There Were
Giants on the Earth
(From Various Scources)
In the Joseph Smith translation of Genesis 6:4 it
says “And in those days there were
Giants on the earth and they sought Noah to take
away his life.”
From Forrgotten Ages published by
Dr J. R. Jochmans
Other Giant remains, from historic rather than
prehistoric times, have been brought to
light on practically every continent. In 1928,
workmen blasting a tunnel in the Andes Mountains
for the Ecuador Central Railroad, suddenly opened an
entrance to a buried cavern. Inside, the
amazed workers gawked at stone coffins containing
the skeletons of several eight-foot and ninefoot
giants, The bones were forwarded to a
university--and disappeared. About the same time, a
human skeleton 17 feet tall was unearthed at
Gargayan in the Philippines, and other specimens--
13 feet in size--made their appearance in Ceylon. In
1960, at Tura in southwest Assam state in
India--near the border or Bangladesh--a crew was
digging a foundation for a new building on a
college campus, when their shovels came upon a
curious mound of stones less than four feet
below the surface. Removing the stones, the Indians
exposed the remains of an 11-foot man.
Conservative scholars were quick to dismiss the
skeleton as being that of a large ape—a
consensus formed without even examining the bones,
Those who did see the remains, however,
identified them as unquestionaly human. What is
more, buried with the giant were charcoal bits,
flints, and a metal bowl. As one witness remarked, “I've
never known these objects to be buried
with an ape.”
In 1969, construction workers excavating a site for
a factory near Terracina, sixty miles
from Rome, bulldozed into a pit containing a row of
fifty tiled coffins. Each coffin contained a
skeleton, all of which were between 6 and a half and
8 feet tall. State archaeologist Dr. Luigi
Cavallucci, who analyzed the find, noted that the
bones were remarkably well preserved, and all
the specimens had been males, and in their forties
when they died. The conservative suggestion
that was that this had been A group of special Roman
legionaries, chosen for their height. But
there were a number of problems with this theory:
First, the skeletons were not abnormally tall,
due to pituitary overgrowth; rather, the bones were
well proportioned and healthy--meaning they
belonged to a truly giant race, and not of short
Roman stock. Second, no Latin inscriptions were
found with the remains to date them to the Roman
period. In fact, no inscriptions were dug up
whatsoever, leaving the age of the remains very much
in question. And third, as researcher John
T. Battle noted: “Roman soldiers were buried with
their uniforms, armor, and weapons. Their
military trappings were placed beside them in their
coffins. But there was nothing in these
coffins except the bones.”
Without a doubt the highest concentration of giant
bones and giant artifacts are to be
foundin North
America--which sheds light on a peculiar aspect of the forgotten history of
this
continent. The Desert Weekly of Salt
Lake City, Utah, reported in the issue or March 14, 1891, a
discovery made by workmen digging the
foundation of a new hotel in Crittendon, Arizona—
about 50 miles southeast of Tucson.
Eight feet below the surface the workers came upon a large
hardened clay sarcophagus and, prying
the lid open, they found a granite case containing
the skeleton of a man 12 feet tall. The
unknown giant had had long hair, and wore a bird-shaped
headdress. Unfortunately, by the time
investigators arrived to examine the find, the bones had
crumbled to dust. About that same time
and in the same area--in an abandoned Indian cliff
dwelling south of Winslow, Arizona a
cowboy came upon an enormous human skull. Author
Jesse J. Benton, who recorded the
incident in his book Cows By the Trail1 tells how the
cowhand put his own normal-sized stetson
on the giant skull--and, in comparison, he reported, it
•looed like one of those tiny hats that
merrymakers wear on New Year's.
In neighboring Nevada, a number of giant
remains have been discovered in and around
Lovelock Cave near Lovelock, eighty
miles northeast of Reno. In 1911 a guano mining
operation began unearthing large bones
and mummies of several
individuals who had once stood between 6
and 1/2 and 9 feet in height. John T. Reid,
ore of the mining engineers and also an
amateur archaeologist, attempted to get professors from
the University of California to see the
strange remains. Finally one did arrive, accompanied by
another •authority" from New York.
The two
gathered potsherds and basketry, and
later published an article on these—but they would not have
a thing to do with the
"nonconformist" giant bones. In 1931
more skeletons--this time 8 feet and 10
feet long--were brought to light from the Humbo1dt lake
bed near the Lovelock Cave. These had
been bandaged in a gum. covered cloth, like Egyptian
mummies. And in 1939, still another
specimen, this one 7 feet 7 inches, was discovered on the
Friedman Ranch near Lovelock itself.
Tragically , while various findings were
all well-documented, the bones themselves were either
eventually thrown away or in one case, a
collection was destroyed by fire. Today, only a handful
of the bones are kept by a private
museum in Winnemucca.
In the mid-west and east many more titan
remains have made unexpected appearances.
From a mound 71 feet and diameter and
about 4 feet high located 'Brewersville, Indiana, a
number of investigators uncovered in
1879 a number of skeletons, one of which was 9 feet 8
inches long. A necklace of mica was
strung about his neck, and at his feet a human figure of
fired clay imbedded with piece of flint
had been placed. Flints and axes also buried with the
bones were determined by the Indiana
State Historical Society to be unlike any of those of the
Indians in that area. These remains,
however, were lost in a flood in 1937. About that same time,
in Ohio, the American Antiquarian
(volume 18, page 60) reported that another mound had
produced a copper axe 22 inches
long--and weighed 38 pounds. In l925 at Walkerton--20 miles
southwest of South Bend, Indiana--a
group of amateur archaeologists opened still another mound,
this one containing eight skeletons from
8 to 9 feet tall, wearing heavy copper armor. The bones
and artifacts were unfortunately
scattered and lost.
In the New England states, the 1880's
saw the discovery of several gargantuan finds.
During construction of a rail link
between Cazenovia and Canastota, New York. five skeletons
were unearthed, one of which was more
than 11 feet long. Near Tioga Point, Pennsylvania, a
team of antiquarians dug into yet
another mystery
mound. Among the team were state
historian Dr. 0. P. Donehue, professor A. B. Skinner of the
American Investigating Museum, and
Professor W. K. Morehead of Phillips Andover Academy.
The astounded experts uncovered the
bones of 68 men none of which were less than 7 feet tail.
The remains were promptly sent to the
American Investigating Museum in Philadelphia--and just
as promptly lost. In 1886, an amateur
archaeologist named W. N. Scovill probed into another
mound at nearby Ellishurg, and found
bones of a man almost 8 feet tall.
By far the highest number of giant
remains for one area have been
Unearthed in Minnesoata. Again, the
decade of the 1880's was the time when most of the
significant finds were made: The St Paul
Pioneer Press on June 29, 1885 reported that mounds
located west of Chatfield yielded six
skeletons 7 to 8 feet tall, all with receding foreheads. Other
men of the 8-foot category were
unearthed by workers clearing ancient mounds to make way for
expansion of a brick factory in
Dresbach. These bones were so old that they crumbled to dust on
exposure to air. At Clearwater, more
mounds yielded up more giant skeletons, with receding
foreheads and buried upside down. At La
Crescent, mounds contained titan bones, with huge, flat
cooking pans. The American
Anthropologist, no. 5, vol. 8, p.229 described a stone axe head
discovered "with the pointed end
embedded in the soil at Birchwood”, It was exhibited in the
collection of the Missouri Historical
Society, which found the axe to be 28 inches long, 14 inohes
wide, and 11 inches thick. The problem
was--it weighed 300 pounds. In August, 1896,
the St. Paul Globe published an account
of the findings of a 9-foot skeleton on a farm near Lake
Koronis. The bones of 7-foot men turned
up near Moose Island Lake, while a gravesite at Pine
City brought to light seven more
gargantuan skeletal frames. In 1882, a mound near Warren
produced ten giant skeletons, as well as
an added mystery: the bones of horses, animals which
were not supposed to be found in America
until after the advent or the Spanish in the sixteenth
century...,.
Why have so many giant remains been
found in Wisconsin? It is noteworthy that the
Sioux Indians have legends which claim
that ages ago their forefathers slaughtered a race of
giants in a battle in Minnesota. In fact
many Indian legends throughout America recount how,
before their people inhabited this land,
a race of giants lived here, whom the Indians
overwhelmed and wiped out in a war of
genocide. Surprisingly, the Indian stories find
confirmation in Greek, Hindu, Chinese
and Incan literature.
Did a Giant Race Once Inhabit North
America?
In 1833 a work party of soldiers was
ordered to dig a foundation for a powder magazine at an
army outpost on Lompock Ranchero, in
California. Their spades barely broke the surface when
suddenly the soldiers came upon a layer
of carefully placed stone and gravel. Breaking through
this with bars and picks, the workers
came upon an astounding sight. Below was a stone coffin
surrounded by carved shells, a massive
stone axe, large flint spear points, and several tablets of
porphyry covered with an unknown script.
But what the soldiers could not believe is what was
lying in the coffin: the skeleton of a
man who in life would have stood over 12 feet tall. A priest
from a local Spanish mission was
summoned by the commanding officer, to see if he could read
the stones with writing, and determine
the giant's origin. Though versed in several European
languages and Church Latin, the padre
found the script alien, and could only repeat the Bible
passages concerning the days of old when
"giants were in the earth" when he examined the
bones. The Indians in a nearby
settlement, however, heard of the find, and the shaman or
•medicine man" of the tribe solved
the mystery of the giant's origin. The bones, he said, were that
of an alhegewi, a race of titans who
according to their legends had occupied the land before the
Indians, and who the Indians wiped out
in a war of extermination. The shaman demanded that the
bones be turned over to his tribe, for
the spirit of great strength and cunning were still in them, to
be worshipped and rekindled by
hispeople. But a potential uprising was the last thing the
commander of the outpost wanted, so--as
one of the officers who witnessed the events later
recorded—the commander gave the bones
and artifacts to the priest at the local mission, and he
reburied them in a secret place. They
have yet to be rediscovered today.....
The Indian legend which the shaman told
is not just an isolated story, but is a tradition
found among many Indian nations across
North America. The Piutes of Nevada still speak today
with strong distaste about a race of
red-haired giants called by them the Sitecah, with whom their
forefathers once fought. Finding no land
to expand for their people, and constantly harassed by
roving bands of these giants, the Piute
of long ago allied with other intermountain tribes, and
attacked the Sitecah. A long and bloody
war ensued, with great casualties on both sides.
Eventually the large numbers of Indians
outweighed the superior strength and cunning of the
giants, and the Sitecan were driven into
the Pit River area near Shasta Lake and Mount Shasta--
where they disappeared from history.
Other Indian legends, of the mid-west
and east, record a war of even greater intensity.
What is most interesting is that the
Indians identify the ruins of the Mound Builders--those tens of
thousands of mysterious earthworks found
scattered throughout the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio
river valleys, from Georgia to Minnesota
and from Nebraska to West Virginia--as having
belonged to the giants. This contradicts
modern conservative opinion which theorizes that the
mound constructions were done by the
ancestors of the Indians themselves. Some Indians say
yes, their forefathers did indeed work
on the earthworks--but as slaves to the giants, who were the
real masterminds, while other Indians,
especially the Sioux, Deleware and Iroquois, claim it was
their ancestral peoples who defeated the
giants and ended their mound-building projects. In fact
it has been in many of the ancient
mounds found in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York and
Minnesota that giant skeletons and
artifacts were unearthed. The
weight of evidence therefore points to
the Indians' legends possessing the historical fact--not the
conservative theories.
According to the Indian accounts (as
preserved in Volume 12 of Memoires of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania , in
the distant past the Deleware-Lenni-lenape peoples swept
in a flood of migration from the far
west, but on reaching the valleys west of the Mississippi, they
were confronted by a well-entrenched
people of tremendous stature and possessing a high
civilization. These people they called
the "Allegewi" or "Telligewi"--much the same as given
to them by the California Indians, and
after whom the Alleghany river and mountains were
named. The progress of the
Deleware-Lenni-lenape was stopped, and they were driven back but
not discouraged. At the same time, the
Iroquois people were trying to find a passage through
Allegewi territory, from the north. Two
migratory peoples eventually entered into an alliance
together, and proclaimed war against the
giants. One by one, the Allegewi strngholds
fell, and the giants were forced to
become wanderers along the streams and river-systems they
had attempted to defend. Another
tradition affirms that the primitive Indian invaders, because of
their great numbers, successfully
overwhelmed the ancient gargantuan inhabitants of the northcentral
states, and that the last great battle
in this area was fought at the falls of the Ohio river,
where the remnant was driven upon a
small island below the rapids, and there the whole of them
cut to pieces. The Indian chief,
Tobacco, informed General George Rogers Clark of a legend in
which was preserved the memory of a
battle fought at Sandy Island, where “the first peoples of
this land" had been slaughtered.
Another Indian chief, Cornplanter, told that Ohio, Kentucky and
Tennessee had once been inhabited by a
gigantic white-skinned people, who were familiar with
the arts of civilization, which hi own
forefathers knew nothing of. After a series of battles with
the invading tribes, these former
inhabitants were completely exterminated. The chief also
declared that the old burial places--the
mounds--were the graves of these indigenous giants, and
that the great earthen fortresses had
not been constructed by his people, but belonged to the "very
long ago" people, who were huge,
light-complexioned, and skilled in many arts. The Indians also
had a superstition concerning the
territory of what is now Kentucky. One Indian elder
expressed his astonishment that
present-day white folk would want to live in a region which had
been the scene of such conflicts as had
taken place there. An old Sac Indian, in 1800, said that
Kentucky was filled with ghosts of its
slaughtered giant inhabitants, and wondered why the white
man could make it his home.
