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Thousands of years ago,
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people all over the world
described encounters
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with enormous, humanlike beings.
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In ancient mythologies,
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from the Greeks to the Nordics
to the Native Americans,
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we have these legends of giants.
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Giants can be
found throughout ancient artwork.
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You see really
interesting figures depicted
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that are infinitely larger
than regular humans.
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And
some archaeologists
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even claim to have
found human bones
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of extraordinary size.
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Smithsonian
scientists uncovered
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dozens of enormous skeletons.
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Could it be
that the otherworldly giants
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of myth and
legend truly existed?
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I think that
what we have today as a civilization
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was given to us by the giants.
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Writing in the
French scientific journal Archeologie,
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German geophysicist Jörg
Fassbinder and his team
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reveal an
extraordinary discovery
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that they made along the
banks of the Euphrates River.
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While mapping the ancient
Mesopotamian city of Uruk,
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the archaeologists found
something remarkable
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hidden deep underground.
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The German archaeological
team used magnetometers
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to survey the ground beneath
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what is believed to
be the city of Uruk.
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They found a number of
underground structures,
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but the one that got
them the most excited
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was the discovery
of a very large tomb.
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What makes
this discovery particularly exciting
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is its potential connection
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to the oldest known
story ever written,
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called the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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The more than
4,000-year-old Sumerian text
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describes King Gilgamesh,
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who most experts believe
was a historical figure.
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And it describes that
Gilgamesh was buried
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beneath the ancient
Euphrates River
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exactly where the German
archaeological team
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detected an underground tomb.
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German archaeologists thought
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that they had
actually discovered
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the tomb of King Gilgamesh.
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It was right down
on the riverbed
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where it was described to be.
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So they were pretty much sure
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that they had found the
actual tomb of King Gilgamesh.
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According
to some researchers,
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finding the remains
of King Gilgamesh
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might be the greatest
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archaeological
discovery of all time,
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because Gilgamesh
was described as a giant.
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The ancient texts
say that Gilgamesh stood
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an astounding 11 cubits tall,
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which means he would
be about 17 feet tall.
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Obviously, a giant.
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And Sumerian scholars
believe that Gilgamesh was
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a real historical figure.
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So, if the structure that the
German archaeologists found
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is, in fact, the
tomb of Gilgamesh,
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then what they've discovered
was the tomb of an actual giant.
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Is it possible
that the tomb of a giant
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lies hidden beneath the
earth in southern Iraq?
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Before the German
archaeologists could find out,
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Iraq became embroiled
in the Second Gulf War,
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and the team was
forced to flee the country.
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But ancient astronaut
theorists find it intriguing
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that the hero of humanity's
oldest known story
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is of giant proportions.
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In fact, throughout
the ancient world,
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nearly every culture
told stories of giants.
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When we look
at the stories of the giants,
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it's a global phenomenon.
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From North America,
South America,
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throughout the Middle
East, there are stories
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of these enormously
powerful, very tall beings.
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Every ancient culture speaks of
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a long-lost time when
the so-called giants
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still mingled amongst
human beings.
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For example, the First
Nations people of Australia,
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their original creator
gods, the Wandjinas,
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are depicted as
these giant, tall beings.
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In ancient Greece,
we have stories
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of the so-called Cyclops,
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these giant, tall beings with
one eye in their forehead.
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And in the ancient Veda texts,
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the original Buddha
allegedly was 12 feet tall
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with blue skin
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and hands that would go
down below to his knees.
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He was this giant man
that imparted knowledge.
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The fact that we have
these stories worldwide
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illustrates to me that
there had to have been
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a common denominator.
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If giants truly
existed in the distant past,
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what were they?
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Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
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that some accounts of
giants reveal that they were
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something other than just
humans of extraordinary size,
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like the ancient stories
from Ireland that tell
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of mysterious visitors known
as the Tuatha Dé Danann.
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The Tuatha Dé
Danann descended from the sky
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in ships and landed
upon the mountains.
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These mysterious beings
were giant demigods
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that possessed some
advanced technology
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that they ultimately used
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to create some of
the most incredible
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megalithic constructions
ever created.
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The Tuatha Dé
Danann are sometimes credited
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as being the builders of
enormous passage tombs
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like Newgrange,
Knowth and Dowth.
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And, in fact,
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many ancient megalithic
sites around the world
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are associated with giants,
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like the Ggantija
temple in Malta,
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which is believed to be
more than 5,000 years old.
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In Malta, you have
some of the most ancient
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and most gigantic
megalithic sites on Earth.
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One of these megalithic
structures in Malta
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is called Ggantija,
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because it comes from the giant.
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In fact, it was a woman giant
that gave birth to giant twins,
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and she created some
of these structures
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in order to protect
her children.
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In the 17th century,
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a Maltese nobleman
named Gian Francesco Abela
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claimed to have found evidence
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that these legends may
have been based in fact.
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Gian
Francesco Abela claims
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to have found not
only giant skeletons
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but skulls, teeth
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and other bone fragments
all across the island of Malta.
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But also, other people
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have reported on them,
as well, at this time.
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Other megalithic
sites connected to stories of giants
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include the so-called Tombs
of the Giants in Sardinia,
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the Greek archaeological
site of Mycenae
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and Baalbek in Lebanon.
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Traveling the world,
you will find the same story.
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It's ubiquitous.
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Megalithic sites are
associated with giants,
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supernatural beings,
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strange technologies,
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and the legends
are very explicit.
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They're unambiguous.
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One ancient site that
has long been associated with giants
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is the famous megalithic
structure in England
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known as Stonehenge.
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The original
name of Stonehenge was
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the Giants' Ring or
the Giants' Dance.
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That's the Welsh name.
