There Were Giants on the Earth
(From Various Scources)
In the Joseph Smith translation of Genesis 6:4 it says “And in those days there were
Giants on the earth and they sought Noah to take away his life.”
From Forrgotten Ages published by Dr J. R. Jochmans
Other Giant remains, from historic rather than prehistoric times, have been brought to
light on practically every continent. In 1928, workmen blasting a tunnel in the Andes Mountains
for the Ecuador Central Railroad, suddenly opened an entrance to a buried cavern. Inside, the
amazed workers gawked at stone coffins containing the skeletons of several eight-foot and ninefoot
giants, The bones were forwarded to a university–and disappeared. About the same time, a
human skeleton 17 feet tall was unearthed at Gargayan in the Philippines, and other specimens–
13 feet in size–made their appearance in Ceylon. In 1960, at Tura in southwest Assam state in
India–near the border or Bangladesh–a crew was digging a foundation for a new building on a
college campus, when their shovels came upon a curious mound of stones less than four feet
below the surface. Removing the stones, the Indians exposed the remains of an 11-foot man.
Conservative scholars were quick to dismiss the skeleton as being that of a large ape—a
consensus formed without even examining the bones, Those who did see the remains, however,
identified them as unquestionaly human. What is more, buried with the giant were charcoal bits,
flints, and a metal bowl. As one witness remarked, “I’ve never known these objects to be buried
with an ape.”
In 1969, construction workers excavating a site for a factory near Terracina, sixty miles
from Rome, bulldozed into a pit containing a row of fifty tiled coffins. Each coffin contained a
skeleton, all of which were between 6 and a half and 8 feet tall. State archaeologist Dr. Luigi
Cavallucci, who analyzed the find, noted that the bones were remarkably well preserved, and all
the specimens had been males, and in their forties when they died. The conservative suggestion
that was that this had been A group of special Roman legionaries, chosen for their height. But
there were a number of problems with this theory: First, the skeletons were not abnormally tall,
due to pituitary overgrowth; rather, the bones were well proportioned and healthy–meaning they
belonged to a truly giant race, and not of short Roman stock. Second, no Latin inscriptions were
found with the remains to date them to the Roman period. In fact, no inscriptions were dug up
whatsoever, leaving the age of the remains very much in question. And third, as researcher John
Battle noted: “Roman soldiers were buried with their uniforms, armor, and weapons. Their
military trappings were placed beside them in their coffins. But there was nothing in these
coffins except the bones.”
Without a doubt the highest concentration of giant bones and giant artifacts are to be
foundin North America–which sheds light on a peculiar aspect of the forgotten history of this
continent. The Desert Weekly of Salt Lake City, Utah, reported in the issue or March 14, 1891, a
discovery made by workmen digging the foundation of a new hotel in Crittendon, Arizona—
about 50 miles southeast of Tucson. Eight feet below the surface the workers came upon a large
hardened clay sarcophagus and, prying the lid open, they found a granite case containing
the skeleton of a man 12 feet tall. The unknown giant had had long hair, and wore a bird-shaped
headdress. Unfortunately, by the time investigators arrived to examine the find, the bones had
crumbled to dust. About that same time and in the same area–in an abandoned Indian cliff
dwelling south of Winslow, Arizona a cowboy came upon an enormous human skull. Author
Jesse J. Benton, who recorded the incident in his book Cows By the Trail1 tells how the
cowhand put his own normal-sized stetson on the giant skull–and, in comparison, he reported, it
looed like one of those tiny hats that merrymakers wear on New Year’s.
In neighboring Nevada, a number of giant remains have been discovered in and around
Lovelock Cave near Lovelock, eighty miles northeast of Reno. In 1911 a guano mining
operation began unearthing large bones and mummies of several
individuals who had once stood between 6 and 1/2 and 9 feet in height. John T. Reid,
ore of the mining engineers and also an amateur archaeologist, attempted to get professors from
the University of California to see the strange remains. Finally one did arrive, accompanied by
another •authority” from New York. The two
gathered potsherds and basketry, and later published an article on these—but they would not have
a thing to do with the “nonconformist” giant bones. In 1931
more skeletons–this time 8 feet and 10 feet long–were brought to light from the Humbo1dt lake
bed near the Lovelock Cave. These had been bandaged in a gum. covered cloth, like Egyptian
mummies. And in 1939, still another specimen, this one 7 feet 7 inches, was discovered on the
Friedman Ranch near Lovelock itself.
Tragically , while various findings were all well-documented, the bones themselves were either
eventually thrown away or in one case, a collection was destroyed by fire. Today, only a handful
of the bones are kept by a private museum in Winnemucca.
In the mid-west and east many more titan remains have made unexpected appearances.
From a mound 71 feet and diameter and about 4 feet high located ‘Brewersville, Indiana, a
number of investigators uncovered in 1879 a number of skeletons, one of which was 9 feet 8
inches long. A necklace of mica was strung about his neck, and at his feet a human figure of
fired clay imbedded with piece of flint had been placed. Flints and axes also buried with the
bones were determined by the Indiana State Historical Society to be unlike any of those of the
Indians in that area. These remains, however, were lost in a flood in 1937. About that same time,
in Ohio, the American Antiquarian (volume 18, page 60) reported that another mound had
produced a copper axe 22 inches long–and weighed 38 pounds. In l925 at Walkerton–20 miles
southwest of South Bend, Indiana–a group of amateur archaeologists opened still another mound,
this one containing eight skeletons from 8 to 9 feet tall, wearing heavy copper armor. The bones
and artifacts were unfortunately scattered and lost.
In the New England states, the 1880’s saw the discovery of several gargantuan finds.
During construction of a rail link between Cazenovia and Canastota, New York. five skeletons
were unearthed, one of which was more than 11 feet long. Near Tioga Point, Pennsylvania, a
team of antiquarians dug into yet another mystery
mound. Among the team were state historian Dr. 0. P. Donehue, professor A. B. Skinner of the
American Investigating Museum, and Professor W. K. Morehead of Phillips Andover Academy.
