This Strange Footprint is 4ft Long
According to some people, this granite marking, located in Eastern Transvaal, South Africa, is evidence that giants once roamed the Earth. Researchers who visited the site estimated such giants would have been between 22 to 25 feet tall.
Michael Tellinger shows off what could be one of the best pieces of evidence that there were giants on Earth a long, long time ago. Geologists have marvelled at this giant foot print in rough granite, about 4 feet long. Some still say that it is a natural erosion pattern.
Personally I find that suggestion highy improbable for various reasons that I will not go into here. Prof. Pieter Wagener from UPE, suggests that "there is a higher probability of little green men arriving from space and licking it out with their tongues, than being created by natural erosion".
It is located in South Africa, near the town of Mpaluzi, close to the Swaziland border. It is estimated to be between 200 million and 3 Billion years old because of our current understanding of the formation of granites in Earth's history. This dating immediately causes great debate and argument - so I urge you to keep your mind open and focused on the evidence.
This amazing footprint in granite was discovered in 1912 by a hunter called Stoffel Coetzee, while hunting in the remote area. At the time this was a deeply remote part of South Africa known as the Eastern Transvaal, teeming with wild life, including antelope and lions. It remains in the same condition as it was when first discovered and the possibility that this was a carved hoax is extremely low because of its remote location. Even today, it is difficult to find.
The real mystery is how this amazing phenomenon occured - I have no idea - but here it is and we cannot wish it away.
YES - It is granite - it is a well recognised geological part of South Africa and recorded on all geological maps - that is why this footprint is such an incredible mystery. It can be desribed as a "phenocrystic" granite, OR coarse porphyritic granite, that underwent several different stages of cooling. The result being an interesting mixture of large and small granules. This is why granite companies are keen to mine this area for granite because it will look really "pretty" when polished. In the official Geology Of South Africa, this outcrop is called Mpuluzi Batholith (Granite) and the official dating of this rock produced dates of around 3,1 billion years.
A real mystery that needs close scientific examination.
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Its carved. End of story. Looney toons!
ReplyDeleteI am so sick of your constant "looney toons" responses. Is that the stretch of your small-minded intellect that this is your only retort, day after day?? Open your mind a bit, buddy.
DeleteLooney tunes is a moron
DeleteI agree with anon 8:41. Enough with your pea size brain . Enough is enough with your F'ing "Looney Tunes" crap! U know who is loony tunes? You ! Your a worthless piece of crap!
DeleteYeah, because they did a lot of carving 200 million years ago... ass.
DeleteEven if you are right and it is carved, that alone would be amazing as humans have apparently only been around for about 200 thousand years.
DeleteHuman carvings that are 200 million to 3 billion years old? Now that would change everything we know about who we are...
The granite was formed between 200 million and 3 billion years ago, not the carving. The only reason they give for it not being a carving is its modern day remoteness. It may have been an occupied area 20,000 years ago or whenever. Many religious sites are in remote areas anyway. Looks more like erosion, actually. But I guess you toons are right, giant humans were walking around with dinosaurs. Hey, maybe it was Jesus raptor.
DeletePay attention you morons. The carving is NOT 200 million to 3 billion years old. The granite is. If you turds focused on the facts instead of wishful thinking maybe you wouldn't be so retarded. Its a carving you looney toons!!
DeleteAnd if its not a carving then its natural. Truth IS stranger than fiction tard boys. You should read up on granite as well. Yep, a giant stepped on molten lava. Looney toons!
DeleteWhere is the mid-tarsal break? Now thats a real head scratcher that one is by golly.
ReplyDeleteThat is a juvenile SYFY bigfoot print.
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ReplyDeleteStop using the Lord's name in vain stoner boy!
DeleteMaybe he sees Shawn as a spiritual leader, in which case there is no taking lords name in vane, just taking the lords name. Long live Jesus Shawn!
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ReplyDeleteIt does state in the Bible that once Giants walked the Earth.
DeleteThe bible says all kinds of crazy stuff that we all know could never have happened, unless you believe in magic. And if you do then you're probably one of those crack pots that think bigfoot is an inter-demential shapeshifting telepathic being brought to earth by ancient aliens.
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Deleteobviously it is nephilim
ReplyDeletethe bible says Giants did indeed walk this earth, i would love to know how they didn't survive to this day.
ReplyDeleteGod killed them off... Its was all part of his divine plan.
DeleteThe Bible said a lot of things of which little to none can be proven correct, especially the supernatural stuff that religious people cling to.
DeleteForget what Herb said Shawn.Someone used the n word business is about to pick up.
ReplyDeleteNot only was it a giant, but it could walk straight up a granite wall!!
ReplyDeleteDid Bigfoot call in sick today or something?
ReplyDeletemust be the mother of all bigfoots.
