MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Summer 2003: Giants in the Earth Part II: Giants of the Americas

The face of a Hopewell Indian? This graven image is made of pure copper, and likely portrays a god or demigod of the Hopewell religion — or perhaps a giant. Image from Ohio History Central.

hough the ancient Near East is the place where most believe the giants of old originated, the Americas — particularly North America — also have a history rich with myths and legends of ancient giant inhabitants that had once dominated the fruited plain. Moreover, the Native American storytellers who tell tale of the exploits of these ancient men of renown believe that these gigantic, semi-divine beings were the original inhabitants of the Americas, having preceded modern Native Americans by many thousands of years.

Modern Native Americans are, for the most part, genetically Asiatic in ancestry, and are believed by most mainstream scientists to have first appeared in the Americas around 9500 b.c. They had come to America, according to this theory, by migrating across the Bering Strait, and from there had proceeded to populate both American continents at a relatively rapid pace. In the process, they hunted down and destroyed the last of the gigantic mammals of the Pleistocene epoch, such as the woolly mammoth and the sabretooth tiger, and then proceeded to develop along typical uniformitarian lines. This is the theory that has been propounded by mainstream science and, until recently, it had proved to be generally sound.

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However, more recent discoveries have forced more open-minded academics to reevaluate whether or not the Asiatic invaders had met and eliminated only gigantic mammals. Increasing evidence suggests that these "Paleo-Indians" also fought and defeated gigantic humans as well. New archaeological discoveries have forced academics to push their dates for human inhabitation of the Americas back literally tens of thousands of years. However, though these discoveries of common potsherds, clothing, and similar artifacts have been accepted into mainstream science, other discoveries, such as the discovery of numerous ancient giant skeletons — and even giant mummies — throughout the Americas, have been hushed up and quietly reburied, or relegated to the vaults of the Smithsonian � la Indiana Jones^®. All evidence of these ancient giants of the Americas has been systematically hidden away from public view, and all those who attempt to tell about the true history of ancient America have been systematically attacked as frauds and charlatans. Yet, as we will see, much evidence of the ancient giants of the Americas still exists. It is now time for this "holocaust of giants" to be revealed.

The Holocaust of Giants

Possible giant skeleton found in the southeast. This particular skeleton was measured and found to be over 8-1/2 feet tall, though this fact has not been verified as the location of this skeleton has not been revealed. Skeletons of this type have been reported all over the United States, particularly in the southeast. Image from Ancient American.

As English, German, Dutch, Norwegian and other European settlers moved west to settle the fruited plain, they came across countless mound structures that literally dotted the landscape. As they cleared the land for settlement and agriculture, they dug deep into these mysterious mounds and, more often than not, found that they were burial mounds for the ancient cultures that preceded them. Asking the remnant of the once numerous aboriginal inhabitants of the land whether or not they created these mounds, they were told that that many of them preceded the time of the "red man", some by a very long time. And these statements proved true as, though most mounds were indeed left behind by the ancestors of the Native Americans who greeted the pioneers, some of the most ancient contained the bones of a long extinct race of giants that the Native American remnant still recalled in their tribal traditions. The pioneers, unencumbered by "scientific" predispositions and hidden agendas, simply recorded the facts as they saw them — and what they wrote down was astonishing. As Ross Hamilton explains in his seminal article, "Holocaust of Giants",

The first hint we had about the possible existence of an actual race of tall, strong, and intellectually sophisticated people, was in researching old township and county records. Many of these were quoting from old diaries and letters that were combined, for posterity, in the 1800s from diaries going back to the 1700s. Says Vine in this understanding: "Some of these old county and regional history books contain real gems because the people were not subjected to a rigid indoctrination about evolution and were astonished about what they found and honestly reported it." The title pages of the early county and pioneer history books often included phrases like "CAREFULLY WRITTEN AND COMPILED" and "LEST WE FORGET." Some time before archaeology came to subscribe the general public to its view of prehistory — generations prior to Darwin's troublesome theory — the pioneers thought that some of the earthworks were as ancient as could be concurrent with human habitation in America. Some among the early settlers exercised their pens assured that the earthworks were not built by the direct ancestry of the native people living in the historical period, but rather were constructed in a more remote era encompassing a different social order. They compared the "Mound Builders," with the "Indians," clearly discerning the former as belonging to an earlier time — possessing a different fate or destiny from the latter.¹

These reports — which took place centuries before Darwinism and its baleful offspring poisoned the well of true scientific inquiry into the true history of humanity — seem unbelievable to readers today, "enlightened" as they are as to the party line view of history. The truth about America's ancient history, however, is somewhat different than the highly sanitized, politically correct view ladled out like so much gruel by academics today, as is evidenced only by a mere handful of historical reports from one area of the country alone — the Ohio Valley:



	The title pages of the early county and pioneer history books often included phrases like "CAREFULLY WRITTEN AND COMPILED" and "LEST WE FORGET", partly because some of the things written therein were so fantastic. Image and text adapted from Serpent Mound Mysteries.

Evidence for the occupation of this region before the appearance of the red man and the white race is to be found in almost every part of [Marion] county, as well as through the northwest generally. In removing the gravel bluffs, which are numerous and deep, for the construction and repair of roads, and in excavating cellars, hundreds of human skeletons, some of them of giant form, have been found. A citizen of Marion County estimates that there were about as many human skeletons in the knolls of Marion County as there are white inhabitants at present!
— The History of Marion County, Ohio

Mastodonic remains are occasionally unearthed, and, from time to time, discoveries of the remains of Indian settlements are indicated by the appearance of gigantic skeletons, with the high cheek bones, powerful jaws and massive frames peculiar of the red man, who left these as the only record with which to form a clew to the history of past ages.
— The History of Brown County, Ohio

Three skeletons were found at the mouth of the Paw Paw Creek many years later, while Nim (Nimrod) Satterfield was justice of the peace. Jim Dean and some men were digging for a bridge foundation and found these bones at the lower end of the old buffalo wallow. She thought it was Dr. Kidwell, of Fairmont, who examined them and said they were very old, perhaps thousands of years old. She said that when the skeletons were exposed to the weather for a few days, their bones turned black and began to crumble, that Squire Satterfield had them buried in the Joliffe graveyard (Rivesville). All these skeletons, she said, were measured, and found to be about eight feet long.
— Now and Long Ago: A History of the Marion County Area ²

Throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and even the twentieth century, amateur excavators routinely found giant skeletons in mounds and caves from the upper northeast to the southeast, the Midwest, and scattered throughout North America. Discoveries of giant skeletons appear to have been concentrated around the Ohio Valley, however, the area that is now known for its numerous mound structures. The Ohio Valley, as we have seen, was the epicenter of Native American life for many thousands of years during the Archaic and Woodland periods of ancient American history. It was here, according to the original eyewitness accounts, that numerous giant skeletons and countless irreplaceable artifacts were discovered by intrepid settlers interested in discovering the true history of the New World. However, though many of these giant skeletons simply mouldered away into the soil days or even hours after they were exposed to the elements, many other giant skeletons, some with strands of blond or red hair still clinging tenaciously to their skulls, were covered up, spirited away or destroyed as part of an ongoing "holocaust" of America's true history.

The Great Smithsonian Cover-Up

James Smithson, the man behind the institution. Image from The Smithsonian.

The Smithsonian was founded in 1836 by the bequest of one James Smithson, a wealthy English scientist who left a princely sum of $500,000 "to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."³ Though the institution initially fulfilled Smithson's mandate, after a few decades of growth and sound management, creeping bureaucracy set in, and the museum's lofty goals began to outstrip its ability to properly manage its assets. Furthermore, the decision of one man, Smithsonian executive John Wesley Powell, set in motion a series of events that led to a historical and archaeological disaster of a magnitude so great that it is difficult to fully comprehend.

Powell had lived among the Native Americans, and had become sensitive to their plight. As a result, when the time came for the museum to organize its strategy for systematically analyzing and cataloging all of the information that was to be found in the New World, the decision was made to take an isolationist approach, rather than a cultural diffusionist approach. The isolationist approach posited that the ethnically Asiatic Native Americans that met Columbus and the Pilgrims were the same peoples who had populated the continent since the beginning of human history, and that there had been no other contact between them and any other non-Asiatic peoples whatsoever, period. However, though it appears that the Asiatics had indeed dominated the Americas for thousands of years, new evidence, previously suppressed, appears to show that there was indeed interaction with other cultures that had immigrated to the New World in prehistoric times. This approach, the "cultural diffusionist" approach, is the new paradigm in ancient historical studies, and helps explains the existence of giant, blond and red-headed skeletons throughout the Americas.

As a result of Powell's decision to reject any and all evidence that might contradict his prefabricated theory that early America had not been visited by any European, African, Middle-Eastern, or any other non-Asiatic, non-Native peoples, voluminous amounts of irreplaceable historical data were lost, miscategorized, or "misplaced". As Hamilton explains, "Armed with a self-created doctrine powered by ample funding, and with a little help later from the one-way door to the Smithsonian's inaccessible catacombs, the years that followed saw Powell and his underling nearly succeed in the obliteration of the last notions of the legendary, mysterious, and antique class of mound building people, and for that matter, any people that didn't fit into the mold of his theory. Did Powell intentionally overlook some of the archaeology so as to focus on his own special agenda?"⁴

This poor decision then led to a wholesale plunder of mounds, caves, and anything else Powell and his cronies could get their hands on. And in the process, anything that fit into their narrow paradigm of American history was kept, while everything that did not, met an ignominious end. So much devastation was wrought by this man's poor decision and concomitant mismanagement, overloading Smithsonian storage with an impossibly large amount of miscategorized artifacts, that even today the Smithsonian has not fully cataloged everything. Worse, as a result of this decision, our understanding of America's ancient history in general has been woefully inadequate at best, and at worst, just plain wrong. Powell and Co. likely did not purposely destroy data, though some of the precious evidence of America's gigantic past may have been lost or destroyed in transit. The real problem lay in the fact that these countless crates of precious truth are lost in the massive, almost legendary "Smithsonian Warehouse", guarded by both security guards and security by obscurity. And as the multiplicity of filing systems in use in the Smithsonian can best be described as byzantine, it is likely that they will stay there for some time. As Cooke explains,

Rumored to be beneath the Vatican lie many levels of secret, impregnable vaults that make up the legendary Vatican Archives. Supposedly containing the plunder of millennia and the secrets of the ages, their contents have filled the imaginations of countless generations. Perhaps not equal in quality, but certainly rivaling in quantity, are the archives of the Smithsonian Institution. And in those archives, open only to government officials, lie the bones of many thousands of corpses dug up, described and stored without study, many for over a century and a half. Scores, if not hundreds, of these skeletons are considered giants and yet, they lie deteriorating, not finding the slightest interest from anthropologists. Wanting no part in rocking the neatly defined, religiously correct American prehistory model, the researchers ignore them now and there is no sign this will ever change. Hidden in dark, inaccessible storage is a sad example of scientific domination over social understanding and cultural history. Not to be found in the history books, the science references or the classroom is undeniable evidence that a race of giants had a prominent presence on the North American continent. Also hidden from public understanding is the fact that giants were among the native people who fell before the colonial

The fabled "Smithsonian Warehouse", depicted at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark wherein the Ark of the Covenant was stored until "top men" could analyze it. Though the actual location of the Lost Ark is most likely in Axum, Ethiopia, rumor has it that the warehouse does contain numerous giant skeletons and artifacts from countless plundered mounds and burial caves from all over the United States. Image from IndyFan.com.

eradication crusade. Only the fortunate cultural conscience of amateur historians, writing about the prominent events of their individual communities, preserved easily accessible evidence of giants in our North American past. Though there is much evidence in the written record of the Smithsonian it is an overwhelming and disorganized system typical of a rapid and misguided mass internment project.... All evidence, showing anything not fitting a Stone Age culture better eliminated than trifled with or indicating anything that might warrant serious study, was quietly filed away and warehoused in obscurity.⁵

Though most of the ancient tombs of the giants have been plundered and effectively lost, much historical data still exists regarding the existence of giants, due to the numerous written accounts left behind by our pioneer ancestors. These stories paint a picture of ancient America that is very different than that told in the standard history books. First, however, let us go over in detail the specific characteristics of the giants as evidenced by the North American finds, combine them with parallel references to giants of the ancient Near East and related regions, and then attempt to formulate a theory as to how they came to the Americas.

