Check this clip. It's old, but still fascinating!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R3WLx6IiPE

hmm, seems plausible to me. giants could have somewhat lived in the past....

It is strange isn't it, finding a human footprint close to a dinosaurs prints in the stone millions of years ago? Makes you wonder...

That was proven to be fake.

That 'human' footprint was actually a half-eroded hadrosaur footprint.

and giants will walk the earth again. If you look at the respective average sizes of recent generations, it will not be long before humans in developed countries are reaching the size to qualify as giants by the standards of a few hundred years ago. I lived in a house built in the mid 1800's where the doorways were so low that an average 20th. century man would bang his head if he didn't bend while walking through them.

That's true, looking at houses from merely a hundred years ago here in Norway, people were sooo small. And with all the heat coming, we'll be giants in a few hundred years. I didn't know those footprints were hoaxes, hmm...

FAKE ??? i wonder who came to that conclusion

There is no proof that giants ever lived, If they did we would have found bone's by now don't you think....

I love the idea of Giants and find the odd references to them throughout history pretty fascinating.

but, alas...like dragons, they are cool on paper but just arent real.

Such a topic would be more relevant to the Cryptozoology, Myths and Legends section of this forum. I shall move it there now.

Actually there wer giants but not like in movies or anything they were about 10ft tall etc. Yes their are fossils. They are human just really tall and stalky ones

people are become taller everytime, look at WWE 7ft tall looks giant for me

Hey, I was looking around for things about giants and found this pretty cool. I dont think its real, but i found it kinda interesting anyways.

http://www.stevequayle.com/Giants/charts/charts.html

Ganja yopu are correct. Remains of giants in the 7' range have been unearthed more than once.

My brother is 7'. I am only 5' lol. When he was 12 he had hormone injections in his knees to slow down his growth. Who knows how tall he may have become without the shots.

The giants of Europe (and possibly elsewhere) were real.
You can read abut them here.

click here

another giants thread? gawd...

I dunno why this was moved, I mean really - It pertained to the previous section it was in.

Houses were built smaller for reasons other than the owners height, cost efficiency, warmth etc.

But you're right that people were smaller in the past, but that trend won't continue, there's a genetic limit to how tall a human would be able to grow.



Was it a one off? Like for example someone who had gigantism, or was it an entire population? If it was a population, can I have a link?

Thanks for that link Bella!! Can't believe I haven't been to that one... sweeeet....

Most of them are abnormal humans. But we can see giants in daily life,
Check WWE's The Great Khali, Yao Ming and of course the African Tribesmen where their tall is truly above average...

Gosh i wished i was 7" +. Your brother could of made it to nba. im only 6". if i was 7"+ dam man

I've heard some crazy rumours in my time about The Vatican hiding evidence of giants in their vaults

Crazy is the key word

Plus, why would the Vatican hide it? The Bible openly portrays giants like Goliath...

Thnkx for the interesting vid. I kept watching through parts lol

I don't see what is so interesting about giants at all. Doesn't do it for me, personally.

Funny, I thought that they were hiding giant FALLICIES in The Vatican.

If I remember correctly, from the oldest records we have the builders of the megalithic structures in central and south america were reported to have been a race of giant white skinned red bearded people.

Giant Vikings? and here I was thinking that the "regular-sized" vikings were bad enough, they "super-sized" them...greaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.

yeah its kind of a weird visual.... its really weird concerning Machi Pichu.. that place is so high up, just imagine trying to physically labor in that thin atmosphere.. there must have been an easier way.

Not to stray TOO far off-topic, but did anybody else see the special on Machu Picchu? I believe(don't hold me to this) it was on the Travel Channel.....VERY interesting.

I seen it

I think...

Let's just say that it's a place that I simply MUST visit before I "kick-off".

Very smart...
I, however, must see bigfoot before I die.

I'd also like to visit Machu Picchu.

Maybe you should try looking for The Fountain of Youth first.....just a suggestion.

Isn't the fountain of youth on private property now? David Copperfield owns it I think....

Touche, my friend......Touche.

about the 7 feet tall skeletons that were unearthed in the usa? double rows of teeth? or was that a hoax? anybody read or heard about that?

link please?


(wow 5 questions in such a short post)

Ive heard of 7 ft skeletons being unearthed but none in the USA that Im aware of

Think it was Colorado or Arizona, also I think in the Grand Canyon, Illinois, and one of the eastern states if I remember right.

Edit: North Eastern... but dang now I think I remember something in Florida too...

There's a joke about the pope in there somewhere but I'm not going to say it. I make enough people mad as it is.

I wonder how much can giants bench press

Well, my height wasn't really normal for an asian man, I'm approx 6'80" and you know...I have a problem looking down...I got this vertigo kinda thing.

Talking about gigantic ancient buildings, has any of you visited Borobudur here in Indonesia?

This isn't as true as its seems at first glance... With the rise of modern humans, human averaged at a little less than 6 feet tall and it stayed that way until awell into the last millenium (at least in Europe). It was only with the degrading conditions of the poor and poorer urban conditions starting in the late Middle Ages, going through the Renaissance and culminating in the 18th and 19th Century that the avergae height (and life expectancy) dropped significantly.


--Jaylemurph

They are right you know. Its similar to after the Nepolionic (excuse the spelling) wars, the average height of men dropped 4 inches for two generations.

I never heard that, but there is a legend about a Pope keeping a dragon in the vatican that ate a lot of people. At first glance this may seem absurd, but the original bible, as well as the greatest men of the Catholic Church, all acknowledged that dragons were heavenly creatures, called Seraphim and Cherubim. If you look at old illuminated Bibles of the Middle Ages, God rides on the backs of dragons just like Eragon, except in a throne strapped to the dragon's back.

But as to giants, anyone very tall might be called a giant, but over the years the stories would be exaggerated. Also, people would see large bones very similar to their own, so believed they were the bones of giants. The legend of the cyclopes is said to be based on mastadon bones, and the hole for the trunk was thought to be that of the eye.

i was gonna say, looks fake, i mean the toes werent in proportion to the feet, that makes no sense in human anatomy. also in my eyes it looked fake as soon as i saw the footprints.

Don;t you just love rational thought?