Category: Giants

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E13 “The Giants”

10/2/2025

The History channel used to love giants. A decade ago, the network’s schedule was lousy with them. They had an entire series devoted to the Search for the Lost Giants. Three episodes of America Unearthed investigated alleged giants and their works. If you count knockoffs on other channels, like Forbidden History, Legends of the Lost, and Unexplained + Unexplored, you couldn’t escape Bible giants on cable TV back then. The spate of giant-themed programming faded during the pandemic and never recovered. Now, they are mostly the province of YouTube videos and Fox Nation pseudo-documentaries. Closer to our topic today, Ancient Aliens itself has done far too many episodes about giants, including “Island of the Giants” (2018), “Giants of the Mediterranean” (2020), “The Giants of Malta” (2023), and “Egypt’s Giant Tombs” (2024), just to name a few that have “giant” in the title. Many more reference giants. And now we have yet another to add to the collection.

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Rep. Eric Burlinson Wants to Find the Smithsonian's Bones of Bible Giants

8/14/2025

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UFO-believing Christian congressman Eric Burlinson (R-Mo.) suggested that as a member of the House Oversight Committee, he could open an investigation into claims that the Smithsonian is hiding the bones of Bible giants. Burlinson, who spoke about his belief in Nephilim at a Nephilim conference this summer, credited Christian podcaster and gigantologist Timothy Alberino with radicalizing him to believe in the giant bone conspiracy, a popular but false belief among evangelical Christian extremists who oppose the evolutionary theory.

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The Return of the Stasis Tomb of the Red-Haired Giants

9/5/2023

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Ufologist Michael Salla presented an interview with “JP,” who allegedly serves in the United States military, about the discovery of a dimensional portal to an ancient temple housing the slumbering body of a dead-but-dreaming red-haired, presumably white-skinned, Giant. Here’s how Salla describes JP’s claims:

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Review of Ancient Aliens S19E10 “The Giants of Malta”

3/17/2023

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The success of last fall’s Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix cast a shadow over Ancient Aliens, and it’s only natural that the History Channel dumpster fire would attempt to imitate its better-watched competitor. We’ve seen a couple of episodes this season that seem to be riffing on parts of Ancient Apocalypse, and this episode is the clearers copy yet, expanding Graham Hancock’s Apocalypse segment about the prehistory of Malta and its “giants” into an hour recycling Ancient Aliens’ previous explorations of the temples and mythology of the Mediterranean island.

If you’ve been watching the History Channel for any length of time, you’re already familiar with the topics discussed in this episode. The Ancient Aliens extended universe has recycled this content many times over the last decade and a half, particularly in the spinoff series In Search of Aliens, which devoted an entire episode to the supposed “giants” of Malta back in 2014 and then returned to it a second time before the end of its first and only season. Material from In Search of Aliens found its way into many Ancient Aliens episodes over the past decade, such as its “Giants of the Mediterranean” episode from 2020.

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The Jerusalem Post Recycles Old Claims about Goliath's Skull at Golgotha

11/2/2022

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The Jerusalem Post ran a story this week claiming that the Bible giant Goliath’s skull is located under the land occupied by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre because its biblical name, Golgotha, sort of sounds like “Goliath of Gath.” The Post did not clearly explain to readers that its article was a near-verbatim copy of a 2017 tabloid story from Britain’s Daily Star, itself recycling Evangelical chatter from the early 2000s, nor did the Post disclose that the “author” of their story, “Walla! Tourism,” had apparently produced the piece to draw Christian tourists to Israel.

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Demi Lovato Joins Gaia TV, Begins Promoting Noxious Reptilian Conspiracies

11/9/2021

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A few months ago, NBC's Peacock streaming service gave Demi Lovato a UFO series in which the streamer presented Lovato as a goofy, cuddly conspiracy theorist gawking in wonder at lights in the sky. Gaia TV saw the publicity that Lovato gained and appointed them a brand ambassador, and Lovato began telling their 118 million social media followers to watch hand-picked promoting extreme fringe history ideas, including lizard people conspiracies.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S17E04 "The Mystery of Mount Shasta"

9/17/2021

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been eight years since Ancient Aliens devoted a significant segment to Mt. Shasta in California, a New Age hotspot that has long been associated with supernatural, antediluvian, and extraterrestrial phenomena. While there had been stories about mystical mountain mysteries associated with Mt. Shasta, the modern conspiracy theory version comes directly from A Dweller on Two Planets by Frederick Spencer Oliver, a late nineteenth century book inspired by Theosophy that identified Mt. Shasta as a secret base for Atlanteans who had a base in tunnels beneath the mountain:

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Review of Ancient Aliens S16E05 "The Forbidden Bible"

12/18/2020

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This week, the former director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017, John Brennan, appeared on a podcast to say that he was intrigued by the Navy UFO videos promoted by To the Star Academy of Arts and Science. He said that we cannot exclude the possibility that flying saucers are vehicles driven by beings from other worlds and that we must keep an open mind. He wasn’t speaking from official knowledge, only from his personal speculation about otherworldly life, conflating the scientific probability of life somewhere in the universe with the improbable idea that large numbers of such beings are visiting us to pose for blurry selfies and sodomize the unwary. This depressing speculation from a former high official helps explain why cable TV thinks the 927,000 weekly Ancient Aliens viewers are a desirable and powerful demographic of senior citizens (the vast majority of viewers are over 50) worth catering to.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S16E04: Giants of the Mediterranean

12/11/2020

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More than two hundred years ago, the naturalist Georges Cuvier published his Memoir Upon Living and Fossil Elephants in which he correctly explained that the skeletons reported around the Mediterranean region as those of a lost race of giants had, in fact, belonged to fossilized elephants. Nearly a century earlier, Sir Hans Sloane had drawn the same conclusion in a paper read before the Royal Society. In 1835, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville examined the skeleton of the famed giant Teutobochus and discovered that it belonged to a mastodon, a truth that confirmed an assessment by Jean Riolan the Younger a century before. Hell, in 1827 Edmond Temple even watched a “giant” being excavated in Bolivia in the presence of men of science, and he gawked in wonder as they completely refused to believe it an Ice Age elephant, despite having tusks. I could list dozens of similar accounts and analyses. In fact, I have. The truth about “giants” has been known for centuries, but here we are watching Ancient Aliens party like it’s 1699.

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Weekend Omnibus: Younger Dryas Volcano, Elon Musk's Ancient Astronaut Tweet, Steve Quayle's Plagiarism, and More!

8/1/2020

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Yesterday was an extraordinary day for news of interest to my readers. Let’s take a brief survey of just some of the things that happened.

I’ll put the science first. A new study in Science Advances concludes that the global cooling triggered during the Younger Dryas was not the work of a comet or meteor but was instead brought on by volcanic activity. From the press release announcing the study late yesterday:

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Review of Ancient Aliens S21E13 “The Giants”

Rep. Eric Burlinson Wants to Find the Smithsonian's Bones of Bible Giants

The Return of the Stasis Tomb of the Red-Haired Giants

Review of Ancient Aliens S19E10 “The Giants of Malta”

The Jerusalem Post Recycles Old Claims about Goliath's Skull at Golgotha

Demi Lovato Joins Gaia TV, Begins Promoting Noxious Reptilian Conspiracies

Review of Ancient Aliens S17E04 "The Mystery of Mount Shasta"

Review of Ancient Aliens S16E05 "The Forbidden Bible"

Review of Ancient Aliens S16E04: Giants of the Mediterranean

Weekend Omnibus: Younger Dryas Volcano, Elon Musk's Ancient Astronaut Tweet, Steve Quayle's Plagiarism, and More!

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