ReplyDeleteThat is pretty cool actually. The pushup in front of the toes makes it harder to do. If it was faked, someone went a long ass ways to do a hoax. Is there any study for tool marks? Looking the seep, and how shallow the cuts are into the stone I do not think this is from erosion. The Footprint of God has a catchy ring to it. Someone should start digging around. Normally if one track is found, another is too.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just where another big rock shaped like a foot landed in the mud millions of years ago. Maybe?
DeleteI doubt its from a giant human or a god. Its more likely from a dinosaur that slipped in the mud, or something along those lines.
ReplyDeleteIt is what it is. Just because it doesn't fit into your current narrow paradigm does not mean that it is not possible.
ReplyDeleteSo what do you think "it is"? I'm very curious to know how it possibly fits in to your past or future wide paradigm.
DeleteIt's a giant bear's double step.
DeleteNo, it's a Dino crap indentation. Some big constipated dino dropped a hard one in the mud that later turned to granite but the dino poop had long since decayed away
DeleteIf the "footprint" is truly in granite, then it isn't a footprint. Granite is an igneous rock. It is formed as a result of volcanic activity.
ReplyDeleteWhen the mineral constituents of granite are soft enough to assume the form of a footprint, they are extremely hot, if not molten. A creature would never merrily step in molten rock, and then leave a footprint that would eventually harden.
It is a well known fact that giants love playing in active volcanoes. Pssst, amature.
DeleteAh, so a nephilim strode up a molten granite lava flow. Makes sense now.
DeleteHas anyone ever found a camel toe print?
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DeleteObviously, a Balrog once strode the earth.
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ReplyDeleteTo all the ass sniffing doubters here, go read Forbidden Archeology by Michael Cremo ...
ReplyDeleteLike Tom said, (we have the same last name, mine has an "e" though). I suspect a creationist retard is behind this. I dont think prints can be made in igneous granite when it was molten.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with granite is no one has proved exactly how it is formed. The most widely excepted theory is the one Tom stated. But lots of strange things keep getting found in granite. Lots of footprints, tracks, even shoe prints. But aluminum machine screws, machined steel balls and human bones even have been found too. If granite is so old, how is this stuff being found in it? If it is not old, how is anything surviving the heat during formation? The easiest, and laziest, way is to shrug it off as hoaxes. But like lots of the bigfoot things, many cannot simply be hoaxes. Could these objects be left over from unlucky time travelers who got caught in molten rock? That is one theory, but not likely in my book. I think what is most likely for tracks is that the surface rock had started to harden. Something stepped on it and sank in a bit. Much like fire walking. Ash covered and insulated the foot. Plus add in callous and it is possible. I have dipped my finger in water, then into molten lead before. Did not even warm my finger. Don't try that at home, but after seeing it on mythbusters, I did it the next time I poured lead. So I think a wet foot with callous and ash or mud on it could leave a track in granite. My problem is when did any humanoid that big live and if it did live, when was the rock formed. Faking that track would leave some sort of toolmarks. I am a hobby lapidarist and it would take some serious effort to do that. Especially with the push up in front of the toes.
ReplyDeleteTL;DR - someone has too much time on their hands.
DeleteThe other major issue is the depth that granite forms, it is formed at crustal depths of between 1.5km to 45 km. This can be shown due to the layers of rock it has been injected into. Granite also has a larger crystal structure caused by the very slow cooling at these depths (this allows larger crystals to form unlike basalt). If this was a basalt rock (known to cool quickly near or at the surface) I would have been more impressed.
DeleteThere are so many reasons for this shape forming in rock but a giant foot print is not one of them.
Also there is no reason that the scientific community wouldn't embrace a giant creature from this time. 20-25 feet tall isn't so impressive compared to a dinosaur. Also these creatures would have no impact on modern day theories of evolution etc. They would be classified as a creature that more than like became extinct with the dinosaurs.
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DeleteBeing a creationist retard is better than being an atheist asshole (it is me, not anyone else using my nickname)
ReplyDeleteGo back to licking Skywalker's taterhole, moron.
DeleteI do blieve that Anon at 5:21 has totally lost it.
DeleteCool find, thanks for posting.
ReplyDeleteIf this is a footprint from a giant 2 million years ago I promise you all I will eat my hat. It´s made of wool and will gnarl my teeth. The fact that people believe these kind of things is giving me a headache.
ReplyDelete"A real mystery that needs close scientific examination."
ReplyDeleteno it doesn't. Say "hammer and chisel". Nothing biological could have withstood the heat of a forming or cooling granitic intrusion to leave behind an imprint. Unless of course it was the Iron Giant. But then he didn't have toes.
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ReplyDeleteafter watching this granite markers i will do some search on giants. i loves the post. thanks
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