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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,742 --> 00:00:04,244 Thousands of years ago, 2 00:00:04,493 --> 00:00:07,134 people all over the world described encounters 3 00:00:07,259 --> 00:00:09,692 with enormous, humanlike beings. 4 00:00:09,858 --> 00:00:11,567 In ancient mythologies, 5 00:00:11,728 --> 00:00:15,150 from the Greeks to the Nordics to the Native Americans, 6 00:00:15,317 --> 00:00:17,483 we have these legends of giants. 7 00:00:17,650 --> 00:00:21,150 Giants can be found throughout ancient artwork. 8 00:00:21,317 --> 00:00:24,942 You see really interesting figures depicted 9 00:00:25,108 --> 00:00:29,150 that are infinitely larger than regular humans. 10 00:00:29,275 --> 00:00:31,150 And some archaeologists 11 00:00:31,317 --> 00:00:34,942 even claim to have found human bones 12 00:00:35,108 --> 00:00:36,733 of extraordinary size. 13 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:38,650 Smithsonian scientists uncovered 14 00:00:38,817 --> 00:00:40,858 dozens of enormous skeletons. 15 00:00:41,025 --> 00:00:43,692 Could it be that the otherworldly giants 16 00:00:43,817 --> 00:00:47,317 of myth and legend truly existed? 17 00:00:47,483 --> 00:00:51,400 I think that what we have today as a civilization 18 00:00:51,608 --> 00:00:54,608 was given to us by the giants. 19 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,608 Writing in the French scientific journal Archeologie, 20 00:01:19,775 --> 00:01:23,650 German geophysicist Jörg Fassbinder and his team 21 00:01:23,775 --> 00:01:25,942 reveal an extraordinary discovery 22 00:01:26,108 --> 00:01:29,775 that they made along the banks of the Euphrates River. 23 00:01:30,817 --> 00:01:34,233 While mapping the ancient Mesopotamian city of Uruk, 24 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,483 the archaeologists found something remarkable 25 00:01:36,608 --> 00:01:39,067 hidden deep underground. 26 00:01:40,483 --> 00:01:43,025 The German archaeological team used magnetometers 27 00:01:43,192 --> 00:01:44,733 to survey the ground beneath 28 00:01:44,942 --> 00:01:46,692 what is believed to be the city of Uruk. 29 00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:49,692 They found a number of underground structures, 30 00:01:49,817 --> 00:01:52,233 but the one that got them the most excited 31 00:01:52,442 --> 00:01:55,150 was the discovery of a very large tomb. 32 00:01:56,775 --> 00:02:00,067 What makes this discovery particularly exciting 33 00:02:00,150 --> 00:02:01,858 is its potential connection 34 00:02:01,983 --> 00:02:04,400 to the oldest known story ever written, 35 00:02:04,608 --> 00:02:07,442 called the Epic of Gilgamesh. 36 00:02:07,608 --> 00:02:10,358 The more than 4,000-year-old Sumerian text 37 00:02:10,525 --> 00:02:12,317 describes King Gilgamesh, 38 00:02:12,483 --> 00:02:16,400 who most experts believe was a historical figure. 39 00:02:16,608 --> 00:02:19,650 And it describes that Gilgamesh was buried 40 00:02:19,817 --> 00:02:22,233 beneath the ancient Euphrates River 41 00:02:22,442 --> 00:02:25,025 exactly where the German archaeological team 42 00:02:25,192 --> 00:02:27,525 detected an underground tomb. 43 00:02:27,692 --> 00:02:29,525 German archaeologists thought 44 00:02:29,692 --> 00:02:31,358 that they had actually discovered 45 00:02:31,525 --> 00:02:33,400 the tomb of King Gilgamesh. 46 00:02:33,608 --> 00:02:34,888 It was right down on the riverbed 47 00:02:34,983 --> 00:02:36,400 where it was described to be. 48 00:02:36,567 --> 00:02:38,483 So they were pretty much sure 49 00:02:38,692 --> 00:02:42,275 that they had found the actual tomb of King Gilgamesh. 50 00:02:42,442 --> 00:02:44,775 According to some researchers, 51 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:46,567 finding the remains of King Gilgamesh 52 00:02:46,733 --> 00:02:48,233 might be the greatest 53 00:02:48,442 --> 00:02:50,983 archaeological discovery of all time, 54 00:02:51,150 --> 00:02:56,150 because Gilgamesh was described as a giant. 55 00:02:56,317 --> 00:02:58,525 The ancient texts say that Gilgamesh stood 56 00:02:58,692 --> 00:03:01,442 an astounding 11 cubits tall, 57 00:03:01,608 --> 00:03:04,442 which means he would be about 17 feet tall. 58 00:03:04,608 --> 00:03:06,817 Obviously, a giant. 59 00:03:07,025 --> 00:03:09,650 And Sumerian scholars believe that Gilgamesh was 60 00:03:09,858 --> 00:03:12,108 a real historical figure. 