[Updated 22 May 2010]
I was intrigued recently when someone sent me a series of photos purporting to show the skeletons of giant humans excavated at archaeological sites. Here is an example to the right.
However, some quick Internet research revealed that these photos are all doctored. You can see all the photos at About.com — here is an explanation and analysis by urban-legends specialist David Emery: “Giants in Greece — Analysis.”
The photo shown here turns out to be an altered version of a 1993 photo from a dinosaur dig by the University of Chicago — see the original here.
From the detail shown below, you can see that the image of the skull is inconsistent with the rest of the photo — the inserted segment is flat, and one of the workers at the site even appears to have his foot on the skull:
[Update added 22 May 2010] A reader asked about another photo in the series, showing a skeleton with a hole in its temple, lying in a grave. I believe she is referring to this one (linked from the About.com article):
David Emery points out that the skull in this photo show “incongruously bright highlights on the teeth and around the edges of the gaping temple wound.” I’m no expert at analyzing photos, but to me the skeleton in the photo looks like a black-and-white image, whereas the surface of the ground surrounding the hole seems to be in color, which is certainly the case in the image of the two people in the photo.
Here’s a detail showing the suspicious bright highlights on the image of the skull:
All that said, just because somebody was able to fake some photos and a bunch of people believed them only proves that somebody can use image-editing software to fake photos and fool other people. It doesn’t mean that the Bible’s accounts about the Nephilim and other giants aren’t true.
The Bible’s account of the Nephilim appears in Gen. 6:1,2,4 — you can look up Bible texts here. Apparently the Nephilim were hybrids resulting from the marriage of materialized angels and human women. Most likely they were sterile and had no descendants themselves. They would not have survived the global deluge.
The historical account in the Bible does not say how tall the Nephilim were. It does, however, say that the height of the Philistine warrior Goliath was six cubits and a span, which would make him about 2.9 meters or 9 1/2 feet tall — see 1 Sam. 17:4.
This height is not much greater than the heights of some humans recorded in modern times — see this list at Wikipedia of the world’s tallest people.
[Update added 26 Nov. 2013: I’ve recently written a blog entry exploring how large a human could actually get, given the limitations of physics and biology — see “Could Giant Humans Exist?“]
It’s not impossible that fossil remains of pre-flood humans are among those that have been discovered in the past or that might be found in the future. However, you need to keep in mind that human (and animal) remains normally decompose completely without leaving any trace. Also, the flood waters would probably have been unimaginably violent and destructive and could have covered human remains with hundreds of meters of sediments, making them rare and difficult to recover.
One intriguing archaeological discovery was announced by a group that conducted digs very recently on Mount Ararat, where they uncovered a wooden structure high on the mountain that some believe is the ark of preservation built by the patriarch Noah — see “Group Claims New Noah’s Ark Find on Ararat.”
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ARK — 10 May 2010
I just receieved these pictures through an email and I have to admit that I did think they were real, especially considering that Noah’s Ark may have been found. And this picture you have in your article does look photoshopped. But what about the black and white pic? Do you remember seeing that one?(the skull had a hole in the temple). It looked more real than the rest. I hate that someone would lie to people about this because bible stories are touchy subjects for some people.
Thanks
Kellie
Kellie — Thanks for your comment. In response, I’ve added a couple of additional photos related to your question — see above. In his article on About.com, David Emery comments on some of the other photos in this series:
“… a blow-up of image #2 with brightness and contrast enhanced reveals unnaturally dark “shadows” around the skull. The skull in Image #3 is marked by incongruously bright highlights on the teeth and around the edges of the gaping temple wound. And in image #5 the shadows coming off the skeleton fall more or less toward the camera, while the worker’s shadow falls due left, suggesting that elements of two different photos were combined.”
I think the lesson here is that we need to be cautious about how we respond to sensational accounts like this. Photo- and video-editing software allow people to create some pretty convincing fakes, and the Internet allows anybody to become a publisher.