The astounded experts uncovered the bones of 68 men none of which were less than 7 feet tail.
The remains were promptly sent to the American Investigating Museum in Philadelphia–and just
as promptly lost. In 1886, an amateur archaeologist named W. N. Scovill probed into another
mound at nearby Ellishurg, and found bones of a man almost 8 feet tall.
By far the highest number of giant remains for one area have been
Unearthed in Minnesoata. Again, the decade of the 1880’s was the time when most of the
significant finds were made: The St Paul Pioneer Press on June 29, 1885 reported that mounds
located west of Chatfield yielded six skeletons 7 to 8 feet tall, all with receding foreheads. Other
men of the 8-foot category were unearthed by workers clearing ancient mounds to make way for
expansion of a brick factory in Dresbach. These bones were so old that they crumbled to dust on
exposure to air. At Clearwater, more mounds yielded up more giant skeletons, with receding
foreheads and buried upside down. At La Crescent, mounds contained titan bones, with huge, flat
cooking pans. The American Anthropologist, no. 5, vol. 8, p.229 described a stone axe head
discovered “with the pointed end embedded in the soil at Birchwood”, It was exhibited in the
collection of the Missouri Historical Society, which found the axe to be 28 inches long, 14 inohes
wide, and 11 inches thick. The problem was–it weighed 300 pounds. In August, 1896,
the St. Paul Globe published an account of the findings of a 9-foot skeleton on a farm near Lake
Koronis. The bones of 7-foot men turned up near Moose Island Lake, while a gravesite at Pine
City brought to light seven more gargantuan skeletal frames. In 1882, a mound near Warren
produced ten giant skeletons, as well as an added mystery: the bones of horses, animals which
were not supposed to be found in America until after the advent or the Spanish in the sixteenth
century…,.
Why have so many giant remains been found in Wisconsin? It is noteworthy that the
Sioux Indians have legends which claim that ages ago their forefathers slaughtered a race of
giants in a battle in Minnesota. In fact many Indian legends throughout America recount how,
before their people inhabited this land, a race of giants lived here, whom the Indians
overwhelmed and wiped out in a war of genocide. Surprisingly, the Indian stories find
confirmation in Greek, Hindu, Chinese and Incan literature.
Did a Giant Race Once Inhabit North America?
In 1833 a work party of soldiers was ordered to dig a foundation for a powder magazine at an
army outpost on Lompock Ranchero, in California. Their spades barely broke the surface when
suddenly the soldiers came upon a layer of carefully placed stone and gravel. Breaking through
this with bars and picks, the workers came upon an astounding sight. Below was a stone coffin
surrounded by carved shells, a massive stone axe, large flint spear points, and several tablets of
porphyry covered with an unknown script. But what the soldiers could not believe is what was
lying in the coffin: the skeleton of a man who in life would have stood over 12 feet tall. A priest
from a local Spanish mission was summoned by the commanding officer, to see if he could read
the stones with writing, and determine the giant’s origin. Though versed in several European
languages and Church Latin, the padre found the script alien, and could only repeat the Bible
passages concerning the days of old when “giants were in the earth” when he examined the
bones. The Indians in a nearby settlement, however, heard of the find, and the shaman or
medicine man” of the tribe solved the mystery of the giant’s origin. The bones, he said, were that
of an alhegewi, a race of titans who according to their legends had occupied the land before the
Indians, and who the Indians wiped out in a war of extermination. The shaman demanded that the
bones be turned over to his tribe, for the spirit of great strength and cunning were still in them, to
be worshipped and rekindled by hispeople. But a potential uprising was the last thing the
commander of the outpost wanted, so–as one of the officers who witnessed the events later
recorded—the commander gave the bones and artifacts to the priest at the local mission, and he
reburied them in a secret place. They have yet to be rediscovered today…..
The Indian legend which the shaman told is not just an isolated story, but is a tradition
found among many Indian nations across North America. The Piutes of Nevada still speak today
with strong distaste about a race of red-haired giants called by them the Sitecah, with whom their
forefathers once fought. Finding no land to expand for their people, and constantly harassed by
roving bands of these giants, the Piute of long ago allied with other intermountain tribes, and
attacked the Sitecah. A long and bloody war ensued, with great casualties on both sides.
Eventually the large numbers of Indians outweighed the superior strength and cunning of the
giants, and the Sitecan were driven into the Pit River area near Shasta Lake and Mount Shasta–
where they disappeared from history.
Other Indian legends, of the mid-west and east, record a war of even greater intensity.
What is most interesting is that the Indians identify the ruins of the Mound Builders–those tens of
thousands of mysterious earthworks found scattered throughout the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio
river valleys, from Georgia to Minnesota and from Nebraska to West Virginia–as having
belonged to the giants. This contradicts modern conservative opinion which theorizes that the
mound constructions were done by the ancestors of the Indians themselves. Some Indians say
yes, their forefathers did indeed work on the earthworks–but as slaves to the giants, who were the
real masterminds, while other Indians, especially the Sioux, Deleware and Iroquois, claim it was
their ancestral peoples who defeated the giants and ended their mound-building projects. In fact
it has been in many of the ancient mounds found in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York and
Minnesota that giant skeletons and artifacts were unearthed. The
weight of evidence therefore points to the Indians’ legends possessing the historical fact–not the
conservative theories.
