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People would be surprised how many times “Giants” come up in old text all over the world.

My father is a native Peruvian from a small village high up in the Andean mountains. Closest city is 8-9hrs away on a single dirt road. One day will walking through Machu Picchu and marveling at the huge stone work he told me that his father and his father before him and so forth had mentioned that giants helped build a lot of the huge stone foundations in many of the pyramids. He said that our tribes and theirs did go to war long ago but eventually made peace.

It's interesting to point out the height of the Europeans who visited back then. Here in Oxfordshire there are many homes from 1600s onwards still occupied, the original entrances /door frames are so small. I could imagine if those people bumped into basketball players they would indeed seem like giants.

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The tallest WWE wrestler, Jorge “El Gigante” Gonzalez was 7’7” and weighed 460 pounds. He was from Argentina. Perhaps his ancestors were from a giant race!

I had a high school principal that credibly claimed to be a Patagon Indian in the late 1960s. He was 7'2". I was at least 6' at the time and he seemed huge to me.

Been hitting up your old videos the last few days. You are definetly gettin dialed in brother!!! Keep it up. When people finally catch on to your content you are gonna take off. As always great stuff!! Professionally done and well researched!!

Here in deep in the hearts of Kalimantan, the Indonesian Borneo, in Tewah, there's a family whose genes was somehow 2% not found in common ancestors for the Dayak (Austronesian Haplogroup). The family, in an interview, mentioned the story of how generations ago their ancestors sailed from Yunan to mine gold in Monterado, West Kalimantan, and when they settled in what would eventually be Tewah/Gunung Mas area, there was a group of giant, red haired, dark skinned (but not negroid/aboriginal) people who are humanoid by appearance but not in any way look like humans and these people spoke a distinct dialect of Dayaknese. The family mentioned these people were the true inhabitants of Borneo. The ancestors of the family decided to mingle with these red haired giant Proto-Dayak and eventually starts the family lineage. The family mentioned due to the comings of russian and portugese missionaries, the red haired giants decided to move from the area into the jungles and eventually that was the last time the family have ever made a contact. If anyone is interested, just go to Gunung Mas in Kalimantan, the family still lives there in a small village called Marikoi

I've met a few people from South America who said there have been stories about giants living there when the Spanish started to arrive for a very long time.

I live in the Argentinian Patagonia and I knew a part about this history and the myth of the tall people, I really enjoyed this video.

These stories are similar to some I was told before. During the height of the Mongol Empire, the Yuan Dynasty in China brought back to Peking, giant warriors 12 to 13 foot in height. They were fully armored and proportionate, carried massive spears and massive bows and across. There would be 2 of these giant warriors on every imperial gate to the city. I forgot, I think it was Marco polo who recounted the history while he was a distinguished guest of Yuan court. Where these giant warriors came from was anyone's guess. But at that time, the Mongols controlled the largest landmass empire ever in human history so they could have been brought from far away Interesting story nonetheless

This is HUGE! Thanks for sharing

Patagonian here, at the age of 8 more o less in school we study the native tribes that inhabited our territory, tehuelches (aonikenk) and mapuches were my favorite subject, wich i find most interesting about aonikenk culture is that even tho they were really tall people, many of their myths involve Giants as villains and they even had a giant-slaying hero E-lal who come from the sky over the sea and teach the people how to make fire, leather clothing and houses, bows and arrows

Giant trees, giant insects, giant mammals, giant reptiles and giant fish. But can't have giant humans in our past according to some in the comments 👍 Talk about subjective. Thanks for the video uploader, fascinating content.

Look up Ivar the Boneless, he was a Viking who was buried in England and who's skeleton has since been found who was 9ft in height. Huge weaponry has been found in Israel bearing the marks of use specific to battle that would have been too big for any normal man to have used even by today's standards. There are mentions of giants world over, but history is often airbrushed to fit the modern scientific narrative.

I'm from Patagonia, as a child we where told that the "giants" used really big shoes to stand the cold. So when the first explorers arrived they say huge foot prints on the floor, and thats where the "big feet" came from

The gene pools in the ancient world weren't nearly as diverse as they are today so it seems probable that there would be pockets of civilizations with genetic features such as extreme height.

My mom was recently telling me that we have a story of a giant who was among our people, he lived as member of the tribe but when everyone began to starve he offered his body up for them to eat. He is remembered as a hero. She told me his name and everything but I totally forget. We're shoshone bannock.

