Indirect, Circumstantial, Corroborating or Supporting Evidence
As stems from the previous pages devoted to the four largest mysteries or riddles of Solomon Islands - so far what is missing is a clear, direct evidence for the real existence of any one of them. As I also mentioned before, THE ONLY chance for obtaining such a proof, or at least for an ATTEMPT to obtain it, is to organise a serious, long-lasting EXPEDITION to "the place that time forgot". The Readers will find more information about the purposes and details on the page called "EXPEDITION TO THE SOLOMONS".
Nevertheless, although direct proof is missing (my own observation of lights and an appropriate account cannot be considered as such because I was unable to film or photograph the lights, and only pictures and/or video recordings would be able to convince SOME of the sceptics), there are a number of events, accounts and conditions which may constitute circumstantial or indirect evidence. It is, after all, certain circumstances that could indicate that accounts of ancient ruins, balls or streaks of light, giants or small people do not necessarily need to be immediately relegated to the realm of either lies and made-up stories, or solely myths, folk tales or legends. These circumstances make us stop and think of the real nature of the described places or events and give rise to hoping that behind the stories there may be something more than ridiculous stories unworthy of attention. None of these circumstances or circumstantial proofs in itself plays a decisive role in determining the truthfulness or untruthfulness of the strange Solomon accounts. Taken together, however, they constitute a supporting foundation for further exploration which gives hope, or even solid grounds for assuming, that it is worthwhile and necessary to go (or - as in my case - return) to Solomon Islands to begin a serious exploration.
Below the Readers will find a chronology of events that eventually led to the creation of this site. Each one of them has ever stronger confirmed me in my belief that an expedition to Solomon Islands is indispensable, if only to verify reports or to compare other people's experiences with my own. I do hope that they will inspire someone to join in a potential expedition or - at the very worst - that they will be food for thought, proving at least that "something's going on".
In the case of any questions pertaining to the subject-matter of these pages do not hesitate to contact me by clicking on the (envelope) icon at the top of the page "Write to me".
2006 or 2007. Browsing the Internet in search of information on "strange phenomena" I stumble by accident upon an article written by an Australian of French descent, one Marius Boirayon, concerning alleged or apparent underwater or underground UFO bases, strange lights and beings that are simply called giants by the locals (the original article no longer exists on the net, however there are many copies of it, including translations into many languages). Information contained therein was so unusual that it simply called for checking it up, checking its veracity. To this end it was necessary to go to Solomon Islands... It took a very long wait to collect money for the journey...
14 August 2008. This was the day of our departure to Solomon Islands. Obviously in such extremely short timeframe (at least for Solomon conditions) it was not possible to confirm ALL Boirayon's accounts - or to deny them, for that matter. Some things were however possible to verify. But the highlight of the whole trip was an observation I have made one beautiful starry night of strange lights moving behind a remote mountain along a very erratic trajectory... I have seen a UFO! I have not a slightest idea how to explain those lights and I am as far as possible from claiming that they were "alien" craft (although I am not rejecting such an interpretation). Yet it was definitely something unidentified... Well, at least some of Boirayon's claims seemed to have SOME source in reality... What have I observed exactly? What have I managed to investigate and what was beyond my limited capabilities? Read my report from stay in Solomon Islands.
November 2008. I was now more fascinated and even more determined to organise an expedition back to the Solomons. I have read everything I could lay my hands on regarding Solomon Islands mysteries... One day on the Internet I have come across a very interesting letter by a James Baura, an inhabitant of the island of Malaita. It was a letter that Baura wrote to a local newspaper, "Solomon Star", on 14 August 2008, i.e on the day we were leaving for Solomon Islands... And what an unusual letter it was... It constituted another confirmation that firstly mysterious phenomena happen not just on the island of Guadalcanal, but also on the island of Malaita, and secondly that both stories seem to complement each other very well... Because if the letter was only a lie, a joke or a hoax, then who was it addressed to if it was printed in a local newspaper? To the natives who - on the one hand - are accustomed to such accounts, and - on the other hand - have more important problems on their heads? But if there was even a grain of truth in this story, then the whole Boirayon's account would shine in a completely different light... The original letter in English taken from the original Internet issue of "Solomon Star" no longer exists (I had managed to make a pdf copy of it), but it can still be found in some other places on the web. You can find the letter here.
