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Guadalcanal is best known for the brutal World War Two battles fought across its jungles. But the people who actually live in the Solomon Islands tell a story the history books leave out. They say they share their islands with giants.
Not a legend from the distant past. A living presence. An Australian helicopter pilot named Marius Boirayon spent years on the islands, married a local woman, and earned the trust of villagers who described the same thing over and over. Beings far taller than any man, some said over ten feet, with long hair, heavy brows, and reddish eyes, living deep in the interior mountains. Boirayon gathered these accounts into a book in 2010, and what struck him was how consistent they were among people who had never met.
The islanders treat it as ordinary fact. They point to caves they will not enter and stretches of bush they avoid after dark. They describe oversized footprints turning up around remote villages and work sites. Even during the war, there were scattered reports from soldiers of enormous figures glimpsed in the hills.
What if there are still corners of this planet so remote, and so rarely entered, that something the size of a legend could go on living there, unbothered by the modern world?
Tall tales handed down through generations, or a real population hidden in the highlands? What do you think the people of Guadalcanal keep seeing?
What do you think about this? Over five months from late 1989, more than 13,000 people in Belgium reported a silent black triangle with three corner lights. In March 1990 two F sixteen jets locked radar on it, and it made moves no pilot could survive. Secret aircraft, or a genuine visitor?
What do you think about this? The Abenaki spoke of something in Lake Champlain long before Europeans arrived, and Port Henry still keeps a sign counting sightings. In 1977 Sandra Mansi photographed a long neck and a dark hump, and no hoax was ever found in it. Log, or a real animal?
What do you think about this? In 1579 Francis Drake beached the Golden Hind somewhere on the northern California coast and claimed the land for England. Nobody can say which beach. A brass plate found in 1936 was celebrated for decades, then proved a hoax. Point Reyes, or somewhere else?
What do you think about this? Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, one is engraved on copper instead of parchment, and it is a treasure map. It lists 64 hiding places holding tons of gold and silver. Not one has ever been found. Real temple gold, or an ancient legend set in metal?
What do you think about this? On August 15, 1977, an Ohio telescope caught a 72 second burst from Sagittarius, 30 times stronger than background, right on the hydrogen frequency. The astronomer circled it and wrote Wow. It never came back. Fluke, or one word of a conversation?
What do you think about this? The Shroud of Turin carries a full length image of a man that behaves like a photographic negative, which nobody noticed until it was first photographed in 1898. Carbon dating said medieval. Nobody can explain how the image formed. Artwork, or something else?
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