9 Foot Ancient Giant Examined by San Bernardino, California Coroner

9 Foot Ancient Giant Examined by San Bernardino, California Coroner

Los Angeles Times, July 21, 1936

     Suspension of work in a Lytle Creek gravel pit, where Saturday the skull of an ancient giant was unearthed by a contracting company's steam shovel, today constituted the county's contribution to science. There will be no further digging in the pit until scientists have had an opportunity to examine the gravel and excavate with more precision for possible additional information on the early inhabitants of California.

Find On Exhibition       


Meanwhile, the skull of the giant, together with several small bones, today rested on an improvised table in the County Coroner's office while hundreds of curious filed past. The skull, far larger than that of the present-day man, has characteristics that, to the layman, seem to classify it with the Mongolian race. High cheekbones, powerful jaws, and teeth that would not be amiss on a carnivorous animal immediately attract attention. Local amateur scientists have expressed the opinion that if the remainder of the skeleton were of the corresponding size with a skull, a man of eight or nine feet in height could easily be visioned. Coroner Williams is satisfied that clues to early life on this continent have been uncovered.

Bears Out Theory  

Several vertebrae, a leg bone, and several finger bones bear out his contention. They are on the same enormous scale as the skull. 

8 Foot Human Giant's Mummified Remains Purchased by the Smithsonian

An unlikely scenario is presented by the Smithsonian of the fraud of the giant mummified remains. First they sent their agents to view the mummy and then purchased it. It was only after it was shipped back to Washington D.C. that they disclosed that it was a fraud.  How likely is it that two prospectors would have had the expertise to assemble a 'life like' mummy that would fool the Smithsonian experts?  What was their motive? 

The Salt Lake Tribune., June 07, 1908

The San Diego Giant.

The mummy of the “tallest human giant who ever lived” was being shown by at the Atlantic exposition while., a number of these Smithsonian scientists were there. They asked
permission to examine It and when consent was given applied their tapes and found that It measured eight feet four Inches from crown to heel. The giant had been found in a cave near San Diego. Cal., by a party of prospectors, according to lo the exhibitor. Over the head were the remains of a leather hood which appeared to have been part of a shroud. Worn teeth were visible in the mouth and the outlines of the ribs were plainly seen through the skin. The elongated, emaciated body stood erect In a great, narrow coffin, ten feet long. The exhibitor agreed to sell it for $500 to the Smithsonian, which dispatched Mr. Lucas to the scene with, Prof. W. J. McKee. A piece of the giant’s dried skin was removed and when tested In the chemical laboratory of the Smithsonian was found to be gelatine. Professor McKee Is shown on the left of the giant, In the accompanying picture, and the exhibitor who was perfectly Innocent of the fraud, Is shown on Its right. 

Is This the Martindale, California Nephilim Mummy?

Is This the Martindale, California Nephilim Mummy?

Tracking the history of the mummy is difficult, but this is the fragmented timeline I have been able to put together. Smiths are photographed with the mummy in the late 1960s.

The original find was described in the 19^th century: The giant mummy was not an isolated find. In 1885 in California's Yosemite Valley, A party of miners headed by Mr. G. F. Martindale noticed a wall of stones on a rock face that did not appear to be of natural origin. As they removed the rock wall, they came upon another stone wall that was described as being done by someone skilled in Masonry. They described the joints between the rocks as being a uniform 1/8 of an inch in thickness. "As pretty as any wall on any building I have ever seen,” is how one of the miners described it. Upon entering the stone walled tomb, they discovered a large mummified corpse placed on a carved ledge in the cave. The mummified remains were that of a woman who measured 6 feet, 8 inches in length. The corpse was wrapped in what appeared to be animal skins. The miners removed parts of the animal skins to view the corpse and found it to be that of a woman holding a child to her breast.

At an unknown date the mummy is placed in the State Historical Society Museum in Topeka, Kansas.

1940's - Smith said he purchased the mummies from a Mrs. Miller in Kansas and leased them to a guy named, Fleming who owned a traveling carnival.

1940s Fleming is known to have the mummy until at least 1948.

1968 – After being missing for over 20 years the mummy resurfaces in a warehouse in Texas where it is reclaimed by the Smith family.

