JASON COLAVITO
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Books
    • Legends of the Pyramids
    • The Mound Builder Myth
    • Jason and the Argonauts
    • Cult of Alien Gods >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Foundations of Atlantis
    • Knowing Fear >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Hideous Bit of Morbidity >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Cthulhu in World Mythology >
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
      • Necronomicon Fragments
      • Oral Histories
    • Fiction >
      • Short Stories
      • Free Fiction
    • JasonColavito.com Books >
      • Faking History
      • Unearthing the Truth
      • Critical Companion to Ancient Aliens
      • Studies in Ancient Astronautics (Series) >
        • Theosophy on Ancient Astronauts
        • Pyramidiots!
        • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • Fiction Anthologies >
        • Unseen Horror >
          • Contents
          • Excerpt
        • Moon Men! >
          • Contents
      • The Orphic Argonautica >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • The Faust Book >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • Classic Reprints
      • eBook Minis
    • Free eBooks >
      • Origin of the Space Gods
      • Ancient Atom Bombs
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Ancient America
      • Horror & Science
  • Articles
    • Skeptical Xenoarchaeologist Newsletter >
      • Volumes 1-10 Archive >
        • Volume 1 Archive
        • Volume 2 Archive
        • Volume 3 Archive
        • Volume 4 Archive
        • Volume 5 Archive
        • Volume 6 Archive
        • Volume 7 Archive
        • Volume 8 Archive
        • Volume 9 Archive
        • Volume 10 Archive
      • Volumes 11-20 Archive >
        • Volume 11 Archive
        • Volume 12 Archive
        • Volume 13 Archive
        • Volume 14 Archive
        • Volume 15 Archive
        • Volume 16 Archive
        • Volume 17 Archive
        • Volume 18 Archive
        • Volume 19 Archive
        • Volume 20 Archive
      • Volumes 21-30 Archive >
        • Volume 21 Archive
        • Volume 22 Archive
    • Television Reviews >
      • Ancient Aliens Reviews
      • In Search of Aliens Reviews
      • America Unearthed
      • Pirate Treasure of the Knights Templar
      • Search for the Lost Giants
      • Forbidden History Reviews
      • Expedition Unknown Reviews
      • Legends of the Lost
      • Unexplained + Unexplored
      • Rob Riggle: Global Investigator
    • Book Reviews
    • Galleries >
      • Bad Archaeology
      • Ancient Civilizations >
        • Ancient Egypt
        • Ancient Greece
        • Ancient Near East
        • Ancient Americas
      • Supernatural History
      • Book Image Galleries
    • Videos
    • Collection: Ancient Alien Fraud >
      • Chariots of the Gods at 50
      • Secret History of Ancient Astronauts
      • Of Atlantis and Aliens
      • Aliens and Ancient Texts
      • Profiles in Ancient Astronautics >
        • Erich von Däniken
        • Robert Temple
        • Giorgio Tsoukalos
        • David Childress
      • Blunders in the Sky
      • The Case of the False Quotes
      • Alternative Authors' Quote Fraud
      • David Childress & the Aliens
      • Faking Ancient Art in Uzbekistan
      • Intimations of Persecution
      • Zecharia Sitchin's World
      • Jesus' Alien Ancestors?
      • Extraterrestrial Evolution?
    • Collection: Skeptic Magazine >
      • America Before Review
      • Native American Discovery of Europe
      • Interview: Scott Sigler
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Oh the Horror
      • Discovery of America
      • Supernatural Television
      • Review of Civilization One
      • Who Lost the Middle Ages
      • Charioteer of the Gods
    • Collection: Ancient History >
      • Prehistoric Nuclear War
      • The China Syndrome
      • Atlantis, Mu, and the Maya
      • Easter Island Exposed
      • Who Built the Sphinx?
      • Who Built the Great Pyramid?
      • Archaeological Cover Up?
    • Collection: The Lovecraft Legacy >
      • Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft
      • Lovecraft in Bergier
      • Lovecraft and Scientology
    • Collection: UFOs >
      • Alien Abduction at the Outer Limits
      • Aliens and Anal Probes
      • Ultra-Terrestrials and UFOs
      • Rebels, Queers, and Aliens
    • Scholomance: The Devil's School
    • Prehistory of Chupacabra
    • The Templars, the Holy Grail, & Henry Sinclair
    • Magicians of the Gods Review
    • The Curse of the Pharaohs
    • The Antediluvian Pyramid Myth
    • Whitewashing American Prehistory
    • James Dean's Cursed Porsche
  • The Library
    • Ancient Mysteries >
      • Ancient Texts >
        • Mesopotamian Texts >
          • Atrahasis Epic
          • Epic of Gilgamesh
          • Kutha Creation Legend
          • Babylonian Creation Myth
          • Descent of Ishtar
          • Berossus
          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
          • Eratosthenes' King List
          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
          • The Three Hermeses
          • Kore Kosmou
          • Corpus Hermeticum
          • The Asclepius
          • The Emerald Tablet
          • Hermetic Fragments
          • Prologue to the Kyranides
          • The Secret of Creation
          • Ancient Alphabets Explained
          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
        • Periplus of Hanno
        • Ctesias' Indica
        • Sanchuniathon
        • Sima Qian
        • Syncellus's Enoch Fragments
        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
        • Sepher Yetzirah
        • Tacitus' Germania
        • De Dea Syria
        • Aelian's Various Histories
        • Julius Africanus' Chronography
        • Eusebius' Chronicle
        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
        • Fragments of Panodorus
        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
        • Agobard on Magonia
        • Book of Thousands
        • Voyage of Saint Brendan
        • Power of Art and of Nature
        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
        • Yazidi Revelation and Black Book
        • Al-Biruni on the Great Flood
        • Voyage of the Zeno Brothers
        • The Kensington Runestone (Hoax)
        • Islamic Discovery of America
        • The Aztec Creation Myth
      • Lost Civilizations >
        • Atlantis >
          • Plato's Atlantis Dialogues >
            • Timaeus
            • Critias
          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
          • Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Santorini and Atlantis
          • The Mound Builders and Atlantis
          • Donnelly's Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Morocco
          • Atlantis and the Sea Peoples
          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
            • The Lost Lemuria
          • The Lost Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Africa
          • How I Found Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Termier on Atlantis
          • The Critias and Minoan Crete
          • Rebuttal to Termier
          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
          • The Seven Cities
          • The Lost City of Paititi
          • Manuscript 512
          • The Idolatrous City of Iximaya (Hoax)
          • The 1885 Moberly Lost City Hoax
          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
        • Oronteus Finaeus Antarctica Map
        • Caucasians in Panama
        • Jefferson's Excavation
        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
        • Mound Builders
        • Gunung Padang
        • Tales of Enchanted Islands
        • The 1907 Ancient World Map Hoax
        • The 1909 Grand Canyon Hoax
        • The Interglacial Period
        • Solving Oak Island
      • Religious Conspiracies >
        • Pantera, Father of Jesus?
        • Toledot Yeshu
        • Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay on Cathars
        • Testimony of Jean de Châlons
        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
        • The Life of St. Issa (Hoax)
        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
          • Fossil Bones of Teutobochus
          • Fossil Mammoths and Giants
          • Giants' Bones Dug Out of the Earth
          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
        • Iron: The Stone from Heaven
        • Ararat and the Ark
        • Pyramid Facts and Fancies
        • Argonauts before Homer
        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
      • US Government Ancient Astronaut Files >
        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
      • Demonology and Witchcraft
      • Thaumaturgia
      • Bulgarian Vampires
      • Religion and Evolution
      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
    • Free Classic Pseudohistory eBooks
  • About Jason
    • Biography
    • Jason in the Media
    • Contact Jason
    • About JasonColavito.com
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Search

