Kap Dwa – Mysterious Two-Headed Mummified Patagonian Giant – Real Or Fake?

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – It does occasionally happen people are born with two heads. This medical condition is known as Polycephaly or simply put, multi-headedness.

The thought that giants are real should not be surprising, considering people of extreme height can be encountered in modern times.  The Giant of Illinois, Robert Pershing Wadlow was the world’s tallest man. On June 27, 1940 (eighteen days before his death), he was measured at 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) by doctors C. M. Charles and Cyril MacBryde of Washington University in St. Louis.

Kap Dwa - Mysterious Two-Headed Mummified Patagonian Giant - Real Or Fake?

Mummified remains of Kap Dwa. Credit: Fandom

Knowledge of the Patagonian giants was brought to light for the first time in the 1520s when Ferdinand Magellan and his crew saw these huge beings while exploring the coastline of South America en route to their circumnavigation.

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