On August 24, a group of photographers detected a set of giant human footprints in the rock located in Pingyan village, local media reported. One of the footprints, which may date back to ancient times, is in the shape of a left foot that is 57 centimeters long, 20 centimeters wide and 3 centimeters deep.
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Back in 2012 the curator of the Catalina Island Museum opened the door to a musty backroom hoping to find material for an upcoming exhibition. As he made his way to a back corner, he noticed a row of trunks. He carried the largest trunk, belonging to Ralph Glidden an amateur archaeologist, to a table, blew off the dust and lifted the lid. Inside were leather-bound journals and yellowing photographs showing freshly unearthed skeletons lying on their backs or sides, or curled as if in sleep. Many were surrounded by grinding stones, pots and beadwork. L.A. Marzulli, who in his on-going search for giants that once roamed the earth, went out to Catalina Island and he was allowed to search through the archives and while digging through another trunk of Ralph Glidden's stuff he found a picture in a protective plastic sleeve, tucked into a manila envelope, which was then hidden away in a sealed vault. The picture showed a giant skeleton just under nine feet in height! During an interview on Coast to Coast some years ago, Steven Quayle talked about a giant that was shot and killed by the US military in Kandahar Afghanistan. It is said that the soldiers noticed something in a cave and while inspecting the cave they encountered a giant 12-15 feet tall being having red hair, 6 fingers, 6 toes, and a double row of teeth. What followed was that the soldiers opened gunfire at the moment the giant attacked the team. According to a witness of the horrible event, one soldier was killed by the giant and it took about 30 seconds to kill the being. After the giant was dead it seems they have loaded it on a transport pallet and flew it to an unknown location in the US for further investigation. Since this story raises many questions, L.A. Marzulli recently did an interview with a member of the US military who was present at the shooting of the Kandahar Giant! Below a segment of this interview, whereby the witness goes into details about the encounter with this giant in Kandahar Afghanistan. This is an absolutely incredible interview! Stories about giants aren’t exactly rare, but this is one of the few ones where the giant had two heads. The Fortean world is the epicenter of the world’s the strangest stories, most of them starting out as side show attractions. The notorious politician and showman P.T. Barnum contributed much to this charade, since he was renowned for his skills in taxidermy. His famous creations were known as gaffs, (the result of rogue taxidermy), offering the world creatures straight out of legends and fiction, shaped by patching together the preserved corpses of various animals emerging into what he would name as the jackalope, dragons, chimeras, or even unicorns. But from the hands of gaff collectors around the world came to be what we consider as probably the only real and also most intriguing attractions of all fakes, Kap Dwa, the two-headed Patagonian giant. Although he was over 12 feet tall and had two heads, Kap Dwa was captured in 1673 by Spanish sailors and kept captive in the bowels of their ship. The Spaniards’ constant whipping and pummeling determined him to attempt an escape, but during the battle ensued, he was killed with a pike through his chest. The following events are not clear, but his mummified remains were finally brought to England in the 19th century, where they passed from the Edwardian Horror Circuit to various freak show attractions, ending up at Weston’s Birnbeck Pier in 1914. After being displayed the next 45 years in North Somerset, England, old Kap Dwa was acquired by Thomas Howard in 1959, and following a few more hand-offs he ultimately ended up in Baltimore. Nowadays, he can still be found among the collection of oddities at Bob’s Side Show at The Antique Man Ltd. in Baltimore, owned by Robert Gerber and his wife. Gerber provides a somewhat different past of the giant, although the ending is still the same tragic event. The corpse of the unique Homo giganticus was found on a beach, with a spear protruding from his chest and nothing is certain about his assailant. His body was later mummified and even worshiped by some locals in Paraguay that formed some kind of religion based on his remnants. The unbelievable rumors about Kap Dwa reached Capt. George Bickle of the English clipper Olive Branch out of Plymouth, leading to Bickle claiming the giant’s remains, but that was no easy task. According to Gerber, Kap Dwa was then taken to England, ending up in the Blackpool museum where he remained for the next several years. Only then was his body eventually embarked on the journey back to Baltimore, Maryland. The tallest man officially recorded was Robert Wadlow (1918-1940), measuring 8 feet 11 inches tall, and skeptics consider it highly unlikely for Kap Dwa to be real, although it is physically possible for a man to reach the legendary giant’s size. As for his two heads, if he really did have two heads originally, conjoined twins are not exactly uncommon, especially in those days. Those who have seen the encased giant up-close claim that no seams or stitching are visible and the only piece of string was that of his loin cloth, concluding that no rogue taxidermy had been performed on the unusual exhibit. The conflicting stories may simply be