Kandahar giant story (Afghanistan, 2002)
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Arghandab valley, Kandahar province
The Arghandab river valley in Kandahar province from a US Army helicopter. The 'giant' story, told by anonymous sources years later, names no unit, date or site. Location photograph · context.
Mark Ray · 2012 ↗Public domainLicence terms ↗American Alchemy · 0:01:36
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedA story circulated among US service members holds that in 2002 a special-forces patrol searching for a missing squad near Kandahar was attacked by a giant humanoid in a cave, killed it, and flew the body out on a cargo aircraft. The corpus retells it through a cargo pilot's account; no record or witness has been named publicly.
The event
| Date | (year) |
|---|---|
| Place | Kandahar cave (Afghanistan) · Afghanistan |
| Official response | The Department of Defense has not commented; the story appears only in anonymous second-hand accounts. |
Reported by
- anonymous cargo pilot military unnamed US cargo pilot relaying the story
Who spoke about it later
- Jesse Michels 0:01:36 “We Captured a 12 Foot Giant in Afghanistan!” -Tim Alberino ▶ 2026
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“We Captured a 12 Foot Giant in Afghanistan!” -Tim Alberino 5 April 2026
- 0:01:36 ▶
The story that has since become known as the Kandahar giant. This is where it begins. He was a cargo pilot and he would describe these missions as classified. And one day he's flying in there. They said, "This never
- 0:01:36 ▶ interview
- 0:05:57 ▶
the giants of Kandahar, all of these amazing things that
- 0:01:36 ▶
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Sources on this record
- 0:01:36 “We Captured a 12 Foot Giant in Afghanistan!” -Tim Alberino ▶
The story that has since become known as the Kandahar giant. This is where it begins. He was a cargo pilot and he would describe these missions as classified. And one day he's flying in there. They said, "This never
- 0:05:57 “We Captured a 12 Foot Giant in Afghanistan!” -Tim Alberino ▶
the giants of Kandahar, all of these amazing things that