ARK — 22 May 2010
I believe these photos are real. i do need to point out that we have found several bones of prehistoric animals which no one can deny. Also people believed the earth was flat, but we now know better, or that one day we would have airplanes. It does not surprise me that people refuse to believe anything that is connected to the Holy Bible, but if the see or read any news which is distrubering or violent, that they love to hear about or any disgusting thing that is not normal. Jesus had warned the priest of old, in my own words, that he (Jesus) could not explain about heavenly things because they had basically a difficult time believe anything they could not see, so how were they going to believe in Heaven or Jesus being Gods only son? To all those who do not believe in these photos, i have but one question, how do you explain the FACT that it was told about Giants in the Bible? As an example, love, pain, sadness or things we can not see but they are real, just as God is real. Humans do not want to acknowledge anything pretaining to the Bible and God, least they know they will have to make account of their actions and thinking to God himself. I find that to be very sad.
Christina — Thanks for your comment. I think we can be pretty sure that these photos are faked. I think there are two important lessons, though:
1. Just because someone was able to play a prank with image-editing software, that doesn’t disprove the Bible’s account about the Nephilim.
2. We have to be cautious about sensational reports from unverified sources. The Internet makes it very easy for people to perpetrate hoaxes and for others to spread them.
ARK
seems like disproving the bible is no big deal for some.i mean no offence but what knowledge do you really have in scienc?where do you specialise? do you know what the scientists/paleontologists are going through? perhaps if the Creator acknowledges u [that is if you are destined to enter the Rest heb 4] this may convince u.www.the anointed one.net[homepage[quotes by famous evolutionists].u may see and belief but…’blessed are those who have’nt seen but have believd’. i know this does not tally with the xpected comments, but, concerning the skeletons, i think i believe.like i said no offence.the bible is the only original truth we’ve got.
PRAISE to our Creator Yaweh and His Chist Yesua
AMEN TO THIS ANSWER!!
I DON;T THINK THEY ARE FAKE!
a giant skeleton real or not isnt christian or non-christian, stop stamping things as religious proof, if these are real, (which they are obviously not,) it doesnt mean they are giants from the bible, any more than they are genetically altered humans made by aliens, (not promoting this idea either), all im saying is that if these are real it doesnt prove or disprove anything other than the fact we know even less that we thought we did about ancient peoples.
misinformation campaigns such as this are intentionally started by anti-biblical ‘scholars’ and by governments worldwide, both of whom have a vested interest in keeping citizens diverted from the truth about our ancient past.
you’ll notice that this “hoax” was NOT perpetuated by a group who wished to prove that giants existed- rather, it was perpetuated and then distributed to prove that people are gullible, as if that has anything to do with the validity of the original claims. similar campaigns have made it difficult for scientists who are interested in ancient accounts regarding many subjects in addition to giants, including the flood, gods and angels, miracles, etc…
eventually, the truth will out.
giants have been excavated in many places throughout the world, and a disinformation campaign of faked photos does nothing to change that. giant remains have been found in texas, on the great lakes, in caves in the grand canyon, and many other places. many of these finds predated the industrial age and the internet, were covered in many publications, and are well documented.
why would our government and academia choose to cover up such finds? probably because many people would take a closer look at the religious accounts and notice the many similarities. once two and two are added together, four truths emerge:
1) ancient civilizations were visited by beings who were not human, interacted with them, and learned from them.
2) ancient civilizations were often tormented by beings (such as giants, who were hybrid humans, and this account is not only found in genesis as well as other religious texts, but is better understood when one reads ‘Enoch,’ a hebrew text that was part of the christian lexicon and accepted by the early church leaders.
3) the religious texts of every major religion in the world predict a catastrophic end to our current civilization.
4) if ancient peoples were visited and assisted by nonhumans, we could be similarly visited and assisted.
the result of our society coming to such conclusions would result in the decreased power of current institutions, including governments. and i think it is easy to see that our ‘scientists’ could not compare to the technological savvy of a being that could move 20 ton blocks several miles and build monolithic structures to absolute perfection.
even the atheist who has faith in science might soon find himself face-to-face with an alien being (or angel). as scientists understand the infinite possibility for life in the cosmos they are beginning to realize that we are not alone.
quantum physics and amazing theories such as string theory have opened up the possibility of many other dimensions, parallel universes (the kingdom of God is here), and travel between them.
i am both excited and somewhat afraid to know that we are coming to the end of an age. even if the worst happens, i will get a bit of pleasure looking at the faces of the unbelieving scientist who have actively exerted so much energy in an effort to disprove God! it will also be nice to see many fellow Christians who ignorantly believe science to be the enemy of God (oh, ye of little faith!) have their eyes opened to the fact that God created science.
-t-
Very well said. God created everything and so that includes science!…so science is not alien to religion.