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What's noteworthy is
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the earliest representation
of Stonehenge
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has Merlin, King Ambrosius
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and a 12-foot giant
building Stonehenge.
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The image appears
in a mid-14th-century manuscript
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illustrating an account
in a much earlier text
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called The British History.
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Written by Geoffrey
of Monmouth in 1136,
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the book recounts
how the wizard Merlin
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used powerful magic
and the help of giants
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to transport and construct the
massive Stonehenge monument.
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While the story may sound
like the stuff of fantasy,
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there have been multiple
reports of giant bones
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being discovered near
the ancient stone circle.
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In the general
area around Stonehenge,
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numerous skeletons
have been unearthed
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over the last 600 years
that suggest that giants
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actually resided in
this immediate area.
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In the early 1500s,
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Thomas Elyot, who was
a well-known scholar,
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discovered with his
father Richard Elyot
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at a place just
south of Stonehenge
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a 14-foot, ten-inch skeleton
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in a wooden oak coffin.
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And it also had this
strange metal disc...
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very large, almost
like a tabletop disc...
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made of lead and tin with these
very strange inscriptions on it.
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Elyot was very well respected,
a member of Parliament,
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and he recorded this several
times in the historical record.
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Was a giant skeleton,
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buried with some kind
of mysterious artifact,
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really unearthed at Stonehenge?
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Could it be that
thousands of years ago,
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humans encountered otherworldly
beings of enormous proportions?
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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes
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and suggest there
is even evidence
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that giants walked the Earth
in much more recent times,
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as recorded in the ship logs
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of some of history's
greatest explorers.
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It is less than three
months since the start of World War I,
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and the front page of
The New York Times
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is dominated by headlines
about the global conflict.
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But on page nine,
a sensational article
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documents the
incredible discoveries
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recently made in South America
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by Australian explorer
Captain James Besley,
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which include the bones
of an eight-foot-tall man.
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In 1914, Captain
Besley led an expedition in Peru
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where he unearthed
a giant skeleton
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with a huge, elongated skull.
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He wrote about
it. He discovered it.
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He reported it.
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You know, what's interesting
is, in the historical record,
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there's many accounts
of giant skeletons
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being unearthed in
the Lake Titicaca region.
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Some were enormous... eight-,
nine-, ten-foot-tall skeletons.
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Now, sometimes
these are animal bones
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that at the time were,
misunderstood.
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But oftentimes, they
are human burials
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with human artifacts,
elongated skulls,
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but a lot of it seems
to be lost to history.
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So it's still open-ended as to
what happened to the bones.
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Is it possible
that skeletons of giants
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standing as much
as ten feet tall
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were discovered
near Lake Titicaca?
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While the finds were
well-documented,
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what happened to
these allegedly giant,
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humanlike bones remains unknown.
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But researchers point out
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that when Spanish
conquistadors first arrived
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in Peru in the 1500s,
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the Native people
told them stories
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of giants that once
inhabited the entire region.
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In 1553, the Spanish
conquistador Pedro Cieza de León
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wrote in his chronicles of Peru
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that the Native people
told him about giants
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who arrived in
the area long ago.
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And according
to local traditions,
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their ancestors
encountered people so tall
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that an ordinary human
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would only come
up to their knees.
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And Pedro Cieza
de León also claimed
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that some of the Spaniards
found a giant shin bone
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and a giant tooth.
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There are
accounts of giants existing
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around the area of Lake
Titicaca in the Peru, Bolivia,
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Altiplano area.
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The Inca said that
there was a tradition
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of these giants called Huaris
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building sites like
Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku
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long before the Inca or any
other cultures existed there.
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We also have stories,
even at Tiahuanaco itself,
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that the great
founder god Viracocha,
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who emerged from Lake Titicaca,
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created a race of giants
from the earth, from the mud,
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and controlled them
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so they would build
the megalithic sites
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in the area, like Tiahuanaco
and Puma Punku,
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before they were then
vanquished by a great flood.
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The historical record
and the legends
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seem to be telling us
about giant humanoids
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existing in the past
and being associated
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with megalithic building.
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For
ancient astronaut theorists,
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the stories of giants
and alleged discoveries
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of giant bones in
Peru are compelling.
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But even more
intriguing is the fact
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that some of history's
greatest explorers
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claimed to have actually
seen giants in South America
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with their own eyes.
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Sanlúcar, Spain.
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September 8, 1522.
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After more than three
years at sea, the Victoria,
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a ship launched by Portuguese
explorer Ferdinand Magellan,
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sails into the harbor.
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Its arrival completes the first
circumnavigation of the globe.
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As recorded in the ship's log,
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Magellan and his crew
faced dangerous storms,
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fierce battles and
grand receptions.
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But for many, the
most intriguing account
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detailed an unusual encounter
near the tip of South America.
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Ferdinand Magellan
and his crew were approaching land
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near the southernmost
point of South America when,
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according to the
expedition's official chronicles,
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they encountered
these towering giants
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who apparently stood twice
as tall as a normal human.
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ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
We saw a giant,
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who was on the shore of the sea,
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quite naked, and was dancing
and leaping and singing.
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He was so tall that the tallest
of us only came up to his waist.
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However, he was well-built.
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The captain named this
kind of people Patagon.
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They witnessed
these extremely tall
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human Natives of the area,
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and he actually named
the area Patagonia
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because it translates
as "Land of the Big Feet."
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And these clearly had very
big feet, as these were giants.
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According to
the logs of the Victoria,
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Magellan took back two of
these giants on his voyage home
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with the goal of presenting
them to the court in Spain.
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But they became
so sick and died,
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they had to be thrown overboard.