8 May 2009. On that day, constantly searching the Internet for information on Solomon Islands, I have come across a forum called Tutuvatu, meant - please note it is important - mostly for the inhabitants of the island of Guadalcanal. It is important because information provided by some forum members is at least intriguing and taking into account the fact that almost nobody in the world knows about the existence of such a forum as Tutuvatu (a site called SitezMeter specifies that in the best period of greatest popularity its reach was not greater than 0.33% with no more than 120 thousand visits per month), there is no way a planned hoax is to be considered, and certainly not a world-wide hoax. "Wantoks" would cheat their own? Highly unlikely and contrary to common sense. It is on the Tutuvatu forum that I have read an entry dated 20 January 2009 made by a "Luti Mikode", a Serbian researcher who has taken such a "giant" nickname and who later became my fellow-researcher and associate. In his mail he referred to the original article by Marius Boirayon and asked native Guadalcanaleans a question whether they know anything about it. It is worthwhile to quote some of the responses of some of the forum members as they really make one think when it comes to negating or ridiculing the phenomenon. What are we dealing with? "Aliens", hallucinations, strange interpretations of natural phenomena or some more or less secret military activity?
One "Anna" writes: "I heard stories of giants (mumutere) but never thought much about them. In the 1960s there was two sightings at a place in Malaita. These sightings were of the 6 foot types with long black hair. Our people believe they were people of the bush. [...] UFOs? I dont know. But if you take a boat ride from Honiara to Auki in the night you will come across these guys somewhere around Gela. Most times they appear as another boat with the port, starboard and mast lights on. They also appear as a submarine with lights on under the sea. It can be frightening. They can also take the form of an airplane - with lights on in the night - flying low with no sound. In our culture we thought they are spirits. We use fire to protect us from them."
Obviously I sent a private mail to "Luti Mikode" without fail, but at that time I received no response. For some months I was preoccupied with many other things and it was only in November 2009 that I reminded my Serbian Colleague about my mail.
7 December 2009. On that day "Luti Mikode" told me about another forum (currently temporarily inactive), this time devoted mainly to the inhabitants of the island of Makira and called "The Real Kakamora" (let me remind the Readers here that this is exactly the name that the locals call alleged small beings living in Makira). Information found THERE sounded even more mysterious and intriguing than in the case of the Tutuvatu forum. Here is a handful of posts:
One "Henz" writes on 4 April 2008 (i.e. before our trip to the Solomons): "Hey, I'm not sure about the military part but if you have heard about the 'mysterious silent plane' I've seen it in Makira." And "NPITIA" writes on 7 April 2008:: "This is quite an interesting phenomenon I must say because many people have admitted that they have actually seen what they believed to be a 'silent plane', and some even saw a funny looking marine creature [whose description fits in well with the description of a 'submarine'] coming towards their shoreline or sometime berthing outside their fringing reef. [...] A couple of years ago, I have spoken with someone from another country who was at one time working for the National security service of that particular country. When I related to him the description of what those eyewitness of such sighting told me, he simply said that what those eyewitnesses described sounds more like an existence of a naval [storage] base somewhere in the locality. [...]." (because the forum is suspended I cannot provide any link to it; fortunately enough "Luti Mikode" has made screenshots of the forum: screenshot one, screenshot two, screenshot three and screenshot four). On 11 April one "EIIZ" writes: "I find this quite hard to explain but I myself have seen this 'silent plane' or whatever they called it [...]." And "Dry Bwani Haka" provides the following account of his eyewitness observation: "It was during X-mas of year 2000, we were on our way to Arosi on board this fala ship blo former MP to Choiseul ya [...]. Between Marau and Marau Bay, between 2AM and 4AM in the morning. The night was clear and very nice moonlight [...]. So finally, someone said 'hem na lo there ya boys' and sure enough, this kind of flying something ya was flying towards Marau. We got the binoculars from ota lo ship and take a close look. From my opinion, hem no shape olsem plane tumas, but it got wings and tail and there was red and white light flashing on alternate turns on the underside. Absolutely no noise at all. Few moments later we realized it was flying back and forth between Marau and Western end of Makira and then hem disappear go nomoa darkness ya [...]."
