What was claimed
An image shows an elephant-shaped rock with a house on top of it.
Our verdict
The image is a digitally altered photo of a monastery in Meteora, Greece.
An image of a rock shaped like an elephant has been digitally altered
An image of a house on top of a rock shaped like an elephant has been shared on Facebook.
A caption alongside the image says: “Amazing!! The Elephant Rock with a House!”
The image is actually a digitally altered version of an image of a cliffside monastery in Greece.
Various images of the real location are available online, several of which are similar to the digitally altered image.
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Meteora—a UNESCO world heritage site—is a rock formation which is home to a number of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, including the Holy Trinity Monastery, which can be seen in the digitally altered photo.
Image courtesy of Nata Kay
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as altered because the image is a digitally altered photo of a monastery in Meteora, Greece.