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Hey guys, it's Mikey Chen.

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When we think of giants, [br]most people probably think of Goliath,

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Jack and the Beanstalk or Stay Puft Marshmallow Man [br]who is both terrifying and delicious.

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But there are many speculations [br]about a race of giant humans

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who lived before and alongside of modern man.

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Mentions of giants can be found in historical [br]texts like the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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They were talked about by [br]historians such has Pliny and Josephus.

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Their images could be found [br]painted inside caves and tombs.

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So if these giants did in fact exist,[br]it is unclear what eventually happened to them.

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Did they all disappear or perhaps there're still living[br]somewhere in some unexplored part of the planet.

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Now there were a lot of requests for this video

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and this topic is something that [br]is super interesting to me,

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so let's keep an open mind and take a look at [br]some clues that may suggest giants were in fact real.

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Number 1: the giants footprints of South Africa

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This amazing footprint in granite was first discover in 1912[br]near the South African town of Mpaluzi,

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close to the border with Swaziland [br]by a hunter named Stoffel Coetzee.

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You can actually see a pretty good video of [br]this footprint on Explorer Michael Tellinger's channel,

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I have that for you in the Description Box.

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The footprint known to locals [br]as 'the footprint of God'

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or 'Goliath's footprint' is about [br]4 feet or 1.2 meters in length,

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and based on that, the hypothetical

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owner of this footprints would have been [br]24 to 27 feet or 7.5 to 8 meters in height.

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According to our current understanding [br]of the formation of granite in Earth's history,

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this footprint is estimated to be between [br]200 million and 3 billion years old.

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It has proved to be a brain teaser for [br]geologists who have trouble explaining it

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but for locals, the explanation is pretty simple.

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It is the footprint left behind by a [br]ginormous being in the distant mythical past.

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But skeptics reject the 'Giant footprint' theory.

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Some say the footprint could [br]have been formed by naturally erosion

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or carved by regular sized humans.

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For example, doctor Jay Wile, a nuclear chemist, [br]pointed out that the rock is intrusive granite.

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This means that it was formed underground.

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Thus, the only time a foot could have sunk into it

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and left behind a print was when it was several [br]hundred degrees hot deep below the Earth's surface.

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However supporters of the [br]'Giant footprint' theory say that

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skeptics take the current scientific consensus [br]about how granite rocks were formed for granted,

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and they argue that developments in [br]understanding of the geological process that

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led to the formation of the outcrop could show that [br]warm molten magma was exposed on the Earth's surface,

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thus allowing a potential 27-foot giant [br]weighing several tons to sink his foot into it

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And in regards to the theory that [br]the footprint could be formed by natural erosion,

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professor Pieter Wagener from the University [br]of Port Elizabetht, South Africa suggests that

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"there is a higher probability of little [br]green men arriving from space

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and licking it out with their tongues [br]than being created by natural erosion.”

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Number 2: the mummified finger

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Gregory Spoerri, a well known entrepreneur from[br]Switzerland, used to work as a private investigator.

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In 1988, he contacted and met with an old man

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from a grave robber dynasty in a farmhouse [br]about a 100 kilometers northeast of Cairo

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to take a look at the family treasure which [br]was wrapped in old rags.

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It's was a giant finger and it appeared rather grotesque,

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chalked ....the bone with a fingernail still attached to it.

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It was also accompanied by a X. ray photo.

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Spoerri said "I was totally flabbergasted [br]when I saw the dark brown giant finger.

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I was allowed to take it in hand and also to take pictures."

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"A bill was put next to it's to get a size comparison.

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The bent finger was split open [br]and covered with fried mold."

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The old man said the finger was found in [br]the grave of a giants mummy somewhere near the Giza Pyramids.

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With a finger to belong to a human being, [br]that human would be some 16 feet or nearly 5 meters tall.

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Spoerri tried to compel the old man to sell the finger

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but the old man would not, saying it was too [br]important to his family.

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Number 3: historical mentions

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Throughout history there were many records [br]that seem to indicate the presence of giant humanoids.

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For example explorer John Smith wrote in 1608 [br]"The Sasquesahanougs are a Gyant-like people.

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They measured the calf of the largest man’s leg, [br]and found it 3 quarters of a yard about,

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and all the rest of his limbs were in proportion;"

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Flavius Josephus, a first centuary Jewish scholar [br]and historian wrote in his antiquities of the Jews

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"for which reason they removed their camp to Herron;

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and when they had taken it, [br]they slew all the inhabitants."

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"There were till then left the race of giants, [br]who had body so large,

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and countenances so entirely different from other men,

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that they were surprising to the sight, [br]and terrible to the hearing."

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"The bones of these men are still shown to this very day,[br]unlike to incredible relations of other men."

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And finally Roman historian Pliny also mentions [br]that in the reign of Claudius from 41 to 54 A.D,

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a nine-foot-nine-inch giant named Gabbaras [br]was brought to Rome from Arabia.

