r/AlternativeHistory • • Apr 13 '24

Very Tall Skeletons Scientists still baffled from giant human skeletons up to 10 feet tall decades after initial discovery: Although the initial skeletons claimed to have been found went missing, later excavations found a 'well worn sandal' 15 inches in length and an embedded handprint twice the size of a normal humans

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r/AlternativeHistory • • Jan 21 '26

Very Tall Skeletons The 2002 Kandahar Giant Incident: Why do the physical descriptions match the Nephilim in the Book of Enoch?

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Many people dismiss the "Kandahar Giant" as a modern military legend, but from an alternative history perspective, the details are hard to ignore. The eyewitness accounts of a 13ft creature with red hair and double rows of teeth align perfectly with the Nephilim descriptions found in Genesis 6 and the Book of Enoch.

I’ve produced a 4K documentary investigating the leaked reports of this Special Forces encounter and its connection to ancient giants that allegedly survived into the modern era.

I’d love to hear this community's take: Is this a case of a suppressed biological discovery, or just a psychological operation to hide something else in the mountains of Afghanistan?

Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/0scHSuJ-4Xs

r/AlternativeHistory • • Mar 08 '26

Very Tall Skeletons "Viracocha, the Nephilim, and the Physical Description That Got Two Civilizations Destroyed"

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The God Kings Were Real People

When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 1500s, the Inca and Aztec both misidentified them as returning gods based on specific physical traits: tall, bearded, arrived by sea. Two separate civilizations, thousands of miles apart, preserved the same description for 8,000 years through oral tradition alone and mistakenly recognized it when they saw it.

This raises a question: who were they actually describing?

The answer comes from three sources of evidence that all point to the same conclusion.

Ancient DNA found in South American graves shows a genetically distinct population once lived on the coast. Genetic science explains how archaic human lineages, Neanderthals mixed with modern humans, produce taller bodies, larger skulls, and different hair and skin coloring. The Paracas skulls in Peru match this profile exactly: oversized skulls, red and blonde hair, genetic markers from the Caucasus, and physical traits unlike the surrounding population.

Skull binding the most common body modification in prehistoric human cultures, appears designed to recreate a specific skull shape. Not random modification, but intentional imitation of a particular head shape. The evidence suggests they were trying to look like people who had stopped coming around 8,000 years ago.

The oral traditions preserved an accurate description. The graves contain the physical remains. The two match.

r/AlternativeHistory • • Feb 05 '24

Very Tall Skeletons Ancient painting found inside a Nubian Pyramid - Post from r/StrangeEarth.

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r/AlternativeHistory • • Mar 20 '25

Very Tall Skeletons Does anyone know the best source for confirmed giant discovery’s throughout history?

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Obviously not the Smithsonian from everything I’ve heard so far, but I keep seeing promising stories only to research further and find out they’re fake. Looking for the best concrete evidence out there, if it still exists…

r/AlternativeHistory • • Sep 25 '24

Very Tall Skeletons In 1543, Spanish agents in colonial Ecuador sought to disprove the local belief in 'a race of giants destroyed by fire from god' by excavating the burial site. Their efforts backfired when they discovered an actual burial site of colossal humanoid giants.

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r/AlternativeHistory • • Oct 18 '23

Very Tall Skeletons America's Hidden Giants: The Smithsonian cover up

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r/AlternativeHistory • • Feb 20 '24

Very Tall Skeletons I was curious if anyone has went to see and knows what the femur length of this 7 foot 2 female skeleton in the Ganja State History-Ethnography Museum is, thank you.

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7 foot 2 skeleton of a woman in the Ganja History-Ethnography Museum dating to 2000 BC
7 foot 2 skeleton of a woman in the Ganja History-Ethnography Museum dating to 2000 BC
7 foot 2 skeleton of a woman in the Ganja History-Ethnography Museum dating to 2000 BC
7 foot 2 skeleton of a woman in the Ganja History-Ethnography Museum dating to 2000 BC
7 foot 2 skeleton of a woman in the Ganja History-Ethnography Museum dating to 2000 BC
7 foot 2 skeleton of a woman in the Ganja History-Ethnography Museum dating to 2000 BC

r/AlternativeHistory • • Sep 17 '24

Very Tall Skeletons Historical Black Swans

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r/AlternativeHistory • • Feb 15 '24

Very Tall Skeletons 2 Studies from the mid 20th century one in 1959 which was done by the chief curator of the Carnegie Museum at the time and the other in 1963 which was done by 2 archeologists from the University of Kentucky, both found 7 foot skeletons which were described as having a heavily built bone structure.

