I'm doing some pretty heavy research on this rumor, and things connected to it. I'm certain that there are Military Veterans from Afghanistan who lurk here.
Can any of you tell me if you first heard of the rumors of the Giant of Kandahar, what you heard, and how the story was told? I would be very grateful for any information. I tried asking Jow Forums but they flooded the thread with mostly retarded comments after a few mildly helpful ones.
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I wouldn’t worry about him
Knew a guy who claims he saw one in the Hindu Kush mountains when he was in the Army, of course he also ended up getting drunk, beating the shit out of his wife before driving his car into a wall, guy had to get scraped off.
I’m more fascinated by the extremely remote Nuristani tribes up in the Hindu Kush
bump
There are two main things about Jow Forums i will never understand.
/his/'s disturbing fascination with pregnant Anne Frank
Jow Forums's need to discuss imaginary shit like skinwalkers and whatever the fuck kinda roided Avatar OP posted
Giant of Kandahar is a rumor that started circulating on its own in Afghanistan amongst military personnel, and later made its way onto the internet where people proceeded to speculate about it on conspiracy websites.
its Folklore, it doesn't hurt anyone and gives a sense of community
I know that vets had been talking about it back in the day, hearing details would be helpful if anyone could.
>t. nofunallowed
confederate pregnant anne frank poster is a treasure
Holy shit, we're now at a point where War on Terror in Afghanistan is "back in the day".
If they're SF or Deltafags they're not talking
Maybe the Chairforcefags who carried the big guy
Not asking for that. I just know that rumors circulated around the bases in Afghanistan and normal joes talked about it. I'd like to know what they heard. Could help me out with my research into this.
Watch LA Marzuli
>doesn't hurt anyone
Superstition and mysticism are cancer
Jow Forums is an Enlightenment approved board
I have done that. But I like to hear what the enlisted guys at the time heard because you never know, and I don't quite trust the video.
I once deployed with a kid who had no memory of 9/11 because he was too young when it happened. That was four years ago.
youtube.com
hes something i found with the pilot of the plane that carried the giant. he course no sources and no photos with the giant in to so nothing to really gain from it
Also desert vampires
I suppose I should listen to the different videos and look for consistency, but I'd really like to hear from Vets in Afghanistan who heard the rumors themselves as well.
Decent tale, but that picture doesn't make it nearly as terrifying as it should be
>Jow Forums is an Enlightenment approved board.
skinwalker threads every week and a integral part of Jow Forums
Is this better?
Anyway I'm one of those faggots who really believes that there are giants, I'm doing this because I've been researching the matter for a while now, and I know that a lot of vets back then heard the rumors before the internet started to.
same, thats just the only vid i saw on the subject. probably will look into it more soon
because firearms can deal with every threat 'cept the supernatural.
Consistency is as follows. Giants with red hair and cannibalistic tendencies exist in both Native American oral history, and European literature.
Native Americans talk about the Si-Te-Cah, while European stories have Beowulf fighting against the red-haired giant Grendel, and Grendels mother who also had red hair.
Thor and Aphrodite are red-haired gods, even though they are depicted as otherwise in pop culture, and recently in Egypt there was a 7'2 tall skeleton with red hair uncovered by archeologists at the Fag el-Gamou burial site. But they say he was tall because of medical conditions.
Similarly, giants bones were found in Aquitaine France, and other places. I could just go on tangents about this sort of thing
who would do giant of kandahar justice?
"AAA" tier gaming company
"AAA" tier movie (((company)))
"AAA" tier tv show
syfy channel
write fags/
/tg/
Jow Forums
inb4 giant of kandahar is made into a trap. Nature of this place
I’m 19, we’ve been at war for nearly my entire life. I was 3 when 9/11 happened, and my dad was in TBS. I don’t remember shit except having a sign to hold with my mom when he came back from deployment.
Shits even weirder for people my age man. I don’t know how much time you’ve spent with teenagers but pretty much everyone my age understands how fucked up the world is, and maybe that’s true for every generation, but I think it’s worse now than it has been in the past
Why did they bag Ganondorf?
It’s always been fucked up though. Older generations just ignored or dealt with it better.
CONFEDERATE ANNE FRANK
The Smithsonian's G-men swoop in to confiscate any giant remains found in the US. We know they existed. Even the book of Genesis says they were here.