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Is it possible
that Ferdinand Magellan,
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one of history's most
celebrated explorers,
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encountered actual
giants in Argentina?
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Researchers suggest the story
might be more easily dismissed
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were it not for the fact that a
similar encounter with giants
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was documented by another
famous explorer in South America.
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The account came from Dutch
ship captain Jacob Roggeveen
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and his crew in 1722
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after they arrived
at a mysterious spot
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off the coast of Chile
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that Roggeveen would
later name Easter Island.
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The Dutch
explorers of Easter Island,
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not only did they witness
Polynesian types on the island;
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they also witnessed
these very tall people,
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which they called giants.
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And the strange
thing about them...
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they look quite different
to the native Polynesians.
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They were much taller.
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They had red or auburn hair.
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And in some cases,
they described them
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as having fairer skin
than the Polynesians
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of that particular island.
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So here we have
people seeing giants in South America.
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And you hear stories
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in other places, too,
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where people encounter
what they say are
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extremely tall giants.
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And it seems incredible,
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but it's certainly, you
know, not impossible.
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Could
explorers in South America
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have encountered
real-life giants
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just a few hundred years ago?
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While the accounts of
men like Ferdinand Magellan
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and Jacob Roggeveen
are truly incredible,
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researchers say that evidence
of giants is even more abundant
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in North America.
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At Lovelock Cave,
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two miners are
collecting bat guano
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to be used as fertilizer.
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One layer of guano they remove
is estimated to weigh 250 tons,
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and within it they discover
incredible ancient artifacts.
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We know, from
the historical record,
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that these excavations occurred.
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And they began
finding artifacts...
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duck decoys,
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huge woven shoes
for-for giant feet...
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and eventually, they found
a number of skeletons,
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complete skeletons
of people with red hair
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who were almost eight feet tall.
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And there were two
museums in Nevada
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created for these
giant skeletons.
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Today, we don't know where
any of those skeletons are.
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They are not on display.
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Could the
remains of redheaded giants
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have been unearthed
within Lovelock Cave?
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While the bones
allegedly recovered in 1911
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have since gone missing,
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researchers find it compelling
that the Native Paiute people
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have oral traditions
involving red-haired giants.
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The first account
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of these red-haired
giants at Lovelock Cave
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was written about by
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins,
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who was the daughter of a chief
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of the Paiute tribe.
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In 1893, Sarah
Winnemucca published
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a book about Paiute history
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in which she recounted
her people's battles
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with a giant called Sai-duka'a.
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The Sai-duka'a was said to
have been white-complected,
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having red hair, and
well over seven foot tall.
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The Paiutes explained
that these giants created
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so much of a problem that
the Paiutes had 350 warriors
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take care of this
problem once and for all.
368
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While there are
many skeptics who question her story,
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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
was a highly respected figure
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who even met with U.S.
President Rutherford B. Hayes
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to advocate for the humane
treatment of her tribe.
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A bronze statue honoring
her stands prominently
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in the Capitol Visitor
Center's Emancipation Hall
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in Washington, D.C.
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Now, what's fascinating is
that Sarah Winnemucca says
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that this was an actual battle.
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This wasn't folklore.
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This was a battle that
actually happened.
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The Paiutes
were warring with them
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for many, many years.
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The giants were said
to attack tribal members
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and take them and devour them.
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And so, finally, the, tribe
just decided that's enough
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and set out on a major campaign.
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And what they found was
that these giants were inhabiting
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a large cave.
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And they piled up brush on
the outside and set a fire...
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and directed the
smoke into the cave,
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thereby suffocating
all the inhabitants.
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What is
interesting about the discovery
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in 1911 at Lovelock
Cave in Nevada
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was the fact that it showed
evidence of extreme burning,
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like fires had been lit inside
the entrance to the cave.
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And this matched the story
of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
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from her writings.
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Sarah Winnemucca's
ancestors not only passed down to her
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the story of their
war with giants
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but also a physical relic
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taken from their fallen enemies.
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We have
evidence of red hair
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because she actually
saved some of the hair
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and sewed it into
a mourning dress,
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which she used when
she gave lectures.
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As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,
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Lovelock Cave and
the stories surrounding it
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provide strong evidence
407
00:21:58,192 --> 00:22:01,692
that there were giants on
Earth in the distant past.
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And it is just one of many
sites in North America
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associated with giants.
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In the 19th century,
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Jesuit missionaries
traveling through this area
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came upon what is now known
as the Painted Cave of El Carmen.
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Adorning the cave walls,
they saw giant figures
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that somewhat resembled humans
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but with extra digits
on their hands and feet.
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What's fascinating is
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when the Jesuits showed up
and spoke to the Cochimí people
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who lived in the
area in the 1700s,
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they claimed that a race of
giants made the rock art there.
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They said they came from
the north, male and female.
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And when you
look at the rock art,
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you have these giant beings,
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and they have six
fingers on their hands,
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which is very interesting.
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Polydactyly is a rare
genetic condition in humans.
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And it causes the
growth of extra digits,
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extra fingers, extra toes.
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But in the ancient world,
it's associated with the divine,
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the supernatural and giants.
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In fact, from places like
isolated Pacific islands,
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Australia, Botswana, Africa,
Malta, the American Southwest,
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you have extra digits
associated with giant beings.
433
00:23:27,192 --> 00:23:30,192
Now, it's pretty
specific iconography
434
00:23:30,358 --> 00:23:34,067
to be found in cultures
that had little or no contact.
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Descriptions of
giants with extra fingers and toes
436
00:23:38,358 --> 00:23:40,525
can even be found
within the pages
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00:23:40,650 --> 00:23:42,817
of the Bible's Old Testament.