When we look at the Mound Builder
earthworks in the northern and central states, it is
interesting to note that they are mostly
defense enclosures which, for the most part, face the north
and west--the directions the Indians
claim their forefathers invaded from.....
The memory that North America was once
inhabited by giants has
been preserved not only by the Indians,
but also by ancient peoples in other parts of the world.
One of the oldest Chinese literary
works, the Shan Hai King, the "Classic of Mountains and
Seas," a geography book dating back
in its original form to 2250B.C. Recent analysis by experts
has brought to light the fact that
portions of this early work give a detailed and highly accurate
description of the major mountains and
rivers of North America--revealing that the ancient
Chinese once undertook a scientific
survey of this continent over 4,000 years ago. In the Ninth
and Fourteenth Books of the Shan Hai
King are fragments of observations made by the Oriental
survey team of the various people
inhabiting America at that time. In the regions of the
"Southeast Corner to the Northeast
Corner" (from Georgia to New England),as well as in the
"Great Waste" (the western and
south-western deserts), the Chinese called the "Great Men's
Country." One of the surveyors,
named Cheu-fu~Chang, found in the west not far from the
"Great Canyon Where the Sun is
Born"--the Grand Canyon--a wooden arrow with a metal point”
6 ½ feet long. He calculated that its
owner must have been 12 to 15 feet tall. A
footnote to this discovery, given in the
Fourteenth Book, tells how ancient Japanese sailors once
encountered bad weather, and were driven
onto the shores of the "Eastern Continent." There,
before their return home, they
encountered "tall savages of a foreign tribe" more than 11 feet
high. Other early Chinese literature,
such as Ho-tu's "Album of Gems" and the "Kuh-liang
History" speak of strange lands
beyond the Pacific called Ta-tsin" and "Lin-t'ao," where men of
huge stature lived, leaving behind
footprints many feet in size where they walked.
The giants of North America appear at
one time to have been a restless,
warlike breed, for several ancient
sources describe their invasions of other lands. The last
surviving Incan prince, and historian of
his people, Garcilasco de la Vega, preserved the legend in
his multi-volume opus Commentaries
Reales de los Incas, that Peru was once attacked by a
gigantic race from the North. He
recounted that they first arrived by sea upon the northern
Peruvian coast in the Manta region:
"The giant men were strange to behold; their
eyes were large, and their hair was worn
long. They were. beardless and their skin was light.
A few of the giants wore animal skins
for clothing; others walked the land without clothes. They
built a settlement near the sea, at a
spot along the desert land of the Manta region. They dug
enormous wells." De la Vega further
described how the giants, not finding enough to eat, began
raiding local villages and cities,
killing and pillaging, and striking terror in everyone because of
their gigantic size. The Incan historian
claimed that the giants were then struck dead from some
catastrophe originating in the sky--and
that all that is left of their reign of terror are giant bones
scattered across the Peruvian
countryside.....
The most detailed account of the
American giants and their migrations comes to us from
the Greek Theopompus of Chios, a student
of Plato. The Roman chronicler Aelian, in his Varia
Historia (c. A.D. 200) preserved
portions of Theopompus' lost work Maropidae, written in 320
B.C. In this work, the Greek recorded a
conversation between King Midas of Phrygia and the
satyr Silenos. Theopompus--through
Silenos--repeated Plato's accurate observation in the
Timaeus and Critias that on the other side
of the Atlantic Ocean from Europe is another land mass
which he called the "outer
continent." Silenos then proceeded to describe the inhabitants and
nations of this distant western country:
"The people are twice as tall as those common to our
climate (Europe), As a race they are
called Merops, and occupy that portion of the continent
called Anostos ("no return"),
its shores often covered by mist, and where the two rivers run
nearby, the River of Pleasure and that
of Grief, The Merops giants have several large towns
governed according to their own customs.
Among these are two which in no way resemble each
other. The first is Eusebius (the
peaceful). The earth is so productive of its fruits that its peoples
need neither plows or oxen--it is
unnecessary to sow or till the soil. The Eusebian giants die
happily and smiling. The second
metropolis is Machimos (the warlike), and here the inhabitants--
numbering no less than two million--are
very belligerent. They are always armed, always
fighting, and work unceasingly to
conquer, expanding their frontiers, thanks to which they
command over several neighboring
nations. Once, the Machimos giants desired to invade our
islands (Europe), and gathered together
from among themselves and the other nations of the outer
continent they dominated a great hoste
of ten million strong. They crossed the ocean,
arriving on the shores of the land of
the Hyperboreans (Britain). But upon learning that the
Hyperboreans were the happiest of our
nations, but which to their eyes was displeasing, the giants
continued no further in their
invasions."
The details presented by Theopompus find
several interesting parallels in other Greek
accounts. Homer, about 850 B.C., in his
Odyssey, Book IX, described a land of gigantic
"Cyclops" strikingly similar
to the description above:
"With heavy hearts we labor
through the tide,
To coasts unknown and
oceans yet untried.
The land of Cyclops
first, a savage kind,
Nor tamed by manners,
nor by laws confined;
Untaught to plant, to
turn the glebe or sow;
They all their
products to free nature owe.
The soil untilled a
ready harvest yields,
With wheat and barley
wave the golden fields."
Homer also described in his Odyssey,
Book VI, a people called the Phaeacians as once inhabiting
"Hyperia," the land to the far
north, but who were forced to move
to new lands because of Cyclopean
invasions:
"In elder times the soft
Phaeacian train
In ease possessed the
wide Hyperian plain;
Til the Cyclopean
race in arms arose,
A lawless nation of
gigantic foes;
The great Nausithous
from Hyperia far,
Through seas
retreating from the sounds of war,
The recreant nation
to fair Scheria led...."
All the same elements are present here
as found in Theopompus' account: Both refer to an
invasion of Britain--Hyperia and
Hyperborea are synonymous--by a Cyclopean or gigantic race at
some time in the distant past. Herodotus
the historian (Book IV, p. 2?), likewise spoke of the
Arimaspians-- "one-eyed giants--who
"lived at the northern-most limit of Europe." which Britain
at that time was considered. Even the
distant Hindus, who revealed their intimate arid very accur
ate knowledge of Europe in the
geographic portions of the Puranas, called Britain both the "White
Island" arid the "Island of the
Mighty Ones." In the Ramavana
Ravana inquires, "Where do the
mighty ones dwell?" and is told by Narada, "They dwell in the
White Island of
Varaha-dwipa"--western Europe.
One last interesting point to take note
of is that Theopompus divided the
giants of America into two major groups1
the "peaceful” arid "warlike." Archaeologists
examining the earthworks of the Mound
Builders divide the structures into two general areas--
north and south--each possessing their
own particular architectural and artistic traits. Those
mounds found among the southern states
are characterized by temple platforms, truncated
pyramids, etc. usually located in flat
places, with no surrounding walls or other concerns for
defense whatsoever. The northern Mound
Builders were for the most part of a different nature:
their earthworks were predominantly
fortress enclosures, usually constructed on river terraces,
where the summits provided good
strongholds. In practically every example of these elaborate
defense structures, there is displayed
great engineering skill and military knowledge. The
northern Mound Builders thus seem: to
have been preoccupied with fighting arid war--while their
southern neighbors had no such
preoccupation. Is it only coincidence that these are the very same
characteristics of Theopompus' American
giants?
We have only scratched the surface here
in regards to the stories and legends,
and bones and artifacts, found around
the world and especially in America that demonstrate the
existence of giants in the unknown past.
Far more research and diggings are needed to fill in the
gaps of what we still do not know. And
at the same time, better recognition must be given to
those facts which we do know. The whole
notion of giants can no longer be relegated to the realm
of fantasy their remains and works are
real enough, and the stories of their exploits are based on
actual memories of historical events.
Perhaps someday, when we read again the account of
Goliath in the Bible, we shall not smile
in amusement, but realize that we are meeting face-toface
with a survivor of a forgotten race who
once walked the earth, and built a lost civilization on
the American continent....
Giant
Skeletons
Giant
Skeletons
• In his
book, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, author John
Haywood
describes "very
large" bones in stone graves found in Williamson County, Tennessee, in
1821. In White County,
Tennessee, an "ancient fortification" contained skeletons of
gigantic stature averaging
at least 7 feet in length.
• Giant skeletons
were found in the mid-1800s near Rutland and Rodman, New York. J.N.
DeHart, M.D. found
vertebrae "larger than those of the present type" in Wisconsin
mounds in 1876. W.H.R.
Lykins uncovered skull bones "of great size and thickness" in
mounds of Kansas City area
in 1877.
• George W.
Hill, M.D., dug out a skeleton "of unusual size" in a mound of
Ashland County,
Ohio. In 1879, a
nine-foot, eight-inch skeleton was excavated from a mound near
Brewersville, Indiana(Indianapolis
News, Nov 10, 1975)
• A six
foot, six inch skeleton was found in a Utah mound. This was at least a foot
taller
than the average Indian
height in the area, and these natives- what few there were of
them -were not mound
builders.
• "A
skeleton which is reported to have been of enormous dimensions" was found
in a clay
coffin, with a sandstone
slab containing hieroglyphics, during mound explorations by a Dr
everhart near Zanesville,
Ohio.(American Antiquarian, v3, 1880, pg61)
• Ten
skeletons "of both sexes and of gigantic size" were taken from a
mound at Warren,
Minnesota, 1883. (St. Paul
Pioneer Press, May 23, 1883)
• A
skeleton 7 feet 6 inches long was found in a massive stone structure that was
likened
to a temple chamber within
a mound in Kanawha County, West Virginia, in 1884.
(American Antiquarian,
v6, 1884 133f. Cyrus Thomas, Report on Mound Explorations of
the
Bureau of Ethnology, 12th Annual Report, Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-
91)
• A large
mound near Gasterville, Pennsylvania, contained a vault in which was found a
skeleton measuring 7 feet
2 inches. Inscriptions were carved on the vault. (American
Antiquarian, v7,
1885, 52f) click here for full article
• In 1885,
miners discovered the mummified remains of woman measuring 6 feet 8 inches
tall holding an infant.
The mummies were found in a cave behind a wall of rock in the
Yosemite Valley. click
here for full article
• In
Minnesota, 1888, were discovered remains of seven skeletons 7 to 8 feet tall.
(St. Paul
Pioneer
Press, June 29, 1888)
• A mound
near Toledo, Ohio, held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with jaws and
teeth "twice as large
as those of present day people," and besides each was a large bowl
with "curiously
wrought hieroglyphic figures." (Chicago Record, Oct. 24, 1895;
cited by
Ron G. Dobbins, NEARA Journal,
v13, fall 1978)
• The
skeleton of a huge man was uncovered at the Beckley farm, Lake Koronis,
Minnesota; while at Moose
Island and Pine City, bones of other giants came to light. (St.
Paul Globe, Aug.
12, 1896)
• In 1911,
several red-haired mummies ranging from 6 and a half feet to 8 feet tall were
discovered in a cave in
Lovelock, Nevada. click here for the full article
• In
February and June of 1931, large skeletons were found in the Humboldt lake bed
near
Lovelock, Nevada. The
first of these two skeletons found measured 8 1/2 feet tall and
appeared to have been
wrapped in a gum-covered fabric similar to the Egyptian manner.
The second skeleton was
almost 10 feet long.(Review - Miner, June 19, 1931)
• A 7 foot
7 inch skeleton was reported to have been found on the Friedman ranch, near
Lovelock, Nevada, in
1939.(Review - Miner, Sept. 29, 1939)
• In 1965,
a skeleton measuring 8 feet 9 inches was found buried under a rock ledge along
the Holly Creek in
east-central Kentucky. click here for the full article
ANOTHER GIANT FIND:
This One an “Enigma” From the Depths of
the Earth--There is
one find of gigantic bones that deserves
special attention, because it belongs
in a class by itself.
.
In July 1877, four prospectors were
looking for gold and silver outcroppings in the
desolate hills near the head of Spring
valley, not far from Eureka, Nevada. Scanning the rocks,
one of the men spotted something
peculiar projecting from a high ledge. Climbing up to get a
better look, the prospector was
surprised to find a human leg-bone and knee cap sticking out of
solid rock. He called to his companions1
and together they dislodged the oddity with picks.
Realizing they had a most unusual find,
the men brought it into Eureka, where it
was placed on display.
The stone in which the bones were
embedded was a hard, dark red quartzite,
and the bones themselves were almost
black with carbonization indicative of a tremendous age.
When the surrounding stone was carefully
chipped away, the specimen was found to be
composed of a leg bone broken off four
inches above the knee, the knee cap and joint, the lower
leg bones, and the complete bones of the
foot. Several medical doctors examined the remains,
and were convinced that anatomically
they had indeed once belonged to a human being, and a
very modern- looking one. But the most
intriguing aspect of the bones was their size: From
knee to heel they measured 39 inches.
Their owner in life had thus stood over 12 ft tall.
Compounding the mystery further was the
fact that the rock in which the bones were dated
geologically to the era of the dinosaur,
the Jurassic.
Another report, this one from Australia,
was received by the
author in personal correspondence from
Mr. Rex Gikoy of the
Mount York Natural History Museum in
Mount Victoria. Mr.
Gikoy stated in his letter that he
"prefers to keep an open mind,
being free of all scientific prejudices
and dogmas." He went on to
state he is the "only archeologist
in Australia researching on the
likelihood that giant men once occupied
this land." He described his
findings. "The most common of all
giant fossil footprints found in
Australia are generally 24 inches long
by 7 inches across the toes. It
is estimated that the creatures to whom
these prints belong must have
stood from 10 to 12 feet tall."
