# How bad would seeing a animal's dungeon be for a squad of soldiers?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 3, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999 "2017-06-03T13:21:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/21 "2017-06-03T19:13:48Z")
If it helps anyone else understand this fever dream of a thread, [I think this is the story the OP is talking about.](http://www.snopes.com/u-s-special-forces-killed-a-giant-in-kandahar/)
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/22 "2017-06-03T19:20:31Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> If it helps anyone else understand this fever dream of a thread, [I think this is the story the OP is talking about.](http://www.snopes.com/u-s-special-forces-killed-a-giant-in-kandahar/)
Does it scare you at all that you know that?
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/23 "2017-06-03T19:25:03Z")
> [@dude\_robert](#):
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> To be honest, it’s just the usual stuff of things like: “ALIENS UNDER ANTARCTICA?!!” or "SECRET GOVERNMENT ALIEN REPTILIANS HIDING IN PYRAMIDS?!!! and the like, nothing really harmful most of the time. Most of the videos have more than 50,000 views as well.
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> For some reason, the auto parsing made all the links clickable even though I unchecked the box. I probably forget when I edited the comment.
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> The gorilla thread was a hypothetical, the idea was that the gorillas would just be magically created/replaced, and would probably just charge with some order at the Spartans. To be honest, with that many numbers, and their great strength and weight, they’d probably still win. A modern gorilla takes many smaller-sized bullets to put down.
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> They don’t seem crazy, since they have thousands of likes and tens to hundreds to millions of views. Plus “conversing with Jesus” isn’t really unordinary, plenty of people say things like “thank god for ‘X’” all the time.
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> I’m just explaining what the comments in the youtube comments sections were explaining. There are lots of really good stories on there, and some of them could actually be true in a certain way, I guess.
Millions of people watched Godzilla, King Kong and many other films about monsters, etc. It’s entertainment; it doesn’t mean that all those people believe that the creatures exist, and there is not an iota of truth in any of them.
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### Author:  [@dude\_robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dude_robert)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/24 "2017-06-03T20:37:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Millions of people watched Godzilla, King Kong and many other films about monsters, etc. It’s entertainment; it doesn’t mean that all those people believe that the creatures exist, and there is not an iota of truth in any of them.
But this is different, the people here genuinely believe that this is real and not fiction, unlike in monster movies where 99.999% of people know that it is fiction.
> [@Miller](#):
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> If it helps anyone else understand this fever dream of a thread, [I think this is the story the OP is talking about.](http://www.snopes.com/u-s-special-forces-killed-a-giant-in-kandahar/)
I think it is a variation of that one, just take away the Special Forces and replace them with two generic squads.
However, my main question is: why would the government be so insistent on covering the giants up? Why not release them to the public? Surely the giants would be an amazing sight for the entire world and would generate infinite attention in zoos? They could even be used in poorer countries for transporting heavy objects, or used in the military as decoys or distractions as they could take a lot of fire before falling over. You could put some steel plates on them and they’d last forever drawing in the enemy’s shots.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/25 "2017-06-03T20:51:52Z")
Shouldn’t you be asking that of the people who claim to believe the story rather than those of us who recognize it as poorly written juvenalia?
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/26 "2017-06-03T21:11:57Z")
> [@dude\_robert](#):
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> However, my main question is: why would the government be so insistent on covering the giants up? Why not release them to the public? Surely the giants would be an amazing sight for the entire world and would generate infinite attention in zoos? They could even be used in poorer countries for transporting heavy objects, or used in the military as decoys or distractions as they could take a lot of fire before falling over. You could put some steel plates on them and they’d last forever drawing in the enemy’s shots.
You understand that this story is made-up bullshit, right? There aren’t actually man-eating giants in Afghanistan.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/27 "2017-06-03T21:12:34Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> …poorly written juvenalia?
A staged fight between a caveful of flesh-starved yeti and a century of elite Roman soldiers might have gone down well for entertainment at the [Juvenalia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenalia).
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/28 "2017-06-03T21:14:46Z")
> [@dude\_robert](#):
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> However, my main question is: why would the government be so insistent on covering the giants up? Why not release them to the public? Surely the giants would be an amazing sight for the entire world and would generate infinite attention in zoos? They could even be used in poorer countries for transporting heavy objects, or used in the military as decoys or distractions as they could take a lot of fire before falling over. You could put some steel plates on them and they’d last forever drawing in the enemy’s shots.
What are you smoking?
I don’t want any. I just want to know what I should avoid if it’s offered.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/29 "2017-06-03T21:15:50Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> You understand that this story is made-up bullshit, right? There aren’t actually man-eating giants in Afghanistan.