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00:23:43,733 --> 00:23:47,900
In 2 Samuel 21:20,
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00:23:48,067 --> 00:23:50,692
it says there was a war at Gath
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where there was a
man of great stature
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who had six fingers on each hand
442
00:23:57,608 --> 00:24:00,233
and six toes on each foot.
443
00:24:00,317 --> 00:24:03,733
And he also was
born to the giants.
444
00:24:03,900 --> 00:24:06,942
So here we have a
biblical description
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00:24:07,108 --> 00:24:11,067
of a giant with six
toes and six fingers,
446
00:24:11,192 --> 00:24:14,983
very similar to what we see
in that petroglyph in Mexico.
447
00:24:16,108 --> 00:24:17,733
While
the mysterious cave art
448
00:24:17,942 --> 00:24:20,567
and the stories told by
the local Cochimí people
449
00:24:20,775 --> 00:24:23,692
are intriguing, for
many researchers,
450
00:24:23,775 --> 00:24:27,025
what's most compelling about
the Painted Cave of El Carmen
451
00:24:27,192 --> 00:24:30,442
is that, just like
Lovelock Cave in Nevada,
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it was allegedly found to
hold the remains of giants.
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00:24:36,025 --> 00:24:38,400
The Jesuits, in their
records, actually reported
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00:24:38,567 --> 00:24:40,608
unearthing giant bones
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00:24:40,775 --> 00:24:42,358
and believed that
giants lived there
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00:24:42,525 --> 00:24:44,400
because of what the
Cochimí told them.
457
00:24:44,567 --> 00:24:48,067
But it's still open-ended as to
what happened to the bones.
458
00:24:48,233 --> 00:24:51,025
What's noteworthy, however,
is that you have a situation
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where myth and oral tradition
460
00:24:54,358 --> 00:24:56,900
is lining up with the
Jesuits' own records.
461
00:24:57,983 --> 00:25:00,442
Do the
oral histories, petroglyphs
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00:25:00,608 --> 00:25:04,442
and alleged discoveries of
enormous humanlike bones
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00:25:04,608 --> 00:25:08,442
reveal that giants once
inhabited North America?
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While the evidence
is certainly compelling,
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for ancient astronaut theorists,
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00:25:14,233 --> 00:25:17,733
the most convincing accounts
are those that are backed up
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00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:20,192
with photographs.
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Sonora, Mexico.
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The early 1930s.
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American explorer Paxson Hayes
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is researching
local snake species
472
00:25:37,983 --> 00:25:41,067
while living among the
Indigenous Yaqui people.
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His studies take place
over several years,
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00:25:44,442 --> 00:25:46,900
and as he gains
the trust of the Yaqui,
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they begin to tell him
about strange happenings
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00:25:49,733 --> 00:25:51,858
in the region.
477
00:25:52,025 --> 00:25:54,150
Paxson Hayes
respected their culture,
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so he was brought in, and-and...
479
00:25:56,317 --> 00:25:58,557
and these oral traditions of
giants were shared with him.
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The Yaqui, like so
many other tribes,
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00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,317
firmly believed that there
were giant beings that existed.
482
00:26:05,483 --> 00:26:09,067
The Yaqui said
that according to their traditions,
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somewhere nearby was
an entire lost city of giants,
484
00:26:13,317 --> 00:26:16,233
and Hayes set out to find it.
485
00:26:18,233 --> 00:26:22,108
In 1935, he claimed
to have succeeded.
486
00:26:24,150 --> 00:26:26,900
According to Hayes,
the city he discovered
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00:26:27,025 --> 00:26:30,067
appeared to be
thousands of years old.
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00:26:30,233 --> 00:26:32,650
And what he found
there was astounding.
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00:26:34,067 --> 00:26:36,275
Paxson
Hayes reported to find 34
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00:26:36,442 --> 00:26:39,067
seven-and-a-half-foot
mummified giants.
491
00:26:39,983 --> 00:26:41,733
Now, I have the
original press release
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00:26:41,858 --> 00:26:46,317
that show one of the mummified
giants bundled up that he found
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00:26:46,442 --> 00:26:49,567
and a giant mummified head
and this enormous gourd.
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00:26:49,733 --> 00:26:51,650
So there's visual proof.
495
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,942
Paxson Hayes was
quite blown away
496
00:26:56,108 --> 00:26:58,150
by all these discoveries
that were being made.
497
00:26:59,150 --> 00:27:00,900
But he lost all his funding
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00:27:01,108 --> 00:27:04,733
to continue the
exploration and research.
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00:27:04,942 --> 00:27:09,858
And the lost city has never
been found since, incidentally.
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Could it be that the
remarkable claims of Paxson Hayes are true?
501
00:27:15,817 --> 00:27:17,567
Perhaps further
clues can be found
502
00:27:17,692 --> 00:27:21,567
by examining reports of
another extraordinary discovery
503
00:27:21,733 --> 00:27:24,442
made in the American Midwest.
504
00:27:25,942 --> 00:27:28,108
Throughout the Ohio Valley,
505
00:27:28,275 --> 00:27:31,400
we have what's called
the Adena burial mounds.
506
00:27:32,442 --> 00:27:36,317
And these are, in a
sense, pyramids or mounds.
507
00:27:36,483 --> 00:27:40,525
And starting in the
mid-1800s or so,
508
00:27:40,692 --> 00:27:42,233
they began to excavate.
509
00:27:42,442 --> 00:27:45,817
And what these early
archaeologists discovered
510
00:27:45,942 --> 00:27:47,483
was quite astonishing.
511
00:27:47,650 --> 00:27:50,233
They were getting
skeletal remains
512
00:27:50,442 --> 00:27:53,608
of people who were giants.