According to the Indian accounts (as preserved in Volume 12 of Memoires of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania , in the distant past the Deleware-Lenni-lenape peoples swept
in a flood of migration from the far west, but on reaching the valleys west of the Mississippi, they
were confronted by a well-entrenched people of tremendous stature and possessing a high
civilization. These people they called the “Allegewi” or “Telligewi”–much the same as given
to them by the California Indians, and after whom the Alleghany river and mountains were
named. The progress of the Deleware-Lenni-lenape was stopped, and they were driven back but
not discouraged. At the same time, the Iroquois people were trying to find a passage through
Allegewi territory, from the north. Two migratory peoples eventually entered into an alliance
together, and proclaimed war against the giants. One by one, the Allegewi strngholds
fell, and the giants were forced to become wanderers along the streams and river-systems they
had attempted to defend. Another tradition affirms that the primitive Indian invaders, because of
their great numbers, successfully overwhelmed the ancient gargantuan inhabitants of the northcentral
states, and that the last great battle in this area was fought at the falls of the Ohio river,
where the remnant was driven upon a small island below the rapids, and there the whole of them
cut to pieces. The Indian chief, Tobacco, informed General George Rogers Clark of a legend in
which was preserved the memory of a battle fought at Sandy Island, where “the first peoples of
this land” had been slaughtered. Another Indian chief, Cornplanter, told that Ohio, Kentucky and
Tennessee had once been inhabited by a gigantic white-skinned people, who were familiar with
the arts of civilization, which hi own forefathers knew nothing of. After a series of battles with
the invading tribes, these former inhabitants were completely exterminated. The chief also
declared that the old burial places–the mounds–were the graves of these indigenous giants, and
that the great earthen fortresses had not been constructed by his people, but belonged to the “very
long ago” people, who were huge, light-complexioned, and skilled in many arts. The Indians also
had a superstition concerning the territory of what is now Kentucky. One Indian elder
expressed his astonishment that present-day white folk would want to live in a region which had
been the scene of such conflicts as had taken place there. An old Sac Indian, in 1800, said that
Kentucky was filled with ghosts of its slaughtered giant inhabitants, and wondered why the white
man could make it his home.
When we look at the Mound Builder earthworks in the northern and central states, it is
interesting to note that they are mostly defense enclosures which, for the most part, face the north
and west–the directions the Indians claim their forefathers invaded from…..
The memory that North America was once inhabited by giants has
been preserved not only by the Indians, but also by ancient peoples in other parts of the world.
One of the oldest Chinese literary works, the Shan Hai King, the “Classic of Mountains and
Seas,” a geography book dating back in its original form to 2250B.C. Recent analysis by experts
has brought to light the fact that portions of this early work give a detailed and highly accurate
description of the major mountains and rivers of North America–revealing that the ancient
Chinese once undertook a scientific survey of this continent over 4,000 years ago. In the Ninth
and Fourteenth Books of the Shan Hai King are fragments of observations made by the Oriental
survey team of the various people inhabiting America at that time. In the regions of the
“Southeast Corner to the Northeast Corner” (from Georgia to New England),as well as in the
“Great Waste” (the western and south-western deserts), the Chinese called the “Great Men’s
Country.” One of the surveyors, named Cheu-fu~Chang, found in the west not far from the
“Great Canyon Where the Sun is Born”–the Grand Canyon–a wooden arrow with a metal point”
6 ½ feet long. He calculated that its owner must have been 12 to 15 feet tall. A
footnote to this discovery, given in the Fourteenth Book, tells how ancient Japanese sailors once
encountered bad weather, and were driven onto the shores of the “Eastern Continent.” There,
before their return home, they encountered “tall savages of a foreign tribe” more than 11 feet
high. Other early Chinese literature, such as Ho-tu’s “Album of Gems” and the “Kuh-liang
History” speak of strange lands beyond the Pacific called Ta-tsin” and “Lin-t’ao,” where men of
huge stature lived, leaving behind footprints many feet in size where they walked.
The giants of North America appear at one time to have been a restless,
warlike breed, for several ancient sources describe their invasions of other lands. The last
surviving Incan prince, and historian of his people, Garcilasco de la Vega, preserved the legend in
his multi-volume opus Commentaries Reales de los Incas, that Peru was once attacked by a
gigantic race from the North. He recounted that they first arrived by sea upon the northern
Peruvian coast in the Manta region: “The giant men were strange to behold; their
eyes were large, and their hair was worn long. They were. beardless and their skin was light.
A few of the giants wore animal skins for clothing; others walked the land without clothes. They
built a settlement near the sea, at a spot along the desert land of the Manta region. They dug
enormous wells.” De la Vega further described how the giants, not finding enough to eat, began
raiding local villages and cities, killing and pillaging, and striking terror in everyone because of
their gigantic size. The Incan historian claimed that the giants were then struck dead from some
catastrophe originating in the sky–and that all that is left of their reign of terror are giant bones
scattered across the Peruvian countryside…..
The most detailed account of the American giants and their migrations comes to us from
the Greek Theopompus of Chios, a student of Plato. The Roman chronicler Aelian, in his Varia
Historia (c. A.D. 200) preserved portions of Theopompus’ lost work Maropidae, written in 320
B.C. In this work, the Greek recorded a conversation between King Midas of Phrygia and the
satyr Silenos. Theopompus–through Silenos–repeated Plato’s accurate observation in the
Timaeus and Critias that on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean from Europe is another land mass
which he called the “outer continent.” Silenos then proceeded to describe the inhabitants and
nations of this distant western country: “The people are twice as tall as those common to our
climate (Europe), As a race they are called Merops, and occupy that portion of the continent
called Anostos (“no return”), its shores often covered by mist, and where the two rivers run
nearby, the River of Pleasure and that of Grief, The Merops giants have several large towns
governed according to their own customs. Among these are two which in no way resemble each
other. The first is Eusebius (the peaceful). The earth is so productive of its fruits that its peoples
need neither plows or oxen–it is unnecessary to sow or till the soil. The Eusebian giants die
happily and smiling. The second metropolis is Machimos (the warlike), and here the inhabitants–
numbering no less than two million–are very belligerent. They are always armed, always
fighting, and work unceasingly to conquer, expanding their frontiers, thanks to which they
command over several neighboring nations. Once, the Machimos giants desired to invade our
islands (Europe), and gathered together from among themselves and the other nations of the outer
continent they dominated a great hoste of ten million strong. They crossed the ocean,
arriving on the shores of the land of the Hyperboreans (Britain). But upon learning that the
Hyperboreans were the happiest of our nations, but which to their eyes was displeasing, the giants
continued no further in their invasions.”