Giant Characteristics

This chart represents the comparative sizes of giants throughout history from all over the world. Sizes of giants in various accounts range anywhere from 8-1/2 to 36 feet or more. Modern man is presented on the far left for comparison.
Image from Steve Quayle's The Q Files.

Though we have some references to the physical characteristics of giants of the ancient Near East, such as their great size, strength, fearlessness in battle and usage of advanced weapons and armor, there is substantially more detailed evidence available regarding the physical appearance of American giants. This is due to the fact that, unlike the giants of the ancient Near East, giant skulls, giant skeletons, and even giant mummies reportedly have been found throughout the Americas, usually accompanied by a substantial amount of peculiar artifacts.

However, giants are more than just tall, powerful, beings. Their skeletal remains often show characteristics that are not only unique to the regions in which they lived, but also unique to their breed, unheard of in homo sapiens. More than just tall, powerful, manlike creatures, giants also displayed characteristics that ranged from the merely unusual to the truly bizarre.

Modern "giant" Manute Bol from Sudan is 7 feet, 7 inches tall and 240 pounds in his stocking feet. Bol could dunk the ball without jumping, but he was also physically strong and a good all-around athlete. However, at 240 pounds Bol is much slimmer than the giants of old, who were proportionally broader and heavier as well as taller, making Bol more likely a tall man rather than a true giant. Image from The Lair of Manute Bol.

GREAT SIZE: Giants of the Americas have ranged in size from a more common 7-9 feet tall all the way to massive tyrants standing as high as 12 feet tall or taller. Today's "giants" such as former NBA star Manute Bol are not the same as the giants of old, however, which were proportionally broader and heavier as well as taller.

GREAT STRENGTH: Giants were more than proportionally strong. Though the average giant was perhaps 50% taller (9 feet tall vs. 6 feet tall) and probably at least 100% more massive (400 pounds vs. 200 pounds) than the typical homo sapiens, they were able to lift and carry many times more weight than normal men, perhaps 6 times as much (600%) or more. Whether it was because of the mechanical advantages they had due to their great size, or the fact that they appear to have been genetically engineered to be exceptionally strong, giants were exceptionally well suited to the rigors of combat as well as lifting heavy weights for building and other purposes. As such, it may explain how some of the huge megalithic structures around the world may have been built, whose existence cannot otherwise be explained.

RED OR BLONDE HAIR: The early pioneers often took pride in the fact that the tall, powerful giants they were uncovering in the various mounds that they were leveling for agricultural purposes actually had hair that was similar in color to their own: blonde, and occasionally red. These colors are unique to Europeans so, by their very existence, these blonde and red-headed mummies prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the cultural diffusion theory of American history. Red-headed mummies were purportedly also found in Mammoth Cave, but these have apparently been reburied and hidden until further notice. Red haired mummies also reportedly have been found in Lovelock Cave near Lovelock, Nevada though, of course, no images are available as of yet. These and other discoveries no doubt highly motivated the Smithsonian's hatchet men to redouble their efforts to hide or destroy the evidence of America's true past.

Seven-foot-two-inch, 350-pound actor Richard Kiel easily overpowering 007 as the assassin "Jaws" in The Spy Who Loved Me. Despite his great size and strength, even Kiel would have been considered relatively small by comparison with most ancient American giants. Image from the Official Richard Kiel Fan Club

Richard Kiel as a 9-foot-tall "Kanamit" alien from the Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man". Image from JC's Place.

Giant skull from Peru with a shape very similar to that displayed by the Kanamit alien. Perhaps this skull or one like it was the inspiration for the costume designer? Image from BUFO Radio.

It is interesting to note that in The Spy Who Loved Me, "Jaws" was a giant assassin with steel teeth that he used to kill his victims. In "To Serve Man", the Kanamit were a race of 9-foot-tall giant cannibals with domed, vaulted skulls. Unusual height, strength, teeth, skull shape, cannibalism, and technological sophistication were all characteristics of the giants. More recently, they have also been associated with the UFO phenomenon. Click here to see some video clips of Mr. Keil's great size and strength in action.

FACIAL FEATURES: Just as the hair color of the giants tends to be more European in color, so too the facial features of the giants tend to be European as well. High foreheads, high cheekbones, strong chins with prominent clefts, and possibly even a prominent gap between the two front teeth, facial features that all indicate that they were at least partly related to the Europeans. Most of the "shorter" giants in the 7-9 foot range tended to have more Native American features, as they were apparently the product of intermarriage between the original "European" type giants and the Asiatic natives, but the taller ones — especially the mummies — tended towards a more European-type physiognomy.

DOUBLE DENTITION: One of the two features that truly set apart the giants as a specific subspecies of humanity — as opposed to being a variation on homo sapiens — are the frequent reports of "double dentition", or two sets of teeth, one behind the other. No one who has researched the subject is aware of why some tribes of giants had two sets of teeth. Some have speculated that it is an "all the better to eat you with" approach, where it gave them a better grip on their food, but no other land animals have this feature. Sharks do have multiple layers of teeth however, up to eight, but they are not permanent, instead constantly rotating forward to replace teeth that are frequently lost.⁶ Thus, the reasons for the extra set of teeth remain, to this point, unknown.

SIX DIGITS: Another attribute that is unique to the giants is the existence of an extra finger on each hand, and an extra toe on each foot, for a total of 6 digits per hand and foot, 24 in total. This has been seen not only in some American giant skeletons, but was also one of the traits some of the giants described in the Bible displayed. According to the Second Book of Samuel, an unnamed giant, a Rephaim, was described as having six fingers and six toes: "In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot-twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha." ( 2 Sam. 21:20) Interestingly, even today some children are born with an extra finger or toe, a condition known as hexadactyly, lit., "six fingers".