Amen, Sister. I’m glad someone knows the score. The New World Order/Illuminati have done everything possible to discredit any finds or evidence presented that prove we are not who we believe we are; that aliens have been on the planet for centuries, that space travel is old news, that free energy is available for everyone based on the background energy that Tesla harnessed last century, the power of the many, many pyramids on the planet–both known and still hidden, that the moon was colonized by Americans and Russians without the public’s knowledge, that Atlantis did indeed exist, and that we are spiritual beings, some of whom are about to Ascend in March 2013 to the 5th dimension. This year we will learn the truth about many lies we’ve been fed over time to manipulate us and steal our power. The Light will prevail.
I believe that giants existed whether anyone believe’s it or not. To do so would be to call God a liar. That is something that people just shouldn’t do. I have seen many differents pictures and articles about giants. Quite a few of them were in the States. And at least one in Australia. Whether he believe’s in Him or not, people shouldn’t scoff at the Bible. It has proven it’s worth thousands of times. In my opinion, anyone who doesn’t believe in God is the most irrational person in the world and needs to follow the overwhelming evidence for its validity.
Only a fool says there is no God. Those are God’s words, not mine.
One thing we all should remember when discussing this. It is a FACT that the Bible has told us that there were Giants in those days, and, even (after) the flood. So for everyone to declare that, all photos, and all accounts, are all fabrications, I think is pushing it too far the other way, and actually away from the truth.
If you believe the Biblical record, then you know there were Giants. Just look at the Skulls in Peru that are elongated WAY BEYOND just wrapping a babies heads. These (creatures) it appears, had huge brains, kind of helps explain the Pryamids doesn’t it?? They were not Aliens, no. Go back to the Biblical record again, and you’ll see that there was Angelic intervention, into the human race. Causing the Flood and then God shortened their days in Gen 6 to 120 years.
When Jesus said, As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the son of man. You have to ask the question, were these creatures and Pharoahs with big heads, messing with DNA?? Just like scientists are doing today?? When you put the two together it suggests reasons why so many strange things have been dug up that scientists can’t, and won’t explain. And it points back to the Biblical record again.
My buddy tried to show me these, and I told him they were’nt real…. it was an ok hoax, though huh.
Whether the picture above is true or false. That doesn’t mean
giants never existed. The truth is that they did and if they hadn’t the
bible would not have said so
Ask yourself
whether to put your faith into the hands of men (scientist) or in the
hands of the true God.
I had to edit this comment quite a bit, as it included much that is not directly relevant to this post about the faked photos of giant skeletons.
A. Roy King welcomes comments from readers — however, he asks that comments be relevant and be kept to a reasonable length. It’s worth mentioning that comments should not include profanity and personal attacks, although that was not the case with this comment.
I believe in the Bible, I don’t really need pictures to prove it. I can see these pistures are not real though.
Has anybody bothered to try and contact the archeologists at the purported dig site ? That would be the way to veryfy this instead of speculating.
There are already scientific evidence and documents on Giant human like skeletons unearthed /found and some sceintists backed this up but there seem always big government cover up on the matter . The giant specimens
were collected and stored somewhere but no big news about them.Why ?
Is this because the strong evidence posed challenge on the arguments that strongly asserts God is a delusion and Bible is a myth .Moreover ,there’s reality of big back up of people in the governments discounting a higher being behind the creations .
Whether the photos are fake or not , it doesn’t mean existence of giants thousands years ago are all mythical . As the Bible said so backed up by findings , then does this not challenge your minds to do futher digging unless we continue to believe all the alienating propagandas .
i think it is a mysterious thing happen.but in a bible there is no giant human or think it is goliath that opponent of david.it is no big deal about it,but it is a question mark that it is a fact or myth,only god knows.
ive done some reaserch…why is it when you look up the location of the dig sites on google earth 3d the sites are blotted out just in that spot.. goverment cover up which you probally work for feeding lies …or told to spread its a hoax..at least i know the truth
Why is it that the comments from the biblical right are all so poorly spelled? Grammar? Is that lost on the biblical right??
No wonder the bible has been misinterpreted so badly – or translated so pervertedly.
Er, I don’t think Bible translators are the people leaving those comments.
I’ve seen the “before” and “after” pics. These images were created for an image editing competition. These guys are real artists with image editing software! Hurray to them for fooling so many people!
