Most American students were introduced to “New World” explorers in history classes, but were not told that many of those explorers encountered giants in the Americas.

Magellan

Coronado

De Leon

Drake

Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) was the first “New World” explorer to circumnavigate the Earth. On the voyage, he and his men came face-to-face with giants while cruising along the coast of PATAGONIA in southern Argentina. An especially memorable encounter was recorded by crew member Antonio Pigafetta.

“But one day we saw a giant who was on the shore, quite naked, and who danced, leaped, and sang, and while he sang he threw sand and dust on his head. Our captain (Magellan) sent one of his men toward him, charging him to leap and sing like the other in order to reassure him and to show him friendship. Which he did.

Immediately the man of the ship, dancing, led this giant to a small island where the captain awaited him. And when he was before us, he began to marvel and to be afraid, and he raised one finger upward, believing that we came from heaven. And he was so tall that the tallest of us only came up to his waist.”

● Francisco Vazquez de Coronado (1510-1554), another Spanish conquistador, led a large expedition from MEXICO through the southwestern United States in search of gold. Along the way, they encountered giants “so large and tall that the best man in the army reached only to his chest.”

● Pedro Cieza de Leon (1520-1554) was a third Spanish conquistador who encountered giants that the indigenous people of PERU and ECUADOR called “Chancos.” He wrote that “the Spaniards were astonished at their great size.”

● Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) was an English sea captain who carried out the second circumnavigation of the world. The chaplain of the voyage wrote about their encounter with giants on the coast of PATAGONIA.

“They found the print of the feet in the soft ground, the breadth whereof was the length of one of our men’s feet of largest size, which could be no other than the foot of a giant. . . We thus coasting along, perceived that the main land from the river of Plate to the Straight of Magellan is wholly inhabited of the giants . . . for we touched with no land anywhere along that land where we met not with them in great numbers. . . The men in height and greatness are so extraordinary that they hold no comparison with any of the sons of men this day in the world.”

NOTE: You can learn more about evidence of giants in Xaviant Haze’s book “Ancient Giants of the Americas” which was published in 2017.