61 00:03:12,233 --> 00:03:14,900 So, if the structure that the German archaeologists found 62 00:03:15,067 --> 00:03:16,900 is, in fact, the tomb of Gilgamesh, 63 00:03:17,108 --> 00:03:21,650 then what they've discovered was the tomb of an actual giant. 64 00:03:22,692 --> 00:03:24,983 Is it possible that the tomb of a giant 65 00:03:25,108 --> 00:03:28,567 lies hidden beneath the earth in southern Iraq? 66 00:03:29,775 --> 00:03:31,858 Before the German archaeologists could find out, 67 00:03:32,025 --> 00:03:36,067 Iraq became embroiled in the Second Gulf War, 68 00:03:36,192 --> 00:03:39,817 and the team was forced to flee the country. 69 00:03:39,983 --> 00:03:43,900 But ancient astronaut theorists find it intriguing 70 00:03:44,108 --> 00:03:46,608 that the hero of humanity's oldest known story 71 00:03:46,775 --> 00:03:49,400 is of giant proportions. 72 00:03:49,567 --> 00:03:52,025 In fact, throughout the ancient world, 73 00:03:52,192 --> 00:03:56,317 nearly every culture told stories of giants. 74 00:03:57,900 --> 00:04:00,150 When we look at the stories of the giants, 75 00:04:00,317 --> 00:04:01,817 it's a global phenomenon. 76 00:04:01,983 --> 00:04:04,567 From North America, South America, 77 00:04:04,775 --> 00:04:06,608 throughout the Middle East, there are stories 78 00:04:06,775 --> 00:04:11,192 of these enormously powerful, very tall beings. 79 00:04:12,358 --> 00:04:14,567 Every ancient culture speaks of 80 00:04:14,692 --> 00:04:18,317 a long-lost time when the so-called giants 81 00:04:18,483 --> 00:04:20,817 still mingled amongst human beings. 82 00:04:20,983 --> 00:04:24,775 For example, the First Nations people of Australia, 83 00:04:24,983 --> 00:04:27,650 their original creator gods, the Wandjinas, 84 00:04:27,817 --> 00:04:32,775 are depicted as these giant, tall beings. 85 00:04:33,817 --> 00:04:36,108 In ancient Greece, we have stories 86 00:04:36,275 --> 00:04:38,608 of the so-called Cyclops, 87 00:04:38,775 --> 00:04:43,317 these giant, tall beings with one eye in their forehead. 88 00:04:43,483 --> 00:04:46,483 And in the ancient Veda texts, 89 00:04:46,692 --> 00:04:50,400 the original Buddha allegedly was 12 feet tall 90 00:04:50,567 --> 00:04:52,233 with blue skin 91 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,692 and hands that would go down below to his knees. 92 00:04:56,858 --> 00:05:00,817 He was this giant man that imparted knowledge. 93 00:05:00,942 --> 00:05:03,650 The fact that we have these stories worldwide 94 00:05:03,817 --> 00:05:05,733 illustrates to me that there had to have been 95 00:05:05,858 --> 00:05:07,442 a common denominator. 96 00:05:09,108 --> 00:05:12,317 If giants truly existed in the distant past, 97 00:05:12,483 --> 00:05:13,983 what were they? 98 00:05:14,150 --> 00:05:16,275 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest 99 00:05:16,442 --> 00:05:19,608 that some accounts of giants reveal that they were 100 00:05:19,775 --> 00:05:23,150 something other than just humans of extraordinary size, 101 00:05:23,317 --> 00:05:26,275 like the ancient stories from Ireland that tell 102 00:05:26,442 --> 00:05:31,233 of mysterious visitors known as the Tuatha Dé Danann. 103 00:05:31,442 --> 00:05:34,067 The Tuatha Dé Danann descended from the sky 104 00:05:34,233 --> 00:05:36,733 in ships and landed upon the mountains. 105 00:05:36,817 --> 00:05:39,817 These mysterious beings were giant demigods 106 00:05:39,983 --> 00:05:42,108 that possessed some advanced technology 107 00:05:42,317 --> 00:05:43,567 that they ultimately used 108 00:05:43,692 --> 00:05:45,150 to create some of the most incredible 109 00:05:45,317 --> 00:05:48,358 megalithic constructions ever created. 110 00:05:49,858 --> 00:05:52,983 The Tuatha Dé Danann are sometimes credited 111 00:05:53,108 --> 00:05:56,358 as being the builders of enormous passage tombs 112 00:05:56,483 --> 00:05:59,400 like Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth. 113 00:06:00,442 --> 00:06:02,067 And, in fact, 114 00:06:02,150 --> 00:06:04,983 many ancient megalithic sites around the world 115 00:06:05,150 --> 00:06:07,567 are associated with giants, 116 00:06:07,775 --> 00:06:10,275 like the Ggantija temple in Malta, 117 00:06:10,483 --> 00:06:14,358 which is believed to be more than 5,000 years old. 118 00:06:15,692 --> 00:06:18,067 In Malta, you have some of the most ancient 119 00:06:18,275 --> 00:06:21,858 and most gigantic megalithic sites on Earth. 120 00:06:23,067 --> 00:06:25,233 One of these megalithic structures in Malta 121 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,400 is called Ggantija, 122 00:06:27,567 --> 00:06:30,192 because it comes from the giant. 