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Kap Dwa, a 3.66-meter-tall, two-headed Patagonian giant, “discovered” in South America

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*There are many stories about giants, and they are not rare, but this case that concerns us today; it is one of the few where a giant, named Kap Dwa, had two heads and was 3.66 meters tall. * The remains of this man, who they say is of South American origin, lie in a small museum in the US Various records portray the figure, who would have lived in the 17th century. A small museum in Baltimore, in the USA, preserves the mummified remains of a 3.66 meter giant with two heads, which would have Patagonian origin. To understand the story; We must go back centuries, when the Portuguese sailor Fernando de Magallanes arrived on the Patagonian coast between 1510 and 1520, in search of a passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific, a passage that today bears his name. But that trip not only served to find the famous strait but also to place this part of the world as one of the epicenters of “giant” life. Antonio Pigafetta, a sailor faithful to Magellan, ...