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Hey guys, it's Mikey Chen.

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When we think of giants, 
most people probably think of Goliath,

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

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But there are many speculations 
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 
texts like the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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

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Their images could be found 
painted inside caves and tombs.

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

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Did they all disappear or perhaps there're still living
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 
is super interesting to me,

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so let's keep an open mind and take a look at 
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
near the South African town of Mpaluzi,

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

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You can actually see a pretty good video of 
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 
as 'the footprint of God'

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or 'Goliath's footprint' is about 
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 
24 to 27 feet or 7.5 to 8 meters in height.

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

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

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It has proved to be a brain teaser for 
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 
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 
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, 
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 
hundred degrees hot deep below the Earth's surface.

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However supporters of the 
'Giant footprint' theory say that

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

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and they argue that developments in 
understanding of the geological process that

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

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

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

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

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

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and licking it out with their tongues 
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
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 
about a 100 kilometers northeast of Cairo

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to take a look at the family treasure which 
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 
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 
and covered with fried mold."

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

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With a finger to belong to a human being, 
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 
important to his family.

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Number 3: historical mentions

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

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

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They measured the calf of the largest man’s leg, 
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 
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, 
they slew all the inhabitants."

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"There were till then left the race of giants, 
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, 
and terrible to the hearing."

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

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

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

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Claudius placed him at the head
of the famed Adiutrix legions.

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The giant so awed his troops that 
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 
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 
Nevada region thousands of years ago,

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

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Legend tells that the giants waged war 
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 
were chased off and hid in a cave.

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

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The entrance of the cave was sealed 
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 
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 
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 
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
warehouses..... and private collection.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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What's interesting is that these mummified 
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 
the environment in which they were buried,

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

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

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One of the biggest arguments against 
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, 
many of these bones were actually found.

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

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that the skeleton of a man of gigantic 
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 
talked about the discovery of human bones that

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are twice the size of that of regular people in the Bronze
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 
shaft compared to a normal size humorus.

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The bones were discovered by 
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 
3.5 meters or 11 feet 6 inches tall.

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Then there is the rarely seen part of 
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 
in Johannesburg since the early 1960s

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

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

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

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

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so I encourage all of you who are interested 
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 
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
structures like the pyramids were created.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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And I really like this saying from 
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 
great many mysteries all around us."

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Ancient places and the mysterious beings, 
sunken worlds and cultures,

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landscapes imbued with symbolism, 
unexplained apparitions

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and unbelievable finds from ancient times."

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All of these remain mysteries for humankind, 
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
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 
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See you all alter.