Explorers’ Encounters With Real Giants in the New World

Brent Swancer shares accounts from explorers about their encounters with giants in the New World.

Humans have always been fascinated by what lies out over the horizon of our known world and borders, by what lies over the next hill or over the waves beyond what we see. This fascination has driven us to explore and understand our planet since time unremembered, and countless explorers have bravely pushed past the boundaries of our maps and the limits of our horizon to discover, tame, and conquer. We have many records of these adventures, and often lurking within them are astounding historical tales of strange peoples and creatures, some of which are just as mysterious and perplexing now as they were then, and one of these are the supposed real giants of the New World. Read more

Skeleton of Giant Found in Malaysia

The skeleton of a giant has reportedly been found on the Malayasian island of Pulau Upeh.

How tall does one have to be in order to be considered a giant and not just “larger that usual”? Would you consider 5 meters (16.4 feet) tall to be giant or larger than usual? We may soon find out after Malaysian media reports the finding of large bones  in a cave and extremely long graves outside the cave on Pulau Upeh, an island off of Malacca, a southern state in Peninsular Malaysia. Read more

Legends of Giants in the Southeastern United States

Micah Hanks says that legends of giants in the southeastern United States are preserved in petroglyphs.

I have always been fascinated with petroglyphs — carvings of pictures into stone, of which there are many old instances scattered around the United States. In his book Lost!, former National Park Ranger and rescue searcher Dwight McCarter describes finding petroglyphs that dated back to the early nineteenth century, in which a pair of travelers had marked their subsequent visits passing a particular stony outcropping near the present-day Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Read more

The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America

Richard J. Dewhurst discusses his research into the extinct race of giants who once ruled America.