1992 – Smith's health is failing and a Dr. Cartmel purchaes the mummy where it is later sold the the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum in Orlando, Florida in 1998.

There are various stories of how the mummy ended up in Arizona. They are all based on the fact that the mummy is a hoax. But, it has to be a hoax or the NAGPRA laws would snatch it up and it would never be seen again. 

The Ool-el-en Canaanite Giants of California's Yosemite Valley

The Ool-el-en Canaanite Giants of California's Yosemite Valley

The word El-en is derived from the Proto-Semitic archaic  meaning "god". Specific deities known as El  include the supreme god of the Canaanite religion, the supreme god of the Mesopotamian Semites in the pre-Sargonic period
Ool is a Semitic word meaning "to turn" it is the root of the Englisn word, "roll."  It was used in ancient times to signify how god turn the fabric of the sky that appeared to turn around the north star.

The Martindale Mummies were discovered 1n 1885 . In California's great Yosemite Valley . A group of miners led by G.F. Martindale found the remains of a woman nearly seven feet tall still holding a mummified child in a cave behind a wall of rock . These mummies are currently the property of Ripley's Museum .

The people Indigenous to the Yosemite region when whites arrived were the Ahwahneechee tribe. Ahwahneechee folklore relates a story of giants called Oo-el-en who came into the Yosemite Valley many years before the white man. The Oo-el-en, like the sitecah of nearby Nevada, were cannibalistic giants who ate the meat of the Indians. Oo-el-en would catch the adults and cut them into bite-size pieces, hanging their meat in the sun to dry into jerky. The legend says that the Ahwahneechees finally killed the giants and burned their bodies [The last of the Ahwahneechee died in the 1940s] reconstruction by Kay Hearle

Discover California's Ancient Giants

Californias Ancient Nephilim Mummies

California's Ancient Nephilim Mummies

    Giant Nephilim Mummies are Discovered in California. One of the giant humans becomes a sideshow exhibition, while the other is purchased by the Smithsonian, where it disappears forever. Photos of the mummy provide real evidence of the Nephilim in North America.

California's Ancient Nephilim Mummies

California's Ancient Nephilim Mummies

   Two mummies of giant humans were discovered in caves in California. A woman almost 7 feet in height and a man about 8 foot.  The male was purchased by the Smithsonian and was not declared a hoax until it could by forever hidden away within the confines of the Smithsonian vaults. This is some of the best photographic evidence of the Nephilim in North America.

California's Mysterious Nephilim Giant Mummy

California's Mysterious Nephilim Giant  Mummy

    Also known as the Martindale Mummy, it toured the country as an oddity for years before ending up as a roadside attraction in Arizona.  The giant female mummy was originally discovered in 1888 in California's Yosmite Valley.  The giant female mummy is holding a small child that is also mummified.  Is this the remains of North America's ancient Nephilim?

More giant skeletons were found in California than almost anywhere in North America. Their story is told here.

Ancient Giant Skeletons Discovered Near Santa Monica Beach, California

The San Francisco Call, July 9, 1908

DISCOVER SKELETON OF 14 PREHISTORIC INDIANS

Remains of Giant Race Are Found Near Santa Monica Beach

LOS ANGELES, July 8. - Fourteen skeletons of giant Indians supposed to have roved this section centuries ago, have just been dug from the sands of the beach on Malibu ranch just north of Santa Monica. The smallest skeleton indicates a stature of seven feet, while several of the Indians must have been been at least eight feet tall.

The discovery was made by three Santa Monica men camping at the mouth of Malibu canyon. The skulls teeth and bones are in an excellent state of preservation. Many relics of an extinct race have been found in the same locality, but no skeletons of such size ever before have been unearthed.

Ancient Race of Giant Indians Discovered Near Stockton,California

Ancient Race of Giant Indians Discovered Near Stockton, California 

At least 500 skeletons of what College of Pacific archaeologists declare were giant Indians- figuring in many ancient legends - were uncovered along with ancient Indian ceramics, by workmen excavating dirt near Stockton California. 