Review of Search for the Lost Giants S01E04 "The Giant Curse"

11/26/2014

34 Comments

 
According to my on-screen cable guide and the History.com episode guide, this episode of Search for the Lost Giants, S01E04, has no title. It is simply “#5,” even though it is the fourth episode to air. History.com lists the show title as “The Giant Curse” elsewhere on its website, so we’ll go with that.
“To disrupt the holy ground that once belonged to past rulers with supernatural powers would be breaking the law,” says the opening quotation, attributed to King Nahmwarki of Nan Madol, but actually taken verbatim from a fringe history website. (It also appears in copied text on travel websites; I can find no record of it elsewhere, though it may be somewhere I do not have easy access to.) It is no ancient text but a modern one, and Nahmwarki isn’t a person but a title for a high chief. If the tourism website is correct, the line refers to the efforts of F. W. Christian to survey and explore Nan Madol in 1896, but the line does not appear in the racist book Christian wrote about Pohnpei in 1899. There, Christian describes the natives in racist terms and paid the king a $5 fee to bypass the restrictions on entering holy ground. It is possible that the line might come from a Spanish language account to which Christian refers; I do not know.

We open with a recap of the previous four episodes, edited to suggest that the brothers Jim and Bill Vieira have actually discovered something related to giants. One of Jim Vieira’s neighbors, Al Peiropan, tells Vieira about the Micronesian stone city of Nan Madol on Pohnpei, where Peiropan recalls locals telling him not to violate the sanctity of the ancient citadel. I’m not aware of a close association between Nan Madol and giants, but David Hatcher Childress, writing in Ancient Micronesia, reported that an islander told him he had found a femur twice the size of a normal human femur. Japanese archaeologists, working to establish imperial claims over Micronesia after receiving a League of Nations mandate, claimed to have found “taller” skeletons that proved that the current population were not the first inhabitants of the island and therefore had no inherent rights to it.

The Japanese took over Nan Madol from the former colonial power, Germany, and Search for the Lost Giants records some false information about the colonial governor dying from a curse. This was on Ancient Aliens, from the same production company, and the researchers simply recycled old research without correcting it. Therefore, my criticism from Ancient Aliens S06E09 still stands:
Dr. Viktor Berg, the German colonial deputy governor of Pohnpei at the time, in fact died of sunstroke and exhaustion, according to the official records, shortly after excavating the tomb of Isokelekel. Later excavators of the tomb suffered no ill effects. The show fails to note that the “curse” was invoked at the time because Berg had been hated by the natives for his imposition of harsh German colonial policies, including disarmament and restrictions on cultural expression. It was part of native efforts to resist colonial rule, a constant source of tension during the German administration of the island.
Isokelekel was the son of the Thunder God, but he is not typically described as a giant, so Peiropan is being a bit deceptive in arguing that Berg went hunting for giants. Nevertheless, the show rehearses the deaths of several people who went searching for giants in order to establish the claim that there is a curse that affects those who seek out big bones, and the Vieira brothers are in danger. And yet the Vieira brothers still live.

