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TRUE GIANTS: Is Gigantopithecus Still Alive? Paperback – November 29, 2010

by Mark A. Hall (Author), Loren Coleman (Author)

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THE BOOK THAT BREAKS A CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL TABOO! Do giant primates larger than gorillas, taller than Sasquatch and Yetis, still exist in the remotest corners of the globe? Famed cryptozoologists Mark A. Hall and Loren Coleman join forces to share their knowledge of this unexplored and neglected topic in cryptozoology. Bigfoot researchers have long been mystified, even embarrassed, by reports of giant hairy apes larger than Bigfoot, and as a result eyewitness reports of what Hall and Coleman call True Giants have never been fully considered in the broader zoological context. Reviewing the evidence found in traditions and footprints, folklore and sightings, the authors of this groundbreaking volume present for the first time in one place the wide-ranging argument for the possible survival of a giant species of primate that we know lived on Earth for millions of years.

MARK A. HALL is the author of Thunderbirds: America's Living Legends of Giant Birds. LOREN COLEMAN, author of Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America and The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates, Together they have been studying the question of True Giants and their kin for fifty years.

"The authors deserve top marks for collecting all the available evidence and reviewing it even-handedly. The final product is a handsome volume, including 23 black-and-white illustrations, with all material fully sourced… Overall, True Giants is a valuable addition to the literature of Sasquatchery and natural mysteries.” — Michael Newton, Fortean Times

“However you may feel about the reality of the subject, True Giants presents a succinct, enlightening and tremendously entertaining case for such a creature, be it genus gigantopithecus, one of its cousins, or some other unrecognized ape-like beast. The book doesn’t make unsubstantiated claims, but lines up a delightful parade of records and reports from all across the globe, from antiquity to current date, and drops it on your doorstep so you can take from it what you will.” — J.T. Lindross, Bookgasm

“True Giants is a book that is as groundbreaking as it is thought-provoking and paradigm-challenging. Hall and Coleman detail a remarkable theory – and a rich history, too – that serves to explain the many and varied accounts of huge, hairy giants in our midst. In the process of doing so, they weave a complex and fascinating story of something gigantic, something definitively monstrous but equally definitively man-like too, and something that has lived alongside us for so long, carefully shaping and sculpting our legends and folklore as it does so.” — Nick Redfern, Reviews of the Mysterious Kind

“A fascinating read...one of the most unique books on Cryptozoology I’ve read since Sanderson’s Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life... Coleman and Hall set forth with academic eloquence, and void of flamboyance and sensationalism so characteristic within this field, … a highly unique study, providing a window through which we might observe life on this planet that, despite their tremendous size, we somehow have managed to overlook.” — Micah Hanks, The Gralien Report

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"The authors deserve top marks for collecting all the available evidence and reviewing it even-handedly. The final product is a handsome volume, including 23 black-and-white illustrations, with all material fully sourced... Overall, True Giants is a valuable addition to the literature of Sasquatchery and natural mysteries." - Michael Newton, Fortean Times

"However you may feel about the reality of the subject, True Giants presents a succinct, enlightening and tremendously entertaining case for such a creature, be it genus gigantopithecus, one of its cousins, or some other unrecognized ape-like beast. The book doesn't make unsubstantiated claims, but lines up a delightful parade of records and reports from all across the globe, from antiquity to current date, and drops it on your doorstep so you can take from it what you will." - J.T. Lindross, Bookgasm

"True Giants is a book that is as groundbreaking as it is thought-provoking and paradigm-challenging. Hall and Coleman detail a remarkable theory - and a rich history, too - that serves to explain the many and varied accounts of huge, hairy giants in our midst. In the process of doing so, they weave a complex and fascinating story of something gigantic, something definitively monstrous but equally definitively man-like too, and something that has lived alongside us for so long, carefully shaping and sculpting our legends and folklore as it does so." - Nick Redfern, Reviews of the Mysterious Kind

"A fascinating read...one of the most unique books on Cryptozoology I've read since Sanderson's Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life... Coleman and Hall set forth with academic eloquence, and void of flamboyance and sensationalism so characteristic within this field, ... a highly unique study, providing a window through which we might observe life on this planet that, despite their tremendous size, we somehow have managed to overlook." - Micah Hanks, The Gralien Report

About the Author

MARK A. HALL (1946-2016) was a fortean and the author of Thunderbirds: America's Living Legends of Giant Birds.

