Giants, the Smithsonian, and Forbidden Texts: Sorting Myth, Cover-Up, and the Paper Trail

 

The Claim Everyone’s Heard

There’s a story that keeps resurfacing in alternative history circles:

Someone digs up “giant bones,” calls the Smithsonian, the Smithsonian takes them… and the evidence disappears.

It’s a perfect conspiracy narrative because it has all the ingredients—authority, secrecy, a missing artifact, and a forbidden past. But if we’re going to take it seriously, we have to do what mainstream debates often don’t: follow the paper trail, separate documented facts from viral legends, and then ask the “hard questions” that remain.

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Giants in World Myth: Pattern ≠ Proof

It’s true that “giants” appear across cultures—stories of unusually tall beings, cannibal adversaries, or semi-divine hybrids. When patterns show up across many traditions, it can mean:

• a shared human storytelling motif,

• memory of real “tall enemies” exaggerated over time,

• fossil misidentification,

• or something stranger.

But pattern recognition is only the starting line, not the finish. Myth is a map of meaning; it isn’t automatically a museum catalog.

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The Smithsonian Angle: What’s Actually True

Here’s a real, verifiable point that often gets mixed into giant-bone lore:

The Smithsonian is exempt from NAGPRA

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) governs repatriation for federal agencies and federally funded museums—but the Smithsonian is not subject to it. The National Park Service (which administers NAGPRA guidance) states this directly. (National Park Service)

Instead, the Smithsonian repatriates under a different law: the National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA), which sets Smithsonian-specific rules and processes. (National Museum of the American Indian)

Important: This exemption is real—but it does not prove a giant cover-up. What it does prove is that the Smithsonian has a unique legal framework and a vast collection system that people can (and do) mistrust or misunderstand.

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“The Smithsonian Destroyed Giant Skeletons”: The Viral Hoax Problem

The most famous modern version of the claim—“the Smithsonian destroyed thousands of giant skeletons”—has been repeatedly traced back to fabricated sources and internet hoaxes. Fact-check investigations have documented how these stories recycle old sensational tropes and fake citations. (Snopes)

If someone wants to argue for a real controversy, they have to move beyond the viral copy-paste claim and present:

• a specific excavation,

• documented chain of custody,

• accession numbers or institutional records,

• and identifiable remains that can be re-examined.

That’s the difference between investigation and internet folklore.

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Lovelock Cave: Where the Story Gets Complicated

This is where things get more interesting—because Lovelock Cave is not just a legend. It’s a legitimate archaeological site with real excavations and real artifact recovery history.

What’s documented:

• Lovelock Cave was excavated in 1912 by L.L. Loud (University of California) after guano mining disturbed the site. (Wikipedia)

• It was excavated again in 1924 by Loud and M.R. Harrington, commissioned by the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). (Wikipedia)

• Thousands of artifacts were recovered, including famous items like a cache of duck decoys (and many organic materials preserved by cave conditions). (Wikipedia)

Where the “giants” narrative attaches:

The “Si-Te-Cah / red-haired giants” story is often fused to Lovelock. Some modern retellings point to unusually large items (like sandals) as suggestive, but the leap from “large artifact exists” to “9-foot giants existed” is not a straight line without stronger evidence. Popular reporting often amplifies this gap. (New York Post)

A sober takeaway:
Lovelock Cave gives you real archaeology plus a legendary overlay. If you want truth, you have to keep those two layers separate while you compare them.

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The Book of Enoch and the Dead Sea Scrolls: This Part Is Real

The transcript ties giants to Enoch—and here, the foundation is historically solid:

• Aramaic fragments of Enoch were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

• The Dead Sea Scrolls archive includes Enoch-related manuscripts (and “Book of Giants” material) in the Qumran corpus. (The Dead Sea Scrolls)

So yes: Enochic literature was circulating in Second Temple Judaism, and it includes the “Watchers” storyline that later fuels Nephilim/giant interpretations.

That doesn’t prove literal 300-foot beings—but it does prove the idea of such beings was taken seriously in ancient religious imagination.

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Acámbaro Figurines: Why Experts Call It a Hoax

The transcript also mentions the Acámbaro figures (often framed as “humans riding dinosaurs”).

A major museum-based assessment describes why archaeologists concluded they were modern fakes (surface condition, context issues, etc.). (Penn Museum)

This is a classic example of how “out-of-place artifacts” become a Rorschach test: believers see suppressed truth; archaeologists see modern manufacture and bad provenance.

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CIA + “The Adam and Eve Story”: What the Record Shows

The CIA did release a “sanitized” document titled THE ADAM AND EVE STORY in its reading room. (CIA)

That fact is real.

What’s not automatically proven by that fact:

• that the book was “classified because it predicts the end of the world,”

• that pages were removed to prevent mass panic,

• or that pole shifts described there are established geophysics.

The document exists; the interpretations vary wildly.

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What’s the Best “Truth-First” Way to Approach This Topic?

If you want to build a post (or even a series) that hits hard without falling into easy traps, here’s the strongest frame:

1) Separate the buckets

• Myth & folklore (giants across cultures)

• Textual tradition (Enoch, Watchers, Nephilim concepts)

• Archaeology (Lovelock: excavations, artifacts, dating, institutions)

• Institutional law/policy (Smithsonian’s unique repatriation framework) (National Park Service)

• Modern conspiracy claims (evaluate case-by-case; reject viral hoaxes) (Reuters)

2) Demand chain-of-custody

If bones “disappeared,” where are the accession logs? Who handled them? Which collection? What did the newspapers actually report vs later retellings?

3) Leave room for mystery—without surrendering standards

You can say: “This is unresolved,” without saying: “Therefore, giants are proven.”

That’s how you stay credible and captivating.

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Final Question

If giants are not proven by bones, but they are preserved in texts and legends worldwide…
what exactly are we looking at—lost biology, mythic symbolism, or a memory of something real that got exaggerated over centuries?

And if the Smithsonian is legally unique and historically massive as an institution…
how much of the suspicion is about giants—and how much is about who gets to control history?

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