If it WAS pulled from a lake in North Carolina, you'd better believe there'd be a HUGE media sensation over it. People read one article and go bananas, yet don't stop to think that something as big a story as this would be on TV, in multiple articles, and be making nation-wide news.

I always thought that they were real photos (I've only seen the "dead" looking one though) but since I thought they were in the forests of Indonesia I went "hm, well I guess it's possible since they're in a previously uninhabited area". Obviously it's POSSIBLE, look at the world's largest retic, who I believe is about 45ft? They CAN grow to monster proportions, but those snakes are found in remote areas where there has been little to no human contact.