The details presented by Theopompus find several interesting parallels in other Greek
accounts. Homer, about 850 B.C., in his Odyssey, Book IX, described a land of gigantic
“Cyclops” strikingly similar to the description above:
“With heavy hearts we labor through the tide,
To coasts unknown and oceans yet untried.
The land of Cyclops first, a savage kind,
Nor tamed by manners, nor by laws confined;
Untaught to plant, to turn the glebe or sow;
They all their products to free nature owe.
The soil untilled a ready harvest yields,
With wheat and barley wave the golden fields.”
Homer also described in his Odyssey, Book VI, a people called the Phaeacians as once inhabiting
“Hyperia,” the land to the far north, but who were forced to move
to new lands because of Cyclopean invasions:
“In elder times the soft Phaeacian train
In ease possessed the wide Hyperian plain;
Til the Cyclopean race in arms arose,
A lawless nation of gigantic foes;
The great Nausithous from Hyperia far,
Through seas retreating from the sounds of war,
The recreant nation to fair Scheria led….”
All the same elements are present here as found in Theopompus’ account: Both refer to an
invasion of Britain–Hyperia and Hyperborea are synonymous–by a Cyclopean or gigantic race at
some time in the distant past. Herodotus the historian (Book IV, p. 2?), likewise spoke of the
Arimaspians– “one-eyed giants–who “lived at the northern-most limit of Europe.” which Britain
at that time was considered. Even the distant Hindus, who revealed their intimate arid very accur
ate knowledge of Europe in the geographic portions of the Puranas, called Britain both the “White
Island” arid the “Island of the Mighty Ones.” In the Ramavana
Ravana inquires, “Where do the mighty ones dwell?” and is told by Narada, “They dwell in the
White Island of Varaha-dwipa”–western Europe.
One last interesting point to take note of is that Theopompus divided the
giants of America into two major groups1 the “peaceful” arid “warlike.” Archaeologists
examining the earthworks of the Mound Builders divide the structures into two general areas–
north and south–each possessing their own particular architectural and artistic traits. Those
mounds found among the southern states are characterized by temple platforms, truncated
pyramids, etc. usually located in flat places, with no surrounding walls or other concerns for
defense whatsoever. The northern Mound Builders were for the most part of a different nature:
their earthworks were predominantly fortress enclosures, usually constructed on river terraces,
where the summits provided good strongholds. In practically every example of these elaborate
defense structures, there is displayed great engineering skill and military knowledge. The
northern Mound Builders thus seem: to have been preoccupied with fighting arid war–while their
southern neighbors had no such preoccupation. Is it only coincidence that these are the very same
characteristics of Theopompus’ American giants?
We have only scratched the surface here in regards to the stories and legends,
and bones and artifacts, found around the world and especially in America that demonstrate the
existence of giants in the unknown past. Far more research and diggings are needed to fill in the
gaps of what we still do not know. And at the same time, better recognition must be given to
those facts which we do know. The whole notion of giants can no longer be relegated to the realm
of fantasy their remains and works are real enough, and the stories of their exploits are based on
actual memories of historical events. Perhaps someday, when we read again the account of
Goliath in the Bible, we shall not smile in amusement, but realize that we are meeting face-toface
with a survivor of a forgotten race who once walked the earth, and built a lost civilization on
the American continent….
Giant Skeletons
Giant Skeletons
In his book, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, author John Haywood
describes “very large” bones in stone graves found in Williamson County, Tennessee, in
In White County, Tennessee, an “ancient fortification” contained skeletons of
gigantic stature averaging at least 7 feet in length.
Giant skeletons were found in the mid-1800s near Rutland and Rodman, New York. J.N.
DeHart, M.D. found vertebrae “larger than those of the present type” in Wisconsin
mounds in 1876. W.H.R. Lykins uncovered skull bones “of great size and thickness” in
mounds of Kansas City area in 1877.
George W. Hill, M.D., dug out a skeleton “of unusual size” in a mound of Ashland County,
Ohio. In 1879, a nine-foot, eight-inch skeleton was excavated from a mound near
Brewersville, Indiana(Indianapolis News, Nov 10, 1975)
A six foot, six inch skeleton was found in a Utah mound. This was at least a foot taller
than the average Indian height in the area, and these natives- what few there were of
them -were not mound builders.
“A skeleton which is reported to have been of enormous dimensions” was found in a clay
coffin, with a sandstone slab containing hieroglyphics, during mound explorations by a Dr
everhart near Zanesville, Ohio.(American Antiquarian, v3, 1880, pg61)
Ten skeletons “of both sexes and of gigantic size” were taken from a mound at Warren,
Minnesota, 1883. (St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 23, 1883)
A skeleton 7 feet 6 inches long was found in a massive stone structure that was likened
to a temple chamber within a mound in Kanawha County, West Virginia, in 1884.
(American Antiquarian, v6, 1884 133f. Cyrus Thomas, Report on Mound Explorations of
the Bureau of Ethnology, 12th Annual Report, Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-
91)
A large mound near Gasterville, Pennsylvania, contained a vault in which was found a
skeleton measuring 7 feet 2 inches. Inscriptions were carved on the vault. (American
Antiquarian, v7, 1885, 52f) click here for full article
In 1885, miners discovered the mummified remains of woman measuring 6 feet 8 inches
tall holding an infant. The mummies were found in a cave behind a wall of rock in the
Yosemite Valley. click here for full article
In Minnesota, 1888, were discovered remains of seven skeletons 7 to 8 feet tall. (St. Paul
Pioneer Press, June 29, 1888)
A mound near Toledo, Ohio, held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with jaws and
teeth “twice as large as those of present day people,” and besides each was a large bowl
with “curiously wrought hieroglyphic figures.” (Chicago Record, Oct. 24, 1895; cited by
Ron G. Dobbins, NEARA Journal, v13, fall 1978)
The skeleton of a huge man was uncovered at the Beckley farm, Lake Koronis,
Minnesota; while at Moose Island and Pine City, bones of other giants came to light. (St.
