Search for the Lost Giants (2014–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - The Giant Curse - full transcript

Male narrator: TONIGHT ON

SEARCH FOR THE LOST GIANTS..

WE'RE A LONG WAY FROM MASSACHUSETTS.

I HAVE A THEORY ABOUT THE

GIANTS THAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR.

WHAT THE HELL?

THE THIGH BONE MEASURED 28 INCHES.

DO THE MATH.

THAT'S AN 8-FOOT PERSON.

Narrator: FOR MILLENNIA,

HUMANKIND HAS TOLD TALES OF



GIANTS THAT ONCE WALKED THE EARTH.

OZARK CAVES IN ARKANSAS, 9-FOOT.

PROVO, UTAH, 8-FOOT.

Narrator: JIM VIEIRA BELIEVES

IT MAY BE MORE THAN JUST MYTH.

THE BIG MYSTERY:

WHERE ARE THE BONES?

Narrator: JIM AND HIS BROTHER BILL...

HERE WE GO, BROTHER.

Narrator: WANT TO GET TO THE TRUTH.

IT JUST SEEMS IT SLIPPED

THROUGH THE HANDS OF HISTORY.

WHOA-HO-HO!

HOLY [bleep]!



WOW.

[dramatic music]

♪

THAT'S WICKED.

UNBELIEVABLE.

WHOA!

LET'S DO IT.

♪

[heart beating]

IT'S AMAZING TO THINK THAT

WE COULD FIND SOMETHING NEW IN THERE.

Narrator: BROTHERS JIM AND

BILL VIEIRA ARE STONEMASONS

FROM RURAL MASSACHUSETTS.

THIS SUMMER, THEY'VE PUT THEIR

BUSINESS ON HOLD TO EMBARK ON

AN EXTRAORDINARY QUEST.

GOOD MORNING.

SIFTING FOR CLUES?

Narrator: THEIR MISSION IS TO

DISCOVER IF OVER 1,000 REPORTS

OF GIANT SKELETON DISCOVERIES

IN NORTH AMERICA COULD, IN FACT, BE TRUE.

OH, LOOK AT THAT.

Narrator: SO FAR, THEY HAVE

UNCOVERED COMPELLING PHOTOGRAPHIC DATA...

THAT IS A PHOTO.

THAT'S A GAME CHANGER, IN MY BOOK.

KIND OF LOOKS HUMAN TO ME.

THAT WOULD BE ONE BIG HUMAN.

Narrator: A LARGE TOOTH AT

THE SITE OF AN ALLEGED GIANT

SKELETON FIND, AND A POSSIBLE

GIANT BURIAL CHAMBER AT THE

GOSHEN MYSTERY TUNNEL.

SO WE'VE REQUESTED A PERMIT

FROM THE STATE TO EXCAVATE THE

GOSHEN TUNNEL, AND IF WE'RE

LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET IT, WE

COULD MAKE A GIANT DISCOVERY IN THERE.

Narrator: HOWEVER,

IN SMALL-TOWN NEW ENGLAND,

NEWS TRAVELS FAST, AND THE

BROTHERS' GIANT SEARCH AT THE

GOSHEN TUNNEL HAS NOT GONE UNNOTICED.

HI, THERE.

HOW YOU DOING?

OKAY.

OKAY.

MY NEIGHBOR AL PIEROPAN

WAVES ME DOWN, AND HE TELLS ME

THAT HE HAS A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR ME.

I HEARD THAT YOU WERE LOOKING

INTO THE GIANT THING.

YES, SIR.

I'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT

NAN MADOL AND THEIR GIANTS.

OH, YEAH.

IN THE MID-70s, I HAPPENED

TO BE TEACHING SCHOOL OUT THERE,

AND I WAS WARNED THAT YOU DO NOT

TAKE ANYTHING FROM NAN MADOL.

Narrator: THE ANCIENT CITY

OF NAN MADOL LIES OFF

THE FAR-FLUNG PACIFIC ISLAND

OF POHNPEI IN MICRONESIA.

ITS IMPOSING STONE WALLS RISE UP

OUT OF THE OCEAN.

AND TO THIS DAY, ITS

CONSTRUCTION REMAINS SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.

THE LOCAL LEGENDS WHISPER OF

A LOST CIVILIZATION, ANCIENT

GIANT KINGS, AND A FEARSOME

CURSE THAT WOULD STRIKE DOWN

ANYONE WHO DISTURBED THEIR SPIRITS.

BUT IN 1907, RULING GOVERNOR

VICTOR BERG DARED TO IGNORE THE WARNINGS.

THE GOVERNOR WENT TO

NAN MADOL AND DUG OUT A GIANT

BURIAL GROUND AND... DIED THE NEXT DAY.

WE'RE NOT IN NAN MADOL HERE.

HOWEVER, I THINK THAT THE

WARNING SHOULD BE HEEDED.

MUCH HEEDED.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

OKAY.

I'M NOT PARTICULARLY

SUPERSTITIOUS, BUT THIS ISN'T

THE FIRST STORY I HEARD ABOUT

A CURSE BEING PUT ON SOMEONE

WHO INVESTIGATED A BURIAL MOUND

OR A BURIAL SITE WITH GIANT SKELETONS.

Narrator: THE SO-CALLED

GIANT HUNTER CURSE HAS A LONG HISTORY.

IN 1934, BRITISH MINING ENGINEER

J.C. BROWN PLANNED AN EXPEDITION

TO RECOVER SEVERAL 10-FOOT

MUMMIES THAT HE CLAIMED TO HAVE

FOUND WHILE EXPLORING A CAVERN

WITHIN CALIFORNIA'S MT. SHASTA.

YET, ON THE EVE OF THE

EXPEDITION, BROWN VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE.

IN ANOTHER CASE IN 1946,

A RETIRED OHIO PHYSICIAN CLAIMED

TO HAVE MADE A REMARKABLE

DISCOVERY BENEATH THE DESERT OF

DEATH VALLEY: THREE 8-FOOT

SKELETONS CLASPING IN THEIR

HANDS MASSIVE GOLDEN SPEARS.

BUT NO ONE BELIEVED HIM.

HE RETURNED TO DEATH VALLEY TO

OBTAIN PROOF OF HIS DISCOVERY

AND WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN,

HIS ABANDONED CAR FOUND WEEKS

LATER NEAR A PLACE CALLED DEVIL'S HOLE.

OVER AND OVER AGAIN,

YOU HEAR THESE STORIES OF THE

CURSE OF THE GIANT HUNTER,

BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA LET THAT

GET IN THE WAY OF OUR QUEST

TO FIND GIANT EVIDENCE.

Narrator: BUT AS LUCK WOULD

HAVE IT, THE VIEIRA BROTHERS'

NEXT TARGET IN THEIR QUEST...

THE PLACE IS HAUNTED.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL IT...

THERE'S SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS THERE.

Narrator: IS GOING TO PUT

THEM IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF AN

ISLAND STEEPED IN A SHADOWY HISTORY.

SO WE DECIDED TO GO TO

CATALINA ISLAND IN CALIFORNIA.

SOMETHING WAS GOING ON THERE.

I THINK THAT'S THE BEST IDEA.

THE ORAL HISTORY OF THE TRIBES

ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST TALK

ABOUT CATALINA ISLAND BEING

THE ISLAND OF WIZARDS.

Narrator: THE NATIVE TONGVA

ORAL HISTORY TELLS OF

A TRADITION OF WIZARDRY,

SHAMANISM, AND SUPERNATURAL

EXPLOITS ON CATALINA.