The above posts quite clearly indicate that a) mysterious lights do indeed exist and b) their nature is unknown although they may have something to do with a secret (or at least unknown even to the natives) military activity. If, then, "Dragon Snakes" are in fact secret military objects, then what are the Australians or Americans up to?
On 8 December 2009 I purchased on the Solomon Islands Mysteries site the book by Marius Boirayon, "Solomon Islands' Mysteries". It is an expansion or extension of the material included in the previous articles written by the Australian and contains a lot more detailed information, sometimes downright incredible (the last chapter is simply a sanity test of a reader - or perhaps of the author himself?). And yet, having read the book, there is this overwhelming feeling that among - possibly - gibberish, lies, fabrications and overstated or distorted information there hides something definitely and definitively worth a further and deeper research...
On 14 December 2009 [name withheld at the person's request], who stayed in Solomon Islands, writes an e-mail to me saying that he has been invited by one of the chiefs to pay a visit in his village situated on Weathercoast (the southern coast of Guadalcanal). As the chief stated, he was an eyewitness of almost daily flights of discs (that's the name my informer ascribed to these object) and of a daily activity of a certain giant who comes out of a tunnel to take a shower in a nearby waterfall in the morning. The chief also mentioned to my contact that it was possible to lure the giants out of the forest by offering a pig up as a sacrifice, although apparently they prefer a human sacrifice.
On 22 December 2009 "Luti Mikode" drew my attention to the fact that as early as in 1997 - long before Boirayon's article appeared and before Boirayon, as he claims, settled in Solomon Islands - there appeared on the page of an organisation called UFOInfo some information about lights in Solomon Islands. Having read this information I recalled that also some time before the publication of Boirayon's articles I had read on the page of another organisation called Burlington News another mail from one Belden T.: "I am a Solomon Islander. [...]. I come from Makira Island, an island in the east part of the country and east of Guadalcanal Island. In my island we also had encounters of UFOs. The western end of the island, closer to Guadalcanal is said to be the base of these UFOs. These UFOs have been on the island for a long time but it was during the height of the ethnic tension (2000) that these things really put on a good show. The people of west Makira are very familiar with these. During the year 2000 (and until 2003), these flying objects really showed themselves up. People see planes, warships, and even real people in army uniforms. The mysterious thing about these UFOs (at least for this part of the world) is that they do not make noises, even when they just fly above the coconut trees (approximate height - 30 to 100m) you cannot hear any sound. If you listen very carefully, you can only hear a sound similar to when you play a tape in your stereo recorder. These UFOs usually fly in the night, some times high and some times just above the trees. [...]".
On 11 January 2010 "Luti Mikode" and I manage to write a letter to James Baura requesting some more information regarding the phenomena and lights he has observed. Unfortunately we have not received any response, which may indicate one of many things such as that Baura has made it up or that he said the truth but our letter never reached him, or that the letter has been ignored for whatever reason.
On 15 January 2010 "Luti Mikode" draws my attention to the fact that in his original letter to the "Solomon Star" newspaper Baura calls the Alasa'a mountain by a different name, Kolovrat. That name, which in a number of Slavonic or Slavic languages means "a spinning wheel" or a "whirl", was given in the 16th or 17th century by a Vice Bune, a captain, traveller and the ambassador of the Republic of Ragusa (an independent republic which existed up until the end of the 19th or the beginning of the 20th century whose capital was Dubrovnik in modern Croatia) in Goa in India who made it all the way to Solomon Islands (please see the English-language site on Dalmatian toponyms in Solomon Islands). Why such a strange name? Why a "whirl"? Why a "spinning wheel"? Could it be in any way connected with what James Baura described centuries later? True, as a result of later investigations I managed to find a site demistifying those mysterious names (according to the page Bune gave Dalmatian names to mounts, lakes and other terrain points similar to those that he saw in his native Ragusa), however, an unambiguous identification of such a mountain in what is presently Croatia is not possible...
On 3 February 2010 from [name withheld at the person's request] in Solomon Islands I receive a very laconic sentence (or rather three): "There has been more lightning (sic). A Russian woman with a U.S. partner also came there to study the phenomenon. You are welcome to come back again." Unfortunately, my informer was unable to provide the names of those investigators, or to specify the length of their stay, the place where the lights have been observed etc.
