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A general term for the oversized clans and warriors of the ancient world tied to the Nephilim bloodline.

Inanna, the ancient Sumerian "Queen of Heaven," was later syncretised as the Akkadian Ishtar, the Canaanite Astarte/Ashtart, and finally appeared in the Hebrew Bible as the deity Ashtoreth.

The Bible never uses the word “vampire.” It never describes an undead creature that drinks blood. It does contain two things people connect to the legend. The first is the Alukah of Proverbs 30:15, Alukah is a Hebrew word meaning “leech” that appears once in Proverbs 30:15 and is sometimes linked by scholars to a blood‑drinking demon, while Rephaim are giants and dead spirits associated with Sheol.

The Nephilim are the powerful, giant figures mentioned in Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:33, whose name is linked to the Hebrew verb “to fall” and has been interpreted as “giants” in ancient texts.

Explore the Elioud, the third‑generation giant hybrids of Second Temple literature, and how they likely explain the biblical giant Goliath of Gath.

The Anakim giants survived Joshua’s conquest, retreating to Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod, where later Aegean Greek settlers built the Philistine cities, linking biblical giants to Greek culture.

The Robertson Panel was a group of scientists that the CIA convened in January 1953 to review the Air Force’s UFO evidence. The panel concluded that UFOs posed no direct threat and that most reports were misidentified ordinary objects.

In the summer of 1566, Basel, Switzerland, saw a series of strange sky events. On July 27 and 28 the sun and moon looked blood red.

At dawn on April 14, 1561, many residents of Nuremberg, Germany, reported strange objects in the sky. A printer named Hans Glaser described them in a woodcut broadsheet.

Did you know Goliath wasn't the only giant in Gath? Second Samuel 21 reveals a family of giants, including Goliath's brother Lahmi, who faced David’s men in battle.

This post walks the math behind 1 Enoch's giant and checks it against the tallest giant the Hebrew Bible actually measures. It covers cubit standards, manuscript variants, and why a 450-foot being could not stand on its own legs.

Goliath of Gath, the giant champion of the Philistines. The Masoretic Text gives his height as "six cubits and a span" (about 9 feet 9 inches), while the older Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint read "four cubits and a span" (about 6 feet 9 inches), the reading most textual scholars favor.

Belial appears extensively in the Dead Sea Scrolls as the chief demonic figure opposing God's elect. He rules over a hierarchy of evil spirits and is described as the father of lies, lawlessness, and spiritual blindness. Paul references 'Beliar' in 2 Corinthians as the direct antithesis of Christ.