Horned human skull on display in "French Museum". Although unverified, the image is certainly compelling. Note the laurel leaves added to the display in order to give it a sylvan, "puckish" satyrical appearance.

The greek demigod Pan. Pan was a satyr, a horned composite being with the upper body of a man and the lower body of a goat, usually associated with the night and the forest.

HORNS: Some rare specimens of giants are said to have horns protruding from their head like that of a goat or, more specifically, a satyr. As Sutherland explains, "Human skulls with horns were discovered in a burial mound at Sayre, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in the 1880's. Horny projections extended two inches above the eye-brows, and the skeletons were seven feet tall, but other than that were anatomically normal. It was estimated that the bodies had been buried around A.D. 1200. The find was made by a reputable group of antiquarians, including the Pennsylvania state historian and dignitary of the Presbyterian Church (Dr. G.P. Donehoo) and two professors, A.B. Skinner, of the American Investigating Museum, and W. K. Morehead, of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. The bones were sent to the American Investigating Museum in Philadelphia, where they were later claimed to have been stolen and have never been seen again."⁷

"Horned" giants would indicate a genetic mixing between man and animal, as had been intimated by Edgar Cayce and others. Cayce believed that man had been created by spiritual beings "projecting" themselves into physical matter, with results that were part human, part animal. Others further clarify that these spiritual beings, also known as "fallen angels", had disrupted the natural order by artificially mixing the genes of men and animals in order to create breeds of mankind that had advantages over the others, such as height, strength, intelligence, and so forth. In the process, however, side effects occurred, such as, for example, horns. This may have given rise to the story of satyrs and other animal-human hybrids often mentioned in the myths and legends of peoples around the world, genetic traits that occasionally manifest themselves in the blended human genome.

Goliath's kit included bronze weapons and armor, bronze being copper alloyed with tin, zinc and phosphorus. Goliath's weapons and armor were likely more advanced than that of anyone else on the field. His relatives also apparently had superior weapons as well, perhaps made of iron or even steel.

ADVANCED WEAPONRY: Some giant skeletons have been found with relatively advanced weaponry of a type otherwise unheard of in the Americas. Swords, shields, armor, helmets, and related weaponry more like European and ancient Near Eastern armor types than anything found in the Americas. As Quayle explains, "Nature, in its December 17, 1891, issue, reported that at a depth of fourteen feet in a large Ohio burial mound excavators found the skeleton of a massive man in copper armor. He wore a copper cap, while copper moldings encased his jaws. Copper armor also protected his arms, chest, and stomach. A necklace made of bear's teeth and inlaid with pearls decorated his neck. At his side lay the skeleton of a woman, probably his wife."⁸ Goliath and his kin were also said to wear advanced armor and had swords that were described as "new", which might be better translated as "advanced", possibly meaning that they were made of bronze, iron or even steel. Advanced weapons and armor appear to be yet another trademark of the giants.

CANNIBALISM: Native Americans legends usually described the giants as having been cannibals, though there apparently were some "good" giants that had given up eating human flesh. As Dieterle explains "Like other spirits, the Man Eaters can be divided into two tribes: the Good Giants and the Bad Giants. Most seem to have belonged to the tribe of Bad Giants who indulge their appetite for human flesh, but the Good Giants have belied their name by abandoning the practice of eating people."⁹ For the bad giants, however, humans were their favorite food, and they would go out of their way to acquire them. "Human beings were the favorite food of the Bad Giants who would go to some lengths to get it. On occasions they massacred whole villages in order to eat the inhabitants. Like other man eaters, such as the Bad Thunderbirds ¹⁰ they would let some people live just to fatten them up so that they would be all the tastier later. Good, fat humans, apparently make excellent soup as well. When the Giants wanted to "eat soup," as they put it, one way to get it was to challenge the humans to games of chance.¹¹ This story is not unlike the Greek story of the Riddle of the Sphinx, wherein a female sphinx would waylay travelers and, if they could not answer her riddle, she would eat them. Similarly, if the giants won the game of chance, or perhaps answered a riddle in a riddle game, they could eat the humans. Cannibalism practiced by ancient Near Eastern giants was also implied when the spies who were sent to spy out Canaan in preparation for the Conquest came back with the warning that "The land we explored devours those living in it." (Num. 13:32) Most commentators believe that this was a cryptic reference to the cannibalism practiced by the giants. Interestingly, studies have shown that giant cannibal fish often appear within fish populations when the larger fish need to offset the advantage that smaller fish have over them in the areas of foraging and efficient use of energy in order to survive. The larger fish offset the superior capabilites of the smaller fish by eating them, thus preserving themselves at the expense of effective, useful forms of life that fit in well with their environment.¹²

DEAFENING ROAR: Steve Quayle has pointed out on an interview he did on Coast to Coast A.M. that the giants tended to yell when they talked, rather than speaking normally, as we understand it. When they were aroused, they emitted a deafening roar which was terrifying to all who were not used to it. Quayle believes this to be true based upon the structure of the nasal passages on some of the giant skulls, as well as historical reports of their terrifying cries.¹³

Giants: Fused Twins?

American eugenicist Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer examines twins. His assistant, one Josef Mengele — who would later become known as the infamous Nazi "Angel of Death" — continued these experiments at Auschwitz. The Nazi obsession with twins must have had some sort of very important meaning, judging from the emphasis placed upon them. Image from JTA - Global News Service of the Jewish People.

