Megalithic Marvels - Hugh Newman: Legendary Giants of Ancient Britain

Episode Date: March 13, 2023

Derek Olson here to reconstruct the prehistoric past with you! In this episode I feature part of a recent interview that I did with author, researcher & explorer Hugh Newman of Megalithomania regarding his research into the legendary giants of Great Britain. In this episode Hugh will discuss 4 of the top giant discoveries he has researched. You are not going to want to miss this episode. SHOW NOTES Peru Tour Egypt Tour Follow Megalithic Marvels on the following platforms: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/megalithicm... Blog - https://megalithicmarvels.com/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpiP... Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/megalithicma... TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@megalithicmarvels Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/10186... Twitter - https://twitter.com/MegMarvels

Well, I'm excited to be joined by author, explore, researcher, Hugh Newman, Hugh. Thanks for joining me again on Megalithic Marvels. Yeah, my pleasure. Thanks for having me back. I can't do an interview with you, Hugh, without talking about giants a little bit, because you're one of the great giantologists of our day. You've written books, if people don't know, giants on record. And then I think your last one was Giants of Ancient Britain and Stonehenge, right?

Yeah, yeah. Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah. I know you put out an article two, like the top 10 giant discoveries in ancient Britain. I was reading that recently, and I wanted to ask you about at least three or four of these accounts. Can you tell us about supposed a giant found at St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, that's an interesting one.

This is an eight-foot skeleton, which was found at least eight-foot, actually. And it was thought to have been discovered in the 1800s. now people who don't know some michael's mountain this is off the far tip of cornwall it's um it's it's just off the land now but it used to be much further out into the kind of sea used to be ancient forest there going back into the neolithic times there's legends of comra and the giant he used to live there with his wife and they used to throw stones from the shore to the island and that's how the island eventually got built by throwing stones and carrying them in the aprons which is a tradition we talk about a lot because it's linked with civilians

surveying and geomancy's encoded myths. But in the 1800s, I mean, this is really, really, really interesting story because this is covered. Major newspapers covered this. It's in all the National Trust handbooks. And so, and it got re-buried. It got re-interred in the graveyard on St. Michael's Mount. And they found it deep below the crypt. Now, there's a Christian element there now. They've built a church. It's become a monastery a few hundred years ago. And and and and and and and and and and and deep beneath the crypt when they were digging uh they think it was in the early 1800s they could have been earlier they found an eight and or so foot tall skeleton just found down there um and and this kind of suddenly all the myths made sense why was it all these myths of giants and then you have the stories of jack the giant killer trying to kill corn and if you look into all these old books these old pamphlets that used to get given out like four or five hundred years ago they talk about about this and so and also this is right on these two major lay lines really that go across britain and across europe the st michael line and the apollo athena line and i've had a very strange

enlightening experience myself when going into that crypt when i was in my early 20s i visited there with my brother Emmanuel and we had this profound feeling like this almost like being filled up with light kind of spiritual energy if you're you're if you like. And we think we might have just gone there at the right time and these energy lines are kind of activating or something like this. But I never forgot that. But then only years later, I understood, oh, there's something actually about this because people have witnessed stuff above the island like apparitions of St Michael and angels. So there's something profoundly odd and energetic about that site. And the fact that you've got an eight-foot giant,

which has been documented officially, really kind of puts the icing on the cake when it comes to the whole, you know, trying to prove these giants really existed. And that's interesting that, of course, there's a church or monastery built right here over this. It sounds like over this giant. You mentioned the energy, the lay lines. Is that part of the connection why it's like all these Catholic churches are built? It seems like over a lot of these sites, possibly, the energy of the site or even the skeleton? Yeah, for sure.

You get this all across the world, really. You get these, as different cultures come in and different religions and things like this, they build upon the previous medallithic site, the previous pagan site where people are going to kind of worship or do their practice and things like this. So it attracts them people to that site again. But also, you actually get a lot of sites. And we write about this in the new book, is that often the bones were really important, the bones of giants.