I've read that while among the Vikings and Zulus there were many six footers, that on the average both were 5' 7" which was still taller than average. As aside, I've seen many real full suits of medieval armor and many of them were for men 5' 5".

I drank ayahuasca in Colombia a few years back and I found myself in another dimension in a room with 2 very tall people (maybe 3-4 meters tall). They just momentarily looked at me and returned back to their work. I asked a wise old Shaman and he said, Oh yes the tall people and he had a special name for them that I can't remember. Other ayahuasceros have mentioned meeting these Anunaki sized entities.

>Portuguese encounters normal sized people >"They must be giants"

When Magellan said "he made signs with one finger raised upwards" I'm pretty sure the giant was flipping him off lol

Informative.

I've always wondered about that story, Gulliver's Travels.

I am from Bariloche, a city within Patagonia, where a few remnants of what was the Tehuelche people still remain. Today they seem no different from other ethnic peoples due to mixture, but there are pictures here, and records, from late 19th century and early 20th, of native people from Tehuelche origin towering little less rhan 7 feet. No doubt 5' 5" tall europeans would see them as giants.

"They were so tall that we only came up to their waist, and they were WELL PROPORTIONED" DAMN MAGELLAN did you bump your head on it or something? 🤣

Very well discussed. Your logic is linear and without overreach..

My family ancestors is from that area. My father and mother both Argentinian and my grandparents all come from the rural areas.. my point in saying this. My dad and both granddad are right at 7' . I was 6' by the time I was 15 , so we're my sisters. My son who is now 20 is 6'9 and wears a size 15 shoe. And both my grandmother's are 6' and 6'2".... so yeah giants in that had to be real 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think, in general, there could have been human species of unusually tall heights, just as we know for certain now that there was one species of human that lived in Indonesia that was around 3 feet tall, homo floresiensis. Unfortunately we are left to speculate for giants, but the Flores Indonesians were also considered myth at one point, before the discovery of their fossils.

Been waiting for this episode 👍

That bisquet and contact with sailors must have given them diseases, wiped them out, just like the millions of Amzonians Francisco de Orellana saw but who where gone only a few decades later from small pox. We only found their lost cities in modern times....great videos, thanks....mappers have the most well laid out minds on this Earth!

I am a hand drawing arch eng. I absolutely love graphite & vellum. I know if I was alive during the exploration age I definitely would have been a map maker. The German Dude who figured out plate tectonics was an avid map maker btw

Make a video about the giant lake that was thought to exist in the middle of South America where the Amazon and Plate Rivers were suppose to meet in XVI and XVII century maps. Great vid btw!

The Olmecs, when discovered by the Phoenicians who crossed the Atlantic, stated their height was amazing (reference the old Codecs). Old newspaper writings when people began to move west found mounds filled with giants.

Hello I am from the province of Tierra del Fuego more specifically, from the city of Rio Grande. In my opinion, if we look at where Magellan passed by, I don't think he saw Tehuelches. If I pass closer to the island of Tierra del Fuego, I might have spotted Selknam's, which more or less corresponds to the physical build you are talking about. They were nomadic, lived more to the north of Tierra del Fuego Island, wore guanaco skins for protection, were about 6 feet tall and always used bows and arrows for hunting. I imagine that in comparison to the Spanish people at that time, 6 feet tall they were very tall. Not only were they tall but they were also very corpulent. Now, if they went down or saw the other side of the Strait of Magellan, towards Rio Gallegos, or Punta Arenas in Chile, they could have met the Alacalufes who, due to their geography, not only hunted guanacos but also fished and looked more like the Selknam's than the Yamans who were from the southern part of the island of Tierra del Fuego. The Yamans were only fishermen and did not go to the north of Tierra del Fuego Island because they were afraid of the Selknam's because they were bigger than them. The average yamana living in the ushuaia area was about 5'6" because they lived bent over doing their daily chores especially when canoeing or gathering near the coast on the south side of tierra del fuego.

“Patagón” literally means “Big Footed” in Spanish (“Patagão” in Portuguese), hence Patagonia means, literally, “Land of the Big Foot”. Most Continental Patagonia aboriginal inhabitants were large bodied, oftentimes taller than the average Europeans of that time. Due to the harsh Patagonian climate, they wore animal skins for dress and thick, flurried and/or layered animal skins for shoes, which left a very large footprint. The Continental Patagonian Aborigines Shoes and its large footprint explains how the first Europeans to arrive there named them (“Patagón/Patagones”), their land (“Patagonia”), and their taller than average Europeans height, plus the “creative license” and “imagination” of Europeans artists, would explain those exaggerated drawings of massive giants. And then we have the Insular Patagonian Aborigines, particularly the Onas from Tierra del Fuego, which were considered among the Tallest people of all the Americas, until its genocide by the European settlers, its extinction as a people, and the quick intermarriage and mixing into the Argentine and Chilean mainstream of the very few survivors. The Onas were usually naked, “dressed” with body paintings, and were known for traditionally making massive community bonfires, visible for European sailors from very long distances, long before any landings in Tierra del Fuego and/or any contacts with its inhabitants. Hence the Europeans naming their Island Tierra del Fuego (“Land of Fire”).

