Search for the Lost Giants (2014– ) User Reviews (10)

Don't believe the sceptical reviews!

[scottmannen1 · 7/10 · 2 February 2015]

If you enjoy such shows as Destination Truth, The Curse of Oak Island with a bit of Indiana Jones mixed in then this show is definitely worth your time! At the same time I also understand that those types of adventure archaeology isn't for everyone, and there are just as many people out there that do NOT enjoy this genre. For those not interested in the above genres, do not continue.

The rest of those of you that find adventure archaeology interesting, please read-on as the rest of this review is for you.

It becomes very clear early on that this television show is modelled almost exactly the same as the hit show The Curse of Oak Island. They have the same narrator, the stars are also 2 brothers with more money than they time and the structure matches the show in the way that they are out to solve some big mystery and always seem to be on the cusp of some large archaeological find. For me, that is just fine as I enjoy that type of mystery.

Despite the borderline silly premise and title of the show, it actually takes itself extremely seriously. This is a good thing, because if this show lent itself to a heavy paranormal path to follow, I would have lost interest almost immediately. What KEEPS MY INTEREST is the fact that this is based on reality and the possibility (albeit rather slim) that their could have actually been a race of giant humans that walked the earth in millennia past.

The major dig site seems legitimate. The fact that they have the University of Boston's archaeology department involved also tells me that this show is not full of baloney.

The structure of the show is as follows: - Each episode we follow the progress of the major dig site, and how they are validating and progressing along down that road. The dig site IS VERY INTERESTING, and is an actual mystery in my opinion. The underground tunnels and structure basically seems to pre-date any colonial involvement, so that tells us that its definitely older than the 1700's. The other interesting fact is that the underground structure also seems to not fit into any native American Indian architecture. The underground tunnels are crafted out of stone and there is no mortar used. It is using techniques never before seen in any Native American historical buildings and structures- which tells us that there is also a strong possibility that the tunnels are even older than before the natives arrived in the America's! So what dates are we now (possibly)talking?? We are now talking beyond 15,000 years ago! So you can now see where the mystery comes into play here! According to our awesome scientific community, the human race itself is only 200,000 years old. Recorded history only dates back some 2000 years (Christ) to 4000-5000 years. The ancient Egyptians and the furthest back we can go for recorded history is the ancient Sumarians.

So what is a structure that doesn't fit into any known history, looks old- very old doing in the middle of the United States? That is what they are out to solve, and they are throwing in some legends about an ancient race of giants 8 to 10 feet tall. There is actual evidence about these giants...I didn't believe it until I saw it myself on the show.

A boy found some "giant bones" from a 9 foot tall human (in 1920 or so) deep in a cave buried under the dirt that seems to match this giants theory. I scoffed at it at first and thoughts of gigantism went through my head, either that or some kind of hoax. I figured it was just another rumour mill with no proof like Bigfoot. Well the show managed to track down this rumour right to the town that the body was found in, and met with the great-great grandson of the town doctor who had a look at the bones. Well they then looked through the town archives and on microfilm reviewed a 1930 newspaper from the small town and right smack dab on the front page was "Giant's bones discovered!" and it had the bones wired together properly by a doctor and had a six foot man lying next to the bones, and YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE IN SIZE THAT 2 FEET MAKES! It was hard or fairly substantial proof that this shows premise isn't entirely baloney. Real photos. The bones were sent to the Smithsonian and were never heard from again....until now. They are trying to track them down at the museum on the show currently.

Anyways, very interesting show. Surprisingly real and its not just blowing hot air at us. Enjoy this show! It is nowhere near as good as the Curse of Oak Island; however, I am rating it a surprising 7/10 Great show if this stuff interests you! Don't miss it.

What A Waste of Time and Effort

[pavlick · 1/10 · 9 December 2014]

What a dreadful waste of time this series is. It's right up there with the show several years back when Geraldo Rivera wasted hours opening a safe from the Titanic, only to find nothing in it.