513
00:27:54,608 --> 00:27:58,150
Miamisburg Mound in
Ohio is one of the largest
514
00:27:58,358 --> 00:28:01,275
Adena burial
mounds in the region.
515
00:28:01,442 --> 00:28:04,025
Numerous digs took place
in this particular mound
516
00:28:04,233 --> 00:28:06,233
and other mounds in the area.
517
00:28:06,442 --> 00:28:10,317
And in 1856, a remarkable
discovery was unearthed
518
00:28:10,442 --> 00:28:12,567
of an eight-foot,
two-inch skeleton
519
00:28:12,733 --> 00:28:14,525
within the mound itself.
520
00:28:14,650 --> 00:28:17,900
Now, this caused a kind of
sensation in the local area.
521
00:28:18,067 --> 00:28:20,400
It was reported in great detail.
522
00:28:20,608 --> 00:28:23,983
Medical doctors and
scholars looked at it.
523
00:28:24,150 --> 00:28:26,900
But the Smithsonian
didn't really follow up
524
00:28:27,067 --> 00:28:29,775
and do some proper
research and analysis.
525
00:28:29,942 --> 00:28:31,650
When it comes to studying
526
00:28:31,817 --> 00:28:34,942
the so-called giant
remains of North America,
527
00:28:35,108 --> 00:28:37,233
the Smithsonian,
they just kind of ignore
528
00:28:37,442 --> 00:28:40,400
any anomalies, anything
that's out of the ordinary
529
00:28:40,525 --> 00:28:43,192
that doesn't fit their
preexisting paradigm.
530
00:28:45,067 --> 00:28:48,608
The Smithsonian
routinely dismissed reported discoveries
531
00:28:48,775 --> 00:28:50,733
of giant bones.
532
00:28:50,942 --> 00:28:54,567
But records filed by the
institute's own archaeologists
533
00:28:54,733 --> 00:28:58,400
document the discovery of
numerous oversized skeletons
534
00:28:58,567 --> 00:29:01,275
throughout the Ohio Valley.
535
00:29:01,442 --> 00:29:04,900
The Smithsonian's own
scientists have dozens
536
00:29:05,108 --> 00:29:07,317
of recorded instances
of the unearthing
537
00:29:07,483 --> 00:29:10,233
of eight-foot-tall inhabitants,
538
00:29:10,358 --> 00:29:12,150
36-inch-circumference skull
539
00:29:12,317 --> 00:29:16,067
found by T.M.
Perrin in Illinois.
540
00:29:16,233 --> 00:29:18,567
It's all in the record.
541
00:29:20,275 --> 00:29:24,233
But if the
Smithsonian discovered giant bones,
542
00:29:24,442 --> 00:29:28,025
why would they later
cover up their existence?
543
00:29:28,233 --> 00:29:30,525
Some researchers suggest
544
00:29:30,650 --> 00:29:33,733
scholars are simply
unwilling to entertain the notion
545
00:29:33,942 --> 00:29:36,817
that something long
relegated to the realm of fantasy
546
00:29:36,983 --> 00:29:38,525
could be real.
547
00:29:38,692 --> 00:29:41,983
The idea of giants
belongs to this,
548
00:29:42,150 --> 00:29:46,025
mythological, religious realm
549
00:29:46,192 --> 00:29:49,400
of the ideological
enemy of science.
550
00:29:49,608 --> 00:29:54,817
So the incredible intellect
of many people are spent
551
00:29:54,942 --> 00:29:58,567
debunking, marginalizing
and mocking these ideas.
552
00:29:58,733 --> 00:30:01,442
But right in the records
we have another story.
553
00:30:02,983 --> 00:30:05,442
While the
Smithsonian continues to claim
554
00:30:05,608 --> 00:30:09,233
that giants belong to
the realm of fantasy,
555
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,150
many Native American tribes
556
00:30:11,317 --> 00:30:13,275
consider these
supposedly mythic beings
557
00:30:13,442 --> 00:30:15,733
as part of their history.
558
00:30:16,692 --> 00:30:20,150
Native
Americans have a tradition
559
00:30:20,275 --> 00:30:23,150
of oral history.
560
00:30:23,317 --> 00:30:27,775
That history has to be
said exactly as it happened.
561
00:30:27,942 --> 00:30:29,483
It can't be embellished.
562
00:30:29,692 --> 00:30:33,108
Part of this tradition
is that in the past,
563
00:30:33,275 --> 00:30:36,483
there were giants
here on the Earth.
564
00:30:37,567 --> 00:30:41,192
In Navajo culture, you
have the Hero Twins
565
00:30:41,358 --> 00:30:44,650
that were specifically
trained to fight giants.
566
00:30:44,775 --> 00:30:47,900
And they were known
as the giant slayers.
567
00:30:49,150 --> 00:30:50,567
According to the story,
568
00:30:50,733 --> 00:30:52,567
the twins emerged
from an abalone shell
569
00:30:52,733 --> 00:30:55,483
and turquoise that
fell from the sky.
570
00:30:55,608 --> 00:30:58,150
They were raised
by a local woman.
571
00:30:58,317 --> 00:31:00,275
And when they grew
older, they were told
572
00:31:00,442 --> 00:31:02,483
that giants had been
harassing their people.
573
00:31:03,525 --> 00:31:07,775
And they later went on a
journey to defeat these giants.
574
00:31:09,233 --> 00:31:12,192
According
to Navajo mythology,
575
00:31:12,358 --> 00:31:15,317
a powerful sky being
named Tsohanoai,
576
00:31:15,525 --> 00:31:17,733
or "the Bearer of the Sun,"
577
00:31:17,942 --> 00:31:21,900
gave the twins powerful
weapons to aid them in their quest.