the product of the natural promotion of such an oddity over so many years of sideshow display. However unusual, Kap Dwa wasn’t the only giant to come up in anecdotes from the 17th century. Dutch captain Sebalt de Weert (1567-1603) described an incident where he and his crew witnessed members belonging to a race of giants. While passing through the Magellan Strait, de Weert saw seven unusually large rowboats menacingly approaching their ships. The boats were allegedly manned by naked giants with reddish-brown skin and long, red hair. Their stance and demeanor were aggressive, determining de Weert to steer clear of them. There are also several documents from the same time period attesting the existence of giants. One such writing is the Codex Rios, also known as Codex Vatican A. This manuscript is the 16th century Italian translation of an older document written during the Spanish colonial era. The script features a intriguing full-page illustration of several Aztec warriors overcoming and executing a gigantic man. Annotations provide the giant’s name – Quinametzin, which translates to One of the Old Ones. This account and many others support the theory that the American continents were once home to an ancient race of red-haired giants. Legend has it that the giants came from a distant island by crossing the ocean on rafts when a cataclysm destroyed their homeland. Source: http://ufoholic.com/ Ancient flying machines, alien beings, and giants. These are some of the things reported in the media by supposed American soldiers in the Afghanistan campaign. These stories tell of finds that are extraordinary and chilling. THE HEIGHT WAS 12-15FT The first legend being told is that the soldiers cornered something in a cave, a being that was at least 12-15 feet tall and cannibalistic. It came to be known as the Khandajar Giant. This giant was described as having a red beard and scarlet red hair. A supposed witness of the event said that one soldier was skewered by the giant while they laid down fire. According to this soldier, the government did not divulge this encounter and he believed that it was because giants do not fit into the way we explain our world. Steve Quayle and Gen6 Productions made a mini-doc about this event, interviewing a soldier who was on the team that encountered the Giant. Although he remained anonymous, he said the giant took about 30 seconds to kill by gunfire to the head and face area. The height was 12-15ft. Tall and the weight estimated to be 1,100 pounds by the transport team who flew him on the C-130 back to the United States, presumably for research. Also, it is said the Giant had a terrible musky smell to it. "Like a man who hadn't showered in 10 years," says the pilot. "He also wore canvas or wrapped skin around his feet as a sort of mocassin type shoe," Please see the video below for more details on this fascinating encounter via http://www.disclose.tv/)! Video Explaining the Kandajar Giant encounter in Afghanistan by Gen6 Productions & Steve Quayle: "New Documentary Featuring Tom Horn, Steve Quayle, Timothy Alberino And Insiders From Rome Offers New Evidence Of Vatican Concealing “Giants From Pre-Noah Age” The Vatican was built on the bones of giants and other artifacts that date to the days before Noah, author Timothy Alberino tells Jim Bakker. But, "This isn't a Catholic thing," Alberino says. "This is the institution of Rome, the Holy See." Most Catholics have no idea what lurks beneath the surface of the Vatican, Bakker's panelists say. "Hidden away in the vaults and the archives ... we discovered proof ... that in fact—and this isn't just some sort of conspiracy theory, it is the truth—that the Vatican has had access to hidden artifacts, especially artifacts relating to the reality of the world before the flood of Noah that they have confiscated and hidden away or covered up," Alberino says. Source: http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/58794-vatican-built-on-bones-of-giants-in-pre-noah-age Also visit this site for further clarification: http://www.genesis6giants.com/ Watch The Trailer Below Traditions drawn from the racial memory of races worldwide state that the very first people on earth were mighty and of immense stature, but that they later degenerated in size and vigour. For example, the present day Kotoko people of Chad, Africa, claim that their ancestors were giants. "In those days men were so tall they could look over the trees," they say. "Men twice as tall as us" once inhabited the "realm of delight", claim stories of old China, but they lost it by not living "by laws of virtue". God was angry with the giants, say the Montagnais Indians of Canada, and sent a flood upon them. It is a fact that the whole world seems to enshrine ancestral memories of giants. One could cite scores of such legends, from everywhere. Here are some of them: EUROPE: 1. NORDIC MYTHS: The Jotunn were great giants. 2. SCANDINAVIA: The first men of creation were as big as mountains. 3. GERMANIC MYTHS: Permanently preoccupied with giants are the myths of the Germanic tribes. 4. GOTHS: The giants were drowned in the Deluge. The survivors fathered a race of giants. 5. CELTIC LEGENDS: The Gargantua giants are spoken of. 6. IRELAND: There are stories of giants called Fomorians. 7. BRITISH LEGENDS: We find Gog and Magog and Albion, the giant-god. 8. CLAUDIUS AELIANUS (2nd century): On Atlantis were "men twice as tall as those common to our climate, and they lived twice as long." 9. GREEK LEGENDS: The Titans, who some said were the first men on earth, were great giants. 