Anyone functioning within the field of research pertaining to giants and/or Nephilim (and the inevitably accompanying alienology and/or UFOlogy) has seen the photos of giant human skeletons being dug up and which are followed up by claims that the Smithsonian always hides these within Indiana Jones-like massive warehouses.
Whatever truth there is to this one fact is that there is also a lot of falsehoods to it and the fields of giant, Nephilim, aliens, UFO research are utterly saturated with misinformation and exaggerations—see, Did the Supreme Court prove that the Smithsonian destroyed giant skeletons?
James Owen wrote ““Skeleton of Giant” Is Internet Photo Hoax,” National Geographic News, December 14, 2007 AD.
He and those he quotes seem to agree on one thing: photos have been manipulated and those who promulgate them do so for religious purposes. Sadly, this is very true you see if your “ministry” is based on tall tales of giants and/or Nephilim returning then you have to go out there every day and make something even if it is out of nothing: gigantes ex nihilo.
Owen referenced a 2002 AD photo which was “doctored” by a person who’s pseudonym is IronKite which was produced for a site called Worth1000 which hosted photo-manipulation competitions, the entry was titled, “Archaeological Anomalies 2.”
The original photo was of a mastodon excavation in Hyde Park, New York, in 2000 AD.
IronKite stated, “Sometimes people seem so desperate to believe in something that they lie to themselves, or exaggerate in order to make their own argument stronger.”
It has been claimed that “a report supposedly published in the Times of India on April 22, 2004. But a search of that newspaper’s archive revealed no such article.” Also, in 2007 AD “India’s Hindu Voice monthly, for example, claimed that a National Geographic Society team, in collaboration with the Indian Army, had dug up a giant human skeleton in India” but then paper later admitted that it had no actual sources for the mere assertion.
The Museum of Hoaxes site creator Alex Boese noted that hoaxes such as “fake giants have a long history going back to the at least the 1700s.” An example offered is the Cardiff Giant, “dug up in 1869 in Cardiff, New York…Many people believed the figure was a petrified man and claimed he was one of the giants mentioned in the Bible’s Book of Genesis: ‘There were giants in the Earth in those days.’” It was just a sculpted stone.
Following are some of the article’s statements regarding the religious angel. If you are interested in buttressing your religious claims then making a public spectacle of yourself as being very gullible or a hoaxer on the world wide web is no way to go about it—capiche?!?!
…found a receptive online audience—thanks perhaps to the image’s unintended religious connotations…
The account added that the team also found tablets with inscriptions that suggest the giant belonged to a race of superhumans that are mentioned in the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic poem from about 200 B.C….
…alleged discovery of a 60- to 80-foot long (18- to 24-meter) human skeleton in Saudi Arabia…surfaced in 2004…is held up as evidence of giants mentioned in Islamic, rather than Hindu, scriptures…
It was argued, for instance, that the Saudi Arabian find was entirely consistent with the teachings of the Koran…
David Mikkelson of Snopes.com said such hoaxes succeed when they seem to confirm something people are already inclined to believe, such as a prejudice, political viewpoint, or religious belief…‘It appeals to both a religious and a secular vision of the world as different…’
Likewise, Boese said, the recent giant hoax “taps into people’s desire for mystery and their desire to see concrete confirmation of religious legends.”
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