STORIES ABOUND OF POTENT BLACK

MAGIC, WIZARDS CAPABLE OF

BRINGING PLAGUES ON THEIR

ENEMIES, AND SHAMANS WHO LIVED

HUNDREDS OF YEARS WITH A POWER

SO STRONG, THEY COULD BEND TREES.

OFTENTIMES, THE SHAMANIC

RULERS OF NATIVE TRIBES WERE

CONSIDERED EXTREMELY TALL,

AND THERE'S NO SHORTAGE OF GIANT

SKELETAL REPORTS FROM THE ISLAND

AND ALL THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.

SO THESE GIANTS... ARE THESE THE

ALMOST SUPERNATURAL BEINGS WHO

RULED OVER THE CHANNEL ISLANDS,

ESPECIALLY CATALINA ISLAND?

ALL RIGHT.

HEY, TERJE, WHAT'S UP?

HOW YOU DOING?

I GOT MY BROTHER BILL.

HEY, GOOD, YOURSELF?

Narrator: TO HELP THEM SOLVE

THE RIDDLE OF THE CATALINA

GIANTS AND TO AID THEM IN THEIR

MISSION OUT WEST, JIM AND BILL

TURN TO NORWEGIAN GIANT HUNTER TERJE DAHL.

TERJE AND I CONNECTED SEVERAL YEARS AGO.

HE IS A SAILOR, MUCH LIKE HIS

MENTOR THOR HEYERDAHL,

WHO TRAVELED IN THE KON-TIKI.

HE'S TRAVELED TO MANY

SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS,

AND HE STARTED TO TALK TO

THE NATIVE PEOPLE, AND THEY TOLD

HIM ABOUT THE LEGENDS OF GIANTS.

THAT'S INTERESTING.

Narrator: TERJE BELIEVES

THERE COULD BE A CONNECTION

BETWEEN THE LEGENDARY GIANTS OF

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS AND GIANT

FINDS ON THE WEST COAST OF AMERICA.

WE'VE BEEN INTERESTED

IN GOING TO CATALINA TOO.

SO ARE YOU READY TO JOIN US

ON THE WEST COAST FOR AN EXPLORATION?

YEAH, YEAH, GUYS.

THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC.

Both: AWESOME.

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.

THAT WILL BE VERY GOOD.

I'M REAL EXCITED TO GET OUT

ON THE WEST COAST AND HOOK UP WITH TERJE.

Narrator: HOWEVER, BEFORE

HEADING WEST, THERE WAS ONE LAST

CALL FOR JIM TO MAKE.

HELLO.

HEY, GIL, HOW YOU DOING?

IT'S JIM.

I GOT MY BUDDY HUGH NEWMAN HERE WITH ME.

Narrator: ALONG WITH HUGH

NEWMAN, A FELLOW GIANT HUNTER,

AUTHOR, AND RESEARCHER,

JIM REACHES OUT TO FORENSIC

SKETCH ARTIST GIL ZAMORA.

ONE THING THAT'S HAUNTED ME

THROUGHOUT THIS INVESTIGATION

, WHAT DID THESE MYTHICAL GIANTS LOOK LIKE?

I FEEL THAT IF WE CAN PUT A FACE

TO THE LEGEND, WE MIGHT GET MORE

OF AN INDICATION OF WHAT WE ARE

DEALING WITH HERE.

WE'VE UNCOVERED 1,500 ACCOUNTS

OF 7-FOOT-TALL SKELETONS

ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE

HISTORICAL REALITY OF IT.

Narrator: ZAMORA IS A 25-YEAR

VETERAN OF THE SAN JOSE POLICE

FORCE, WHERE HE HONED HIS

FORENSIC SKILLS IN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.

SEEMS PRETTY FASCINATING.

I'VE BEEN ASKED TO DO SOME

INTERESTING PROJECTS, AND THIS

DEFINITELY PIQUED MY INTEREST.

Narrator: BUT THE ATTEMPT TO

RE-CREATE THE FACE OF A GIANT

COULD BE A FAR GREATER CHALLENGE.

SO NORMALLY I'M DEALING WITH

PEOPLE THAT HAVE A MEMORY OF

SOMEONE THAT THEY SAW.

YES.

OBVIOUSLY YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THIS GIANT.

NO.

YOU HAVE BROAD, FLAT, HUGE JAWS

THAT FIT OVER THE FACE OF THE FINDER.

REPORTED MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS OF

SKELETONS UNEARTHED WITH DOUBLE

ROWS OF TEETH.

SO, WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO IS,

IF YOU COULD BE MY DETECTIVE AND

KIND OF GO OUT AND GET ME ALL

THE INFORMATION THAT I NEED,

I WOULD LIKE SOME INFORMATION

ABOUT THOSE DOUBLE-ROW TEETH,

BECAUSE IT HELPS ME TO KIND OF

FORMALIZE MY SKETCH TO SEE WHAT

THAT MIGHT HAVE LOOKED LIKE.

YEAH, I THINK TALKING TO

A DENTIST COULD GIVE SOME IDEA OF THAT.

I THINK THAT'D BE A REALLY

IMPORTANT ASPECT TO THIS WHOLE MYSTERY.

IT'S CERTAINLY AN ENDURING

MYSTERY, AND THAT'S THE

CHALLENGE OF IT, BUT THAT'S

KIND OF THE BEAUTY OF IT.

I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD

TO THE CHALLENGE.

THANKS A LOT, GIL.

ALL RIGHT, IT WAS NICE MEETING YOU BOTH.

TAKE CARE, ALL RIGHT?

ALL RIGHT, MAN.

SEE YOU SOON.

LATER, GIL.

ALL RIGHT, BUH-BYE.

ALL RIGHT, SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN, RIGHT?

YEAH, YEAH, LET'S DO THAT.

Narrator: WITH THE PROCESS OF

VISUALIZING THE ACTUAL FACE

OF A GIANT UNDER WAY, THE

VIEIRAS SET OUT FOR CALIFORNIA

AND THE WEST COAST.

LET'S DO IT.

Narrator: WHILE THE BROTHERS

TRAVEL ACROSS THE U.S.,

TERJE DAHL HEADS FROM HIS HOME

IN AUSTRALIA TO MEET THEM.

HELLO, WELCOME TO THE WYNDHAM.

WHAT CAN I HELP YOU WITH?

CHECKING IN.

JIM AND BILL VIEIRA.

ALL RIGHT, I ACTUALLY HAVE

A MESSAGE FOR YOU GUYS.

MESSAGE?

WE LAND IN L.A. AND HIT THE HOTEL AND...

GET THE MOST SURPRISING

RECEPTION I EVER GOT AT A HOTEL.

TERJE'S BEEN RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL.

WHEN I FIND OUT THAT TERJE

HAD BEEN RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL,

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.

WHAT THE HELL COULD IT BE?

Narrator: ON THE TRAIL OF A

LOST CIVILIZATION OF GIANTS...

LET'S DO IT.

Narrator: JIM AND BILL HAVE

TRAVELED ACROSS THE COUNTRY

TO CALIFORNIA TO EXPLORE

CATALINA ISLAND, A PLACE WHERE

MANY GIANT SKELETONS WERE

REPORTEDLY UNEARTHED.

HEY, TERJE.

Narrator: THEY PLAN ON

MEETING WITH COLLEAGUE TERJE

DAHL, WHO BELIEVES THE ISLAND

MAY HOLD THE KEY TO HOW GIANTS CAME TO BE.