123 00:06:30,317 --> 00:06:34,900 In fact, it was a woman giant that gave birth to giant twins, 124 00:06:35,108 --> 00:06:37,400 and she created some of these structures 125 00:06:37,567 --> 00:06:39,775 in order to protect her children. 126 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:42,650 In the 17th century, 127 00:06:42,858 --> 00:06:46,317 a Maltese nobleman named Gian Francesco Abela 128 00:06:46,483 --> 00:06:48,192 claimed to have found evidence 129 00:06:48,358 --> 00:06:52,067 that these legends may have been based in fact. 130 00:06:52,275 --> 00:06:54,650 Gian Francesco Abela claims 131 00:06:54,817 --> 00:06:57,733 to have found not only giant skeletons 132 00:06:57,858 --> 00:06:59,983 but skulls, teeth 133 00:07:00,150 --> 00:07:03,733 and other bone fragments all across the island of Malta. 134 00:07:03,858 --> 00:07:05,358 But also, other people 135 00:07:05,525 --> 00:07:08,192 have reported on them, as well, at this time. 136 00:07:09,233 --> 00:07:12,400 Other megalithic sites connected to stories of giants 137 00:07:12,567 --> 00:07:17,067 include the so-called Tombs of the Giants in Sardinia, 138 00:07:17,275 --> 00:07:20,900 the Greek archaeological site of Mycenae 139 00:07:21,067 --> 00:07:23,650 and Baalbek in Lebanon. 140 00:07:23,775 --> 00:07:26,108 Traveling the world, you will find the same story. 141 00:07:26,275 --> 00:07:27,567 It's ubiquitous. 142 00:07:27,775 --> 00:07:29,900 Megalithic sites are associated with giants, 143 00:07:30,025 --> 00:07:31,733 supernatural beings, 144 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:33,650 strange technologies, 145 00:07:33,775 --> 00:07:36,233 and the legends are very explicit. 146 00:07:36,358 --> 00:07:38,067 They're unambiguous. 147 00:07:40,692 --> 00:07:44,858 One ancient site that has long been associated with giants 148 00:07:45,025 --> 00:07:47,567 is the famous megalithic structure in England 149 00:07:47,775 --> 00:07:50,400 known as Stonehenge. 150 00:07:50,525 --> 00:07:53,025 The original name of Stonehenge was 151 00:07:53,192 --> 00:07:55,400 the Giants' Ring or the Giants' Dance. 152 00:07:55,567 --> 00:07:57,858 That's the Welsh name. 153 00:07:58,025 --> 00:07:59,317 What's noteworthy is 154 00:07:59,442 --> 00:08:01,567 the earliest representation of Stonehenge 155 00:08:01,775 --> 00:08:04,608 has Merlin, King Ambrosius 156 00:08:04,775 --> 00:08:07,983 and a 12-foot giant building Stonehenge. 157 00:08:09,442 --> 00:08:13,275 The image appears in a mid-14th-century manuscript 158 00:08:13,442 --> 00:08:16,400 illustrating an account in a much earlier text 159 00:08:16,608 --> 00:08:18,858 called The British History. 160 00:08:20,025 --> 00:08:23,775 Written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in 1136, 161 00:08:23,942 --> 00:08:26,358 the book recounts how the wizard Merlin 162 00:08:26,483 --> 00:08:29,358 used powerful magic and the help of giants 163 00:08:29,525 --> 00:08:34,108 to transport and construct the massive Stonehenge monument. 164 00:08:35,275 --> 00:08:38,650 While the story may sound like the stuff of fantasy, 165 00:08:38,817 --> 00:08:41,400 there have been multiple reports of giant bones 166 00:08:41,608 --> 00:08:45,900 being discovered near the ancient stone circle. 167 00:08:46,067 --> 00:08:48,650 In the general area around Stonehenge, 168 00:08:48,858 --> 00:08:51,067 numerous skeletons have been unearthed 169 00:08:51,192 --> 00:08:55,025 over the last 600 years that suggest that giants 170 00:08:55,150 --> 00:08:57,900 actually resided in this immediate area. 171 00:08:58,108 --> 00:09:00,983 In the early 1500s, 172 00:09:01,150 --> 00:09:04,233 Thomas Elyot, who was a well-known scholar, 173 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,817 discovered with his father Richard Elyot 174 00:09:06,983 --> 00:09:08,817 at a place just south of Stonehenge 175 00:09:08,983 --> 00:09:11,900 a 14-foot, ten-inch skeleton 176 00:09:12,108 --> 00:09:14,942 in a wooden oak coffin. 177 00:09:15,150 --> 00:09:18,400 And it also had this strange metal disc... 178 00:09:18,525 --> 00:09:21,442 very large, almost like a tabletop disc... 179 00:09:21,608 --> 00:09:26,275 made of lead and tin with these very strange inscriptions on it. 180 00:09:26,442 --> 00:09:29,650 Elyot was very well respected, a member of Parliament, 181 00:09:29,775 --> 00:09:32,567 and he recorded this several times in the historical record. 