The Michael Knowles Show

Episode: Kandahar Giant, Government Coverup, & The Occult: Michael & The Rogue Archeologist | Tim Alberino

Date: February 8, 2026
Guests: Michael Knowles (host), Timothy Alberino (Rogue Archeologist)

Overview

This episode explores the swirling legends, purported eyewitness accounts, and government secrecy surrounding so-called “giants”—with a primary focus on the infamous Kandahar Giant incident in Afghanistan—and veers into related topics of occultism, biblical archaeology, and the shadowy world of alleged coverups. The conversation also covers the legend of face-peeling entities terrorizing villages in Peru, which leads to larger questions about technology, international conspiracies, breakaway civilizations, occult motivations, and what secrets the powerful might be hiding. Tim Alberino, making a record-setting third appearance, offers in-depth anecdotes and a headlong dive into the stranger corners of archaeology and folklore.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Kandahar Giant Story

Origins of the Legend

• Source: The story originated with Steve Quayle, who researched biblical giants.

• Whistleblower: An active-duty C-130 pilot (identity protected) recounts a 2005 Afghanistan mission.

• Key Events:

  • Pilot is greeted on the tarmac by intelligence agents (“the babysitters”), told the mission is top secret.
  • Led to a hangar, where a gigantic corpse, around 12 feet tall and 1100 lbs (excluding the pallet), lies under a tarp, exuding a pungent odor.
  • The body is described as pale-skinned, with red/auburn hair, six fingers/toes on each hand/foot, and primitive wrappings.
  • Soldiers present explain a team was killed in a cave searching for Taliban, only to be attacked (and some eaten) by the giant. A second team killed the giant and airlifted him out.
  • Notable quote:

    "The giant was solid as a rock... pure muscle. The giant's feet... hands had six digits... pale white. But what really stood out to him was the red hair."
    — Timothy Alberino (12:30)

• Destination: The corpse is reportedly flown from Afghanistan to Qatar, then rumored to end up at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.

Claims of Coverup and Secrecy

• Alberino claims he’s spoken to multiple military sources, some with direct knowledge, who clam up or warn against speaking about the Kandahar Giant, contrasting with their openness on UFOs.
  • Notable quote:

    “When I bring up giants to these guys … the reaction is quite different. These guys will clam up, they'll immediately stop talking to me. … Be careful with this topic."
    — Timothy Alberino (15:00)

The Occult and Government Interest

• Why cover it up? Alberino posits high-level occult interest—asserting that occult practitioners may seek the remains for necromantic rites, and that knowledge or physical remains of giants are seen as dangerous to disclose.
• Biblical and Mythological Parallels: Draws connections with Canaanite giant veneration, tombs in Sardinia, and biblical/religious traditions (Nephilim, Anakim).
• Notable quote:

  "The practitioners of the occult are just as committed to what they do as you are to your Catholic faith."
  — Timothy Alberino (40:50)

• Notable reference: Hillary Clinton’s mysterious “body of Gilgamesh” Podesta email and supposed occult connections at the highest levels.

2. Smithsonian, Archaeological Politics, and Giant Bones in America

• Smithsonian Coverups:
  • Allegations of 19th/20th-century coverup of giant bones unearthed from ancient American burial mounds.
  • Institutional ideology: Isolationism (ancient populations developed separately), threatened by evidence of Phoenician or even biblical giants in America.
• Cultural Diffusion vs. Isolationism:
  • Discussion of Phoenicians, their connection to the Canaanites, their reputed mining and travel to the Americas.
  • Michael Knowles and Alberino discuss historical friezes/art suggesting giants among ancient Mediterranean peoples.
  • Notable quote:

    “We cannot yet talk about the giants until we can determine where they've come from.”
    — Paraphrase of Colonel Powell, Smithsonian (53:00)

3. The Occult, Mystery Schools, and Gnosticism

• Nature of Occult Interest:

  • Rites (like necromancy/incubation) to commune with ‘giant spirits’—tied to biblical and ancient beliefs about the origin of demons as spirits of dead giants (Book of Enoch).
  • Knowles highlights the parallel to Gnostic secret knowledge, contrasting this with Christianity’s public, universal message.
  • Mystery schools (Freemasonry, Rosicrucians, etc.) perpetuate pre-Christian, Luciferian doctrines—viewing the biblical God as a jailer and Lucifer/Prometheus as the liberator.
  • Notable quote:

    “Mystery School adepts are theists. They just believe the inverse of the Bible. … They believe that in the beginning mankind was imprisoned by Yahweh. … Well, the Luciferian sees it as the prison of mankind, that God had created this prison and he was withholding knowledge from us.”
    — Timothy Alberino (73:00)

• Apotheotheism:

  • Alberino predicts a future world faith blending theism and the apotheosis of man—“the gods exist and we shall become like them”—mirrored in transhumanist/AI ideology.

4. Face Peelers of Peru (“Pelacaras”)

The Urban Legend and Modern Conspiracy

• The Legend: Mid-1980s “face peeler” stories emerge in Peruvian Amazon. Reported victims have faces partially or wholly removed, sometimes with organs missing.
• Modern Wave (2023):
  • Viral videos show villagers arming themselves and requesting protection, terrified of nighttime attacks by armored, flying entities—some describe them as aliens, others as gringos with high tech.
  • Local police blame “river gold miners with state-of-the-art jetpacks,” a story both Alberino and Knowles find laughable due to the sophistication and context of jetpack technology.
    • “If you've ever been to the Amazon jungle, the idea of trying to navigate through the canopy with a jetpack is absurd. At night, by the way, absurd.” — Timothy Alberino (95:21)

Firsthand Investigation

• Alberino visits the village, providing technology and supplies, and interviews dozens of witnesses—all with matching accounts of:
  • “Green Goblin”-like armored men, sometimes in black or silver, flying on silent, circular hoverboards or with boot-based anti-gravity tech.
  • Attempts to abduct villagers, notably a 15-year-old girl (Thalia), who describes two men (one with a gringo accent, one local) attempting to drug her and surgically remove her face.
    • “Be careful...don't put too much on, it's going to ruin the flesh.” — Perpetrator, as recalled by Thalia (121:29)
  • Reports of wounds (cuts under jawline) and PTSD among victims.
  • Multiple reports of advanced black, acorn-shaped craft silently hovering above the village or city of Nauta.

