8 Foot Giant Excavated in a New York Burial Mound Replicated by Eye-Witness

8 Foot Giant Excavated in a New York Burial Mound Replicated by Eye-Witness

In 1876, a young man accompanied several of his neighbors who excavated a burial mound. What he witnessed would inspire him 62 years later to carve a replica of the remarkable find. Mr. Huntington’s motivation was to recreate exactly what he had witnessed many years ago, using the measurements taken by Mr. Cheney who was present at the dig. The model was built life-size, according to measurements taken by Mr. Huntington when a mound on the Conewango Road was opened. In the background is one of the two busts that he carved based on the measurements of a man who was 8 foot in height and a woman that was 7 foot 6 inches who were removed from the Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville, West Virginia.

The original account of the burial mound was printed in the History of Cattaraugus County, New York in 1879. These county histories featured prominent citizens of the county, whose reputations were beyond reproach. 

Abraham Lincoln on the Ancient Nephilim Giants

Abraham Lincoln on the Ancient Nephilim Giants

History of Niagara County, New York, 1878

About one and a half miles west of Shelby Centre, Orleans County, is an ancient work. A broad ditch is enclosed in a form nearly circular about three acres of land: the ditch is at this day well defined, several feet deep. Some skeletons, almost entire, have been exhumed, many of giant size, not less than seven to eight feet in length. The skulls are large, and well developed in the anterior lobe, abroad between the ears and flattened in the coronal region.

Large Skeletons Found at Quadrangular Earthwork that Antedated the Indians in New York

Large Skeletons Found at Quadrangular Work that Antedated the Indians in New York

    
" A humerus or shoulder bone, which is preserved, denotes a stature one- third larger than the present race"

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. Notes on the Iroquois: Or, Contributions to American History, Antiquities, and General Ethnology. E. H. Pease & Company. 1847.

       But the most remarkable and distinctive trait connected with its archaeology is the discovery of human bones denoting an uncommon stature and development, which are mentioned in the same communication. A humerus or shoulder bone, which is preserved, denotes a stature one- third larger than the present race, and there is also a lower jaw bone, preserved by a physician at Batavia, from the vicinity, which indicates the same gigantic measure of increase. 

   The shape is quadrangular, and is shown in the diagram or ground plot. The forest has been removed. Not a tree remains on the quadrangle, and only a few on the edge of the ravine on the west. By cultivating the land, the trench is nearly filled in some places, though the line of it is clearly seen. On the north side the trench is considerable, and where the road crosses it, is three or four feet deep at the sides of the road. It will take only a few years more to oblate rate it entirely, as not even a stump remains to mark out its line.
  From this view it may be seen or inferred,

1. That a real trench bounded three sides of the quadrangle. On the south side there was not found any trace of trench, palisadoes, blocks, &c.
2. It was formed long before the whites came into the country. The large trees on the ground and in the trench carry us back to an early era.
3. The workers must have had some convenient tools for excavation.
4. The direction of the sides may have had some reference to the four cardinal points, though the situation of the ravines naturally marked out the lines.
5. It cannot have been designed merely to catch wild animals to be driven into it from the south. The oblique cut down to the spring is opposed to this supposition, as well as the insufficiency of such a trench to confine the animals of the forest.
6. The same reasons render it improbable that the quadrangle was designed to confine and protect domestic animals.
7. It was probably a sort of fortified place. There might have been a defense on the south by a stockade or some similar means, which might have entirely disappeared.

By what people was this work done?

Must we not refer Fort Hill to that race which peopled this country before the Indians, who raised so many monuments greatly exceeding the power of the Indians, and who lived at a remote era?”

H. R. SCHOOLCRAFT, Esq.: I forward you the observations on Fort Hill, for your use. My speculations are added for my pleasure, and you will use them as you please. In great haste, I am obliged to close.

Your obedient,
C. DEWEY.

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.

Giant Skeleton Discovered in a Cave at Shohola's Glen, New York

Giant Skeleton Discovered in a Cave at Shohola, 

New York

Thibodaux Sentinel, December 21, 1901

      Hunters from Susquehanna, Pa.,  while excavating for a hunt near Shohola's Glen, New 

York., discovered a cave in which they found the skeleton of a man of gigantic size. It was 

swathed in rawhide trappings that kept it in a sitting posture. Near the skeleton were 

several bowls of reddish clay but almost as hard as flint. A rude stone tablet was found near 

the skeleton side covered with rude pictures of birds and beasts, among them one of a 

monster half beast, half reptile. A number of implements were also found in the cave, 

among them a huge ax made of stone and stone spearheads of unusual size.

Giant Iroquois Remains Uncovered in Mount Morris, New York Burial Mound

Giant Iroquois Remains Uncovered in Mount Morris, New York Burial Mound

History of Livingston County, New York, 1881
When Jesse Stanley came to Mount Morris in 1811, an Indian mound, nearly a hundred feet in diameter and from 8 to 10 feet high, covered the site of the late General Mills' residence. The mound had long been crowned by a great tree, which had recently fallen under the ax, the stump remaining, though much weather-beaten. Deacon Stanley was told that when freshly cut it disclosed a hundred and thirty concentric circles or yearly growths. About the year 1820, the mound was removed, and, in its removal, arrowheads, a brass kettle and knives were thrown out. A number of skeletons were also disinterred. Among the bones was a human skeleton of enormous size, the jaw-bone of which was so large that Adam Holtslander placed it, mask-like, over his own chin and jaw, although he was the largest man in the settlement, and his face was in proportion to the rest of his body. Metal, in the form of rude medals, a pipe, and other articles, were picked out of the earth thrown from the excavation.

Ancient 8 Foot Giant Removed From a Burial Mound Near Scipio, New York

Ancient 8 Foot Giant Removed From a Burial Mound Near Scipio, New York

Weekly News and Democrat, Auburn NY May 30, 1878
Giant Skeleton
   John White, while excavating with a party in Scipio, on Tuesday, exhumed the bones of two Indians.  The location of the find is on the farm of E. P. Hoskins, Indian Fields Road.  The skeletons when first discovered were entire and in a sitting position.
   Much care was taken in digging around them to preserve them intact, but they fell apart in the removal.  One of the skeletons was that of a giant, measuring three feet across the hips, and eight feet in stature.  Its lower jaw was of immense proportions, and would easily span the head of any of the party engaged in the discovery.  A number of trinkets usually accompanying the Indian remains were found in the bones

8 Foot Ancient Giant Human Skeleton Discovered in Cayuga County, New York

8 Foot Ancient Giant Human Skeleton Discovered in Cayuga County, New York

Weekly News and Democrat, Auburn New York,  May 30, 1878
A GIANT SKELETON DISCOVERED IN CAYUGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
      A Giant Skeleton - John White, while excavating with a party in Scipio, on Tuesday, exhumed the bones of two Indians.  The location of the find is on the farm of E. P. Hoskins, Indian Fields Road. The skeletons when first discovered were entire, and in a sitting position.
    Much care was taken in digging around them, to preserve them intact; but they fell apart in removal.  One of the skeletons was that of a giant, measuring three feet across the hips and eight feet in stature. Its lower jaw bone was of immense proportion and would easily span the head of any of the parties engaged in the discovery.  A number of trinkets usually accompanying the Indian remains were found with the bones

Two Giant Skeletons in Unearthed in Lakewood, New York.

Two Giant  Human Skeletons are discovered in Lakewood, New York.

Pittsburgh Dispatch Aug 27, 1891
  Two Human skeletons of giant size were unearthed at Lakewood, N. Y., by workman.  The thigh bone of one was 30 inches long.