The brothers take off for Catalina Island in California, where earlier this year Nephilim researcher L. A. Marzulli helped them to find archival information about the “giants” supposedly unearthed there by a con man and fraud, Ralph Glidden. Marzulli made an upset blog post after the Vieira brothers’ show declined to include Marzulli in the episode or give him credit for finding a particular photograph of a “giant” in the archives of Glidden’s museum.

Terje Dahl, a Norwegian giant hunter who worked with Thor Heyerdahl, speaks with the brothers by video chat link and tells the brothers that Catalina Island may have been an outpost of the same legendary giants from Pacific Islander mythology. Jim Vieira and Ancient Aliens pundit Hugh Newman (now described as a “giant hunter”) contact a forensic sketch artist to ask him to draw a picture of a giant. To what end, I don’t know.

After the break, the show tries to fabricate a giant “curse” by exploiting Terje Dahl’s hospitalization upon his arrival in Los Angeles, in a hospital that conveniently allowed a television crew to film in his hospital room. Dahl had trouble breathing after deplaning, and he asserts that “archaeologists” have told him that “my research on giants can be dangerous.” Dahl, an elderly man, suffered blood clots in his lungs, but the show seems to want us to believe that there is a supernatural component to the giants. Dahl, oddly enough, manages to have a “giant” tooth somewhere underneath his hospital gown, and he gives it to the brothers. He tells them that the tooth is actually a “replica” modeled on one from the Denisova Cave in Russia. The real tooth does in fact exist and belonged not to Homo sapiens but to the genetically distinct population of Denisovans, another branch of the human family tree. You can read about the tooth in National Geographic, where the conspiracy conveniently hid it from giant hunters. Oh, right: No one hid this.

Dahl believes that the Denisovans were “more advanced than us” (meaning Paleolithic Homo sapiens) and populated the Pacific and North America, becoming the giants of old, the men of renown.

Meanwhile Hugh Newman from Ancient Aliens is in New York City gathering data on giants for creating a sketch of giants, and Newman focuses on learning about double rows of teeth. He meets with a dental anthropologist Shara Bailey, who says she’s never seen double rows of teeth. She discusses supernumerary teeth, which she says were not uncommon among Native Americans, and especially not uncommon among taller Native Americans.

On Catalina Island, the Vieira brothers go to the Catalina Island Museum and pretend to “discover” the material that L. A. Marzulli directed them toward earlier this year. The brothers look into Glidden’s research, and make notes about the skeletons Glidden found, including one with a 28-inch thigh bone. It’s hard though to credit Glidden’s reports since he faked so much of his research for financial gain. Next, the men review the specific photograph Marzulli directed them toward, and they present this as their own discovery. They say they will have it analyzed, but the show drops this point, presumably to make it a dramatic revelation in a future episode.
Picture
The photograph, as it appeared on L.A. Marzulli's blog.
As I noted back when Marzulli complained about the Vieira brothers, the photograph offers little by way of evidence since it appears to be staged and there is no way to determine whether the bones seen in it are genuine or are among the fabrications and fakes Glidden acquired alongside genuine bones he imported from other sites around the world to create a morbid museum of charnel curiosity. Even the Vieira brothers notice that Glidden’s records are so slipshod that there is no way to determine whether anything he found was genuine. The Vieira brothers are upset by Glidden’s museum and feel it disrespectful to the dead to disturb their rest any longer. Nevertheless, Bill Vieira takes a helicopter to shoot photos of Catalina Island, which reveal some of Glidden’s old excavation sites. Jim Vieira feels that the island has “bad mojo” because of the desecrated graves, though I am at a loss for why looting these graves is worse than the brothers’ plan to excavate what they believe is a “giant” grave in Goshen, Massachusetts. Is there a magic number of desecrated graves that turns science into horror? Or is it only that Glidden displayed the bones for profit and for the entertainment of his museum’s visitors, while the Vieira brothers only want to display any bones they find on national television for the entertainment of their audience?

After another break, Newman continues working with the sketch artist to waste time.

The Vieira brothers are now in Arizona to meet with Carlos Hayes, son of the ethnologist Paxson C. Hayes, who claimed to have discovered a lost city of giants and dozens of giant skeletons on both sides of the Mexican border. In 1929 Paxson Hayes claimed that in New Mexico he found well-preserved seven-foot-tall mummies, which had slanted eyes and sloping foreheads, and that these mummies were preserved with resin and had their burial clothes bound in fiber. Needless to say, these mummies were never presented to the public. In 1950, at Barranco de Cobre, Paxson claimed to have found blond-haired giants who lived in buildings that he said resembled Arabian structures: “The ancient buildings in the cave,” Hayes told the Tucson Daily Citizen on November 15, 1950, “were constructed of a cement-like masonry mixed with bamboo. The huts looked much like mosques.” Cement and bamboo. For blond giants.

This is rather surprising considering that on August 25, 1933, Paxton told the Brewster Herald in Washington State that he believed that the lost race of giants were about six-foot-seven, and had long black beards. They were “slant eyed” Mongoloids from Asia who used crossbows and lived around 4000 BCE. Oh, and their feet were only six inches long!