LOREN COLEMAN is the author of Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America and The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates. With Mark Hall, they have been studying the question of True Giants and their kin for fifty years.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Anomalist Books (November 29, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 186 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1933665491
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933665498
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.42 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #876,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #91 in Primatology
- #1,979 in Unexplained Mysteries (Books)
- #2,044 in Folklore & Mythology Studies

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ED4FL

An Excellent Book

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2016

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The book is well written and well researched. I do disagree with the premise, which is not solely held by either Mr. Hall or Mr. Coleman, but also by a number of people interested in sasquatch. To put it simply, "Giganto" would seem to be the only large ape (Or, as some believe, human) seemingly somewhat similar to sasquatch that we have any fossil record of as of this writing. Looking at how just in my lifetime science has discovered more and more fossilized animals not previously known to exist (Including early humans), I think it's a bit of a leap to hypothesize that bigfoot are Gigantopithecus.
Maybe they are - Maybe they aren't.
That being said, this is still an excellent book with some very interesting encounters (Including the one that inspired the cover art) and evidence and is a worthwhile addition to anyone's library with an interest in the general subject.

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Darth Hoek

If you think you might like it buy it, you will love this book.

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2014

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This book deals with the matter of giants as a real phenomenon that either existed in the near past, or still walks with us today. Hall and Coleman use news articles from all over the world to drive home that around the world nearly every culture has stories about giant humanoids, so maybe there is something to really look at here. Lots of info in an efficient package; if you think you might like it, you will love it. This book would be great for anyone interested in that new History channel show about giants, as it delves deeper into that sort of evidence, but with a more science based approach. Also, if you can ever make it to Portland, Maine make sure to visit Loren Coleman's Cryptozoological Museum. It is a great place for anyone who wants to dig a bit deeper into this sort of stuff while supporting one of the good ones.

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Tartarus

Do giants still roam the earth?

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2013

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This is not a book about Bigfoot. Granted, Bigfoot is pretty big and could technically be considered a giant. And it does get a few mentions in the book. However, the main creatures this book is concerned with are far bigger creatures, around 3 to 6 metres tall.

The authors suggest that the giants of legend could be based on real life creatures that roamed the earth. Even more incredibly, giants may still be around today as is indicated by various eyewitness reports of truly massive man-beasts.
One of the most focused on giants in the book are the orang dalam- hairy giants from the jungles of Malaysia that have been sighted by large numbers of eyewitnesses. The book also discusses giant reports from other parts of the world including Europe, the Himalayas, the Americas, Africa and Oceania. True Giants are reported to often dwell in sheltered caves and to avoid humans whenever possible (understandable considering humans' often less than hospitable attitudes towards that which is different).

The authors identify Bigfoot as Paranthropus and the True Giants as Gigantopithecus. I'm uncertain of the Paranthropus as Bigfoot notion (Paranthropus would have to grow bigger and move from Africa to North America, but that could perhaps work). And as for the True Giants, while I agree that Gigantopithecus might explain a fair portion of them, especially when we consider reports of giants with gorilla-like faces, there is one thing to note. The authors point out that at least some True Giants do things like making clothing and building tools and may in ancient times have done things like herding animals and even taken up smithing. The authors seem to interpret this as the giants imitating humans. Granted, similar things have been seen in chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans living near human settlements and learning to use human tools so could the same be said for Gigantopithecus? Perhaps, though what is reported from True Giants seems to go beyond merely learning to use some basic equipment humans made. Also, the authors note that some of the sounds heard from True Giants could perhaps be a simple form of language.
I can't help wondering if we are actually dealing with more than one sort of being hear, both creatures that could be Gigantopithecus and creatures that could be something more like ourselves (incidentally, something like this was suggested by Australian cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy who spoke both of gorilla-like or Bigfoot-like giants that he interpreted as Gigantopithecus and more human-like giants that he interpreted as gigantic descendants of Homo erectus).

Acknowledging the question of how in the world any upright walking bipeds could get so huge, the authors suggest honeycomb bone structures. Admittedly, such bone structure is currently unknown among mammals but I wouldn't rule it out entirely.
Also, one of my personal favourite parts of the book is one of the appendixes that shows a discussion on giant skulls from the Aleutian Islands, by deceased biologist Ivan T. Sanderson. Sanderson presented the rather novel notion that the 6 metre giants in question were an aquatic human species, kinda like the speculative aquatic/semi-aquatic proto-humans of the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis but a giant sized version. After all, being aquatic would allow all that mass to be supported in water. Of course, True Giant sightings show giants that have no trouble living on land, but still Sanderson's speculative aquatic giants should perhaps not be completely discounted.

Overall, the premise of the book is admittedly an incredible one. Yet reality can sometimes be rather incredible. In any case, its a fascinating read regardless and offers much food for thought.