Mr. Gikoy has also found stone artifacts
belonging to humans
of some type, "clubs, hammer stones
and other types to 361bs. It is
evident that such artifacts were beyond
the strength of any normal
human being." In another place, Mr.
Gilroy states, "I do believe
that these were no mere apeman', but
that they were men of
considerable intellect for stone-age
men."
From book Treasures
of the Ancients by Stephen B. Shaffer p. 31-32, Cedar Fort inc. 1996
Dr. Heinerman followed Brewer into a
tunnel that had been dug on a downward track, barely
squeezing and squirming like a worrn
through the narrow passageway. After a short distance he
carne to an opening, and reaching down
felt the edge of a set of stairs that led into a chamber. The
chamber was about twenty feet long and
fourteen feet wide. The air was stifling and breathing
was very labored. Several inches of fine
dust covered everything, and puffed up with each step
that they took. About twenty-five stone
boxes were stacked against one wall and another twenty
against the other wall. Most were
wrapped with a cover of juniper bark with pine pitch smeared
all over them to make them waterproof.
In a smaller chamber were two mummies of large stature.
( From the Book
Footprints On The
Sands of Time by Dr
Clifford Burdick
Geologist )
Dr. Heinerman describes the mummies:
“The texture of their skin was soft,
almost moist, like tanned leather. In the cave I saw an
abundance of weapons, swords, tools,
copper and metal plates of various sizes, all of which were
very curious. Some of the copper, plates
were of a strange composition, shattering like glass into
fibrous pieces, not unlike the
windshield of a car, if dropped. I believe that this chamber houses at
least two different ages of
antiquities." (See Pictures at the end of this paper )
From the book Hidden
Treasures of Ancient American Cultures by John Heinerman, 2001,
Bonnevile Books,
Springvile, Utah.
Two young teenage boys, Orson W.
Huntsman and David U. Huntsman, were out roaming
around on a 10-mile stretch of grassy
bench land situated between their father's big ranch and the
town of Tooele. Now bordering this wide
grassy region were surrounding hills that carried
evident marks of the ancient shoreline
of old Lake Bonneville. They were eager to explore around
on this terrace to satisfy their own
innate curiosities.
As they looked upward to a hill just
above them, they noticed from a certain angle a hole
in the side of it. With renewed
excitement, they eagerly scrambled up to the entrance and
discovered about ten feet inside,
something very old, dry, and shriveled up. It looked to them like
an old discarded "squash," which
is what they called it. They continued further in and found
themselves inside a very high and wide
cavern of ancient origin. Excited beyond words, they took
their "squash" with them and
returned home to show their parents the mysterious find.
When Brigham Young and the other
apostles arrived in Tooele a short time later, this
"squash" was taken to him for
further evaluation, accompanied with a written explanation of how
it was found. President Young turned the
curious object over in his hands a number
of times as he examined it from all
sides, while meditatively pondering on the matter at the same
time. Finally, he broke his silence with
a short statement to the effect that this supposed "old
squash" was, in reality, the skull
of an ancient Jaredite.
He and some of the others expressed a
desire to meet the boys who made this discovery
and accompany them to the place where it
was first located. Given the propensity of cockiness in
youth, the two Huntsman boys and their
egos retched up several notches higher as they led the
Prophet of the Lord and other servants
of God back to the well-hidden cavern. With the air being
in short supply and virtually no
circulation inside the rock chamber, great care had to be taken
going in. Torches were lit at the
entrance way, and several men held aloft a wagon cover to create
just enough air movement underneath, so
they could continue burning while providing ample
breathing space for those going inside.
The men had to move very slowly so as
not to stir up several inches of yellow human
dust that covered much of the cavern
floor. The walls were lined with a number of stone shelves
containing numerous skeletal remains.
Awe and wonderment undoubtedly filled the minds of
those privileged to see such ancient
evidence for themselves. Finally, Prophet Young broke the
spell-binding silence by declaring that
"there were bones of the Jaredites, well a long time"
(see Lamond W. Huntsman's Huntsman
Annals (Provo: J. Grant Stevenson, 1971; pp.46-47).
An even more remarkable find of Jaredite
skeletal remains occurred many years ago in
Utah County. It was sometime in the
mid-1930s when Utah Lake dropped to its lowest water
levels ever, due to several years of
virtually no moisture to speak of. A self-trained naturalistgeologist-
archaeologist from nearby Lehi by the
name of John Hutchings (then in his midforties),
was able to walk out a good distance on
dry lake bed where he located and excavated
several large mounds. While digging into
one of them near the lake's epicenter (that would
normally have been under many feet of
water), he struck what he assumed to be a large rock. But
in the process of further digging
around, his slight annoyance turned to amazement as he
discovered a portion of an ancient,
rounded, cemented stone roof that had once been covered with
a pitch-like substance (apparently for
water-proofing).
He had a small rock hammer and a pointed
trowel with him in addition to his shovel.
Patiently he worked away enough stone
with these implements to form a hole large enough
through which he could enter. Hutchings
never went on any exploratory trip without taking along
some matches and a miner's coal-oil
lantern as well as adequate water and a little dried fruit to
drink or much on whenever he became
hungry or thirsty. He now realized just how handy that
lantern would come in. But before
lighting it, he walked several feet directly across from his first
hole, dug another one and pried away
some more stone. This now gave him both an entry and exit
through which air could travel to keep
his lantern from going out.
Once it was lit, he lowered it through
the first opening and leaned in to have a better look.
He gauged the distance to the floor to
be only four feet, having been lucky enough to penetrate
through on the room's circular
perimeters instead of going in further towards the top, where the
descent would have been much greater and
probably required a rope (which he didn't have with
him at the time) to do so. Once safely
inside, he moved towards the center of the chamber where
there was more head room and he could
straighten up from his stooped position. A large stone
box sealed with a heavy lid about the
size of a small coffin sat in front of him. As he gradually
turned around, the light reflecting off
the walls revealed 12 very large skeletons carefully laid out
around the stone chest in a clockwise
arrangement, with the skulls facing inward towards the box.
Taking a tape measure from his trouser
pocked, he measured several of the skeletons
from head to foot with the lantern on
the floor beside him. He was astonished by the
measurements taken:
eight-feet-four-inches for one; eight-feet-eleven-inches for another; and
nine-feet-four-inches for a third. When
my father took my brother and I, as young teenagers, out
to visit Mr. Hutchings on July 21st,
1961, during the time of this spell-binding narrative, the 72-
year-old gentleman paused long enough to
remind us that it helps, at times like this, if one is a
little clairvoyant. He told us that he
was and had inherited this gift from his own father as a young
child. Mr. Hutchings said that while he
was inside what seemed to be an old burial chamber,
his mind was trying to figure out what
civilization had produced such giants as these. Just then a
flash of intelligence crossed his mind
with the idea that these were all Jaredite skeletons.
He next examined the stone chest itself
and found by measuring its various dimensions to
be thirty inches long, sixteen inches
wide, and eighteen inches tall. As he thoughtfully paused to
Give some consideration to removing the
sealed lid for an inspection of the contents inside, a
feeling ebbed over him that such an act
would be wrong to do. But a general disclosure of what
the chest did contain was brought to his
mind. He was given to understand that it contained a
number of different metallic records
giving the life histories of each of these individuals, all of
whom apparently belonged to a royal
family of some kind. This had been their burial chamber
where the deceased members were
interred. As he pondered the propriety of removing
some of the remains themselves, a good
feeling descended over him as an indication that such a
thing was permissible.
He left the tomb and walked some
distance back to his truck and retrieved half-a-dozen
shaved wood bushel baskets with lids
that fit over their wire handles. Orchard growers used these
to shore their picked apples, peaches,
and pears in, but Mr. Hutchings used them to carry things
that he found on his various jaunts,
such as bird nests, Indian arrowheads and spear points,
pottery shards, willow baskets, grass
sandals, and rock and mineral specimens. He returned to the
tomb and carefully placed six of the
complete skeletons into each bushel basket. He remarked to
my father, brother and I in his
narration that the arm bones were so long on some of these
skeletons, "the hand-and-finger
bones almost reached the kneecaps on a few of them." He closed
up both holes after exiting the chamber
and made sure all evidence of human presence in the area
was obliterated before leaving the spot.
He gave three skeletons to the University of Utah and two
others to Brigham Young University,
keeping the best one of the bunch for himself. He told
professors at both schools how he came
by way of them, but instead of winning their
compliments, he suffered their scorn and
ridicule. "They just laughed at me, saying there was no
such thing in the middle of Utah
Lake," my father later recorded in his unpublished life's history.
"After that I wanted nothing more
to do with professors or educated men" (taken from "My Life's
Journal" by Jacob Heinerman,
pp.31-37).
An early LDS newspaper, The Evening and
Morning Star (1(3):22; August 1832)
identified exceptionally large skeletons
(like those previously referred to in this text) as being
ancient Jaredites:
"...As they were a very large race
of men, whenever we hear that uncommon large bones have
been dug up from the earth, we may
conclude, that was the skeleton of a Jaredite! Outside of the
Beehive State, skeletons of gigantic
proportions have been found in other parts of America,
including some along the Western Reserve
(a tract of land in NE Ohio, on the southern shore of
Lake Erie).
From the Journal History of the Church
under September 8th, 1880 (p.3) is a clipping
from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer
about an excavated mound in Muskingum County filled with
giant remains. "In one grave, there
were two skeletons - one male and one female. The male
skeleton measured nine feet in length,
and the female eight feet. In another grave were also found
two skeletons - male and female. The
male frame in this case was nine feet four inches in length,
and the female eight feet. In another
grave was found a female skeleton, holding in her arms the
skeleton of a child three feet and a
half long. [A] remaining seven [skeletons] were found in
single graves, and were lying on their
sides. The smallest of the seven was nine feet in length,
and the largest ten."
Some of the antiquarian city, county,
and state histories of the early 19th century contain
occasional references to
extraordinary-sized human remains. Case in point would be Harvey
Rice's Pioneers of the Western Reserve
(p.303), in which he described an ancient burial
ground that was uncovered in i8oo.
Concerning the giant skeletons found in this particular Ohio
mound, we read: "Human bones of
gigantic proportions were discovered in such a state of
preservation as to be accurately
described and measured. The cavities of the skulls were large
enough in their dimensions to receive
the entire head of a man of modern times, and could be put
on one's head with as much ease as a hat
or cap. The jaw-bones were sufficiently large to admit
being placed so as to match or fit the
outside of a modern man's face. The other bones, so far as
discovered, appeared to be of equal
proportions with the skulls and jaw-bones. Several of [these]
have been preserved as relics in the
cabinets of antiquarians, where they may still be seen."
An Ancient Cemetary
of Giants Near Niagara, NY
(From The Daily Telegraph , Toronto,
Ontario Wed August 23, 1871 )
TWO HUNDRED GIANT SKELETONS OF ANAKIN IN
CAYUGA TOWNSHIP
DISCOVERED IN ANCIENT CEMETARY
Cayuga, August 21-- “On Wednesday last,
Rev. Nathaniel Wardell, Messers. Orin Wardell (of
Toronto), and Daniel Fredenburg, were
digging on the farm of the latter gentleman, which is on
the banks of the Grand River, in the
township of Cayuga. When they got to five or six feet below
the surface, a strange sight met them.
Piled in layers, one upon top of the other, some two
hundred skeletons of human beings nearly
perfect-- around the neck of each one being a string of
beads.
“There were also deposited in this pit a
number of axes and skimmers made of stone. In
the jaws of several of the skeletons
were large stone pipes-- one of which Mr. 0. Wardell took
with him to Toronto a day or two after
this Golgotha was unearthed.
“These skeletons are those of men of
gigantic stature, some of them measuring nine feet,
very few of them being less than seven
feet. Some of the thigh bones were found to be at least a
foot longer than those at present known,
and one of the skulls being examined completely
covered the head of an ordinary person.
These skeletons are supposed to belong to those of a race
of people anterior to the Indians.
“The farm, which consists of 150 acres,
has been cultivated for nearly a century, and was
covered with a thick growth of pine, so
that it must have been ages ago since the remains were
deposited there. The skulls of the
skeletons are of an enormous size and all manner of shapes,
about half as large again as are now to
be seen. The teeth in most of them are still in almost
perfect state of preservation, though
they soon fall out when exposed to the air.
Some large shells, supposed to have been
used for holding water, which were also found in the
pit, were almost petrified. There is no
doubt that were a scheme of exploration carried on
thoroughly the result would be highly
interesting. A good deal of excitement exists in the
neighborhood, and many visitors call at
the farm daily.
“The skulls and bones of the giants are
fast disappearing, being taken away by curiosity
hunters. It is the intention of Mr.
Fredinburg to cover the pit up very soon. The pit is ghastly in
the extreme. The farm is skirted on the
north by the Grand River. The pit is close to the banks,
From the appearance of the skulls, it
would seem that their possessors died a violent death, as
many of them were broken and dented.
“The axes are shaped like tomahawks,
small, but keen, instruments. The beads are all of stone
and of all sizes and shapes. The pipes
are not unlike in shape the cutty pipe, and several of them
are engraved with dogs’ heads. They have
not lost their virtue for smoking. Some people profess
to believe that the locality of
Fredinburg farm was formally an Indian burial place, but the
enormous stature of the skeletons and
the fact that pine trees of centuries growth covered the spot
goes far to disprove this idea"
(Taken Fro Ancient American Vol. 6 , Number 41, 2001)
In 1872, the Historical Collections
of Noble County Ohio (p. 350,351), a mound was uncovered,
in which were found “the remains of
three skeletons whose size would indicate they measured in
life at least eight feet in height. The
remarkable feature of these remains was they had double
teeth in front as well as in back of
mouth and in both upper and lower jaws. Upon exposure to the
atmosphere the skeletons crumbled back
to mother earth.”