Carlos Hayes tells the Vieira brothers that he believes his father really did find giants and a lost civilization, but provided no evidence of them. The younger Hayes hopes that the Vieira brothers can find the evidence needed to prove his father right.

Jim Vieira and Hugh Newman look at a sketch of a giant, which is based on pretty much nothing but hearsay about big jaws and double teeth, and the result is—well, it’s a picture. It’s based on Native American physiognomy, so I guess that excludes the Levantine and Aryan giants, like the blond guys Paxson Hayes was after, or the “slant-eyed Mongoloids,” also like the ones Paxson Hayes was after. This is just a big Native American stereotype with a big jaw.

The narrator helpfully informs us that all that is left is for the Vieiras to find “one conclusive piece of evidence.” Oh, is that all?

As the hour screeches to an unwieldy halt, the Vieira brothers announce that the University of Massachusetts will be excavating the Goshen Tunnel, so the remains of any giant therein can be displayed for the entertainment of all the show’s viewers—which is somehow completely different from Glidden’s museum of morbid skeletal curiosities because these guys are trying to prove something by demonstrating that at least one person in the past attained heights of seven to eight feet, the same heights documented throughout history and still attained by individuals today. I still don’t see how one skeleton will prove anything about a “lost race” of giants.
34 Comments
JaredMithrandir link
11/26/2014 03:29:07 am

Since your so good at tracking down the origins of these oft repeated memes of fringe History. I'd like to know where the claim that there was a King of the Franks named Francio who died in 11 BC came from?

Reply
Jason Colavito link
11/26/2014 04:04:24 am

Francus (or Francio) was a medieval invention proposed as a rationalization for the name of the Franks. Francus was alleged to be a Trojan who fled the Fall of Troy, just like Aeneas. He was an artifact of Merovingian historiography looking to give the Franks a Trojan heritage, on par with the Romans. This is comparable to Snorri Sturluson's identification of the Norse gods with the Trojans several centuries later.

Reply
Not the Comte de Saint Germain
11/26/2014 04:14:15 am

It's funny how medieval thinkers compulsively labeled peoples as either descendants of Trojans or of biblical peoples. Partly, the newly powerful nations of Europe wanted to imagine some tenuous connection with the classical past—Francus for the Franks and "Brutus of Troy" for the British. But how many non-European peoples got labeled as Lost Tribes of Israel? Apparently, Europeans had difficulty imagining that new peoples they encountered could have been off their radar the entire time.

JaredMithrandir link
11/26/2014 09:20:05 am

Francus who fled Troy wouldn't be linked to specially 11 BC however? That's the specific mystery I'm looking for.

Those Medieval European were simply following the example of The Romans.

Jason Colavito link
11/26/2014 09:29:52 am

As far as I can tell, that later Francio was an interpolation to fill a hole in the succession from the primeval Franks to the Merovingians. He was probably given the name to serve as the eponymous ancestor specifically of the West Franks rather than all Franks.

Clete
11/26/2014 03:32:47 am

I think there is a mistake. "The Giant Curse" is that some network executive put this travesty on the air.

Reply
Scott Hamilton
11/26/2014 04:17:28 am

I love how fringe researchers just incorporate whatever scientific headlines they see on Yahoo into their theories. Denisovans were more advanced that H. sapiens at the same time? What possible evidence can Dahl have for that statement? From what little we can tell about Denisova culture, it was hard to distinguish from H. neantherthalesis, and in any case we're talking about populations living 500,000 to 40,000 BP -- long before any kind of history, so how could the Denisovans be "men of renown?"

Reply
Jason Colavito link
11/26/2014 04:36:18 am

That phrasing was my own, not his, for dramatic effect. He did say the part about them being more advanced, and he suggested that they were the inspiration for the giants of myth. I phrased it as "men of renown" to allude to Genesis 6:4, which is clearly what he was trying to imply.

Reply
Terje Dahl link
11/26/2014 05:55:27 pm

"The fossil was found with modern technology and ornaments, including a very beautiful bracelet" So says Johannes Krause, a researcher at the institute that examined the findings in the Denisova cave. The fossil is about 40.000 years old. We homo sapiens did not have modern technology and beautiful bracelets at that time!

Reply
Terje Dahl link
11/26/2014 05:57:59 pm

You can read my articles about giants on my webpages here: http://www.sydhav.no/giants/giants.htm

Gary
11/27/2014 01:43:59 am

Will you please provide links to the photo of the bracelet and the advanced technology? What technology are you referring to and how was it dated to the same era as the tooth?

Terje Dahl link
11/27/2014 12:49:33 pm

http://www.sydhav.no/giants/denisova_giants_egypt.htm

Gary
11/27/2014 01:27:14 pm

The link had no mention of what this technology was that was found in the cave. It says that it was carbon dated to 40,000 ya. Is it made of wood, this "modern technology"? Also, no photo or description of the bracelet. What was it made of? I asked for more information on your claim, but you chose not to supply it.

EP
11/27/2014 02:15:48 pm

This is so confused! Dahl's own article says that the elongated skull was found "a few hundred kilometres away from the Denisova cave in Altai Krai, just south of the city of Omsk". These elongated skulls, which have indeed been found there, have NOTHING to do with Denisovans OR giants OR a distinct superior master race!

http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist/RTV/2009/01/15/RTV84809/

The skulls "were found in burial mounds that are believed to date from the 4th century AD" and it is therefore quite possible that they would have been buried with bracelets or other jewelry from, say, Rome, India or China (which could easily have made its way to South-Western Siberia through decades or even centuries of trade). None of this has anything to do with the date of 40000 years ago.

