Is this a legend or a truth? Giants, the Nephilim once trod the earth’s surface, did they not? Can archaeology find the solution to this statement made for TV Shows and Scientists?

Genesis 6:4 in the Book of Genesis makes a very bizarre diversion from the tale of how man came to be.

It reveals:
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also, after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bear children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”
King James Version (KJV).

The Guinness Book of World Records lists hundreds of men and women who have grown to heights of 8 feet or higher. Enormous individuals have always existed.

The most well-known giant in the Bible is a huge strong person named Goliath.

How tall was Goliath?

Everyone is familiar with the David and Goliath tale.

David uses a sling to launch a stone. Goliath suffers a brain injury. Before you know it, David has chopped off the head of Goliath and will soon become king.

Did a giant Goliath exist?

But how tall were the others, like David, in comparison to Goliath? Weren’t they all short?

During the iron period, a person would have been roughly a meter sixty tall.

Goliath is described in the Bible as being three meters tall and something else.

This exceeds the NBA scale in size. It’s roughly nine feet tall.

The narrative of Goliath is not only told in the Bible. The Goliath story is also told in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were found in a desert cave in 1947.

The scrolls give Goliath’s height as being two full cubits shorter than the Bible’s measurement of six cubits and a span.

Goliath is described as standing four cubits tall in the narrative of Samuel found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Goliath is roughly two meters tall, or 6′ 7″ or something, which is considerably closer to regular stature.

Even by modern standards, he was tall, but not absurdly so.

Most experts concur that the two distinct heights are the result of scribal mistakes because the

Dead Sea Scrolls are the earliest copies of the Biblical scriptures.

Academics generally accept the Dead Sea Scrolls’ measurements.

Gath was the hometown of the Philistine warrior, as stated in the biblical writings.

Giant-sized bones were never discovered in Gath by archaeologists. And we won’t be able to know for sure without them. How large actually was Goliath?

What does the Bible mean by giants in the Holy Land?

The Bible Specify yet another behemoth, even greater than Goliath.

The narrative of the second giant in the Bible is told in Deuteronomy 3:11 when he ruled his own biblical Kingdom.

Og, the Vashon king, engaged in combat with the Israelites in the Battle for the Holy Land but came up short.

According to the Bible, Og was the last survivor of a group of giants known as the Rephaim, and he slept in a bed that was 13 feet long by 6 feet wide.

There has never been a Middle Eastern skeleton discovered that was taller than 1.93 meters or 6 feet 4 inches.

Has a mistake been made?

The word “giant” does not appear in the Book of Genesis in the Genesis giants reference in the ancient Hebrew Bible.

Another word is employed, and that word has absolutely nothing to do with enormous.

A Case of miscommunication

Nephilim is the word that is used.

The Nephilim were supposedly the enormous offspring of fallen angels having sex with human women, according to Jewish and Christian legend.

The word “Nephilim” does not even translate as “large” or “giant” in Hebrew. Nephilim literally translates to “The Fallen Ones” in English.

Instead of adhering to the original nephilim, the Greeks who translated the Bible were inspired by their myth about a massive race of titans. The exact Greek equivalent would be “peptokotes.”

Additionally, the term “nephilim” had entirely been replaced with the term “giants” by the time the King James Version was composed in the 1600s.

What about these Nephilim, though?

Hebrew term for “nefal” This is slang for “fallen,” “lower down,” or “subpar.”

According to the Bible, some beings were entirely human in appearance and intelligence at the time of Adam, but they were not actual humans.

The Nephilim that are referenced in chapter six is referring to another life form that coexisted with early humans if chapter six of Genesis is actually recounting early human history.

The passage reads as follows when properly translated:

“There were Nephilim in those days; and also, after that, when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them.”
– Hebrew Bible.

Starting to become evident from the verse is that whoever these nephilim were, they were some sort of hybrid offspring, the offspring of both “the sons of god” and “the daughters of men.”

Then again, who were these divine sons?

So far, according to the fossil record, two more hominids coexisted with Homo Sapiens, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans.

Neanderthals and contemporary humans already have very large skulls, so Denisovans have the widest skulls ever known. In addition to larger teeth and longer dental arches than humans.

Denisovans weren’t giants, but they were likely strong and stocky.

Denisovans are supposed to just be normal-sized men, between 5 and 6 feet, covered in black fur, and immensely strong.

Oceania had populations that had the highest percentage of ancient DNA, 2 percent Neanderthal and 5 percent Denisovan, according to a study from David Reich (HMS).

Could the Nephilim be the offspring of Neanderthals and humans?

Archaeologists in northern Israel have discovered an area where Neanderthals and humans coexisted.

