For thousands of years, cultures with no connection to one another told the same story: enormous, violent beings who once walked the earth — and had to be destroyed. Then came the physical evidence — oversized bones and ten-foot skeletons pulled from caves and fields across the American frontier. Most of it vanished. Some say it’s all a hoax. Others think there might be a scientific explanation. One that makes the idea of Giants not so far fetched after all.
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Painting of Nephilim. Painting titled Norandino and Lucina Discovered by the Ogre, by Giovanni Lanfranco. Courtesy of Learn Religions**
Cardiff Giant being exhumed in 1869 courtesy of Wikipedia***
The Cardiff Giant on display in 1869. Courtesy of Wikipedia***
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