You see a photo of an enormous human skeleton 20 feet tall being unearthed in some obscure

archaeological dig.

And not just one photo, there are many of them floating around on the internet.

Are they hoaxes?

Can all of them be hoaxes?

What chances are there that the Earth was once walked by the Nephilim?

We're going to find out today on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The hard fall of the Nephilim.

The internet seems to have a special place in its heart for tales of ancient giants.

Some say giants were real in biblical times.

Some say they survived even into the early 20th century to be swept under the rug by evolutionists

intent on preserving their Darwinist narrative.

Sometimes we hear these giants referred to as the Nephilim, Nephilim in Hebrew.

It's a strange sounding word.

What is its origin?

Are the creatures it describes the same as familiar giants?

Today we're going to dive into the histories and find where the frightening Nephilim fit

into our literary past and our archaeological past, if they do.

In Skeptoid number 765, we talked about the modern internet mythology of Tartaria and

the Mud Flood, which claims that prior to the 1800s, giants were common all over the

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