10. GREEK LEGENDS: The Cyclopes were of immense stature and said to be the builders of the enormous masonry in Greece, Italy and certain other areas of the globe. 11. SICILY: Enceladus, the giant who warred with Zeus, was buried under Mt Etna. 12. SICILY: Typhoeus, a giant of a mountain chain of Asia Minor, was also buried at Mt Etna. 13. SICILY: The giant Lestrigons were said to have dwelt in Sicily. AFRICA: 14. CHAD: There once lived in the Chad region black giants with smooth hair, from whom the present tribes are descended. (Legends of the present day Kotoko tribe) "The enormous piles of large stone blocks near Goulfei were transported there by the Sao, men so tall that they could look over the trees." (same tribe) ASIA: 15. CHALDEA: The Izdubar were giants. 16. BABYLONIANS: "The ancient Babylon was founded by giants saved from the Deluge." 17. BABYLON: The Babylonian Talmud mentions a prehistoric race of giants who had double rows of teeth. 18. BOOK OF ENOCH: A race of giants dominated the earth before the Flood. 19. APOCRYPHA OF BARVCH: There were 4,090,000 giants before the Flood. 20. INDIAN RECORDS: The Danavas and Daityas were giants, as were the Rakshasas of the Hindu epic. 21. CHINA: "Men twice as tall as us" once inhabited the "realm of delight" but lost it by not living "by laws of virtue." 22. TIBET: Giants play an important part in the mythology of Tibet. 23. TIBET: The medical lamasery in Tibet claims that long ago Tibet was peopled by a giant race (males averaging 15 feet in height; females averaging 12 feet in height). 24. THAI TRADITION: The earliest men were of colossal size. AUSTRALASIA-PACIFIC: 25. ABORIGINES, AUSTRALIA: The secret city of Burrunga in Australia's northern hinterlands was inhabited by gigantic white men with red hair. 26. ABORIGINES, AUSTRALIA: There are many traditions of giant men and women who lived far back in the "dreamtime." 27. MAORIS, NEW ZEALAND: Tamatekapua, lord of the Arawa Maori migration, now buried on Mt Moehau, Coromandel Peninsula, was 9 feet tall. 28. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Traditional stories of the Vella area of Papua New Guinea tell of a group of Europeans who tried to colonise the area a few centuries ago. They attempted to build a temple up in the hills, but the local giants would go in at night and throw away all the stonework. However, the temple was built, and still exists, made of the most beautiful marble. The skulls of five of the giants (brothers) are also supposed to be up in the bush. These are about a foot (30 centimeters) across. NORTH AMERICA: 29. ESKIMOS: "In those days there were giants on the earth." 30. MONTAGNAIS INDIANS, CANADA: God was angry with the giants and sent a flood upon them. 31. USA: Some Indian tribes worshipped "men of huge stature" who inhabited the region before they arrived. 32. SUPAI CANYON, ARIZONA: A petroglyph depicting a mammoth attacking a man: the man must have been over 10 feet tall, according to the perspective employed by the ancient artist. (Indians in the vicinity stated that the drawings were made by giants of long ago.) CENTRAL AMERICA: 33. AZTECS, MEXICO: Before the Flood, the land was inhabited by the Tzocullixeco, a giant race. 34. AZTECS, MEXICO: Xelua and his brother giants survived the world flood and built a pyramid to reach the clouds. 35. TOLTECS, MEXICO: The "first age" was brought to an end by fearful destruction due to "floods and lightning," while in the "second age" our earth was peopled by giants, the Quinametzin. 36. CHOLULA INDIANS, MEXICO: Before the great Flood which took place 4008 years after the creation of the world, the land was inhabited by giants. 37. MAYA, GUATEMALA; INCAS, PERU: The first race created by the gods before the Flood were giants. Two prominent giants were Atlan [Atlas?] and Theitani [Titan?] SOUTH AMERICA: 38. PERUVIAN TRADITION: The Chavin people, whose civilisation stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the sources of the Amazon, were giants. 39. QUICHUA INDIANS, PERU: Long ago a race of giant men came from the Pacific Ocean in ships, invaded the lowlands of old Peru, forcing the Inca high up into their mountain strongholds in the Andes. These giants were so huge that "from the knee down, they were as tall as a tall man". 40. TWO INCA LEGENDS, PERU: The city of Tiahuanaco in Bolivia was built by survivors of the Flood; it was built by giants. As you see, the whole world appears to enshrine ancestral memories of giants. 41. A manuscript called The Apocalypse of Baruch, a pseudepigraphical work written around AD 100 and preserved only in the sixth-century Syriac Vulgate (and which seems a little unclear in parts) appears to hint at the origin of giants: "Men began as giants. These first giants were very highly developed, intellectually, artistically and physically: they had power over birds and animals… they misbehaved and were abolished by God, and ordinary men took their place…" So many of the legends recall that mankind also lived far longer - even hundreds of years. Interestingly, this is exactly what the ancient Biblical writings have been saying for so long. From a high, blissful condition, man fell and steadily deteriorated. He was created with a noble physique and a powerful brain, which have degenerated through wrong living. Nine-and-a-half feet tall is large for a human mummy, especially when it is found among today's diminutive Peruvians, whose average stature is just five feet. Understandably, professional anthropologists find tales of ancient giants amusing, but nothing more. Physical evidence may nonetheless exist to demonstrate that an oversized