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Claudius placed him at the head[br]of the famed Adiutrix legions.

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The giant so awed his troops that [br]some worshipped him as a god.

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Number 4: the mystery of Lovelock cave.

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Many native American tribes tell stories [br]about the long forgotten existence of a race of humans

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I were much taller and stronger than ordinary men.

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The Paiute, a tribe that settled in the [br]Nevada region thousands of years ago,

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have a legend about a race of red-haired [br]giants which were described as savages and cannibals.

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Legend tells that the giants waged war [br]on the Paiute and all neighboring tribes.

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Finally, the tribes united against them

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and the last remaining red-haired giants [br]were chased off and hid in a cave.

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The tribes then started a fire at the cave, [br]suffocating and burning them alive.

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The entrance of the cave was sealed [br]but after the cave was discovered again in 1886

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by a mining engineer named John T. Reid,

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the large amounts of guano deposit inside the cave

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attracting attention of a mining company [br]that began excavating the precious resource in 1911.

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After the surface layer of the guano had been minded,

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strange objects started to surface which led to [br]an official excavation performed in 1912

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and again in 1924 by the university of California.

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In an intriguing find was a pair of 15 inch-long [br]sandals that showed signs of having been worn.

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Allegedly, other unusually large items were recovered

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but have since been locked away in museum[br]warehouses..... and private collection.

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A piece of evidence that remains on-site [br]until this day is a giant hand print,

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double the size of a normal man's hand [br]imprinted on the boulder inside the cave.

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Also according to a 1931 article [br]published in the Nevada Review-Miner,

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two giant skeletons had been found buried [br]in a dry lake bed close to Lovelock, Nevada.

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The over-sized remains measured 8.5 [br]and 10 feet in height

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and were mummified in a manner similar [br]to the one employed by ancient Egyptians.

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What's interesting is that these mummified [br]giants remains had red hair.

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While some scientists believe the reddish color

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is a result of the interaction with [br]the environment in which they were buried,

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the mummies sort of verified the legends [br]which spoke of red-haired giants.

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And finally number 5: giants bones [br]discovered around the world.

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One of the biggest arguments against [br]the existence of giants is that,

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well, if they did exist where their bones at?

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According to reports from around the world, [br]many of these bones were actually found.

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For example, the New York Times [br]reported on December 20th, 1897

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that the skeleton of a man of gigantic [br]size with a skull as large as half a bushel

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was found buried in a mount in Wisconsin.

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Another story from the London Globe [br]talked about the discovery of human bones that

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are twice the size of that of regular people in the Bronze[br]Age cemetery of Castelnau-le-Lez, France in the winter of 1890.

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Here's a look of three bone fragments found.

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The humorus, tibia and phemeral mid [br]shaft compared to a normal size humorus.

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The bones were discovered by [br]anthropologist Georges Vacher de Lapouge

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and were dated to the Neolithic period.

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Lapouge estimated from the bones found that

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these humans may have been about [br]3.5 meters or 11 feet 6 inches tall.

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Then there is the rarely seen part of [br]the upper leg bone with hip joint of a giant

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that would have stood about 12 feet or 3.6 meters tall.

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This bone has been in the vaults of the medical school

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at the university of Witwatersrand [br]in Johannesburg since the early 1960s

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when it was found by miners [br]in a mine in northern Namibia.

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You know I have been wanted to make this video [br]for a long time and when I sat down to make it,

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I found so much really interesting information [br]about the possible existence of giants,

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and that there was no way I could put all [br]that information into one video

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so I encourage all of you who are interested [br]in this topic to go and explore for yourself.

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If you think about it, if this was all true

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and giants who were 12 feet or 25 feet [br]or maybe even bigger did exist,

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this will actually solve a lot of questions

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about how many of the world's ancient megalithic[br]structures like the pyramids were created.

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And speaking of the pyramids, [br]I know every year there's a new report of someone

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who figured out how the pyramids [br]were built but let's be honest,

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there's still a lot of unanswered [br]questions in any of these theories.

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I'm gonna make a video [br]about the creation of the pyramids later.

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All I'm saying is that there's still [br]so much we don't know

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so it's good to keep an open mind [br]about all the possibilities.

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And I really like this saying from [br]a geologist named Nitish Priyadarshi who said

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"we live in a highly advanced, technical world,

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but there are nevertheless a [br]great many mysteries all around us."

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Ancient places and the mysterious beings, [br]sunken worlds and cultures,

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landscapes imbued with symbolism, [br]unexplained apparitions

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and unbelievable finds from ancient times."

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All of these remain mysteries for humankind, [br]despite intense investigations."

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But guys love to hear your thoughts.

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Do you believe that giants once existed?

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And do you believe that giants are still out there[br]somewhere today and I'm not talking about Shark.

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Alright guys thank you so much for watching.

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And all of my social media information [br]is in the Description box below.

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See you all alter.