See how I cleverly included all three last names for better searching? You'll understand that if you read Jason Colavito's latest post on "gigantology": Micah Hanks: The Hubris of Jason Colavito and Skeptics Over Giants Is "Worthy of Study." Basically, Micah Hanks is...
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On the Talmud and Giant Teeth
Jason Colavito has an interesting piece about "rows of teeth" and ancient giants supposedly supported by the Talmud. It's really about a plagiarized reference, but giant fans (no World Series pun intended there) will find it interesting. I left a comment that should...
More Nephilim-Bigfoot-Mound Builder-Peruvian Cone-Heads Flim-Flam
This would all be discouraging were not Jason Colavito's lengthy reviews of this stuff so entertaining. Both of these essays were posted this month. Annotations are mine. Creationist "Bigfoot" Veterinarian Wants Cash to Sequence Nephilim "Giant" DNA Readers will...
Giant Sarcophagus Leads to Discovery of Previously Unknown (and Normal-Sized) Pharaoh
News of this discovery (also here) has been circulating around the web today. An archaeological team from the University of Pennsylvania (on of my alma matres) has uncovered a Second Intermediate Period necropolis at Abydos, Egypt. The discovery includes the remains...
Giant Skeleton Hoaxes and Mis-Identifications
I've blogged several times about the pictures of giant human skeletons on the web that aren't what they seem to be. They fall into two categories: hoaxes and mis-identification of the remains of either dinosaurs or (more often) mastodons or mammoths. I recently came...
Sanctified Gullibility is Still Gullibility
It doesn't get much more embarrassing than this. Jason Colavito has a short write up on how Christian apologists are using a prop -- a giant human skeleton that isn't a skeleton at all -- from von Daniken's ancient astronaut theme park for the gullible. Since when is...
Modern Nephilim Nonsense: A Comparison Chart
For those Christian readers out there (and anyone else who follows this subject), I recently saw this essay come up in my Twitter account (thanks to Guy Malone for tweeting it). The "modern nephilim" idea -- that there is currently either a military effort to produce...
Discoveries of Giants and Giant Human Remains – Stretching the Truth or Just Tall Tales?
Jason Colavito has written some recent pieces on presumed discoveries of giant human specimens. Often such reports are simply not what they claim to be - evidence is misunderstood or even fabricated, or reports get garbled and transformed in transmission. Here are two...
Nephilim and Bigfoot: Can We Stop the Madness?
I wasn't sure where to post this piece of wackiness - here or at Paleobabble. This audience won (or lost) since the subject matter is so often associated with UFOs. Something interesting popped in my blog reader this week from the Cryptomundo blog - a post by Craig...
Brief Nephilim Note
I've added an archive page devoted to the nephilim discussion to try and arrange those items. It includes comment material. Editor's note: content copied here for ease of access. In March 2013 I posted a response to some criticisms of my understanding of the word...
My Thoughts on Nephilim: Answering a Criticism
Some readers have drawn my attention to this recent criticism of my understanding of the morphology of the word nephilim. I left some comments on that blog site, but thought it would be worth a post here. I'll try to be brief (stop laughing). First, it is true that...
Another Giant Human Skeleton That Isn't
I've blogged before about giant human skeletons that aren't giant human skeletons. The first two examples I blogged about were hoaxes, created with image editing software (see here and here). The Remnant of the Giants blog recently had an interesting post about a...
Giant Mistaken Identity
Hard to believe, but it's been three years since I blogged about Adrienne Mayor's book explaining references to giant skeletons and bones in ancient classical authors (The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times). It's highly recommended. Tonight I...
The Cardiff Giant Hoax
Editor's note: broken link removed. Many of you have no doubt heard of the Cardiff giant -- supposedly a genuine fossilized human giant discovered in 1869. Despite the conclusive evidence for a hoax, one can still find pictures of the giant on obscure websites where...
Giant Human Skeleton? Nope, Just Photoshop
I've had some recent email about this picture. Apparently there are still some who don't know this was a hoax. The link shows the photos and how the hoax was put together. There are many other such links, too. Cool, actually. Go here for the information. Editor's...