The Neanderthals originated in Europe, whereas early humans known as homo sapiens originated in Africa and traveled north.

The two eventually collided at the Carmel Mountain Range some 60,000 years ago.

Archaeologists discovered evidence that the two societies may have coexisted in one of the caverns. Where they discovered human and neanderthal remains in the same stratigraphic strata.

That is how we can be certain they inhabited the same cave throughout the same period.

They had a similar culture since they engaged in similar activities and manner of life.

The food they were eating was the same, and they both buried their loved ones in the same manner.

Archaeology, however, cannot establish their mating.

But a complete skeleton was found, which some experts believe to be a Neanderthal and others believe to be a Homo sapiens.

And yet another portion refers to him differently.

These bones could provide the answer to a biblical puzzle if they are the remains of some sort of hybrid hominid.

After their famous encounter at Mount Carmel, the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens may have been content for a while, but their partnership ended about thirty thousand years later.

The earth was populated by Homo sapiens, and Neanderthals went extinct.

Now that we know it was a mistranslation, we may understand why the Bible references a race of giants.

The King James Version interprets the phrase as “giants,” as opposed to the Jewish Publication Society version, which simply transliterates the Hebrew nephilim as “Nephilim.”

It was a race of nephilim, not a race of giants.

More information about What No One Tells You About Nephilim and Giants?

• The Bible Hub
• Were Denisovans Bigger and Stronger than Neanderthal?
• The Australian Museum
• World History Publishing
• The Jewish Publication Society

For years scientists searched for the missing link in human evolution, the “link” between humans and their apelike ancestors, according to evolution believers.

Sightings of different types of humanoids received different names and suggestion that they could be the missing link.

However, a physical evidence to corroborate, the theory was never presented.

Names like Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch, Orang Pendek, Mapinguari, among others are given in this sights.

But Azzo Bassou was different, he was discovered in 1931 by the local press in Marrakech in Morocco.

They called him “possibly The Last Living Neanderthal”

Azzo Bassou lived in the valley of Dades, near the town of Skoura.

To city locals, Azzo was not a stranger.

Those who knew him described him with a low intellectual capacity man in primitive ways, since he lived in a cave and only ate raw meat.

His forehead was sunken, had a prominent jaw, a large nose and long arms that reached almost to his knees.

He used to walk naked (they dressed him in a sack, just to take the photographs) and used very rudimentary tools.

Besides being able to articulate some words, many of them were unintelligible.

His name “Azzo Bassou” means more or less “beast-man” in Arabic.

By 1956, French writer Jean Boullet accompanied by the ethnologist Marcel Homet arrived in town interested to know and study the case.

The sensationalist press took advantage from the material and announced Azzo Bassou as being “the missing link”, displaying his image as the last Neanderthal alive. His physical appearance, tall, thin and the apparent lack of hair, as you can see in the pictures, do not look like the typical robust Neanderthal shown in the science book.

Did They Believe That Azzo Bassou Was the Missing Link?

An Italian expedition sought for evidence to prove that Azzo was the missing link.

The village leader, Sidi Fillah, informed them that Azzo died and was buried in his oasis.

According to villagers, Azzo reached 60-years-old when he passed away.

However, the same expedition located two alleged sisters or relatives of Azzo, called Hisa and Herkaia.

Both of them performed heavy work with unusual ease.

Although both physically resembled Azzo, it was not possible to determine if they were really related.

The expedition concluded that Azzo might not be the only one. But rather could be more like him around the area.

Azzo Bassou was not the missing link.

Today it is known that the Azzo Bassou’s physical description are clear evidence of microcephaly, a disease that causes the head to be smaller than normal.

Also well known at the time, the physical abilities, uncommon in these cases, presented by Azzo created a large debate between microcephaly or the missing link discovery.

But Azzo Bassou and his relatives would not be the only ones. Three brothers in India presented similarities, but not much is known about them.

Causes of microcephaly include infections, malnutrition, or exposure to toxins.

Symptoms vary and include intellectual disability and speech delay.

In severe cases, there may be seizures and abnormal muscle functionality.

Microcephaly measuring

Reources

• Azzo Bassou– ostatni Neandertalczyk???
• Azzo bassou – Der Affenmann
• Microcephaly

After watching the movie “The Quiet Ones“, on Netflix with my wife, the question came to mind, “is the movie really based on a real experiment, The Philip Experiment?”

A quick research left us with more question than answers.

“The Quiet Ones” is supposedly a film based on the events of the Toronto Society for Psychical Research in the 1970s, where parapsychologists tried to create a ghost to prove they are products of the human mind.

But that’s not what the movie presented.

What is the Movie “The Quiet Ones” About?