182 00:09:33,775 --> 00:09:35,150 Was a giant skeleton, 183 00:09:35,317 --> 00:09:37,692 buried with some kind of mysterious artifact, 184 00:09:37,858 --> 00:09:40,192 really unearthed at Stonehenge? 185 00:09:42,192 --> 00:09:45,275 Could it be that thousands of years ago, 186 00:09:45,442 --> 00:09:49,733 humans encountered otherworldly beings of enormous proportions? 187 00:09:49,942 --> 00:09:53,275 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 188 00:09:53,442 --> 00:09:55,567 and suggest there is even evidence 189 00:09:55,733 --> 00:10:00,067 that giants walked the Earth in much more recent times, 190 00:10:00,233 --> 00:10:02,400 as recorded in the ship logs 191 00:10:02,567 --> 00:10:06,150 of some of history's greatest explorers. 192 00:10:16,483 --> 00:10:20,733 It is less than three months since the start of World War I, 193 00:10:20,942 --> 00:10:23,150 and the front page of The New York Times 194 00:10:23,275 --> 00:10:27,900 is dominated by headlines about the global conflict. 195 00:10:28,067 --> 00:10:31,108 But on page nine, a sensational article 196 00:10:31,317 --> 00:10:33,233 documents the incredible discoveries 197 00:10:33,358 --> 00:10:35,567 recently made in South America 198 00:10:35,650 --> 00:10:39,317 by Australian explorer Captain James Besley, 199 00:10:39,483 --> 00:10:43,150 which include the bones of an eight-foot-tall man. 200 00:10:44,983 --> 00:10:49,067 In 1914, Captain Besley led an expedition in Peru 201 00:10:49,192 --> 00:10:51,567 where he unearthed a giant skeleton 202 00:10:51,733 --> 00:10:53,400 with a huge, elongated skull. 203 00:10:54,317 --> 00:10:56,025 He wrote about it. He discovered it. 204 00:10:56,150 --> 00:10:58,192 He reported it. 205 00:10:58,317 --> 00:11:00,775 You know, what's interesting is, in the historical record, 206 00:11:00,942 --> 00:11:02,567 there's many accounts of giant skeletons 207 00:11:02,692 --> 00:11:05,858 being unearthed in the Lake Titicaca region. 208 00:11:06,025 --> 00:11:10,817 Some were enormous... eight-, nine-, ten-foot-tall skeletons. 209 00:11:10,942 --> 00:11:13,317 Now, sometimes these are animal bones 210 00:11:13,483 --> 00:11:16,858 that at the time were, misunderstood. 211 00:11:17,025 --> 00:11:19,942 But oftentimes, they are human burials 212 00:11:20,150 --> 00:11:24,150 with human artifacts, elongated skulls, 213 00:11:24,317 --> 00:11:26,400 but a lot of it seems to be lost to history. 214 00:11:26,567 --> 00:11:29,817 So it's still open-ended as to what happened to the bones. 215 00:11:31,817 --> 00:11:34,608 Is it possible that skeletons of giants 216 00:11:34,775 --> 00:11:36,900 standing as much as ten feet tall 217 00:11:37,067 --> 00:11:39,442 were discovered near Lake Titicaca? 218 00:11:40,483 --> 00:11:42,817 While the finds were well-documented, 219 00:11:42,983 --> 00:11:45,025 what happened to these allegedly giant, 220 00:11:45,150 --> 00:11:47,733 humanlike bones remains unknown. 221 00:11:48,775 --> 00:11:50,483 But researchers point out 222 00:11:50,650 --> 00:11:52,900 that when Spanish conquistadors first arrived 223 00:11:53,108 --> 00:11:55,608 in Peru in the 1500s, 224 00:11:55,733 --> 00:11:57,567 the Native people told them stories 225 00:11:57,692 --> 00:12:01,733 of giants that once inhabited the entire region. 226 00:12:02,775 --> 00:12:07,192 In 1553, the Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León 227 00:12:07,317 --> 00:12:09,400 wrote in his chronicles of Peru 228 00:12:09,567 --> 00:12:12,233 that the Native people told him about giants 229 00:12:12,317 --> 00:12:15,317 who arrived in the area long ago. 230 00:12:15,442 --> 00:12:17,192 And according to local traditions, 231 00:12:17,317 --> 00:12:20,067 their ancestors encountered people so tall 232 00:12:20,233 --> 00:12:22,025 that an ordinary human 233 00:12:22,150 --> 00:12:24,108 would only come up to their knees. 234 00:12:24,275 --> 00:12:27,067 And Pedro Cieza de León also claimed 235 00:12:27,233 --> 00:12:30,150 that some of the Spaniards found a giant shin bone 236 00:12:30,358 --> 00:12:32,567 and a giant tooth. 237 00:12:34,900 --> 00:12:37,067 There are accounts of giants existing 238 00:12:37,233 --> 00:12:41,775 around the area of Lake Titicaca in the Peru, Bolivia, 239 00:12:41,942 --> 00:12:44,150 Altiplano area. 240 00:12:44,317 --> 00:12:47,400 The Inca said that there was a tradition 241 00:12:47,483 --> 00:12:50,233 of these giants called Huaris 242 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,900 building sites like Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku 243 00:12:54,025 --> 00:12:59,067 long before the Inca or any other cultures existed there. 