Mark L
11/27/2014 09:02:21 pm

Hey Terje, thanks for visiting this site and being willing to take part. You mentioned a bracelet in your post, but the link you provided doesn't actually give any evidence of the existence of the bracelet. As I'm sure you can understand, I'm sort of unwilling to just take someone's word for it when it comes to something as strange as this - could you provide photos of this amazing find please?

Only Me
11/28/2014 06:47:43 pm

@ a critic's critic, AKA JAD

You are not qualified to be a critic of anyone or anything when you call Dahl's master race horseshit "a unique take on human history".

.
11/29/2014 07:21:46 pm

his take on the Denisovans IS unique...

I am more familiar with John Hawks

maybe i am simply more polite than you.


http://www.nature.com/news/new-dna-analysis-shows-ancient-humans-interbred-with-denisovans-1.11331

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/neandertals/neandertal_dna/naming-denisovans-2014.html

http://www.livinganthropologically.com/2012/08/30/denisovan-brains/

a critic's critic
11/29/2014 07:51:11 pm

we have been looking at Neandertal craniums for 150 years
and we only recently have gotten DNA sequences for them
that actually do tell us what they were like. the one small lil
finger bone and the two teeth handed us groups of people
with similar DNA and a much more open and profound riddle.
Maybe i am wrong, perhaps Terje Dahl is less unique & more
more like Robert E. Howard than I care to think! It does look as
if his Conan the Barbarian is a semi-literate clever Denisovan.

Only Me
11/29/2014 08:13:10 pm

Dickey, there is no reason to be polite when someone like Dahl claims the Denisovans were "Nordic" people and became the "divine kings" ruling over all others. It is especially unnecessary when he further claims their downfall came from interbreeding with non-whites. That is racism, pure and simple. In other words, to hell with being polite.

And Dickey, before you go making comparisons between primitive humans and Conan, you should familiarize yourself with the character. Conan was more than a barbarian and swordsman; he happened to be quite intelligent.

.
11/30/2014 06:51:27 am

spooky had an interesting post that says their
DNA sequence gives them brown eyes, skin and hair.
how nice of Terje Dahl to assume a cranial capacity
and intellect for them very much like the most
actualized Neandertal or even our less gracile
Early Modern Human ancestors. He assumes they
were like the wave of humans who left Africa some
60,000 to 50,000 years ago. The interbreeding did
compensate for the bottleneck narrowing of the
human genome the Great Drought engendered.
We, the Denisovans and the Neandertal mated.
this last braided stream interbreeding got us all off
the endangered species list. we are like the cheetahs.
chimps and bonobos are more diverse. Conan came
in three basic types, all similar, all able to interbreed.
the Neolithic Revolution is the line of demarcation
that multiplied some superficial traits over others....

Only Me
11/30/2014 01:37:46 pm

*Sigh*

I'm going to go play with my blender, now. At least I know when I put something in it, I get back something of substance.

Terje Dahl link
11/30/2014 04:20:08 pm

I was given the tooth by the producer of the show at the time of the filming and was told that it was a replica of the Denisova tooth. Lying in a hospital bed and with cameras rolling I had no chance to check. I remember I was thinking that it did not look exactly like the Denisova tooth from the cave that I had seen on the internet but I also new that picture was from one side only. And that it was found two teeth in the cave, this might be a replica of the other one?
Was it a replica of an animal tooth I was given? I do not know, I am not a vet or a doctor. But the archaeologists that found the first Denisova tooth thought it was that of en extinct cave bear since it was so large. They should know the difference between an animal tooth and a human but the Denisovans was not exactly like us Homo sapiens sapiens, they were another variety of archaic humans, like the Neanderthals! Nobody knows yet what they looked like. But: They seems to have had a more advanced technology than archaic homo sapiens, it was also found a stone bracelet with sigh of high-speed drilling in the cave at the same layer. I have read the article you link to and it is of course true that a large tooth not necessary mean that the individual is very tall. But it must be allowed to ask. And asking is what I am doing.
I did not really want to travel to the US to be part of the show because I was afraid that they would dramatise to much and make me look a fool. It turned out that I was right. But I went anyway. I was hoping that the show could get the publics attention to what seems to be a not very known part of human history, and that I could be able to get the Denisovans into the picture. Native Americans have around 0.2% Denisovan ancestry and it seems that in modern humans the frequency of Denisova DNA is the highest among North American Indians followed by Europeans.
What I am hoping is that descendants of the first settlers to the USA after seeing the show will come forwards with old large bone that was found in Indian mounds, so that they can be sequenced for DNA before they are repatriated. So many legends of the Americas tell about the tall, white people that came from over the sea. For me it is not important if these seafaring travellers were white, brown, green or pink but I believe that we need to find out who they where and why they had left their home country. Was it because of a world wide catastrophe as legends and scriptures all over the world say? Were they Denisovans, Neanderthal or might be a hybrid mixture of archaic humans? Or just kurgans? I have not been able to see the show yet, I am living in Australia. So I do not know how the filming went but I can assure you that the producer had his own clear ideas of what should be filmed and said. And I fear that so much of the little I was allowed to say has been edited so it is totally out of context. I also feel sorry for Jim Vieira. As me he really wants to know the truth about what we call giants, but I am afraid that the shows will try to do the opposite - just create a general opinion that giants never have existed. But we do know that we have had very tall humans in pre-history, we do have fossil bones after them! But they were not always called giants - just tall human species. And the theory is that they went extinct before Homo sapiens sapiens existed; might be that we were the cause that they died out. Again: I am not so sure that this is the case - and we need to know the truth: Without knowing the past it can be very difficult to say something about the future. http://www.sydhav.no/giants/secret.htm
terje@sydhav.no