And they would bring them out, they would rebury them, bring them out, show them to people during ceremonies. They'd place them in different spots. And this would become sacred. This would become part of the tradition as well. So it wasn't just the megalithic sites or the ancient temples and things like this that they were building over. They would actually start building over bones and burial sites of great kings and queens and giants and things like this. And we think that's an important aspect that is often overlooked. because you often find, you know, several sites, you find certain, like the thigh bone or fema missing,

which would then be used in the ceremonies. All right. I got to ask you about the Glastonbury Abbey Somerset Giant. Tell us about that one. Yeah, that's an interesting one, actually. That's actually, I kind of, you know, lived a long time in that area. Actually, our conference that we do every May takes place right next to the Giant's Grave, weirdly. And this was discovered, this was like a, this was like a media sensation in 1191, if you can call it that.

And this caused this kind of ripple effects through the whole Christian kind of church at the time, apparently, where there's this whole story of the kings, the royal family at the time. They had this secret, something to do with the burial place of King Arthur. and the monks had these visions between these two pyramids under the ground at a place called St Dunstanstanbury that the bones of King Arthur would be discovered and so they dug down where they thought was the right spot and eventually they dug down what about eight feet deep and then they found this lead cross

which is like this kind of size and all this Latin inscription on it said here lies the burial of King Arthur so they kept digging they've got to about eight 18 18 feet down and this is where they found this giant oak log coffin with this what was described as over nine foot skeleton and the eye so big you could pass your fist through them and things like this it was found with this female skeleton which they with a plate of blonde hair and this armor and things like this they claimed the female was guinevere this was king arthur and so forth

and this this kind of then became this big story loads of people went to a visit very famous people at the time reported on it there's all these chronicles were written about it um even the king uh was it king edward the first witnessed it as well um and so on and so forth so you you've got and so this became known because of this because then they said it was king arthur and this became known as the isle of avalon which was no one ever knew where that was in all these arthurian myths and traditions that have been going around since the fifth century and this is when they became known as the Isle of Avalon because it proved this was the thing the giant proved that but you go there you got a glastonbury today no one there's no signs up talking about giants nine foot skeletons nothing like that obviously

but you can actually go into the abbey now and see the sign of where it's first discovered then when they re-buried it they had this big ceremony like 80 years later or so and they buried it in this giant black marble sarcophagus inside the sacred part of the church which incidentally is on the same layline as St. Michael's Mount going all the way across Britain. It goes through both places. So giants are always connected, and we found this a lot to do with these energy lines to do with this geomancy in the land. And Glastonbury is no exception. Two more I want to ask you about, I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right. Tell us about the legendary giants of Mishau on Orkney.

This is, it's Mays Howe, I think. But you might have got it right. I might have got it right. but who knows how they used to say it for sure but this this is an interesting megalithic chamber up on the mainland orkney dates back to 2,800 BC could be older they found earlier evidence within it as well it goes back potentially to 3 or 4 000 BC it's in the whole location of like the huge ring of broadgar stone circle it's near the nessa broadgar something i've been researching a lot this amazing new discoveries coming out there and apparently this was reported

in 1861 by the antiquarian James Fara. And it's also, there was also another description actually came out in the early 1500s as well of another giant. But the one that James Fara supposedly excavated, they eventually broke into Mayshael, this stunning megalithic chamber, it's utterly unique. And they found this 10-foot skeleton and two mummies inside the actual chamber. and this was reported. It was published in the local press. There's actually you can find the news clippings of that.

And then suddenly, you know, within a week or so, everything had vanished. No one didn't get mentioned again. All the evidence gone. And that's all we've got. But then we found this other report from 1529 of a 14-foot skeleton. But this was said to be unearthed in some kind of chamber, but and by the water and that was all we got and this was from this um this ancient text basically just called the description of orkney by something called joe ben and so it's probably referring to the

same kind of thing and they probably left it in there then it got rediscovered in the 1800s and so but then you have all these stories these legends of giants all over orkney as well um and so yeah it's just the same Same everywhere. Where you find the skeletons, you find the megalithic sites, and you find the legends, which kind of fit with, you know, what was actually found. Yeah, it's incredible because you've documented also on your YouTube channels and elsewhere. You've got all these oral traditions of giants in England and Britain with Jack, the giant slayer like you mentioned.