Giants
Reprint: Facts
for the Times: A collection of Valuable Historical Extracts, pages
1 71-72
G.I.Butler, 1885
In the first age of
the world, man lived almost a thousand years; while now he rarely exceeds the
allotted threescore
and ten.
This is clearly shown,
not only by the Bible and ancient history, but by the discoveries of
antediluvian
remains.
The
Gospel Herald of Dayton. Ohio, gives the following account:
In the Scientific
Department of one of our most popular weekly exchanges, we find an interesting
account of
a large human
skeleton. recently discovered in Am, France.
The frame is complete
in all its parts, and is four yards in height. It was found in a soil of
alluvium, the head
buried in the earth,
with the feet upward.
Day before yesterday,
while the quarrymen employed by the Sauk Rapids Water Power Company
(Minnesota] were
engaged in quarrying rock for the dam which is being erected across the
Mississippi at this place,
they found embedded in
the solid granite rock the remains of a human being of gigantic stature.
About seven feet below
the surface of the ground, and about three and a half feet beneath the upper
stratum
of rock, the remains
were found imbedded in the sand, which had evidently been placed in the
quadrangular grave
which had been dug out
of the solid rock to receive the last remains of this antediluvian giant.
The grave was twelve
feet in length, four feet wide, and about three feet in depth, and is today, at
least two
feet below the present
level of the river.
The remains are
completely petrified, and are of gigantic dimensions. The head is massive,
measures thirty
one and one half
inches in circumference. but low in the os frontis, and very flat on the top.
The femur measures
twenty six and a quarter inches. and the fibula twenty five and a half, while
the body is
equally long in
proportion.
From the crown of the
head to the sole of the foot. the length is ten feet nine and a half inches.
The measure
around the chest is
fifty nine and a half inches. This giant must have weighed at least nine
hundred
pounds when covered
with a reasonable amount of flesh.
(Taken From Ancient American Issue # 43,
p. 17 )
.
Sketch
of Manti Mummy (male) and figures on Mummy
case.
Mummy was 8 ft tall, Note figures of dinosaur head.
(From
Hidden Treasures of Ancient American Cultures)
Sketch
of Female Mummy From Manti
Cave
. Mummy 8 ft tall
(From
Hidden Treasures of Ancient
American
Cultures)
In 1895, miners working
near Bridlevale Falls, California,
discovered the tomb of a
woman whose skeletal
remains indicated that she
had stood 6-feet 8-inches in
height. She was clutching
the remains of a child to her
breast. In 1898,
scientists excavating in Death Valley
found the fossilized
remains of a female who stood 7-
feet 6-inches in height
and whose spine bore several
extra "buttons"
at its base, indicating that in life the
woman had been endowed
with a tail-like appendage. In
1974, the skeleton of a
7-foot woman was found sealed
in a cave at the crest of
a high mesa near Chalk
Mountain, Texas.
“Amazing finds were also made in
California about 1810 and in Montana in 1924. One was that
of a six-toed giant, the other was the
skull of a man found 130 feet deep in a lava-covered mine.
A human molar embedded in an eocene coal
measure was found in November 1926 in No. 3
Eagle Coal Mine atBearcreek, Montana,
and in strata anywhere between thirty and seventy-five
million years old. An amazing skull—there
is no other word for it!—of a giant man with double
rows of teeth all round the massive jaws
was found on Santa Rosa Island in the Santa Barbara
Channel, California. It has a singular
tie-in with the statement in the old Babylonian Talmud,
called the Berakthoth, that the
giants before the Great Deluge had double rows of teeth!....
On Shemya the men’s job was to build an
airstrip for landing purposes. One day in May
1943, a remarkable discovery was made.
At the northeast end of this tiny island is a bluff of
sedimentary rock, and below it, on the
beach, are strewn igneous and sedimentary boulders.
When these beach boulders were shifted,
the bulldozers started to work and turned up layer on
layer of fossils, each layer differing
from that below it.
In one of these layers were huge human
bones and skulls of giants, lying near fossil ivory and
mammoth and mastodon bones. Some of
these giant human skulls lacked the lower jaw. The
skulls were from one foot ten inches to two feet long! They were
emphatically human and not animals.
The bones of the animals lay far enough
apart for them to be clearly perceptible.
The height of these giants measured no
fewer than twenty-four feet! I questioned my informant
and he was positive in his affirmation
of the astounding height of these men—a height that tallies
with that asserted in ancient
His story goes on: “These giant remains
in the Shemya beach were found about six feet
below the surface. The ground where the
skulls and bones were found is swampy and sandy, and
the beach was just muck and deteriorated
rock. Mixed in with the big bones were smaller ones.
They might have been deposited there in
a cataclysm, but there is evidence that this may have
been also an ancient graveyard of the
giants. It is curious that all these skulls of giant men had
holes in them two inches in diameter.
Maybe that was in accord with the notion of ancient folk
that you could let the soul out of the
head by trephining the crania. It may have been done with
clubs or arrows, but as all the skulls
were perforated, I reckon it is more likely that an ancient
ritual was followed?’
( From Out of Time and Place, P. 65 From
the files of Fate Magazine, 1999, Liewellyn
Publications, St Paul, Minn. )
Giant
Human Remains
- From records and
sources all over the world. -submitted by John Williams
Giant Skeletons:
In his book, The Natural
and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, author John Haywood
describes "very
large" bones in stone graves found in Williamson County, Tennessee, in
1821. In White
County, Tennessee, an "ancient fortification" contained skeletons of
gigantic
stature averaging at
least 7 feet in length.
Giant skeletons were
found in the mid-1800s near Rutland and Rodman, New York. J.N.
DeHart, M.D. found
vertebrae "larger than those of the present type" in Wisconsin mounds
in 1876. W.H.R.
Lykins uncovered skull bones "of great size and thickness" in mounds
of
Kansas City area in
1877.
George W. Hill, M.D.,
dug out a skeleton "of unusual size" in a mound of Ashland County,
Ohio. In 1879, a
nine-foot, eight-inch skeleton was
excavated from a
mound near Brewersville, Indiana (Indianapolis News, Nov 10, 1975).
A six foot, six inch
skeleton was found in a Utah mound. This was at least a foot taller than
the average Indian
height in the area, and these natives- what few there were of them -were
not mound builders.
"A skeleton
which is reported to have been of enormous dimensions" was found in a clay
coffin, with a
sandstone slab containing hieroglyphics, during mound explorations by a Dr
Everhart near
Zanesville, Ohio. (American Antiquarian, v3, 1880, pg61).
Ten skeletons
"of both sexes and of gigantic size" were taken from a mound at
Warren,
Minnesota, 1883. (St.
Paul Pioneer Press, May 23, 1883) A skeleton 7 feet 6 inches long was
found in a massive
stone structure that was likened to a temple chamber within a mound in
Kanawha County, West
Virginia, in 1884. (American Antiquarian, v6, 1884 133f. Cyrus
Thomas, Report on
Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology, 12th Annual Report,
Smithsonian Bureau of
Ethnology, 1890-91).
A large mound near
Gasterville, Pennsylvania, contained a vault in which was found a
skeleton measuring 7
feet 2 inches. Inscriptions were carved on the vault. (American
Antiquarian, v7,
1885, 52f).
In 1885, miners
discovered the mummified remains of woman measuring 6 feet 8 inches tall
holding an infant.
The mummies were found in a cave behind a wall of rock in the Yosemite
Valley.
In Minnesota, 1888,
were discovered remains of seven skeletons 7 to 8 feet tall. (St. Paul
Pioneer Press, June
29, 1888).
A mound near Toledo,
Ohio, held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with jaws and teeth
"twice as large
as those of present day people," and besides each was a large bowl with
"curiously
wrought hieroglyphic figures." (Chicago Record, Oct. 24, 1895; cited by
Ron G.
Dobbins, NEARA
Journal, v13, fall 1978).
The skeleton of a
huge man was uncovered at the Beckley farm, Lake Koronis, Minnesota;
while at Moose Island
and Pine City, bones of other giants came to light. (St. Paul Globe,
Aug. 12, 1896).
In 1911, several
red-haired mummies ranging from 6 and a half feet to 8 feet tall were
discovered in a cave
in Lovelock, Nevada. In February and June of 1931, large skeletons
were found in the
Humboldt lake bed near Lovelock, Nevada. The first of these two
skeletons found
measured 8 1/2 feet
tall and appeared to have been wrapped in a gum-covered fabric
similiar to the
Egyptian manner. The second skeleton was almost 10 feet long. (Review -
Miner, June 19,
1931).
A 7 foot 7 inch
skeleton was reported to have been found on the Friedman ranch, near
Lovelock, Nevada, in
1939.(Review - Miner, Sept. 29, 1939) In 1965, a skeleton measuring 8
feet 9 inches was
found buried under a rock ledge along the Holly Creek in east-central
Kentucky.
AUSTRALIAN GIANTS:
There was a race or
group of people found in Australia called "meganthropus" by
anthropologists.
These people were of very large size--estimated between 7 to 12 feet tall,
depending on what
source you read. These people were found with mega tool artifacts, so
their humaness is
difficult to question. Four jaw fragments and thousands of teeth have
been found in China
of "gigantopithecus blacki"--named after the discover. Based on the
size of the teeth and
deep jaws, its size has been estimated at around 10 feet and as tall as 12
feet, 1200 pounds.
PROOF OF AUSTRALIAN
GIANTS:
In old river gravels
near Bathurst, NSW, huge stone artifacts -- clubs,
pounders, adzes,
chisels, knives and hand axes -- all of tremendous weight, lie scattered over
a wide area. These
weigh anything from 8, 10, 15, to 21 and 25 pounds, implements which
only men of
tremendous proportions could possibly have made and used. Estimates for the
actual size of these
men range from 10 to 12 feet tall and over, weighing from 500 to 600 lbs.
A fossicker searching
the Winburndale River north of Bathurst discovered a large
quartzitised fossil
human molar tooth, far too big for any normal modern man. A similar
find was made near
Dubbo, N.S.W.
Prospectors working
in the Bathurst district in the 1930's frequently
reported coming
across numerous large human footprints fossilised in shoals of red jasper.
Even more impressive
were fossil deposits found by naturalist Rex Gilroy around Bathurst.
He excavated from a
depth of 6 feet (2 m) below the surface a fossil lower back molar tooth
measuring 67 mm. in
length by 50mm. x 42 mm. across the crown. If his measurements are
correct, the owner
would have been at least 25 ft. tall, weighing well over 1,000 lbs!
At Gympie,
Queensland, a farmer, Keith Walker, was ploughing his field when he turned
up the large fragment
of the back portion of a jaw which still possessed the hollow for a
missing lower back
molar tooth. This is now in Rex GiIroy's possession. The owner of the
tooth would have
stood at 10 feet tall.
In the Megalong
Valley in the Blue Mountains NSW, a Mr P. Holman found in ironstone
protruding from a
creek bank the deeply impressed print of a large human-like foot. The
print was that of the
instep, with all 5 toes clearly shown. This footprint measures 7 inches
across the toes. Had
the footprint been complete it would have been at least 2 feet (60 cm in
length, appropriate
to a 12 foot human. However, the largest footprint found on the Blue
Mountains must have
belonged to a man 20 feet tall!
A set of 3 huge
footprints was discovered near Mulgoa, south of Penrith, N.S.W. These
prints, each
measuring 2 ft long and 7 inches across the toes, are 6 ft. apart, indicating
the
stride of the 12 ft.
giant who left them. These prints were preserved by volcanic lava and ash
flows which
"occurred millions of years" before man is supposed to have appeared
on the
Australian continent
(if one is to believe the evolutionary theory): Noel Reeves found
monstrous footprints
near Kempsey, N.S.W. in sandstone beds on the Upper Macleay River.
One print shows toe 4
inches (10cm) long and the total toe-span is 10 inches (25cm) -
suggesting that the
owner of the print may have been 17 feet tall.
It is certain the
Aborigines were not the first to reach Australia.
Anthropologists
maintain mainland Aborigines are in fact quite recent
arrivals that ate
their predecessors who were akin to the New Guinea natives. Aborigine
themselves admit in
their ancient folklore that this land was inhabited by several groups of
men, as well as
giants, before they settled here.
MORE GIANT RECORDS:
In an old book
entitled "History And Antiquities Of Allerdale," there is an account
of a
giant found in
Cumberland, England, at an unknown date in the middle ages. Called "A
True Report of Hugh
Hodson, of Thorneway," it states: "The said gyant was buried four
yards deep in the
ground, which is now a corn field. He was four yards and a half long, and
was in complete
armor; his sword and battle-axe lying by him....his teeth were six inches
long, and two inches
broad...." The bones of a twelve foot tall man were dug up in 1833 by a
group of soldiers at
Lompock Rancho, California. The skeleton was
surrounded by giant
weapons, and the skull featured a double row of teeth. Yet another
giant was unearthed
in 1891, when workmen in Crittenden, Arizona excavated a huge stone
coffin that had
evidently once held the body of a man 12 feet tall. A carving on the granite
case indicated that
he had six toes.
A living giant was
sighted in the little village of Buffalo Mills,
Pennsylvania, on August
19, 1973. A man at least nine feet tall strode down the main street
of the village,
dressed in strange clothing, which appeared to be made of some sort of
shimmering material.
He gazed at the startled townspeople in a dark, penetrating way and
then loped off
casually into oblivion.
OTHER GIANT
EVIDENCES:
In July, 1877, four
prospectors were looking for gold and silver
outcroppings in a
desolate, hilly area near the head of Spring Valley, not far from Eureka,
Nevada.