1932 article  described one of the giant skeletons unearthed in a burial mound near Stockton at 7 foot. The man on the right is holding a very large femur bone. I copied the bone, placed it where is back foot is, and stacked them 4 deep to get an idea of the size of the man that this belonged to. The femur's length is about 25% of the height of a person. Guessing that this man was 5 feet, 8 inches or 68 inches, and the femurs add to about 3 ¼ of that height. At 7 feet, each femur would be 21 inches in length. 3 ¼ femurs would be 68 inches. Looking at the size of the lower femur, it obviously belonged to a pretty robust individual.

California's Ancient Female Nephilim Mummy

Martindale Mummy Reconstruction

The Martindale Nephilim Mummies were discovered in 1885 . In California's great Yosemite Valley . A group of miners led by G.F. Martindale found the remains of a woman nearly seven feet tall still holding a mummified child in a cave behind a wall of rock . These mummies are currently the property of Ripley's Museum .

The people Indigenous to the Yosemite region when whites arrived were the Ahwahneechee tribe. Ahwahneechee folklore relates a story of giants called Oo-el-en who came into the Yosemite Valley many years before the white man. The Oo-el-en, like the sitecah of nearby Nevada, were cannibalistic giants who ate the meat of the Indians. Oo-el-en would catch the adults and cut them into bite-size pieces, hanging their meat in the sun to dry into jerky. The legend says that the Ahwahneechees finally killed the giants and burned their bodies [The last of the Ahwahneechee died in the 1940s] reconstruction by Kay Hearle

Early Race of Giant Neanderthal Hybrids in California

California was the Early Home of an Ancient Race of Giant Neanderthal HybridsWere these the Biblical Nephilim Hybrids?

Concentrated on the coastal and Great Lakes regions of North America are numerous accounts of giant skeletons with "archaic" type skulls that included an protruding brow ridge, sloping forehead and massive jaws.

Boston Globe, June 15, 1922

Giant’s Graves in California

New Race of Men Dug Up, With Stone Implements Unlike Any Others

“Some of the skeletons are those of men measuring no less than 7 feet and perhaps more. Femur bones already sent to the University measure 21 inches in length.”

“The skeletons represent a most astonishing race of people, who probably inhabited this country thousands of years ago,” said Mr. Steinberger. “Some of the skulls are large, with, high forheads and well-rounded, while others are ape-like, retreating from an inch above the frontal bone, with the top of the head flat and with but small space for brain activity.

TheArchaeological Bulletin, Volumes 4, 1955

California Shell Mounds by R. E. Dodge

Near my home in California, about five miles above the city of santa Cruz, Santa Cruz county, and right on the coast is one of the largest shell mounds I have ever seen. It is about 270 feet long and 90 feet wide. How high it has been cannot now be told, as most of it has been removed by poultry men, who used to haul away by the wagonloads. The practice has been stopped by the owner, but some still houl it away.

About ten years ago they were grading the road which runs through here and a skeleton was discovered in a shell mound; a little deeper, more were uncovered, about 35 in all. They were badly decayed and many dropped to pieces when exposed. I have a skull in my possession from this group which is in first class condition; it has a low, recedeing forehead and the teeth are much worn.

About a mile from this spot, while excavating for a railroad, it is reported, the skeleton's of four giants were discovered, buried in a sitting position with their faces to the west. I have never been able to verify this report, excaept I saw one of the skulls in the possession of a man living in Santa Cruz, and it is truly a giant, being fully twice as large as any skull I have ver seen and it is a pity that the whole skeleton, whichb was said to be over 8 feet tall, was not preserved

Boston Globe, June 25, 1922

Giant’s Graves in California

New Race of Men Dug Up, With Stone Implements Unlike Any Others

     Some of the skeletons are those of men measuring no less than 7 feet and perhaps more. Femur bones already sent to the University measure 21 inches in length.”“The skeletons represent a most astonishing race of people, who probably inhabited this country thousands of years ago,” said Mr. Steinberger. “Some of the skulls are large, with, high foreheads and well-rounded, while others are apelike, retreating from an inch above the frontal bone, with the top of the head flat and with but small space for brain activity

Articles from "The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley"

Early Race Of Giant Humans Once Inhabited California

The Early Race Of Giant Humans That Once Inhabited Los Angeles, California

The round heads of these early giant humans also described with a "high brow," are skull types that are most common in the State of New York.  The burials being placed in a sitting position is also found in great numbers with large skeletons in New York, Pennsylvania, and Northern Ohio.

