The Ancients Giants of ancient times

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Nephilim giants: History or hoax?

By Jim Pearl Guest Opinion
November 12, 2016 8:00 PM

Our family looks forward to “History Corner” on Sundays by Journalist Syd Albright! Syd loves history and has the ability to make history fun and interesting for the reader.

Syd picked a controversial subject with “Nephilim Giants” (Oct. 30), but did an excellent job. Certainly there have been some hoaxes perpetrated in the studies of the Nephilim; furthermore, there has been opposition by evolutionists such as anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka (1869-1943), associated with the Smithsonian Institution. But there is a wealth of documentation and scholarly studies of these giant beings, who once lived world-wide, including America.

"Allegewi" is the Native American name for a giant race of men that once inhabited the extent of the Ohio River. Drawings going back to at least 1809 show mounds and earthworks — sometimes up to 1250 feet in diameter. Early Native American Peoples were often buried in these mounds, but with the lowest levels containing the bones of giants.

There are hundreds of newspaper articles starting from about 1870, that mention giant human skeletons found in America. Scientific American (1880) notes that an Ohio mound that was opened up had skeletons that ranged from 8-feet to 10-feet long. A giant ax head was found in Swan Lake, Manitoba. The axe head was 16-inches long and weighed 27-1/2 lbs. It is now in a museum in Winnipeg.

Abraham Lincoln was quoted (1848) as making this comment of the Ohio Valley mound builders: “The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed upon the Niagara, as ours do now.”

The Greeks and Romans had myths of demigods, half god and half human. Roman Historian Flavius Josephus (37-100AD) mentions giants. Ancient Sumer city states (now Iraq) were ruled by kings who were demigods. Archeologist Leonard Woolley, who did excavations of Ur in the 1920s and 1930s, found unusual royal tombs and “death pits.”

Numbers 13:33 says, “And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak…and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight (1450 B.C.).”

Often characteristic of these giant skeletons are double rows of teeth, 6 fingers on each hand, 6 toes on each foot, reddish hair, and occasionally horn-like projections on the skull. Early Native Americans said these giants were cannibals and did not believe in the Great Spirit.

Studies on the Nephilim can start with recent authors such as Fritz Zimmerman, "The Nephilim Chronicles: A Travel Guide to the Ancient Ruins in the Ohio Valley" (2010); L.A. Marzulli, "On the Trail of the Nephilim: Giant Skeletons & Ancient Megalithic Structures" (2013); and Stephen Quayle, "Genesis 6 Giants: Master Builders of Prehistoric and Ancient Civilizations" (2015).

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Jim Pearl, geologist, is a resident of Hayden Lake.
 

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The myth of giants as the first inhabitants of countries is a common legend shared by different cultures across the world.



In 79 AD, the Roman historian Josephus Flavius wrote that the last of the race of giants did live in the 13th century BC, during the reign of King Joshua. He further wrote that they had huge bodies, and their faces were so unlike ordinary humans that it was amazing to look at them, and it was scary to listen to their loud voice which was like a lion roar.


Below are some of the strange findings that prevail over our conventional understanding...

The New York giants​

In 1871, an archaeological dig at a native American burial ground unearthed 200 giant skeletons, some measuring up to 9 ft tall. It was also estimated that the remains could’ve been up to 9,000 years old. At the time, the discovery of these remains was widely reported in the media; but today, the remains have disappeared. No one knows their whereabouts.

The giant footprints​

One of the most famous Giant Footprints was found outside Mpuluzi, South Africa. It was found 100 years ago by a hunter, and locals named it “the footprint of God.” The print is 1.2 meters long, and if rest of the body was sized in proportion to the foot, the giant that made it would stand between 24–27 ft tall. It is estimated that the print could be anywhere from 200 million — 3 billion years old.

Around the world, there have been similar footprints found embedded in age-old rock. In San Hose, a 2.5-meter footprint was found near a local ranch (whatever made it would have towered over even the giant from Mpuluzi); in the same city, another 1.5-meter footprint was found on a cliff.

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In August 2016, in Guizhou, China, a series of footprints was discovered, with each print nearly 2 feet long, and indented nearly 3cm into solid rock. Scientists have calculated that whatever made the prints would have to be over 13 feet tall.

In 1912, a 4-foot-long print was unearthed in South Africa, that was dated at over 200 million years old. Whatever humanoid made the print would have to have been over 27 feet tall. Similar footprint was found in the jungle of Lazovsky, Russia.


The giants of Death Valley​

In 1931, a physician by the name of F. Bruce Russell discovered some caves and tunnels in Death Valley, and decided to explore them with Daniel S. Bovey. What they at first assumed to be a small cave system turned out to go on for 180 square miles. One of the first things they discovered was some kind of ritual or religious hall covered in strange hieroglyphics. But stranger still, was the discovery of 9ft tall humanoid skeletons.

The story was first officially reported in a San Diego newspaper in 1947. The remains were mummified and were estimated to be around 80,000 years old. However, the story quickly faded away, along with the giant’s remains.

The Wisconsin giants​

Scientists are remaining stubbornly silent about a lost race of giants found in some burial mounds near Lake Delavan in Wisconsin in May 1912. As reported in the New York Times 4th of May 1912 issue, the 18 skeletons found by the Pearson brothers, exhibited several strange and freakish features. Their heights ranged from 7.6 feet — 10 feet, and their skulls are much larger than those of any humans that inhabit America today. They tended to have a double row of teeth, elongated heads, 6 fingers, 6 toes, and like humans came in different races. This is only one of many accounts of giant skeletons found in Wisconsin.


Lovelock Cave giants​

From 2,600 BC to the mid-1800s, Lovelock Cave in Nevada was supposedly in use by a race of red-haired, cannibal giants. In 1911, James Hart and David Pugh got the rights to dig and sell the guano ― which was used to make gunpowder in those days ― from Lovelock cave. They had gone only a few feet into the cave when they found the body of a man 6ft 6” tall. His body was mummified, and his hair distinctly red. They discovered many other normal-sized mummies, but a few were 8–10 feet tall. There were also many giant-sized handprints embedded in the cave walls.
 
I’m not sure if this has been posted but here is an interesting account from a retired Navy Seal who details what an army infantry unit encountered in Afghanistan in 2002.

 

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