On 2 July 2010 in the Tutuvatu forum "Luti Mikode" provides information that... the question of UFOs over Solomon Islands has been tackled (and twice, at that!) during... Parliamentary sessions! Two different MPs on two different occasions quite seriously discussed unidentified flying objects! During the eighth session of the first parliamentary meeting on 25 April 2006 an MP called Oti said, among other things: "This Parliament has been hijacked. This Parliament has become a parliament that does not belong to the people of Solomon Islands. It seems to be a parliament of somebody else. I am telling this straight to you. This Parliament belongs to somebody else. We seem to bend down and succumb to this kind of forces, Mr Speaker, foreign aliens, UFO’s (unidentified foreign objects) [...]. Mr Speaker, tell me when are we going to take control of ourselves? Can you tell me?". [original English text here] The second statement comes from a parliamentary session held on 23 March 2009. An MP, Mr Zana, said, among other things: "The only issue I would like to raise here, which is very disturbing as it has been going on for maybe since independence is that somebody may have been illegally using our airspace or has deliberately used our airspace without us knowing it. If people have been using our airspace, who is managing it on behalf of Solomon Islands? If they are using it, where are they paying that revenue to? Mr Speaker, I did a bit of research by browsing through the internet and the websites and I found an article that is a bit disturbing, and this is on the giants of the Solomon Islands and the hidden UFO basis. In this morning’s Solomon Star paper on page 17, there is also an article on ‘British Military of Defense briefed on UFO sightings'. Mr Speaker, this may be an unusual thing for me to discuss here but we are now talking about a special fund for operations within our sovereign airspace and this article on the Giants of the Solomon Islands is very, very well documented. I guess the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister as well as my learned Deputy Leader of Opposition would have knowledge of this because they have some bases here on Guadalcanal and they have some bases on Malaita. And according to this document they also have some bases on Makira as well. [...]". [original English text here]
On 3 July 2010 there appears the first entry in the blog of my Serbian Colleague by the nickname of "Luti Mikode". Just like me, he is also fascinated with the mysteries of Solomon Islands, although he concentrates mostly on strange lights and giants. His most probable interpretation is that the lights may be secret and super-modern military craft. Even so, the mystery, he also feels, remains why it is in Solomon Islands that the Australians (and possibly also the Americans) would keep secret military bases and why - as we have seen in the statements by the Solomon MPs above - apparently it has not been agreed with the authorities of this island country... In any case, do read the blog, it is really a great read.
On 10 September 2010 in the Tutuvatu forum there appeared a note about a press release concerning a very strange aeroplane crash which apparently... didn't exist! According to the press release, inhabitants of a village called Ogou and of an island called Leli near the north-eastern coast of Malaita claimed with obsessive persistence that they had seen a plane crash in the ocean. After a thorough sweep of the whole area the police were unable to find anything that could confirm such information... What was it, then? Lies of the locals or overinterpretation of easily explicable phenomena? Or else a crash, which was not a crash, of a small plane, which was not a plane?
On 11 September 2010 in that same Tutuvatu forum there appeared a very succinct, but how intriguing and thought-provoking note, authored by one "Poupouhugi": "UFO's?????...........ummmmmmmmmm, nothing new for us at Arosi in Makira.....West Makira."
On 16 September 2010 in the Tutuvatu forum another user by the (nick)name of "Kesu" came into play, providing a piece of information which was as strange as it was intriguing, based on the one hand in the ample folklore of Solomon Islands, and on the other hand clearly referring to UFOs understood either as alien craft or secret military vehicles or planes unknown to the rest of the world: "If you see light flying fast above the water in Marovo that is definitely a Pela. On Guale if you see a continuously blinking blue light moving fast that is definitely what we call thuvibithi le na vele." Asked by "Luti Mikode" what pela and thuvibithi le na vele were, that same user provided the following intriguing and puzzling response on 21 September: "Pela and vele mean different things to different people. They do glow blinking red and blue lights and could change shape and appear in whatever form they like." A surprising description, don't you think? Does it, however, concern some mythical beings? Space craft? Or perhaps usual or unusual secret flying military objects?
On 8 October 2010 a user called "blaze33" includes another intriguing note. It concerns a photograph of 1942 showing an alleged UFO over Guadalcanal! If only it was possible to verify the authenticity of this photo and to stablish circumstances in which it was taken, it would then very likely be a worldwide sensation. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, such a verification is not possible...