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There's a thousand year old drawing on a hill in Chile, called "El gigante de Atacama" (the giant of Atacama)

Thank you!

nearly every single man 16-17 century who traveled there - saw and report the same thing, whether he wanted to disprove or confirm. Who never saw giants there? People who never been in Patagonia, people who never lived in 16-17 century and, in case of professors, - both.

Before the Younger Dryas event, the planet flourished with megaflora and megafauna. It makes perfect sense that megahumans also existed, with some surviving over the passing centuries.

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When Ireland has legends of Giants and the book of invasions is rumoured to be connected with the Old Testament I find it amazing - always been Into legends Finn. MCCool wasn’t as big as the Scottish Giant but he was much more clever. Personally I wonder if Attack on Titan has sparked modern interest in it again

When the man reported back they were well proportioned, I'm sure he felt that.

I think the Patagonia giants are similar to those discussed in the Artic folklore. Native Indian giants. These are different than the red headed giants which I think could be traced back to Europe that have been found all over the world.

Remember, a race of 8ft tall giants were responsible for the Mound Builder Civilization in North America. We have news records all over the country of archeological findings, some photographs of the bodies, a quote from Abraham Lincoln about them, and 150 years later when the Smithsonian was asked what they did with all of the artifacts and skeletons, their admission was : "Ooops. We destroyed them."

Where are you getting these accounts of Magellan from? Recently finished the 4 part “explorers” podcast about his discoveries of the Magellan strait and spice islands and there was absolutely no mention of giants.

Since I was a boy I found old maps that describe giants. My whole life has been a catch 22. Without archaeological evidence of giants I have always been on the fence. You've said everything I believe in this video. Great stuff! I'm still torn between truth and and history. Always will be. I however agree with giants being 7' and we were all just in wonder and misunderstanding. Very cool vid! :D

I'm meeting a lot of backpackers who have lived in and explored remote regions of Patagonia, and one of them, whom I got to know very well because he was the first mate on my boat for three months, a brilliant young man with a photographic memory, said he's encountered giants still living in that region.

Thanks!

Good video. 👍😁❤️😇

There also was the tale that they had only ONE leg and foot. That it was so large that they could run faster than any normal man with two legs. And that they could use their own foot as a sunshade. The illustrations are extremely funny.

In Chile at school, we're taught that europeans thinked these people were giants because they were small at the time and a 1,8 m person was seen as a giant. PS: The man in the picture at 1:14 it is Sebastián Elcano, the one who take charge of the expedition after Magellan's death.

Funny I just came across I was having a debate on the Piri Reis map which I believe to indeed show Antarctica on it as well as a mapping of the sea floor that is an accurate mapping of how it was 10k-20k years ago. The main counterpoint against my position in the debate from the opposing side was that the text illustrations and context "land of fire, snakes and uninhabited" all disproves my point so Im gonna hold him to that same line of logic with this map and he will either have to concede that the text of can be handwaved in favor of the physical evidence contained and this can be demonstrated when overlaying the map onto others or that Giants were indeed real either way its a W.

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What about the red headed giants they found mummified with red hair still intact? You can find these skulls in museums in Peru and Bolivia. They were different than the Patagonia tribe.

They are also on old maps in US. Nevada was known as land of the giants, go around or be killed. They found 2 dead, in a cave not that long ago. A male and a female. Utah also found a huge 1, dead, near a creek that had partially dried up.

It’s genuinely sad how many people refuse to believe this, some of the most famous explorers wrote about giants they themselves met and interacted with, some good some not so good. and the evidence over the past 300 years is overwhelming.

That would make sense with higher oxygen levels from the valley surrounding mountains altitude

They revealed a few years ago that in Missouri and Pennsylvania and Ohio, those hills that are old burial mounds...we're excavated in the 1900s. The local archeological societies found 10 or 12 ft long bones buried there and huge skulls. They threw out or destroyed most of what they found for some reason except for a skull or 2. You can look up old news from 1912 that reports large bones discovered everywhere etc..