EP
12/1/2014 07:10:58 am

@ Terje Dahl

LOL owned

[jad]
12/2/2014 10:48:59 pm

some of the Gigantopithicus teeth found in China, although
very large by comparison to our teeth, are about 2/3rds the
size of the most massive ones that have been found. if it is
not a human tooth but a Gigantopithicus tooth that was copied
and made into a replica, you'd have a big tooth that looks very
human. the experts think "Giganto" went about on all fours,
and was only rarely bipedal, however there have been no
hip bones found, only several jaws and some teeth. its the
ratio of their teeth to ours that suggests a true "giant" if they
are upright and fully bipedal. Gigantopithicus is a Great Ape.

John link
12/10/2014 10:12:46 am

Maybe the Nephilim weren't necessarily literally giants if they existed. Many interpret the word as derivative of the Hebrew word for "fall" and take it to mean "fallen ones" or "fallen" or "apostates" or "ones who have fallen" or "those that cause others to fall down" or "the ones falling" or "the ones falling upon their enemies." Some other translations include "ones who are appointed," "ones who are bound," or "the violent ones." The Bible states that the Nephilim are the offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men." In this case "sons of God" is referring to heavenly beings. Some extrabiblical texts expand on this narrative saying that an angel named either Samyaza or Azazel depending on which text you read led a group of angels who would be known as the Grigori or the Watchers to swear an oath to sin against God and choose human mates. These angels fit the description of what many would consider fallen angels. Sons of God is used elsewhere in the Bible to refer to angels. So this means that according to the Bible there was a period of time on Earth where there were half-human half-heavenly being people. Perhaps these are what many people believed to be demigods or half-god half-men, such as Hercules or Theseus or Perseus, who in mythology are considered men of renown. If this is the case, then many mythological stories of demigods would be true. Just an idea.

Reply
Terje
12/10/2014 05:01:10 pm

You are of course into something important - if you believe in the Christian bible or not (there were Gods in all religions, and most of them were described as giants)! Read an article I have written today - here: http://www.sydhav.no/giants/history_channel.htm

spookyparadigm
11/26/2014 04:50:27 am

Ancient Aliens, both the tv show and the general larger "community/field" occasionally involves fraudulent artifacts or claims, but by and large is outlandish ideas based on logically or methodologically problematic speculation.

Whereas this is just going from fish story to fish story, isn't it? Tale after tale of "I totally dug up ancient bones, but I can't show them to you/they were lost/the evil international bankers and the government took them/the dog ate them."

Reply
Kal
11/26/2014 07:54:42 am

In the Japanese cartoon Macross, called Robotech in the US, the Zeltreadi giants call humans 'Micronians;. They are 50 feet tall. The Micronesians however were not necessarily little people. Are they basing this name on a translation mistake? If they were micro people, then anyone regular height like 6 feet would look like a giant. And PT Barnum was right. As for the tooth that isn't there, I wonder how long it took for him to make it out of soapstone? And you cannot know from just a tooth what the creature was. Humans have canine teeth and yet we're not dogs. By their logic, anything could be something old, literally, and that discarded chicken bone in the back yard is really a fossilized micro human femur.

These shows seem to believe anyone will buy their nearly insane drivel. History channel has become the mystery and BS channel.

They're going to gravitate to old stories and hoaxes because they have nothing else, like finding an actual bigfoot or catching a ghost, or being contacted and probed by aliens allegedly.

It's ironic that these fringe shows claim aliens or giants did stuff, but humans couldn't have, and then turn around and claim humans could. They must start to believe their tripe after a while.

I think a debunking these shows type of show would be awesome.

Reply
FrankenNewYork
11/26/2014 02:36:04 pm

Some of the worst acting I've seen so far. The "looks of concern" in the hospital room recreation sent me into fits of laughter. Also good for a laugh was- it serves no archeological purpose, without a smile, a touch of irony or self consciousness the man says it serves no archeological purpose about the hoaxes of a known charlatan whose unverified (at best) evidence he then uses to support his own claims. Wow.

Reply
Steve in SoDak
11/26/2014 04:30:05 pm

I've tried to watch this show, but it really makes some of the SyFy channel original movies look like they put some effort into it. Don't get me wrong I love bad movies when the people that make them know they are bad, but these clowns with the giant search think they are actually doing something, thus I haven't made it to the end of an episode without falling asleep. Just in case History channel is keeping track I fall into the 18 to 49 male demographic.

Reply
Andy link
11/28/2014 04:33:38 pm

I've been looking at the "double rows of teeth" issue:

http://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog/the-modern-mythology-of-giants-double-rows-of-teeth

More to come later.

Reply
Dave Lewis
11/29/2014 06:13:31 am

I think Jason channeled H. P. Lovecraft when he wrote, "a morbid museum of charnel curiosity."