Although all pieces of information, supporting evidence and circumstances so far were concentrating solely around lights seen over Solomon Islands, obviously it does not mean that such circumstantial or corroborating evidence cannot be applied in relation to the remaining secrets of the country, i.e. to ruins, giants or - last but not least - "small people" called Kakamora in Makira. Let us now deal with the latter.
As I have already described in the part called "Kakamora", Solomon Islands is a country abounding with a lot of stories about small beings, not more than one metre (about three feet) tall, having their own language and customs, living in caves situated in the jungle interior of Makira and - to an extent - of other islands. Such beings were already mentioned in the work of British and American ethnographers and anthropologists who invariably ascribed to them only a mythical meaning; they have never entertained, even jokingly, an idea of a real, physical and tangible existence of "small people". This state of affairs keeps lingering on - any attempt of making even the most veiled suggestion that there might be a grain of truth in the elders' stories is ignored, ridiculed, scoffed at or negated by mainstream scientists. Superficially such a status quo seems to be fully justified: after all (if we discount stories of the natives, always relegated to the realm of myths and legends), nobody yet has ever encountered any trace of those hairy little beings, let alone of Kakamora themselves. I have resolved to check whether in fact there are no accounts that would show the real, physical existence of "small people". As it turned out, such accounts do in fact exist, although to find out about them we need to take a mental journey approximately 6000 kilometres west of Solomon Islands - to an Indonesian island of Flores.
In 2003, in Liang Bua caves in that very island, skeletal remains have been discovered of nine beings characterised by very untypical morphology and only about 100 centimetres (about three feet) in height. The beings whose skeletons were preserved in the caves were called Homo floresiensis or - to commemorate Tolkien's trilogy - "Hobbits". It has been estimated that they still lived some 12-13 thousand years ago when a volcano eruption erased most of them from the face of the earth. Soon a heated discussion flared up around the Hobbits, and scientists divided into more or less two camps: those who claimed that there was no way that simultaneously with Homo sapiens, in almost every physical aspect similar or identical with the modern man, there lived a separate hominid species of a small posture, small brain and primitive behaviours (that part of scientists claimed that the "Hobbits" were in fact representatives of Homo sapiens suffering from microcephaly); and those who saw in Homo floresiensis a representative of a completely separate species - a view that would be an insult to the prevailing views upon evolutionary processes. The dispute has been going on ever since, although more recently the scales seem to be turning in favour of the latter group of researchers; if it turned out that they were indeed right, it would to a very large extent ruin the conviction about the infallibility of the Darwinian theory of evolution.
It would have one more repercussion, namely it would to a certain extent scientifically support claims made by some local inhabitants concerning their encounters with Ebu Gogo, small (about one metre - or three feet - tall!), hairy beings possessing their own kind of intelligence and ability to speak in a strange language, although also capable of repeating whole sentences or phrases spoken by the natives. Many scientists, including Richard Roberts, one of the co-discoverers of the Hobbits, are leaning towards the view that Ebu Gogo seen by the locals are in fact Homo floresiensis whose few representatives have survived the cataclysm of many thousand years ago and have lived on the island occasionally showing up in front of the locals' eyes even at the end of the 19th century. There are, however, such natives, according to whom Ebu Gogo vel "Hobbits" lived even as late as in the 20th century! Let us give the floor to the chief of Boawe village and to R. Roberts, whose text appeared in "Daily Telegraph" that I have found on 18 November 2010.
If what village leader Lewa says is true, then clear analogies can be drawn between stories told by the natives of Flores and accounts from Makira (and possibly other Solomon islands). Are, then, claims about the physical reality of Kakamora, 'O, etc. completely ungrounded? Or perhaps is an expedition needed to establish that?
