Nephilim Giants Once Resided in Salt Lake City, Utah

Nephilim Giants Once Resided in Salt Lake City, Utah

1891 Map of Salt Lake City, Utah with the Jordan River visible on the left.  Joseph Smith called the Ohio Valley, "The Land of the Nephi."  There are hundreds of accounts of giant human skeletons that were found in Ohio, is this giant within the Salt Lake the first Mormon resident?

New York Sun, August 27, 1891
    "The gigantic skeleton of a man, measuring 8 feet 6 inches in height, was found near the Jordan River just outside Salt Lake City, last week. The find was made by a workman who was digging an irrigation ditch. The skull was uncovered at a depth of eight feet from the surface of the ground and the skeleton was standing bolt upright. The workmen had to dig down nine feet in order to exhume it. The bones were much decayed and crumbled at the slightest touch. They were put together with great care and the skeleton was found to measure 8 feet 6 inches in height: the skull measured 11 inches in diameter and the feet 19 inches long. A copper chain, to which was attached three medallions covered with curious hieroglyphics, was found around the neck of the skeleton and near it were found a stone hammer, some pieces of pottery, an arrowhead and some copper medals. Archaeologists believe that the original owner of the skeleton belonged to the race of mound builders."

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. 

Large Hopewell Sioux Indian Skeleton Uncovered in Burial Mound in Southern Illinois

Welch Burial  Mounds in Brown County, Illinois

Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894
     On the spur of the ridge upon which the Welch mounds of Brown county, hereafter noticed, are situated and about midway between them and Chambersburg, in Pike county, is a group of circular mounds, possibly the work of another people than those who built the effigies. They are mainly on the farm of Mr. W. A. Hume, who assisted in opening eight of them, of which but two are specifically noticed here...

The other, situated on the point of a commanding bluff, was also conical in form, 50 feet in diameter and 8 feet high. The outer layer consisted of sandy soil, 2 feet thick, filled with slightly decayed skeletons, probably Indians of intrusive burials. The earth of the main portion of this mound was very fine yellowish sand which shoveled like ashes and was everywhere, to the depth of from 2 to 4 feet, as full of human skeletons as could well be stowed away in it, even to two and three tiers. Among these were a number of bones not together as skeletons, but mingled in confusion and probably from scaffolds or other localities. Excepting one, which was rather more than seven feet long, these skeletons appeared to be of medium size, and many of them much decayed.