Giants Unveiled: Examining Legends and the Scientific Basis behind Giant Phenomenon

The giant footprints on the surface of the marble block in Piska Nagri village, on the outskirts of Ranchi city, Jharkahnd state, Central India, have probably existed for thousands of years.

Local people believe that it is the footprint left by the gods Rama and Lakshmana when they came to earth to find Rama’s wife, Sita.

There is also a theory that the footprints carved on the stone describe the wooden sandals that ancient people often wore on their feet.

In addition, next to it there is a stone carving that seems to depict some kind of mysterious winged flying object that landed on earth thousands of years ago from space.

A pair of footprints believed to be made of wooden sandals were carved on the surface of a marble block in India

A pair of foot prints are 27.9cm long and 12.7cm wide; Another pair of footprints is 25.4cm long and 11.4cm wide. Indian geologist Litish Priyadarshi commented that the footprints were clearly imprinted on the surface of the marble block, so perhaps they were carved with hard objects by local people in the past to commemorate the tourists who had set foot on the temple. Piska Nagri village!

To date, the age of the footprints has not been determined, but geologist Priyadarshi believes that if we consider the weathering (decomposition of rocks due to the impact of weather) of the footprints. Their age is probably about thousands of years.

The geologist said that many giant footprints that are thousands of years old have been discovered around the world.

The villagers of Piska Nagri sat on a block of marble engraved with two giant footprints

However, the footprints on the marble surface in Piska Nagri village are different: they are considered to belong to people wearing wooden sandals, not bare feet.

One particularly interesting thing is the ancient footprints engraved next to the image depicting a flying object with wings. “Footprints and flying objects are engraved on each side of the same marble block,” Priyadarshi explains. Perhaps they were carved to depict two gods descending to earth with a flying object.”

Mark of a flying object with wings on stone

There are many archaeological studies that show evidence of a very large hominin species that once walked on our earth. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were many reports of giant fossil creatures found in the Americas.

For example, in September 2925, a prehistoric footprint more than 2 meters long was discovered by James Higgins on the Busy Peak rock structure in the US.

In October 1926, professor George Louderback of the University of California found prehistoric footprints about 1.5 meters long on a cliff near San Jose in Santa Clara County, Western California.

In 2012, a giant footprint about 1.2 meters long was discovered on a rock near Mpuuluzi, near the border of the Kingdom of Swaziland in southern Africa.

The red-haired giant Si-Te-Cah

The aboriginal people of the Paiute tribe in Nevada (USA) have legends about their ancestors and red-haired giants called Si-Te-Cah. Although only a small group, Si-Te-Cah always attacked and kidnapped Paiute tribesmen to eat.

According to legend, the Paiute fought the giants to the end and chased them to their lair. Determined to exterminate the Si-Te-Cah, the Paiute piled trees at the mouth of Lovelock cave and set fire to them. A few people who escaped from the cave were killed by arrows, and the rest in the cave also lost their lives because of the fire and smoke.

Finally, an earthquake buried Lovelock Cave, erasing all traces of the red-haired giants.

The painting depicts a red-haired giant from the Patagonia region, southern Argentina

Modern historians and anthropologists consider the legend of the red-haired giant to be an ancient fiction, while others claim archaeological findings prove otherwise.

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Lovelock Cave in Nevada (USA) was first discovered in 1913 and in 1924, an archaeological expedition from Berkeley University began to investigate and discover the remains believed to be of the giant Si. -Te-Cah.

Lovelock Cave – about 12m deep and 18m wide – was originally called Horseshoe Cave because the inside of the cave is U-shaped.

A fake duck head used as a mallard decoy found in Lovelock Cave is on display at the Smithsonian Museum

Many Native tribes in the American Northwest and Southwest relate legends about red-haired giants and how their ancestors fought terrible wars against these cannibals from ancient times. when we first encountered them about 15,000 years ago.

Even the Aztecs (mainly living in Central and Southern Mexico during the 14th and 15th centuries) and the Maya (the people who developed the ultimate civilization living from the 4th to the 8th centuries in Central America and Southern Mexico) also confronted the northern giant race.