Reply
Andy link
11/29/2014 11:11:58 pm

I'm trying to figure out what kind of tooth that was that Terje Dahl produced, because it surely wasn't a "replica" of the Denisovan tooth.

http://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog/the-modern-mythology-of-giants-why-is-it-so-hard-to-tell-the-truth

Reply
G-II-G-A-N-T-O-P-II-T-II-C-U-S
12/3/2014 11:11:59 pm

its my tooth from 1oo,ooo years ago.
human teeth are puny when mature.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~bioanth/giganto.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/science-nature/did-bigfoot-really-exist-how-gigantopithecus-became-extinct-16649201/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2236026

Identification of opal phytoliths bonded to the enamel surface of the teeth of Gigantopithecus blacki indicates that this extinct ape had a varied diet of grasses and fruits. By using the scanning electron microscope at magnifications of 2000-6000x specific opal phytoliths were observed and photographed on the fossilized teeth of an extinct species. Since opal phytoliths represent the inorganic remains of once-living plant cells, their documentation on the teeth of Gigantopithecus introduces a promising technique for the determination of diet in extinct mammalian species which should find numerous applications in the field of paleoanthropology as well as vertebrate paleontology.

Reply

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Blog
    Picture

    Author

    I am an author and researcher focusing on pop culture, science, and history. Bylines: New Republic, Esquire, Slate, etc. There's more about me in the About Jason tab.

    Become a Patron!
    Tweets by JasonColavito
    Picture

    Newsletters

    Enter your email below to subscribe to my newsletter for updates on my latest projects, blog posts, and activities, and subscribe to Culture & Curiosities, my Substack newsletter.

    powered by TinyLetter

    Blog Roll

    Ancient Aliens Debunked
    Picture
    A Hot Cup of Joe
    ArchyFantasies
    Bad UFOs
    Mammoth Tales
    Matthew R. X. Dentith
    PaleoBabble
    Picture

    Categories

    All
    Alternative Archaeology
    Alternative Archaeology
    Alternative History
    Alternative History
    America Unearthed
    Ancient Aliens
    Ancient Astronauts
    Ancient History
    Ancient Texts
    Ancient Texts
    Archaeology
    Atlantis
    Conspiracies
    Giants
    Habsburgs
    Horror
    King Arthur
    Knights Templar
    Lovecraft
    Mythology
    Occult
    Popular Culture
    Popular Culture
    Projects
    Pyramids
    Racism
    Science
    Skepticism
    Ufos
    Weird Old Art
    Weird Things
    White Nationalism

    Terms & Conditions

    Please read all applicable terms and conditions before posting a comment on this blog. Posting a comment constitutes your agreement to abide by the terms and conditions linked herein.

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010

    RSS Feed

Picture
Home  |  Blog  |  Books  | Contact  |  About Jason | Terms & Conditions
© 2010-2023 Jason Colavito. All rights reserved.

