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A Giant April Fool's Episode

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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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