How do you know? Where you there?!?
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/30 "2017-06-03T21:36:31Z")
If this was really a reanimated 12-foot giant from thousands of years ago come back to life, [acromegaly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromegaly)would have made his spine collapse like an accordion.
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### Author:  [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/31 "2017-06-03T21:50:47Z")
> [@dude\_robert](#):
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> Surely a genuine sighting of a bigfoot would just be fantastic and incredible as a brand new species that humans have discovered, but how would that suddenly be a sign of an alien invasion?
When they were filming Return of the Jedi, Peter Mayhew was escorted around by individuals in yellow jackets , to preclude hunters from thinking he was big foot and making him a trophy
> [@dude\_robert](#):
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> Other: How well would a tribe of bigfeet and yetis do against a modern army? Let’s say they that destroyed a small town to which the U.S. military responded to with a single MEU of substantial military power.
It would be a bug hunt.
Six million dollar man was not a documentary.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/32 "2017-06-03T22:06:44Z")
> [@Riemann](#):
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> I like that your plural of _Bigfoot_ is _big feet_.
A Yard.
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### Author:  [@dude\_robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dude_robert)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/33 "2017-06-03T22:07:58Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> You understand that this story is made-up bullshit, right? There aren’t actually man-eating giants in Afghanistan.
Well, there is a difference between obvious fiction like Star Wars/Trek or Serenity Firefly, which almost 100% of people know that it is fiction, and myths and rumors about giants in Afghanistan (and other places) that probably 5-10% of the world population believe are true.
> [@Declan](#):
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> When they were filming Return of the Jedi, Peter Mayhew was escorted around by individuals in yellow jackets , to preclude hunters from thinking he was big foot and making him a trophy
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> It would be a bug hunt.
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> Six million dollar man was not a documentary.
But who would the big-hunters and the bugs?
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/34 "2017-06-03T22:11:47Z")
> [@dude\_robert](#):
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> Well, there is a difference between obvious fiction like Star Wars/Trek or Serenity Firefly, which almost 100% of people know that it is fiction, and myths and rumors about giants in Afghanistan
No, there isn’t.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/35 "2017-06-03T22:19:47Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> No, there isn’t.
Yes there is. “Obvious fiction” needs to maintain the illusion of internal consistency otherwise it loses its appeal.
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### Author:  [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/36 "2017-06-03T22:33:22Z")
I could be wrong but as I understand it squads of soldiers are made up of actual individual humans. Considering the wide variety of people who make up squads of soldiers I wouldn’t think you could speculate on what the physiological impact of soldiers meeting supernatural beings vs how a random group of humans would react.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/37 "2017-06-04T00:10:40Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> Wow. I have really boring dreams.
You’re just not taking the right drugs.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/38 "2017-06-04T01:12:32Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Millions of people watched Godzilla, King Kong and many other films about monsters, etc. It’s entertainment; it doesn’t mean that all those people believe that the creatures exist, and there is not an iota of truth in any of them.
Spoiler alerts, please!
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/39 "2017-06-04T01:20:04Z")
\*\*dude \*\*ol’ buddy. I gotta say you’ve got a really wild fantasy life. May I suggest you should either do a lot more drugs or a few less?
We’re really not all that good here at discussing wild hypotheticals containing a random mix of events from fantasy vid gaming, bad fanfic, and the bilges of Youtube.
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### Author:  [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2017, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/40 "2017-06-04T08:38:27Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> If it helps anyone else understand this fever dream of a thread, [I think this is the story the OP is talking about.](http://www.snopes.com/u-s-special-forces-killed-a-giant-in-kandahar/)
Or alternatively; I recall an anecdote – supposedly factual – which has currency among the “Bigfooting” community, and is cited by those whose minds run along those channels, as evidence for the existence of such creatures in various parts of the world. It tells of an incident in the Russian Civil War in the early 1920s, taking place in a mountain area of one of the Central Asian “ ‘Stans”. A Red Army squad was pursuing soldiers of the opposing White faction, who took refuge in a cave in the mountains; out of which cave rushed a yeti-like creature, which the Reds promptly killed with a volley of rifle fire. (Unfortunately, no biologist handy to take a look at the corpse and potentially add to scientific knowledge.)
A pretty tame story, compared to **dude robert** ’s offering; but it does occur to wonder whether the latter, possibly came about as an embellishment of the anecdote above – which original anecdote when I read it, certainly had nothing about the creature eating humans or having a collection of artefacts and art works from earlier victims; or about the experience driving any of the soldiers to suicide.
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