A Giant April Fool's Episode - The Dirt Pod

This year's April Fool's Day episode is on the biggest thing that never was: giants! Dive normal-sized-headfirst into conspiracy theories and hoaxes surrounding giants in the archaeological record, and meet some giants that didn't exist in Saudi Arabia, India, the Caucasus, and Appalachia. Links * Did the Smithsonian Destroy Thousands of Giant Human Skeletons? (Snopes) [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/smithsonian-giant-skeletons/] * "Skeleton of Giant" Is Internet Photo Hoax (National Geographic) [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/skeleton-giant-photo-hoax/] * "Flashpoints & Giants" (Coast to Coast AM) [https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2008/12/03] * Steve Quayle (RationalWiki) [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Steve_Quayle] * Giants and Bonus Potatoes (Knowledge Fight) [https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/knowledge-fight-giants-and-bonus-potatoes] * Was 19th Century apewoman a yeti? 6ft 6in Russian serf who could outrun a horse was 'not human', according to DNA tests (Daily Mail) [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3025466/Was-19th-Century-Siberian-apewoman-yeti-6ft-6in-Russian-serf-outrun-horse-not-human-according-DNA-tests.html#ixzz3WP7cj74k] * Scholars debunk myth of prehistoric giants in West Virginia (West Virginia Explorer) [https://wvexplorer.com/2019/08/13/scholars-debunk-myth-of-prehistoric-giants-in-west-virginia/] * Giant Amerindians: Fact or Fantasy? (Southeastern Archaeology) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41890366?seq=1] Contact * Email the Dirt Podcast Affiliates * Wildnote [http://www.wildnoteapp.com/] * TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/?ref_id=5724&ref_type=aff] * Timeular [https://timeular.com/ref/chriswebster/]

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