As most of you know, Adventists believe that our earliest forebears were substantially larger than modern humans, but gradually devolved to a smaller size after the Flood. We believe that we should find evidence of larger people in megalithic graves and other sites that are the remains of an early post-Flood diaspora. A couple of years ago I ran a series entitled the Genesis Giants:
Jim and Bill Vieira, the Vieira Brothers, both stonemasons from a small town in Massachusetts, became interested in the subject of giants. Jim, the younger brother, came across a local history of Deerfield, MA, which told of how an 8 foot tall skeleton with double rows of teeth had been dug up near the town. This began Jim's more than 20 year obsession with giants. He has found over 1,500 records of giants being excavated (a few of these records are found in part 4 of my series, the Genesis Giants).
But where are they now? Where are the physical remains of those disinterred giants, so frequently discussed in the 19th Century county and local histories of the United States? To find them is the quest the Vieira Brothers have launched themselves into.
They also got a television show on the History Channel out of it.
Below is Season 1, Episode 1, in which tells how the brothers became interested in the hunt for giants, and shows them exploring a prehistoric stone passage grave in Goshen, Massachusetts.
Note: commercials can be skipped after 4 seconds. Warning: the language is sometimes salty, although the worst is bleeped out.
Here is episode two, where the brothers travel down to the Ozarks to follow up on giant reports:
In the second episode, they are investigating the report of a discovery in 1933 of an 8 foot tall skeleton in a cave in the Ozarks. By combing through microfilm in the town library of the local newspaper, they find a story of the find, complete with a photograph of the 8 foot skeleton with a six foot man beside it for scale.
The newspaper story states that someone at the Smithsonian asked that the skeleton be sent there, and the local doctor, named Parker, complied.
Native American author and professor of law emeritus, Vine Deloria, writes:
“It’s probably better that so few of the ruins and remains were tied in with the Smithsonian because they give good reason to believe the ending of the Indiana Jones movie—a great warehouse where the real secrets of earth history are buried.”
“Modern-day archaeology and anthropology have nearly sealed the door on our imaginations, broadly interpreting the North American past as devoid of anything unusual in the way of great cultures characterized by a people of unusual demeanor. The great interloper of ancient burial grounds, the nineteenth century Smithsonian Institution, created a one-way portal, through which uncounted bones have been spirited. This door and the contents of its vault are virtually sealed off to any but government officials. Among these bones may lie answers not even sought by these officials concerning the deep past.” Ross Hamilton, “Holocaust of Giants: The Great Smithsonian Cover-up.” See also David Hatcher Childress, “Archaeological Cover-ups?” NEXUS New Times magazine, vol. 2 no. 13 (April-May 1993).