Dole Giant

**Dole Giant** is a worker of a pineapple plantation on the Hawaiian island of Oahu literally "fell" into a strange mystery. What the man discovered then indicated that, even in the 20th century, unknown giants still roam our planet.

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In the 1960s of the last century, a worker of a pineapple plantation on the Hawaiian island of Oahu literally "fell" into a strange mystery. What the man discovered then indicated that, even in the 20th century, unknown giants still roam our planet, whose size greatly exceeds the tallest humans.

Around two o'clock, a 45-year-old (somewhere stated as 25) unnamed man was working on a pineapple plantation owned by the Dole Pineapple Company. However, the man, who was probably overcome with fatigue during the night shift, was quickly awakened when he fell into a small depression that had no business there. However, the surprise came only after the witness found out that it was a huge footprint similar to a human foot. So he immediately called his colleagues to look at this discovery as well. The men then measured the track and found that it was almost one full meter long. The workers therefore agreed that "anyone who has a meter-long footprint is probably a really big man".

Following the discovery, there have been claims from older workers that giant figures once roamed the area in the past, with many believing it to be a ghost that haunted the former camp. So it was questionable why none of the workers made a cast of the footprint or a photograph. It is also not known if this single footprint was the only one found or if there were more. If it was only a single print, the mystery of this unknown giant would become much more complicated and take on a bizarre character. The whole situation rather resembled a story by Karel Čapek called "footprint", when two random witnesses discover an "impossible" footprint in the snow in a field, for which there is no explanation.

Some researchers linked this case to the appearance of large humanoid beings of the Bigfoot type. However, according to the lack of reports, there should not be such creatures in Hawaii (however, if we take into account, for example, the hypothesis of John Keel, who rather thought that these furry creatures came from the board of a UFO or even from other, unknown dimensions, it is not excluded either ). However, if it really was such a creature, its footprint would almost certainly not measure an incredible one meter. The footprints that were found after these creatures still measured at most 40 centimeters. Hypotheses about extraterrestrial beings of a giant type also got their turn, even though this event had nothing to do with UFO sightings. On the other hand, the Hawaiian Islands are also known for the frequent occurrence of UFOs, which would represent one of the possibilities.

The author Glen Grant, who studied Hawaiian folklore, describes in his book a cannibalistic giant named Aikanaka, who lurks in the pineapple fields for his victims. In Hawaiian mythology, Aikanaka was a chief who was betrothed to a moon goddess named Lona. He was also known from legends for his enormous size. Last but not least, Aikanaka means "eater of Oahu people" in the language of the native tribes. But where the truth was about the giant (or whatever made the track) of Oahu remained a mystery.