"On Giants" is a study of big things, or why we want to be small. Including original sources, interviews with experts, and startling archeological finds, author Brad Lockwood retraces several tall-tales (and debunks most) including those of an early antiquarian "Doc" T. Apoleon Cheney to reveal why we have created or enlarged actual people, events and myths for varied reasons.
Goliath, Golem, Bigfoot, Osama bin Laden, Paul Bunyan and the Jolly Green Giant are at last explained, as are big bones supposedly unearthed in mounds and effigy sites in North America worldwide. Begun as a young boy and sparked by a fervent belief in giants in his home area, the author has spent decades researching these stories to maybe offer something much bigger.
Why must aliens and the Freemasons be involved in every conspiracy? Why is the Smithsonian still shunned for doing significant research into Indian mounds? Where do Native Americans come from, and who or what built thousands of mounds covering North America?
More so, the author offers a view of maybe where we are going, and why myths, monsters and misrepresentations are unnecessary baggage as we now face are biggest challenge to our shared survival.
Goliath, Golem, Bigfoot, Osama bin Laden, Paul Bunyan and the Jolly Green Giant are at last explained, as are big bones supposedly unearthed in mounds and effigy sites in North America worldwide. Begun as a young boy and sparked by a fervent belief in giants in his home area, the author has spent decades researching these stories to maybe offer something much bigger.
Why must aliens and the Freemasons be involved in every conspiracy? Why is the Smithsonian still shunned for doing significant research into Indian mounds? Where do Native Americans come from, and who or what built thousands of mounds covering North America?
More so, the author offers a view of maybe where we are going, and why myths, monsters and misrepresentations are unnecessary baggage as we now face are biggest challenge to our shared survival.