578
00:31:22,942 --> 00:31:25,567
One of the twins
was given a magical bow and arrow
579
00:31:25,733 --> 00:31:29,067
that could hit its target
with unwielding precision.
580
00:31:29,275 --> 00:31:32,317
The other twin was
given a type of staff
581
00:31:32,483 --> 00:31:34,775
that could somehow
protect both of them.
582
00:31:35,817 --> 00:31:38,317
Now, these weapons were
said to have been given to them
583
00:31:38,483 --> 00:31:40,567
by a god that
descended from the sky.
584
00:31:40,692 --> 00:31:42,692
To me, this doesn't
sound like magic.
585
00:31:42,858 --> 00:31:46,608
It sounds like some type of
misrepresentation of technology,
586
00:31:46,817 --> 00:31:49,483
possibly given to them
by extraterrestrials.
587
00:31:49,650 --> 00:31:51,233
Is it possible
588
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,692
that the Navajo story
of the Hero Twins
589
00:31:53,858 --> 00:31:56,400
is an account of
historical events
590
00:31:56,608 --> 00:31:59,608
that involved not
only real-life giants
591
00:31:59,775 --> 00:32:02,525
but also extraterrestrial
intervention?
592
00:32:04,608 --> 00:32:06,692
Perhaps further
clues can be found
593
00:32:06,817 --> 00:32:10,983
by examining the writings of
a famous 19th-century mystic
594
00:32:11,108 --> 00:32:13,567
who taught that long ago
595
00:32:13,733 --> 00:32:16,525
Earth was ruled by a
towering race of beings
596
00:32:16,692 --> 00:32:19,983
who possessed highly
advanced technology.
597
00:32:30,942 --> 00:32:33,025
Famous
Russian mystic and philosopher
598
00:32:33,150 --> 00:32:37,733
Madame Helena Blavatsky
founds the Theosophical Society,
599
00:32:37,942 --> 00:32:39,650
an esoteric organization
600
00:32:39,817 --> 00:32:43,483
that explores theories
on the origins of humanity.
601
00:32:45,817 --> 00:32:48,567
The Theosophical
Society was, um,
602
00:32:48,733 --> 00:32:51,317
the most influential esoteric
603
00:32:51,483 --> 00:32:53,733
or spiritual organization
in the late 19th century.
604
00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:57,567
One of the earliest people
to join was Thomas Edison,
605
00:32:57,692 --> 00:33:00,275
who was working on
the light bulb at the time.
606
00:33:00,442 --> 00:33:02,025
And W.B. Yeats,
607
00:33:02,150 --> 00:33:04,733
the Nobel
Prize-winning Irish poet,
608
00:33:04,942 --> 00:33:07,400
was an early member of
the Theosophical Society.
609
00:33:07,567 --> 00:33:10,733
Abner Doubleday, who
was the Civil War hero,
610
00:33:10,942 --> 00:33:12,400
inventor of baseball.
611
00:33:12,608 --> 00:33:15,692
And one person whom
Madame Blavatsky had
612
00:33:15,858 --> 00:33:18,608
an enormous impact
on was Mahatma Gandhi.
613
00:33:20,150 --> 00:33:23,275
Blavatsky starts out as
a... as a product of her time
614
00:33:23,483 --> 00:33:25,567
in that the
spiritualist movement
615
00:33:25,733 --> 00:33:27,525
is spreading across Europe,
616
00:33:27,692 --> 00:33:30,733
and she really
takes it to a new level
617
00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:33,442
and in her early
adulthood goes off on these
618
00:33:33,608 --> 00:33:35,775
sort of grand adventures
619
00:33:35,942 --> 00:33:40,233
to discover what's out there
in the world of esoterica.
620
00:33:40,442 --> 00:33:43,067
And these adventures
take her to Tibet,
621
00:33:43,233 --> 00:33:46,775
and she begins to communicate
622
00:33:46,942 --> 00:33:50,067
with intelligences
referred to as mahatmas
623
00:33:50,233 --> 00:33:52,900
or masters or ascended masters.
624
00:33:53,067 --> 00:33:55,858
Madame Blavatsky
claimed to have been contacted
625
00:33:56,025 --> 00:33:59,317
by an ascended master
she called Koot Hoomi,
626
00:33:59,483 --> 00:34:01,817
who lived in the
mountains of Tibet.
627
00:34:03,025 --> 00:34:05,233
Madame Blavatsky believes
that she is bringing forth
628
00:34:05,358 --> 00:34:07,733
this ancient wisdom.
629
00:34:08,775 --> 00:34:11,692
And she demonstrates
through a type of channeling,
630
00:34:11,775 --> 00:34:14,692
and she is bringing
forth information
631
00:34:14,817 --> 00:34:18,567
from this brotherhood
of ascended masters.
632
00:34:19,692 --> 00:34:21,525
According to Blavatsky,
633
00:34:21,650 --> 00:34:24,400
Koot Hoomi brought
to light new information
634
00:34:24,525 --> 00:34:26,983
about humankind's ancient past,
635
00:34:27,108 --> 00:34:30,983
which includes ages in
which giants walked the Earth.
636
00:34:32,275 --> 00:34:35,525
She shared these revelations
in her controversial book,
637
00:34:35,733 --> 00:34:38,108
The Secret Doctrine.
638
00:34:38,233 --> 00:34:41,400
She wrote this
enormous work called The Secret Doctrine.
639
00:34:41,567 --> 00:34:44,858
And this is an occult
history of the universe,
640
00:34:44,983 --> 00:34:47,025
and it includes the
notion that there were
641
00:34:47,150 --> 00:34:51,150
previous civilizations,
what she called root races.
