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An Ancient Giant Speaks: Nephilim Actress Helen Lowell's Voice Captured on Film

1/14/2015

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PictureHelen Lowell: you know she was an ancient giant because her films are all in black and white.
In my continuing effort to evaluate the often-repeated claim of giantologists that there is a strong connection between large skeletons and “double rows of teeth,” I am finding more and more examples of individuals that I think the giantologists should be made aware of.  If they take seriously their contention that the phrases “double rows of teeth” and “double row of teeth” were always used to describe an anomalous dental condition that can serve as a marker of an ancient race of giants, they will be interested in the case of film and stage actress Helen Lowell (1866-1937), a turn-of the century individual described as having a double row of teeth. You want to hear the voice of an ancient giant?  Here’s your chance!

You can learn about Helen’s film and stage career from her IMDB entry.  The important thing for our purposes is a 1905 article titled “How An Actress Feels When Her Teeth Begin To Go” describing and promoting a dental practice in Chicago (The Inter Ocean, April 2, 1905).  In this story, Helen Lowell offered a testimonial about the dental care she received from Dr. G. Gordon Martin while she was performing in a production of “Mrs. Wiggs in the Cabbage Patch.”

“ . . . Excepting for the discomfort of sitting in a chair with a rubber in my mouth—a coffer dam, I think they call it, and I’m ready to believe the last half of its name is true—I had not one single twinge of pain.  Look here—“
    And Miss Lowell parted her plump lips and showed as brilliant a double row of teeth as ever shone in any face.
    “Dr. Martin brought them up to that,” said she, “and dentally speaking, I’m fixed for life.”


And there you have it.  A double row of teeth fixed for life. With that kind of endorsement, perhaps Dr. Martin should have promoted himself as a dentist for ancient giants rather than a dentist for actresses. 

PictureA screen capture from "The Merry Frinks," where Nephilim giant Helen Lowell, in the role of Amelia "Grandma" Frink, can be heard scolding an impudent young man. I can only imagine how intimidating it would have been for that actor to be in the presence of a such a towering, powerful figure baring her double row of teeth in anger.
Fortunately for us, Helen's film career presents an opportunity to actually hear what one of these double-toothed giants of old actually sounded like -- finally we can move beyond speculation on this important topic.  Some of her  films, like “Isn’t Life Wonderful” (1924) were silent, leaving the viewer to only wonder about the voice of the antediluvian titan.  Luckily, however, Helen Lowell also appeared in some talkies. If you go about 55 seconds into this clip from “The Merry Frinks” (1934), you can hear an ancient giant with a double row of teeth say “You give that back you disrespectful little brat!”

You’re welcome.

Giantologists have been repeating the claim of a connection between large skeletons and “double rows of teeth” at least since I was in high school in the mid-1980s.  They’ve had many decades now to figure out this “mystery.”  It turns out that even the most cursory search of newspaper archives (the same archives they use to collect all of their examples) shows these phrases to be ones that were commonly used to describe the teeth of living individuals who most certainly were not ancient giants.  That begs the question of how hard they've actually been trying.  Either the giantologists haven’t really been putting a whole lot effort into trying to figure it out or they’d rather actually NOT figure it out.  I guess those aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.  (The third possibility, that they've tried really hard but just couldn't do it, I find to be unlikely given how easy it has been to collect this information).   Either way, the information is out there in plain sight and has been for a long time. 

Severing the link between “giant skeletons” and “double rows of teeth” undercuts one of the foundational claims/assumptions of many of the giantologists: that there was a “race” of giants that can be identified based on physical characteristics of the skeleton.   I’m still waiting for a response from any of them that want to defend this idea and tell me how Abigail Fillmore, Teddy Roosevelt, and Helen Lowell fit into their conceptions of giants, Nephilim, and what it means to have a "double row of teeth."

1 Comment
Mary
12/2/2016 07:19:29 am

No, they meant both top and bottom teeth.

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