Jim Vieira: Footprints of the Gods: Extra Digits the Mark of the Giants

Summary

Researcher Jim Vieira, known for History Channel and Ancient Aliens appearances, presents his new book 'Footprints of the Gods: Extra Digits, Giants and the Hidden History of Humanity,' arguing that six-fingered and six-toed giants appear in traditions, rock art and footprints across isolated cultures worldwide. He claims extra digits were the ancient mark of divinity and of giants, who he says were created through genetic engineering by figures like the Anunnaki and Viracocha. The conversation also covers alleged academic suppression of giant evidence, AI-generated pseudo-history, and Edgar Cayce's psychic readings about Atlantis and androgynous early humans.

Key takeaways

• 1Vieira credits British Museum archaeologist Richard Barnett, a former Bletchley Park codebreaker, with a paper on polydactyly in the ancient world, which Barnett said had received no attention from scholars
• 2Cherokee traditions recorded by Smithsonian ethnologist James Mooney describe Judaculla, a seven-fingered, seven-toed giant linked to Judaculla Rock in North Carolina
• 3El Carmen Cave in Baja California reportedly holds 15-18 foot painted figures with six fingers, said to be about 11,000 years old; 1700s Jesuit records say the Cochimí people told them a race of giants from the north made them
• 4A 1949 paper by colonial administrator I.G. Turbott described six-toed giant footprints on Tarawa (Kiribati) attributed to the giant Tabakea and his wife
• 5Karahan Tepe in Turkey reportedly has a pillar figure with eight fingers per hand; excavator Necmi Karul is quoted as saying the humanoids there have 'strange numbers of fingers, never five'
• 6Vieira claims the National Park Service removed a 2017 reference to six-toed footprints at Alibates Flint Quarries in Texas, and calls early-1900s Smithsonian anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička a racist who ended scholarly interest in giants

Glossary terms

Source

Transcript excerpt

You know, it's fun to get outside during the summertime here in the United States because. We have daylight Savings time. You know, the sun is to go down till sometimes eight thirty here in California, and I, as a hiker and person who loves the outdoors, I really appreciate it. It looks like Congress just passed it in the legislation to make daylight saving time full time, full time, and I don't know, I kind of like the season changes, but I also like being able to work when it's light. You know, I work late sometime in the studio here, and if I finish at like seven, I can go run out, drive a short distance ten minutes away and go for a hike. Isn't that kind of cool? I think it's great. Apparently a law was passed in nineteen seventy four that wasn't really well appreciated, and to this day, I think it's Hawaii and Arizona stick to one. I think they stick to daily the same as time. I don't know how that works, though. I guess if you fly into Arizona you just have to change your clock a little bit our fur or hour back. Hey, this is Clip, your host of Earth ancients. And as you know, I love the hike. I like to get out and do exercise and stretch the body. And I live in a state that isn't too hot and not too cold. I'm here in the San Francisco Bay Area and so the way it's fairly temperate. So I like to do that. So I don't know how it's going to go. I'll let you know if they do pass the law. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Jul 18, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.