Theories & Hypotheses

• Hypothesis evolves: These attacks are an intentionally terroristic campaign, exploiting the local legend of face peelers as cover for something more nefarious.

  • Possibly a crime syndicate (“breakaway civilization”) with access to advanced (potentially reverse-engineered) aerospace technology.
  • Possible links to U.S. or allied military activity in concurrent training operation (Resolute Sentinel), though Alberino favors “deep state”/crime syndicate theory over official intervention.
  • Human trafficking, organ harvesting, or even alien involvement are entertained, with “face peeling” as a psychological operation to explain and distract.

• Notable quote:

  “If these guys are face peelers, they really, really suck at peeling faces. … With all this technology, with all the time they're operating in the jungle, they almost get two, one kid and one 15-year-old girl.”
  — Timothy Alberino (139:19)

5. Breakaway Civilizations, Technology, & Crash Retrieval

• Alberino asserts that American aerospace contractors possess “non-human technology” recovered from crash retrieval programs, and suggests shadowy syndicates could have access as well.
• The structure of government and private sector relationships means information and assets could “fall out of control," with plausible deniability and lack of public oversight.
• Notable quote:

  “If that's not true, somebody needs to make a Netflix TV show about it.”
  — Timothy Alberino (158:19)

Notable Quotes, Insights, and Timestamps

• “There was a team of soldiers … they found was this enormous giant. The giant killed the first team and so they deployed a second team … they found the giant eating on some of the guys from the first team, but they were able to take him down.”
  — Timothy Alberino (05:05)
• “I have had this story confirmed by several sources … high level Air Force guy, okay? Direct knowledge of the event and of other events involving giants, in the plural, not just one.”
  — Timothy Alberino (14:21)
• “These tombs themselves were never meant to house the bodies of giants … the purpose was to commune with the mighty ones who were buried beneath.”
  — Timothy Alberino (21:52)
• “The existence of giants doesn’t just confirm the biblical narrative. It confirms the collective testimony of our antecedents all around the world—the Greeks and the Romans and the ancient Mesopotamians and people, the Polynesians and the Native Americans talked about the giants, six-fingered giants.”
  — Timothy Alberino (62:06)
• “Mystery School adepts ... believe the inverse of the Bible ... that Lucifer is the Lightbringer, the light bearer.”
  — Timothy Alberino (73:00)
• “Apotheotheism is the amalgamation of two words, apotheosis and theism. ... the belief that man can become a god.”
  — Timothy Alberino (77:01)
• “These guys will clam up, they'll immediately stop talking to me. And some of them will tell me … ‘Be careful with this topic.’"
  — Timothy Alberino (15:00)
• "I can't believe the media bought the jetpack miner story … absurd."
  — Timothy Alberino (95:21)
• “Somebody was operating in the Peruvian Amazon with advanced technology… using the legend of the face peelers as cover for something else.”
  — Timothy Alberino (140:00)
• “If these guys are face peelers, they really, really suck at peeling faces.”
  — Timothy Alberino (139:19)
• “I know that aerospace contractors here in the United States are in possession of non-human technology from the Crash Retrieval program... I am 100% persuaded that this is true.”
  — Timothy Alberino (156:09)

Major Segments & Timestamps

| Segment | Description | Timestamp | |---------|-------------|-----------| | The Kandahar Giant Story | Pilot testimony, cave incident, corpse description, rumors of government transport and coverup | 01:05 — 14:19 | | Occult, Biblical Giants, and Government Secrecy | Ancient cults, rites, interest in remains, Podesta/Clinton emails | 19:03 — 34:52 | | Smithsonian and American Giants | Mound builders, institutional coverup, archaeological politics | 41:53 — 53:52 | | The Occult, Mystery Schools, Luciferian Philosophy | Mystery schools, Gnostic vs Christian knowledge, apotheotheism | 70:33 — 84:51 | | Face Peelers of Peru | Peruvian legend, first-hand investigation, armored/hoverboarding 'attackers' | 87:28 — 150:26 | | Alleged International Syndicates & Advanced Tech | Black-ops, crash retrieval, possible motives and implications | 150:26 — 159:23 | | Wrap-Up and Future Adventures | Alberino’s next research journeys, search for Peru’s ‘lost city’ | 159:23 — end |

Tone and Style

The conversation balances deadpan, skeptical humor (frequently from Knowles) with fervor and intensity from Alberino, who never shies away from following a wild theory to its conclusion. There is a strong undercurrent of the religious and the mythic paired with the investigative and conspiratorial.

Summary for Listeners

This episode is a whirlwind journey through the mythologies of giants, shocking anecdotes of the supernatural and paranormal, and cutting accusations of government and institutional coverup. Timothy Alberino draws connections from archaeological oddities to biblical lore, contemporary occultism, and fringe conspiracy, laying out reasons to remain both curious and cautious about what lies buried in the world’s remote places—and who might benefit from keeping such knowledge hidden. From the caves of Afghanistan to the jungles of Peru, listeners are invited to question the narratives they’ve been told about history, science, and power.

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