An ex-councillor vying to be re-elected to Bracknell Forest Council has said he believes in giants.

Michael Gbadebo, who is running for ward member of Great Hollands in November’s by-election, recently shared on X an article he had written called ‘could giants have walked the earth?’.

He is running as an independent candidate after serving as a conservative councillor between 2011-2015 and again in 2019-2023.

Mr Gbadebo wrote: “The traditional timeline tells us that humans and dinosaurs did not overlap. Dinosaurs went extinct around 65 million years ago, while modern humans (Homo Sapiens) only appeared around 300,000 years ago.

“However, throughout history, many ancient cultures have shared stories of giant beings – whether in religious texts, mythologies or folklore.”

He goes onto question whether these stories could ‘contain elements of the truth’.

The candidate wrote that it remains a mystery how ancient civilisations built structures including the Egyptian pyramids, the Mayan cities and the Olmec colossal heads.

“Could it be that we’ve underestimated the capabilities of these ancient builders because we’ve overlooked the possibility that they may have been much larger than we are today?”, he said.

Mr Gbadebo stressed that he ‘is not a scientist’ but that he wanted to ask ‘the scientific community and curious minds alike to consider the possibility’.

He is running as a candidate in November’s by-election for Great Hollands after former councillor and mayor Naheed Ejaz resigned.

Other candidates include Labour’s Donna Pressland, Conservative Sueo Housego, Reform UK’s Colin Wright and Jason Peter Reardon from the Heritage Party.