And what about the giants and cyclopean ruins, one might ask? Can any analogies and corroborating evidence be found here as well? Well, most definitely so, and far closer to Solomon Islands than it was in the case of Flores and Indonesia, namely in Tuvalu. This small Pacific neighbour of Solomon Islands has become a home for Terje Dahl (http://www.sydhav.no/terje/index-en.html), a Norwegian married to a local Tuvaluan woman. Terje is a colourful figure: a sailor (he sailed alone from Norway to Tuvalu), traveller, researcher of the unknown, and particularly of giants, he has managed - in my opinion - to prove on his pages that behind stories about giants there is hidden something more than just myths, jokes, hoaxes or urban legends... Thanks to the disclosed correspondence with representatives of museums and research or scientific establishments, he has demonstrated that the existence hundreds or perhaps thousands of years ago of giants (whoever they were) is undeniable. However the greatest discovery he has made, and something that could have ended in a spectacular success and once and for all decide about the reality of giants, was a discovery of a giant grave and nearly digging out remains of such a being in Tuvalu!!! Why only "nearly"? Because at the very last moment the chief of the village who had earlier expressed his consent to open up the grave, has changed his mind claiming that it might anger the spirit of the giant, and any attempts to convince him (the chief) to carry on with the project were completely in vain... It gives a certain idea about the attitudes of the inhabitants of the Pacific islands and about uncertainty of obtained information (If there is nothing {of substance} in the grave, then why did the chief forbid to dig? On the other hand, if the grave contains remains of a giant, then why had he agreed to dig in the first place?) In any case if we assume that tales of the locals are true, then Terje was just A STEP away from enriching our true knowledge and from triggering off a real scientific thunderstorm or even a revolution... Such a chance was however squandered by the intransigent attitude of the chief... You can read about the discovery of a giant grave by clicking on the link. The page is in Norwegian but you can attempt to translate it into English (or at least something reminding English) by using the Google translate function.
If there are in fact giant graves or tombs of cyclopean proportions in Tuvalu, then it is very likely that similar graves or tombs of similar giants may exist also in Solomon Islands. It is only a pity that native inhabitants guard these secrets so eagerly - what potentially revolutionary discoveries, on the scale comparable to the discovery of "Hobbits", if not transgressing it, may be hidden in the thick, impenetrable tropical forests of the archipelago?
Quite an unexpected help in a form of subsequent supporting evidence, conjectures, proof or circumstances has come from one Nick, a native Solomon Islander who speaks perfect English. On 21 October 2010 he placed a curious comment on a portal which - what an irony - uncompromisingly disposes of Boirayon and his information. Nick writes: "For the sceptics. there are now more than one eyewitness on a clear day that an alien (US made most likely) submarine-aircraft flew into the sea and then flew out of the sea from the same spot near the spot Mr. Boirayon marked on the map found in his website/article. This mystery has caused a frantic stir and is even on the premiere newspaper’s front page last week or so."
Intrigued, I have decided to write at his address. Interestingly, very quickly, already on 17 November 2010, just one day after my e-mail, Nick responded by saying, among other things: "There are no more living giants from where I come, but remains are still there. Also, I have not gone into the mountains to investigate. I think some of the details given by Mr. Boirayon are very much exaggerated, especially about the giants. But the bases (military perhaps) are very real and mysterious. The alien aircrafts are very real and may not be alien at all except that they are not conventional technology [...]. As for the small men (Kakamora), they are very much present topics in the villages on Makira island. They have not really extinct. They are also living in the islands of Santa Cruz in the Temotu Province of Solomon Islands. They are extremely shy and very conservative [...]. They do not approve of modern humans' influences and impacts on the mountains and jungles. Back to the remains of the giants, it is sacrilege to tamper with the remains. This is for the fact that there are living descendants who do not want any one to photograph the remains or dig up the graves. Some graves are more than twelve feet long. These ancestral graves are from an unchristian era, and any tapering would certainly bring angry spirits and that kind of stuff."
And in his next mail of 18 November 2010 Nick writes even more intriguing things; to my suggestion that if giants are/were real at all, they could (have been) either hairy hominoids or an ancient race of white people (as per Igor Witkowski, see my page on walls and constructions), Nick replied: "I think both races may have passed through these parts. Our local tongue (North Malaita) for the giant is 'gosil`e' and 'aburu'. The gosile is long-haired, most probably dreadlocks. The aburu is the dreaded one, notorious in folklore for abducting children and eating them [...]. In the southern part of Malaita, they use the bones for posts of tamboo houses. I have a good friend from the very village that still use these bones for building materials! I think it funny when he told me that they call these bones or giants graveyard 'adam'. [...]".
