Megalithic Marvels - Hugh Newman: the Legends and Evidence Regarding Ancient Giants

Episode Date: January 26, 2022

Megalithic Marvels founder Derek Olson sits down with author & researcher Hugh Newman to discuss the legends & evidence related to ancient giants of antiquity. Follow Megalithic Marvels on the following platforms: Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MegalithicMarvels Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/megalithicm...​ Blog - https://megalithicmarvels.com/​​​​ Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/megalithicma...​ Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1018678435262692 Twitter - https://twitter.com/MegMarvels​​

Welcome to the Megalithic Marvels podcast. Derek Olson here to reconstruct the prehistoric past with you. You can also follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube to see high-definition photos and videos regarding ancient megalithic sites and civilizations. Okay, let's get to our latest interview. Well, I'm excited to be joined by author and researcher Hugh Newman. today, Hugh has written several books such as stone circles, megalithic studies in stones, and giants on record, among others.

He's CEO of Megalithomania, where he hosts various conferences and tours and produces really countless videos regarding ancient megalithic sites on the Megalithomania YouTube channel, so make sure and subscribe there. Hugh, thanks so much for joining me today. Yes, thanks for having me on, I appreciate it. Aside from your research regarding megalithic prehistory and ancient civilizations, you've done extensive research on the subject of ancient giants, headlined by your book, Giants on Record, which is a very intriguing book to those watching, listening via podcast. You've got to get that book, Giants on record. Because what Hugh has done, and you've partnered with Jim Vieira is you've done all the research for us, and you've done.

tracked down all these giant accounts from newspaper clippings of the 1800s, early 1900s, and more, and compiled them in one book. So, so handy to have. So I guess my question about giants, first of all for you, Hugh, is what were the events that led you down, really this rabbit hole of researching this subject of ancient giants? Yes, it's a weird one, isn't it? I can't I think it was because I kept investigating ancient sites, kept finding these giant legends. And then you kind of hear these stories of giant bones being found. Hang on a second. It all kind of, there's too many to ignore.

Then I went to America and I started researching the mound culture and the kind of Midwest and stuff. And then the megalithic stuff up in New England. And I came across Ross Hamilton's book, who later became a mentor of ours and wrote the foreword to the book. And it blew my mind. There was immediately, I realized there's reality to this. And I think a couple of years later, I met Jim Vieira at a conference. I organized in New England about the megalithic sites there, the megalithamia America conference we did.

And then we kind of clicked and went, he was compiling all this data doing his daily giant blog post. I'd been doing my research and we just thought we got a right, we should just put our heads together and write a book. and we're still working on various projects as we speak. This was back in 2013, 2012, when we kind of met up. But yeah, I mean, and then the data, I mean, there's so much amazing data to work with, but no one, I mean, there was a couple of books out. Richard Dewhurst did a kind of book on this subject, a couple of other people.

Ross Hamilton was the most interesting book would come across on this, but we felt it needed to be put together with all their research Jim had done and I'd done. And yeah, that was it really. And suddenly we had, we had Micah Ewers helping us, Ross helping us. Suddenly we had 1,200 counts and we were like, whoa. So we picked 250 of them. We put them in the book and so analyzed every single one of them and the cover-up that took place by the Smithsonian and other such things.

But everywhere you go, I mean, we've actually, you know, we've actually written another book, We're actually just finishing it now. We're just doing the final edits at the Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain. That's what we just finished it. We've got the cover done. So in a few months' time, that's going to be out. And that is a bigger book than the American book. Now, we were going to do a worldwide book,

and that would have been ridiculously thick, 1,000 pages probably. But the first chapter we worked on was Britain. And then that just grew and grew, and we realized we had to do a book on this. So we've done a book entirely on Stonehenge and Ancient Britain of the Giants. And that's going to be out soon. And the date and the stuff that is coming out of there is absolutely mind-blown. And it's not been published.