Paul Globe, Aug. 12, 1896)
In 1911, several red-haired mummies ranging from 6 and a half feet to 8 feet tall were
discovered in a cave in Lovelock, Nevada. click here for the full article
In February and June of 1931, large skeletons were found in the Humboldt lake bed near
Lovelock, Nevada. The first of these two skeletons found measured 8 1/2 feet tall and
appeared to have been wrapped in a gum-covered fabric similar to the Egyptian manner.
The second skeleton was almost 10 feet long.(Review – Miner, June 19, 1931)
A 7 foot 7 inch skeleton was reported to have been found on the Friedman ranch, near
Lovelock, Nevada, in 1939.(Review – Miner, Sept. 29, 1939)
In 1965, a skeleton measuring 8 feet 9 inches was found buried under a rock ledge along
the Holly Creek in east-central Kentucky. click here for the full article
ANOTHER GIANT FIND:
This One an “Enigma” From the Depths of the Earth–There is
one find of gigantic bones that deserves special attention, because it belongs
in a class by itself.
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In July 1877, four prospectors were looking for gold and silver outcroppings in the
desolate hills near the head of Spring valley, not far from Eureka, Nevada. Scanning the rocks,
one of the men spotted something peculiar projecting from a high ledge. Climbing up to get a
better look, the prospector was surprised to find a human leg-bone and knee cap sticking out of
solid rock. He called to his companions1 and together they dislodged the oddity with picks.
Realizing they had a most unusual find, the men brought it into Eureka, where it
was placed on display.
The stone in which the bones were embedded was a hard, dark red quartzite,
and the bones themselves were almost black with carbonization indicative of a tremendous age.
When the surrounding stone was carefully chipped away, the specimen was found to be
composed of a leg bone broken off four inches above the knee, the knee cap and joint, the lower
leg bones, and the complete bones of the foot. Several medical doctors examined the remains,
and were convinced that anatomically they had indeed once belonged to a human being, and a
very modern- looking one. But the most intriguing aspect of the bones was their size: From
knee to heel they measured 39 inches. Their owner in life had thus stood over 12 ft tall.
Compounding the mystery further was the fact that the rock in which the bones were dated
geologically to the era of the dinosaur, the Jurassic.
Another report, this one from Australia, was received by the
author in personal correspondence from Mr. Rex Gikoy of the
Mount York Natural History Museum in Mount Victoria. Mr.
Gikoy stated in his letter that he “prefers to keep an open mind,
being free of all scientific prejudices and dogmas.” He went on to
state he is the “only archeologist in Australia researching on the
likelihood that giant men once occupied this land.” He described his
findings. “The most common of all giant fossil footprints found in
Australia are generally 24 inches long by 7 inches across the toes. It
is estimated that the creatures to whom these prints belong must have
stood from 10 to 12 feet tall.”
Mr. Gikoy has also found stone artifacts belonging to humans
of some type, “clubs, hammer stones and other types to 361bs. It is
evident that such artifacts were beyond the strength of any normal
human being.” In another place, Mr. Gilroy states, “I do believe
that these were no mere apeman’, but that they were men of
considerable intellect for stone-age men.”
From book Treasures of the Ancients by Stephen B. Shaffer p. 31-32, Cedar Fort inc. 1996
Dr. Heinerman followed Brewer into a tunnel that had been dug on a downward track, barely
squeezing and squirming like a worrn through the narrow passageway. After a short distance he
carne to an opening, and reaching down felt the edge of a set of stairs that led into a chamber. The
chamber was about twenty feet long and fourteen feet wide. The air was stifling and breathing
was very labored. Several inches of fine dust covered everything, and puffed up with each step
that they took. About twenty-five stone boxes were stacked against one wall and another twenty
against the other wall. Most were wrapped with a cover of juniper bark with pine pitch smeared
all over them to make them waterproof. In a smaller chamber were two mummies of large stature.
( From the Book
Footprints On The
Sands of Time by Dr
Clifford Burdick
Geologist )
Dr. Heinerman describes the mummies:
“The texture of their skin was soft, almost moist, like tanned leather. In the cave I saw an
abundance of weapons, swords, tools, copper and metal plates of various sizes, all of which were
very curious. Some of the copper, plates were of a strange composition, shattering like glass into
fibrous pieces, not unlike the windshield of a car, if dropped. I believe that this chamber houses at
least two different ages of antiquities.” (See Pictures at the end of this paper )
From the book Hidden Treasures of Ancient American Cultures by John Heinerman, 2001,
Bonnevile Books, Springvile, Utah.
Two young teenage boys, Orson W. Huntsman and David U. Huntsman, were out roaming
around on a 10-mile stretch of grassy bench land situated between their father’s big ranch and the
town of Tooele. Now bordering this wide grassy region were surrounding hills that carried
evident marks of the ancient shoreline of old Lake Bonneville. They were eager to explore around
on this terrace to satisfy their own innate curiosities.
As they looked upward to a hill just above them, they noticed from a certain angle a hole
in the side of it. With renewed excitement, they eagerly scrambled up to the entrance and
discovered about ten feet inside, something very old, dry, and shriveled up. It looked to them like
an old discarded “squash,” which is what they called it. They continued further in and found
themselves inside a very high and wide cavern of ancient origin. Excited beyond words, they took
their “squash” with them and returned home to show their parents the mysterious find.