race of men did indeed dominate parts of prehistoric South America. Oral stories of giant kings among the native Indians (principly [sic] the Aymara) looking for gold in Peru go back as far as the great Irish King Ophir mentioned in the Old Testament (I Chronicles 29: 3-9, Job 22: 24 Job 28: 16 Isa 12: 13). That was a time when one could pick the gold nuggets out of the streams with your hands. The petroglyphs and legends of King Ophir still exist in Peru. As I said they [sic] are oral legends and no university has ever catalogued them. They are found like the petroglyphs along the Mississippi that pertain to the Burrows Cave. Mark Twain wrote about them and several others, but largely they have been ignored. The same is true in Peru. There are petroglyphs along mountain paths and at the sites of ruins such as Tiahuanacu, but there are also petroglyphs right downtown Lima associated with the adobe pyramids. Nobody has chronicled these structures. There are several of them right in the middle of one of the major cities of the world. Now that may not satisfy you, but I can't help that. One would have thought that someone from the Discovery Channel would have produced a show on these structures. However, they haven't! It almost never rains in Lima and these adobe pyramid structures were built somewhere between 400 AD and 1000 AD. I enclosed a photo of one from a distance. Even now anthropologists refuse to make any connection between the old and new worlds before the arrival of Columbus. The once famous King Ophir who lived before 600 BC and probably at the time of David the King, as mentioned in the Bible (because his craft was used in the temple) learned how to work in gold and overlay the walls and pillars, as is evident from the Biblical passages, from his travels in the ancient Americas. The three pictures included in this article are golden overlays that covered the interior walls of Inca Temples. These were not just designs stamped into the surface of the gold, but brilliant woven patterns made to appear like wallpaper tapestries. One can only imagine that this was the very same workmanship on the walls of the temple built under the direction of King David by the hands of the craftsmen of Ophir. However, the craftsmanship of gold up-Nile was primitive and clumsy and not the craftsmanship necessary for the fine temple golden-woven wall paper used in the temple of Solomon. Lastly, there are impurities in the mining of all metals. These are the signatures for the source of the metal. One of the newest archeological techniques is to search for the source of metal at a dig sight based on the impurities of the metal. The Discovery Channel Program Curse of the Cocaine Mummy suggesting the drug link between Peru and ancient Egypt also suggested a signature metal connection between the two countries. What should be painfully obvious to us today is that the secret of the ancient world of Palestine was not where one could mine gold in the desert, but that one could find gold by sailing on boats and how to navigate the oceans. There were no gold mines in the ancient deserts and all the gold that was used in the merchant traffic before Christ came from somewhere outside the Holy Land. That secret became almost a religion of its own by the time of the birth of Christ and was institutionalized by the time of Diocletian the Roman Emperor after Constantine, the editor of the Bible. The secret at the time of Christ was that you could travel forty times farther in a day by ship than you could travel by camel . That concept by the time of Diocletian was refined to suggest that 1200 pounds of goods would double in price if taken three hundred miles overland. However, the same goods could be shipped almost anywhere in the known world for a third that cost. The fraternal order of the Phoenician Pirates keep the secrets of where and how they had navigated the oceans. Their fingerprints exist around the world. These fraternal orders were secret orders with passwords, handshakes and signs and tokens. They had initiation rights etc. All of this secret banter centered over the secrets of how to navigate the oceans and where in the world was the treasure. It was not accident that Columbus looked to the West for gold. Others had been there before him and brought home wealth. The mummy in the photo was clearly a giant man. There were two different mummies of Inca Kings in this private museum located at Jose's home. That is important because it down-plays the idea that maybe one of the kings was a mutation of some sort. Both men, would exceed the height of anyone we know in our world today. Rumors of giant men walking the earth are not new at all. Genesis 6: 4 speaks specifically about them. Philo was very well aware of the classic traditions of the giants. Philo was a Jew who lived in Alexandria from 20 BC to the beginning of the Jewish wars in 66 AD. It is amazing to understand that he wrote his extensive works during the lifetime of Jesus and not very far away. Those scholars who have naively suggested that there was no one else writing about Jesus during his lifetime except Josephus are lazy people indeed. Philo was one of the sources for the movie "The Ten Commandments". Director Cecil B. Demille did something very unusual in order to gain credibility for his movie. He opened the epic by appearing on a curtain-clad stage and told the world his historical sources for his version of the tale of Moses. One the of three principle sources was Philo. Philo lived among thousands Jews in Alexandria during the lifetime of Christ. Alexandria was