According to of the official website, the movie is inspired by true events.

The film stars Jared Harris (Mad Men and Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Olivia Cooke (Bates Motel).

John Pogue directed and wrote the screenplay with Craig Rosenberg and Oren Moverman and was based on a screenplay by Tom de Ville.

An Oxford Professor Joseph Coupland along with a team of university students conducted an “experiment” on Jane Harper, a young girl who harbors unspeakable secrets.

He invites introspective lad Brian McNeil to film his experimental treatment.

Jane has no memory of her past and she is repeatedly abandoned by foster families, she believes herself possessed by a doll named Evey that gives her telekinetic power.

Keeping her awake in an isolated house, Prof. Coupland intends that she puts her evil energy into an actual doll, thereafter destroying it to heal Jane.

What dark forces they uncover are even terrifying than any of them expected.

Good but was this the story from so called The Philip Experiment?

Watch The Quiet Ones Official Trailer

What is The Philip Experiment?

Dr. Alan George Robert Owen, a self-proclaimed ghost expert, created the Toronto Society for Psychical Research (TSPR) group.

The group consisted of his wife, an industrial designer, an accountant, a housewife, a student of sociology.

A psychologist named Dr. Joel Whitton also participated as an observer.

The Canadian parapsychologist group aimed for an experiment that would create a ghost. They wanted to prove their theory that ghosts are products from the human mind.

Phase 1: Create Philip

The experiments (which became known as The Philip Experiment) began in 1972.

The first objective was to create a fictional historical character.

They created “facts” to relate to the life of this character.

They wrote a biography and called him Philip Aylesford.

In his biography, they claimed that he was a seventeenth-century English nobleman, who was married to a beautiful but cold and hostile woman by the named Dorothea.

Philip then met beautiful gypsy by the named Margo, who made him fall instantly in love. Soon Philip and Margo became secret lovers.

Dorothea found out about Margo and accused her of witchcraft. As a result, Margo was burned alive.

Philip plagued with remorse, in the only way he could handle it was to fight in the battle of Diddington, where he died on the battlefield.

Phase 2: Communicate with Philip

With the help from a biography sketch artist that executed freehand drawing of their newly created man, the group move on to the next phase, communication.

The objective that, with Philip’s portrait, the group would easily believe that Philip Aylesford really existed.

The sessions began in September 1972. The group discussed Philip’s life, trying to visualize it with most details as possible.

For a year the sessions presented no result, apart from the occasional presence in the room feeling.

Until the Toronto Society for Psychical Research decided to take a different approach.

They changed the atmosphere to something more close to a tradition séance, dimming the lights while sitting around the table.

They included elements from Philip’s era.

For the surprise part of the group this technique produced the expected result, Philip manifested himself to the group.

The group got their first message from Philip in the form of a very clear beat on the table.

They asked questions in which he could respond with a tap to “Yes” and two to “No.”

Is This Really Philip?

But how could they be sure it was Philip’s ghost answering the questions.

They decided to directly ask for questions from Philip’s biography.

As a result, Philip was able to give accurate information from his history.

The séances continued with a larger range of unexplained phenomena.

Philip began to assume a personality of his own, with strong points of view on various subjects.

Beside the blows on the table, he began to moving the table, sliding from side to side, even over a thick rug.

During Philip’s manifestation, the group took notice of some singular characteristics.

The table would be “electric” to the touch, and the temperature would drop over the table.

It was as if Philip, in a way, became the table itself.

In front of a live audience, about 50 people, Philip made the lights flicker and even made the table levitate just an inch off the floor. All filmed as part of a documentary.

The Philip Experiment ran according to the initial expectations from the Group.

Although, against the main goal, the ghost of Philip never materializes in front of the group.

The Philip Experiment Conclusion

Even after the long time and strange events documented by the Toronto Society for Psychical Research (TSPR) group the results are inconclusive.

Seems like some concluded that this proved that ghosts do not exist, that they are simply creations of the minds. Others theorized that it may not have been Philip but another Ghost playing with researchers.

Outsiders just believe that all was a hoax.

It was not possible to confirm the events were produced by the ghost of a fictional character by the name Philip.

Is The Movie “The Quiet Ones” Based on The Philip Experiment?

Is there any truth between the film and The Philip Experiment to inspired it?

The connections are too slim.

Aside from the idea of an experiment with paranormal activities the movie produced by Lionsgate and Exclusive Media is a fiction movie inspired but not based on true events.

Besides the fact that the Script was heavily rewritten for budget reasons.

Learn more about other supposedly Based in True Story movies.

Resources

• The Quiet Ones and its True Story
• ThoughtCo
• The Quiet Ones (2014)