A Giant April Fool's Episode

This year's April Fool's Day episode is on the biggest thing that never was: giants! Dive normal-sized-headfirst into conspiracy theories and hoaxes surrounding giants in the archaeological record, and meet some giants that didn't exist in Saudi Arabia, India, the Caucasus, and Appalachia.

Links

• Did the Smithsonian Destroy Thousands of Giant Human Skeletons? (Snopes)

• "Skeleton of Giant" Is Internet Photo Hoax (National Geographic)

• “Flashpoints & Giants” (Coast to Coast AM)

• Steve Quayle (RationalWiki)

• Giants and Bonus Potatoes (Knowledge Fight)

• Was 19th Century apewoman a yeti? 6ft 6in Russian serf who could outrun a horse was 'not human', according to DNA tests (Daily Mail)

• Scholars debunk myth of prehistoric giants in West Virginia (West Virginia Explorer)

• Giant Amerindians: Fact or Fantasy? (Southeastern Archaeology)

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