9 Foot Ancient Giant Human Unearthed in the Connersville, Indiana Cemetery

9 Foot Ancient Giant Human Unearthed in the Connerville, Indiana

Sunday Vindicator

Sunday, September 12, 1897

NINE FEET TALL

Was This Man Whose Skeletons Was Found In Indiana

     Connersville, IND., Sept 11 - While Sexton Charles Rieman was digging a grave in the city cemetery, he came upon the skeleton of a monster of a man,  It had been buried in a sitting posture with the face to the east, and was about three feet below the surface.  The remains indicate that the being of which this was a veritable giant, probably nine feet in height.  The femur bone is about a yard long, and the massive under jaw is much larger than that of an ordinary man.  It is supposed that the bones are those of an Indian or Mound Builder

Neanderthal Hybrids Described in Iowa Burial Mounds

Neanderthal Hybrids Described in Iowa Burial Mounds

Beetle browed "archaic" type skulls have been described across North America.

History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 1902

    What sort of people were the first inhabitants of Iowa is a question that must ever be of interest. It is generally believed by archaeologists that remains of two distinct prehistoric races have been found in the Valley of the Mississippi.

   The first human skulls discovered resemble those of the gorilla, having the thick ridges over the eyes and an almost total absence of forehead, indicating a low degree of intelligence. Similar skulls have been found throughout the different countries of Europe, indicating that the first inhabitants of the earth known to ethnologists were low-browed, brute-like, small-bodied beings, who were but a grade above the lower animals. Skulls of this type have been found in Illinios, Wisconsin, as well as in Johnson, Floyd, Chickasaw and    Dubuque counties of Iowa.  The first inhabitants of Iowa and the Mississippi Valley of which we have any evidence are called the “Mound Builders.” Stone and copper implements found indicate that they had made progress in the scale of intelligence. Whether they cultivated the soil, erected comfortable dwellings and built towns is not known; but that they made cloth is proven by samples found in mounds, strangely preserved through the innumerable ages that have elapsed. The numbers, color, habits, customs and forms of government of these people, as well as the manner in which their mounds were constructed, the purpose for which these enduring earthworks of various forms

Petrified Human Giant Unearthed in British Columbia, Canada

Petrified Human Giant Unearthed in British Columbia, Canada

New York Times

August 17, 1885

A Petrified Giant

   Victoria, British Columbia, Aug 5- The body of a petrified giant has been found by two farmers who were sinking a well 10 miles from town.  It appearances closely resembles that of a human being.  The head had the appearance of having been scalped.  The material is as hard as flint and the arms and legs are broken off.  The veins and ribs are plainly traced.  A party has gone out for the legs and arms and hands which lie in a hole.  The man whom alive must have been 12 feet in height.