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 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.

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

Ancient Mummies Discovered in Kentucky Cave

Ancient Mummies Discovered in Kentucky Cave

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.

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.