Scanning the rocks,
one of the men spotted something peculiar projecting from a high ledge.
Climbing up to get a
better look, the prospector was surprised to find a human leg bone and
knee cap sticking out
of solid rock. He called to his companions, and together they dislodged
the oddity with
picks. Realizing they had a most unusual find, the men brought it into
Eureka, where it was
placed on display.
The stone in which
the bones were embedded was a hard, dark red quartzite, and the bones
themselves were
almost black with carbonization - indicative of great age. When the
surrounding stone was
carefully chipped away, the specimen was found to be composed of a
leg bone broken off
four inches above the knee, the knee cap and joint, the lower leg bones,
and the complete
bones of the foot. Several medical doctors examined the remains, and were
convinced that
anatomically they had indeed once belonged to a human being, and a very
modern-looking one.
But an intriguing
aspect of the bones was their size: from knee to heel they measured 39
inches. Their owner
in life had thus stood over 12 feet tall. Compounding the mystery
further was the fact
that the rock in which the bones were found was dated geologically to
the era of the
dinosaurs, the Jurassic - over 185 million years old. The local papers ran
several stories on
the marvelous find, and two museums sent investigators to see if any more
of the skeleton could
be located. Unfortunately, nothing else but the leg and foot existed in
the rock."
Strange Relics from the Depths of the Earth--Jochmans
http://www.ior.com/~kjc/pages/strange.htm
EVEN MORE RECORDS OF
GIANTS:
In 1936 Larson Kohl,
the German paleontologist and anthropologist, found the bones of
gigantic men on the
shore of Lake Elyasi in Central Africa. Other giant skeletons were later
found in Hava, the
Transvaal and China. The evidence for the existence of giants is
incontrovertible.
"A scientifically assured fact," says Dr. Louis Burkhalter.
1. Large bones in
stone graves in Williamson County and White County, Tennessee.
Discovered in the
early 1800s, the average stature of these giants was 7 feet tall.
2. Giant skeletons
found in the mid-1800s in New York state near Rutland and Rodman.
3. In 1833, soldiers
digging at Lompock Rancho, California, discovered a male skeleton 12
feet tall. The
skeleton was surrounded by caved shells, stone axes, other artifacts. The
skeleton had double
rows of upper and lower teeth. Unfortunately, this body was secretly
buried because the
local Indians became upset about the remains.
4. A giant skull and
vertebrae found in Wisconsin and Kansas City.
5. A giant found off
the California Coast on Santa Rosa Island in the 1800s was
distinguished by its
double rows of teeth.
6. A 9-foot, 8-inch
skeleton was excavated from a mount near Brewersville, Indiana, in
1879.
7. Skeletons of
"enormous dimensions" were found in mounds near Zanesville, Ohio, and
Warren, Minnesota, in
the 1880s.
8. In Clearwater
Minnesota, the skeletons of seven giants were found in mounds. These had
receding foreheads
and complete double dentition.
9. At Le Crescent,
Wisconsin, mounds were found to contain giant bones. Five miles north
near Dresbach, the
bones of people over 8 feet tall were found.
10. In 1888 seven
skeletons ranging from seven to 8 feet tall were
discovered.
11. Near Toledo, Ohio,
20 skeletons were discovered with jaws and teeth "twice as large as
those of present day
people." The account also noted that odd hieroglyphics were found
with the bodies.
12. Miners in
Lovelock Cave, California, discovered a very tall, red-haired mummy In 1911
13. This mummy
eventually went to a fraternal lodge where it was used for "initiation
purposes."
14. In 1931,
skeletons from 8 ½ to 10 feet long were found in the Humbolt lake bed in
California.
15. In 1932, Ellis
Wright found human tracks in the gypsum rock at White Sands, New
Mexico. His discovery
was later backed up by Fred Arthur, Supervisor of the Lincoln
National Park and
others who reported that each footprint was 22 inches long and from 8 to
10 inches wide. They
were certain the prints were human in origin due to the outline of the
perfect prints
coupled with a readily apparent instep.
16. During World War
II, author Ivan T. Sanderson tells of how his crew was bulldozing
through sedimentary
rock when it stumbled upon what appeared to be a graveyard. In it
were crania that
measured from 22 to 24 inches from base to crown nearly three times as
large as an adult
human skull. Had the creatures to whom these skulls belonged been
properly proportioned,
they undoubtedly would have been at least 12 feet tall or taller.
17. In 1947 a local
newspaper reported the discovery of nine-foot-tall
skeletons by amateur
archeologists working in Death Valley.
18. The archeologists
involved also claimed to have found what appeared to be the bones of
tigers and dinosaurs
with the human remains.
19. The Catalina
Islands, off California, are the home of dwarf mammoth bones that were
once roasted in
ancient fire pits. These were roasted and eaten by human-like creatures who
were giants with
double rows of teeth.
THE KOSSUTH GIANTS:
Kossuth: October was
a month of some excitement in scientific circles as seven strange and
gigantic mummies were
discovered just outside of Kossuth Center. Marvin Rainwater, a
local farmer, had
been digging a new well on his property and struck a deposit of very hard
stone about nine feet
below the topsoil. In attempting to dig it out, he found that it was more
than four feet wide
in every direction. Removing it would be a terrific chore. He considered
the possibility that
this was a layer of bedrock, but that would certainly be odd that close to
the surface. Further,
being somewhat familiar with geologic deposits, he knew that the stone
was not the familiar
limestone for which such Eastern Iowa areas like Stone City are
famous. This
was something else
entirely. Upon close inspection Rainwater also saw that the stone was
not as rough as might
be expected in a natural formation, but was in fact smooth and
polished. Now very
curious as to the nature of the find, he called several friends from
surrounding farms and
they began an excavation. They discovered that it was not a single
stone, but rather one
of at least several irregularly cut slabs stretching out over a wide area,
yet fitted so tightly
together that not even a knife blade could be put between them. Each
slab measured roughly
8'x10', and when struck with a
sledge seemed to ring
with a hollowness that might indicate this was not a floor but the
outside portion of a
ceiling. Rainwater wondered if he had not stumbled upon some sort of
buried stone
structure on his property. Believing that there might be a way to parlay living
other than farming if
he played his cards right, Mr. Rainwater contacted Georg Von
Podebrad College, who
in turn dispatched a team of archeologists, anthropologists, and
geologists to the
site. The researchers were delighted with the anomalies presented them.
Firstly, the stone
was not at all native to Iowa, but was in fact basalt-a
hard, dense volcanic
rock composed of plagioclase, augite, and magnetite. The type of stone
used by the Egyptians
to build their massive monuments. The depth of the slabs indicated
that they had been
there for a very long time, predating the advent of the kind of modern
transportation and
heavy machinery needed to bring such a large quantity of foreign stone
to Iowa, and quite
probably the slabs had been laid down before the last glacial age.
It is impossible to
gauge with any certainty just how long they had been there. After the soil
covering the slabs
had been entirely removed, the area covered by the stones was a perfect
square measuring 188
feet on each side. Digging around the perimeter revealed that
Rainwater had been
correct, the structure did go deeper into the ground. The cyclopean
structure was
revealed to be a pyramid similar in shape to one located at Marietta, Ohio,
although those mounds
and monuments erected by the prehistoric Indians were made of
sun dried brick mixed
with rushes. This technique, too, is curiously similar to the Egyptian
technique of brick
making with straw and mud. It took many months, but the entire
structure was finally
exposed, and on the eastern side was found a massive filled in archway
with strong
resemblance to those of ancient Greece. At the bottom of the arch was a smaller
arch, measuring only
6' to the capstone. This too had been filled in and blocked off. With
genuine awe and some
hesitancy the scientists of the Rainwater
Site began the work
of opening the smaller entryway, wondering what light from the first
torch penetrated the
gloom of the ancient structure, Albert Grosslockner gasped at what he
thought were seven
huge and exquisitely detailed statues seated in a ring around a very
large and deep fire
pit. Moving closer, he realized that the figures were not carved of stone,
but were in fact the
mummified remains of some giant humanoid race.
Could what they found
be in fact a prehistoric burial vault for some pre-human creatures
or was it a prison
designed to hold some freakish aberration of nature? The figures, were
each fully ten feet
tall even when measured seated in their cross-legged positions. They all
faced into the circle
with arms folded across their legs. Upon close examination it was seen
that they had double
rows of teeth in their upper and lower jaws. The foreheads were
unusually low and
sloping, with exceedingly prominent brows. The skin of the
mysterious giants was
wrinkled and tough, as though tanned, and the hair of each of them
was distinctly red in
color. Their faces, still very expressive even in death, taunted the
scientists with their
silence. Who, or what, were these creatures, how had they come to be
locked in this stone
room, and where had the stone itself come from originally? After
careful excavation of
the site, the bodies were removed for x-ray and autopsy examination.
The excitement over
the find was far in excess of the "Gypsum Man" find in Iowa so many
years before-a hoax
from which the Putnam Museum of Davenport had never fully
recovered from. These
giants were very real. The medical examinations demonstrated that
there was definite
skeletal structure, that they were organic creatures who had once been
very much alive.
One explanation for
the mummies might lie in the legends of the Paiute Indians who tell of a
race of red-haired
giants who were their mortal enemies centuries ago. They were called the
Si-Te-Cahs, driven
from Nevada by a previously unheard of alliance of tribes. Did the Si-
Te-Cahs retreat from
the west to Iowa? Was the stone structure here before and simply coopted
by the giants? No one
may ever know, however it is interesting to note that among the
Indian relics held in
the Kossuth County chapter of the State Historical Society are three
robes made entirely
from very long strands of red hair. We await DNA comparisons of
samples taken from
the mummies and the
robes to determine a
connection. In the mean-time, Marvin Rainwater has had his farm
purchased by
interested parties in Hopkins Grove for an undisclosed sum, and is quite
happily no longer
toiling in his fields or digging wells.
GIANT SKULLS FOUND:
Ivan T. Sanderson, a
well-known zoologist and frequent guest on Johnny Carson's
TONIGHT SHOW in the
1960s (usually with an exotic animal with a pangolin or a lemur),
once related a
curious story about a letter he received regarding an engineer who was
stationed on the
Aleutian island of Shemya during World War II. While building an
airstrip, his crew
bulldozed a group of hills and discovered under several sedimentary
layers what appeared
to be human remains. The Alaskan mound was in fact a graveyard of
gigantic human
remains, consisting of crania and long leg bones. The crania measured
from 22 to 24 inches
from base to crown. Since an adult skull normally measures about
eight inches from
back to front, such a large crania would imply an immense size for a
normally proportioned
human. Furthermore, every skull was said to have been neatly
trepanned (a process
of cutting a hole in the upper portion of the skull).
In fact, the habit of
flattening the skull of an infant and forcing it to
grow in an elongated
shape was a practice used by ancient Peruvians, the Mayas, and the
Flathead Indians of
Montana. Sanderson tried to gather further proof, eventually receiving
a letter from another
member of the unit who confirmed the report. The letters both
indicated that the
Smithsonian Institution had collected the remains, yet nothing else was
heard. Sanderson
seemed convinced that the Smithsonian Institution had received the
bizarre
relics, but wondered
why they would not release the data. He asks, ""...is it that these
people cannot face
rewriting all the textbooks?""
GIANT FOOTPRINTS:
In South Africa, a
giant footprint of a woman measuring over 4 feet long has been carbon
dated at
approximately 9 million years old. Pointing to the probability of this being a
female
human-like species'
foot, proportionally the two-legged being would need to be some 30 feet
tall! The local
African people commonly refer to this as a highly revered and sacred site.
Giants, twice the
size of gorillas, were found in Java.
The petrified remains
of a giant were found in South Africa. A well-known anthropologist
declared that these
remains showed that these man's ancestors must have been giants.
GIANT DEVILS:
Within an ancient
burial mound near the town of Sayre in Bradford County, Pennsylvania,
skeletons measuring
approximately 7 feet in length were discovered in the 1800s. But the
most remarkable
feature of these tall skeletons was not their height, but the strange hornlike
protrusions above the
brow region on their skulls. It was estimated that they were
buried around 1200
AD. According to some sources, the skeletons were sent to the
"American
Investigating Museum" in Philadelphia, and vanished.
REVISED ARTICLES:
In Lampec-Rancho
California, in 1833, soldiers discovered a skeleton 11' 9'' long which was
covered with boulders
with an unidentified writing. A similar writing was unearthed on the
isle of Santa Maria
off the cost of Los Angeles. In July of 1887 in Eureka Nevada, a human
leg was found
measuring 38.9 inches form the knee to the heel. The man was over 11 foot
tall. In Crittenton
Arizona in 1891 a sarcophagus was uncovered containing a human 3
meters high and had
12 toes. More recently skeletons ranging from 2.8 meters to 3.12
meters were found by
soviets in the Caucasus Mountains. In China
skeletons 10 feet
tall have been found. In the Philippines a giant human skeleton was found
at gargation,
Measuring 17 feet long. In the Eagle three Cole mine at Bear Creek Montana
in 1920 two human
molars were found three times larger than normal. In Braton Tennessee
human footprints were
found in solid rock 33 inches log and one foot wide. These also have
six toes each.
Tools found in
Morocco are so large their users must have been at least 12 foot tall. Other
Giants found around
the world are: the Java giant, the south China giant, and the South
Africa giant. (See
The Timeless Earth p. 26)
In 1833,soldiers
digging a pit for a powder magazine at Lompock
Rancho, California,
hacked their way through a layer of cemented gravel and came up with
the skeleton of a
giant man about twelve feet tall. The skeleton was surrounded by carved
shells, huge stone
axes, and blocks of porphyry covered with unintelligible symbols. The
giant was also
noteworthy in still another respect :He had a double row of teeth, both upper
and lower. When the
natives began to attach some religious significance to the find,
authorities ordered
the skeleton and all the artifacts secretly reburied- and, of course, lost to
the scientific study
they deserved.
