I’ve read a book and seen on YT alleged giant skeletons up to 15 feet high, with double rows of teeth top and bottom and six fingers/six toes on each hand/foot, extra joints, extra hand and foot bones, extra ribs, extremely high foreheads have been dug up in the USA in the Indian Burial Mounds in the middle of the country. Some slightly smaller of about 8-11 feet tall have been found in the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia, inside of caves. This was mostly in the 1920’s. Many of them were displayed around the country as entertainment. For a small fee, families could make a day of it. Pay your family nickel or 2c. apiece to see the Biblical Giant’s skeleton and have a family picnic in the park. But then they just sort of disappeared from sight, the media, and memory as the US slid into the Depression.
It is said many of them were donated to universities for study, but no university claims to have ever received such an item or studied one. Many of the skeletons are said to be locked in storage in the basement of the Museum of Natural History in NYC. Others say that’s an urban myth like the alligators living and breeding in NYC sewers. The infamous Scopes Trial about evolution may have played a factor in their sudden disappearance from display and flushing down the memory hole.
It’s interesting, for sure, but what difference does it really make? Some say they are the Nephilim or the cursed offspring of the Nephilim, the last of whom were wiped out in the Flood of Noah. Maybe the entire thing was a scam, like Piltdown Man. It would be fairly easy to fake such a thing even today. Make a giant skeleton out of plaster or in a 3-D copier. Set it up in a lab. Get some “archeologists” to study it, “carbon date” it, put it online and watch it go viral! But only a select few whom we must believe have ever actually seen it or examined it. It has to be kept in a special freezer at a specific temperature, humidity, and air pressure lest it decay into a puddle of mush. Lots of people would believe it. After all, we moderns “trust the science,” do we not?
Or maybe not!
Spending too much time on such matters can derail one’s spiritual life, family life, physical health, mental health, financial health…
Whether it’s true or not, “getting it right,” does not get us into Heaven or if we get it wrong, keep us out! Same with the moon landing, shape of the earth, geocentrism, heliocentrism, germs or no germs, nukes or no nukes, knowing who or what exactly happened on 9-11, do not determine our soul’s destiny.
By God’s grace in Heaven, the very smartest of us will find out we knew nothing on earth. We’ll probably find out Adam and Eve even after they fell, were smarter than today’s most advanced tech whizzes, nuclear physicists, polyglots, people with photographic memories, the nine year old boy who aced the State of Florida bar exam on the first try, having graduated high school on his sixth birthday. I’ve no idea what became of him or if he’s still living. If he died, I hope he saved his soul, but if he did, it wasn’t because he became a lawyer at age nine!
“For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”
[St. Paul 1 Corinthians 2:2]