Immense Giant Human Skeletons Found in a Mound Near Carthage, Illinois

 Mass Burial of Giants Marks the Site of an Ancient Battle in Illinois

Pittsburg Dispatch, September 1, 1891

A PREHISTORIC BATTLEGROUND

 Immense  Giant Human Skeletons Found in a Mound Near Carthage, Illinois

Special Telegram to the Dispatch]
Carthage, Ill., Aug. 31. - A number of human skeletons have been found in a curious mound near this city.  They are of unusual size, and the teeth are longer than those of mankind generally. With few exceptions, the bones are well preserved.
The skeletons were found lying across one another, giving color to the belief that they were warriors who fell in battle.

Large Hopewell Sioux Indian Skeleton Uncovered in Burial Mound in Southern Illinois

Welch Burial  Mounds in Brown County, Illinois

Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894
     On the spur of the ridge upon which the Welch mounds of Brown county, hereafter noticed, are situated and about midway between them and Chambersburg, in Pike county, is a group of circular mounds, possibly the work of another people than those who built the effigies. They are mainly on the farm of Mr. W. A. Hume, who assisted in opening eight of them, of which but two are specifically noticed here...

The other, situated on the point of a commanding bluff, was also conical in form, 50 feet in diameter and 8 feet high. The outer layer consisted of sandy soil, 2 feet thick, filled with slightly decayed skeletons, probably Indians of intrusive burials. The earth of the main portion of this mound was very fine yellowish sand which shoveled like ashes and was everywhere, to the depth of from 2 to 4 feet, as full of human skeletons as could well be stowed away in it, even to two and three tiers. Among these were a number of bones not together as skeletons, but mingled in confusion and probably from scaffolds or other localities. Excepting one, which was rather more than seven feet long, these skeletons appeared to be of medium size, and many of them much decayed. 

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered and Reported in Newspapers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered and Reported in Newspapers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota

Hundreds of newspapers printed stories about locals finding giant skeletons in burial mounds. In most cases this was before AP or other agencies that allowed stories to be printed nationwide. 

From the coastal regions the Giant human Nephilim of the Maritime archaic moved west in to the Great Lakes region.  Giant skeletons were found in large numbers in the State of Pennsylvania.

Pennsylavania giant skeltons discovered with horns protruding from their  heads.  Numerous accounts of these horned giants can be found here  The Encyclopedia of Ancient Giants

These giant humans were discovered at reported by a sitting judge in Pennsylvania.

Many giant skeletons were uncovered with Neanderthal looking skulls with protruding brow ridges, sloped foreheads and massive jaws.  Hundreds of historical accounts of these strange humans are documented in The Encyclopedia of Ancient Giants in North America

Many burial mounds and large skeletons were found in modern cemeteries that were located on the first high ground outside of town, usually next to a creek or river.

At 11 foot this would be the largest giant skeleton found in the Great Lakes region.

Caves in Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky were commonly filled with skeletons, may of which were of giant size.

Indiana has the second most giants discovered within its borders, second only to Ohio. Read all of the accounts of giant skeletons found in Indiana Here

This find was in Henry County, Indiana where other giants were found.  It was the home of a henge (Sun Temple) earthwork complex.

Illinois was also a hotbed for the ancient race of giants with numerous historical accounts of finds.
Read all of the accounts Here

Giant skeleton was found in Alton, Illionois.

Giant skeletons were found the extent of the State of Illinois, this find was along the Illinois River.

This is another Neanderthal hybrid that were found in great numbers in the Great Lakes region.

Numerous giants found in the State of Wisconsin making it one of the most "giant rich' States. Read all of the historical accounts if giant human in Wisconsin here.  The Encyclopedia of Ancient Giants in North America

A rare cave burial in Minnesota where giant human skeletons were discovered.

The state of Minnesota was heavily populated by the ancient giant race as shown by the number of skeleton found.

Discover the hundreds of giant humans skeletons discovered in the Great Lakes region of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota,

Skulls of "Early Man" Discovered in Illinois

Skulls of "Early Man" Discovered in Illinois

Rock Bluff, Illinois skull showing primitive characteristics of a protruding brow ridge and sloping forehead.