at the mouth of the Nile River and was the seat of learning for the world. It was a major merchant port...all issues making it larger than Rome by several times. Perhaps there were almost as many Jews in Egypt at the time of Christ as there was in Palestine. At that time the Greeks dominated Egyptian culture and religion. The immediate proceeding ten pharaohs prior to the time of Philo couldn't even speak the Egyptian language with the exception of Cleopatra. After the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great Egypt and especially Alexandria the populace wrote slept and ate Greek culture and lore. It should be no surprise that Philo was well aware of the legends and histories of the Giants. Philo was emphatic on this point when he said, "He utters no fable whatsoever respecting the giants; but he (God) wishes to set this fact before your eyes, that some men are born of the earth, and some are born of heaven, and some are born of God: those are born of the earth who are hunters after the pleasures of the body." The most critical point of this entire discussion of Philo and the Giants is that Philo mentions King Ophir in his specific notes relating to the giants in the ancient world. Either Philo thought King Ophir was one of the giants himself, which is unlikely, or Philo knew of the connection between the Peruvian traveler Ophir and the giants in the Americas. If the latter is true then the mummified kings depicted in this article take on even greater significance. Clearly there were giant kings in Peru. Who knew about these giant kings still remains speculative. However, it is amazing to suggest that Philo himself may have made that connection by the time of Christ. I had no dating for the Peruvian Kings themselves. This was a private gold museum and not likely to allow me, or anyone else for that matter, to do any testing that might threaten the ownership of this golden treasure. Part of me wants to think of these particular kings as living long after the time of Ophir somewhere around a thousand AD. Of course that would ruin the tale of the connection between King Ophir of the Bible and these mummies. The state of the mummy coincide with the tales of the Incas in one thousand AD. However, I have found after this discovery many mummified remains in Peruvian museums and many of the oldest dating from long before 600 AD were in exactly the same state of decomposition. I was relieved that the story of Ophir and these mummies remains intact. The actual mummified head of the crowned king in the photograph is almost twice as large as my own and I wear the largest hat of anyone in my acquaintance. When we were invited to the private gold museum to begin with I was expected to be dazzled by gold. However, it dawned on me the minute I walked through the door that the size of the head, and indeed his whole body, was the unique feature of this king. The gold was impressive, but the size of the man was something more impressive than gold. The golden tunic that hung on the wall was made of spun gold. This was the first time in my life I had seen gold woven into a fabric for clothing. The tunic was over eight feet tall and tailored in such a way as to suggest that it was not intended to drag on the floor behind a king, but rather to hang straight down to the floor and no further. That made the tunic itself a measuring device for the original height of the giant king. It was shocking to imagine a man who could first wear this tunic without looking like a small child playing with his mother's clothing and secondly it was shocking to imagine the shear weight of the garment. The golden necklace at the foot of the tunic would have hung to the floor around the neck of anyone I know. The golden shoulder shield in the photograph was almost twice the size of shoulder pads used by professional football players. There was also a set of golden gloves whose hands and fingers extended from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger about twelve to fourteen inches. I couldn't tell exactly because they were kept behind security glass. It is important to note that this gold museum is private and not open to the public. Perhaps this is the only way precious golden relics like this could ever have been preserved. The governments of South America have often plundered the wealth of their own history. Many times the leaders of governments would plunder artifacts because these would be the treasures least missed by the people. It is horrifying to imagine how many precious things have been melted down into bars and sold for spot prices on the world market just to line the pockets of the greedy who should have been the ones to protect the artifacts to begin with. One can only imagine how many artifacts were melted by Cortez when he pillaged the great temple artifacts and writings of Montezuma in Mexico in the fifteen hundreds. The rumors in Spain were that Cortez could have built a bridge home to Spain from the Gold of Montezuma. Of course that is not literal, but figurative. Most of the world's best estimates of how much gold there is in world circulation suggest that one could fit all the gold in a two car garage! That makes the gold in this museum even more amazing. Someone should have asked the question long ago, why did Cortez expect to find gold in the Americas in the first place? Why did the crew on the boats of Columbus expect to find gold? Why did the marauding Spaniards kill eight million native American Indians looking for gold. The truth is that the royal families of England and Spain had spoken as far back as King