>imaginary shit like skinwalkers
Either skinwalkers are real, and a fair number of people who do spend a lot of time in the woods have encountered spooky shit that they can't really explain, or they aren't real, in which case the meme teaches people to be more alert and prepared in case they run into a bear or some crazed homeless when they're out in the sticks.
>Older generations just didn't have the internet to document their freakouts, so they can now pretend they ignored or dealt with it better.
The first newspaper I ever bought had a front page spread announcing the (second) invasion of Iraq. I was ten at the time and I only bought it for the pictures of cool guns all our soldiers were carrying.
Its a little disturbing to think that I haven't technically known a day of peace since then.
I don't remember the name, but I'm pretty sure there was some Sci-Fi channel original movie about some guys in iraq finding a giant and some whole thing about it being something from back in biblical times and part of some prophecy or something
>Either skinwalkers are real,
They are made up and oddly enough they come from reddit. They were made up by some writer and it made it's way over here and because Jow Forums is full of frightened teens, it took off like wild fire.
Skinwalkers are make believe, the internet made them up.
When the invasion of Afghanistan started, the Game Boy Advance was cutting edge handheld technology. Let that sink in.
Makes for good green text though, also I scared the piss out of the GF and her family in a cabin in NC on a trip telling them stories from Jow Forums
They made a couple like that. One was a sandworm, the other was a Chimera. I don't recall a Giant one.
Next year, cod mw2 will be 10 years old, the cod kiddies from that era are now adults
you can visit them on the pakistani side without getting killed off by the taliban.
Also, next year Spongebob will be turning 20 years old. There are people on Jow Forums right now who are too young to remember a time without spongebob.
this is fantasy
i'll tell you whats real though
the Dwarf of Damascus
and he has killed hundreds of victims
The Gaint of Kandahar conspiracy theory only dates back to August 2016
>they come from reddit
They come from Navajo mythology you dip.
Don't tell Hollywood.
you may think Jow Forums is the easiest board to troll
you may even be right about that
but today you're not getting me
put more effort next time kthxbai
steve quayle, holocaust of giants documentary
>They are made up and oddly enough they come from reddit.
T. Skinwalker
Skinwalkers exist. They are a cult of murderers within the Navajo. Whether or not they actually have the supernatural abilities that the Navajo claim that they have is the only thing up to speculation.
Retards.
>The culture of the Kalash people is unique and differs in many ways from the many contemporary Islamic ethnic groups surrounding them in northwestern part of Pakistan.They are polytheists and nature plays a highly significant and spiritual role in their daily life. As part of their religious tradition, sacrifices are offered and festivals held to give thanks for the abundant resources of their three valleys. Kalasha Desh (the three Kalash valleys) is made up of two distinct cultural areas, the valleys of Rumbur and Bumburet forming one, and Birir valley the other; Birir valley being the more traditional of the two.
Seeing the last bactrian holdouts is on my bucket list.
How based do you have to be to resist both the Hindus AND the Muslims for over a thousand years?
The pakistan/afganborder is basically the talibans country. Even the pakistani army wont go there. The reason the taliban was never defeated was due to the fluidity of the border there
This. Basically the entirety of pakistans northwest board is an autonomous tribal region, pakistani clay in name only.
Durand fucked central asia up man.
Demon trips
s-stop
In 5 years, 1990 will have been a third of a century ago
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas took place in 1992 and was released in 2004, a 12 year difference. 2004 was 14 years ago. If a comparable retro GTA were made today, it would be set in the "far distant past" of 2006.
Never heard of this one, will look into it.
In other news heres something cool i figured out and pieced together.
>norse mythos and vikings originate from azerbaijan area. Their mythos tell of wolves(romans) and serpents(persians) driving them out of their homeland.
>azerbaijan area has been proven to be an area where tall caucasian people lived.
>scythians are known to have female horse warriors, they originate from azerbaijan area, and scandenavian and irish are shown to have dna similarities to them. Female horse warriors could be related to valkyrie myth.
>Tyr, one of the beings in norse myth, is also an ancient phonecian city, which also relates to greek myth as the place where the princess/queen was impregnated by zeus and gave birth to the minotaur. Tyr was one of the wealthiest cities known for inventing purple dye to use for royalty.
