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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? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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