The people were actually Lilliputians and the "Giant" was actually a normal human who swept up.
- There are a few hints of this being likely: People being mostly indifferent towards the revelation of a "giant", while a giant would have been a bigger deal in the human world. The name of the town isn't revealed; nor what country the beach is even located in (which could be either America or somewhere in Europe), the scientist only stated that the "Giant"'s penis is being shown "across the country".
The Giant is not the first to have washed up, it's just that nobody remembers the others either.
- At the end of the short, the Scientist notes that even the people who were there on the day the giant appeared, and who were clambering all over it, now remember the giant as being a beached sea-creature instead of a perfectly proportioned, scaled-up human. As improbable as that may seem, it's possible that there's something supernatural about the giant (beyond it being a *giant*, of course) that renders people unable to remember it for more than a short span of time, their memories being distorted the longer time goes on. Bouncing off of that, it may be implied that other cases of beached whales or mysterious washed-up sea creatures were also giants, but given the span of time between then and now, the memories of all but a few (like the Scientist) have altered so that even the people who were there forgot that they saw a giant.