Spokane Daily Chronicle, June 14, 1922
LOS ANGELES HOME OF EARLY GIANTS

   They Were Seven Feet in Height According to Discoveries just Made. The original residents of Southern California were giants, seven feet in height, according to an anthropological discovery of the University of California near McFarland, in the heart of the oil fields. They were also "highbrows" with large, well rounded heads. They lived in mounds and used implements of stone. The excavations are being made under the direction of Arling Steinberger, in a now dry lake where the soil is heavily impregnated with alkaline salts and a seepage of petroleum. This chemical combination acted as an ideal preservative, so that the skeletons were found in a fine state of preservation. The first mound uncovered evidence was a burying ground, as the skeletons were found lying or sitting facing the east, as was customary in the last rites of primitive peoples. The skeletons are believed to be those of the first dwellers in Southern California.

California Cave Yields Ancient Giant Race of Men

California Cave Yields Ancient Giant Race of Men

L. A. Times September 3, 1916
FIND BONES OF GIANT IN CAVE
     The discovery of a skull, jawbones and femur of giant proportions by D. L. Gilliland and F. M. Puntenney of Moonpark, in a cavern in one of the canyons of the great Pisgah Grando Rancho just over the Ventura county line, lends color to the belief, long held by residents of that scenic section, that the burying place of a prehistoric race of giants has been found. The find was made under peculiar circumstances, Messrs Gilliland and Puntenney who are officers of the law at Moonpark, were searching for two Mexicans, said to have been connected with robberies at Moonpark and Santa Susana. After scouring the various canyons they came upon a wide cavern deep in the brush and hidden from view by a rugged rampart of rocks.
Seeing that there was an opening in which the fugitives might take shelter, Mr. Puntenney pulled aside the underbrush and peered into the depths. Within he saw the grinning skull of huge size and the great femur, that must have formed the thigh bone of a mighty giant.

Graveyard of Ancient Giant Humans Excavated in Los Angeles, California

Graveyard of Ancient Giant Humans Excavated in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1934
    Skeletons of prehistoric giants were found when a sand pit was excavated near this city. The workers uncovered forty well-preserved skeletons averaging seven feet in height and many primitive stone implements. 

8 Foot Giant Human Skeleton Found In Berkeley, California

8 Foot Giant Human Skeleton Found In Berkeley, California

Boston Herald, October 11, 1922
FINDS GIANT'S BONES IN MOUND
Captain Newton H. Chittenden Makes Discovery of Skelelton of a Prehistoric Man
  Captain Newton H. Chittenden, the explorer and lecturer has proved the theory that he held for some time that the neighborhood was formerly the home of giants by finding the bones of the of the species. Captain Chittenden refuses to reveal the burial ground of this prehistoric man, but admits that it is somewhere in one of the oldest Indian mounds of West Berkeley.
    The bones found by Captain Chittenden make almost a complete skeleton, the missing parts being a number of the vertebrae.  The thigh bones are a large and measured by present day standards indicate that the owner of them must have been a man by at least eight feet high.  Half the skull is gone, but the half that remains shows that twice as many brains as that of the modern man.  This skull is like one found several years ago in West Berkeley when excavations were being made for the foundation of a building.
 " I have no doubt," say Captain Chittenden, "that ages ago giants roamed around this country.  This man was no monstrosity, such as we occasionally have nowadays, but a perfectly formed man ans possessed of great of great intellectual powers.  I intend to continue my investigation in the hope of finding more bones of our ancestors."
  Captain Chittenden will present the skeleton to the Berkeley High School.

Giant Human Fossilized Foot is Unearthed Near San Diego, California

Giant Human Fossilized Foot is Unearthed Near San Diego, California

Los Angeles Times July 21, 1895

A PREHISTORIC BIG FOOT
A Notable Fossil Find In San Diego County
A Human Hoof Twenty Inches Long and  "Big in Proportion" -  On a par with the Famous Calaveras Skull What Scientists Say

      San Diego, July 18. - Special Correspondence. a discovery made in Sweetwater Valley in San Diego county some time ago may yet create a sensation among scientists when the full import of the fossil is made known.

      While digging a well the workmen unearthed what appears to be the fossil of a huge human foot, a photograph of which has been taken specially for The Times.

