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. 

Ancient Pygmy and Giant Remains Discovered Together in Northern Mexico

Pygmy and Giant Remains Discovered Together in 

Northern Mexico

Spokane Daily Chronicle, January 9, 1936 
      These crumbling ruins of a long-perished city, where mummified human forms revealed that seven-foot giants and three-foot pygmies apparently lived together, were found by Paxson C. Hayes ethnologist, who has spent the last seven years exploring the upland wastes of northern Mexico. The architecture is of a type never before discovered, resembling that of cliff dwellings but with distinct Mongolian features. The strange civilization is believed to antedate that of the Mayans. Hayes plans an expedition for a thorough search of the huge caves in Sonora, 400 miles from Hermosillo City."