This particular
giant, incidentally, bore marked similarity to another, that of a giant man
with double rows of
teeth whose skeletal remains were dug up on Santa Rosa Island, off the
California coast.
Subsequent research has shown that he, or his descendants, feasted on the
small elephants which
once lived on that island and which have vanished like the giants who
ate them, countless
ages ago.
Near Crittenden,
Arizona, in 1891, workmen excavating for a commercial building came
upon a huge stone
sarcophagus eight feet below the surface. The contractor called in expert
help, and the
sarcophagus was opened to reveal a granite mummy case which had once held
the body of a human
being more than twelve feet tall -a human with six toes, according to
the carving of the
case. But the body had been buried so many thousands of years that it
had
long since turned to
dust. Just another silent witness to the truth of
Genesis, which tells
us that there were giants in the earth in those
days, the excavation
of over a dozen skeletons 8 to 12 feet tall, around the world, shocked
archeologists.
These skeletons were
positively human. Some of these skeletal remains are on Maui in lava
caves near Ulupalakua
and Olowalu. An example of this is the "mysterious" disappearance
of more than 50
perfectly kept gigantic antediluvian skeletons (between 10-14 feet tall)
found in a cave in
Arizona.
Earth Giants : over
the years a number of gigantic human skeletons have been unearthed.
The most distinctive
of these were the remains of some American giants found in the 1880s
at Tioga Point, near
Sayre in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, as recounted by Robert
Lyman in Forbidden
Land. Some other examples include the following:
A decayed human
skeleton claimed by eyewitnesses to measure around 3.28 metres (10 feet
9 inches tall), was
unearthed by labourers while ploughing a vineyard in November 1856 in
East Wheeling, now in
West Virginia.
A human skeleton
measuring 3.6 metres (12 foot) tall was unearthed at Lompock Rancho,
California, in 1833 by
soldiers digging in a pit for a powder magazine. The specimen had a
double row of teeth
and was surrounded by numerous stone axes, carved shells and
porphyry blocks with
abstruse symbols associated with it.
Several mummified
remains of red haired humans ranging from 2-2.5 metres (6.5 feet to
over 8 feet) tall
were dug up at Lovelock Cave, (70 miles) north-east of Reno, Nevada, by a
guano mining
operation. These bones substantiated legends by the local Piute Indians
regarding giants
which they called Si-Te-Cahs. For some reason scientists did not seem to
want to investigate
these finds further so many of the bones were lost. Fortunately one of
the giant Lovelock
skulls is still preserved today. It measures almost 30cm (1 foot) tall and
resides along with other
various Lovelock artifacts in the Humboldt Museum in
Winnemucca, Nevada.
Some of these artifacts can also be found in the Nevada State
Historical Society's
museum at Reno.
Cascade Tunnels With
Ancient Giant Beings
“According to Fortean
researcher Pippa Braybrook, bones of strange giant beings were uncovered in
1904
by J.C. Brown in the
slopes of the Cascade Mountains. These Mountains run from Northern California
to
British Colombia,.
The bones were uncovered in an ancient tunnel cut into solid rock, “lined with
tempered
copper and hung with
shields and wall pieces made of gold.” Other rooms deeper in the tunnel
contained
similar objects, some
carved with drawings and hieroglyphics.
We are told that
Brown left this treasure go unclaimed for 30 years. In 1934 he attempted to
recover these
ancient works.
Friends claim that when they last saw him he was ascending into this area with
supplies
enough to last him
for a month. He was never seen again.” (Subterranean Worlds p. 70, By Timothy
Green
Beckley, 1992,Inner
Light Publicationa Box 753 New Bunswick, N.J. )
THE HUBBARD
DISCOVERY:
In this magazine for
September, 1923, we mentioned a reported discovery by Mr. Samuel
Hubbard, of remains
of giants in the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Owing to press
unreliability, we did
not notice this to a great extent. We have now, however, obtained more
knowledge on the
subject, and there remains no doubt that Mr. Hubbard has actually made
a discovery composed
of the following parts:
(a) Petrified bodies
of two human beings about 18 and 15 feet in height respectively. One of
these is buried under
a recent rock fall which would require several days' work to remove;
the other, of which
Mr. Hubbard took photographs, is in a crevice of difficult accessibility.
The bodies are formed
of a limestone petrification embedded in sandstone.
(b) An ancient beach,
now sandstone, containing a great number of footprints of a giant
race, men, women and
children; the prints of adults about 17 to 20 inches in length, and
corresponding in size
and shape to the Carson City and Blue Ridge prints.
EVEN MORE GIANT
RECORDS:
According to a press
clipping, dated Nayarit, Mexico, May 14, 1926, Capts. D. W. Page and
F. W. Devalda
discovered the bones of a race of giants who averaged over ten feet in height.
Local legends state
that they came from Ecuador. Nothing more has been heard of this, but
that is not
surprising; the word "giant" will flutter the feathers of any
scientist into rapid
flight,
metaphorically speaking, in the opposite direction. So also with a report from
the
Washington Post, June
22, 1925, and the New York Herald-Tribune, June 21, 1925. A
mining party, it is
reported, found skeletons measuring 10 to 12 feet, with feet 18 to 20
inches long, near
Sisoguiche, Mexico. The Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1927, says that
explorers in Mexico
located large human bones near Tapextla, indicating a race of "gigantic
size." All this,
if unfounded, would be straining
coincidence or
imagination pretty far.
Press accounts say
that the skeleton of a gigantic man, with head missing, has been
unearthed at El
Boquin, on the Mico River, in the Chontales district. The ribs are a yard
long and four inches
wide and the shin bone is too heavy for one man to carry. "Chontales"
is an Indian word,
meaning "wild men."
In the late 1950's
during road construction in Homs southeast Turkey, many tombs of
Giants were indeed
unearthed. These tombs were 4 meters long, and when entered in 2
cases the human thigh
bones were measured to be 47.24 inches in length. They calculated
that the person who
owned this Femur probably stood at fourteen to sixteen feet tall. A cast
of this bone is seen
at the Creationist museum in Texas.
Flavius Josephus, the
noted Jewish historian of the first century A.D.,
described the giants
as having "bodies so large and countenances so entirely different from
other men that they
were surprising to the sight and terrible to the hearing." And he adds
that in his day, the
bones of the giants were still on display!
Giant
Human Remains
-
From records and sources all over the world. -submitted by John
Williams
Giant
Skeletons:
In
his book, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, author
John
Haywood describes "very large" bones in stone graves found in
Williamson
County, Tennessee, in 1821. In White County, Tennessee, an
"ancient
fortification" contained skeletons of gigantic stature averaging at
least
7 feet in length.
Giant
skeletons were found in the mid-1800s near Rutland and Rodman,
New
York. J.N. DeHart, M.D. found vertebrae "larger than those of the
present
type" in Wisconsin mounds in 1876. W.H.R. Lykins uncovered
skull
bones "of great size and thickness" in mounds of Kansas City area in
1877.
George
W. Hill, M.D., dug out a skeleton "of unusual size" in a mound of
Ashland
County, Ohio. In 1879, a nine-foot, eight-inch skeleton was
excavated
from a mound near Brewersville, Indiana (Indianapolis News,
Nov
10, 1975).
A
six foot, six inch skeleton was found in a Utah mound. This was at least a
foot
taller than the average Indian height in the area, and these nativeswhat
few
there were of them -were not mound builders.
"A
skeleton which is reported to have been of enormous dimensions" was
found
in a clay coffin, with a sandstone slab containing hieroglyphics,
during
mound explorations by a Dr Everhart near Zanesville, Ohio.
(American
Antiquarian, v3, 1880, pg61).
Ten
skeletons "of both sexes and of gigantic size" were taken from a
mound
at Warren, Minnesota, 1883. (St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 23, 1883)
A
skeleton 7 feet 6 inches long was found in a massive stone structure that
was
likened to a temple chamber within a mound in Kanawha County,
West
Virginia, in 1884. (American Antiquarian, v6, 1884 133f. Cyrus
Thomas,
Report on Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology, 12th
Annual
Report, Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-91).
A
large mound near Gasterville, Pennsylvania, contained a vault in which
was
found a skeleton measuring 7 feet 2 inches. Inscriptions were carved
on
the vault. (American Antiquarian, v7, 1885, 52f).
In
1885, miners discovered the mummified remains of woman measuring 6
feet
8 inches tall holding an infant. The mummies were found in a cave
behind
a wall of rock in the Yosemite Valley.
In
Minnesota, 1888, were discovered remains of seven skeletons 7 to 8 feet
tall.
(St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 29, 1888).
A
mound near Toledo, Ohio, held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with
jaws
and teeth "twice as large as those of present day people," and
besides
each
was a large bowl with "curiously wrought hieroglyphic figures."
(Chicago
Record, Oct. 24, 1895; cited by Ron G. Dobbins, NEARA
Journal,
v13, fall 1978).
The
skeleton of a huge man was uncovered at the Beckley farm, Lake
Koronis,
Minnesota; while at Moose Island and Pine City, bones of other
giants
came to light. (St. Paul Globe, Aug. 12, 1896).
In
1911, several red-haired mummies ranging from 6 and a half feet to 8
feet
tall were discovered in a cave in Lovelock, Nevada. In February and
June
of 1931, large skeletons were found in the Humboldt lake bed near
Lovelock,
Nevada. The first of these two skeletons found
measured
8 1/2 feet tall and appeared to have been wrapped in a gumcovered
fabric
similiar to the Egyptian manner. The second skeleton was
almost
10 feet long. (Review - Miner, June 19, 1931).
A
7 foot 7 inch skeleton was reported to have been found on the Friedman
ranch,
near Lovelock, Nevada, in 1939.(Review - Miner, Sept. 29, 1939) In
1965,
a skeleton measuring 8 feet 9 inches was found buried under a rock
ledge
along the Holly Creek in east-central Kentucky.
AUSTRALIAN
GIANTS:
There
was a race or group of people found in Australia called
"meganthropus"
by anthropologists. These people were of very large size--
estimated
between 7 to 12 feet tall, depending on what source you read.
These
people were found with mega tool artifacts, so their humaness is
difficult
to question. Four jaw fragments and thousands of teeth have been
found
in China of "gigantopithecus blacki"--named after the discover.
Based
on the size of the teeth and deep jaws, its size has been estimated at
around
10 feet and as tall as 12 feet, 1200 pounds.
PROOF
OF AUSTRALIAN GIANTS:
In
old river gravels near Bathurst, NSW, huge stone artifacts -- clubs,
pounders,
adzes, chisels, knives and hand axes -- all of tremendous weight,
lie
scattered over a wide area. These weigh anything from 8, 10, 15, to 21
and
25 pounds, implements which only men of tremendous proportions
could
possibly have made and used. Estimates for the actual size of these
men
range from 10 to 12 feet tall and over, weighing from 500 to 600 lbs. A
fossicker
searching the Winburndale River north of Bathurst discovered a
large
quartzitised fossil human molar tooth, far too big for any normal
modern
man. A similar find was made near Dubbo, N.S.W.
Prospectors
working in the Bathurst district in the 1930's frequently
reported
coming across numerous large human footprints fossilised in
shoals
of red jasper.
Even
more impressive were fossil deposits found by naturalist Rex Gilroy
around
Bathurst. He excavated from a depth of 6 feet (2 m) below the
surface
a fossil lower back molar tooth measuring 67 mm. in length by
50mm.
x 42 mm. across the crown. If his measurements are correct, the
owner
would have been at least 25 ft. tall, weighing well over 1,000 lbs!
At
Gympie, Queensland, a farmer, Keith Walker, was ploughing his field
when
he turned up the large fragment of the back portion of a jaw which
still
possessed the hollow for a missing lower back molar tooth. This is now
in
Rex GiIroy's possession. The owner of the tooth would have stood at 10
feet
tall.
In
the Megalong Valley in the Blue Mountains NSW, a Mr P. Holman
found
in ironstone protruding from a creek bank the deeply impressed
print
of a large human-like foot. The print was that of the instep, with all 5
toes
clearly shown. This footprint measures 7 inches across the toes. Had
the
footprint been complete it would have been at least 2 feet (60 cm in
length,
appropriate to a 12 foot human. However, the largest footprint
found
on the Blue Mountains must have belonged to a man 20 feet tall!
A
set of 3 huge footprints was discovered near Mulgoa, south of Penrith,
N.S.W.
These prints, each measuring 2 ft long and 7 inches across the toes,
are
6 ft. apart, indicating the stride of the 12 ft. giant who left them. These
prints
were preserved by volcanic lava and ash flows which "occurred
millions
of years" before man is supposed to have appeared on the
Australian
continent (if one is to believe the evolutionary theory): Noel
Reeves
found monstrous footprints near Kempsey, N.S.W. in sandstone
beds
on the Upper Macleay River. One print shows toe 4 inches (10cm)
long
and the total toe-span is 10 inches (25cm) - suggesting that the owner
of
the print may have been 17 feet tall.
It
is certain the Aborigines were not the first to reach Australia.
Anthropologists
maintain mainland Aborigines are in fact quite recent
arrivals
that ate their predecessors who were akin to the New Guinea
natives.
Aborigine themselves admit in their ancient folklore that this land
was
inhabited by several groups of men, as well as giants, before they
settled
here.
