was not reviewed within the one-year statute of limitations.