Finally, in his mail of 22 November 2010 he said something that made my heart - and, no doubt, "Luti Mikode"'s as well - run faster. If only we could live through an experience that one man from Malaita had, as described by Nick...: "The most exciting news come from someone not normally associated with this topic. This woman said some one from Malaita was taken to the giants' 'community' a year or so ago to verify the kastom stories so popular among local enthusiasts. She heard from this Malaita man that he was most astounded and almost went crazy. According to this Malaitan, these giants are not very tall. They are very broad however, but not having the crazy heights. They do have hair reaching below their knees, and nails of rather bizarre lengths. Their language is not known to be anything similar to humans as we know language [...]. Another detail I gathered from the 'story' is that the hairy guys do live in caves but they are not confined to these caves. They also have dwellings built around the caves [...]. About the small men of Malaita, called kakamora on Makira, we call them 'O. But the full name is 'Oranggo'. (I remember after reading a bit into austronesian and non-austronesian languages that the Malayan (Indonesian) term for people is "orang") [...]. The last one died about after the WWII."
On 3 December 2010 Nick has informed me that he has managed to contact a certain man from so-called Small Malaita whose 100-year-old grandfather is a treasure-trove of all sorts of information. That man has expressed his willingness to co-operate should an expedition to Solomon Islands be really organised. He also stressed that giants are by no means any fairy-tale or made-up beings that children are scared with, but that they are - as the inhabitant of Small Malaita termed it - ancestors who without doubt have living descendants. He also admitted there were "good" and "bad" giants.
Meanwhile, on 6 December 2010 Nick also writes to my Serbian Associate and Colleague, "Luti Mikode", referring to the letter of Mr James Baura to the "Solomon Star" newspaper (mentioned above). While he expresses doubts regarding the exact description by Baura, he also presents other fascinating information which brings to mind apparent similar structures and/or phenomena in the Amazon. Nick writes: "I do not believe [Baura] on this article. Mt. Kolovrat is not an extinct volcano as his story implies. The holes in the mountains are more like sinkholes. There are dry bottoms and others have underground water. Still others are a network of caves deep underground. I still remember a folklore that told of a man going after his breadfruit which fell down a sinkhole. The man ended up in a huge cavern that is all lighted up (do not know how) and there seemed to be no night there. We call them dangi-talau, meaning daylight for ever."
On 7 December 2010 Nick further writes: "[...] About tall remains, there are two within easy reach, yet we can only take photos if ever permitted. [...] I said "easy" because there's no need for mountain climbing. [...] Speaking to R. [an informer from Small Malaita mentioned above - WB] last time, he mentioned that his great grandfather was making the worship and sacrifices to their ancestors, whilst 9 kakamoras were in attendance. He said these nine came over from Makira. [...]"
On 14 December 2010, thanks to a long and arduous Internet search and "contacts with contacts", I managed to write to an Australian who knows Marius Boirayon quite well, thus confirming his real existence (that some people doubt or doubted in).
Finally, on 25 December 2010 roku I have contacted Geert, one of TV producers and cameramen from Holland whose e-mail address I have received from my Australian contact. Geert (that is his first name) was in a process of preparing a documentary trip to Solomon Islands. His experience of staying in the real Solomon jungle and knowing appropriate people is an invaluable asset.