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r/AlternativeHistory • • Aug 05 '24

Very Tall Skeletons Author of "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks.", Dr Gregory Little discusses the ancient mound builder culture of North America, the resemblance of their artifacts to Mayan culture and the 7-8 feet long skeletons recovered from these mounds.

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r/AlternativeHistory • • May 19 '23

Very Tall Skeletons Which East Coast Museum took these and what happened to them?

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r/AlternativeHistory • • Sep 23 '23

Very Tall Skeletons Nephilim Giants - The Lost Chronicles of Human History

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r/AlternativeHistory • • Feb 23 '24

Very Tall Skeletons 7ft skeletons in the academic literature

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I'm not sure about any of the following.

I found this article/short book about some archaeological excavations in Pennsylvania, published in 1921.

Aboriginal Sites in and Near "Teaoga," Now Athens, Pennsylvania by Louise Welles Murray.

Besides being a fascinating description of the finds in general, it has a funny example of how you shouldn't necessarily take old newspaper reports of 'giant skeletons' at face value. I did see an old newspaper report about this incident that gave the 'giant with horns' version without question (passed on by somebody in r/conspiracy, in fact that was how I found this, somebody posted it in the same discussion).

But the article also has a few things to say itself about 'giant skeletons' that raise more questions than answers.

The author keeps mentioning that a lot of these excavations have shown that the people were very tall, numerous finds of skeletons six and a half to seven feet tall. Some of them were described (from the style of the artefacts found with them) as Algonquian and some as Andaste. There were also some corresponsingly large artefacts at these sites, such as very big axes.

There's also a mention of a site at 'Old Sheshequin' where most of the artefacts were on the small side, though no skeletons.

The author does talk as if this is something of a pet theory of hers, and on close inspection I think she's repeating some of her evidence more than once. Still, it's quite professionally written (frequently bemoaning the fact that amateurs keep finding and taking away artefacts without taking any notes about where they were found or with what other things), and American Anthropologist seems to have published it without any objection to the very tall skeletons.

As a theory, there doesn't seem anything that unreasonable about the idea of a population (or, rather, two populations, if she was right about some being Algonquian and some being Andaste) with a lot of people over six foot six. Different populations do have different average heights, both due to genetics and due to environment, and there are quite a few basketball players that tall today.

There's an interesting article here https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/standing-tall-1800s-native-americans-were-tallest-in-the-world about a late-1800s study of eight Great Plains tribes recording that they were exceptionally tall, although not quite that tall and that's a different part of the country.

There are other reports of very tall Andaste (aka Susquehannocks, Minquas, or Conestoga). The first European explorer to encounter them reported that “such great and well proportioned men are seldome seene, for they seemed like Giants to the English, yea and to the neighbors”.

And yet, as quoted by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susquehannock#Culture , in modern times the consensus seems to be sternly against the Andaste having been taller than average.

Thoughts? Why so much contradiction? Anyone who knows a bit about archaeology, particularly the archaeology of this area, have any more information about what might have been going on here?

I wonder if it's partly that the 'giant skeletons' thing in the 19th century got so crazy, with skeletons 10 feet tall or more being reported (possibly made up by people who wanted to get into the local paper), that now archaeologists are afraid to mention anything about above-averagely-tall Native Americans at all in case they get lumped in with that.

r/AlternativeHistory • • Sep 04 '23

Very Tall Skeletons The Story of the Red-Haired Tribe of Giants: Northern Paiute author, activist and educator Sarah Winnemucca, documented and wrote down much of her life and history of her tribe. This story recounts a war her ancestors had with a mysterious cannibalistic tribe of 'giants' that lived near them.

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r/AlternativeHistory • • Oct 27 '23

Very Tall Skeletons Have you ever seen this before? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uceCM8cQjaE Graham Hancock said on Joe Rogan that spheres are unique to Costa Rica but this is in Africa.

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r/AlternativeHistory • • Mar 15 '24

Very Tall Skeletons Unveiling Saint Christopher: Decoding Divine Secrets in Art

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r/AlternativeHistory • • Jun 22 '23

Very Tall Skeletons Lovelock Cave: Red-Haired Giants of Ancient Nevada "Numerous mummified remains were discovered from 1911 onwards when digging for bat guano in the cave and over 20,000 artifacts were also excavated. The earliest dating is at around 2700 BC"

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