Many have speculated on why the giants had such strange characteristics as six fingers and double sets of teeth, though no one as of yet has come up with a satisfactory answer. However, the answer may lie in the horrid genetic experiments of the Third Reich, in which twins figured prominently. Hitler was obsessed with the eugenics idea (that had actually originated in the United States around the turn of the century), the goal of which was to eliminate everyone on Earth that was not "Nordic", i.e., blond-haired, blue eyed, tall and intelligent — in other words, like the giants. "The world thought Hitler was mad and barely understood his rationales. But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race was not Adolf Hitler�s. The idea was created in the United States at least two decades before Hitler came to power."¹⁴ Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer was a pioneer in the American eugenics movement, and his prodigy, one Joseph Mengele, carried on his horrid experiments at Auschwitz focusing, strangely enough, on twins. Black explains,

At the time of Rockefeller�s endowment, Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, a hero in American eugenics circles, functioned as a head of the Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. Rockefeller funding of the Institute for Anthropology continued directly and through other research conduits during Verschuer�s early tenure. In 1935, Verschuer left the Institute to form a rival eugenic facility in Frankfurt that was much heralded in the American eugenic press. Research on twins in the Third Reich exploded, backed up by government decrees mobilizing all twins. At about that time, Verschuer wrote in Der Erbarzt, a eugenic doctors� journal he edited, that Germany�s war would yield a �total solution to the Jewish problem.� Verschuer had a long-time assistant. His name was Josef Mengele. On May 30, 1943, Mengele arrived at Auschwitz. Verschuer notified the German Research Society, �My assistant, Dr. Josef Mengele (M.D., Ph.D.) joined me in this branch of research. He is presently employed as Hauptsturmfuhrer [captain] and camp physician in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Anthropological testing of the most diverse racial groups in this concentration camp is being carried out with permission of the SS Reichsfuhrer [Heinrich Himmler].� Mengele began searching boxcars that arrived at the camp for twins. When he found them, he performed beastly experiments, scrupulously wrote up the reports and sent the paperwork back to Verschuer�s institute for evaluation.¹⁵

Mengele is one of the most infamous of all the Nazis, having earned the nickname "The Angel of Death" at Auschwitz as he had been the selector who had decided who lived and who died. Although he is now considered to be one of history's greatest monsters, before his actions in the war he was considered to be an intelligent, well-educated man from a well-to-do family, who studied physical anthropology and genetics in college. He ended up working with von Verschuer at the Frankfurt University Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. His research focused on the shape of the front of the jaw and how it varied amongst racial groups, and also cleft palates, a congenital birth defect where the skull is slightly divided at the roof of the mouth, leaving a gap, or "cleft". From there he proceeded to focus obsessively on twins, apparently in the context of trying to understand the bipolar nature of the development of the human body — specifically, how the two halves of the human skull fuse together. Unfortunately, the times brought out the true wicked character of the man, and he decided that the situation at Auschwitz was ideal for experimentation on twins. One twin who survived the ordeal recalls the experience:

Of all the aspects of Mengele�s character which are of interest, his research on twins is the focus of the C.A.N.D.L.E.S. organization. Beginning in 1944, twins were selected and placed in special barracks.... It is believed that Mengele had worked with twins under Verschuer at the University of Frankfurt. Auschwitz offered Mengele unlimited number of specimens where twins could be studied at random. According to Dr. Miklos Nyiszli in Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, twins provided the perfect experimental specimens. One could serve as a control while the other endured the experiments. It was well known in the camp that when a twin went to the infirmary, (s)he never returned and that the other twin disappeared too.... Twins in the experiments describe three days of what must have been psychological examination and three days of laboratory experiments. "Three times a week we were marched to Auschwitz to a big brick building, sort of like a big gymnasium. They would keep us there for about six or eight hours at a time — most of the days..... We would have to sit naked in the large room where we first entered, and people in white jackets would observe us and write down notes. They also would study every part of our bodies. They would photograph, measure our heads and arms and bodies, and compare the measurements of one twin to another. The process seemed to go on and on." The laboratory experiments were described by Kor as follows: "Most of the time, they would take blood from one arm, and they gave us shots in the other." Experiments did not end with the death of the twins. Dissection of the corpses for final medical analysis is well documented by Nyiszli and by Lifton. ¹⁶


	The skeleton of a type of conjoined twin known as "Dicephalus", where both heads of the twin share one body. Could the giants have been the result of a "perfected" fusion of twins into one much larger "giant" individual? This would explain the extra set of teeth and additional digits on hands and feet as imperfections of the process, and may also explain the occasional refences in folktales to two- headed giants. Image from ConjoinedTwins.com. Warning: Not for the squeamish.

	The villain in the classic tale of "Jack and the Beanstalk" is in fact a two-headed giant. Not only is it a two-headed giant, it is also a red-headed, vicious cannibal. Coincidence? Unlikely. Image from Jack Outwits the Giants.

The Nazis believe that they had descended from giant, "Aryan supermen" that once lived in Germany and elsewhere but had been "polluted" by intermarriage with other, "lower" races that resulted in the loss of their great height, strength and "magical powers". To regain this former "genetic purity", and the commensurate height, strength and powers that had been lost, the Nazis actively sought out German and other European men and women who had the desirable, "Aryan" characteristics — blonde hair, blue eyes, good looks and tall, strong, athletic bodies — and created what were essentially state-sponsored brothels called Lebensborn that they were using in an attempt to breed a new group of giant "Aryan supermen" that essentially would be property of the state. They even went as far as to kidnap children who had these characteristics from families living in other countries such as Poland and Czechoslavakia and give them to German families for adoption, though these children also remained the property of the state. But there was even more method to the madness. Mengele was not just obsessed with Aryan purity, but even more so with the concept of twins. But how do twins fit into the genetic equation? Why obsessively test and measure twins, people with harelips, and how chin sizes and shapes vary from culture to culture, when you can restore your "genetic purity" merely through selective-breeding programs?

It appears that selective breeding was only the beginning of Hitler's mad quest to restore the so-called "Aryan race" to its former glory. Though it seems wildly implausible, even impossible, the equation that involves the obsessive study of twins, the shape and division of the skull, the existence of giant humanoids in mankind's past who had six digits and two sets of teeth, and the theory that the Germans had descended from this "master race" of giants, can have only one answer: Mengele (and others) believed that the secret of the giants was that they had been created in ancient times by a scientifically advanced race who had successfully manipulated fertilized human eggs so as to produce the successful fusion of identical twins into one body — creating, in effect, one single "giant" individual that would, theoretically, grow to twice the size of an ordinary individual. This neatly explains many of the characteristics of the giants, including their great size, strength, and especially the double dentition and the extra fingers and toes, which would (and do) naturally occur as part of the process of twins becoming conjoined. It would also result in the bones, and particularly the skulls, becoming unusually strong and thick, which also corroborates well with those few skeletal remains of giants that have been found intact.