Arthur in 530 AD that their "treasure house" was located in the "Mericas" (Source for this statement needed Landaff Charters from the sixth century). The German who suggested that we named the Americas after Amerigo Vespucci recanted his story when he found the tales of the "Mericas" stars which lead the way to the "promised land". Regardless of the date the actual discovery or age of golden-clad giant kings in Peru the story still suggests something well beyond our common anthropological tales. Where were the anthropologists when I was traveling Lima in the sixties? Why haven't they caught up to this find in the last thirty years? I wonder if I am that good an archaeologist or that they are that bad. Sadly, I think the latter to be the case. by Glenn Kimball, Ph.D Ancient American, Volume 5, Issue #34, pages 36-38 New World Explorers (1496-1580) In 1496 the Spanish settled a colony in Santo Domingo where the settlers mined for gold. The local Arawak-Lucayan natives, described as being tall, brown, statuesque people, with long, straight, black hair, were enslaved to work the mines and died of disease and overwork. Pedro de Salazar decided to search surrounding lands for more natives to enslave. Salazar's 1514-1516 voyage landed him between the coast of Georgia and Cape Fear where he found a tribe of "tall Indians". Keep in mind, the Arawaks were already described as tall - these Georgia/Cape Fear natives were being described as taller than the Arawak-Lucayans, though I have yet to come across an actual recorded height for these people. This place was called "the Land of Giants". Salazar was only able to bring back a few of these giant natives to use as slaves but no more than that partly because the Spanish government outlawed raids in these areas. Some people may be (logically) skeptical about a race of giant natives in Georgia in 1515. The notion seems a bit far-fetched, but I ask you to keep in mind that the average European height at the time was probably somewhere around 5.5 feet. That means that if these natives were 7 feet or maybe even 6.5 feet tall, they would still appear to be giants. Amerigo Vespucci, around 1499, landed on a South American Island, probably the island of Curacao. He and his men set out looking for fresh water came upon some huts. Inside these huts were giant women who Vespucci decided to kidnap. Then 36 or more giant men showed up so he changed his mind and made for his ship. Vespucci called this place the Island of the Giants. Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon was a Spanish explorer and one of the first to explore a small region of North America in hopes of establishing a Spanish settlement. In 1526 he landed in what is now South Carolina. Ayllon visited and recorded the customs of many native tribes in the area. One of these was a country called Duhare where the natives were white men. Their hair was brown and hung to their heels. They were governed by a king of gigantic size called Datha whose wife was as large as he was. There were other tribes in the area. Another country close to Duhare was called Xapida. In all of these areas the natives had herds of deer just as we have herds of cattle. They would milk the does and make cheese. All of their kings are of gigantic size. They had herbal doctors and all the natives seemed to be healthy and lived long lives. There is a ritual that they performed when a king would die that seemed to involve fireworks. When they were asked how all of the kings were of such a gigantic size they were given two answers. One: herbs were used to soften the bones of infants and their bones were physically stretched. Two: herbs were given to the future kings during puberty that caused them to grow so tall. I ask you to continue to keep in mind that when these Europeans speak of “giants” they are most likely referring to simply tall people; people who are around 6.5 to 7 feet high. It’s very interesting that only the kings of these tribes were so tall, however, the way in which the kings became so tall is debatable. It is certainly possible that some type of herb was given to them early on in their lives to promote excelled growth, since both explanations involve herbs. One thing we can be confident in is that the kings were chosen at an early age, possibly even infancy. So, how else could they have known these people would grow so tall when observing them at such an early age? Though Ayllon did not find an entire tribe of giants as Salazar did, he did find giant kings. As for his settlement, it was a failure. Of the 500 men who he took with him, only 150 survived and they fled the settlement for Hispaniola, starving, sick and nearly dead. During his famous voyage in 1519-1522, Ferdinand Magellan encountered people of giant stature on the coasts of South America. The first was a single man with his face painted red with yellow circles around his eyes. This man was brought on board the ship and given gifts by Magellan. Apparently the Europeans only came up to around his waist. When he was brought back to the shore there were several of these people who were also invited to come aboard Magellan’s ship, which they accepted. Six days later they encountered another man of great stature who resembled the others. Later they encountered four more of these men who allegedly tried to lure them into a trap so Magellan and his men detained them. Magellan decided to keep the two youngest of them. He also decided to try to detain their wives in hopes of bringing a race of giants to Europe. The attempts to do so ended in a hostile encounter where the natives