#58 Giants, Gaslighting, and the Smithsonian

Over 100 newspaper reports from the 1800s claimed giant human skeletons were discovered across the U.S.—many reportedly sent to the Smithsonian. But today, there’s no trace. No bones. No files. Just silence.

In this episode of Think First, we dig deep into the forgotten headlines, the Book of Enoch, the role of America’s most trusted museum, and the patterns of erasure that hint at something bigger… and taller.

What if the real cover-up wasn’t about bones—but about the truths they threatened to expose?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
They say history is written by the victors, but what
if it's curated by thegatekeepers?
For nearly a century,newspapers reported giant
skeletons unearthed acrossAmerica seven feet, ten feet,
even one reported at 18 feet,buried in a stone crypt with
copper bracelets andhieroglyphic engravings.
And where did those bones go?

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You already know theSmithsonian bones go.
You already know theSmithsonian.
And just like that theydisappeared.
Not just the bones, but theentire idea that giants ever
walked the earth.
What if the cover-up wasn'tabout what we found, but about
what those findings coulduncover?
And today we're going there.

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And today we're going there.
This is Think First.
Where we don't follow thescript, we question it Because
in a world full of poetic truthsand professional gaslighting,

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someone's got to say the quietpart out loud.
From the 1850s to the 1920s,over 100 newspaper articles
document discoveries ofabnormally large human remains,
almost always in mounds, cryptsor cave systems.
In West Virginia, a skeletonover 8 feet tall with double
rows of teeth.
In Catalina Island, california,bones of a red-haired man

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estimated at over 9 feet,reportedly photographed by
archaeologist Ralph Glidden.
In Wisconsin, a burial sitewith over 200 skeletons, many 7
to 10 feet tall, found withcopper tools and armor.
So many finds, so many mentionsof the Smithsonian.
But check the public archive nobones, no names, no records.

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Ask about them.
You're told it's folklore, ahoax, a misprint.
That's not a lack of evidence,that's a campaign of forgetting.
Now here's where it getsbiblical.
Literally, genesis 6-4 speaksof the Nephilim, the offspring
of divine beings, and humanwomen.
But the Book of Enoch, bannedfrom most modern Bibles, goes

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further.
It describes angels descendingto earth, taking wives, birthing
giants and teaching mankindforbidden knowledge, weaponry,
astrology, sorcery and how tomanipulate DNA and childbirth.
It reads like ancient sciencefiction.
But if that story wasn't true,why did so many cultures

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preserve it across time, fromMesopotamia to the Mayans?
And why did the church suppressEnoch for centuries?
Sometimes we don't hide thingsbecause they're false.
We hide them because they'retoo close to something real.
We hide them because they'retoo close to something real.
The conspiracy isn't just thatthe Smithsonian destroyed bones,

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it's that it rewrote the framearound all unexplained findings
Ancient mounds, native burials,massive stone structures with
advanced alignments, coincidence, giant skeletons, tall tales
from the 1800s.
And yet every culture, from thePaiutes to the Greeks to the
Hopi, has legends of giants, notmetaphorical ones, actual,

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walking, war-waging,territory-dominating giants.
And when modern researchersbring receipts, they're labeled
as fringe or religious nuts or,worse, pseudoscientists, which
begs the question if it's all sofake, why work so hard to make
you feel crazy for asking that'snot science, that's gaslighting

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.
Maybe giants were real, maybethey weren't.
But when you erase the bones,erase the records and erase the
questions, what's left?
An approved version of history,sanitized, curated, contained.
But truth doesn't stay buriedforever.
And the next time someonementions giants in a pub or a

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podcast, don't laugh.
Lean in, because they might bequoting scripture or folklore or
a suppressed field report.
And next time you visit theSmithsonian, ask for the vault.
Beneath the vault, I'm JimDetchen and you don't need all
the answers, but you shouldquestion the ones you're handed.
Until next time, stay skeptical, stay curious and always think

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first.
Skeptical, stay curious andalways think first.
Want more.
The full six-step framework weuse is at Gaslight360.com.
You can also dive into thedeeper story, the bio, the
podcast and the mission atJimDetchincom.
And if you like this one, tagit, save it, share it, because

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when history leaves no trace,you have to wonder who's
sweeping the floor.