The Mythical Kandahar Giant And The U.S. Special Forces.

In 2002, a group of troops disappeared while on patrol in a remote mountainous region of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province. And after they failed to establish radio contact for an extended period of time, the military dispatched a special operations unit to investigate, but their branch of service was never confirmed.

The unit then discovered, high in the mountains, a cave with scattered Army equipment but no indication of the missing soldiers. And it was then that they came across the Kandahar Giant.

This red-headed monster with six fingers, leather moccasins, and a stench of "dead bodies" came from the cave and speared one of the troops.

The soldiers then opened fire, bringing the behemoth down after 30 seconds of continuous firing.

“Between them, the squad was armed with full-auto M4 carbines, “recon carbines” (semi-automatic), and M107 Barrett anti-materiel rifles firing .50 BMG,” reads one report. “This much firepower concentrated on one target for one second, let alone thirty, would be extremely destructive.”

The military hoisted the mammoth aboard a Chinook chopper, which transported it to a cargo plane, where it was never seen again. The government required the soldiers to sign nondisclosure agreements so that they would remain silent.

The troops eventually broke their silence because, as one of them would later argue, "the public has a right to know the truth."

Government Denial Fueled The Spread of The Conspiracy Theory

Snopes contacted the Department of Defense in August 2016 over the "Kandahar Giant incident." The Department of Defense stated unequivocally that they had "no record or information concerning a special forces member killed in Kandahar by a monster."

In addition, there are no press releases on the Department of Defense's website regarding either the disappearance of a "special forces troop" in Afghanistan or any incident involving soldiers killing a monster.

Obviously, like with any good conspiracy, the absence of evidence is not sufficient to disprove the existence of the Kandahar Giant legend. In actuality, the Snopes debunking of the urban legend has had the opposite impact in certain cryptid communities, which assert that the government is "trying to hide the reality from the public."

Around the time the publication of the Snopes article that debunked the story, self-proclaimed supernaturalist L.A. Marzulli claimed on several right-wing websites that the United States government was covering up this "spectacular" story and that those in power had a "vested interest" in keeping the truth of Biblical prophecies hidden from the general public.

"The public has a right to know about this information. As American citizens, we have the right to know if fifteen- or eighteen-foot-tall aliens are wandering the planet and if our military has taken them down, he stated.

“I mean, this isn’t classified military stuff. This is something we need to know. And it points back to the Biblical prophetic narrative.”

The Biblical Origins Behind The Myth Of The Kandahar Giant

The true account of the Kandahar Giant is significantly less exciting than the myth. The Internet enabled L.A. Marzulli, whose YouTube channel is devoted to relating contemporary events to Biblical predictions, to bring the story back to life in 2016.

Marzulli interviewed Mr. K, a purported soldier who claimed to have observed the "Giant of Kandahar," in a now-deleted video first uploaded on August 16, 2016. Mr. K asserted that he witnessed the monster carrying a spear and murdering a U.S. soldier named "Dan" before he and the other "special forces" eliminated it.

According to Marzulli, the creature was a Nephilim, a group of humans described in the Old Testament books of Genesis and Numbers as "people of abnormally huge stature and power" who lived in the Middle East both before and after "The Flood" of Noah's Ark fame.

However, Biblical historians generally agree that the Nephilim stories were metaphors and not based on the actual existence of a 13-foot desert-dwelling giant.

In addition, the only "Dan" who died in Kandahar around the time of this purported occurrence in 2002 was Sgt. 1st Class Daniel A. Romero, who was murdered in a bombing with three other soldiers.

Despite the overwhelming evidence against it, the legend of the Kandahar Giant is reportedly still an "open secret" among soldiers who deployed in Kandahar in 2002. 

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