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Matthew A. Bille

Good effort, not quite convincing

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2010

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In True Giants, Coleman and Hall tackle a question that's hung around the edges of primate cryptozoology without being fully addressed: Are sasquatch and its ilk (assuming they exist) the tallest primates on Earth, or could there be an additional species, presumably a modern descendant of Gigantopithecus blacki, that forms the basis for worldwide legends of giants 9-20 feet tall? I greatly respect Coleman, and Hall is a researcher of prodigious skill, but this slender volume didn't change my thinking on this.
The authors admit up front that we don't know what kind of skeletal structure works in such an animal (practical knee joints are especially hard to visualize). They suggest a honeycomb bone structure for lightness, but there's no precedent for a true birdlike honeycomb structure in mammals: you have to postulate a long line of evolution we know nothing about for a change this radical. (To be fair, fossils of the modern chimpanzee and gorilla are extremely sparse.) Implausibilities certainly arise in mammals, but scattered eyewitness reports and footprints are not enough to make me take this one seriously. I commend the authors for tackling a difficult subject and sparking debate, and cryptozoologists should read this book for an understanding of the "high end" of unidentified-primate reports.
- Matt Bille
Author, Shadows of Existence: Discoveries and Speculations in Zoology (Hancock, 2006)

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Reading Teach

Interesting book, take it for what it is

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2011

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This is an interesting book that looks back at giant legends and combines that with giant sightings of the past few hundred years. What you get is an interesting theory on what gigantopithecus might be and how a even taller primate than bigfoot might exist in the world. Well written and not over the top, just a presentation of the facts as they seem them and their commentary on how the facts could be interpeted. Most amazing part of the book is the consisent descriptions from every corner of the world of the giants as cannibals(eating humans though not themselves). Always intrigues me when legends from unconnected parts of the world are amazingly similar.

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RJ

Well written and very interesting

Reviewed in Canada on March 18, 2021

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Great book. I like the overview of giants throughout history in different cultures, locations and times. Well written and and flows nicely. Lots of interesting information.

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True Giants: Is Gigantopithecus Still Alive?

Reviewed in Germany on November 14, 2019

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Very interesting book and very informative!

Michael M.

IS SASQUATCH GIGANTOPITHECUS: THIS BOOD DOES DISSERVICE TO THAT UNDERSTANDING

Reviewed in Canada on September 4, 2017

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The ONLY reason I didn't give this book a 1 rating is that it is well written. Other than that, it talks about all these occupancies of gigantopithecus and excludes all the oddities that surround the experience. It paints these giants as big apes and nothing to do with being advanced beyond our comprehension. By excluding such things as their apparent ability to go invisible and being telepathic, they research with true blinders on and do nothing for our understanding of Sasquatch. I would have to call it abhorrent!

Green Man Music

A Small Book About Big People

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2011

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"True Giants" is a term coined by the authors to differentiate between the Bigfoot/Yeti/Sasquatch/Orang Pendek et al -style cryptozoological hominids, and the much larger hairy hominids that they believe are surviving Gigantopitheci. According to conventional science Gigantopithecus was an almost 10' (3 metres) tall bamboo-eating vegetarian ape that lived in Asia and India alongside our ancestors Homo Erectus, and died out about 300,000 years ago.

It's the authors' belief that the folk tales of indigenous peoples regarding hairy giants are often dismissed as mere stories when in fact they all paint a similar picture of red-eyed hairy giants having lived, and possibly still living, among them.

The folk tales and occasional sightings reported by word of mouth are the main bulk of the authors' evidence of existing Giantopithecus, supported by occasional photographs of tracks. These folk-tales and stories are a great read and while one can see how some of their striking similarities can be interpreted as a consensus, it's also easy to spot differences so it's difficult to ever know how much of the tale is pure story-telling or embellishment and how much is race memory or hand-me-down fact. Likewise, as we know from other monster and UFO sightings, eye-witness accounts can range from the broadly accurate to the hugely mistaken.

Some other anecdotal evidence does sound interesting and I found it frustrating that it wasn't always referenced - for example, the authors note that early European settlers in America had to fight off an attack by True Giants using the first recorded use of firearms against them. I would have liked to read more but there was no reference to follow up.

So in all an very interesting read, full of possibilities and as always if you keep an open mind, always exciting to think we could be living along side a giant species that was long thought extinct. But also ultimately disappointing because the evidence is, as so often is the case, anecdotal and the much needed photographs and film are still eluding us, allowing critics to put some of the authors' assertions into the realm of pure belief.

That said, it took three months of intensive filming and camera-trap setting to finally prove, in 2010, indigenous people's insistent tales of tigers living at altitudes of 13,450 feet high in the Himalayas. Perhaps if cryptozoological studies were awarded that level of time and financing, something concrete to support the folk tales may eventually emerge.

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