MORE
GIANT RECORDS:
In
an old book entitled "History And Antiquities Of Allerdale," there is
an
account
of a giant found in Cumberland, England, at an unknown date in
the
middle ages. Called "A True Report of Hugh Hodson, of Thorneway,"
it
states: "The said gyant was buried four yards deep in the ground, which
is
now a corn field. He was four yards and a half long, and was in complete
armor;
his sword and battle-axe lying by him....his teeth were six inches
long,
and two inches broad...." The bones of a twelve foot tall man were
dug
up in 1833 by a group of soldiers at Lompock Rancho, California. The
skeleton
was
surrounded
by giant weapons, and the skull featured a double row of
teeth.
Yet another giant was unearthed in 1891, when workmen in
Crittenden,
Arizona excavated a huge stone coffin that had evidently once
held
the body of a man 12 feet tall. A carving on the granite case indicated
that
he had six toes.
A
living giant was sighted in the little village of Buffalo Mills,
Pennsylvania,
on August 19, 1973. A man at least nine feet tall strode down
the
main street of the village, dressed in strange clothing, which appeared
to
be made of some sort of shimmering material. He gazed at the startled
townspeople
in a dark, penetrating way and then loped off casually into
oblivion.
OTHER
GIANT EVIDENCES:
In
July, 1877, four prospectors were looking for gold and silver
outcroppings
in a desolate, hilly area near the head of Spring Valley, not
far
from Eureka, Nevada.
Scanning
the rocks, one of the men spotted something peculiar projecting
from
a high ledge. Climbing up to get a better look, the prospector was
surprised
to find a human leg bone and knee cap sticking out of solid rock.
He
called to his companions, and together they dislodged the oddity with
picks.
Realizing they had a most unusual find, the men brought it into
Eureka,
where it was placed on display.
The
stone in which the bones were embedded was a hard, dark red
quartzite,
and the bones themselves were almost black with carbonization -
indicative
of great age. When the surrounding stone was carefully chipped
away,
the specimen was found to be composed of a leg bone broken off
four
inches above the knee, the knee cap and joint, the lower leg bones,
and
the complete bones of the foot. Several medical doctors examined the
remains,
and were
convinced
that anatomically they had indeed once belonged to a human
being,
and a very modern-looking one.
But
an intriguing aspect of the bones was their size: from knee to heel they
measured
39 inches. Their owner in life had thus stood over 12 feet tall.
Compounding
the mystery further was the fact that the rock in which the
bones
were found was dated geologically to the era of the dinosaurs, the
Jurassic
- over 185 million years old. The local papers ran several stories
on
the marvelous find, and two museums sent investigators to see if any
more
of the skeleton could be located. Unfortunately, nothing else but the
leg
and foot existed in the rock." Strange Relics from the Depths of the
Earth--Jochmans
http://www.ior.com/~kjc/pages/strange.htm
EVEN
MORE RECORDS OF GIANTS:
In
1936 Larson Kohl, the German paleontologist and anthropologist,
found
the bones of gigantic men on the shore of Lake Elyasi in Central
Africa.
Other giant skeletons were later found in Hava, the Transvaal and
China.
The evidence for the existence of giants is incontrovertible. "A
scientifically
assured fact," says Dr. Louis Burkhalter.
1.
Large bones in stone graves in Williamson County and White County,
Tennessee.
Discovered in the early 1800s, the average stature of these
giants
was 7 feet tall.
2.
Giant skeletons found in the mid-1800s in New York state near Rutland
and
Rodman.
3.
In 1833, soldiers digging at Lompock Rancho, California, discovered a
male
skeleton 12 feet tall. The skeleton was surrounded by caved shells,
stone
axes, other artifacts. The skeleton had double rows of upper and
lower
teeth. Unfortunately, this body was secretly buried because the local
Indians
became upset about the remains.
4.
A giant skull and vertebrae found in Wisconsin and Kansas City.
5.
A giant found off the California Coast on Santa Rosa Island in the 1800s
was
distinguished by its double rows of teeth.
6.
A 9-foot, 8-inch skeleton was excavated from a mount near Brewersville,
Indiana,
in 1879.
7.
Skeletons of "enormous dimensions" were found in mounds near
Zanesville,
Ohio, and Warren, Minnesota, in the 1880s.
8.
In Clearwater Minnesota, the skeletons of seven giants were found in
mounds.
These had receding foreheads and complete double dentition.
9.
At Le Crescent, Wisconsin, mounds were found to contain giant bones.
Five
miles north near Dresbach, the bones of people over 8 feet tall were
found.
10.
In 1888 seven skeletons ranging from seven to 8 feet tall were
discovered.
11.
Near Toledo, Ohio, 20 skeletons were discovered with jaws and teeth
"twice
as large as those of present day people." The account also noted
that
odd hieroglyphics were found with the bodies.
12.
Miners in Lovelock Cave, California, discovered a very tall, red-haired
mummy
In 1911
13.
This mummy eventually went to a fraternal lodge where it was used for
"initiation
purposes."
14.
In 1931, skeletons from 8 ½ to 10 feet long were found in the Humbolt
lake
bed in California.
15.
In 1932, Ellis Wright found human tracks in the gypsum rock at White
Sands,
New Mexico. His discovery was later backed up by Fred Arthur,
Supervisor
of the Lincoln National Park and others who reported that
each
footprint was 22 inches long and from 8 to 10 inches wide. They were
certain
the prints were human in origin due to the outline of the perfect
prints
coupled with a readily apparent instep.
16.
During World War II, author Ivan T. Sanderson tells of how his crew
was
bulldozing through sedimentary rock when it stumbled upon what
appeared
to be a graveyard. In it were crania that measured from 22 to 24
inches
from base to crown nearly three times as large as an adult human
skull.
Had the creatures to whom these skulls belonged been properly
proportioned,
they undoubtedly would have been at least 12 feet tall or
taller.
17.
In 1947 a local newspaper reported the discovery of nine-foot-tall
skeletons
by amateur archeologists working in Death Valley.
18.
The archeologists involved also claimed to have found what appeared
to
be the bones of tigers and dinosaurs with the human remains.
19.
The Catalina Islands, off California, are the home of dwarf mammoth
bones
that were once roasted in ancient fire pits. These were roasted and
eaten
by human-like creatures who were giants with double rows of teeth.
THE
KOSSUTH GIANTS:
Kossuth:
October was a month of some excitement in scientific circles as
seven
strange and gigantic mummies were discovered just outside of
Kossuth
Center. Marvin Rainwater, a local farmer, had been digging a
new
well on his property and struck a deposit of very hard stone about
nine
feet below the topsoil. In attempting to dig it out, he found that it was
more
than four feet wide in every direction. Removing it would be a
terrific
chore. He considered the possibility that this was a layer of
bedrock,
but that would certainly be odd that close to the surface. Further,
being
somewhat familiar with geologic deposits, he knew that the stone was
not
the familiar limestone for which such Eastern Iowa areas like Stone
City
are famous. This
was
something else entirely. Upon close inspection Rainwater also saw that
the
stone was not as rough as might be expected in a natural formation,
but
was in fact smooth and polished. Now very curious as to the nature of
the
find, he called several friends from surrounding farms and they began
an
excavation. They discovered that it was not a single stone, but rather
one
of at least several irregularly cut slabs stretching out over a wide area,
yet
fitted so tightly together that not even a knife blade could be put
between
them. Each slab measured roughly 8'x10', and when struck with a
sledge
seemed to ring with a hollowness that might indicate this was not a
floor
but the outside portion of a ceiling. Rainwater wondered if he had not
stumbled
upon some sort of buried stone structure on his property.
Believing
that there might be a way to parlay living other than farming if
he
played his cards right, Mr. Rainwater contacted Georg Von Podebrad
College,
who in turn dispatched a team of archeologists, anthropologists,
and
geologists to the site. The researchers were delighted with the
anomalies
presented them.
Firstly,
the stone was not at all native to Iowa, but was in fact basalt-a
hard,
dense volcanic rock composed of plagioclase, augite, and magnetite.
The
type of stone used by the Egyptians to build their massive monuments.
The
depth of the slabs indicated that they had been there for a very long
time,
predating the advent of the kind of modern transportation and heavy
machinery
needed to bring such a large quantity of foreign stone to Iowa,
and
quite probably the slabs had been laid down before the last glacial
age.
It
is impossible to gauge with any certainty just how long they had been
there.
After the soil covering the slabs had been entirely removed, the area
covered
by the stones was a perfect square measuring 188 feet on each
side.
Digging around the perimeter revealed that Rainwater had been
correct,
the structure did go deeper into the ground. The cyclopean
structure
was revealed to be a pyramid similar in shape to one located at
Marietta,
Ohio, although those mounds and monuments erected by the
prehistoric
Indians were made of sun dried brick mixed with rushes. This
technique,
too, is curiously similar to the Egyptian technique of brick
making
with straw and mud. It took many months, but the entire
structure
was finally exposed, and on the eastern side was found a massive
filled
in archway with strong resemblance to those of ancient Greece. At
the
bottom of the arch was a smaller arch, measuring only 6' to the
capstone.
This too had been filled in and blocked off. With genuine awe
and
some hesitancy the scientists of the Rainwater
Site
began the work of opening the smaller entryway, wondering what
light
from the first torch penetrated the gloom of the ancient structure,
Albert
Grosslockner gasped at what he thought were seven huge and
exquisitely
detailed statues seated in a ring around a very large and deep
fire
pit. Moving closer, he realized that the figures were not carved of
stone,
but were in fact the mummified remains of some giant humanoid
race.
Could
what they found be in fact a prehistoric burial vault for some prehuman
creatures
or was it a prison designed to hold some freakish
aberration
of nature? The figures, were each fully ten feet tall even when
measured
seated in their cross-legged positions. They all faced into the
circle
with arms folded across their legs. Upon close examination it was
seen
that they had double rows of teeth in their upper and lower jaws. The
foreheads
were unusually low and sloping, with exceedingly prominent
brows.
The skin of the
mysterious
giants was wrinkled and tough, as though tanned, and the hair
of
each of them was distinctly red in color. Their faces, still very expressive
even
in death, taunted the scientists with their silence. Who, or what, were
these
creatures, how had they come to be locked in this stone room, and
where
had the stone itself come from originally? After careful excavation
of
the site, the bodies were removed for x-ray and autopsy examination.
The
excitement over the find was far in excess of the "Gypsum Man" find
in
Iowa so many years before-a hoax from which the Putnam Museum of
Davenport
had never fully recovered from. These giants were very real.
The
medical examinations demonstrated that there was definite skeletal
structure,
that they were organic creatures who had once been very much
alive.
One
explanation for the mummies might lie in the legends of the Paiute
Indians
who tell of a race of red-haired giants who were their mortal
enemies
centuries ago. They were called the Si-Te-Cahs, driven from
Nevada
by a previously unheard of alliance of tribes. Did the Si-Te-Cahs
retreat
from the west to Iowa? Was the stone structure here before and
simply
co-opted by the giants? No one may ever know, however it is
interesting
to note that among the Indian relics held in the Kossuth County
chapter
of the State Historical Society are three robes made entirely from
very
long strands of red hair. We await DNA comparisons of samples
taken
from the mummies and the
robes
to determine a connection. In the mean-time, Marvin Rainwater has
had
his farm purchased by interested parties in Hopkins Grove for an
undisclosed
sum, and is quite happily no longer toiling in his fields or
digging
wells.
GIANT
SKULLS FOUND:
Ivan
T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist and frequent guest on Johnny
Carson's
TONIGHT SHOW in the 1960s (usually with an exotic animal
with
a pangolin or a lemur), once related a curious story about a letter he
received
regarding an engineer who was stationed on the Aleutian island of
Shemya
during World War II. While building an airstrip, his crew
bulldozed
a group of hills and discovered under several sedimentary layers
what
appeared to be human remains. The Alaskan mound was in fact a
graveyard
of gigantic human remains, consisting of crania and long leg
bones.
The crania measured
from
22 to 24 inches from base to crown. Since an adult skull normally
measures
about eight inches from back to front, such a large crania would
imply
an immense size for a normally proportioned human. Furthermore,
every
skull was said to have been neatly trepanned (a process of cutting a
hole
in the upper portion of the skull).
In
fact, the habit of flattening the skull of an infant and forcing it to
grow
in an elongated shape was a practice used by ancient Peruvians, the
Mayas,
and the Flathead Indians of Montana. Sanderson tried to gather
further
proof, eventually receiving a letter from another member of the
unit
who confirmed the report. The letters both indicated that the
Smithsonian
Institution had collected the remains, yet nothing else was
heard.
Sanderson seemed convinced that the Smithsonian Institution had
received
the bizarre
relics,
but wondered why they would not release the data. He asks, ""...is it
that
these people cannot face rewriting all the textbooks?""
GIANT
FOOTPRINTS:
In
South Africa, a giant footprint of a woman measuring over 4 feet long
has
been carbon dated at approximately 9 million years old. Pointing to
the
probability of this being a female human-like species' foot,
proportionally
the two-legged being would need to be some 30 feet tall!
The
local African people commonly refer to this as a highly revered and
sacred
site. Giants, twice the size of gorillas, were found in Java.
The
petrified remains of a giant were found in South Africa. A well-known
anthropologist
declared that these remains showed that these man's
ancestors
must have been giants.
GIANT
DEVILS:
Within
an ancient burial mound near the town of Sayre in Bradford
County,
Pennsylvania, skeletons measuring approximately 7 feet in length
were
discovered in the 1800s. But the most remarkable feature of these tall
skeletons
was not their height, but the strange horn-like protrusions above
the
brow region on their skulls. It was estimated that they were buried
around
1200 AD. According to some sources, the skeletons were sent to the
"American
Investigating Museum" in Philadelphia, and vanished.
