Giant Dead People in Our Backyards

Giants are a fascinating subject. Who isn't all agog when a seven-footer steps foot on screen and delivers a thunderous blow to his opponent? Or makes a shot? Or tosses someone around? Who isn't astounded when they bump into a real seven-plus foot man at the store? I think we all are. But what about an 8-foot man? Or nine? Or twelve?
Who cares? you say. They don't exist. Ah, but they did. And not just in the pages of the Bible or mythology. In ancient America, it seems, were races of giant-folk. Before the Indians arrived were a race of giants, who may have been the builders of the huge mounds found in North and South America.
Never heard of that? People tend to believe that America was found discovered in 1492 and that no one else was here before that. Except for those Natives, but they were dirty savages so forget about them.
That was sarcasm, people.
Skeletons of some serious size have been unearthed here in America, and often buried with weapons and other paraphernalia, sometimes with hieroglyph-type writing on them. They worked in copper, which is something the Indians did not do. Something curious was going on way back then. . .
Typically, this falls into the realm of paranormal. Or worse, biblical weird-ism. But an eight-foot skeleton is an eight-foot skeleton! Hold on, I feel an image coming on:

Bam! Check out that feller. He's not an isolated case either. They are all over the place. Stories from all over the globe speak about giants. Indeed, why do almost all the cultures of the world have flood stories and giant stories? Did they all read the same book? Maybe they did. Or they took the same story from the same place and when they dispersed, the story went with them.
However, these big dead people are not fossils from a flood. They are skeletons from not too long ago, relatively. As in, people have had encounters with them. Now maybe it's all fake, just some silly stories told by bored, fantasy prone introverts. That does happen. Or maybe angels left their own abode, mated with human women, produced giant freaks, and polluted the gene pool. Go read the Book of Enoch for fun. It's wild.

Here is a great Gustave Dore woodcut of David's victory over Goliath. What a great artist he was. Now if you are up to it, read this blog about giants. There is a ton of info there. Then try this one too and read about giants with double sets of teeth and six fingers. It would seem The Smithsonian doesn't want us to know about this stuff. Or, perhaps, it is all phony and some of us are simply strange.
Here is one last thought. Why are there giant counterparts to today's animals? Giant crocodiles, giant snakes, sharks, rhinos, elephants, and also humans. What was going on back then? A greenhouse effect? Genetic manipulation by an advanced race? Pym particles?
Sorry, old comic book reference.
I leave you with an old picture for no other reason than it looks cool. These guys are kind of scary, aren't they?