When Brigham Young and the other apostles arrived in Tooele a short time later, this
“squash” was taken to him for further evaluation, accompanied with a written explanation of how
it was found. President Young turned the curious object over in his hands a number
of times as he examined it from all sides, while meditatively pondering on the matter at the same
time. Finally, he broke his silence with a short statement to the effect that this supposed “old
squash” was, in reality, the skull of an ancient Jaredite.
He and some of the others expressed a desire to meet the boys who made this discovery
and accompany them to the place where it was first located. Given the propensity of cockiness in
youth, the two Huntsman boys and their egos retched up several notches higher as they led the
Prophet of the Lord and other servants of God back to the well-hidden cavern. With the air being
in short supply and virtually no circulation inside the rock chamber, great care had to be taken
going in. Torches were lit at the entrance way, and several men held aloft a wagon cover to create
just enough air movement underneath, so they could continue burning while providing ample
breathing space for those going inside.
The men had to move very slowly so as not to stir up several inches of yellow human
dust that covered much of the cavern floor. The walls were lined with a number of stone shelves
containing numerous skeletal remains. Awe and wonderment undoubtedly filled the minds of
those privileged to see such ancient evidence for themselves. Finally, Prophet Young broke the
spell-binding silence by declaring that “there were bones of the Jaredites, well a long time”
(see Lamond W. Huntsman’s Huntsman Annals (Provo: J. Grant Stevenson, 1971; pp.46-47).
An even more remarkable find of Jaredite skeletal remains occurred many years ago in
Utah County. It was sometime in the mid-1930s when Utah Lake dropped to its lowest water
levels ever, due to several years of virtually no moisture to speak of. A self-trained naturalistgeologist-
archaeologist from nearby Lehi by the name of John Hutchings (then in his midforties),
was able to walk out a good distance on dry lake bed where he located and excavated
several large mounds. While digging into one of them near the lake’s epicenter (that would
normally have been under many feet of water), he struck what he assumed to be a large rock. But
in the process of further digging around, his slight annoyance turned to amazement as he
discovered a portion of an ancient, rounded, cemented stone roof that had once been covered with
a pitch-like substance (apparently for water-proofing).
He had a small rock hammer and a pointed trowel with him in addition to his shovel.
Patiently he worked away enough stone with these implements to form a hole large enough
through which he could enter. Hutchings never went on any exploratory trip without taking along
some matches and a miner’s coal-oil lantern as well as adequate water and a little dried fruit to
drink or much on whenever he became hungry or thirsty. He now realized just how handy that
lantern would come in. But before lighting it, he walked several feet directly across from his first
hole, dug another one and pried away some more stone. This now gave him both an entry and exit
through which air could travel to keep his lantern from going out.
Once it was lit, he lowered it through the first opening and leaned in to have a better look.
He gauged the distance to the floor to be only four feet, having been lucky enough to penetrate
through on the room’s circular perimeters instead of going in further towards the top, where the
descent would have been much greater and probably required a rope (which he didn’t have with
him at the time) to do so. Once safely inside, he moved towards the center of the chamber where
there was more head room and he could straighten up from his stooped position. A large stone
box sealed with a heavy lid about the size of a small coffin sat in front of him. As he gradually
turned around, the light reflecting off the walls revealed 12 very large skeletons carefully laid out
around the stone chest in a clockwise arrangement, with the skulls facing inward towards the box.
Taking a tape measure from his trouser pocked, he measured several of the skeletons
from head to foot with the lantern on the floor beside him. He was astonished by the
measurements taken: eight-feet-four-inches for one; eight-feet-eleven-inches for another; and
nine-feet-four-inches for a third. When my father took my brother and I, as young teenagers, out
to visit Mr. Hutchings on July 21st, 1961, during the time of this spell-binding narrative, the 72-
year-old gentleman paused long enough to remind us that it helps, at times like this, if one is a
little clairvoyant. He told us that he was and had inherited this gift from his own father as a young
child. Mr. Hutchings said that while he was inside what seemed to be an old burial chamber,
his mind was trying to figure out what civilization had produced such giants as these. Just then a
flash of intelligence crossed his mind with the idea that these were all Jaredite skeletons.
He next examined the stone chest itself and found by measuring its various dimensions to
be thirty inches long, sixteen inches wide, and eighteen inches tall. As he thoughtfully paused to
Give some consideration to removing the sealed lid for an inspection of the contents inside, a
feeling ebbed over him that such an act would be wrong to do. But a general disclosure of what
the chest did contain was brought to his mind. He was given to understand that it contained a
number of different metallic records giving the life histories of each of these individuals, all of
whom apparently belonged to a royal family of some kind. This had been their burial chamber
where the deceased members were interred. As he pondered the propriety of removing
some of the remains themselves, a good feeling descended over him as an indication that such a
thing was permissible.
He left the tomb and walked some distance back to his truck and retrieved half-a-dozen
shaved wood bushel baskets with lids that fit over their wire handles. Orchard growers used these
to shore their picked apples, peaches, and pears in, but Mr. Hutchings used them to carry things
that he found on his various jaunts, such as bird nests, Indian arrowheads and spear points,
pottery shards, willow baskets, grass sandals, and rock and mineral specimens. He returned to the
tomb and carefully placed six of the complete skeletons into each bushel basket. He remarked to
my father, brother and I in his narration that the arm bones were so long on some of these
skeletons, “the hand-and-finger bones almost reached the kneecaps on a few of them.” He closed
up both holes after exiting the chamber and made sure all evidence of human presence in the area
was obliterated before leaving the spot. He gave three skeletons to the University of Utah and two
others to Brigham Young University, keeping the best one of the bunch for himself. He told
professors at both schools how he came by way of them, but instead of winning their
compliments, he suffered their scorn and ridicule. “They just laughed at me, saying there was no
such thing in the middle of Utah Lake,” my father later recorded in his unpublished life’s history.
“After that I wanted nothing more to do with professors or educated men” (taken from “My Life’s
Journal” by Jacob Heinerman, pp.31-37).