REVISED
ARTICLES:
In
Lampec-Rancho California, in 1833, soldiers discovered a skeleton 11'
9''
long which was covered with boulders with an unidentified writing. A
similar
writing was unearthed on the isle of Santa Maria off the cost of Los
Angeles.
In July of 1887 in Eureka Nevada, a human leg was found
measuring
38.9 inches form the knee to the heel. The man was over 11 foot
tall.
In Crittenton Arizona in 1891 a sarcophagus was uncovered
containing
a human 3 meters high and had 12 toes. More recently
skeletons
ranging from 2.8 meters to 3.12 meters were found by soviets in
the
Caucasus Mountains. In China
skeletons
10 feet tall have been found. In the Philippines a giant human
skeleton
was found at gargation, Measuring 17 feet long. In the Eagle three
Cole
mine at Bear Creek Montana in 1920 two human molars were found
three
times larger than normal. In Braton Tennessee human footprints
were
found in solid rock 33 inches log and one foot wide. These also have
six
toes each.
Tools
found in Morocco are so large their users must have been at least 12
foot
tall. Other Giants found around the world are: the Java giant, the
south
China giant, and the South Africa giant. (See The Timeless Earth p.
26)
In
1833,soldiers digging a pit for a powder magazine at Lompock
Rancho,
California, hacked their way through a layer of cemented gravel
and
came up with the skeleton of a giant man about twelve feet tall. The
skeleton
was surrounded by carved shells, huge stone axes, and blocks of
porphyry
covered with unintelligible symbols. The giant was also
noteworthy
in still another respect :He had a double row of teeth, both
upper
and lower. When the natives began to attach some religious
significance
to the find, authorities ordered the skeleton and all the
artifacts
secretly reburied- and, of course, lost to the scientific study they
deserved.
This
particular giant, incidentally, bore marked similarity to another, that
of
a giant man with double rows of teeth whose skeletal remains were dug
up
on Santa Rosa Island, off the California coast. Subsequent research has
shown
that he, or his descendants, feasted on the small elephants which
once
lived on that island and which have vanished like the giants who ate
them,
countless ages ago.
Near
Crittenden, Arizona, in 1891, workmen excavating for a commercial
building
came upon a huge stone sarcophagus eight feet below the surface.
The
contractor called in expert help, and the sarcophagus was opened to
reveal
a granite mummy case which had once held the body of a human
being
more than twelve feet tall -a human with six toes, according to the
carving
of the case. But the body had been buried so many thousands of
years
that it had
long
since turned to dust. Just another silent witness to the truth of
Genesis,
which tells us that there were giants in the earth in those
days,
the excavation of over a dozen skeletons 8 to 12 feet tall, around the
world,
shocked archeologists.
These
skeletons were positively human. Some of these skeletal remains are
on
Maui in lava caves near Ulupalakua and Olowalu. An example of this is
the
"mysterious" disappearance of more than 50 perfectly kept gigantic
antediluvian
skeletons (between 10-14 feet tall) found in a cave in Arizona.
Earth
Giants : over the years a number of gigantic human skeletons have
been
unearthed. The most distinctive of these were the remains of some
American
giants found in the 1880s at Tioga Point, near Sayre in Bradford
County,
Pennsylvania, as recounted by Robert Lyman in Forbidden Land.
Some
other examples include the following:
A
decayed human skeleton claimed by eyewitnesses to measure around
3.28
metres (10 feet 9 inches tall), was unearthed by labourers while
ploughing
a vineyard in November 1856 in East Wheeling, now in West
Virginia.
A
human skeleton measuring 3.6 metres (12 foot) tall was unearthed at
Lompock
Rancho, California, in 1833 by soldiers digging in a pit for a
powder
magazine. The specimen had a double row of teeth and was
surrounded
by numerous stone axes, carved shells and porphyry blocks
with
abstruse symbols associated with it.
Several
mummified remains of red haired humans ranging from 2-2.5
metres
(6.5 feet to over 8 feet) tall were dug up at Lovelock Cave, (70
miles)
north-east of Reno, Nevada, by a guano mining operation. These
bones
substantiated legends by the local Piute Indians regarding giants
which
they called Si-Te-Cahs. For some reason scientists did not seem to
want
to investigate these finds further so many of the bones were lost.
Fortunately
one of the giant Lovelock skulls is still preserved today. It
measures
almost 30cm (1 foot) tall and resides along with other various
Lovelock
artifacts in the Humboldt Museum in Winnemucca, Nevada.
Some
of these artifacts can also be found in the Nevada State Historical
Society's
museum at Reno.
THE
HUBBARD DISCOVERY:
In
this magazine for September, 1923, we mentioned a reported discovery
by
Mr. Samuel Hubbard, of remains of giants in the Grand Canyon of
Arizona.
Owing to press unreliability, we did not notice this to a great
extent.
We have now, however, obtained more knowledge on the subject,
and
there remains no doubt that Mr. Hubbard has actually made a
discovery
composed of the following parts:
(a)
Petrified bodies of two human beings about 18 and 15 feet in height
respectively.
One of these is buried under a recent rock fall which would
require
several days' work to remove; the other, of which Mr. Hubbard
took
photographs, is in a crevice of difficult accessibility. The bodies are
formed
of a limestone petrification embedded in sandstone.
(b)
An ancient beach, now sandstone, containing a great number of
footprints
of a giant race, men, women and children; the prints of adults
about
17 to 20 inches in length, and corresponding in size and shape to the
Carson
City and Blue Ridge prints.
EVEN
MORE GIANT RECORDS:
According
to a press clipping, dated Nayarit, Mexico, May 14, 1926, Capts.
D.
W. Page and F. W. Devalda discovered the bones of a race of giants who
averaged
over ten feet in height. Local legends state that they came from
Ecuador.
Nothing more has been heard of this, but that is not surprising;
the
word "giant" will flutter the feathers of any scientist into rapid
flight,
metaphorically
speaking, in the opposite direction. So also with a report
from
the Washington Post, June 22, 1925, and the New York Herald-
Tribune,
June 21, 1925. A mining party, it is reported, found skeletons
measuring
10 to 12 feet, with feet 18 to 20 inches long, near Sisoguiche,
Mexico.
The Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1927, says that explorers in
Mexico
located large human bones near Tapextla, indicating a race of
"gigantic
size." All this, if unfounded, would be straining
coincidence
or imagination pretty far.
Press
accounts say that the skeleton of a gigantic man, with head missing,
has
been unearthed at El Boquin, on the Mico River, in the Chontales
district.
The ribs are a yard long and four inches wide and the shin bone is
too
heavy for one man to carry. "Chontales" is an Indian word, meaning
"wild
men."
In
the late 1950's during road construction in Homs southeast Turkey,
many
tombs of Giants were indeed unearthed. These tombs were 4 meters
long,
and when entered in 2 cases the human thigh bones were measured
to
be 47.24 inches in length. They calculated that the person who owned
this
Femur probably stood at fourteen to sixteen feet tall. A cast of this
bone
is seen at the Creationist museum in Texas.
Flavius
Josephus, the noted Jewish historian of the first century A.D.,
described
the giants as having "bodies so large and countenances so
entirely
different from other men that they were surprising to the sight
and
terrible to the hearing." And he adds that in his day, the bones of the
giants
were still on display!
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Skeletons Found j
In the late 1950s, along the Euphrates
River valley in southeastern Turkey, a road construction
crew uncovered a tomb containing a human
skeleton, measuring some 15 feet in length.
Consequently, several tombs of giants
were uncovered in the area,
Archeologist Joe Taylor and his grandson
are seen in the photo with a sculpted copy of the femur
bone above. Joe Taylor operates the Mt.
Blanco Fossil Museum, in Crosbyton, Texas
(www.mtbianeo.com).
Taylor also reports on several other finds
recorded in history. In 613, a skeleton was found
near the casde of Chaumont in France,
The giant skeleton was reported to be 25 feet, 6 inches
long. In 1456, a 23-foot skeleton was
found beside a river in Valence, France. In 1577, a human
skeleton was found under an overturned
oak tree in the Canton of Lucerne. It was reported to be
19 feet, six inches long.
But most incredible of all, is the story
of two separate 36-foot human remains found by
Carthaginians somewhere between 200 and
600 B.C.
Joe Taylor And Son With Display of
Giant Leg Bone in his Mt Blanco Fossil
Museum
Giant Bones in a
Mound
Professor A. B. Skinner and Professor
W. X. Morehead of Phillips Andover Academy, and Dr.
George Donohue, Pennsylvania State
Historian, who have been conducting research searching
the valley of the Susquehanna have
uncovered an Indian mound at Tiogan Point on the upper
portion of Queen Esther’s Flats, on what
is known as the Murray farm... In the mound uncovered
were found the bones of sixty-eight men
which are believed to have been buried 700 years ago.
The average height of these men was
twelve feet... Further evidence of their giant size was found
in large celts or axes hewed from stone
and buried in the grave. On some of the skulls, two inches
above the perfectly formed forehead,
were protuberances of bone. Members of the expedition say
that it is the first discovery of its
kind on record and It valuable contribution to the history of the
early races. The skull and a few bones
found in one grave were sent to the American Indian
Museum. (THE NEW YORK TIMES, JULY
14, 1916)
THE SKELETAL REMAINS OF HUMAN
GIANTS UNEARTHED
A famous Ohio mound gives up the
remains of human skeletons, some in good condition, while
most crumbled to dust when exposed to
air. Although the full dimensions of the skeletons were
not given, it is stated that the skulls
themselves were huge or twice the size of contemporary
humans. Also, some of the stone hand
implements used by this race are described as being of
“extremely large size.”
INDIAN MOUND
STRANGE AND IMPROBABLE
SKELETONS
At the center of one of the large Ohio
burial mounds, excavators In 1891 found the
skeleton of a massive man wrapped in
copper armor. On the head was a copper cap, and copper
moldings encased the jaws. The arms were
clad in copper, and so were the chest and stomach.
On either side of the head were wooden
antlers encased in copper, and the mouth cavity was
filed with immense but decayed pearls.
Around the neck was a necklace of bear’s teeth inlaid
with pearls. Beside the skeleton of the
giant lay that of a woman.
The remains were
found at a depth of 14 feet in a mound 500 feet long. 200 feet
wide, and 28 feet
high. (NATURE, 45:157, DECEMBER 17, 1891)
SEVEN SKELETONS FOUND
Seven skeletons were found in a burial
mound near Clearwater, Minnesota, in 1888. They had
double rows of teeth in the upper and
lower jaws and had been buried in a sitting position.
facing the lake. The foreheads were
unusually low and sloping, with prominent brows. (THE
SAINT PAUL AND
MINNEAPOLIS PIONEER PRESS, JULY 1, 1888)
NINE FOOT SKELETON
A skeleton nine feet
eight inches tall was recovered from a stone burial mound at
Brewersville, Indiana,
in 1879. A mica necklace was around the neck, and a crude
human image of burnt
clay embedded with pieces of flint stood at the feet. The mound,
between 3 and 5 feet
high and 71 feet in diameter was excavated by Indiana archaeologists
scientific observers from New York and
Ohio, a local physician, Dr. Charles Green, and the
owner of the property on which the mound
stood, a Mr. Robison.
The bones were kept
by the Robison family in a basket in a nearby grain mill. They
were lost when a
flood swept away the mill in 1937. (THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS,
NOVEMBER 10, 1975)
MORE ON HUMAN GIANTS
OF ANCIENT AMERICA
A reporter alludes to giants being
uncovered from huge animal shaped mounds located 80
miles west of Madison Wisconsin However
the excavations are being carried on by Smithsonian
archaeologists who generally are careful
as to what kinds of information is released to the public.
Hence, the dimensions of the giants, the
likely builders of the aforesaid mounds, were not given
(August 10, 1819 2:3, 4th paragraph).
Extensive study of human remains and artifacts
found in mounds in Georgia and other southern
states leads to an 1846 report that, in
ancient America, powerful giants engaged in a number of
battles. n (THE NEW YORK TIMES. JULY
25, 1879, 2:5,)
SKELETONS WITH HUGE SKULLS
UNCOVERED
Today, 18 skeletons of a “hitherto
Unknown race were found in a
mound at Lake Delavan in southern Wisconsm
The skulls of the skeletons (those which were
presumed to be the males) were unusually
large. The various lengths of the skeletons Uncovered
were not revealed. [THE NEW YORK
TIMES MAY 4, 1912]
OLD SKELETON IS FOUND
PANA, Illinois. June 20--
Workmen digging in a mound on a farm
northwest of here unearthed today a skeleton more than
six feet long, believed to be of a man
of the prehistoric period buried by Indian Mound Builders.
A clay pipe and a vase also were found.
(THE NEW YORK TIMES JUNE 21, 1924- 15:5.)
INDIAN GRAVES YIELD
SHENANDOAH RELICS
Flood waters near Berryville. Virginia
unearth a 7 1/2 foot skeleton of an ancient human. Of
course, when this human, to whom the
bones belonged, was alive in the flesh he would have been
more like 7 feet. 9 inches tall. Also,
this skeleton like some others found in the same area had
generally 2 to 3 times the mass as that
of contemporary humans. The grave where the skeleton
was found was centrally located amongst
other graves, perhaps, testifying to the important
position in society that the owner of
these bones once held.
Another find, much larger than the
first, was on the farm of Felix McManus, near Berryville,
Virginia This is supposed to
be an old Indian cemetery, and the unearthing was done by floods
when the Shenandoah River was unusually
high. Practically the same sort of relics were found,
including a tomahawk. The graves were
grouped around a center one in which the skeleton
measured seven and one-half feet. (THE NEW YORK TIMES, JUNE
81 1924 - VIII, 2:7.)
Compiled by Glen W. Chapman-October 2 004