244 00:12:59,233 --> 00:13:02,233 We also have stories, even at Tiahuanaco itself, 245 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,733 that the great founder god Viracocha, 246 00:13:04,942 --> 00:13:06,900 who emerged from Lake Titicaca, 247 00:13:07,067 --> 00:13:10,775 created a race of giants from the earth, from the mud, 248 00:13:10,942 --> 00:13:13,442 and controlled them 249 00:13:13,608 --> 00:13:15,608 so they would build the megalithic sites 250 00:13:15,775 --> 00:13:18,733 in the area, like Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku, 251 00:13:18,858 --> 00:13:23,650 before they were then vanquished by a great flood. 252 00:13:25,025 --> 00:13:27,442 The historical record and the legends 253 00:13:27,567 --> 00:13:30,442 seem to be telling us about giant humanoids 254 00:13:30,608 --> 00:13:32,650 existing in the past and being associated 255 00:13:32,775 --> 00:13:34,650 with megalithic building. 256 00:13:36,192 --> 00:13:38,233 For ancient astronaut theorists, 257 00:13:38,317 --> 00:13:41,067 the stories of giants and alleged discoveries 258 00:13:41,233 --> 00:13:44,817 of giant bones in Peru are compelling. 259 00:13:44,983 --> 00:13:47,483 But even more intriguing is the fact 260 00:13:47,650 --> 00:13:50,150 that some of history's greatest explorers 261 00:13:50,317 --> 00:13:53,192 claimed to have actually seen giants in South America 262 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,442 with their own eyes. 263 00:13:58,108 --> 00:13:59,900 Sanlúcar, Spain. 264 00:14:00,067 --> 00:14:03,733 September 8, 1522. 265 00:14:04,775 --> 00:14:07,900 After more than three years at sea, the Victoria, 266 00:14:08,108 --> 00:14:11,858 a ship launched by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, 267 00:14:12,067 --> 00:14:14,025 sails into the harbor. 268 00:14:14,192 --> 00:14:18,692 Its arrival completes the first circumnavigation of the globe. 269 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,692 As recorded in the ship's log, 270 00:14:23,858 --> 00:14:26,900 Magellan and his crew faced dangerous storms, 271 00:14:27,108 --> 00:14:30,775 fierce battles and grand receptions. 272 00:14:31,775 --> 00:14:34,900 But for many, the most intriguing account 273 00:14:34,983 --> 00:14:39,442 detailed an unusual encounter near the tip of South America. 274 00:14:40,692 --> 00:14:43,028 Ferdinand Magellan and his crew were approaching land 275 00:14:43,108 --> 00:14:46,442 near the southernmost point of South America when, 276 00:14:46,608 --> 00:14:48,650 according to the expedition's official chronicles, 277 00:14:48,775 --> 00:14:51,608 they encountered these towering giants 278 00:14:51,775 --> 00:14:56,150 who apparently stood twice as tall as a normal human. 279 00:14:56,275 --> 00:14:58,275 ANTONIO PIGAFETTA We saw a giant, 280 00:14:58,442 --> 00:15:00,525 who was on the shore of the sea, 281 00:15:00,692 --> 00:15:05,442 quite naked, and was dancing and leaping and singing. 282 00:15:05,608 --> 00:15:10,233 He was so tall that the tallest of us only came up to his waist. 283 00:15:10,358 --> 00:15:13,233 However, he was well-built. 284 00:15:13,358 --> 00:15:17,233 The captain named this kind of people Patagon. 285 00:15:17,442 --> 00:15:20,858 They witnessed these extremely tall 286 00:15:21,025 --> 00:15:23,067 human Natives of the area, 287 00:15:23,275 --> 00:15:26,483 and he actually named the area Patagonia 288 00:15:26,608 --> 00:15:29,692 because it translates as "Land of the Big Feet." 289 00:15:29,858 --> 00:15:33,025 And these clearly had very big feet, as these were giants. 290 00:15:34,108 --> 00:15:36,025 According to the logs of the Victoria, 291 00:15:36,150 --> 00:15:39,900 Magellan took back two of these giants on his voyage home 292 00:15:40,108 --> 00:15:43,900 with the goal of presenting them to the court in Spain. 293 00:15:44,108 --> 00:15:46,067 But they became so sick and died, 294 00:15:46,192 --> 00:15:47,817 they had to be thrown overboard. 295 00:15:49,525 --> 00:15:52,150 Is it possible that Ferdinand Magellan, 296 00:15:52,317 --> 00:15:55,483 one of history's most celebrated explorers, 297 00:15:55,650 --> 00:15:59,733 encountered actual giants in Argentina? 