John Williams has done us a
service by collecting a large number of reports on the existence of
giants. I have previously posted on a
couple such items from the USA
in particular. They were strongly indicative
but inconclusive purely from sample smallness.
This ends that problem.
What we appear to have is race of
giant humanity that is clearly closely related to out own linage. That their head hair is red also is telling. My first conjecture is that this is part of
the Neanderthal linage that was first encountered in Europe
over 40,000 years ago. That really is
the simplest explanation and the perceived variation fits that particular
conjecture.
Additionally we have a pretty
uniform picture of stone based burial practices that is at odds with known
societies in the same locales.
The real problem of course is
that the whole scheme presently remains unaccepted. So the question with all these reports is where
is the hard evidence? There are enough
reports here in hand to allow a proper follow up. If that comes up empty then we will have a
real problem.
Until this proposition is
accepted by academics on the basis of the purported evidence, we have the real
problem of all cases been painfully local and isolated and unable to contribute
to a whole picture.
Thus this assemblage is a great
start in trying to discern the truth of the legend of the giants which
certainly featured in the cultural sources.
Grimm’s fairy tales came from somewhere.
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
Giant skeletons were found in the mid-1800s near
George W. Hill, M.D., dug out a skeleton "of unusual size" in a mound of
excavated from a mound near
A six foot, six inch skeleton was found in a
"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
A large mound near
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
In
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
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,
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
PROOF OF AUSTRALIAN GIANTS:
In old river gravels near
Prospectors working in the
Even more impressive were fossil deposits found by naturalist Rex Gilroy around
At
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
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
It is certain the Aborigines were not the first to reach
Anthropologists maintain mainland Aborigines are in fact quite recent arrivals that ate their predecessors who were akin to the
MORE GIANT RECORDS:
In an old book entitled "History And Antiquities Of Allerdale," there is an account of a giant found in
surrounded by giant weapons, and the skull featured a double row of teeth. Yet another giant was unearthed in 1891, when workmen in
A living giant was sighted in the little village of
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
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
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
EVEN MORE RECORDS OF GIANTS:
In 1936 Larson Kohl, the German paleontologist and anthropologist, found the bones of gigantic men on the
1. Large bones in stone graves in Williamson County and White County,
2. Giant skeletons found in the mid-1800s in
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
5. A giant found off the
6. A 9-foot, 8-inch skeleton was excavated from a mount near
7. Skeletons of "enormous dimensions" were found in mounds near
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
15. In 1932, Ellis Wright found human tracks in the gypsum rock at White Sands,
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
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
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
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 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
GIANT FOOTPRINTS:
In
The petrified remains of a giant were found in
GIANT DEVILS:
Within an ancient burial mound near the town of
REVISED ARTICLES:
In
Tools found in
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
Near
These skeletons were positively human. Some of these skeletal remains are on
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
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
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
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
(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
Press accounts say that the skeleton of a gigantic man, with head missing, has been unearthed at El Boquin, on the
In the late 1950's during road construction in
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!