In 1970, the skeleton of a red-haired giant was revealed in the Amazon region. The Paiute Indians called the red-haired giant Si-Te-Cah, meaning “wick-eaters”, for two reasons: wick is a plant that grows in swamps and is used by giants to build rafts to escape. and secondly, these people often kidnapped women who cut down wicker trees on the shores of Humboldt Lake.

Archaeologists found inside Lovelock cave more than 10,000 artifacts and mummies of two red-haired giants – a female about 1.9m tall and a male more than 2.4m tall.

Many of the artifacts from Lovelock Cave were later transferred to the Nevada Historical Society in Reno, but others also fell into the hands of private antiquities collectors.

The trail leads to Lovelock Cave

Today, visitors to the Humboldt Museum of Natural History in Winnemucca, Nevada (USA), will see several artifacts, skulls and jawbones of giants.

In addition, other major museums across the United States also display relics of red-haired giants – for example, the fake duck head used to catch mallards found in Lovelock Cave is displayed at the Smithsonian Museum, bones at the Nevada State Museum.

Although the remains show that giants once existed in a large area of ​​the world, some scholars still doubt the origin of the artifacts as well as the authenticity of the remains. area is restored.

Question about Almas the snowman

A Russian group claims they have new evidence of the existence of a Russian “version” of the Yeti found outside the city of Moscow.

In August 2014, on a table inside the famous National Darwin Museum in the Russian capital Moscow, was what a group of Russians claimed was evidence of a yeti – a piece of tree bark “marked”. ” by a giant primate.

Bark samples were collected by Andrei Stroganov – biophysics expert at the Moscow Agricultural Institute – from a 2m tall tree trunk with horizontal scratches.

Illustration of the Russian snowman Almas

In July 2014, Stroganov began scouring a forest near the railway line in the Solnechnogorsk region – located 5km from Moscow’s satellite city of Zelenograd – looking for traces of Almas, believed to be a human “version”. snow of Russia, after hearing rumors about an unusual creature appearing in the area.

“Almas is a cosmopolitan creature,” Stroganov joked. They are benevolent and need our protection.” Igor Burtsev, a researcher on Almas, also expressed agreement. Burtsev calls this mysterious creature “forest man” and considers them a half-human, half-creature hybrid of some unknown kind.

Stroganov judged that the horizontal scratch mark on the bark sample was the mark of a large hand with claws measuring nearly 23cm. But there were no thumb prints or bear claw marks.

The Yeti Mystery Book by Bryan Sykes

Finally, Stroganov, along with Burtsev, sent the bark sample by air to the US state of Alabama, where Russian researcher Vladimir Yamschekov would perform morphological research on the traces and DNA testing.

Burtsev leads a community of Russian-speaking researchers and investigators that includes members in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. They share the same belief in the existence of the creature Almas.

Burtsev made the nearly 2,000km journey to the city of Miass in the Ural Mountains to contact people who claimed to have seen Almas and could show signs of the creature’s habitat. Burtsev did not want to discuss details but only said he could “confirm” the existence of Almas in Miass!

“There is more information about Almas now than there was 50 years ago,” Burtsev said. But the snowman in America is bigger.”

The search for the most reliable evidence of the yeti – a tall, bipedal humanoid ape that terrorizes woodcutters and campers in North America – spanned decades.

At that time, the search for traces of Almas was little known. The former Soviet government established an organization called the “Almas Committee” in 1958 to conduct an open-air investigation of the creature after Everest climbers returned with the story of the Yeti.

The commission did not last long, but areas such as the Ural Mountains, the Kemerovo region of Siberia and the Caucasus are all known to have traces of Almas travel.

Currently, Burtsev – the author of a book written in English about Almas in the Kemerovo region – is waiting for a visa to fly to the US, meeting with snowman experts such as Thom Cantrall and Randy Bisson.

Russian Yeti hunters not only have allies abroad, but they also have people who deny the existence of Almas like 67-year-old geneticist Bryan Syeks at Oxford University (UK) who is the author of a book outlining the existence of Almas. bare some evidence of the existence of giant creatures.