It's an obscure books and references we've got that no one's ever seen. We've had to translate old Latin texts of old religious documents and other such things. And we've got a bit of a story there. And I think in a way it's more compelling than the American, giants because the American giants people have kind of known about for a little while. People know there's a cover-up. But in Britain, no one knows anything. I mean, they don't realize that just around in a stonehenge landscape,

we've got giants up to 14 and a half feet have been unearthed, you know, things like this and nine foot forward, stuff like that. No one knows about it. And it fits in and suddenly all the legends make sense. All the giants building these sites, it all links up. And we've got good evidence of trans-oceanic travel between Britain and America. America. And when we're talking about going back 50,000 years, we're not talking just recent times and the genetics associated with that, they have influenced the American giants and the British

as well. And so it's quite a story. And I think, you know, people need to like look at this with an open mind because it's been deliberately covered up everywhere. I don't know why this is really fundamentally. I don't know why you do that. It's political, religious, you know, I think the reasons. But it makes you want to research it even more. That's what we've done. Yeah, right. Try to hide it and it just peaks our interest more. The giant subject to me is fascinating because we've got, you know, all these ancient manuscripts like the Bible, chalk full of giant lore. Probably the most famous Bible scripture about giants is Genesis 6.4. Talks about there were giants on the earth, which is the Hebrew word Nephilim. And then the

Bible doesn't just talk about giants, but it talks about specific giants, right? Like Goliath, who measured between 9 and 11 feet tall and his brothers. And they had all these genetic markers. They were either super tall or had six fingers or six toes. So we've got the Bible talking about giants. We've got other ancient manuscripts, Sumerian texts, the book of Enoch, the book of giants that was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. We've even got, you know, historians like Josephus, who is a very credible historian. I mean, he talks about the giants in many places and really give some vivid accounts of what he saw in his day in the museums, I believe.

But then it gets crazier as you show us in your book with much, much more recent accounts from newspaper clippings of the 1800s, early 1900s, accounts from explorers. So one question for you I have is of all of the research you've done, all the articles, the written accounts, is there a giant account that you find most intriguing that just fascinates you the most? There's, oh my God, considering we've uncovered, you know, in total probably 2000. That's quite a giant question, really. There's several that have kind of intrigued me. There's certain ones in Britain that really got me. The ones in the Stonehenge landscape are really intriguing because they're really tall. They're like between nine and 14 feet.

And there's some skulls and teeth that have been found around Wiltshire and Somerset. There's also in Glastonbury, where I've lived for many years, and we run our conference there in England. There's a nine and a half foot skeleton was found a thousand years ago. ago in the Abbey. And it was a big deal back then. It was a big story. Everyone was talking about it.

We got all these old texts talking about it. And yet no one's interested. No one cares. It just doesn't exist. And the list goes on. I mean, in America, I think one of the things that got us was you were finding not just individual skeletons. You were finding graves with hundreds of skeletons.

you know and this was like a battle or a war that took place and when we retraced the steps with Ross we were working with here of all the traditions of when the wars took place between different tribes and Native American cultures they matched where the discoveries were later found and where all these burial places were found so the more you look into the myth the legend the traditions the focal all this kind of stuff you've got to look at that with a really clear mind and a Imagine that might be true or based on truth or have elements of truth. And then if you find if you look carefully, it fits in with what is actually discovered and what people are still saying today. I mean, for instance, in Britain, in Wales specifically, the traditions of giants still exist there.

They still talk about them. They're part of the landscape. And they're part of the mythos of the consciousness of the people. and this is ingrained into the consciousness going back thousands of years. And there's proof of this now. These stories have been around not for hundreds of years. We're talking thousands of years. And the fact that the whole of Britain has these stories. We have the founding of Britain is to do with giants.

The protectors of Britain are giants and so forth. You realise there's something about this. And when you find all these skeletons, bones, teeth and skulls in the archaeological record, Do you realize there's something going on and you have to address it? I mean, this is all it is to us. It's like not being addressed properly. So we want to do it ourselves because we've got this sort of obsessive, compulsive need to publicize this and let people know, actually look at this.

This is really interesting. The only people are writing about this was over 100 years ago or in obscure books. Half of it's not online, so you can't find it. you have to go into old libraries and you don't get things translated. So, yeah, it's a really cool story. There's, around the world, there's some giant footprints in places that people have discovered. You went down, I think, and saw the most famous of these in South Africa. Tell us about what you saw there at those footprints.

