You are quite right. Western Europe in general is an area that has been walked over, fought over, excavated over, farmed over etc etc for countless centuries. If there was ever a race of giant wildmen living in the Ardennes there would have been evidence, even proof by now. This is not North America where there are vast tracts of dense mountain forests that have seen very little, if any, human activity even up to the present.

Wildmen in western Europe, specifically Luxembourg/Ardennes? The chances are absulutely ZERO and this also applies to the Alps and the Pyrenees. Not in the slightest chance.

The nearest ‘possible’ location would be northern Scandinavia and into Russia. That area is still sparsley populated and little visited.

As they waited at the checkpoint an athlete ran past them from the German to the Luxembourg side. The border officials waved him a cheerful hello.

They caught up with him later and he explained that he was an Olympic hopeful for the marathon, but that to train full distance on roads from where he lived he had to run across the border.

I don’t know why I am telling you ths, really, but it just somehow seems pertinent to a discussion on a race of giants wandering serenely in an out of a country that is only marginally bigger than its postage stamps.

In the future, if you have a cryptid encounter-or want to realistically fake a cryptid encounter - take the following three steps:

1.STAND STILL! Use your camera’s zoom to get closer to your subject, not your feet.

2. CALL OUT! Any animal, wild or otherwise, will turn-if even only briefly- toward the source of any loud noise before bolting. This will give you a good face shot for future analysis (or, again, add authenticity to your fake).

3. GET FOLLOW-UP SHOTS of the area you just filmed to provide better frame-of-reference for analysis. Don’t just tell us it was huge, show us by getting reference shots of certain topographical landmarks your cryptid was near in your film or photograph.

Me personally, I don’t believe most of what I see on this or other similar sites when it comes to the more outlandish cryptids (although I must say Mr. Coleman has a much more level-headed approach to the subject matter than most), but it would at least be easier to indulge in some entertaining suspension of disbelief if the hoaxes were a little more creatively planned out.

Stablisation of the anonymous 2002 video - the one here - clearly shows a figure, possibly carrying something on one shoulder, and wearing tatters or pelts, as does the Hansen video, (which stabilisation reveals something else unusual. Please refer to the article for more.)

So, to everyone who is firmly skeptical about this video, which I think deserves a little serious consideration, I urge you to reflect on it in the context of both videos.