Seriously, It is your small minds that sometimes allows us to be fooled. so what you are all saying is that there are a number of people that are all over the world doctoring photos so that we all believe that the oldest text in the bible is true.
I have found over 30 photos on the internet here that I have run though every peice of photo software that adobe ellements, Corel x10 photodelux say are real.
I think the question that shold be asked is “if the oldest Text in the bible is true? what dose that mean for me?”
I am asking that of myself as this was the very issure that made me turn from the bible. Gen 6:4
We have been finding dinosaurs for years now we find Nephlelim, in 85 we found what is credited as the ARK of noah. They are all related.
The Nephlemim were the reason that GOD sent the flood. Angels that bread with the Pritty Ladies of the world.
Before you discreadit my reply as the rambelings of a Christian Nutt, I was brough up one but would not pass as one today. Hence the reason that I am re-looking at my life, I have even though I wanted to just think the same as you all did “HOAX!”
But What if I miss the biggest clue of all time, they are sometimes the size of football pitches, and they have been found everywhere from outback australia to Blackburn in the UK, Greece and even the valley of the kings in Egypt.
It is eaiser to belive that it is all just not true… so is it?
It’s perfectly fine to believe the Bible. But these specific pics were created by students in a photo editing competition. Actual excavation site pictures were used, and altered. They are therefore fake. It’s as simple as that.
I choose to believe that the photo’s are indeed real. I feel that someone does not want to allow these photo’s to be used as proof of the Biblical Giants. This smells of a cover up to me.
Choosing to belive something doesn’t make that thing true.( Otherwise, choosing to belive that children in Africa are not dying of hunger would surely solve the problem.) Lets not misstake faith with credulity. Real faith is allways based on the true. We have the duty to search for the true, to examine the facts to the point where there is no doubt, and only then we can choose to belive that particular thing, and all the things deriveing from it.
So it happens that many archeological findings only confirm the biblical text, but archeological data is also used to discredit it. Much to ophen people use and interpret information subjectively. We must look at he bigger picture to become more objective.
Thus, i concluded for my self, that the biblical text doesn’t need confirmation from scolars, archeological finding and so on, although these come in handy sometimes. But there is so much other, more relevant proof to belive what Bible sais is true.
Anyway, individually, each one of us must take the time to examine this bigger picture, and only then should you express your opinion publicly as a fact.
Although this photo and many like it are hoaxes usually if it came in your email it’s normally a hoax if you hear it on the news it is not. I did see a documentary that there were giants found but these people were really more like 6 or 7 feet tall some a little more taller but no where near what these photos depict. In the bible angels not aliens saw human women and those that defied God and left heaven to be with these women not heeding God’s warning of what would happen if they did mate with these women. The angels left anyway and the offspring were evil and grew into giants they defiled the earth so God told Noah to build an arc take animals two by two get his family and plenty of supplies and board the arc the flood came ridding them of the unclean beings which also created two types of beings demons and unclean spirits. This is all mentioned in Genesis. These human angel hybrids were defiling the earth raping, killing, thieving and anything else they could come up with that was evil. God destroyed them he saved Noah because he was a close follower of God and constantly talked to him and did his bidding. This explains why they did actually find giants but not of this size I am sure we would know if there were bonds this large. If they did they would really have to look at the bible to know the truth behind these giants. Plus they don’t want to uncover the truth or bring the truth to light because that would mean rewriting every single history book, bring God back into schools, lose control of society, and people would be more at peace because they got their proof. Wars would have to end as well.
The sons of God mentioned in Genesis are human, not angels. Angels don’t have creative power. If they would, the devil could have masquaraded as Christ on the cross. Common sense also says that kinds beget their own kind. People sensationalize too much. I do believe that there were giants and I believe the Bible 100 percent but too many people don’t know how to read it for all its worth.
Kevin
We don’t know the DNA composition of angels, but the Bible does say they went into human women, violating God’s design and creating the Nephilim.
Christ Tomb, Crucifixion site and the Ark of the Covenant found burred under a trash pile in Jerusalem, at the base of Scull Mountain.
http://arkofthecovenant2.blogspot.com/
I received these photos a while back & I thought they were real, too. It is amazing how people can photo shop a real picture & make it look so authentic. Thanks for setting us straight on it. I also looked it up on SNOPES to see that is was FALSE.