Then there's these giant, would you consider them geoglyphs that are all over the ground that show these massive giants holding clubs and I think there's a massive horse maybe. And then all these accounts, like you said back in the day, this was front page news. And the celebrities of the day were going to see this. So we've talked about an 8 foot, 9 foot, 10 foot. Let's end the giant segment here. Tell us about the giant one found in Ireland. on Mayo.

This place called Dushiel, Dushil, I think, County Mayo and Ireland. Fascinating story. This goes way back to the time of St. Patrick, so a couple hundred years ago. And this is interesting,

this one, because not only did they fight a 12-foot-6-inch skeleton with all this amazing armor, he became known. This was recorded by Professor Glenn Daniel of Cambridge University back in several years ago he said that st patrick was the first ever archaeologist because he was the

first person to dig up a grave carefully to see what was within it and and when they did when saint patrick did this and you know i remember st patrick the whole story of banishing all the snakes or the pagan traditions from ireland um and so forth that's that saint patrick you know the famous one and they found this remarkable long barrow with this 12 and a half foot skeleton within it. They quickly dispersed the bones because they were so freaked out by it and the ancient weaponry. And they say they did a whole ceremony to save the soul of the pagan giant by baptizing him and so forth. But then, according to these old diaries, there's a weird, weird story. We put the whole thing in the book.

So strange. Where they kind of raise the giant from the dead, the spirit and speak to him and have this kind of conversation. with him, like explaining all these different things. And he was like, you know, talking about his sins and being forgiven and all this. It's like, what the hell? And then he was, went back into the grave. And then they closed it and dispersed all the bones and the weaponry and never to be heard of again. So that is a strange story if there ever was one from ancient Britain. Yeah. And it sounds like you're saying we've got a professor from Cambridge. It's actually corroborating that St. Patrick was involved in this kind of exescent.

excavation and was involved in the story, right? Yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean, I don't think Glenn Daniel mentioned the giant, but he mentioned the fact that they knew St. Patrick was doing this with his crew, with his monks, with his archaeology monks, if you like. And yeah, so, so yeah, it's all in the public record. Well, Hugh, this has been a great interview. Thank you so much for your time.

How can people follow you, connect with you, and get involved with your latest projects. Yes, sure. I mean, we, they can go to megalithamania.com. UK. They can search for Hugh Newman and my partner, JJ Ainsworth. If they want to connect up with us, they should come to our conference.

We do that every May, early May in Glastonbury. We have some top speakers coming every year. We've got a whole bunch of them, Robin Heath, Irving Finkel, a whole bunch of people coming. Some top archaeologists joining us as well. well. We also do a few days of tours around the conference. And it's also online as well. We're going to send you a link for that as well, an online version so people can watch it from home because we kind of created it to create this bridge between academia and the alternative world because we felt it was not being addressed. There's all this, you know, look at what's

happening with Graham Hancock and ancient apocalypse. There's all this kind of back and forth negative energy being thrown around. But we also, you know, we also, as you know, as you do as well, we run tours to many of these places like Quebecli Tepe. We go there a couple of times a year, Carahan Tepe, we do Orkney tours, Stonehenge tours and everything else. So people can check it all out on megalithamania.co.uk. And yeah, and we're working hard on a couple of publications, which will hopefully be out. One of them will be out later this year and another one than next year.

Awesome. And everybody listening are watching, make sure and subscribe to the Megalithromeda YouTube. channel great videos he's always pumping out content so he thanks again man and a safe journey is out there in the world yeah well thanks for having me on dey appreciate it and uh look forward to catching up again soon megalithic