Ep 96: The Tall Ones Part 1

David and Goliath, oil on canvas painting by Guillaume Courtois, Date (1650 - 1660)

“The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now.”
– Abraham Lincoln

From biblicalarchaeology.org: "This colossal figure choking a lion once stood at the palace of Assyrian king Sargon II at Khorsabad in northern Iraq. Often identified with the hero Gilgamesh, the statue now resides at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Photo: Musée du Louvre, Paris."  It looks like he's also wearing a watch.

From Wikipedia: The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Hieronymus Bosch is based on Genesis 6:1-4.  Fragment (inner-left wing) of a triptych.

From RoadsideAmerica.com: Bangor's Paul Bunyan, "Reputed to be the largest statue of Paul Bunyan in the world," according to its sign, stands on a stone pedestal in front of the Bangor Civic Center in Bass Park. The statue is 31 feet high and weighs 3,700 pounds, not including its double-sided ax and peavey. Paul Bunyan's fiberglass-over-metal frame is hurricane-proofed to withstand 110 mph winds.  Photo by Dennis Jarvis [CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Image from the newspaper, The World, Sunday, October 6, 1895, with the headline: "BIGGEST GIANT EVER KNOWN – Nine Feet High and Probably a Prehistoric California Indian – Measurement Well Authenticated"

 

LOCATION: Spanish Hill, near the communities of South Waverly and Sayre, Pennsylvania, where a supposedly 7' tall skeleton with horns and two rows of teeth was unearthed in the late 1880s from a pre-Columbian burial mound.

Background:

It's easy to imagine a version of ourselves that's gargantuan, magical, a hero that often plays the villain, a giant among the ordinary.  Legends of giants doing as they please have been with us since the beginning and continue to fascinate us in cinema and sport.  The idea of a giant is easy to entertain because either through genetics or rare disorders, extra-large humans have naturally lived throughout our existence.  The idea that's not easy for the modern person to imagine, aside from a singular Goliath-like demigod here n' there, is the possibility of a race of giants having once existed, tribes of superhumans whose feats and physicality filled us with fear and wonder in antiquity.  Yet with these tall tales being so pervasive worldwide, could it be that communities of giants were real or was it merely that the occasional taller than average human became the inspiration for myth?  Join us tonight as we explore the mystery of legendary giants.

Reference Links:

• The Nephilim

• Who were the Nephilim?

• Goliath

• Gilgamesh

• "Was There a Race of People That Had Horns?" by Mary Sutherland

• The Book of Giants

• Genesis 6 Giants, website by Steve Quayle – "The Leading Authority on Giants"

• Genesis 6:2

• Genesis 6:4

• Deuteronomy 2:20

• The Twelve Spies

• Did Nimrod Become A Nephilim Giant? by Minister Fortson

• The Mound Builders

• The Adena Mound

• The Serpent Mound

• Hopewell Mound Group

• Hopewell Culture

• The Hooked X

• The context of Abraham Lincoln's line: "The Eyes of that Species of Extinct Giants ..."

• Gigantism

• Acromegaly

• Article on Acromegaly and Giantism from medicalbag.com

• Was Paul Bunyan a real person?

• Was there a real Paul Bunyan?

• 13 places you can see Paul Bunyan this summer

Related Books:

On Giants - Mounds, Monsters, Myth & Man, or, why we want to be small

By Brad Lockwood

Buy on Amazon

Giants on Record: America's Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files

By Jim Vieira, Hugh Newman

Buy on Amazon

Genesis 6 Giants Master Builders of Prehistoric and Ancient Civilizations

By Stephen Quayle

Buy on Amazon

Unearthing the Lost World of the Cloudeaters: Compelling Evidence of the Incursion of Giants, Their Extraordinary Technology, and Imminent Return

By Horn, Dr. Thomas R., Quayle, Stephen

Buy on Amazon

The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America

By Scott F. Wolter

Buy on Amazon

Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers: The Mysteries of the Hooked X

By Scott F. Wolter

Buy on Amazon

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Credits:

Episode 96: The Tall Ones Part 1.  Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees Wendel; Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2018 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.