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Nikkiana Jones, Exploring the Fringe

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Giant Skeletons, Megalith Legends & the Smithsonian with Hugh Newman and Jim Vieira — Part 1 of 4 | Classics Rotation

Nikkiana Jones, Exploring the Fringe · Nov 8, 2026 · 18:20

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Researchers and co-authors Hugh Newman and Jim Vieira explain how they check old newspaper and archaeological reports of giant skeletons, and why they say so many megalithic sites carry giant legends. A good starting point if you want the evidence-first side of the giants question, including a famous account they say they debunked themselves.

Jim walks through the Sayre mound "horned skeletons" story from Pennsylvania, saying A.B. Skinner's own letter to the New York Times described normal-sized burials with deer antlers, and he describes checking editorials, records, descendants, universities and Smithsonian files before using an account. Hugh says they know of more than 1,500 North American accounts plus a few hundred in Britain. Jim argues the giants in the legends were "tall ones," a shamanic or druidic elite who brought a geometric megalithic science, not "some big oaf" stacking stones, and Hugh adds the British giantess legends of stones falling from a broken apron to form stone circles. On the host's question about Lovelock Cave, Jim describes two traditions: cannibalistic marauding giants and the shining ones who taught civilization, along with biblical Nephilim, six-fingered rock art and genetic-engineering myths. Asked "where are the bones?", Hugh says many crumble when exposed and recounts a 14-foot-10-inch skeleton reported near Salisbury and witnessed by Sir Thomas Elyot, John Leland and William Camden. Jim cites Smithsonian and university reports of large Adena skeletons and massive jaws, then says that while most academics aren't part of any plot, Smithsonian anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička pushed the giant reports aside. These are the speakers' own accounts and views.

This is an archival replay, not current news. Original YouTube publish date: April 23, 2022. Source timestamps: 0:00:14.250–0:18:34.200. Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi7n0CS1D_8

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Hugh and Jim are popular guys and they have done many an interview. We try to get to the meat of what this whole giant thing implies. Both super awesome and delightful people that if you haven’t, you need to look into all it is that they do! Enjoy the talk!

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