And then tell us about the giant finger that was found in Egypt that you have talked about before. sure the one in south africa i forget exactly where it is we went there with michael telenger and there's a bunch of us there as like andrew collins was with us and a few others we're all on this part of this conference and i forced the organized to take us there i was like we've got to take us here made him forget a fan and we all went there and it's like four and a half feet long it's a giant footprint it's ridiculously big it's it's vertical it's not flat on the ground, it's vertical. And it's got like a bit where the toes go and you lift it out,

like this overhang of like mud or whatever it was. And it's been somehow kind of preserved. And it's actually called Goliath's footprint. That's the name it's actually officially called. And there are legends of giants. There's actually some bones that have been found in South Africa. These are part of the homohybridogenesis. sort of people. These go about 200,000 years or so.

And they were known to be between seven and 10 feet tall because they've actually got fossilized bones in the museum there. And so there's something about that footprint. It could be carved. It could be in honor of the old giants. Someone could have carved it. It could be a real footprint. We just don't know. There's, and then you mentioned Egypt, I've written a whole two-part article for ancient origins website on Egypt. And a guy back in I think the 80s

found met this family they were talking about all these artifacts they the family were and were kind of looters grave robbers over the last hundred years or so

and one of the things when they unwrapped this bit of cloth was this fossilized sorry this mummified finger and it was like this long it was like folded like this long it was huge and they estimated if it

It was someone, you know, if you kind of work out the dimensions, it was someone over 15 feet tall. And so, and that was said to have been found within 100 miles of the Giza Plateau. So it's really vague. But some people, some other researchers when they spoke to the guy, I said, no, they actually found on the Giza Plateau. And you look into Egypt and all the stories of the founding of who built the pyramids go back to a time before the flood and the giants of,

ad or different versions of this were the builders that came from like the bible lands and they built pyramids with giants and so the fact you've got these foundational legends even in egypt and there's a whole bunch of other accounts found in egypt that kind of back this up yeah the pictures i see of that finger are i mean it's it's fascinating it looks like you can even see bones sticking out of the end and it just looks massive and then speaking of giants in egypt uh you'll also talk and write about, I think his name is King Kaskamwe. He was a king of Egypt, and he might have been a giant. Tell us a little bit about that, real quick. Yeah, King Kiskemway. He was based down in Nabados. This was like very early, you know, in the first dynasty, I think, or the very

end of the first dynasty. He was influential with Sakara as well. He was kind of based down this way. And there's actually a site there. We want to go, a little bit called Hyrancompolis. We're planning on going there this November, but we couldn't do it because we're going to go next year. And there's more of a mud brick kind of site, but a grave was found there.

And there's Strabo wrote about him. And he was said to be over nine feet tall, nine foot three, nine foot four, something like this. No, sorry, eight foot four, eight foot five, I think it was eight foot.

And he was just written about, you know, this guy was this tall, he was this big. And that's that. And it was just written about, it was other commentators wrote about it, going back a few hundred to a thousand, a couple of thousand years. And there's depictions of when the first proper, you know, carved statue of king was of him that found in Egypt.

He was linked with Sakara. He was apparently moved up to Sakara. His son may have been the founder of the second dynasty, which really kicked off at Sakara. And so, in fact, he may have been, I mean, the weird thing is, there's actually a statue of him. connection with him in Lebanon. You know, we're talking like Balbek, Biblos kind of thing. A statue of him was found at Biblos, which is a site that goes back to 7,000 years. And so there was a connection between these two great cultures.

And it might explain some of the megalithic, beautiful constructions we find, massive constructions we find in Lebanon. And so, yeah, he was an interesting character. And he's often completely ignored, but he was influential. He was a giant. He was connected with Lebanon. And he may have even been involved in the construction of the main pyramids in Egypt because he seemed to have the building know-how, as all these giants did,

when you look back at these earlier traditions, even in the Bible lands. In your book, I believe you show a picture of a supposed petrified, like 12-foot Irish giant. And I think rumor is he had six toes on a foot. And I think the photograph was from like 1895. Absolutely fascinating. Tell us a little bit about this giant, and do you believe this photo, the giant was real in the photo? We've done a lot of research on that, and I don't know if Jimmy's going to kill me for telling you what we've discovered or not, because it's going to be in the book. We've put it all in the new book.

And so, yeah, I mean, it was a big story. It was reported in the Strand magazine, and I think, yeah, he mentioned the 1800s, which photographed next to this. It was 12 foot two. It had extra toes and fingers and other such things. It was leaning over to one side like that. It was found in a bog, petrified bog in a specific part of Ireland. But we found evidence. It may be a hoax.

