8 1/2 Foot Primitive Skeleton Discovered at Miamisburg, Ohio Scientist Compare the Skull to Homo Erectus
Montgomery county
The Daily Telegraph, Jan 21, 1899
GIGANTIC BODY RECOVERED
The body of a man, more gigantic than ever recorded in human history, has been unearthed in the Miami Valley, Ohio.
The skeleton it is calculated must have belonged to a man 8 feet 1 1/2 inches in height. It was found within a half-mile of Miamisburg in a locality that contains many relics of the mound builders. Edward W. Gebhart and Edward Kaufman discovered it while they were working in a gravel pit. Kauffman struck the hard substance with his pick and on examining it found it to be a skull. When they unearthed the whole skeleton and finally realized its size they were aghast. The skeleton is of prehistoric age being fossilized. Its gigantic proportions present a puzzling problem to archaeologists.
He is clearly a man and a very well-formed and well-proportioned one as to the limbs. His skull is of an extremely low order, being but a shade higher than that of Pithecanthorpos Erectus found by Dr. Dubois in Java. It is far below that of the most degraded living type. The prehistoric giant must have had a head that differed little from that of a gorilla.