On 7 January 2011 I have held a conference call, first with my Australian contact, then with Geert. Because some part of information I received is of confidential nature or because some individuals mentioned by both gentlemen do not wish their names to be disclosed, I cannot present all the information that have resulted from the two conference calls. Of the information that I can disclose, I can enumerate the following:
- Information published by Marius Boirayon needs to be approached with some caution as not everything he says must be so in reality;
- However, probably about 10% of what he has included in his book has really been experienced by him. It does not mean that he lied, made up stories or exaggerated about the remaining 90%. Rather, those 90% that have made it into the book have been experienced by somebody else;
- While indeed Guadalcanal and Malaita witness various strange and mysterious manifestations, the most interesting events happen in the island of Makira, otherwise known as San Cristobal;
- Stories about giants go way back in the folklore of not just Solomon Islands but also of Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, two Solomon Islands' neighbours;
- One serious and respected lawyer from Brisbane who is an acquaintance of my Australian contact, apart from dealing with some very serious things, every year goes to Guadalcanal to look for giants. During one such chase he managed to get with his group of porters and guides to a place very near to the alleged dwelling place of giants. Before he managed to reach his aim, however, all the porters and guides who accompanied him got scared and dispersed or refused to carry on. Why?;
- According to the locals, in Makira, and particularly in one of unusually remote and God-forsaken villages, regular manifestations take place there in a form of stingray-shaped objects that soar in the sky after they hover just above palm tree tops around 4:00 pm; by the way locals have grown accustomed to these to such an extent that they talk about them with a degree of nonchalance and at least apparent lack of interest;
- Moreover there are rumours about some strange figures that are sometimes seen by the locals and that are wearing military uniforms. Those figures do not seem entirely human (whatever it means);
- In the town of Kirakira which is the provincial capital of Makira there is an airport, or rather a grassy airstrip, for small planes operated by Solomon Airlines that land here. There is a very broad (at least for Solomon standards) road cut out in the forest underground that leads from the airstrip deep into the jungle towards the place where flying objects have been seen to start. What is or was its purpose?;
- The Malaitans equally nonchalantly mention the fact that they have seen giants or suggest that instead to giants they can lead the astounded researcher close to the dwelling place of "midgets"; still others claim that they are in a possession of giant skeletons or spacecraft artefacts, or know where to find them.
The list could probably be extended by a further dozen points or so, however I think that even the above ones indicate how there is very little possibility of the locals' tales being lies, a joke or a fabrication.
On 5 February 2011 my Serbian Colleague and Affiliate, "Luti Mikode", passed to me another somewhat sensational piece of news. It refers to information (see above) concerning a mysteriou crash of a plane that has never been found and (as is also mentioned above) to Parliamentary sesions in the Solomons during which apparently issues are discussed pertaining, among other things, to questions of strange phenomena over these lands - a strange peculiarity, because where else in the world does a legislative assembly discuss such issues officially and seriuosly? Moreover, while speeches of MPs quoted earlier were only quotations from various papers and articles (including Boirayon's), here a very clear mention is made of UFO experiences even of some MPs themselves who jointly admit that the starnge plane crash (and, as we find out, similar other incidents!) has remained a mystery! Here is a link to an appropriate excerpt from a session of the Solomon Parliament during which they discuss the plane crash and UFOs.
On 8 April 2011, in response to the article of my Serbian colleague and affiliate, "Luti Mikode", which concerns a public debate in the Solomon Islands Parliament on UFOs (http://solomongiants.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/si-government-seriously-considers-ufos/), there appeared - how intriguing - statement of one Bernard, the native Solomon Islander: "Go to Malaita and ask for information, carry out your own analysis and trust me there is a lot you will find out, Giants bones and graves are still there to this day, the sightings of these UFO drones carry on to this day, and the lucky ones who have managed to travel to the hollow interior of the earth through Malaita’s caves are a few but are still around, who knows you just might meet someone willing and able to talk with you about this if he is sure that you are not Ramsi, stories of sightings can be collected through nearly you ask, since it is so common, i recently went there and and heard someones own eyewitness testimony that he does not know how to explain seeing a dolphin freeze in mid air while jumping out of the water next to this emerging UFO, its been so common there that the people are warned not to fish around parts reserved for the UFO’s [...]."
On 13 May 2011 I got contacted by [name withheld at the person's request] who has expressed his interest in participating in the expedition and who has passed to me some interesting information concerning potential finds in Solomon Islands. And on 16 May 2011 my Solomon contact has informed me about a find which - if true - is potentially of great significance, namely of a giant's skull lodged in a tree stump!
The above mail has - so far - been the latest and freshest track or trace potentially helpful in chasing the riddles and mysteries of Solomon Islands. Dear Readers, if you are in a possession of any other information - please contact me by clicking on the envelope icon at the top of the page ("Write to me").
I do sincerely hope that the facts, hypotheses, views, information or circumstantial/corroborating evidence presented above will facilitate understanding that those who talk about myths, allegories, jokes, hoaxes or hallucinations in the context of the four largest Solomon Islands mysteries - are most likely wrong. I do hope even more that I have instilled at least in some of the Readers interest large enough for them to contemplate joining an expedition whose aim is to chase the truth. I wish myself and you just that. Let us then, jump to the page concerning the expedition itself...