I have a buddy who suffers from gigantism. He is 7 foot 2 inches tall. In 8th grade he walked in and we thought he was the substitute because he was already almost 7ft and had a full beard. Giants quite literally still exist. Just like most of history, it's typically exaggerated.

Wales has a big connection to Patagonia with migration and shared history. They also share a similar story in folklore of giants and giant mythology! King Arthur 🤴🦁

Because shorter framed people exist and happened to produce maps? Or perhaps for the same reason why dragons and kraken show up on older maps, for grandiose illustrations. 7 feet tall is where I cap it until a skeleton is found and explained.

When trying to reconcile the claims of crew members coming to the waist and their reported height it is important to rememver that the average height of the people of the Iberian Pennisula at the time was much shorter than today.

I used to scoff at this idea , equating to flat earth lunacy and the stuff of fantasy/legend. However , after researching this subject extensively for the last few years , I am know absolutely convinced that the scientific , archeological , historic , literary and MYRIAD newspaper articles / reports prove that there WERE indeed giants on EVERY continent up to about 100 years ago. Abraham Lincoln in his own writings describes a giant he witnessed first hand in the Niagara Falls region. Even old artwork ( and maps ) display obvious giants in their depictions...and NO...there are NOT artistic exaggerations or distortions. A careful , open-minded and exhaustive dive into this subject will have you believing that the existence of giants is FAR MORE likely than most of us have been led to believe.

I dug up a burial mound on my Ranch and the skeleton inside was 11 ft but I can't do anything about it because of the Smithsonian finds out they'll take it and destroy it

I'm sure at certain points there's been larger humans, or some variation closely related to us. They would definitely need a much more dense bone structure, as current humans end up with a lot of issues at certain heights above 7 ft. Depending on the person and genetics, even less can be very impactful. I think it's a cool thing to imagine though. Whether true or false, doesn't matter. It's a fun subject.

Ooooohh maps. What are your thoughts on the Lazeria Map Collection?

Would be cool if could add the measurements in meters, I and many others are not familiar with the imperial system

There are books documenting the existence of whole civilizations of giant peoples in many parts of the world. Those sources are there for those who would rather actually examine historical fact than to play the fool and scoff at things he knows nothing about. This world and its history is in some ways very different from what you might think.

“He was well proportioned…” bro was PACKING 😂

*on the phone* “Yeah hey, Wendigoon? You’re gonna wanna see this.”

I've read that the Giants where used to dicurage people from the guano trade in Chile. Side note the Colusa tribe of South west Florida where taller than the Spaniards, like the ones who shot Ponce De Laion in the leg that killed him .

I can see where some people may seem like giants to some. All of my uncles and male cousins on my moms side were between 6'5" and 6' 7". All of my moms sisters and her included were almost 6'. My brother is 6' 5". To most people they were giants!

It also makes sense they were driven to the most southern part of the land mass since the native Americans themselves told stories of being attacked and going to war with giants. The ones that didn't want war or lost the war just left the area going farther and farther south until they couldn't anymore.

Tehuelches or Aonikenk is the name of the indigenous who lived in the eastern part of the patagonian region. They were taller than the spanish and the other indigenous group who ended up absorbing them (mapuches).

There are tall, big-boned indigenous peoples who still exist in southern South America to this day. They are of distinct tribes co-inhabiting areas amongst other tribes whose people are of much smaller --- shorter and thinner --- stature. I've seen them myself. By today's standards they probably would not seem that out of place. But to the early explorers, who were much shorter than Europeans today, they could have very well seemed like giants, or at least giant-like, particularly given not necessarily their height, but their bigger, thicker bones and other features. I'm 6 feet even, but when go to NBA basketball games and sit courtside behind the bench, I feel as if I am amongst giants.

The Bible told us long ago, there were giants on Earth in those days, and also afterwards.

One of our peoples story is actually Love lock caves, the western shoshone and Ute people had to kill them. We're northern shoshone, there's eastern northern and western shoshone, then the Ute people are their own tribe with their own sub groups. My mom was recently telling me that we have a story of a giant who was among our people, he lived as member of the tribe but when everyone began to starve he offered his body up for them to eat. He is remembered as a hero. She told me his name and everything but I totally forget. We're shoshone bannock. Either way I believe there is such things as angels & nephilim. (giant race)

I wouldn't discount these reports just because they eventually disappeared from the maps. There are some peoples today who are very tall compared to Europeans at the time. The Dinka People in South Sudan had an 1.80 m (5"11') average hight with some individuals taller than 2.10 m (7"). Because of the well known genetic isolation of some of the South American natives, it's easily possible that there were some very tall tibes that the Europeans encountered, even if they weren't "giants". Many native groups in Patagonia were completely wiped out by introduced diseases, so they may have disappeared by the 19th century without leaving a trace.