Moreover, if the process is indeed additive (or even possible), then multiple fused embryos might result in multiples of size, fused sextuplets perhaps being the means by which the rumored 36-foot giants (6 x 6) had been created. This "scientifically advanced race" may have also tinkered with the body's growth hormones, where it may have been that the sky was literally the limit for how tall they could make the giants. Larger brain capacity may have also resulted in increased intelligence, but apparently this increase in capabilities came at a cost — psychosis. Cannibalism and the other wicked behaviors known to have been displayed by giants can then be understood as the predictably psychotic behaviors of what were essentially natural-born bipolar schizophrenics — two brains fused into one. As a result, they hated everyone and everything, and hated themselves above all. The net effect of this state of affairs was that, in order to survive psychologically, they were forced to focus their self-hatred outwards towards others. As a result of this need to turn their internal conflicts outward in order to remain at least marginally sane, the culture of the giants, and their religion, became one that was entirely based on war and domination of others. The alternative was that, if they did not make war on others outside of their group, they would then attack and kill each other, and then finally — with no one else left to kill — kill themselves. Thus, not only were the giants bred for war and conquest, they literally could not survive without it.

If this "fused-twins" scenario is indeed true, then it would appear that either mankind had at one time reached a high level of technological sophistication, or some sort of higher power had interfered with humanity some time in the past, tinkering with the human genome and reproductive process in order to create a breed of giant man that best suited their needs. It is our thesis, as elucidated in Giants in the Earth Part I, that it was the latter, though no doubt these "higher powers" also gave technology to mankind so that they could help these powers in achieving their goals. And what were these goals? As we saw in Part I, they were apparently world domination through the extermination of God's own homo sapiens in favor of a "superior" form of man — a "master race" of giants.

Giants: A Master Race?

"Hopewell Green Slate Ceremonial Swastika". The swastika is an ancient symbol that, like the giants, can be found all over the world. This Hopewell version implies that the Hopewell may have also considered themselves to be a master race, the aristocracy of the Hopewell possibly even being Aryan in descent. Note that the swastika is actually made up of two crossed serpents. Image from The Barakat Gallery.

This engraved image from Spiro Mound in Oklahoma also shows a form of the swastika. Also known as the sun wheel, this swastika elaborates upon the Native American concept of the four directions and the four winds, under the "square sky" through which the sun traveled. Image from InnerX.

A Mission Indian basket decorated with swastikas. This controversial symbol may have started its career in the Americas as a symbol of an aggressive, warlike invader race, but it has long since been changed by the Native Americans into a symbol of positive energy and natural cycles. It was Hitler' purposeful misuse of the symbol that led to its current stigma. Image from CaliforniaBaskets.com.

As we saw in Part I, the giants, or "Nephilim" were created by the fallen angels in the ancient times before the Flood — and possibly even before Adam — as a "vehicle" through which they could interact with the world. These giant, "artificial" forms of mankind were then used in an attempt to wipe out God's version of man, whom we now know as homo sapiens, but God intervened and wiped out the giants in a Flood before they could complete the job. However, the giants were recreated again after the Flood in the form of the "Rephaim" (lit., "those who were reborn") in a second attempt to destroy homo sapiens and take over the world, an attempt that was delayed by the Elamites, and finally destroyed by the Israelite invasion of Canaan.

The Bible is thus a primary reference on how the giants came into being, as well as giving some details as to their behavior and appearance. However, the narrative in the Bible is limited to the ancient Near East, information on peoples living outside of that region being sketchy at best. Thus, for information on giants outside the ancient Near East, such as those that have been found in the Americas, we will need to turn to alternative sources, using the biblical references to giants as a guideline.

The Aryans
The Nazis were obsessed with the idea that they were the descendants of the "Aryans", a racial designation that has been applied to the peoples of Iran and northern India for thousands of years. The Nazis (and others) believed that Germany was the original home of the so-called "Aryan race", a "master race" that had migrated and conquered their way throughout the ancient world, forming elite classes, or "royalties", that have ruled over other peoples throughout the world ever since. This is known to have taken place in ancient Persia (Iran) under the Achaemenids, who ruled Persia and its large empire from approximately 560-330 b.c. The Vedic Indians, the upper caste in Indian society, were also believed by some to come from a homeland in the northwest, invading India (and other places) and taking rule over the local inhabitants, a pattern of conquest and continuing dominion that perhaps led to the term "Aryan" taking on the concept of "Noble" or "master race".

Aryan is the Anglicization of the Sanskrit, Avestan and Vedic term arya. The literal meaning of the word is "Noble". Etymologically, it seems originally to denote kinfolk or clansmen, and later to be a general term of respect. The Rigveda describes people following the Vedic way to be Aryan. New archaeological findings suggest that the Aryans have been in India since at least the fourth millennium BC. Archeological records show that early in the 2nd millennium BC, ancient Persians (in present-day Iran) used the term Aryan to describe their lineage and their language. Darius the Great, King of Persia (521 - 486 BC), in an inscription in Naqsh-e-Rostam (near Shiraz in present-day Iran), proclaims: "I am Darius the great King.... A Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan, having Aryan lineage...". The term has become a term of art in the Zoroastrian, Buddhist, and Jain, and Hindu religions. The Aryan tribes in the Indian subcontinent called their land Aaryaa varta or Aryan expanse/Aryan land. When the ancient Persians lived in the Inner Asian Steppes and moved south into today's Iran (the name itself derives from arya), they named the place Airyanem Vaejah, or The Iranian Expanse, and today the word survives as Iran. Many present day Iranian boy and girl names reflect this ancient relation: names like Aryana, Iran-dokht (Aryan Daughter), Arayn, Aryan-Pur, Aryaramne.... In fact, the root word *ar- or *arya- is one of the most widely distributed names of people and places in the Indo-European world. It gave a name not only to the Aryans of India, but also to the aristocrats, the aristoi, the "most noble," of Greece, and the Irish of �ire. Another grade of the root appears in Latin ordo, meaning "order." The original meaning of the word probably suggested a union, league, or confederacy.¹⁷

The swastika flag of the German Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or "National Socialist German Workers' Party", "Nazi" for short. The swastika was first coopted by the Nazis in 1920, who called it the hakenkreuz, or "hooked cross". Unlike the traditional swastika, the Nazi swastika is almost invariably depicted at 45� to the horizontal. Image from NationMaster.com.

