What Really Happened When US Military Encountered a Giant in Afghanistan

In 2016, the internet was abuzz with interviews from U.S. military personnel detailing their encounter with a 13-foot-tall giant in the wilderness of Afghanistan. According to one military contractor, in 2002, the U.S. Special Forces encountered and killed a giant after suffering one casualty to the cryptid’s spear.

The story went around the world and back again, with theories bolstered by a mixture of fiction and facts. The official government response consisted of one statement claiming that they have no records of such an event or any giant men being slain by their forces in Afghanistan or anywhere else.

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[bobthegoat]

Yes, a trained US soldier saw a giant and then RUSHED IN instead of just firing his weapon. Seems credible.

[dj]

Had an elderly afghani coworker, I had asked him about this and according to him they would find giants bones out there when he was a kid.

[DanceySteveYNWA]

History Channel levels of believability

[dfdemt]

I did two tours in Afghanistan, and was in Kandahar. This story made the rounds over there and everyone who heard it laughed. There were so many things in the story that a US military unit would just not have done that the whole story has to be false. The military keeps track of everybody and every piece of gear we have, down to our socks. If anything goes missing, they make everyone stop and look until it’s found. So a whole patrol going missing and the military just being like “oh well”? Yeah, not happening.

[archangel]

This story sounds more like Ulysses encounter with the giant cyclops in the Odyssey than David and Goliath.

[Best_Username]

A few things,
I’m 90% sure that the special forces team involved where Green Berets, not seals
According to the story, the troops involved didn’t call in T.I.C which means troops in contact any time before they vanished which is highly irregular.
And most importantly, this video leaves out MANY important details in favor of irrelevant and unnecessary ones

[competitionglen]

The giant attacked cos he thought the troops were returning his wife to him. He had been at peace in that cave.

[wendysmith]

My hubby was deployed near there after this happened and he knows this happened. It's real....he told me about it in 2013.

[troydorr]

Mr. Ballen covered this case as well. And he was a navy seal.

[clap]

They were Green Berets not Navy SEALs.

[hobeone]

It wasn't a giant, it was actually 6 elves in an overcoat.

[Tpforbunghole]

I actually heard a story similar to this not long ago. A man discovered a giant on some snowy mountain. He took a picture but it didn’t come out the greatest. He later made a video explaining it and speaking about the giant he saw and said no matter what, he was telling the truth. He then later in time made another video looking distressed and nervous recanting his last video of the giant. After that he made a last video taking back the recanted video and looked like he was making one last hard claim of the giant and the first video. He was never seen again after that. His name was Andrew Dawson

[PyroRob]

SEALS are Navy, not Army, so Snopes wouldn’t have found anything in army records

[odinrothschild]

Just a random Space Marine who is stripped of his armour.

[ThrillSeeker]

I suppose the navy will be fighting Krakens next, and the Marines will be herding unicorns

[krikkrakvollenbak]

Alternate title idea: that time the us military experienced a shared LSD trip

[REF]

Not saying the story has any merit but it's cute that the author of this piece 1. Trusts Snopes... 2. Doesn't seem to think the military or government could conceal something. Having been involved in a "non existing incident" in Germany I assure you, they can make an event, not have happened!

[alphao]

Shout out to Mr.Ballin for letting us know about this before hand

[aCraftyCapybara]

Who else thought this was an SCP Explained video?

[ives]

"Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them." - Patrick Ness