It seems, from the accounts, that the giants got shorter as time went on.. thank you for sharing 🌸

Me: *Reads the title* Also me: "I bet is because they saw giant ding dongs when they first arrived"

What's the music being played on piano. I love that music I never know the name of it though

Well it wouldn't be confirmed if all the evidence was seized afterwards anyways and theres no way for anyone to confirm that they didn't exist either, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence and it's also important to consider Giants are something that has been talked about in almost all cultures thousands of years even before the Europeans arrival to the Americas.

Or what if the tribes were much taller and we were so obsessed with observing them specifically that they ended up catching more diseases from us? causing them to slowly die off or become sicker as a whole, and losing members and being sicker made it harder to resource gather so over time their statures began to reduce? I mean we can already see the difference 100 years or even just 25 years (1 generation) can make for people based off living conditions/standard for life. And depending on their burial practices we might not ever find identifiable remains... Do you think future civilizations will be able to distinguish our cremated ashes in an archeological dig???

I'm from Argentina and I've heard the same story. Sadly there are almost non tehuelches (patagonian) descendants nowadays.

The fact that the first explorers claimed giant encounters consistently, then more vague or less confident from later explorers makes me wonder if small pox or some other infectious disease might have wiped most of their population out. People were not as isolated as we assume. There's a reason so many native Central and South Americans succumbed to a disease they had no immunity for. People traveled and spread it like fire throughout the region.

If you look at the 1800s newspapers you would see that dinosaur bones weren't the only bones they started uncovering. Yes, they started uncovering giant human skeleton bones as well. But dont take my word, look into it.

Thank you for this. I will add this to all my other legends of giants. I'm currently working on a video about this topic from a biblical perspective.

Something is in the works I just dreamed about this now I’m seeing it in you tube

April 19, 2023 Actually the last Giant was Robert Pershing Wadlow was 8 feet 11 tall.. Born: February 22, 1918, Alton, IL Died: July 15, 1940, Manistee, MI Height: 8′ 11″

Giants skeletal remains have even been found here in Texas in Victoria.

Technically first sighting was in 1499 on the island Curacao by Amerigo Vespucci when he discovered 12 huts containing 12 giants

Giants were south & I've seen on some Captain Cook maps, Pigmy people were to the north of the world.

I lived in Brazil and often saw giants. One woman got on my bus and her shoulder blades were tight against the roof of the bus! There are many Giants in Brazil. There are Giants and healthy proportional normalized people. But frightening because i stand tall at nearly 2 meters. And my hight only reached about the navel of one! And i could not reach the neck with my hand I don't believe.

Great video. Great channel, actually! I don't know why so many people get caught up in South American folklore written by European explorers. Especially when we study the indigonues civilizations of that region which, without written language, tell a far more complex, mysterious, and beautiful story.

The way people described giants in their records, I doubt they were talking about groups of people that are anywhere between an average of 6’-7’ tall. Just take a look at some of the gigantic weapons people have found. Nobody 6, 7, or even 8 feet tall would be able to wield them. Descriptions of giants also describe their cannibalism, immense strength, intelligence, etc. The more characteristics that can be attributed to giants in general, based on commonalities in historical writings, the more unlikely it is we’re dealing with a genetic defect or genetic isolation. They were all over the world, yet we’re described similarly by many different peoples. Nor were they another race of the human species that branched off through an evolutionary process. But, they were human and… something else to what we know as natural.

There are reports of giant statured native Americans in North America from the early Spanish explorers as well. Some academic research into one such tribe revealed skeletons were 5'7" to 5'9" which would have been taller than the Europeans but obviously not giant. But even as late as the "Indian Wars" of the 1800's in USA (i.e. during the Wild West days) many of the Native Americans engaging with the white settlers tended to be tall, sometimes over 6 feet when most of the settlers would have been well under 6 ft. Look it up if you are interested. This is what I have read and heard (even on the famous Jekyl Island where the Federal Reserve was conceived in 1913 which today is a Reserve for tourists there are allegedly remains of giant statured Native Americans).

3:12 That's not Anthony, that's Philip II of Spain