It there truly was a Race of Giants, as these two brothers claim, with tombs and burial mounds all over the USA, then why can't they come up with as much as one damned skull to prove their hypothesis ??? They try to give their theory some kind of basis by linking it with Biblical myths about the Nephilim. What will their next series be? Finding Noah's Ark ???? And the acting is dreadful as well. When they are being told of some bone fragment found 50 years ago or viewing some lame rock carving their eyes are all bugged out like Japanese fighting fish.

They don't stay in one area for more than 15 minutes, but just hop from state to state and back again, confusing the heck out of the viewers and making totally baseless claims. All they need find is any kind of circular marking on any stone and it's automatically proof that Sun Worshipers were there 65 million years ago. And so what if they were. It still doesn't prove that they were giants.

Then they show you all of these supposedly sophisticated petroglyph's that look like art work from a kindergarten. These are hardly anything like the beautiful Lascaux Cave Paintings in France.

When all is said and done, they never find anything !!! I am amazed that they found sponsors !!!

Really?

[mackaat · 1/10 · 3 December 2014]

2 brothers who have never learned scientific methods of investigation, AND who believe that stories in hundred year old local newspapers are always true.

These guys SHOULD team up with the Oak Island guys, AND Scott Wolter, they really are birds of a feather.

Stories are often fragmented so badly you can't easily follow them, and often claims are made and then never revealed as to their conclusions, and the conclusions are usually nonsensical and even outrageously bad science.

It seems that these brothers have more money than sense, and are having FAR too much fun at jerking the viewers around, and have no real hope of ever finding anything significant or newsworthy.

I was in contact with Scott Wolter about a cave in NY

[nlwn · 10/10 · 3 December 2014]

Scott Wolter has pictures of a cave which was sealed in the 1930's by the Scottish man who owned the property. By a Stone Mason because too many kids would go in and the ceiling was too low to get back into it. Collapsed roof of main entrance. My Uncle John E. Vileno was 8 years old when he crawled under this with 3 friends same age with kerosene lanterns. They found skeletons and many confusing chambers with strange stone axes and other weapons. The Cave system has underground rivers. and they emerged from Starting at Rockland place New Rochelle,NY entrance miles away in Mamaroneck, NY. Many years later the new England thruway was constructed in 1958, When they Blasted in New Rochelle, NY windows broke in Mamaroneck. My uncle wrote an article in the Standard Star. Explaining this was a massive tunnel used by the Underground Railroad during the civil war! I recently learned there was a group in Mamaroneck youths called the river rats. near the Train station. intensely secretive about their spot they partied at. and My uncle said they came out of this cave in 1930 near the Mamaroneck Train Station. He did say he remembered skeletons. and reading an account of early settlers finding a giant mound of clam shells on a nearby beach. 25' high 30'dia.Scott has my Number.

concept versus reality

[jjohnson-06379 · 3/10 · 21 January 2016]

One would figure with all these high-end producers, writers and researchers that in this day and age we could get some quality TV.

I'm a history buff but what bother's me more is when a story (and anyone's idea home much truth there is in the story), is placed in front of me with so much fabrication rather than known facts.

Taking a TV crew to Europe to answer a couple of questions.

Search for the lost giants had to be the worst, so far. Near the end of the series they come so close to what the answers are/were that they dropped the ball right then and there, kind of like a cliff- hanger, sort of taunting people to come back for more later only to find out much later, that the show we watched was the last show and no answers or result were being provided. In other words the concept might have had a flake of truth but there was no real brain power, not to mention any sacred ground and permits. Roanoke was another blunder and so might be Curse of Oak Island. These stories keep getting stretched out over time and yield no results. The build up before the series is quite intense and worded in such a way that we're led to believe that these historic discoveries are real. Scot Wolter? Trying finding him online as a forensic geologist. His convincing manner and tone leads us to want to believe and the masses get sucked in. As fir oak Island I don't believe 90% of what is told, too many actors and staged events. There's little-to-no followup on any discovery or mini find. They find a teeny bit of something and then move on. That is the one constant in all of these shows "teasers"

Those ghost shows? I followed one of those ghost shows once just for fun because I don't believe in such things but it was fun to see what BS they could provide. Again, after the discovered something, usually all CGI, then right after commercial they move on to something else and never do talk about that discovered tidbit

Oak Island is now doing this

What's really sad.. The actually history channel lacks talent and it seems that people are enamored with convincing BS and commercials that pave the way. H2 is a little better and AHC has actual footage as does NatGeo.. History channel please clean up your act and give us decent programming of REAL. As for entertainment value it's okay, but if you're a history buff and seeking some facts, it's best to turn to books

Great show

[rjkrup · 9/10 · 10 December 2014]

i really had never heard of the concept of giant Americans. The show was thought provoking and I did not miss an episode.

