Giants: Myth, History, and the Secrets of the Colossal
Episode Description:
From towering Nephilim and Norse Jötnar to Photoshopped skeletons and secret military psychic programs, the idea of giants keeps surfacing across history, myth, and conspiracy theory. In this episode, we dig through ancient texts, archaeological oddities, hoaxes, and fringe theories to uncover why these colossal beings still capture our imagination—and whether there’s any truth buried beneath the tales.
Episode Breakdown:
📜 Ancient Giants in Myth & Legend – Nephilim, Greek Gigantes, Norse Jötnar, and the red-haired cannibals of Paiute lore.
🗞️ Historical “Sightings” & Tall Tales – Patagonian giants, North American mound skeletons, Montana’s vanished giant femur, and the Cardiff Giant hoax.
🧬 The Science of Extraordinary Height – Gigantism, acromegaly, genetic outliers like the Dinka, and why no ancient hominin fossils crack 7 feet.
🕳️ Archaeological Mysteries & Alleged Evidence – Lovelock Cave, the Giant of Kandahar, the Bahia Bone hoax, and viral Photoshopped skeletons.
🛸 Fringe Theories & High Strangeness – Anunnaki alien giants, Nephilim hybrids, hollow-earth civilizations, misread mammoth bones, and giant phantom tracks.
🕵️ Conspiracy Corner – Smithsonian skeleton suppression myths, Vatican archive rumors, and why these stories endure.
🧠 Psychic Spies & the Hunt for Nephilim – Cold War remote-viewing experiments targeting giant burial sites in Utah’s Canyonlands, with redacted military files and lingering rumors of hidden remains.
Conclusion:
The human fascination with giants walks the line between fact and fantasy—a space where myth, science, and conspiracy collide.
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