Giants human-like beings of tremendous size and strength fairy tales such as jack and the
beanstalk have formed the modern perception of giants as stupid and violent creatures sometimes
said to even eat humans giants have appeared in many ancient texts including the bible in the
book of genesis giants are named the nephilim and are descendants of fallen angels and human women
genesis 6 4 reads the nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterwards
when the sons of god came into the daughters of man and they born children unto them
these were the mighty men who were of old the men of renown around the turn of the 20th century the
new york times london globe and the scientific american published articles purporting the
discovery of gigantic human skeletons concluding that the remains were sent to the smithsonian
for further study but the fact that this evidence was never again seen or reported
continues to elicit questions of whether the smithsonian destroyed or hides giant skeletons
in order to cover up an inconvenient anomaly in the archaeological narrative we've been told
so are giants real or they just stuff of legend
and if they are real why the cover up
and what supposedly happened in afghanistan in 2002
when a special forces team was searching for a missing unit
hello i'm Mike Droberg a marine corps veteran filmmaker history enthusiast and investigator
of the supernatural and we will answer these questions on today's episode of forgotten history
in a now deleted video first posted on august 16 2016 la marzulli interviewed mr k
a man purporting to be a soldier who said he witnessed the giant of kandahar
mr k claimed he saw the giant carrying a spear and murdering a united states soldier named dan
before he and the other special forces members took it down
the killing of the giant mr k said took place during the height of operation enduring freedom
in 2002 when the military was engaged in fierce battles with the taliban and their de facto
capital in their kandahar providence during the u.s invasion of afghanistan it all began when in
2002 a group of soldiers went missing while on patrol in the remote region of kandahar in the
south of afghanistan when they failed to make radio contact for some time the army sent in
a special operations unit to investigate then while searching for the missing unit high up
in the mountains the special forces unit came across a cave with scattered army equipment
around but no sign of the missing soldiers and that's when they chanced upon the kandahar giant
though the tale grows with each telling some reports suggesting that humanoid grew as tall
as 15 feet this red-headed giant with six digits leather moccasins and smelling like
dead bodies suddenly emerged from a cave and attacked the soldiers impaling one with a spear
that's when the soldiers opened fire
between them the squad was armed with m4 carbines
an m249 light machine gun and an m107 barrett 50 cal sniper rifle this much firepower
concentrated on one target for one second let alone 30 would be extremely destructive
after the troops killed the giant they called in for an extraction
a chinook helicopter came and they loaded the giant into the
chinook which carried it to a transport plane and then no one ever saw it again
the soldiers were forced to sign an sf-312 the government's version of a non-disclosure
agreement in order to keep them all quiet but eventually the soldiers broke their
silence because as one of the men would say later people have the right to know the truth
in 2016 snopes reached out to the department of defense about the kandahar giant incident
the department of defense told the outlet in no uncertain terms that they had no record
of information about a special forces member killed by a giant in kandahar
what's more there are no press releases on the department of
defense website involving either special forces troop disappearing
in afghanistan or of any other incident involving soldiers failing a giant but would there be
of course as with any good conspiracy this lack of evidence isn't proof that the myth of the kandahar
giant doesn't exist in fact snopes debunking of the legend has had quite the opposite effect in
certain cryptid spaces which claim that the government is trying to hide the truth from
the public la marzulli told several websites that the united states government was covering up this
spectacular story and that those in power had a vested interest in keeping the truth
of biblical prophecies from being exposed to the general public
he stated that people have the right to know this stuff if there are 15 or 18 footers roaming the
earth and our military has brought them down we have a right as american citizens to know about
it i mean this isn't classified military stuff this is something we need to know and it points
back to the biblical prophetic narrative according to marzulli the creature was a nephilim a group
of giants mentioned in the book of genesis and numbers in the old testament that could be found
in the area now known as the middle east both before and after the flood of noah's ark fame
further reports show that the only dan that died in kandahar around the time
of this alleged incident in 2002 was the sergeant first class daniel a romero who
was killed in a bomb blast along three other soldiers could this also be another cover-up
but even with the evidence stacked against it the myth of the kandahar
giant is still said to be an open secret among soldiers who served in kandahar in 2002
and several veterans who served in the region have said that from that point on they were instructed
to point their weapon high by aiming for the head and then a little higher what are your thoughts
is it possible do giants from lower and ancient texts really exist did this story really happen
if you have further information on the story let us know in the comments below
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