Perhaps the strongest evidence of Aryan influence can be found by studying the religions of those countries which it is believed were either conquered or strongly influenced by invading Aryan tribes. The religion of the Aryans shared not only a common pantheon of gods, but also very similar symbology, the most common of which was the sun wheel, also known as the swastika. This symbol is nearly universal, being found both in the ancient Near East, Asia, throughout Europe, and even in the Americas. As Boxer explains,

Before the Nazi Party adopted the swastika and turned it into the most potent icon of racial hatred, it traveled the world as a good luck symbol. It was known in France, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, China, Japan, India and the United States. Buddha's footprints were said to be swastikas. Navajo blankets were woven with swastikas. Synagogues in North Africa, Palestine and Hartford, Conn., were built with swastika mosaics. The swastika gets its name from the Sanskrit word svastika, meaning well-being and good fortune. The earliest known swastikas date from 2500 or 3000 B.C. in India and Central Asia. A 1933 study suggests the swastika migrated from India across Persia and Asia Minor to Greece, then to Italy and Germany, probably in the first millennium B.C.¹⁸


	The Nazis saw the tank as a modern upgrade to the chariot that, like the chariots of old, allowed them to quickly and easily defeat and control large numbers of people. The Amorites of Canaan used the same methods, being reknowned for their skill in chariotry. Image from Calvin College: German Propaganda Archive.

The swastika, until Hitler coopted it for use as the Nazi party symbol, had been a relatively benign symbol of good fortune throughout the world, specifically symbolizing the sun, the four directions, and the four winds. However, like Hitler, it may be that the ancient Aryans also used it as a symbol of evil, in a reversed form that implied destruction instead of creation, of domination instead of cooperation. The ancient Aryans, like their Nazi descendants, were also a people bent on conquest and destruction. Moreover they, like the Amorites of ancient Canaan, were semi-nomadic in lifestyle, and rode chariots into battle, having the same methods of rapid, blitzkrieg-style warfare that the German armies also would use in their updated version of the chariot — the tank. The ancient Aryans also worshiped warrior gods that were very similar to the gods of the Norse myths, a fact that had helped convince Hitler and others that the northern Europeans were in fact descendants of the Aryans. Interestingly, the Aryan gods were also very similar to the gods of the Amorites, particularly, Ba'al.

This evidence gave rise to the search for the original Aryan homeland, and thus, it was believed, to the origins of the European "race". Many scholars argued that the Aryans originated in the Inner Asian Steppes, from which they migrated both west into Europe and south into Afghanistan, Iran and parts of India around 1800 BC. The spread of the Aryans was supposed to explain how it came to pass that Indo-European languages became so widespread throughout Europe and Asia. It was thought, moreover, that the Aryans came as conquerors, displacing earlier peoples, in most of the places where the languages were spoken. They were able to conquer so much territory because their nomadic lifestyle, their use of the horse and wheeled vehicles such as chariots gave them a drastic military advantage.¹⁹

When people familiar with sci-fi/fantasy films hear the name "the Kurgan", they think of the villain from the popular cult classic film, Highlander. However, though the character of the Kurgan is fictional, the Kurgan race from which the character was drawn was not. The Kurgans were a real people who lived in the steppes of Russia between 5000-2000 b.c., thereafter apparently migrating from that region to settle practically every part of the world. The Kurgan are believed by some to be the prototypical Indo-European or "Aryan" race, conquering as far east as Mongolia, as far west as Britain, as far north as Russia, and as far south as southern Canaan. Evidence suggests that they may have also made it as far as the South Pacific, and even to the Americas.

"The Kurgan" from the movie, Highlander. In the film, The Kurgans were correctly portrayed as an ancient, barbaric people from the steppes of Russia who, for amusement, had tossed children into pits with hungry dogs to fight for meat. Ramirez, one of the other "immortals" in the film, described the giant "Kurgan" character as such: "He is the perfect warrior. He cares about nothing or no-one. He is completely evil." Image from Highlander

The Kurgan were a very ancient people, who had been around for thousands of years by the time of the Israelite invasion (ca. 1200 b.c.). The Kurgan, and the Indo-Aryans in general, were a warlike, semi-nomadic race that, according to the Aryan Invasion theory had, around 2000 b.c. and afterwards, begun to aggressively expand outwards from their base in central Asia. As a result, fragments of their religion, language and culture can be found all over the world.

The Kurgan people were an Indo-European culture existing during the fifth, fourth, and third millennia b.c.; they lived in northern Europe, from Russia across Germany, and various authorities have mounted a case for them being THE proto-Indo-European culture, from which all Indo-European cultures descend. Other researchers think it likely that later-day Kurgans were the "Sea People" who laid waste to the Holy Land around 1200 b.c. — traveling south along the Mediterranean in ships, with their women following them in wagons along the shore. The word kurgan means barrow or grave in Slavic and Turkic; Kurgan culture is characterized by pit-graves or barrows, a particular method of burial. They are also called the Pit-grave people, or Barrow people. The earliest Kurgan sites are in the Ukraine and southern Russia, from which they spread by about 2000 b.c. to Europe, crossing the Dnieper River. Wherever Kurgan culture spread, it was marked by common elements unlike those of the surrounding Bronze-Age cultures.²⁰

The "Aryan Invasion" theory illustrated. Based on archaeological, cultural and philological evidence, this theory posits that the Kurgans and other Indo-European "Aryan" peoples had at one time invaded Europe, Asia and the Middle East, bringing their language, religion and culture with them. The Caucusus, the region from which the Indo-European Kurgans emerged, is located at the center right of the image, between the Black and Caspian Seas. Note also the southern invasion route took the Kurgan to southern and western Canaan at the same time the "giants" began to become numerous in the region (around 2000 b.c. and afterwards). Image from Archaeology and Language : The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins.