BUT UPON ARRIVING IN L.A.,

THEY RECEIVE SOME UNEXPECTED NEWS.

TERJE'S BEEN RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL.

Narrator: THE NEXT MORNING,

AS SOON AS VISITING HOURS ALLOW,

THE BROTHERS ARE ADMITTED TO SEE TERJE.

[monitor beeping]

HOW YOU DOING, BROTHER?

AH, I'M DOING OKAY.

I'M DOING ALL RIGHT,

FEELING MUCH BETTER NOW.

WHAT HAPPENED?

WHEN I WENT OFF OF THE PLANE

FROM AUSTRALIA, I COULDN'T BREATHE.

IT'S QUITE STRANGE...

AND HERE I AM.

WOW.

LOOKING AT TERJE IN THAT

HOSPITAL BED, THAT WAS THE FIRST

TIME I REALLY STARTED

TO TAKE THE CURSE OF THE

GIANT HUNTERS SERIOUSLY.

COUPLE DAYS BEFORE,

AL PIEROPAN'S WARNING ME ABOUT

CURSES FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC,

AND THEN WHEN TERJE ENDS UP IN

THE HOSPITAL, IT REALLY MAKES YOU THINK.

BOY, YOU GAVE US QUITE A

SCARE WHEN WE GOT TO THE HOTEL

AND HEARD YOU WERE IN THE HOSPITAL.

HOW ARE YOU FEELING NOW?

I'M FEELING FINE NOW.

I'M GETTING BETTER.

IT'S VERY SAD, YEAH, BECAUSE

I REALLY WANTED TO GET OUT TO

THE ISLAND TO SEE WHAT'S HIDING THERE.

TERJE'S TRAVELED ALL AROUND

THE WORLD AND HAS DONE SO MUCH

RESEARCH INTO LOST CIVILIZATIONS

AND GIANTS.

IT'S GONNA BE TOUGH NOT TO HAVE

HIM THERE IN CATALINA.

I GUESS YOU GUYS BETTER GO

TO THE ISLAND WITHOUT ME

AND SEE WHAT YOU CAN FIND, BECAUSE...

WHAT THE HELL?

Narrator: THOUGH TERJE'S

TOOTH IS A ROUGH REPLICA,

THE DISCOVERY WAS VERY REAL.

IN 2000, A MOLAR TOOTH AND

FRAGMENTS OF A PINKY BONE WERE

FOUND IN THE DENISOVA CAVE IN

THE REMOTE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHWEST SIBERIA.

WITH A WIDTH OF ALMOST 15

MILLIMETERS, THE TOOTH WAS

ABOUT 50% LARGER THAN AN AVERAGE

MODERN MOLAR.

GENETIC TESTING LATER REVEALED

THAT THESE BONES, AT LEAST

40,000 YEARS IN AGE, BELONGED TO

AN ANCIENT SPECIES OF HOMINID

KNOWN TODAY AS DENISOVANS.

THAT IS ONE BIG JAW BONE

WOULD CARRY A TOOTH LIKE THAT.

UNBELIEVABLE.

I'VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT THE

RECENT DISCOVERY IN SIBERIA OF

THE DENISOVANS, BUT I DIDN'T

REALIZE HOW ROBUST THEY WERE.

Narrator: THE LATEST RESEARCH

SHOWS THE DENISOVANS COEXISTED

AND EVEN INTERBRED WITH BOTH

NEANDERTHALS AND MODERN HUMANS.

STUDIES SUGGEST THAT THE SPECIES

MIGRATED EAST ACROSS THE ASIAN

CONTINENT AND DOWN TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC.

TERJE DAHL BELIEVES THESE

MASSIVE HOMINIDS MAY HAVE

TRAVELED EVEN FURTHER.

SO MIGHT BE THESE GUYS,

THEY WERE MORE ADVANCED THAN US.

MIGHT BE THEY WERE ABLE TO CROSS THE SEAS.

SO YOU BELIEVE DENISOVANS

MAY HAVE DONE ISLAND-HOPPING

ACROSS THE PACIFIC?

VIA CATALINA ISLAND?

EXACTLY.

Narrator: COULD THE GIANTS

THAT JIM AND BILL SEEK ACTUALLY

BE DISTANT DESCENDENTS OF THE DENISOVANS?

DID THEY MIGRATE TO CATALINA

ISLAND, INTERBREEDING WITH

HOMO SAPIENS, AND CREATING AN

ANCIENT BREED OF GIANT MEN THAT

EVENTUALLY SPREAD THROUGHOUT

THE WHOLE OF NORTH AMERICA?

YEAH.

TERJE CAN'T BE THERE.

WE FEEL BAD FOR HIM.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE

EXCITED TO INVESTIGATE THE

ISLAND TO SEE IF WE CAN

CORROBORATE SOME OF TERJE'S THEORIES.

Narrator: BACK EAST,

HUGH NEWMAN HAS TRAVELED TO NEW YORK CITY.

HE'S LOOKING TO GATHER MORE DATA

FOR THE SKETCH ARTIST WHO'S

GOING TO PUT A FACE ON THE

GIANTS JIM AND BILL SEEK.

HEY, NICE TO MEET YOU.

NICE TO MEET YOU TOO.

I'M HUGH NEWMAN.

GREAT, DO YOU WANT TO COME

INTO MY OFFICE?

SURE.

HAVE A SEAT.

Narrator: HUGH IS MEETING

WITH DENTAL ANTHROPOLOGIST

DR. SHARA BAILEY.

HE HOPES SHE MAY BE ABLE TO

PROVIDE INSIGHTS ABOUT THE

GIANTS' ALLEGED DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.

SO WITH ALL THESE REPORTS...

YOU'VE SEEN SOME OF THEM.

YEAH.

SO WHAT DO YOU THINK,

YOU KNOW, THEY'RE REALLY LOOKING AT HERE...

RIGHT.

WHEN THEY'RE DESCRIBING THESE?

I'VE LOOKED AT THOUSANDS AND

AND THOUSANDS OF INDIVIDUALS,

THOUSANDS OF TEETH ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

BUT IN ALL THE THINGS I'VE EVER

LOOKED AT, I'VE NEVER SEEN

DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.

JUST REALLY, REALLY ODD,

VERY BIZARRE, VERY STRANGE.

BUT IT'S VERY HARD TO IGNORE THE

FACT THAT YOU HAVE SO MANY

REPORTS OF THE SAME THING.

YOU CAN IMAGINE, I'M VERY INTRIGUED.

Narrator: AUTHOR AND

RESEARCHER HUGH NEWMAN IS IN NEW YORK CITY.

HAVE A SEAT.

Narrator: HE'S COME TO

CONSULT WITH DENTAL

ANTHROPOLOGIST DR. SHARA BAILEY

ABOUT GIANT SKELETONS AND THEIR

DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.

IT'S VERY HARD TO IGNORE THE

FACT THAT YOU HAVE SO MANY

REPORTS OF THE SAME THING.

Narrator: HE HOPES SHE CAN

PROVIDE INFORMATION THAT WILL

HELP GENERATE A PICTURE OF WHAT

A GIANT MAY HAVE LOOKED LIKE.

THERE ARE A COUPLE SITUATIONS

I COULD SEE THAT ONE MIGHT THINK

THAT THEY'RE SEEING TWO ROWS

OF TEETH, OR CERTAINLY EXTRA TEETH.

OKAY.