      This foot is twenty inches long and of exceedingly large dimensions. It was found some forty or fifty feet below the surface of the earth, and had there been a means at hand for further exploration, it is believed that other parts of a gigantic human skeleton, of which this fossilized foot is deemed a part, might have been found.

9 Foot, Giant Human Skeletons Discovered on Santa Monica Beach, California

9 Feet Tall, Ancient Giant Humans Remains Discovered on Santa Monica Bach, California

Washington Times, July 13th 1908

Giant Skeletons Found on Coast

Los Angeles California, July 13. - William Derbyshire and Jack Stonebeberger, of Chicago, and Robert Derbyshire of Santa Monica, contractors, have unearthed the skeleton of a gigantic prehistoric man at Sants Monica beach. The skeleton was over nine feet in height. Hard work uncovered thirteen similar skeletons.

Three perfect specimens were brought to Santa Monica for exhibition and scientists who have examined thesay they are undoubtedly are hundreds of years old.

The skulls have the formation of an Indiana head with high cheekbones and other pronounced characteristics. In every case the teeth are practically intact.

12 Foot Human Nephilim Uncovered in Jeffersonville, Indiana

12 Foot Human Nephilim Uncovered in Jefferson, Indiana 

New York Times, May 22, 1871
GIGANTIC HUMAN REMAINS FOUND      
    A letter from Kern County, California reports that in digging a grave on the old bank of the Kern River, not long since, there was found a human skeleton seven feet 5 inches in length.  The account says there was with it a package of eleven flint arrow-heads and spear heads and that the skull was much larger than the ordinary size of craniums moving around at the present day.  A full grown person placed his head inside the skull.  The Louisville Courier Journal, however, tells a bigger story thus, "Workmen in the new fire cistern, in Jeffersonville exhumed, twelve feet from the surface, a part of a skeleton of a giant at least twelve feet high.  The skull was badly broken by the workmen, but sufficient of the jaws and face bones were saved to show that it was the remains of an enormous sized human being. A shin bone was measured near three feet in length.



50 Giant Tombs Discovered at Jeffersonville, Indiana

Giant Human Nephilim Mummified Remains Uncovered in California

Giant Human Nephilim Mummified Remains Uncovered in California

The World, October 7, 1895

BIGGEST GIANT EVER KNOWN

Nine Feet High and Probably a California Indian

Measurement Well Authenticated

Other Big Men and Women of Fact and Fable Who Are Famous Types if Giantism

The corpse of the biggest man that ever lived has been dug up near San Diego California. At all events, there is no satisfactory read in the ancient or modern history of any human being nearly so tall. The mummy-for in such a condition the remains were found is that of a person would have been about nine feet high in life. This makes allowances for the shrinkage, which may be pretty closely calculated.

As to the accuracy of the estimate, there can no question, as the cadaver has been carefully inspected and measured by Prof. Thomas Wilson, Curator of the Department of Prehistoric Anthropology in the Smithsonian Institution, and by other scientists. The tapeline even now registers the length from heel to top of the head at eight feet four inches.

The mummy is that of an Indian and is almost certainly prehistoric, though its age cannot be determined with any sort of accuracy. Historical records of the part of California where it was found go back for at least 250 years, and they make no mention of any man of gigantic stature. How much older the body may be must be left open to conjecture. Its preservation, its preservation is no matter of surprise, in that arid region, the atmospheric conditions are such that a corpse buried in the dry season might very well become perfectly desiccated before the arrival of the rains, and thus be rendered permanently proof against decay.

The body was found in a cave by a party of prospectors. Over the head are the remnants of a leather hood. The man was well advanced in years.

It has been stated that the man must have surpassed in height any giant of whom there is a historical record. This is unquestionably true so far as the last two centuries are concerned, and accounts of older dates are not well authenticated. Indeed they grow more and more apocryphal as distant in time increases.

This is the actual photo that was used in the newspaper article.  Note how the mummy's arms are folded and how the man on the right is mimicking the pose.  Unfortunately, the article mentions the Smithsonian which means the giant has been lost or destroyed.  
It is also important to note the symmetry of the mummy, whose gigantic size does not appear to be the result of Gigantism or any other of the physical dysfunction that archaeologists immediately hypothesize.