It would really be facinating when a true and unbias archaeological team starts exploring the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Not long ago it was discovered that the remains of a civilization that goes back to antiquity, I mean before Gobeckli Tepe, or far, far beyond that. Even the regions around Arrata are in great need of exploration. Ofcourse as soon as man once again began to multiply on the face of the earth, a stark contrast between post-flood man, and pre-flood man would be observed. The longevity of man droped so precipitously after the Great Flood, and I imagine that his great statue also decline. To say that man was once created in the image of God, is saying a lot indeed. I would say that modern man now bears only slight resemblance to the first original man in his pristine condition. The ravages of time have taken its toll on our race. In any case that is the reason God sent his Son to be the “restorer of the breach.” I look forward to the restoration of all things.
I’m a Christian, and as such, I believe both the Old and New Testaments, however, some of the posts I’ve read are supporting these photos as though they were signed by God’s hand. We are living in a very technologically advanced age. Even the impossible can be made to appear possible with a little cleverness. YouTube and other sites feature content which is meant to be believable, but in actuality is a product of the creative license of pranksters.
I believe that these deceptions are relatively innocuous until conspiratorial rhetoric begins to surround and support them, advancing concocted stories as though they were already verifiable facts.
Some of these claims, though sometimes easily disputed, are quashed and then reborn over and over. It took years before the most believable footage of a Big Foot sighting turned out to be a hoax. Are we so desperate to connect with the supernatural, that every creeky door is evidence of a visitor from another dimension, or are we so eager to expand our reality, that we swallow hook-line-and sinker, at every hint of an unnatural discovery?
Conspiracies have become so rampant in our day and age that we must now develop conspiracy theories about those who are advancing conspiracy theories. Doubting submitted evidence produced by any means, until one can be certain of its validity, is not only prudent, it’s necessary! There were individuals in Paul the Apostles day, who began circulating the deception that the resurrection of the dead had already come and gone, and those gullible enough to buy into it were deceived. Why were they deceived? Because they wanted to believe it, they didn’t know the word of God, and they ignored the need for evidence.
Faith is faith, and those like myself who believe in God, and have accepted Christ into their hearts, know that he’s real, but when we’re confronted with a natural or tangible form of evidence, especially the sort which on the surface, seems to support a biblical truth, it is unwise to draw conclusions prematurely. Such actions often cause the church embarrassment and fuels the disdain of scoffers.
Anything to try to discredit the bible. Not buying the whole hoax theory. Nice try but where’s your proof? It clearly states in the bible that there were giants before and after the flood. Do your homework.
Oh Bill… dear Bill… do I have to keep repeating myself? Let me just copy and paste: It’s perfectly fine to believe the Bible. But THESE SPECIFIC pics were created by students in a photo editing competition. Actual excavation site pictures were used, and altered. They are therefore fake. It’s as simple as that. The PICTURES are fake. There may or may not have been giants according to the Bible. Feel free to believe whatever you want, Bill. But THESE pictures are fake. I have seen the originals. Now if you want to talk about proof… why don’t YOU prove to US that the pictures are REAL! I have done MY homework… why don’t YOU do YOURS!
Oh Tiamari,,,,,Dear Tiamari….You are absolutely correct that these particular pictures are fakes, but there are many legitimate documents and photos supporting a large race of giants in our past. I believe that there are dark powers at work attempting to prevent the truth from surfacing. The subject of giants and creation vs. evolution have been tools Im using to win my kids over to Christ :)
Hello everyone. I am an engineering and science major at Portland State University. On 8/17/2012 at the coordinates, 28 degrees 11’54 39”N, 115 degrees 34’ 51.93”W, about 50 miles off the coast of Baja Mexico, an extremely large complex and walls, the top only feet from the surface of the water and the base goes down as far as 14000 feet in some areas. At the base of this structure and can been seen with the new Google earth with the latest updates, an execution site of very giant looking people. Three can be identified very clearly. The extreme depth must have preserved the bodies. Don’t take my word for it. Get on google earth and look for your self. The dirt pile on and down the side of the structure is believed to be a burial mound covering a mass grave. The best view of the giant bodies is on the left side of the mound at the base of the structure. They are chained to brackets. And chains can be seen very clearly as well. Anyone has any questions email me at mboros4@hotmail.com, I can provide more detailed information. I have hundreds of hours with this site so far. And have identified others.