ONE IS, IF THE TEETH ARE

VERY WORN DOWN SO THAT, IF THE

CROWN IS COMPLETELY WORN DOWN

AND ONLY THE ROOTS SHOW,

AS IN THIS PICTURE HERE, YOU CAN

SEE THAT THESE LOOK LIKE

DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, THIS IS ONE TOOTH.

THAT'S AMAZING.

AND ALSO, THERE ARE INSTANCES

WHERE PEOPLE HAVE EXTRA TEETH.

OH, REALLY?

AND IT'S ACTUALLY NOT THAT RARE.

NOW, WHAT'S INTERESTING,

I THINK, FOR YOU IS THAT THE

POPULATION WITH THE HIGHEST

FREQUENCY OF HAVING DOUBLE TEETH

ARE PEOPLE WITH ASIAN ANCESTRY,

SO NATIVE AMERICANS.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THAT

THE GIANTS' DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH

WEREN'T COMPLETE?

WHAT WOULD A POTENTIAL

ARRANGEMENT OF THESE ADDITIONAL

TEETH HAVE LOOKED LIKE?

THIS IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE

MOST COMMON TYPES OF DOUBLE

TEETH THAT YOU FIND,

OR SUPERNUMERARY TEETH.

AND IN FACT, IN THIS ACCOUNT

HERE, "RACE OF MEN WERE GIANTS,"

THEY SAY, "WITH TWO ROWS OF

TEETH IN THE FRONT UPPER JAW."

AND THAT'S ESSENTIALLY WHAT YOU SEE HERE.

OKAY, SO THIS IS...

AT LEAST THIS ACTUALLY SHOWS AN

EXTRA SET OF TEETH HERE,

LIKE A DOUBLE SET OF TEETH.

SO WOULD THESE EXTRA TEETH BE...

WOULD THAT BE MORE NORMAL IN

A LARGER-STATURED PERSON?

IT WOULD BE MORE COMMON.

YOU'D HAVE TO HAVE A VERY LARGE JAW.

YEAH, FOR SURE.

YOU KNOW, THE ISSUE IS,

IF IT WAS COMPLETE SETS OF EXTRA

TEETH ALL THE WAY AROUND.

Narrator: HUGH WILL PRESENT

DR. BAILEY'S INSIGHTS TO THE

FORENSIC SKETCH ARTIST.

BUT UNTIL THE TEAM CAN FIND

PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, THERE'S NO

WAY TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT FINDERS

SAW IN THE JAW BONES OF THE ALLEGED GIANTS.

BACK ON THE WEST COAST...

CATALINA ISLAND, BABY.

THIS IS, LIKE, TOP OF THE LIST

OF PLACES I'VE WANTED TO GO FOR YEARS NOW.

YEP.

SOME OF THE OLDEST...

MAYBE THE OLDEST BONES...

IN THE COUNTRY HAVE BEEN FOUND

HERE, 13,000 YEARS OLD,

IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.

THE OLDEST PHYSICAL REMAINS IN

THE COUNTRY WERE FOUND IN THE

CHANNEL ISLANDS, SO TERJE'S

THEORY THAT THE DENISOVANS MIGHT

HAVE TRAVELED ACROSS THE PACIFIC

AND ENDED UP ON CATALINA ISLAND

AS THE AMERICAN GIANTS'

PALEOLITHIC ANCESTORS IS VERY INTRIGUING.

WHAT A PLACE.

BEAUTIFUL.

THE GAME PLAN IS TO HEAD OVER

TO THE CATALINA ISLAND MUSEUM

AND GO THROUGH GLIDDEN'S RECORDS.

Narrator: CATALINA'S LOCAL

MUSEUM HOLDS THE COMPLETE

RECORDS OF AN AMATEUR

ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO WORKED

EXTENSIVELY ON THE ISLAND,

A MAN NAMED RALPH GLIDDEN.

HE DID EXCAVATIONS ALL AROUND

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND REPORTED

MULTIPLE 7-FOOT-AND-TALLER

SKELETONS THAT HE UNEARTHED.

LET'S SEE WHAT HE HAS,

HIS PARK OF WHAT HE FOUND,

WHAT HE EXCAVATED, PHOTOGRAPHS.

PHOTOGRAPHS... THAT'S SOMETHING

IN SHORT SUPPLY.

IT'S LIKE THE HOLY GRAIL FOR US.

HIS RECORDS WERE FOUND ABOUT

THREE YEARS AGO IN A DUSTY ATTIC

OF THE CATALINA ISLAND MUSEUM

AFTER ABOUT 90 YEARS.

WE'RE HOPING SOMEWHERE IN THESE

RECORDS AND PAPERS AND DIARIES

THAT THERE'S PROOF OF THIS LOST

CIVILIZATION THAT WE'RE TRYING TO VERIFY.

THERE'S THE MUSEUM, RIGHT THERE.

WHY DON'T YOU GUYS FOLLOW ME?

EXCELLENT.

OH, BOY.

SO HERE IS A PORTION OF THE

GLIDDEN ARCHIVE.

THIS SHOULD GIVE YOU A NICE START.

IF YOU NEED ANYTHING ELSE,

JUST LET ME KNOW.

I'LL BE IN MY OFFICE.

GREAT.

THANKS.

REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

LET'S GO THROUGH AND TRY TO,

YOU KNOW, HIT EVERYTHING.

BILLY AND I SPLIT UP WHAT WE'RE

GONNA LOOK AT... >> FILM, SALT, BLANKETS.

THIS IS HIS RECEIPT BOOK.

DIFFERENT DIARIES, DIFFERENT

RECORDS AND LEDGERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS.

GOD, HE TOOK A LOT OF PICTURES.

IS THAT HIM?

YEP.

Narrator: IN THE EARLY 1920s,

GLIDDEN RECEIVED MAJOR FUNDING

TO EXCAVATE ON CATALINA ISLAND.

IT WAS A TIME WHEN ARCHAEOLOGY

FEVER WAS GRIPPING THE GLOBE

FOLLOWING THE SENSATIONAL

DISCOVERY OF KING TUT'S TOMB IN EGYPT.

PUBLIC INTEREST WAS HEIGHTENED

BY WARNINGS OF A CURSE RELATED

TO THE EXCAVATION.

ON CATALINA ISLAND, GLIDDEN SAW

AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SIMILARLY

HEADLINE-GRABBING DISCOVERIES.

CATALINA ISLAND, APRIL 8TH, 1928.

THIS LOOKS LIKE THE VERY BEGINNING.

"SETTING UP CAMP.

NOTHING FOUND.

DIGGING AT BEACH.

NOT ANYTHING FOUND."

AND THEN IT CONTINUES.

"DAY 17, DIGGING ON BEACH."

HERE WE GO.

THIS IS HIS FIRST SKELETON FOUND.

SKELETON NUMBER ONE.

YEAH, THIS IS A LIST OF

SKELETON, SKELETON, SKELETON, SKELETON.

ONE AFTER ANOTHER AFTER ANOTHER.

NOT A GREAT BIT OF DETAIL.

JUST KEEP LOOKING FOR

ANY MEASUREMENTS, JUST, YOU

KNOW, DIMENSIONS, ANYTHING WE CAN GET HERE.

OOH, WAIT A SECOND.

"WE FOUND A GRAVE THAT CONTAINED

THE SKELETON OF A MAN.

THE THIGH BONE MEASURED 28 INCHES."

20... [laughs]

THAT IS OFF THE CHARTS.

A NORMAL FEMUR IS, LIKE, 17 OR 18 INCHES.

