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

12 Foot Giant Human Uncovered in Jefforsonville, Kentucky

12 Foot Giant Human Uncovered in Jefforsonville, Kentucky

New York Times April 2, 1872

Gigantic Human Remains Found

 A letter from Kern County, California reports that in digging a grave on the old banks of the Kern River, not long since, there was found a human skeleton seven foot, 5 and a half inches in length.  The account says there was placed with it, of eleven flint arrow heads and spear heads, and that.the skull was much larger than the ordinary size of craniums moving around at the present day. A full-grown person placed his head inside the skull, The Louisville Courier Journal, however, tells a bigger story thus- "Workmen in the new fire cistern, in Jeffersonville, Kentucky exhumed, twelve foot from the surface, a part of the skeleton of a giant at least  twelve feet high. The skull was badly broken by the workmen, but sufficient of the jaw and face bones were saved to show that it was the remains of a monstrous sized human being,” A shinbone was dug up which measured near three feet in height.”

Human Giants Skull Discovered on Vancouver Island B.C., is Donated to the Smithsonian Institution

Human Giants Skull Discovered on Vancouver Island, B.C.,  Donated to the Smithsonian

    Captain Newton H. Chittenden of Santa Barbara, California, yesterday presented to the Smithsonian Institution the skull of an aboriginal giant, which he found on the southern shore of Vancouver Island, B. C., about a week ago.  The specimen which is that of a Flathead Indians was obtained by the owner at great personal risk, and he has long treasured it as priceless.  It has been the object of great interest among the may European anthropologists who have  seen it and many have offered great sums to tempt Capt. Chittenden to part with it, but until yesterday he persistently declined.