I can provide references for conformation. Geological dept of PSU will go on record site does look man made not natural. NOAA research in Maryland is also looking into the site. Their contact is 301-734-1123.
I don’t know if this will turn into a cover up. I would like to get people to get on google earth and see all the features before they get erased. Although the structure is so enormous and only 50 miles off the coast with a dirt pile on top, being called a small island, I cant imagine how anyone is going to make this story disappear. Best I can guess they will call it a nature habitat and not allow anyone close to the site. I have documented others in the area. So good luck with that!!!
Well, this is a new one on me. Interesting. I don’t see how Google Earth is going to show such an underwater site with any useful degree of resolution. In the version I use, I see that there are islands in the general vicinity you describe, but nothing that looks like a burial mound.
However, I can’t find any known hoax that matches what you’ve written here. Of course, you’re welcome to offer more details here, but it would be useful for you to publish something about this, maybe by starting a new WordPress blog, which you can do for free. Interested but skeptical observers would like to see the “more detailed information” you mentioned.
ARB
First off I would like to say thank you for all your info and links. This helped me with seeing the truth behind these images. As far as the bible and biblical references, it made total sense. Being the bible is a book of man’s word being written by God. Stories and “guidelines” if you will, only show for people to believe in what they can not see hear touch or smell “faith” makes this something some people nieve(sp) to. Anyways, I thank you again.
carlos.r.rivera87@gmail.com please email if you come across any more info about this or other biblical finds. thank you again
Carlos
sorry but this photos is fake first photo photoshop and others too.
It is funny how fast ppl will jump on something if its related to the bible.
There are some giant skeleton in my region.how can i show them to you?
thanks
mdt – Tell us more about these skeletons. Where do you live, where are these skeletons, how were they discovered? Has anything been written about them? Are there photos?
– ARK
im a muslim, dont know is the pictures real, but that doesnt matter.all christians know that there was giant in the past, in islam they say people were bigger and taller in the past. what does it mean in detail, dont know but what do we do in details when we have faith. my point, it is mentioned in the quran it is mentioned in the bible, does anybody jewish have a point of view?
I have first hand experience with the first and second photos above. That skull is Photoshopped into a scene from a dinosaur dig in Niger in 1993. I am the guy the white hat on the left. I was there. There was NO giant human skull at this dig site. NONE. ZERO. Only dinsoaur bones, like the ones you see in the rest of the photo. Those are dinosaur bones, not human. Whoever did the photoshopping did a good job, but don’t be fooled. Here is a link to the real original photo. http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/photos/expedition/
If the religious people are using this picture to prove the existence of biblical giants, then they are liars. Believe in the bible sotries if you must, but these photos are NOT the proof.
Mr. Cavigelli — Great to hear from you. Thanks for adding your first-hand knowledge of this photo. Since we published this article almost three years ago, it has attracted a lot of attention. Besides the fact that the photos are faked, the skulls in these photos are probably too large for any viable human physique. There are and have been “giants,” but as far as I know, the limit for a human seems to be a height of about eight or nine feet.
I believe there were giants as stated in the Bible, plain and simple. I live by faith not by sight, while scientist live by sight/calulations and not by faith. I don’t need to argue with a scientist or other people wanting facts and figures… Why? Because we are sitting on the different ends of the spectrum, and it’s either one of us has to deny our believe to move over… BUT as believers of the Bible we still have to loved people even they don’t agree with us. My only comment is that only time will tell if we can still stick to the scientific truths that keeps on changing and when there is no facts and figures we can just call it the missing link…
As the author of this blog, I just wanted to step in and mention that I don’t necessarily approve every comment that gets submitted. I do appreciate that people read my poor effort at sharing thoughts and interesting information I encounter. However, sometimes I don’t publish comments that add little to the discussion or that are badly written — and especially comments that make personal attacks against others or otherwise have a nasty tone.
i too believe that there were giants ,why i say this.there are giants foot prints in some countries in africa.example Botwana is one with two footprints in two places .this prints are on a rockface
As I’ve sdaid above, feel free to believe in giant biblical humans, but these photos being circulated as proof are a hoax. I would like to see evidence of giant human footprints in Botswana… I have never heard of them.
If the photos were genuine, the scientists who discovered the remains would have published papers about the find. There are no such papers. There are no scientists who are speaking about their amazing discovery. It’s because these were not unearthed by scientists; they were manufactured by someone in their mother’s basement with photo-editing software.
