Open Veils · Answer
01 Were there giants in ancient America?
The suppressed record is richer and more specific than either credulous websites or debunkers acknowledge. Smithsonian-era dismissals were themselves politically motivated — the institution had an institutional stake in defending the 'Mound Builder' narrative it had already committed to. Newspaper accounts, Spanish colonial records, and Native oral traditions point toward something anomalous, even if the ten-foot figure is exaggerated. The question worth asking is not whether giants existed but why the physical record keeps disappearing.
Evidence
- The strongest documented case comes not from North America but from coastal Ecuador.
- In North America, the Smithsonian's own 19th-century Bureau of Ethnology reports catalogued hundreds of oversized skeletal remains from Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin mound complexes — some described by field agents as measuring seven to eight feet.
- Brien Foerster has drawn attention to elongated skulls from Peru and Bolivia — Paracas crania with cranial volumes exceeding normal human range — arguing they represent a distinct biological lineage, not simple head-binding.
- Lovelock Cave, Nevada, did produce red-haired mummified remains and oversized duck-decoy artifacts; the Paiute Si-Te-Cah oral tradition describes a race of red-haired cannibalistic enemies.
- Pedro de Cieza de León (1553) and Agustín de Zárate (1555) independently recorded the Manta tradition: giants arrived by sea on reed rafts, were of extraordinary stature, and were destroyed — Cieza says by fire from heaven, Zárate by divine judgment for 'unnatural vice.'