Skeletal Remains Suggesting Or Attributed to Early Man in North America: 1907
    The National Museum collection contains a good series of Indian crania obtained from mounds along the Illinois River, with which the Rock Bluff skull can be compared; and there are several skulls from the Albany Mounds, Illinois, in the Davenport Academy of Sciences, which can also be utilized in this connection. These mound crania are certainly not geologically ancient, though they probably antedate the advent of whites into the valley. They show some variety, due possibly to a tribal mixture, but the predominating type is dolichocephalic, having rather low orbits and, in males, strongly developed supraorbital ridges, with narrow, low, and occasionally very sloping, forehead. Mesocephalic forms appear occasionally. With most of these skulls, the Rock Bluff specimen agrees fairly in every essential particular that goes to form a cranial type. Its supraorbital ridges alone are quite equaled by those of no. 4401, Davenport Academy (plate xm, a), and in several other specimens they are closely approached. Were the Rock Bluff skull mingled with the rest of the Illinois River male crania no observer would be likely to single it out as especially remarkable? It agrees with most of them even in color. The peculiarities it presents are well within the scope of individual variation. The following table and illustrations (plate n, h, c) show the resemblances, which are still further strengthened by an examination of the whole series of specimens from the Illinois Valley. In view of the above facts, and irrespective of the wholly unsatisfactory geological evidence, the Rock Bluff skull, though regarded as of a low type, must be classed with crania from the Illinois River mounds, with which it has much in common. The differences are not sufficient to indicate any distinct cranial variety, and the specimen can not properly be regarded as evidence of a geologically early man in North America.

Ohio Hopewell skull, (left) compared with the Oberkassel skull from Europe dating to 10,000 B.C.

Smithsonian Scientist Uncover Giant Human Skeleton in Illinois

Smithsonian Scientist Uncover Giant Human Skeleton in Illinois

Pictograph found on a bluff overlooking the Illinois River in Pike county, Illinois

12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to
the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890-1891

(Pike County, Illinois)

No. 11 is now 35 by 40 feet at the base and 4 feet High. In the center, 3 feet below the surface, was a vault 8 feet long and 3 feet wide. In the bottom of this, among the decayed fragments of bark wrappings, lay a skeleton fully seven feet long, extended at full length on the back, head west. Lying in a circle above the hips were fifty-two perforated shell disks about an inch in diameter and one-eighth of an inch thick.

Giants and Pygmy Race Buried Side by Side in Shawneetown, Illinois

Giants and Pygmy Race Buried Side by Side 

at Shawneetown, Illinois

St. Louis Republic, November 29, 1903
SKELETON OF A GIANT
      Harrisburg, Ill. While digging a well on the old Inmann factory lot, near Shawneetown, a few days ago, Sanford K. Jenkins unearthed several skeletons and old Indian relics. In a space 8 feet square Jenkins took out fourteen skeletons and six vessels of different sizes. One peculiar and remarkable thing about the skeletons were the size. One skeleton was that of a giant, which measured fully 8 feet in height, while right near this one was found the skull of an adult not larger than that of a 4-year-old child and was perhaps the remains of a pygmy. While the ground is near the old Indian mound and is supposed to have been the burying-ground of the Indians in early days, it is thought by some of the older citizens that they were buried over a thousand years ago, before Indians inhabited this country. 

Large Sioux Indian Skelelton Uncovered in Burial Mound in Southern Illinois

Large Sioux Indian Skeleton Uncovered in Burial Mound in Southern Illinois

Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894
     On the spur of the ridge upon which the Welch mounds of Brown county, hereafter noticed, are situated and about midway between them and Chambersburg, in Pike county, is a group of circular mounds, possibly the work of another people than those who built the effigies. They are mainly on the farm of Mr. W. A. Hume, who assisted in opening eight of them, of which but two are specifically noticed here...

   The other, situated on the point of a commanding bluff, was also conical in form, 50 feet in diameter and 8 feet high. The outer layer consisted of sandy soil, 2 feet thick, filled with slightly decayed skeletons, probably Indians of intrusive burials. The earth of the main portion of this mound was very fine yellowish sand which shoveled like ashes and was everywhere, to the depth of from 2 to 4 feet, as full of human skeletons as could well be stowed away in it, even to two and three tiers. Among these were a number of bones not together as skeletons, but mingled in confusion and probably from scaffolds or other localities. Excepting one, which was rather more than seven feet long, these skeletons appeared to be of medium size and many of them much decayed. 

Giant Human Skeleton Discovered on the Shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago

Giant Human Skeleton Discovered on the Shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago

New Ulm Review, September 12, 1900
The skeleton of a giant, who, when he walked the shores of Lake Michigan, stood seven feet and four inches high in his moccasin feet, was discovered in Rogers Park the other day and upon the discovery hinged an afternoon's wonderment. Joseph and Charles Everett, boys who live in Ridge Boulevard near Pratt Avenue, made the find and reported it at the Rogers Park police station. Dr. John Klein, one of the searching party, declared that the skeleton was that of an Indian chief. Further search, among other things, disclosed a copper knife, arrowheads, a quantity of gold and a moccasin. The skeleton was taken in the patrol wagon to the Rogers Park police station. Later it was given to Dr, Klein. The doctor will mount the skeleton and send it to Leipsic University.