298 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:03,733 Researchers suggest the story might be more easily dismissed 299 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:07,817 were it not for the fact that a similar encounter with giants 300 00:16:07,942 --> 00:16:12,400 was documented by another famous explorer in South America. 301 00:16:12,567 --> 00:16:16,067 The account came from Dutch ship captain Jacob Roggeveen 302 00:16:16,233 --> 00:16:19,067 and his crew in 1722 303 00:16:19,275 --> 00:16:21,275 after they arrived at a mysterious spot 304 00:16:21,442 --> 00:16:22,900 off the coast of Chile 305 00:16:23,067 --> 00:16:27,025 that Roggeveen would later name Easter Island. 306 00:16:28,942 --> 00:16:32,400 The Dutch explorers of Easter Island, 307 00:16:32,567 --> 00:16:36,650 not only did they witness Polynesian types on the island; 308 00:16:36,775 --> 00:16:38,983 they also witnessed these very tall people, 309 00:16:39,150 --> 00:16:40,775 which they called giants. 310 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:42,567 And the strange thing about them... 311 00:16:42,775 --> 00:16:45,150 they look quite different to the native Polynesians. 312 00:16:45,358 --> 00:16:47,442 They were much taller. 313 00:16:47,608 --> 00:16:49,567 They had red or auburn hair. 314 00:16:49,733 --> 00:16:51,650 And in some cases, they described them 315 00:16:51,775 --> 00:16:54,525 as having fairer skin than the Polynesians 316 00:16:54,692 --> 00:16:57,067 of that particular island. 317 00:16:57,233 --> 00:17:01,400 So here we have people seeing giants in South America. 318 00:17:01,608 --> 00:17:03,067 And you hear stories 319 00:17:03,233 --> 00:17:04,525 in other places, too, 320 00:17:04,650 --> 00:17:07,317 where people encounter what they say are 321 00:17:07,442 --> 00:17:09,275 extremely tall giants. 322 00:17:09,442 --> 00:17:11,817 And it seems incredible, 323 00:17:11,983 --> 00:17:16,442 but it's certainly, you know, not impossible. 324 00:17:17,775 --> 00:17:20,067 Could explorers in South America 325 00:17:20,233 --> 00:17:22,067 have encountered real-life giants 326 00:17:22,275 --> 00:17:24,192 just a few hundred years ago? 327 00:17:25,192 --> 00:17:27,900 While the accounts of men like Ferdinand Magellan 328 00:17:28,108 --> 00:17:31,067 and Jacob Roggeveen are truly incredible, 329 00:17:31,275 --> 00:17:35,525 researchers say that evidence of giants is even more abundant 330 00:17:35,692 --> 00:17:37,983 in North America. 331 00:17:47,442 --> 00:17:48,817 At Lovelock Cave, 332 00:17:48,983 --> 00:17:51,025 two miners are collecting bat guano 333 00:17:51,192 --> 00:17:53,150 to be used as fertilizer. 334 00:17:54,192 --> 00:17:59,108 One layer of guano they remove is estimated to weigh 250 tons, 335 00:17:59,275 --> 00:18:04,108 and within it they discover incredible ancient artifacts. 336 00:18:05,567 --> 00:18:08,400 We know, from the historical record, 337 00:18:08,567 --> 00:18:10,733 that these excavations occurred. 338 00:18:11,817 --> 00:18:14,067 And they began finding artifacts... 339 00:18:14,275 --> 00:18:15,650 duck decoys, 340 00:18:15,775 --> 00:18:21,067 huge woven shoes for-for giant feet... 341 00:18:21,192 --> 00:18:24,483 and eventually, they found a number of skeletons, 342 00:18:24,608 --> 00:18:27,733 complete skeletons of people with red hair 343 00:18:27,942 --> 00:18:31,192 who were almost eight feet tall. 344 00:18:31,358 --> 00:18:33,608 And there were two museums in Nevada 345 00:18:33,817 --> 00:18:37,983 created for these giant skeletons. 346 00:18:38,150 --> 00:18:42,567 Today, we don't know where any of those skeletons are. 347 00:18:42,775 --> 00:18:44,150 They are not on display. 348 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:48,317 Could the remains of redheaded giants 349 00:18:48,483 --> 00:18:50,900 have been unearthed within Lovelock Cave? 350 00:18:52,150 --> 00:18:55,150 While the bones allegedly recovered in 1911 351 00:18:55,358 --> 00:18:57,233 have since gone missing, 352 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:01,525 researchers find it compelling that the Native Paiute people 353 00:19:01,692 --> 00:19:06,067 have oral traditions involving red-haired giants. 354 00:19:06,233 --> 00:19:07,900 The first account 355 00:19:08,025 --> 00:19:10,692 of these red-haired giants at Lovelock Cave 356 00:19:10,858 --> 00:19:14,567 was written about by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, 357 00:19:14,733 --> 00:19:17,233 who was the daughter of a chief 358 00:19:17,317 --> 00:19:19,567 of the Paiute tribe. 