Solomon Islands Giants

What do you think about this?

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?