DO THE MATH.

IT'S AN 8-FOOT PERSON.

I HAVE NOT SEEN THIS ONE BEFORE.

I ALREADY KNEW ABOUT AN

OVER-7-FOOT SKELETON THAT

GLIDDEN HAD REPORTED, BUT THE

28-INCH FEMUR MEASUREMENT IS

A BRAND-NEW FIND.

IT'S ENORMOUS, WELL OUT OF NORMAL RANGE.

THAT'S A KILLER FIND, I TELL YOU, MAN.

ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA KEEP

GOING THROUGH THIS.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS

AS CORROBORATION OF THE GIANT

SKELETON REPORTS.

CHECK THIS OUT.

THAT'S A PRETTY BIG-LOOKING

SKULL RIGHT THERE.

MM-HMM.

LOOK AT IT.

THAT SKULL IS HUGE.

LOOK AT IT COMPARED TO THE

HEAD OF THE SHOVEL.

THE HEAD OF A SHOVEL.

RIGHT?

THAT SKULL IS HUGE.

Narrator: JIM AND BILL VIEIRA

ARE ON CATALINA ISLAND... >> IS THAT HIM?

YEP.

Narrator: PORING OVER THE

RECORDS OF AN AMATEUR

ARCHAEOLOGIST NAMED RALPH GLIDDEN.

AMONG GLIDDEN'S CHAOTIC ARCHIVE,

THE BROTHERS FOUND A REPORT OF

A 28-INCH FEMUR...

THAT'S A PRETTY BIG-LOOKING

SKULL RIGHT THERE.

Narrator: AND HAVE JUST

UNCOVERED AN ASTONISHING PHOTO.

THAT SKULL IS HUGE.

MAYBE THAT PICTURE IS THE

PICTURE OF THE OVER-8-FOOTER

WITH THE 28-INCH FEMUR, MAYBE, RIGHT?

THAT'S A PHOTO WE NEED TO GET

A COPY OF, TO HAVE THAT ANALYZED.

Narrator: BILL DOCUMENTS THE PHOTOGRAPH.

THEY WILL HAVE IT DIGITALLY

SCANNED FOR FURTHER ANALYSIS.

BUT AS THEY CONTINUE THEIR

SEARCH, THE BROTHERS ARE

INCREASINGLY DISTURBED BY THE

LACK OF DOCUMENTATION IN GLIDDEN'S WORK.

I CAN'T BELIEVE HE TOOK ALL

THESE PICTURES BUT THERE'S NO

NOTATION... LIKE, WHERE THEY WERE

OR WHAT NUMBER THEY WERE.

HAPHAZARD.

SO IT SEEMS LIKE, AS TIME

GOES ON, HE'S GETTING MORE AND MORE SLOPPY.

HE'S NOT KEEPING THE REMAINS SEPARATE.

HE'S NOT MAKING GOOD NOTES.

YOU WOULD THINK, IF YOU'RE

TRYING TO MAKE ALL THESE

GROUNDBREAKING ARCHAEOLOGICAL

FINDS, YOU WOULD HAVE METICULOUS

RECORDS, BUT IT'S NOT THE CASE

WITH GLIDDEN'S MATERIAL.

SOMETHING IS STARTING TO SEEM OFF.

I TELL YOU, ONE THING THAT

MUDDIES THE WATER A BIT,

IS THAT HE HAD A MUSEUM,

AND HE WAS SENSATIONALIZING SOME OF THIS.

THAT LOOKS MORE LIKE A CURIOSITY SHOP.

AS WE CONTINUED THE SEARCH,

WE REALIZED THAT GLIDDEN HAD

A MUSEUM ON THE ISLAND,

BUT IT WAS MORE LIKE A MAKESHIFT

ROADSIDE ATTRACTION TO ENTICE

TOURISTS IN THERE FOR A PROFIT.

IT POSSESSED NO ARCHAEOLOGICAL VALUE.

"I HAVE UNCOVERED MORE THAN

800 SKELETONS ON THE ISLANDS

OF SAN MIGUEL, SAN NICHOLAS,

AND SANTA CATALINA."

"BUT WE ONLY TOOK SUCH

SPECIMENS AS WOULD BE OF

INTEREST TO THE MUSEUM."

THAT'S DISGUSTING.

Narrator: IN 1924, GLIDDEN'S

BACKERS SUDDENLY WITHDREW THEIR FUNDING.

DESPERATE FOR MONEY AND

DETERMINED TO CONTINUE HIS WORK,

HE OPENED A MACABRE MUSEUM

MODELED ON A MORTUARY CHAPEL

IN MALTA, DECORATED ENTIRELY

WITH HUMAN REMAINS.

BUT PLUNDERING THE GRAVES OF THE

CATALINA ISLANDERS WAS NO LONGER

SUFFICIENT FOR GLIDDEN.

HE SOURCED HUMAN SKELETONS FROM

ALL OVER THE WORLD AND PASSED

THEM OFF AS HIS OWN DISCOVERIES.

I MEAN, IF YOU LOOK AT

PICTURES OF HIS MUSEUM,

HE WAS VERY CARELESS.

JUST SKULLS AND BONES.

JUST PILES AND PILES OF HUMAN REMAINS.

HE HAD HUNDREDS OF SKULLS

IN ONE SECTION, BONES EVERYWHERE.

HE JUST... LUMPED THEM ALL TOGETHER

WITHOUT DIGNITY.

IT'S UNSETTLING.

IT'S, LIKE, NO RESPECT.

YEAH, HE'S GOT THIS BIG GRIN

ON HIS FACE, AND IN FRONT OF HIM

IS A STACK OF HUMAN REMAINS.

IT'S REALLY NAUSEATING.

THIS DUDE'S LIKE THE GRIM REAPER, MAN.

IT'S OBVIOUS THAT GLIDDEN

DID NOT DO THINGS CORRECTLY.

HE SEEMED TO HAVE NO REGARD FOR

THE REMAINS HE WAS DIGGING UP.

HE HAD NO RAPPORT WITH NATIVE PEOPLES.

HE WAS DOING THIS ENDEAVOR FOR A PROFIT.

IT'S REALLY SHOCKING THAT

ANYBODY AT ANY POINT IN HISTORY

COULD TREAT HUMAN REMAINS LIKE THAT.

HIS TREATMENT OF THESE BONES

IS SO DISRESPECTFUL THAT IT JUST

DOESN'T EVEN FEEL RIGHT TO

PURSUE IT ANYMORE.

Narrator: WHILE JIM STAYS

BEHIND TO TIE UP LOOSE ENDS

AT THE MUSEUM, BILL DECIDES TO

GET A FINAL LOOK AT CATALINA,

TAKING A HELICOPTER FOR A

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE ISLAND

WITH LOCAL GEOLOGIST MIKE LEARY.

HOWDY.

Narrator: BILL'S LOOKING FOR

ANY SIGNS OF THE ANCIENT

CIVILIZATION DESCENDED FROM THE

DENISOVANS THAT TERJE DAHL

BELIEVES MAY HAVE ONCE EXISTED HERE.

WOW, LOOK AT... SO BEAUTIFUL.

ISN'T IT GORGEOUS?

WE'RE A LONG WAY FROM MASSACHUSETTS.

WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA.

THANK YOU.

LOOK AT THAT.

LOOK AT THESE VALLEYS.

IF YOU LOVE TOPO MAPS,

IT'S LIKE A DREAM COME TRUE.