359 00:19:20,483 --> 00:19:22,567 In 1893, Sarah Winnemucca published 360 00:19:22,733 --> 00:19:24,900 a book about Paiute history 361 00:19:25,025 --> 00:19:26,858 in which she recounted her people's battles 362 00:19:26,983 --> 00:19:30,817 with a giant called Sai-duka'a. 363 00:19:30,942 --> 00:19:35,858 The Sai-duka'a was said to have been white-complected, 364 00:19:36,025 --> 00:19:39,567 having red hair, and well over seven foot tall. 365 00:19:40,692 --> 00:19:43,192 The Paiutes explained that these giants created 366 00:19:43,358 --> 00:19:47,400 so much of a problem that the Paiutes had 350 warriors 367 00:19:47,567 --> 00:19:49,567 take care of this problem once and for all. 368 00:19:51,067 --> 00:19:54,067 While there are many skeptics who question her story, 369 00:19:54,233 --> 00:19:58,025 Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins was a highly respected figure 370 00:19:58,192 --> 00:20:01,900 who even met with U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes 371 00:20:02,108 --> 00:20:05,733 to advocate for the humane treatment of her tribe. 372 00:20:06,942 --> 00:20:10,067 A bronze statue honoring her stands prominently 373 00:20:10,192 --> 00:20:12,983 in the Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall 374 00:20:13,150 --> 00:20:15,692 in Washington, D.C. 375 00:20:15,858 --> 00:20:18,233 Now, what's fascinating is that Sarah Winnemucca says 376 00:20:18,442 --> 00:20:20,067 that this was an actual battle. 377 00:20:20,275 --> 00:20:21,608 This wasn't folklore. 378 00:20:21,775 --> 00:20:23,733 This was a battle that actually happened. 379 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:26,442 The Paiutes were warring with them 380 00:20:26,608 --> 00:20:29,525 for many, many years. 381 00:20:29,650 --> 00:20:33,233 The giants were said to attack tribal members 382 00:20:33,442 --> 00:20:36,858 and take them and devour them. 383 00:20:37,025 --> 00:20:41,900 And so, finally, the, tribe just decided that's enough 384 00:20:42,108 --> 00:20:44,942 and set out on a major campaign. 385 00:20:45,983 --> 00:20:48,900 And what they found was that these giants were inhabiting 386 00:20:49,108 --> 00:20:50,608 a large cave. 387 00:20:50,775 --> 00:20:54,900 And they piled up brush on the outside and set a fire... 388 00:20:56,608 --> 00:20:59,942 and directed the smoke into the cave, 389 00:21:00,108 --> 00:21:02,900 thereby suffocating all the inhabitants. 390 00:21:06,150 --> 00:21:08,400 What is interesting about the discovery 391 00:21:08,567 --> 00:21:11,733 in 1911 at Lovelock Cave in Nevada 392 00:21:11,942 --> 00:21:16,733 was the fact that it showed evidence of extreme burning, 393 00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:21,317 like fires had been lit inside the entrance to the cave. 394 00:21:21,483 --> 00:21:25,400 And this matched the story of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins 395 00:21:25,567 --> 00:21:28,108 from her writings. 396 00:21:28,275 --> 00:21:31,733 Sarah Winnemucca's ancestors not only passed down to her 397 00:21:31,900 --> 00:21:34,192 the story of their war with giants 398 00:21:34,317 --> 00:21:36,900 but also a physical relic 399 00:21:37,067 --> 00:21:40,025 taken from their fallen enemies. 400 00:21:40,233 --> 00:21:41,983 We have evidence of red hair 401 00:21:42,192 --> 00:21:44,400 because she actually saved some of the hair 402 00:21:44,525 --> 00:21:46,108 and sewed it into a mourning dress, 403 00:21:46,275 --> 00:21:48,567 which she used when she gave lectures. 404 00:21:48,733 --> 00:21:53,067 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 405 00:21:53,233 --> 00:21:56,275 Lovelock Cave and the stories surrounding it 406 00:21:56,442 --> 00:21:58,025 provide strong evidence 407 00:21:58,192 --> 00:22:01,692 that there were giants on Earth in the distant past. 408 00:22:01,858 --> 00:22:05,150 And it is just one of many sites in North America 409 00:22:05,275 --> 00:22:07,733 associated with giants. 410 00:22:13,900 --> 00:22:15,692 In the 19th century, 411 00:22:15,858 --> 00:22:18,233 Jesuit missionaries traveling through this area 412 00:22:18,442 --> 00:22:23,025 came upon what is now known as the Painted Cave of El Carmen. 413 00:22:23,192 --> 00:22:27,400 Adorning the cave walls, they saw giant figures 414 00:22:27,567 --> 00:22:29,525 that somewhat resembled humans 415 00:22:29,692 --> 00:22:33,275 but with extra digits on their hands and feet. 416 00:22:34,608 --> 00:22:36,233 What's fascinating is 417 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,442 when the Jesuits showed up and spoke to the Cochimí people 418 00:22:39,608 --> 00:22:41,400 who lived in the area in the 1700s, 419 00:22:41,608 --> 00:22:45,817 they claimed that a race of giants made the rock art there. 