Now, I can't say too much because we're going to properly investigate that and publish that in the book. I can't get too much away. But there are other, it has connections with other hoaxes potentially, very, very. big ones that got reported back around this era in different parts of the world. But Ireland itself, there are genuine giant skeletons that's why this was correct because there were stories, the stories of the different ancient cultures, the Femoreans, the Twatha Diedanan, Furbolg and other early cultures from this area. And they were linked with giants.

They were actually giants coming from this sunken realm, possibly Atlantis or high Brazil out into the Atlantic Ocean. But we've got many accounts of actual bones, skeletons, artefact, armor even, discovered in Ireland. So there's a reality to giants in Ireland. It's just this particular one. We are going to expose the reality of that in a forthcoming book. Exciting.

Well, we'll look forward to that. It's crazy. We've got, you know, all these ancient manuscripts to talk about giants. We've got explorers accounts. Even in my research, I did a series on Easter Island. I came across old ship logs of explorers who claim they saw like a giant running around one of the islands by Easter Island. So there's even crazy stuff like that you come across when you're digging. But like let's talk about real quick the megalithic connection between all these megalithic structures and possible giants.

you've done a lot of research about Sardinia and I mean that whole island it's like not only are these giant Naragi towers there but they have the tombs of the giants which are literally called that when you go to visit them and I mean there's so many even there's still people alive that claim they back in the 40s and 50s discovered giant skeletons tell us a little bit about your thoughts on a connection between giants of antiquity in megalithic structures, whether it's Sardinia, whether it's the mortarless stuff we see in Peru, the cycloping stuff we see in Europe. Yeah, I mean, you've got, in Europe, you've got traditions of the cyclops. Now, these aren't just one-eyed kind of giants who bat you with their clubs. These are like serious artisans who lived under the earth, who were master stone masons, metallurgists, and retained the high knowledge of the earlier gods. So these were master masons, basically. And whether they were giant a statue or giant intellect and skill,

probably all of these things put together. But they were renowned, thought to be the builders of the cyclopean structures in Greece and other parts of Europe. We have similar structures in Italy as well, in Turkey, in southern Turkey, you get this. And these may have all been attributed to these people. My good friend Gary Bilcliffe done some research on this and these things. An offshoot of then may have been called the Pulaskians. And they may have been influential, megalithic buildings.

You may have been giants themselves. And so you have these connections with these ancient sites always. I mean, you look at the early traditions of Greece. You find all these connections with the cyclopes, the cyclops you get, with Perseus and the foundations of Mycenae and other places. and you get it everywhere. I mean, even the first name of Stonehenge that's been ever recorded was the Giants Dance

and that was thought to be built by giants. We've found this new data that goes back to the 1600s that links this other tribe of giants with the construction of Stonehands, which is coming out in the book. I'm not going to mention too much about it now. So there's more connections between sites like Stonehenge. North America or the Malcolon. culture sites.

You've got Peru. You've got legends of even when the Spanish turned up and spoke to the Inca, a place like Saksa, Waman and Lachia picture and so forth, they were told, oh, no, we didn't build them. These were built by an early race of giants, going back thousands of years. We just rebuilt and reused the sites. And so you get that there as well. You get it, like you said, you get it on Easter Island. You get it almost everywhere.

So what's going on here? You know, is this just, is everyone around the world making up the same stories? Or is there a genuine reality to this? And I think there's too much evidence. And it explains also why these sites could be built, because you've got gigantic human beings involved in the construction, not only were they extra strong and they could lift big stones. They were actually master mason's, metallurgists, explorers with a very high intellect.

And so I think there's a lot more to this than the people realize. And it's just being deliberately wiped, you know, pushed away from a consciousness because it doesn't fit in with a theory of evolution amongst other things. Well, this has been a fascinating interview, Hugh. Thanks so much for your time today. And for those listening or watching, make sure and follow Hugh. He's on Instagram at Hugh Newman 1. follow the Megalithomania

Facebook group, great group to jump in and see all of his videos. And then what's the Megolithomania website, Hugh? Just megalithamania.com.uk. Dotco.uk. That's got links to his books. And I'm really excited about it. Sounds like your upcoming books.

So, man, thanks again for your time. Keep up the great work. And we'll do this again, hopefully in the future. All right. Thanks a lot. They appreciate it.