fled and Magellan and his men set fire to their huts. Magellan called these people Patagonians. Explorer Hernando de Soto led the first deep exploration into what we now know as the United States in 1539. He encountered a giant Native American chief by the name of Tuscaloosa with a son just as tall. Apparently, the tallest men’s heads only reached the chest of the chief’s son. This suggests that Tuscaloosa and his son were maybe 1.5 to 2 feet taller than the Europeans, which would make them 7 to 7.5 feet tall. De Soto ended up capturing Tuscaloosa when he refused to supply them with women. Tuscaloosa led de Soto and his men to a village called Malbia where a turn of events ended in a bloody battle. Tuscaloosa was killed along with all of the inhabitants of Malbia as it burned to the ground at the hands of de Soto and his men. On his voyage of 1540-1542, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado explored New Mexico and other parts of what are now the southwestern United States. He and his men encountered a province of exceedingly tall and strong men, like giants. They are described as being able to carry hundreds of pounds easily. Sir Francis Drake Encountered harmless and kind giants on his 1577-1580 voyage. Upon landing ashore, these tall natives saw that Drake and his crew were miserably weather beaten, so they fed them and gave them fresh water. From 1496 to 1580 (actually into the 1700’s, however I am having trouble finding online sources to present so I have left these out) there were documented interactions between extraordinarily tall people in the Americas with early European explorers. We can rule out these interactions as being nothing more than legends because the documents I have referenced are of first-hand accounts. The documents were written by people who were actually on these voyages. It is possible that these explorers exaggerated the truth, which I personally find quite probable. I don’t think there were people who were twice the size of normal humans, as Magellan stated. I find it much more likely that those people were probably 7-8 feet tall, giving them the illusion of being giants to 5.5 foot tall Europeans. 19th Century Mound Exploration Now, let’s fast forward to the 1800’s. The United States was expanding; roads, towns and other buildings were being constructed. During this expansion there were many structures discovered called mounds in a large area from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains. This is when archaeology in the United States started to become organized. Most of the early American “archaeologists” were untrained people digging and exploring these mounds. Many of the mounds that were explored were ancient burials. Some of the explorations of these mounds by early amateur archaeologists have been referenced to in local county history books. Some people say that these accounts cannot be considered because 19th century local history books cannot be verified. However, these local history books tell of many skeletons being exhumed that measured 6.5-8 feet in length. Not every skeleton was this large and most of the time they were found among many regular sized skeletons. Here are just a few references: Two skeletons not less than 6 and a half feet tall - "The History of Lawrence and Monroe Counties, Indiana" Skeleton of "immense size" & Skeleton of "nearly seven feet" - "The History of Ashland County, Ohio" Large skeleton who's "jaw-bone was found to fit easily over that of a citizen" - "The History of Morrow County and Ohio" Graves of variable giants & gigantic skeletons with high cheek bones powerful jaws and massive frames - "The History of Brown County, Ohio" Skeletons of persons of very large size, 6'3" skeleton exhumed & very large human skeleton - "The History of Licking County, Ohio" Skeleton over 7 feet tall - "The History of Richland County, Ohio" Skull of remarkable size - "The The History of Darke County, Ohio" Skeleton 8 feet tall and others 7 feet tall - "History of Lake County, 1902" As I said, these are only a few of the accounts in these old books. There are literally hundreds of them in several history books from several different areas. If you are interested in reading more, do some research; they’re easy to find. It is worth noting that newspapers of the same time period ran hundreds of articles about giant skeletons being exhumed from ancient mounds. Some people have argued that newspaper articles covered many hoaxes of similar accounts and were not at all reliable. As a result they suggest that because the history books wrote of large skeletons being found they must be as inaccurate as the newspapers, and maybe even borrowed these stories from the newspapers and therefore are not a reliable source. My thoughts on this argument are that there is absolutely no proof that newspaper articles influenced these history books. In fact it seems quite the opposite. The newspapers many times have to do with some amazing discovery of a lost race of giants with six toes and six fingers, double rows of teeth and sometimes even horns. These giants are described as to have been 10, 12, sometimes even 18 feet tall. But, when it comes to the history books, I have yet to find anything remotely as fantastical. In the history books 6.5-8 foot skeletons of otherwise normal people are usually mentioned briefly. Using the similarities in articles in old newspapers with the information in old history books to try and debunk the history books is like saying that giant squid legends were proof enough that the creatures didn’t exist. But we now know that giant