9 Foot Ancient Giant Human Unearthed in the Connerville, Indiana
Sunday Vindicator
Sunday, September 12, 1897
NINE FEET TALL
Was This Man Whose Skeletons Was Found In Indiana
Connersville, IND., Sept 11 - While Sexton Charles Rieman was digging a grave in the city cemetery, he came upon the skeleton of a monster of a man, It had been buried in a sitting posture with the face to the east, and was about three feet below the surface. The remains indicate that the being of which this was a veritable giant, probably nine feet in height. The femur bone is about a yard long, and the massive under jaw is much larger than that of an ordinary man. It is supposed that the bones are those of an Indian or Mound Builder