Narrator: BILL WILL DOCUMENT

EVERYTHING THEY SEE WITH

HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTOGRAPHS

WHICH CAN BE USED FOR LATER ANALYSIS.

YOU CAN SEE SO MUCH MORE FROM THE AIR.

WELL, YEAH.

A LOT OF RECENT

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES HAVE

BEEN MADE USING AERIAL PHOTOS,

SO WE'RE HOPING THAT WE MIGHT

BE ABLE TO MAKE A DISCOVERY OURSELVES.

Narrator: FOR INSTANCE,

OVER HUNDREDS OF YEARS,

INTREPID EXPLORERS WERE DRAWN

TO THE HEART OF THE AMAZONIAN

RAINFOREST, SEARCHING FOR

A LEGENDARY LOST EMPIRE KNOWN AS ELDORADO.

BUT MANY MET THEIR DEATHS ON THE

PERILOUS QUEST, AND THOSE THAT

DID RETURN CAME BACK EMPTY-HANDED.

HOWEVER, SINCE 2005, AERIAL

SURVEYS CONDUCTED BY

ARCHAEOLOGISTS ACROSS WESTERN

AMAZONIA HAVE PROVED THOSE EXPLORERS RIGHT.

THE PHOTOGRAPHS REVEALED OVER

600 ANCIENT LOST CITIES AND

THEIR COMPLEX GEOMETRIC EARTH WORKS.

WHOO!

CHECK IT OUT!

SO RIGHT OVER THIS SADDLE.

DO A CIRCLE AROUND THIS SADDLE.

Narrator: THE TEAM SCOURS

THE RUGGED CLIFFS, SEARCHING FOR

EVIDENCE OF A VILLAGE, HUMAN

HABITATION, OR ANY SIGNS OF ANCIENT LIFE.

IF YOU LOOK TO YOUR LEFT,

OVER TO THE LEVEL AREA,

THAT WOULD BE A SUSPECT AREA FOR

PERHAPS A VILLAGE.

AND THEN OFF TO YOUR RIGHT HERE,

STRAIGHT AHEAD OF YOU, THERE'S

ALSO A SIMILAR AREA.

UNBELIEVABLE.

HAVING THIS INCREDIBLE BIRD'S-

EYE VIEW OF WHERE THESE ANCIENT

NATIVES SET UP THEIR VILLAGES,

YOU BEGIN TO PAINT A PICTURE IN

YOUR MIND OF HOW THEY LIVED.

SO I'VE TAKEN A LOT OF PHOTOS,

BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA KNOW IF

ANYTHING'S REAL UNTIL WE GET

BACK ON LAND AND LOOK AT THESE PICTURES.

SO I HAVE SOME PICTURES FROM YESTERDAY.

GREAT, WOW.

AH, THESE ARE COOL, MAN.

Narrator: BACK ON SOLID

GROUND, BILL AND MIKE RECONVENE

WITH JIM TO REVIEW THE DATA

THEY'VE GATHERED.

AND HERE WE'VE GOT ANOTHER

NICE, LEVEL SPOT OVERLOOKING

THE OCEAN, PERFECT FOR A HABITAT.

Narrator: BUT WHILE MIKE

DOESN'T SPOT ANY ANCIENT RUINS

ON THE SITES WHERE NATIVE

VILLAGES MAY ONCE HAVE BEEN,

HE DOES START TO NOTICE SOMETHING ELSE.

IF YOU LOOK HERE, WE'VE GOT

POTENTIAL EXCAVATION SITE.

IT'S CLEARLY AN EXCAVATION.

SEE THE SHADOW?

MIKE IDENTIFIES GLIDDEN'S DIG SITES.

OH, THERE'S ANOTHER SPOT.

SERIOUSLY?

MIKE STARTS POINTING OUT BURIAL

PLACE AFTER BURIAL PLACE THAT

HAD BEEN EXCAVATED.

WOW, AND THERE'S ANOTHER ONE.

AND THERE'S THE THIRD ONE RIGHT THERE.

OH, WOW.

IT KEEPS GOING AND GOING AND GOING.

THAT COULD BE AN EXCAVATION.

EXCAVATION.

EXCAVATION.

EXCAVATION THERE.

WELL-DEFINED.

YOU GOT A GOOD SHADOW.

THAT GUY WAS PROLIFIC.

YEAH, HE WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE.

AND YOU REALIZE THAT GLIDDEN

REALLY WORKED MORE EXTENSIVELY

ON THE ISLAND AND UNEARTHED MORE

REMAINS THAN I THOUGHT.

I DON'T REALLY FEEL GOOD ABOUT

WHAT HAPPENED HERE, QUITE

FRANKLY, AND, YOU KNOW...

WE'LL HAVE TO REALLY THINK ABOUT IT.

YEAH.

IT'S JUST SO DISRUPTED AND

DESECRATED THAT THERE'S JUST,

LIKE, A... THERE'S AN ENERGY TO THE ISLAND.

THE PLACE HAS SOME BAD MOJO.

Narrator: AS THEIR

EXPLORATION OF CATALINA ISLAND

COMES TO AN IMPASSE, ON THEIR

WAY OUT OF TOWN... >> HELLO, MY FRIEND.

THIS IS BILL AND JIM.

Narrator: THE BROTHERS CALL

TERJE DAHL TO GIVE HIM AN UPDATE

ON THEIR FINDINGS.

THEY REPORTED A 28-INCH FEMUR

BONE, OVER 8-FOOT SKELETON.

AND WE FOUND A PICTURE THAT

REALLY LOOKS LIKE 7.5-, 8-FOOT SKELETON.

SO I WENT IN A HELICOPTER.

WE'RE PRETTY SURE THAT WE SAW

THE SITES THAT GLIDDEN

EXCAVATED IN THIS AREA.

UNFORTUNATELY, WE DIDN'T

FIND ANY SIGNS OF ANY STRUCTURES.

Narrator: NOT ONLY DID

GLIDDEN'S EXTENSIVE EXCAVATIONS

DAMAGE AND DESECRATE COUNTLESS

NATIVE GRAVES, THEY ALSO

POTENTIALLY DESTROYED TRACES OF

AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION.

IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING,

BECAUSE GLIDDEN MIGHT HAVE

RUINED THE CHANCE THAT WE HAD OF

GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF GIANTS

EXISTING ON CATALINA ISLAND.

IT'S REALLY A DISCONCERTING THING.

Narrator: IN ASHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS...

HI, HUGH, HOW'S IT GOING?

GOOD, THANKS.

Narrator: JIM AND BILL

VIEIRA'S COLLEAGUE HUGH NEWMAN

HAS BEEN GATHERING DATA TO HELP

ASSIST FORENSIC SKETCH ARTIST

GIL ZAMORA, WHO IS WORKING TO

PUT A FACE ON THE GIANTS

THE TEAM IS HUNTING.

WE WENT TO SEE A DENTAL

ANTHROPOLOGIST ABOUT DOUBLE ROWS

OF TEETH, BUT SHE SAYS SHE'S

NEVER SEEN A DOUBLE SET OF TEETH

ALL THE WAY AROUND LIKE THAT.

INTERESTING, OKAY.

BUT WHAT SHE DID EMPHASIZE

WAS THAT NATIVE AMERICANS, AND

INDIVIDUALS FROM ASIA AS WELL,

HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO BE TALLER AND

TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, EXTRA TEETH.

SO YOU HAVE A COUPLE OF EXTRA

TEETH AT THE FRONT OR A COUPLE

OF EXTRA TEETH DOWN THE SIDES,

LIKE, TWO TEETH, OR MAYBE AN

EXTRA FOUR TEETH.