642
00:34:52,275 --> 00:34:54,483
In her view,
humanity went through
643
00:34:54,650 --> 00:34:57,733
or will go through
seven epochs or cycles
644
00:34:57,942 --> 00:35:00,567
in its development, beginning
with the first root race,
645
00:35:00,650 --> 00:35:02,358
which she called Polaria.
646
00:35:02,483 --> 00:35:05,400
This was considered
to be an astral race
647
00:35:05,567 --> 00:35:08,275
that lived in one
of the polar regions.
648
00:35:08,442 --> 00:35:09,692
The second root race,
649
00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:12,442
she referred to as
the Hyperboreans.
650
00:35:12,608 --> 00:35:14,942
They lived at the North Pole.
651
00:35:15,108 --> 00:35:17,858
And then she describes
the third root race,
652
00:35:17,983 --> 00:35:19,608
the Lemurians,
653
00:35:19,775 --> 00:35:22,942
who are described
as towering figures.
654
00:35:23,067 --> 00:35:25,900
They are this
advanced race of giants
655
00:35:26,025 --> 00:35:28,942
that is followed then
by the fourth root race,
656
00:35:29,108 --> 00:35:30,900
the Atlanteans.
657
00:35:32,025 --> 00:35:34,817
And then she describes
us as actually living
658
00:35:34,983 --> 00:35:38,900
in the fifth root race, which
is a combination of a spiritual
659
00:35:39,108 --> 00:35:40,733
and a material being.
660
00:35:41,692 --> 00:35:43,567
According
to Blavatsky's book,
661
00:35:43,733 --> 00:35:45,233
while there is a progression
662
00:35:45,442 --> 00:35:47,275
from one root race to the next,
663
00:35:47,442 --> 00:35:49,942
it is not a straight
line of evolution,
664
00:35:50,108 --> 00:35:52,817
and both the third
and fourth root races,
665
00:35:52,983 --> 00:35:55,525
the Lemurians and Atlanteans,
666
00:35:55,692 --> 00:35:58,275
had technology and
spiritual awareness
667
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,067
superior to modern-day humans.
668
00:36:02,067 --> 00:36:04,317
A different cosmology
that included
669
00:36:04,442 --> 00:36:06,442
giants and normal people,
670
00:36:06,650 --> 00:36:09,858
different races that
existed in the past
671
00:36:09,942 --> 00:36:13,692
and then were replaced
by another root race.
672
00:36:14,775 --> 00:36:16,483
The
concept of root races
673
00:36:16,608 --> 00:36:18,983
was also espoused
by Edgar Cayce,
674
00:36:19,150 --> 00:36:22,567
a world-famous psychic
in the early 1900s.
675
00:36:22,733 --> 00:36:26,067
He, too, saw giants
in Earth's past,
676
00:36:26,192 --> 00:36:29,275
not only among the
Lemurians and Atlanteans
677
00:36:29,442 --> 00:36:31,567
but also in North America.
678
00:36:31,733 --> 00:36:34,733
The famous
psychic Edgar Cayce, as well,
679
00:36:34,942 --> 00:36:38,692
talks about kind of
root races and giants.
680
00:36:38,900 --> 00:36:41,733
And with Edgar Cayce,
he talks about them having,
681
00:36:41,942 --> 00:36:43,900
you know, advanced technology.
682
00:36:45,067 --> 00:36:47,775
When viewed through
the lens of ancient astronaut theory,
683
00:36:47,942 --> 00:36:52,567
they are very clearly describing
this advanced race of giants
684
00:36:52,775 --> 00:36:54,775
that possessed technology
that was considered to be
685
00:36:54,858 --> 00:36:57,400
superior to what humans
possessed at that time.
686
00:36:57,567 --> 00:36:59,900
You could open up
a line of speculation
687
00:37:00,067 --> 00:37:03,067
that these giants had an
extraterrestrial connection,
688
00:37:03,275 --> 00:37:06,108
if not being
extraterrestrials themselves.
689
00:37:07,650 --> 00:37:12,150
Could it be that highly
evolved beings of giant proportions
690
00:37:12,317 --> 00:37:14,775
were at the heart of
an advanced civilization
691
00:37:14,983 --> 00:37:19,233
that existed on Earth long
before our recorded history?
692
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,400
According to some
researchers, the answers may lie
693
00:37:23,608 --> 00:37:27,983
within a forbidden
book of the Holy Bible.
694
00:37:37,942 --> 00:37:40,442
The Christian church
holds a secret meeting
695
00:37:40,608 --> 00:37:42,858
called the Council of Laodicea
696
00:37:43,025 --> 00:37:45,108
to discuss the removal
of certain books
697
00:37:45,275 --> 00:37:47,067
from the biblical canon.
698
00:37:48,067 --> 00:37:50,775
Among them is the Book of Enoch.
699
00:37:50,942 --> 00:37:52,692
Why it was determined
that this book
700
00:37:52,858 --> 00:37:54,525
should be stricken
from the Bible
701
00:37:54,692 --> 00:37:56,942
is the subject of much debate,
702
00:37:57,108 --> 00:38:00,692
but many biblical scholars
suggest it was due to
703
00:38:00,858 --> 00:38:03,650
controversial stories
involving the Watchers,
704
00:38:03,858 --> 00:38:06,067
a group of 200 angels
705
00:38:06,233 --> 00:38:09,442
who were tasked with
watching over humankind.
706
00:38:11,358 --> 00:38:14,567
The Watchers
came down from heaven
707
00:38:14,733 --> 00:38:17,025
to mix with mortal-kind.
708
00:38:17,983 --> 00:38:22,733
They were said to have revealed
the arts and sciences of heaven,
709
00:38:22,942 --> 00:38:26,442
and this allowed us the
rudiments of civilization.
