Ten Foot Human Skeleton Discovered in an Idaho Cave
Newport Miner, March 17, 1910 PREHISTORIC BONES FOUND Skeleton Ten Feet Long Discovered in Southern Idaho Cave BOISE, Idaho, March 14. - Unmoved, unseen and untouched for hundreds of years and hidden in the recesses of a deep cave 25 miles north of Shoshone, Lincliln County in Southern Idaho, is the skeletons of a giant, ten feet tall evidently of prehistoric origin. It was recently discovered by a hunting party from this city. corroborated proof the members are now exhibiting the rusty and worn flint lock barrel of what appears to be an ancient gun weighing between 25 30 pounds, resembling a rifle. This, they say, was picked up beside the skeleton. These bones will be taken out of the cave at the earliest possible date and carefully forewarckpaded to the Smithsonian Institute.
Eau Claire Leader – Eau Claire, November 16, 1912 Five Bodies of Ancient Race Near La Crosse, Wisconsin La Crosse, WI Fifty skeletons believed to be a part of mysterious tribesmen of a prehistoric race have been unearthed by a party of La Cross state normal school graduates on the farm of Alois White, a few miles south of this city. The skeletons were taken from five mounds which were excavated. Among the significant discoveries made by the students was the uncovering of a number of copper arrow heads and two or three copper knives. This, it is claimed, must dispel the popular belief that the mound builders antedated the whites. Investigation shows there are three distinct types of mounds, specimens of which are found in Wisconsin. The conical mound is most common, the pyramid shaped tumuli and the so-called effigy mounds, the latter usually in the shape of some animal. The size of the skeletons, and the weight and thickness of the bones indicate this early race was composed of giants. Most of the skeletonswere more than six feet long and the bones are much heavier than those of the modern white men.
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.
American Antiquarian July 1870 Within the town limits of Glasgow Junction, Kentucky, a wonder cave has recently been discovered. This has been explored in one direction for the distance of nearly twenty-three miles, and a number of embalmed or mummified bodies have been discovered, similar to those found some years ago in the Mammoth and Salt Caves of the same state. The accounts of these discoveries are as yet measure, but important results are looking for. The bodies have been placed in rude stone coffins, which presented every indication of great age.