420 00:22:45,983 --> 00:22:49,108 They said they came from the north, male and female. 421 00:22:49,275 --> 00:22:51,275 And when you look at the rock art, 422 00:22:51,442 --> 00:22:52,775 you have these giant beings, 423 00:22:52,942 --> 00:22:55,608 and they have six fingers on their hands, 424 00:22:55,775 --> 00:22:57,983 which is very interesting. 425 00:22:58,108 --> 00:23:00,442 Polydactyly is a rare genetic condition in humans. 426 00:23:01,817 --> 00:23:04,817 And it causes the growth of extra digits, 427 00:23:04,942 --> 00:23:06,858 extra fingers, extra toes. 428 00:23:07,025 --> 00:23:10,650 But in the ancient world, it's associated with the divine, 429 00:23:10,817 --> 00:23:12,942 the supernatural and giants. 430 00:23:13,108 --> 00:23:17,400 In fact, from places like isolated Pacific islands, 431 00:23:17,567 --> 00:23:23,233 Australia, Botswana, Africa, Malta, the American Southwest, 432 00:23:23,317 --> 00:23:27,067 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. 435 00:23:34,192 --> 00:23:38,192 Descriptions of giants with extra fingers and toes 436 00:23:38,358 --> 00:23:40,525 can even be found within the pages 437 00:23:40,650 --> 00:23:42,817 of the Bible's Old Testament. 438 00:23:43,733 --> 00:23:47,900 In 2 Samuel 21:20, 439 00:23:48,067 --> 00:23:50,692 it says there was a war at Gath 440 00:23:50,858 --> 00:23:53,733 where there was a man of great stature 441 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:57,483 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 445 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, 452 00:24:30,608 --> 00:24:34,858 it was allegedly found to hold the remains of giants. 453 00:24:36,025 --> 00:24:38,400 The Jesuits, in their records, actually reported 454 00:24:38,567 --> 00:24:40,608 unearthing giant bones 455 00:24:40,775 --> 00:24:42,358 and believed that giants lived there 456 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 459 00:24:51,192 --> 00:24:54,233 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 462 00:25:00,608 --> 00:25:04,442 and alleged discoveries of enormous humanlike bones 463 00:25:04,608 --> 00:25:08,442 reveal that giants once inhabited North America? 464 00:25:09,858 --> 00:25:12,025 While the evidence is certainly compelling, 465 00:25:12,233 --> 00:25:14,025 for ancient astronaut theorists, 466 00:25:14,233 --> 00:25:17,733 the most convincing accounts are those that are backed up 467 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:20,192 with photographs. 468 00:25:26,775 --> 00:25:28,692 Sonora, Mexico. 469 00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:30,567 The early 1930s. 470 00:25:32,775 --> 00:25:35,192 American explorer Paxson Hayes 471 00:25:35,358 --> 00:25:37,858 is researching local snake species 472 00:25:37,983 --> 00:25:41,067 while living among the Indigenous Yaqui people. 473 00:25:41,150 --> 00:25:44,233 His studies take place over several years, 474 00:25:44,442 --> 00:25:46,900 and as he gains the trust of the Yaqui, 475 00:25:47,067 --> 00:25:49,567 they begin to tell him about strange happenings 476 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, 478 00:25:54,317 --> 00:25:56,108 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. 480 00:25:59,442 --> 00:26:01,233 The Yaqui, like so many other tribes, 481 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, 483 00:26:09,233 --> 00:26:13,150 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 487 00:26:27,025 --> 00:26:30,067 appeared to be thousands of years old. 488 00:26:30,233 --> 00:26:32,650 And what he found there was astounding. 489 00:26:34,067 --> 00:26:36,275 Paxson Hayes reported to find 34 490 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 492 00:26:41,858 --> 00:26:46,317 that show one of the mummified giants bundled up that he found 493 00:26:46,442 --> 00:26:49,567 and a giant mummified head and this enormous gourd. 494 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 498 00:27:01,108 --> 00:27:04,733 to continue the exploration and research. 499 00:27:04,942 --> 00:27:09,858 And the lost city has never been found since, incidentally. 500 00:27:10,025 --> 00:27:14,567 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 >>>>oakislandtk<<<<< www.opensubtitles.org 61905

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