Professor Bryan Sykes

Previously, Sykes helped identify the remains of the last member of the Romanov family – the Russian royal family murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. In his newly released book titled Yeti Mysteries, professor Bryan Sykes offers his findings. Evidence shows that Yeti does not exist.

Sykes claims that all 39 alleged Yeti hair and tooth samples he tested were actually from common animals. Sykes also believes that the Yeti in the Himalayas belongs to the polar bear species.

Burtsev also clashed with Sykes over a skull specimen owned by Burtsev and believed to belong to a “wild woman” captured in Mongolia 150 years ago.

After testing a number of samples, Sykes hypothesized that the “wild woman” was probably a black African slave, or a descendant of a group of people from Asia who migrated to Mongolia thousands of years ago. . But Burtsev emphasized that the skull shape is not that of a normal human.

Michael Trachtengerts – a colleague of Burtsev – disagreed with Sykes’s arguments against the existence of Yeti.

Trachtengerts commented: “The samples Sykes tested were all very suspicious. A hair sample from Siberia was identified as that of a North American brown bear! How could such a thing happen?”

Trachtengerts – who owns a bilingual website about Almas – is still optimistic that real evidence of the existence of the Russian “version” of Almas will soon be found!

But now Trechtengerts is 80 years old and Burtsev is still waiting for a visa to the US. Burtsev’s collection of footprints and skulls believed to belong to Almas are being kept discreetly in a garage in Moscow.

Burtsev hopes to move them to a conservation area such as the National Darwin Museum. The museum has been a paradise for Almas hunters since 1960 and they gather here every month of the year.

Problem for scientists

In addition, giant vestiges are also found on all continents. According to a report by the Nevada Review-Miner on June 19, 1931, two very large skeletons were found at the bottom of Humboldt Lake near Lovelock.

One skeleton is 2.5 meters tall and is described as being wrapped in a plastic-covered cloth, unlike Egyptian mummies. The remaining skeleton is 3 meters high.

Giant skull next to normal human skull at Humboldt Museum

In the late 1950s, a 4.57m long human skeleton was found by road construction workers in the Euphrates Valley in southeastern Türkiye. Many tombs of giants were also discovered in this area of ​​Türkiye.

In 1976, archaeologists at the US Smithsonian Museum continued to discover bones of a man about 2.5 to 3 meters tall in the Kurdish region of southern Türkiye.

In 2004, the remaining bones of a giant about 3 meters tall were discovered after a tsunami on Thailand’s Phi Phi Island.

A giant’s femur compared to the normal person next to it

In 2005, two giant ancient tombs over 10 meters long were discovered in Syria. 35cm long mummy finger discovered in Egypt; 7m long skeleton found in 1456 next to a river in Valence (France); 5.97m long human skeleton found in 1577 in the town of Lucerne in central Switzerland; 7.8m long skeleton found in 1613 near Chaumont castle in France; and about 100 years ago a giant fossilized skeleton was found in Ireland.

In an article in the December 1895 issue of Strand magazine, the author mentioned a 3.74m long fossil giant skeleton that was discovered by mining workers in County Antrim, Ireland, and had to be moved by crane. It.

In Georgia, giant skeletons were also found in a cave near Gora Kazbek mountain in the 1920s and in 2000 a 3.96m long human skeleton was found by two archaeologists near the village of Udabno in Georgia .

Geologist Priyadarshi said: “We live in a world of advanced engineering and technology but there are still many great mysteries that exist around us. And despite intense investigations, these mysteries always haunt people.”

Comparison between normal human teeth and the jawbone of a giant

Unfortunately, most of these discoveries are inconsistent with the accepted theory of evolution, which states that humans are descended from the first small hominid creatures (who were about the size of Pygmies, less than 127cm tall in equatorial Africa ) in Africa millions of years ago!

However, many people still try to explain giant footprints or skeletons as the result of natural changes or rare mutations that cause the size to become oversized.

Meanwhile, ancient texts also describe giants as in the book of Genesis (the first book in the Old Testament): “There are giants on the earth now as well as then.”

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