An early LDS newspaper, The Evening and Morning Star (1(3):22; August 1832)
identified exceptionally large skeletons (like those previously referred to in this text) as being
ancient Jaredites:
“…As they were a very large race of men, whenever we hear that uncommon large bones have
been dug up from the earth, we may conclude, that was the skeleton of a Jaredite! Outside of the
Beehive State, skeletons of gigantic proportions have been found in other parts of America,
including some along the Western Reserve (a tract of land in NE Ohio, on the southern shore of
Lake Erie).
From the Journal History of the Church under September 8th, 1880 (p.3) is a clipping
from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer about an excavated mound in Muskingum County filled with
giant remains. “In one grave, there were two skeletons – one male and one female. The male
skeleton measured nine feet in length, and the female eight feet. In another grave were also found
two skeletons – male and female. The male frame in this case was nine feet four inches in length,
and the female eight feet. In another grave was found a female skeleton, holding in her arms the
skeleton of a child three feet and a half long. [A] remaining seven [skeletons] were found in
single graves, and were lying on their sides. The smallest of the seven was nine feet in length,
and the largest ten.”
Some of the antiquarian city, county, and state histories of the early 19th century contain
occasional references to extraordinary-sized human remains. Case in point would be Harvey
Rice’s Pioneers of the Western Reserve (p.303), in which he described an ancient burial
ground that was uncovered in i8oo. Concerning the giant skeletons found in this particular Ohio
mound, we read: “Human bones of gigantic proportions were discovered in such a state of
preservation as to be accurately described and measured. The cavities of the skulls were large
enough in their dimensions to receive the entire head of a man of modern times, and could be put
on one’s head with as much ease as a hat or cap. The jaw-bones were sufficiently large to admit
being placed so as to match or fit the outside of a modern man’s face. The other bones, so far as
discovered, appeared to be of equal proportions with the skulls and jaw-bones. Several of [these]
have been preserved as relics in the cabinets of antiquarians, where they may still be seen.”
An Ancient Cemetary of Giants Near Niagara, NY
(From The Daily Telegraph , Toronto, Ontario Wed August 23, 1871 )
TWO HUNDRED GIANT SKELETONS OF ANAKIN IN CAYUGA TOWNSHIP
DISCOVERED IN ANCIENT CEMETARY
Cayuga, August 21– “On Wednesday last, Rev. Nathaniel Wardell, Messers. Orin Wardell (of
Toronto), and Daniel Fredenburg, were digging on the farm of the latter gentleman, which is on
the banks of the Grand River, in the township of Cayuga. When they got to five or six feet below
the surface, a strange sight met them. Piled in layers, one upon top of the other, some two
hundred skeletons of human beings nearly perfect– around the neck of each one being a string of
beads.
“There were also deposited in this pit a number of axes and skimmers made of stone. In
the jaws of several of the skeletons were large stone pipes– one of which Mr. 0. Wardell took
with him to Toronto a day or two after this Golgotha was unearthed.
“These skeletons are those of men of gigantic stature, some of them measuring nine feet,
very few of them being less than seven feet. Some of the thigh bones were found to be at least a
foot longer than those at present known, and one of the skulls being examined completely
covered the head of an ordinary person. These skeletons are supposed to belong to those of a race
of people anterior to the Indians.
“The farm, which consists of 150 acres, has been cultivated for nearly a century, and was
covered with a thick growth of pine, so that it must have been ages ago since the remains were
deposited there. The skulls of the skeletons are of an enormous size and all manner of shapes,
about half as large again as are now to be seen. The teeth in most of them are still in almost
perfect state of preservation, though they soon fall out when exposed to the air.
Some large shells, supposed to have been used for holding water, which were also found in the
pit, were almost petrified. There is no doubt that were a scheme of exploration carried on
thoroughly the result would be highly interesting. A good deal of excitement exists in the
neighborhood, and many visitors call at the farm daily.
“The skulls and bones of the giants are fast disappearing, being taken away by curiosity
hunters. It is the intention of Mr. Fredinburg to cover the pit up very soon. The pit is ghastly in
the extreme. The farm is skirted on the north by the Grand River. The pit is close to the banks,
From the appearance of the skulls, it would seem that their possessors died a violent death, as
many of them were broken and dented.
“The axes are shaped like tomahawks, small, but keen, instruments. The beads are all of stone
and of all sizes and shapes. The pipes are not unlike in shape the cutty pipe, and several of them
are engraved with dogs’ heads. They have not lost their virtue for smoking. Some people profess
to believe that the locality of Fredinburg farm was formally an Indian burial place, but the
enormous stature of the skeletons and the fact that pine trees of centuries growth covered the spot
goes far to disprove this idea” (Taken Fro Ancient American Vol. 6 , Number 41, 2001)
In 1872, the Historical Collections of Noble County Ohio (p. 350,351), a mound was uncovered,
in which were found “the remains of three skeletons whose size would indicate they measured in
life at least eight feet in height. The remarkable feature of these remains was they had double
teeth in front as well as in back of mouth and in both upper and lower jaws. Upon exposure to the
atmosphere the skeletons crumbled back to mother earth.”
Giants
Reprint: Facts for the Times: A collection of Valuable Historical Extracts, pages 1 71-72
G.I.Butler, 1885
In the first age of the world, man lived almost a thousand years; while now he rarely exceeds the
allotted threescore and ten.
This is clearly shown, not only by the Bible and ancient history, but by the discoveries of antediluvian
remains.
The Gospel Herald of Dayton. Ohio, gives the following account:
In the Scientific Department of one of our most popular weekly exchanges, we find an interesting account of
a large human skeleton. recently discovered in Am, France.
The frame is complete in all its parts, and is four yards in height. It was found in a soil of alluvium, the head
buried in the earth, with the feet upward.
