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Giant Human Skeleton Discovered in New Mexico

Giant Human Skeleton Discovered in New Mexico

Albuquerque Daily Citizen., Albuquerque, N.M. January 27, 1902
The Giant Skeleton
It Will Be removed to Las Veaga, New Mexico
    Don Gregorio Varela and Marcelino Martinez have gone down to El Nuervo.  They will go out to the mesa Rica and endeavor to buy the skeleton of a human giant, which was last week unearthed by Luciano Quintana.
  The giant would pay if brought here.  The Smithsonian people would be proud of a giant of the dimensions of this one. 
A leg is well preserved.  It is eight feet in length. The skeleton will be on exhibition in the courthouse and anthropologists are especially invited o examine it.

Indian Giant Uncovered at Eagle Lake, Near Warsaw in Kosciusko County, Indiana

Indian Giant Uncovered at Eagle Lake, Near Warsaw in Kosciusko County, Indiana

Burial Mound Overlooking Eagle Lake In Warsaw (Kosciusko County) Indiana

Cincinnati Commercial, October 7, 1888

BONES OF AN INDIAN GIANT
     A member of the Logan Grays, the crack military organization of Logansport that held its encampment this year at Eagle Lake, near Warsaw stopped in this city on his way home from camp and told the following story of the discovery by the party of a cavern on an island in Eagle Lake; A.M. Jones rowed to a small island near the southwest corner of the lake and began digging for worms.
      He turned over a large, flat stone near a tree, and under it was a small hole, which was an entrance to a cave. Jones called the boys up, and we began an exploration of the cavern, which proved to be twenty-five feet long, fifteen feet wide, and eight feet deep. The walls are of a natural formation of stone, branching out at the middle so as to form two rooms.
In the front room was the skeleton of a man six feet nine inches long. The bones were very large, indicating great strength. Along one side of the cave runs a small stream of water, as pure as crystal. In the front of it forms a small pool. In this were a number of bones.

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Ancient Human Giant Buried With His Weapons In Bartholomew County, Indiana

Ancient Human Giant Buried With His Weapons In Bartholomew County, Indiana

 The Daily Republican (Rushville, Indiana) January 11, 1906

Giant Skeletons And Copper Implements, Evidence of Ancient Civilization, Unearthed Near Rugby.

   One day last week while making an excavation into the mound-like formation, some farmer near Rugby in Bartholomew county unearthed a number of skeletons of giant size. Buried with the skeletons, were a number of various implements made of copper of curious shapes.

   These remains were taken to Dr. Regenas at Hope, who is an anthropologist and collector of antiquities. He pronounced them relics of the copper age, in the history of ancient civilization in America. Few remains of this character have been discovered in Indiana. Dr. Regenas is having photographs of them taken and is preparing an account of their discovery, which is to be published in a few days.

8 Foot Human Giant Removed from a Lagrange County, Indiana Burial Mound

8 Foot Human Giant Removed from a Lagrange County, Indiana Burial Mound

The Journal Gazette, December 5, 1924

  Lagrange, Ind., Dec 26 - A prehistoric graveyard has been unearthed on the farm of Solomon Hedrick.  A large number of skeletons have been found, all more than eight feet in height.  The find was in a mound 30 feet height. When 12 feet of the mound had been removed the skeletons were exposed.  The jaws and teeth are well preserved.  Trinkets, ivory beads and a shield made of bone were in the graves.  For a map of the locations of burial mounds and earthworks in Lagrange County, Indiana  https://adenahopewellmoundbuildersohiovalley.blogspot.com/2011/10/mound-builders-ruins-in-lagrange-county.html

Biblical Horites Death Mask

Biblical Horites Death Mask

Horite Death Mask

    Last year I wrote an article about the Biblical Horites, again, there seems to be some similarities with who archaeoloogists are calling Otamids. The skull of the Horites, described in the Archaeology of the Bible, Barton, 1916, would appear to be identical to those in California.

    “In a cave at Gezer, “A pottery head found in one the caves, which may be a rude portrait of the type of face sen in Gezer in this period, it has a sloping forehead, which afforded little brain space, and a prominent lower jaw. The people used flint knives, crushed their grain in hollow stones.

Mr. Macalister has suggested a connection between the cave dwellers of Gezer and the Biblical Horites, since Horite means, “cave dweller.” In the Bible the Horites are said to have dwelt to the east of Jordan, and more especially in Edom ( Gen. 14: 6: 36: 20, 21, 29; Deut 2 :12, 22). It seems probable the the reason why the Bible places them all beyond Jordan is that the cave dwellers had disappeared from Western Palestine centuries before the Hebrews came, while to the east of the Jordan they lingered on until displaced by those who were more nearly contemporary with the Hebrews.”

Large Hopewell Sioux Skeleton Found Within a Missouri Stone Vault

History of Boone County, Missouri 1882

   Along Roche Creek, starting from Perche Church and following the creek down about two miles, are numerous mounds, the work, undoubtedly, of the famed mound builders. These mounds are from three to six feet in height, and, on an average, are from 100 to 200 yards apart. They number about twenty well-defined specimens. Dr. Davis, of Sturgeon, and Wm. Powell opened one of these mounds on the farm of the latter. In the center they found a perfect vault, the roof of which was covered with stones. In this vault lay a large skeleton. It measured seven inches across the forehead and the size of the of the other bones were in proportion. More on Missouri's giants

Large Indian Uncovered in Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Large Indian Uncovered in Barnstable County, Massachusetts

       Numerous giant Indian remains were discovered in Massachusetts

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1883

On the west shore of Oyster Island, in Cotuit Harbor, was found part of the skeleton of a large lndian buried in a sitting posture, but much disarranged by the sliding away of the bank which had uncovered it.

Eight Feet in Hieght Foot Ancient Warriors are Discovered in Spring Valley, Ohio

Eight Feet in Height Ancient Warriors are Discovered in Spring Valley, Ohio

Cape Giradeau Democrat, June 20, 1896
    Some boys, while playing on Barrett's Mound, in the village of Spring Valley, southwest of here, discovered a number of human bones that had been unearthed by the upheaval of a tree during a wind-storm. Excavations were made and four bodies were found resting in the ground where the tree had stood. All had been buried with heads to the east, indicating reverence for the sun, and one of them was found in a reclining position.  One had been covered in mussels shells, but on being exposed to the air the shell crumbled to dust.
      The skeletons indicate a race of people close to eight feet in height and from relics and other indications were apparently warriors and belonged to some prehistoric race. The skeletons were viewed by an immense throng of people. When an attempt was made to move them they fell to pieces. Further excavations will be made.