SO THERE'S DEFINITELY PROOF THAT

THERE ARE EXAMPLES OF DOUBLE SETS OF TEETH.

BUT THE WHOLE SETS OF TEETH,

THE COMPLETE SETS, ARE EITHER

VERY RARE OR THEY HAVEN'T BEEN

DESCRIBED ACCURATELY.

THAT'S INTERESTING, THOUGH,

TO HELP ME COME UP WITH THE

FEATURES SURROUNDING THE MOUTH AREA.

YES, I MEAN, AND THE LARGER

SORT OF HEAD, THE MORE TEETH CAN

LITERALLY FIT IN, AND IT WOULD

ALMOST ENABLE THEM, GIVE THEM

SPACE TO BE THERE.

BASED ON WHAT YOU'RE TELLING

ME, IT LOOKS LIKE I CAN JUST GO

AHEAD AND ALLOW FOR THE

LARGENESS OF THE JAW, AS YOU'RE INDICATING.

YEAH, SHE DID SHOW US SOME

IMAGES OF VARIOUS SKULLS AROUND

THE WORLD, AND THERE'S ANOTHER

ONE THAT SHE HAD A MOLD OF IT,

SO WE'LL CERTAINLY SEND THOSE

OVER, SEE IF THEY'RE ANY USE TO YOU.

THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC.

SOUNDS GREAT, HUGH.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

IF I HAVE ANY QUESTIONS,

I'LL GET BACK TO YOU.

SURE THING, AND I LOOK

FORWARD TO MEETING YOU, GIL,

AND WE'LL TAKE THIS A STEP FURTHER.

Narrator: THE TEAM HOPES TO

SEE ZAMORA'S SKETCH IN A FEW DAYS.

MEANWHILE, BACK OUT WEST, THE

VIEIRA BROTHERS ARE DRIVING

THROUGH THE ARIZONA DESERT,

HEADING TO SEE THE SON OF A

LEGENDARY GIANT HUNTER.

ON THE TRAIL OF PAXTON HAYES.

SO BILLY AND I ARE IN TUCSON,

HEADING DOWN TO MEET CARLOS

HAYES, WHO IS THE SON OF

PAXTON HAYES, ONE OF THE MOST

WELL KNOWN GIANT HUNTERS.

PAXTON HAYES WAS AN EXPLORER,

ETHNOLOGIST, WELL-RESPECTED.

FOR 20 YEARS, HE WROTE ABOUT HIS

FINDS IN SONORA, MEXICO.

Narrator: PAXTON HAYES

CLAIMED TO HAVE UNEARTHED 44

COLOSSAL MUMMIES AND THE RUINS

OF A LOST CITY OF GIANTS IN

THE SONORA DESERT.

INITIALLY, HIS DISCOVERIES WERE

MET WITH GREAT INTEREST,

AND HE WAS EVEN RECEIVED AT

FDR'S WHITE HOUSE.

BUT HIS FORTUNE MYSTERIOUSLY CHANGED.

HIS REPUTATION WAS DESTROYED,

AND NO ONE WAS WILLING TO HELP HIM.

HE ENDED UP POOR, DESTITUTE,

AND BASICALLY EMBARRASSED AT

THE END OF HIS LIFE,

AND I WANT TO FIND OUT WHY.

WHAT HAPPENED?

I MEAN, HOW CAN YOU BE

RECEIVED AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND

THEN BE FROZEN OUT LIKE HE WAS?

HE ENDED UP JUST OBSCURELY

WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY.

WAS IT HIS EXCAVATION METHODS,

WHAT HE CLAIMED TO HAVE FOUND?

OR COULD IT BE THE CURSE

OF THE GIANT HUNTERS?

Narrator: COULD THE CURSE OF

THE GIANT HUNTERS HAVE ALSO

AFFLICTED PAXTON HAYES?

I HOPE CARLOS CAN PROVIDE

SOME ANSWERS ABOUT WHAT WENT WRONG...

YEAH.

SO WE CAN AVOID THE SAME FATE.

I THINK WE'RE GETTING CLOSE, BROTHER.

IT LOOKS LIKE CARLOS IS OFF THE

GRID, TOO, LIKE HIS FATHER.

AS WE DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD,

BILL AND I ARE NOTICING WE'RE

IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.

THERE'S NO INFRASTRUCTURE.

THERE'S NOTHING OUT THERE.

IT'S CRAZY.

IT'S MOUNTAINS IN EVERY DIRECTION.

I MEAN, ASIDE FROM THE CACTUS,

IT'S LIKE A MOONSCAPE.

DUSTY ROAD GOING WAY OUT INTO THE DESERT.

THIS IS BREAKING BAD, RIGHT HERE.

YEAH, IT'S DEFINITELY...

HELLO.

CARLOS, I'M JIM, AND THIS IS

MY BROTHER BILL.

WE SPOKE ON THE PHONE.

OH, YES, WE DID.

WE'RE INTERESTED IN TALKING

TO YOU ABOUT YOUR DAD.

PERFECT.

OH, THANK YOU.

LEAVE IT OPEN.

OH, SURE.

SURE.

WELL, WE'RE INTERESTED IN

FINDING MORE ABOUT YOUR FATHER.

WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THE IDEA OF

GIANT PEOPLE EXISTING IN THE

PAST, AND WE JUST WANTED TO SEE

FROM YOU, WHAT YOU THOUGHT ABOUT

THE WHOLE STORY AND WHAT YOUR

DAD'S THOUGHTS WERE, IF YOU HAD

ANYTHING TO HELP US.

I MEAN, YOUR DAD WENT FROM

HIGHLY RESPECTED, TOP-NOTCH

ETHNOLOGIST TO THE END OF HIS

CAREER WHERE HE WAS BASICALLY

MARGINALIZED, EMBARRASSED

BECAUSE OF WHAT HE STUCK WITH,

THAT GIANTS EXISTED IN THE PAST.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO

CARLOS, FOLLOWING A DISAGREEMENT

WITH A WELL-KNOWN SCIENTIST OF

THE TIME, PAXTON FELL OUT OF

FAVOR WITH THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY.

JUST SOME PEOPLE WEREN'T

READY TO ACCEPT HIS FATHER'S DISCOVERIES.

POSSIBLY, PAXTON HAYES WAS

JUST AHEAD OF HIS TIME.

Narrator: NATIVE TO SONORA,

THE YAQUI INDIANS WERE FIERCELY

PROTECTIVE OF THEIR TERRITORY.

PREVIOUS EXPLORERS WERE CHASED

AWAY AND THEIR EXCAVATION SITES

DESTROYED BY THE YAQUIS.

BUT PAXTON HAYES WAS DIFFERENT.

UNLIKE OTHERS OF HIS TIME,

HE TREATED THE YAQUIS WITH

RESPECT, LIVED WITH THEM,

ATE WITH THEM, AND LEARNED THEIR LANGUAGE.

THE YAQUIS SHARED THEIR SECRETS

WITH HAYES, TELLING HIM ABOUT

THE LEGENDARY LOST CITY OF

SONORA... AND ITS GIANTS.

GLIDDEN DID NOT DO THINGS CORRECTLY.

HE SEEMED TO HAVE NO REGARD FOR

THE REMAINS HE WAS DIGGING UP.

ON THE OTHER HAND, PAXTON HAYES

SEEMED TO DO THINGS RIGHT.