My belief is that the scythian people of azerbaijan area, ancient vikings, were driven out of their land by romans and persians, they moved north into scandenavia and sailed west using naval technology from phonecians. And their entire norse mythos is a story of their exile from their homeland mixed in with local germanic pagan religion.
Pen that thesis big head boi
Desu i'm 18 and became hasguns not to long ago. I have no memory of 9/11. Hell I don't know what peace time is. I grew up watching Iraq and Afghanistan on the nightly news but have no memory whatsoever of why we are there.
Honestly, ive considered it, as there is nothing online as far as i can tell that relates anything i said definitely. I only got into the subject because i was studying phonecians and how carthage was built, and a friend who is into norse viking shit was telling me about the different beings like Tyr. Norse mythilogy and viking culture is actually new in the scheme of things. Popped up way later than every other religion. And when looking into azerbaijan, i looked into what culture from before that was located there, and its the scythians. Then i looked where traces of phonecian trading influence reached, and they did have influence in the azerbaijan region. Then reading into norse myth, serpent from the east is obviously persia and wolves from the west and south were obviously romans. The scythian dna found in ireland just tells me how far they traveled west when they were pushed out.
But then again this is just bits and pieces of similarity that i got from basic research.
This is true.
Then that fat fuck Steve Quayle got trolled and went along with it to fleece christian boomers and sell more survival food.
>having no memory or experience of a world before "Fortress America"
I remember back when we could carry knives and guns on planes.
Syfy would probably get the lore right but ruin it with cheap cgi, or turn it into the next Tremors film, Graboids In Space, turns of they're from the moon after all.
>Was 8 during 9/11
>War in Afghanistan is almost legal
>Still haven't left Iraq either
Jesus Christ this is depressing.
HBO miniseries.
I'd read it man. It's interesting to think that their religion was actually old fogies waxing poetic as they griped about being pushed around in their youth
To get the Triforce of Power, duh.
I'm pretty sure that painting is a joke and that's supposed to be Gannondorf rendered extraordinarily
"Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told you there were shamble-men in the woods, would you believe them?" My father shook his head. "What if two people told you?" Another shake.
Ben leaned forward on his stump. "What if a dozen people told you, with perfect earnestness, that shamble-men were out in the fields, eating—"
"Of course I wouldn't believe them," my father said, irritated. "It's ridiculous."
"Of course it is," Ben agreed, raising a finger. "But the real question is this: Would you go into the woods?"
/tg/ for sure
After reading into as much as i have been. I feel all their norse mythos and lore are actually stories passed down of their exile, and the religious bits stem from local germanic neighbors.
If i decide to write a huge thing up, where do you think i should post it, /his/, /x/, reddit lol.
I find it weird that all i can find of pre norse and viking is that they migrated there from the south. They arent related to the more northern tribes, and arent related to the southern germanics other than religious similarities. So that leaves coming from the east. And then looking at what tribes and nations were in that area, scythians fit the bill since they are the only ones to let women be fighters. And after the persians conqured the area, no more scythians. The Tyr bit might be a stretch but that phonecian major trade city is literally the only other thing that has the name of Tyr during that point of history. And it is one of the more famous areas. I could suspect ancient vikings receiving naval technology from them since the designs are similar, and them considering Tyr as a benevolant being that provided them with riches and goods from trade. The seal on the deal moment for me was that scythian dna is found in as far as ireland, which during that time period fit the general description and lifestyle of scythians.
I just wish some other conspiracy person thought of this before me otherwise i wouldnt feel so much doubt lmao.
Also, blonde hair caucasians were found east of azerbaijan area in china during the timefram of when scythians would have moved north east to scandenavia. Those guys could have been part of the same tribe trying to get away from the southern threats.
Says you
Dont forget the vampire hunting revolver with silver bullets, and cleaning rod/wooden stake, that currently resides in the NRA museum.