The Kurgans were quite literally the original Caucasians, having originated from the area around the Caucasus from which the term has derived. They were tall, blonde-haired, and blue-eyed, expert horsemen and chariot riders, and buried their dead in large burial mounds, or "barrows". The term kurgan, in fact, means "burial mound". Interestingly, the early Kurgans appear to have coexisted with another, more primitive culture, generally referred to as "Cro-Magnon". As Elst explains,

The start of the Kurgan culture was accompanied by a change in the racial composition of the population of South Russia in about 4500 b.c.: The Dniepr-Donets people are known to be massive Cro-Magnons, continuous from the Upper Palaeolithic; the Strednij Stog-2 men are described as more gracile, tall-statured, dolichocephalic with narrow faces.... The skeletal remains are dolichomesocranial, taller-statured and of a more gracile type than those of their predecessors in the substratum. But the two racial types coexisted for long, though still culturally distinct. Kurgan II, ca. 4000-3500 b.c. Materials from this period demonstrate continuous coexistence with the Dniepr-Donets culture: two different physical types (both of "Cro-Magnon C" type, but with the Kurgan people being more gracile) and burial customs (collective burials in trenchlike pits characteristic of the Dniepr-Donets culture, and single burials of Kurgan type) were proved to be present even in the same villages.²¹


	The very first "Cro-Magnon" skull to be discovered, found in Dordongne, France. Cro-Magnon was similar to but different than homo sapiens, displaying a more rounded skull. However, Cro-Magnon tended to be more massive, and may have accounted for some of the reports of "giants" mentioned in traditions around the world. Image from Human Evolution at the Smithsonian Institution.

Cro-magnon were unlike homo neanderthalis, actually being a form of human that were very similar in skeletal structure to homo sapiens, yet different. One of these differences, as Elst points out, is their massive size, both in height and strength. Though no "giant" specimens of cro-magnon are known to exist (or have been hidden or destroyed), it may be that remnants of Cro-Magnon man might account for the description of "giants" in the Earth that have been described all over the world. Moreover, the fact that they coexisted with the more gracile Kurgan for thousands of years, and the fact that the Amorites were also a mixture of both relatively tall and giant peoples, forms another potential link between the Aryans and the Amorites.

The fact that the Kurgan are equated by some with the pelishtim, or "sea-peoples" who invaded Canaan around 1200 b.c. is also interesting, as that is around the same time that Israel had conquered the Amorites and the remnant of the Rephaim in that region. The sea peoples occasionally invaded from the sea for the next couple of centuries, up to the time of David (1000 b.c.), the time when Goliath made his appearance on the scene — Gath, his hometown, being on the Mediterranean sea coast. The remnant of the giants that David and his men faced also lived on the sea coast around that time, which creates a strong link between the invading Kurgan and the giants of the Bible. The appearance of burial mounds, or "barrows" in Palestine linked to the Kurgans/Amorites is another interesting link, as the very name "Kurgan" means, literally, "hill" or "burial mound".

For a variety of reasons, then, it would appear that the Kurgans were the same people as the "Amorites", those people that had been driven from Canaan by the Israelites during the time of Moses (ca. 1200 b.c.). Their religion, culture, style of warfare, area of control and the period during which they controlled it all correspond closely to the description of the Amorites — so closely, in fact, that it appears clear that they were actually one and the same. Also, as we saw in Part I, the Amorites were essentially a race of tall, warlike men, hybrid giants to be more precise, who were ruled over by a hierarchy of giant Rephaim who rode chariots — just like the Kurgan.

Og, king of Bashan, one of the two remaining Rephaim rules of the Amorites by the time of the Conquest, was at least twelve feet tall — at least three feet taller than the tallest Amorite who probably averaged between 7-9 feet tall. This would explain why Mengele and the Nazis were simultaneously initiating two different programs of "racial hygiene" to recreate the ancient "Aryan" order: the first program, the "selective breeding" program, was designed to (re)create a race of seven- to nine-foot-tall, powerful Gibborim-type warriors that would serve as the footsoldiers for the Nazi armies, whereas the second, "twins" program was designed to create an "overlord" race of 12-foot-tall (or more) Rephaim-type giants that would serve as their commanders — exactly how it was in Canaan before the Israelite invasion, and in the world before the Flood. As such, it appears that the Israelites destroyed the Aryan/Amorite "master race" breeding program just in time, a task that the invading Allied armies of World War II may have also accomplished by defeating Nazi Germany.

To this point we have theorized that the Indo-Aryan "Kurgan" were the same as the "Amorites" mentioned in the Bible. Moreover, we have theorized that the exceptionally tall giants such as Og mentioned in the Bible may have been giant Cro-Magnon remnants that lived among the Kurgans, a form of human that we had theorized in Part I might have been specially bred by fallen angels to be even larger and stronger than the giant Amorites. We have also determined that the Kurgans were an aggressive, warlike race that had invaded as far west as Ireland, and as far East as China, possibly even as far east (and south) as New Zealand. The question remains, however, did the Kurgans make it as far as the Americas? Let us look at the characteristics of the Kurgans and see if there any points of commonality between the giant Kurgans and the giants of the Americas:

A Kurgan horseman. The Kurgan were master horsemen, a skill that allowed them to quickly and easily take control of the vast steppelands of Central Asia, and expand their influence for thousands of miles in every direction. Note the size of the Kurgan warrior relative to the horse. Image from The Kurgan Invasions. (Rev. 6:4)

GREAT SIZE: The Kurgans appear to have been larger than normal, with peoples mixed amongst them that were exceptionally large and strong (Cro-Magnon). American giants also varied in size from 7-12 feet tall and even taller, though a stormtrooper/commander relationship between the 7-9 foot-tall giants and the 12+ foot-tall giants, as was the situation in Canaan, has not been confirmed.

RED OR BLONDE HAIR: The Kurgan emerged from the Caucasus, the heartland of blonde and red-haired, "Caucasian" peoples on Earth. As we have seen, American giants also commonly had red or blonde hair. Moreover some of the Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland also had blond hair, as well as light-colored skin, which proves the presence of Caucasian genes in North Ameri