WAS YOUR FATHER HURT BECAUSE

THESE MEN WHO WORKED WITH HIM

AND SUPPORTED HIM TURNED THEIR BACK ON HIM?

ALTHOUGH CARLOS DIDN'T HAVE

ANY DOCUMENTS TO SHOW US ABOUT

HIS FATHER'S EXPLORATIONS,

HE GAVE US A LOT OF INSIGHT INTO

THE LIFE OF HIS FATHER.

IT WASN'T THE SAD TALE THAT

I THOUGHT IT WAS.

HE DID WHAT HE LOVED.

HE PERSEVERED IN THE FACE

OF ADVERSITY, AND HE NEVER

GAVE UP ON HIMSELF.

HOPEFULLY HISTORY IS READY FOR

US TO FIND SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY.

BUT NO MATTER WHAT, I'M OKAY

WHERE THINGS END UP, AS LONG AS

I'M DOING THINGS WITH INTEGRITY

AND THOUGHTFULNESS.

I DO.

I DO.

Narrator: PAXTON HAYES MAY

HAVE INDEED UNCOVERED COMPELLING

EVIDENCE OF A LOST CIVILIZATION

OF GIANTS, BUT HE TOOK HIS

SECRETS TO THE GRAVE, LEAVING

MUCH OF HIS RESEARCH SHROUDED IN OBSCURITY.

NOW THE VIEIRAS' BEST CHANCE

OF UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF

GIANTS IN ANCIENT AMERICA LIES

BACK HOME IN MASSACHUSETTS...

HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?

Narrator: WHERE GIL ZAMORA

IS HELPING THEM RECONSTRUCT

AN IMAGE OF THE GIANTS THEY SEEK.

WELCOME, WELCOME.

OUR TRIP TO THE WEST COAST

REALLY MADE US THINK ABOUT THESE

GIANTS NOT AS MYTHICAL CREATURES

BUT AS REAL LIVING, BREATHING

PEOPLE WHO HAD TRADITIONS AND

FAMILIES AND LIVES, AND IT'S NOT

ABOUT JUST FINDING BONES.

IT'S ABOUT REALIZING WHO THESE PEOPLE WERE.

SO WHAT I'VE DONE IS, I'VE

ALREADY CREATED, BASED ON WHAT

YOU TOLD ME, AN EXAMPLE OF THE

SKULL ITSELF.

GOT THE DOUBLE ROW OF TEETH.

WE'VE GOT THE SHORTENED FOREHEAD.

YEAH, NO, THAT LOOKS GREAT.

AND THEN WE'LL TRY TO COME UP

WITH THE FINAL SKETCH.

Narrator: GUIDED BY THE

RESEARCH JIM AND HUGH HAVE

GATHERED, THE LAST STEP IS FOR

ZAMORA TO PUT A FACE TO THE

SKULL AND BRING THE GIANT TO LIFE.

THE SUSQUEHANNOCKS TALKED

ABOUT HOW THESE PEOPLE,

THEY WERE STATELY AND NOBLE

AND HANDSOME, EVEN.

OBVIOUSLY THE SHEER SIZE

OF THE JAW THAT WAS SO BIG,

IT WOULD FIT AROUND THE FACE

OF ANY NORMAL MALE.

AND WHAT KIND OF HAIR?

JET BLACK.

YEAH.

TO THE WAIST.

THAT'D BE MY VISION.

AND THE EYES, LIKE,

YOU KNOW, A STERNNESS TO THEM.

YEAH, I CAN KNOCK THAT OUT.

YEAH, GREAT.

YOU GUYS READY?

SURE.

SURE.

WOW.

YEAH, WOW, THAT IS A POWERFUL

LOOKING DUDE.

Narrator: JIM AND BILL VIEIRA...

GOOD MORNING.

Narrator: ARE WORKING TO HUNT

DOWN EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT JIM'S

THEORY THAT GIANTS WERE ONCE

A REALITY IN ANCIENT AMERICA.

WE'LL TRY TO COME UP WITH

THE FINAL SKETCH.

Narrator: NOW, WITH THE HELP

OF RENOWNED FORENSIC SKETCH

ARTIST GIL ZAMORA, THEY'VE PUT

TOGETHER ALL THE DATA THEY'VE

AMASSED TO RE-CREATE THE FACE

OF AN ANCIENT AMERICAN GIANT.

YEAH, THAT'S AWESOME.

IT'S AWESOME TO FINALLY LOOK ON

THE FACE OF THE GIANT WE'VE BEEN

INVESTIGATING FOR YEARS, RIGHT?

YEAH.

YEAH, IT'S QUITE A THING.

YEAH, I THINK YOU HAVE IT NOW.

THERE'S DEFINITELY AN

EMOTIONAL ASPECT TO THIS,

TO SEE WHAT I'VE BEEN CHASING FOR YEARS.

GIL HIT IT.

THIS IS WHAT THE PERSON IN

ANCIENT AMERICA THAT I'VE BEEN

INVESTIGATING LOOKS LIKE.

Narrator: NOW ALL THAT

REMAINS IS FOR THE VIEIRAS TO

FIND THE ONE CONCLUSIVE PIECE

OF EVIDENCE TO CONVINCE THE REST

OF THE WORLD.

[cell phone ringing]

YO.

YOU'RE [bleep] ME.

[laughs]

SO I GET THIS CALL FROM BILL,

AND HE SAYS, "WE GOT THE PERMIT

TO DIG AT GOSHEN."

THAT'S GREAT NEWS, MAN.

OH, THAT'S KILLER.

WHEN ARE THEY GONNA START?

Narrator: IN A COUPLE OF

WEEKS, JIM AND BILL, ALONG WITH

A TEAM OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM

THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS...

ALL RIGHT.

Narrator: WILL START AN

EXCAVATION AT THE GOSHEN

MYSTERY TUNNEL THAT MAY FINALLY

BRING THEM THE GIANT EVIDENCE THEY SEEK.

IT'S ON.

[laughs]

[laughter]

THE REASON WE'RE HERE...

WE CONVINCED THE U-MASS

ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT TO DO

A REAL DIG AT THE GOSHEN TUNNEL.

YES.

YES.

ALL RIGHT.

SO I JUST WANT TO THANK ALL

YOU GUYS FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

WE CAN MAKE A DISCOVERY IN

REAL TIME IN OUR OWN BACKYARD.

YES.

SO LET'S PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999.

WHOO-HOO!

HERE'S TO A GIANT OPPORTUNITY, RIGHT?

LET'S TOAST.

[laughter]

AND HOPEFULLY WE'RE GONNA

FIGURE OUT THE MYSTERY.

CLINK.

CLINK, CLINK.

Narrator: NEXT WEEK ON

SEARCH FOR THE LOST GIANTS...

YOU HAVE A BONE CAVE WHERE

THEY'RE PULLING OUT GIANT SKELETAL REMAINS.

THEY FOUND LARGE SKULLS.

THEY WERE THE TRUE GIANTS.

IT WAS THEY WHO HAD THE EMPIRE

THAT STRETCHED ALL THE WAY

TO THE EAST COAST.

IT'S A DANGEROUS PLACE.

[bleep].

THE FLOOR IS LIKE QUICKSAND.

WHAT'D YOU SAY ABOUT QUICKSAND?

WHOA, WHOA, [bleep]!

YOU GOT TO GET OUT OF THERE.

JIM!

THERE'S NO WAY I'M STOPPING NOW.

WOW! HOLY [bleep]!