Giant Skeleton in A Stone Tomb, Found Standing up Surrounded by Sacrificed Attendants
San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 1908 SKELETONS OF GIANTS FOUND IN ST. LOUIS Workman Unearth Bones of Extinct Race Believed to Have Been Mound Builders Human bones beleived to have been those of mound builders were fund at second and St. Clair avenue, East St. Louis, recently, by workman, who were digging an excavation for a hay warehouse. one skeleton was walled up in a stone tomb eight feet high. When a heavy slab of rock was taken from the top the skeleton, standing upright, could be see within. It was that of a man apparently 7 feet tall. An effort was made to remove the skeleton intact,but when other stoneswere removed it fell to pieces. Buried under 5 feet of earth, near the base of this ancient tomb were the skeletons of other men all above normal height. They were in a circle about the tomb where their chieftan had been walled up. As the ground was cleared away these skeletons also fell apart. Three skulls were intact.
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 Skeleton Removed From Minnesota Burial Mound
New York Times, May 25, 1882 The Bones Of A Giant Found in Minnesota A skull of heroic size and singular formation has been discovered among the relics of the mound-builders in the Red River Valley. The mound was 60 feet in diameter and 12 feet high. Near the center were found the bones of about a dozen men and women, mixed with the bones of various animals. The skull in question was the only perfect one and near it were found some abnormally large body bones. The man who bore it was evidently a giant. A thorough investigation of the mound and its contents will be made by the Historical Society.