710
00:38:27,483 --> 00:38:30,608
But what's so interesting
is that these rebel Watchers
711
00:38:30,775 --> 00:38:33,775
were also said to have
taken human wives,
712
00:38:33,942 --> 00:38:38,358
and the wives gave birth
to giants known as Nephilim.
713
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,400
This is handed down
in the Book of Enoch
714
00:38:41,567 --> 00:38:43,233
absolutely clearly.
715
00:38:44,317 --> 00:38:47,567
When the sons of the gods
saw that the daughters of man
716
00:38:47,775 --> 00:38:51,067
were beauty, they
took them to wife,
717
00:38:51,233 --> 00:38:53,733
and the product
of it were giants.
718
00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:58,733
Just look at these old myths
with modern languages.
719
00:38:58,942 --> 00:39:02,317
Change the word of
"angel" into "extraterrestrial."
720
00:39:02,525 --> 00:39:05,150
These giants were a mixture
721
00:39:05,358 --> 00:39:08,900
between humans
and extraterrestrials.
722
00:39:09,025 --> 00:39:11,692
The Nephilim are
this hybrid offspring
723
00:39:11,817 --> 00:39:14,483
that were extremely powerful
724
00:39:14,650 --> 00:39:16,567
and described as very tall.
725
00:39:16,775 --> 00:39:19,025
They were also
threatening to humanity.
726
00:39:20,150 --> 00:39:22,567
In fact, we're told
that the flood of Noah
727
00:39:22,775 --> 00:39:25,858
was sent to destroy the giants.
728
00:39:26,025 --> 00:39:27,192
But there were survivors,
729
00:39:27,275 --> 00:39:28,775
and there were
eyewitness accounts
730
00:39:28,942 --> 00:39:31,150
of giants after the flood.
731
00:39:32,608 --> 00:39:37,067
In the Book of Numbers,
the sons of Anak were giants.
732
00:39:37,150 --> 00:39:41,942
Goliath is cited as another of
the descendants of these giants,
733
00:39:42,108 --> 00:39:45,400
very tall in stature,
very powerful being.
734
00:39:46,442 --> 00:39:49,567
The Book of
Enoch used to be part of the Bible.
735
00:39:49,733 --> 00:39:52,400
This book contained,
in my opinion,
736
00:39:52,567 --> 00:39:54,983
explosive topics.
737
00:39:55,192 --> 00:39:59,525
Because certain books
of the Bible were removed,
738
00:39:59,692 --> 00:40:02,775
and you have to ask
the question, why?
739
00:40:04,275 --> 00:40:06,317
According to
ancient astronaut theorists,
740
00:40:06,483 --> 00:40:09,733
the Book of Enoch
provides compelling evidence
741
00:40:09,942 --> 00:40:13,025
for not only the existence
of giants on Earth
742
00:40:13,108 --> 00:40:17,692
but also their
extraterrestrial lineage.
743
00:40:17,858 --> 00:40:20,317
What leads me to
think that the stories
744
00:40:20,442 --> 00:40:23,317
of the giants may be true
745
00:40:23,483 --> 00:40:26,067
is that not only do we find
746
00:40:26,233 --> 00:40:29,525
stories of giants in
the Book of Enoch
747
00:40:29,692 --> 00:40:32,317
and on pretty much
every continent,
748
00:40:32,483 --> 00:40:37,442
but the stories are essentially
very similar, if not identical.
749
00:40:38,567 --> 00:40:41,317
The stories of
giants are generally regarded
750
00:40:41,442 --> 00:40:43,900
by most people as
kind of bedtime stories
751
00:40:44,108 --> 00:40:45,900
you read to your
children at night.
752
00:40:46,108 --> 00:40:49,733
But so much has been
written in the academic record
753
00:40:49,942 --> 00:40:52,233
by doctors and town
and county histories
754
00:40:52,358 --> 00:40:53,567
and other sources.
755
00:40:54,608 --> 00:40:57,400
And so, there really is
a reality to these giants
756
00:40:57,567 --> 00:40:59,983
that existed throughout history.
757
00:41:01,067 --> 00:41:03,608
This can't be just a
case of cultural diffusion,
758
00:41:03,775 --> 00:41:08,150
that people all over the world
are creating the same stories.
759
00:41:09,192 --> 00:41:12,567
Instead, to me, it suggests
that humanity has been dealing
760
00:41:12,692 --> 00:41:16,358
with beings referred to as
giants for all these millennia.
761
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,320
I think the big
question is, here, you know,
762
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:23,650
is there some extraterrestrial
race that are giants
763
00:41:23,817 --> 00:41:27,983
who have been here in the
past interacting with humans
764
00:41:28,108 --> 00:41:31,025
and that they're even
still here today?
765
00:41:32,233 --> 00:41:34,650
Are stories of giant beings,
766
00:41:34,858 --> 00:41:36,942
repeated in culture
after culture,
767
00:41:37,108 --> 00:41:41,150
and reports
of enormous human remains
768
00:41:41,317 --> 00:41:45,108
evidence that a lost race
of giants once walked the Earth?
769
00:41:46,108 --> 00:41:48,358
And if so, are certain groups
770
00:41:48,525 --> 00:41:51,900
working to conceal this truth
from the public?
771
00:41:52,817 --> 00:41:54,983
Perhaps hidden
in some secret vault
772
00:41:55,150 --> 00:41:59,442
lies the undeniable proof
that giants are real
773
00:41:59,608 --> 00:42:02,567
and provide an important link
774
00:42:02,733 --> 00:42:05,942
to our extraterrestrial origins.
775
00:42:06,150 --> 00:42:09,317
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