On the diffusion of giants

The Irish occultist Thomas Sheridan is in very good shape here, as he moderates a discussion with Brad Olsen, an American author of whom I know almost nothing. Judging by the titles and covers of his books, Olsen is also an occultist. The exchange in the YouTube "symposium" above is about "suppressed human origins and ancient America". 

In one hour, Olsen, Sheridan and a third guy named Jason manage to cover a surprisingly wide array of alternative topics. Did the Vikings reach much further south than official archeology and history believes? What about the Knights Templar? Did Phoenicians reach North America during the Bronze Age? What about the Red Paint People in Maine, Kennewick Man in Washington State, or legends in the Southwest according to which the Hopi and the Zuni are indigenous, while the Navajo are not? Casting their net even wider, the contributors then discuss "elongated skulls" and "giants" (weirdly, they never once say the word "Nephilim"), not just in the Americas, but also at the Mediterranean island of Malta. 

A catastrophist scenario is proposed, and the discussants wonder why the establishment refuses to accept pre-Columbian contacts (except a few stray Vikings), giants, Atlantis, and so on. The conclusion reached is that modern civilization simply cannot tolerate the idea that there have been other relatively advanced cultures (or even intelligent species) before our own, since that means we´re not "special" anymore. The American (White Christian settler) idea of "Manifest Destiny" could be another culprit. (I could add that it´s probably a mix of "Biblical" themes and the modern idea of progress.) 

While I can´t say I believe every word of these autodidacts, I might be *somewhat* more positive to these kinds of speculations than, say, five or ten years ago. I obviously don´t believe in the "alien" or "starchild" connection made by Olsen. There are no aliens. However, I noticed a certain tendency in official archeology. American pre-history just keeps getting longer and longer, never the other way around. Kicking and screaming, archeologists have been forced to admit that human settlement in the "New World" isn´t particularly recent. There must have been several migrations across the famed Bering land bridge, not just one. At the periphery of official science, various anomalies keep turning up, such as "European" or even "Australian Aboriginal" genes in some American Indian tribes, "Solutrean" points in America, and what have you. And beyond that periphery, or is it pale, who knows? New human species have been discovered, including the dimunitive Flores Man, so why can´t there have been "giants", as well? 

With those remarks...have fun with this content!