The story is of two brothers who put their lives on hold and followed a quest. They are not scientists, but manage to find enough evidence to sway my opinion that there were Giants in America. Recently a new type of hominid was found in Russia. So, anything is possible.

The best part of the series is that the two brothers are average Americans and proved that you do not need to be an educated professional to uncover history.

Watch the series and judge for yourself.

I would love a season 2.

"Don't believe everything you see on the History Channel." Abraham Lincoln

[davesigmachi · 1/10 · 3 December 2014]

The intro with the Abraham Lincoln quote really sets the tone for the validity of the entire show. I won't go too deep into the rest of the show to avoid spoilers, but this is hucksterism at its best! Here's the actual quote from Abraham Lincoln in context where he is actually talking about how cool it was that mammoths and mastodons used to roam the area following a trip past Niagara Falls: "But still there is more. It calls up the indefinite past. When Columbus first sought this continent; when Christ suffered on the cross; when Moses led Israel through the Red-Sea; nay, even, when Adam first came from the hand of his Maker; then as now, Niagara was roaring here. The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now. Contemporary with the whole race of men, and older than the first man, Niagara is strong, and fresh today as ten thousand years ago. The Mammoth and Mastadon - now so long dead, that fragments of their monstrous bones, alone testify, that they ever lived, have gazed on Niagara. In that long, long time, never still for a single moment. Never dried, never froze, never slept, never rested,"

bout sums it up ....Steve Mrozowski

[ron-455-926121 · 2/10 · 18 January 2015]

My point isn't to question either the sincerity or motivation of Bill and Jim in pursuing their interest in the possibility of giants or the presence of a burial chamber connected to the Goshen Tunnel. I only wish they had shared this intended direction with me either before or during the filming or post- production information exchanges. During the 19th century, all sorts of theories were developed to explain the many large mounds and earthen structures located throughout North America.  Among others theories were put forward that linked the construction of these mounds to one of the lost tribes of Israel, Old World civilizations such as the Phoenicians, and a race of giants.  In 1890, Cyrus Thomas published the results of his review of all of the archaeological evidence collected from mound sites across North America. He concluded that the evidence confirmed that these large mound complexes were the work the indigenous populations. Archaeologists know today that these were the centers of complex, highly sophisticated indigenous societies. Attempts to link such structures to non indigenous peoples is part of a larger attempt to end Native American history and to replace that history with an American narrative that denies the identity of North America's indigenous peoples. The perpetuation of long discredited ideas concerning a race of giants is an affront to the indigenous peoples of North America and need to be recognized as such.

http://blogs.umb.edu/fiskecenter/

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My favorite show!

[ghosthuntingtheories · 10/10 · 11 May 2015]

I have been waiting for The History Channel to dive into the ancient giants subject and these brothers are serious about the subject and tenacious. There are no "reality" hokey posing and scripting. They don't seem to know or care the cameras are there which is very refreshing. They chase after cases that have interesting supporting evidence and they are willing to go anywhere and do anything to answer this puzzle. It is well edited, very nicely put together for those of us seeking knowledge and wishing to go along on the adventure. I am sincerely hoping The History Channel picks this up again, as they dropped "Monsterquest" and "UFO Hunters" which were two other nicely done shows. I look forward to see where brothers go next and what they find. They get closer and closer to proving this giant race.

Loved this show

[markdwmusic · 10/10 · 19 December 2021]

Have waited for years for something comprehensive study wise on the subject of giants..., chasing individual leads without the usual you tube *guff* that surrounds this subject. I fully appreciate the efforts of these guys made and the series was FAR TOO SHORT!! More please!!!