If you’re a biblical believer, the fact that these photos are fake does not prove that giants never existed. So don’t get bent out of shape that people are correctly identifying acts of fraud.
Well put, Ralph.
A note for readers who have commented on this post about the faked photos of giant skeletons: I’ve recently added a blog post exploring how big a human could actually get, given the physical and biological constraints — see “Could Giant Humans Exist?” at https://aroyking.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/could-giant-humans-exist/
ARK — 26 Nov. 2013
If these finds were real they would be sensational and displayed in museums and make the evening news. I believe the bible’s account of the giants and I would love to believe they had found giant skeletons. If they did I would be able to see the proof somewhere instead of just phantom nothing.
I’ve seen a lot about these pictures and how people can photoshop pictures as well, however there is also recorded records of giant skeletons being found throughout most of the world. While some of the pictures may be hoaxes others are a lot harder to dismiss. Also I’ve noticed that if something doesn’t fit into the paradigm it is either dismissed as a hoax or pushed to the side all together by science. I am a very religious person but also very scientific and having read a lot of the religious texts I can tell you that many of the stories not only in the bible but the other religious texts as we’ll bear many similarities. For the most part genesis as well as the story of the giants, there is also the book of giants which was found along with the Dead Sea scrolls. One of the skeletons in particular was 36ft tall, however in the book of enoch it states they were 3000 ells which is around 450ft tall. While we will probably never find one of that size because of natural erosion and deterioration and obviously age the others that have been found point out that the “giants” have gotten smaller and smaller as time progressed either from evolution, lack of resources, or the will of god we will never know. However to dismiss our ancestors story’s outright is also wrong because they lived in a time where writing was fairly new and science fiction did not exist yet. And when one forgets history one is doomed to repeat it in some way, and that being said here is something to think about, if the giants were here in our beginnings then they are still here and here is something to think about as well what if the men acquiring all acquisitions are really just decendants of giants. One day either god or our dna will tell us where we truly come from and I’m excited to see what the answer truly is. Like it says knowledge will never be withheld so long as we have the wisdom to understand it…….
I recently posted a piece here about the question whether it’s possible for a human to be extremely tall — it’s kind of an engineering problem — https://aroyking.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/could-giant-humans-exist/
ARK
just because the guy searches the internet for these does not mean they have been altered .. it just means the guy finds these on the internet and PLUS the fact he just dont want to believe they are real when it is most likely they are… but also he just dont like the fact that they go against what he wants to believe
Ed… not sure what you are trying to say there, but these pictures HAVE been altered… at least the one with me in it. These are not real. The fact that at least one of them is photoshopped and you won’t believe it says that you just don’t like the fact that they go against what you want t o believe.
Its still a fake picture. What did the author think, its all photoshopped.
Check the videos in you tube, all these pictures exist and all claim it to be fake.
Wake up people, their are no giants.
Archeologist are able to dig out dinosaurus bones which are millions and millions years old, yet they have not found a single evidence of giants. Just think.
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, “Allah created Adam, making him 60 cubits tall. When He created him, He said to him, “Go and greet that group of angels, and listen to their reply, for it will be your greeting (salutation) and the greeting (salutations of your offspring.” So, Adam said (to the angels), As-Salamu Alaikum (i.e. Peace be upon you). The angels said, “As-salamu Alaika wa Rahmatu-l-lahi” (i.e. Peace and Allah’s Mercy be upon you). Thus the angels added to Adam’s salutation the expression, ‘Wa Rahmatu-l-lahi,’ Any person who will enter Paradise will resemble Adam (in appearance and figure). People have been decreasing in stature since Adam’s creation.[1]
Here are some real Texas giants covered up by the Smithsonia
https://calmcrash.wordpress.com/tag/skeleton-of-a-man-18-feet-tall-is-found/
http://www.sydhav.no/giants/victoria_texas.htm
http://planetrockwall.com/news/article/the_giant_skull_a_rockwall_mystery
I believe the Bible accounts to be true. The Nephilim and Goliath don’t HAVE to be these photos. These photos don’t give any proof against the biblical accounts. The fact that they appear to be photoshopped, merely means that it is not THESE ones. Why would someone want to photoshop reamins such as this so as to look like Nephilim? Simply because the photoshoppers want to be famous or have a little fun. Keep looking.