>enlightened
>lusts after men in dresses
People have a hard time grasping they way the world used to be because they want it to believe. Go back 50, 100, 500 years with a couple NBA players and watch people lose their fucking minds over your horde of giants. Hell, bring a couple read heads, some albinos, 2-3 well educated black men, a woman wearing pants, a bic and a flashlight and you could take over the world
They didn't deal with it better at all. They just stuffed it all down. As much as people romanticize the 50s, just the 50s, it was full of broken men using bravado to cope. Historical accounts of ptsd are as old as oral history. People are just less afraid to talk these days. The ones that don't are the ones that make headlines
>They are made up and oddly enough they come from reddit
Despite existing before any white man had ever heard of them
Cool Story Bro
He's a big guy
It's worth putting to paper, even just as a way of killing a weekend. When it comes to ancient cultures and mythos there hits a point outside of fairly recent history where anything becomes possible. Ancient aliens, while horseshit, was a great example of what humans are capable of and the lengths they are willing to go through. Honestly the Conan novels are what got me interested in the ancient world
Former ranger turned Civil Affairs medical POG....the giant of Kandahar is a myth created by neutral locals in order to scare off troops from underdeveloped nations that were also deployed as part of ISAF, HOWEVER; there is plenty of deformed and real life "mutants " and hill have eyes type of people due to the severe high number of incestuous relationships between villages and clans. Ive seen plenty of little people on post as well as insurgents using a huge number of mentally challenged, deformed or people suffering from gigantism . After conducting a few missions and patrols with members of PSYOPS and the likes , i came to learn almost 80% of captured insurgents where willing to cooperate and fell well below the spectrum of autism, schizophrenia and other mental disorders , I personally have examined a few EPW that ended up having things such as, third nipples, lack of testicles and even severe deformities in the extremities.
TLDR; Afghanistan is a fucking shit hole filled with subhuman species and the idea of real life giant is a hoax but also feasible due to their subhuman quality of life and genetics.
Slow boards like Jow Forums are vlnerable to being hijacked by a single persistent shitposter, and then by people hopping on the bandwagon. We can go months without a single mention of skinwalkers, and then suddenly a single shitposter can light a fire.
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UUUU
T. Skinwalker
is the earth flat too?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold the fort. What's this about a pregnant Anne Frank?
Same, conan, and having a hobby of collecting old maps got me into my hobby. I really like phonecian history, since its not as popular as the other civilizations. They had a vast naval trade network that is ridiculous considering the timeframe they were living in. Plus they had their hands in many cultures. For example, one of the kings of Tyr played a part in building the temple of solomon.
Don't ask, don't tell. You don't want to know what level of autismo this is.
Still not a valid topic of discussion on /vr/, so it's not that long ago.
At this point I would be willing to drop the bc/ad thing in favor or pre/post WTC. Its one of those things that hard to talk about without other people looking at you like some alien conspiracy theorist. Privacy is a joke, personal freedom is a joke and there's 10,000 little sacrifices offered to the God of safety that we don't even think about anymore.
I remember pulling up my own address in Google earth for the first time and thinking about how cool it was, but as I say my license plate, my front door, my neighbor etc the feeling faded into anxiety. Columbine, OKC,
and Aum Shinrikyo were all bad but 9/11 was when the hammer dropped
When I was there in 2012, there was a contractor on KAF who said he'd been there since 2005. He claims to have seen the giant in the back of an LMTV under a tarp. Says that it looked like a piss poor tie down job and that he was about to talk to the joes standing around it about what a shit job they did when he noticed "a hand that must've been as big from pinky-to-thumb as an M4 is long" hanging off the end of the truck and was stopped by a Master Sergeant and told to fuck off.
Funny you say that thing with the minotaur and Tyr. Tyr means bull in Danish.
t. Danefag.
Yup, world changed from 9/11. A quarter of the world is unsafe to travel to, terrorists are no longer ransom seekers and are martyrs now, so cant even travel to most of the planet anymore. Its like there is a loss in order. I remember when hijackings were a thing, and pretty much everyone came out of them alive, now its like if you get hijacked, everything is fucked and time to make your peace or go out fighting.
>in which case the meme teaches people to be more alert and prepared in case they run into a bear or some crazed homeless when they're out in the sticks.
That's the origin of like 70% of folklore. It's really apparent in Native American folk tales that they were just trying to others the proper way to do things without resorting to "because I said so". Skinwalker pasta is a way to remind folks that people go missing in national parks constantly and the FBI keeps a tally of active serial killers to this day. A 401k won't save you from a rattlesnake, loose rock, hobos wandering onto the wrong hidden still/grow op
And that's why the 40K machine gods are fun
You should see the amount of people who go missing in kings canyon national park in comparison to every other park in the nation. Very spoopy. Ive been there before, there are pretty much no major trails or established areas, other than the highway, its almost all wilderness.
Bro its become a generational conflict