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Books
    • Legends of the Pyramids
    • The Mound Builder Myth
    • Jason and the Argonauts
    • Cult of Alien Gods >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Foundations of Atlantis
    • Knowing Fear >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Hideous Bit of Morbidity >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Cthulhu in World Mythology >
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
      • Necronomicon Fragments
      • Oral Histories
    • Fiction >
      • Short Stories
      • Free Fiction
    • JasonColavito.com Books >
      • Faking History
      • Unearthing the Truth
      • Critical Companion to Ancient Aliens
      • Studies in Ancient Astronautics (Series) >
        • Theosophy on Ancient Astronauts
        • Pyramidiots!
        • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • Fiction Anthologies >
        • Unseen Horror >
          • Contents
          • Excerpt
        • Moon Men! >
          • Contents
      • The Orphic Argonautica >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • The Faust Book >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • Classic Reprints
      • eBook Minis
    • Free eBooks >
      • Origin of the Space Gods
      • Ancient Atom Bombs
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Ancient America
      • Horror & Science
  • Articles
    • Skeptical Xenoarchaeologist Newsletter >
      • Volumes 1-10 Archive >
        • Volume 1 Archive
        • Volume 2 Archive
        • Volume 3 Archive
        • Volume 4 Archive
        • Volume 5 Archive
        • Volume 6 Archive
        • Volume 7 Archive
        • Volume 8 Archive
        • Volume 9 Archive
        • Volume 10 Archive
      • Volumes 11-20 Archive >
        • Volume 11 Archive
        • Volume 12 Archive
        • Volume 13 Archive
        • Volume 14 Archive
        • Volume 15 Archive
        • Volume 16 Archive
        • Volume 17 Archive
        • Volume 18 Archive
        • Volume 19 Archive
        • Volume 20 Archive
      • Volumes 21-30 Archive >
        • Volume 21 Archive
        • Volume 22 Archive
    • Television Reviews >
      • Ancient Aliens Reviews
      • In Search of Aliens Reviews
      • America Unearthed
      • Pirate Treasure of the Knights Templar
      • Search for the Lost Giants
      • Forbidden History Reviews
      • Expedition Unknown Reviews
      • Legends of the Lost
      • Unexplained + Unexplored
      • Rob Riggle: Global Investigator
    • Book Reviews
    • Galleries >
      • Bad Archaeology
      • Ancient Civilizations >
        • Ancient Egypt
        • Ancient Greece
        • Ancient Near East
        • Ancient Americas
      • Supernatural History
      • Book Image Galleries
    • Videos
    • Collection: Ancient Alien Fraud >
      • Chariots of the Gods at 50
      • Secret History of Ancient Astronauts
      • Of Atlantis and Aliens
      • Aliens and Ancient Texts
      • Profiles in Ancient Astronautics >
        • Erich von Däniken
        • Robert Temple
        • Giorgio Tsoukalos
        • David Childress
      • Blunders in the Sky
      • The Case of the False Quotes
      • Alternative Authors' Quote Fraud
      • David Childress & the Aliens
      • Faking Ancient Art in Uzbekistan
      • Intimations of Persecution
      • Zecharia Sitchin's World
      • Jesus' Alien Ancestors?
      • Extraterrestrial Evolution?
    • Collection: Skeptic Magazine >
      • America Before Review
      • Native American Discovery of Europe
      • Interview: Scott Sigler
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Oh the Horror
      • Discovery of America
      • Supernatural Television
      • Review of Civilization One
      • Who Lost the Middle Ages
      • Charioteer of the Gods
    • Collection: Ancient History >
      • Prehistoric Nuclear War
      • The China Syndrome
      • Atlantis, Mu, and the Maya
      • Easter Island Exposed
      • Who Built the Sphinx?
      • Who Built the Great Pyramid?
      • Archaeological Cover Up?
    • Collection: The Lovecraft Legacy >
      • Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft
      • Lovecraft in Bergier
      • Lovecraft and Scientology
    • Collection: UFOs >
      • Alien Abduction at the Outer Limits
      • Aliens and Anal Probes
      • Ultra-Terrestrials and UFOs
      • Rebels, Queers, and Aliens
    • Scholomance: The Devil's School
    • Prehistory of Chupacabra
    • The Templars, the Holy Grail, & Henry Sinclair
    • Magicians of the Gods Review
    • The Curse of the Pharaohs
    • The Antediluvian Pyramid Myth
    • Whitewashing American Prehistory
    • James Dean's Cursed Porsche
  • The Library
    • Ancient Mysteries >
      • Ancient Texts >
        • Mesopotamian Texts >
          • Atrahasis Epic
          • Epic of Gilgamesh
          • Kutha Creation Legend
          • Babylonian Creation Myth
          • Descent of Ishtar
          • Berossus
          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
          • Eratosthenes' King List
          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
          • The Three Hermeses
          • Kore Kosmou
          • Corpus Hermeticum
          • The Asclepius
          • The Emerald Tablet
          • Hermetic Fragments
          • Prologue to the Kyranides
          • The Secret of Creation
          • Ancient Alphabets Explained
          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
        • Periplus of Hanno
        • Ctesias' Indica
        • Sanchuniathon
        • Sima Qian
        • Syncellus's Enoch Fragments
        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
        • Sepher Yetzirah
        • Tacitus' Germania
        • De Dea Syria
        • Aelian's Various Histories
        • Julius Africanus' Chronography
        • Eusebius' Chronicle
        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
        • Fragments of Panodorus
        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
        • Agobard on Magonia
        • Book of Thousands
        • Voyage of Saint Brendan
        • Power of Art and of Nature
        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
        • Yazidi Revelation and Black Book
        • Al-Biruni on the Great Flood
        • Voyage of the Zeno Brothers
        • The Kensington Runestone (Hoax)
        • Islamic Discovery of America
        • The Aztec Creation Myth
      • Lost Civilizations >
        • Atlantis >
          • Plato's Atlantis Dialogues >
            • Timaeus
            • Critias
          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
          • Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Santorini and Atlantis
          • The Mound Builders and Atlantis
          • Donnelly's Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Morocco
          • Atlantis and the Sea Peoples
          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
            • The Lost Lemuria
          • The Lost Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Africa
          • How I Found Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Termier on Atlantis
          • The Critias and Minoan Crete
          • Rebuttal to Termier
          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
          • The Seven Cities
          • The Lost City of Paititi
          • Manuscript 512
          • The Idolatrous City of Iximaya (Hoax)
          • The 1885 Moberly Lost City Hoax
          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
        • Oronteus Finaeus Antarctica Map
        • Caucasians in Panama
        • Jefferson's Excavation
        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
        • Mound Builders
        • Gunung Padang
        • Tales of Enchanted Islands
        • The 1907 Ancient World Map Hoax
        • The 1909 Grand Canyon Hoax
        • The Interglacial Period
        • Solving Oak Island
      • Religious Conspiracies >
        • Pantera, Father of Jesus?
        • Toledot Yeshu
        • Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay on Cathars
        • Testimony of Jean de Châlons
        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
        • The Life of St. Issa (Hoax)
        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
          • Fossil Bones of Teutobochus
          • Fossil Mammoths and Giants
          • Giants' Bones Dug Out of the Earth
          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
        • Iron: The Stone from Heaven
        • Ararat and the Ark
        • Pyramid Facts and Fancies
        • Argonauts before Homer
        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
      • US Government Ancient Astronaut Files >
        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
      • Demonology and Witchcraft
      • Thaumaturgia
      • Bulgarian Vampires
      • Religion and Evolution
      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
    • Free Classic Pseudohistory eBooks
  • About Jason
    • Biography
    • Jason in the Media
    • Contact Jason
    • About JasonColavito.com
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Search