Category: Giants

“Traces of a Prehistoric Race of Supermen”: The Real Story of the Soyopa “Giants”

5/6/2026

Archaeologists racing to excavate the bones of a lost race of giants in a remote wilderness. Hints of a lost civilization. An attack by hostile Natives, and sensational dispatches from a reporter on the scene. But how much of it really happened?

When the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 extended copyright protection for an additional 25 years, it had the effect of freezing the public domain for much of my adult life. As a result, material from the 1920s and 1930s was often quite difficult to access, making it hard to check on particular claims—but easy for pseudohistory writers to make claims, knowing most readers would never be able to find the truth. However, now that the public domain has been unfrozen and material from 1930 has entered the public domain, a particular claim about a race of giants in a remote part of Mexico is much easier to research to find the real story the fringe writers left out.

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Tucker Carlson and A. J. Gentile Spread Rehashed Archaeological Conspiracies

2/3/2026

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This week, UFO-curious right-wing podcaster Tucker Carlson, a former guest on Ancient Aliens, devoted a ninety-minute episode of his eponymous streaming show to the threadbare “mysteries” of giants, pyramids, psychic spies, lost civilizations and the other detritus of History channel pseudo-documentaries. Carlson interviewed A. J. Gentile of The Why Files and the two began the discussion by complaining about the “extreme hostility against alternate (sic) archaeology,” with Gentile expressing outrage at archaeologists for opposing the claims of Graham Hancock, “whose work I admire.” The two men defended Hancock against charges that his work supports white supremacy and then claimed that the accusation was a “slur” designed to “destroy” Hancock as part of a “sinister” effort by archaeologists. This set the tone for the rest of the discussion.

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Tabloids Revive an Old Claim That an Ancient Egyptian Text Mentions Bible Giants

2/2/2026

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An article in the New York Post went viral yesterday for claiming an Egyptian papyrus supposedly is proof that the Nephilim of Genesis 6:4 were real flesh-and-blood giants. The Post piece from Sunday summarizes a Daily Mail article from earlier in the day breathlessly reporting the contents of Papyrus Anastasi I, an Egyptian papyrus scroll found in 1839 and translated into English in 1911 (several partial translations, and a full translation taken from a German edition, had previously appeared). While the reports call it a “lost” scroll that had just been “rediscovered,” the text is well-known and is frequently discussed in academic literature. It will surprise no one to discover that the claims for Bible giants in the Egyptian text are overblown.

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A Dark Carnival: 2025 in Review

12/27/2025

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When I started writing year in review columns in 2017, I intended those columns to be an amusing look back at the follies of the year. But somehow, they have grown into a chronicle of an incipient Dark Age, with each year’s rundown becoming a bit gloomier than that of the year before. This year was an especially depressing chronicle of the growing influence of irrational, paranormal, and conspiratorial thought at the highest levels of power, with Congress, the White House, and the billionaire class joining the major media in promoting—and apparently believing—insane notions ranging from space alien visitation to the imminent arrival of the Antichrist. By contrast, the traditional sources of occult and pseudohistorical claims—cable TV and book publishing—all but closed up shop, conceding the ground to Washington, D.C.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S21E13 “The Giants”

10/2/2025

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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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“Traces of a Prehistoric Race of Supermen”: The Real Story of the Soyopa “Giants”

Tucker Carlson and A. J. Gentile Spread Rehashed Archaeological Conspiracies

Tabloids Revive an Old Claim That an Ancient Egyptian Text Mentions Bible Giants

A Dark Carnival: 2025 in Review

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

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