“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that...”
—Genesis 6:4
I once was building a house in a corner lot carved from a farm field. Right where the basement was being excavated we hit a granite boulder about five feet down. We kept digging around it to get under it and it was almost as large as the basement. We tried blasting as we did for large boulders exposed in farm fields, but this one couldn't be. Every time they blasted it, we just shaved a few inches off the top, like a haircut. We moved the location of the foundation eventually. Otherwise we would have had a $200,000 rock and a $100,000 house.