squids do exist, just not as they were portrayed in legends. The only thing connecting the newspapers and history books is subject matter. Where Are The Bones? The next argument is simply, where are the bones now? There are a few explanations as to where the bones are today. The bones in the mound excavations were so old and rotted that many of them crumbled when touched or exposed to air, which does happen - especially when there are amateurs who don’t know what they are doing. A lot of these remains were damaged or destroyed in this way according to the history books. Many of the amateur archaeologists were antiquarians and the bones were kept in their private collections. These bones were either lost or passed down to people who didn’t realize how important they were. Also, many universities have relics and skeletal remains from old mound excavations. They problem is, they don’t have them on display. You must have the proper credentials to examine these relics; not just anyone can walk in and start rummaging around. Lastly, there is the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) which, because the mound builders were allegedly proven to be the ancestors of Native Americans by Cyrus Thomas, it is illegal to possess these bones. Any time Native American remains are found they are given to their Native American ancestors for re-burial. NAGPRA makes it a criminal offense to traffic in Native American human remains without right of possession or in Native American cultural items obtained in violation of the Act. Penalties for a first offense may reach 12 months imprisonment and a $100,000 fine. Taking this into consideration, it seems logical to come to the conclusion that if someone had possession of some old mound builder skeletons they would either get them back to their Native American legal owners or simply keep them hidden so as not to suffer the penalties. There is at least one alleged large mound builder skeleton that is known to exist. The story goes: it was exhumed by a farmer in the 1800’s who then traded it to a local doctor for medical treatment. Somehow the skeleton fell into possession of a night club owner and finally belongs to the owner of a restaurant next door to the night club. The skeleton supposedly measures somewhere around 7 feet and is on display at the restaurant “Grumbles Alley” in Selma, Alabama[11]. It has recently gotten some media attention and I expect it will be confinscated fairly soon to be transferred back to its Native American ancestors. Myths, Legends and Non-Credible Information. Though I don’t want to use any myths or legends as a credible source, there are many Native American oral histories that tell of people who were already here when the Native Americans migrated here. Some of these legends actually describe them as giants. Food for thought. Source Material [1] Arawak Indians – An Anguillan History [2] The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: 1514-1861, By Lawrence Sanders Rowland [3] The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704, edited by Charles M. Hudson, Carmen Chaves Tesser [4] Richard Steckel, Ohio State University [5] De Orbe Novo: The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr d'Anghera, Volume 2, By Pietro Martire d' Anghier [6] Hernando De Soto, By Walter Malone [7] Tuskaloosa (Wikipedia) [8] To America and Around the World: The Logs of Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan, by Christopher Columbus and Antonio Pigafetta [9] The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, By Sir Francis Drake, Francis Fletcher, Francis Pretty, John Cooke, Nuno da Silva, Edward Cliffe, Lopo Vaz [10] The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542 By Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Antonio de Mendoza, Antonio de Mendoza (conde de Tendilla), Juan Camilo Jaramillo [11] Mortimer, the Infamous Skeleton of Grumbles Alley by Kristina Killgrove [12] Some Observations on the Letters of Amerigo Vespucci By Manning Ferguson Force [13] Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career By Amerigo Vespucci In Loja province, Southern Ecuador and Peru border, many strange relics have been uncovered. Bones and full skeletons very similar to those of humans but of incredible size. These artifacts have been watched over for many years by several guardians in the beautiful valleys of that Province. By far the most famous and well known of these “guardians” was Father Carlos Miguel Vaca, who guarded until his death in 1999, several bones and fragments, unearthed from a site called “Changaiminas” which translated means “Gods cemetery.” Several fragments were redirected to the Smithsonian Institution of the United States of America, for people to study their density, age, weight etc. This was broadcast on a television program for Ecuador, which lasted two hours, led by renowned director Alfonso Espinosa De Los Monteros. Now some pieces from that collection have been shown to the world by renowned UFO researcher Klaus Dona. Several other important relics and fragments are known to be in private collections, by people who are not interested in sharing them, at least not with the public. From the aforementioned fragmented skeleton, seven fragments were studied by different scientists and anatomists, and they have confirmed, that they are part of a human skeleton that was seven times the size of a modern human. Quartz formations porocidades covering the surface of the bones, indicated that the relics were tens of thousands of years old. |
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