Day before yesterday, while the quarrymen employed by the Sauk Rapids Water Power Company
(Minnesota] were engaged in quarrying rock for the dam which is being erected across the Mississippi at this place,
they found embedded in the solid granite rock the remains of a human being of gigantic stature.
About seven feet below the surface of the ground, and about three and a half feet beneath the upper stratum
of rock, the remains were found imbedded in the sand, which had evidently been placed in the quadrangular grave
which had been dug out of the solid rock to receive the last remains of this antediluvian giant.
The grave was twelve feet in length, four feet wide, and about three feet in depth, and is today, at least two
feet below the present level of the river.
The remains are completely petrified, and are of gigantic dimensions. The head is massive, measures thirty
one and one half inches in circumference. but low in the os frontis, and very flat on the top.
The femur measures twenty six and a quarter inches. and the fibula twenty five and a half, while the body is
equally long in proportion.
From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot. the length is ten feet nine and a half inches. The measure
around the chest is fifty nine and a half inches. This giant must have weighed at least nine hundred
pounds when covered with a reasonable amount of flesh.
(Taken From Ancient American Issue # 43, p. 17 )
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Sketch of Manti Mummy (male) and figures on Mummy
case. Mummy was 8 ft tall, Note figures of dinosaur head.
(From Hidden Treasures of Ancient American Cultures)
Sketch of Female Mummy From Manti
Cave . Mummy 8 ft tall
(From Hidden Treasures of Ancient
American Cultures)
In 1895, miners working near Bridlevale Falls, California,
discovered the tomb of a woman whose skeletal
remains indicated that she had stood 6-feet 8-inches in
height. She was clutching the remains of a child to her
breast. In 1898, scientists excavating in Death Valley
found the fossilized remains of a female who stood 7-
feet 6-inches in height and whose spine bore several
extra “buttons” at its base, indicating that in life the
woman had been endowed with a tail-like appendage. In
1974, the skeleton of a 7-foot woman was found sealed
in a cave at the crest of a high mesa near Chalk
Mountain, Texas.
“Amazing finds were also made in California about 1810 and in Montana in 1924. One was that
of a six-toed giant, the other was the skull of a man found 130 feet deep in a lava-covered mine.
A human molar embedded in an eocene coal measure was found in November 1926 in No. 3
Eagle Coal Mine atBearcreek, Montana, and in strata anywhere between thirty and seventy-five
million years old. An amazing skull—there is no other word for it!—of a giant man with double
rows of teeth all round the massive jaws was found on Santa Rosa Island in the Santa Barbara
Channel, California. It has a singular tie-in with the statement in the old Babylonian Talmud,
called the Berakthoth, that the giants before the Great Deluge had double rows of teeth!….
On Shemya the men’s job was to build an airstrip for landing purposes. One day in May
1943, a remarkable discovery was made. At the northeast end of this tiny island is a bluff of
sedimentary rock, and below it, on the beach, are strewn igneous and sedimentary boulders.
When these beach boulders were shifted, the bulldozers started to work and turned up layer on
layer of fossils, each layer differing from that below it.
In one of these layers were huge human bones and skulls of giants, lying near fossil ivory and
mammoth and mastodon bones. Some of these giant human skulls lacked the lower jaw. The
skulls were from one foot ten inches to two feet long! They were emphatically human and not animals.
The bones of the animals lay far enough apart for them to be clearly perceptible.
The height of these giants measured no fewer than twenty-four feet! I questioned my informant
and he was positive in his affirmation of the astounding height of these men—a height that tallies
with that asserted in ancient
His story goes on: “These giant remains in the Shemya beach were found about six feet
below the surface. The ground where the skulls and bones were found is swampy and sandy, and
the beach was just muck and deteriorated rock. Mixed in with the big bones were smaller ones.
They might have been deposited there in a cataclysm, but there is evidence that this may have
been also an ancient graveyard of the giants. It is curious that all these skulls of giant men had
holes in them two inches in diameter. Maybe that was in accord with the notion of ancient folk
that you could let the soul out of the head by trephining the crania. It may have been done with
clubs or arrows, but as all the skulls were perforated, I reckon it is more likely that an ancient
ritual was followed?’
( From Out of Time and Place, P. 65 From the files of Fate Magazine, 1999, Liewellyn
Publications, St Paul, Minn. )
Giant Human Remains
– From records and sources all over the world. -submitted by John Williams
Giant Skeletons:
In his book, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, author John Haywood
describes “very large” bones in stone graves found in Williamson County, Tennessee, in
In White County, Tennessee, an “ancient fortification” contained skeletons of gigantic
stature averaging at least 7 feet in length.
Giant skeletons were found in the mid-1800s near Rutland and Rodman, New York. J.N.
DeHart, M.D. found vertebrae “larger than those of the present type” in Wisconsin mounds
in 1876. W.H.R. Lykins uncovered skull bones “of great size and thickness” in mounds of
Kansas City area in 1877.
George W. Hill, M.D., dug out a skeleton “of unusual size” in a mound of Ashland County,
Ohio. In 1879, a nine-foot, eight-inch skeleton was
excavated from a mound near Brewersville, Indiana (Indianapolis News, Nov 10, 1975).
A six foot, six inch skeleton was found in a Utah mound. This was at least a foot taller than
the average Indian height in the area, and these natives- what few there were of them -were
not mound builders.
“A skeleton which is reported to have been of enormous dimensions” was found in a clay
coffin, with a sandstone slab containing hieroglyphics, during mound explorations by a Dr
Everhart near Zanesville, Ohio. (American Antiquarian, v3, 1880, pg61).
Ten skeletons “of both sexes and of gigantic size” were taken from a mound at Warren,
Minnesota, 1883. (St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 23, 1883) A skeleton 7 feet 6 inches long was
found in a massive stone structure that was likened to a temple chamber within a mound in
Kanawha County, West Virginia, in 1884. (American Antiquarian, v6, 1884 133f. Cyrus
Thomas, Report on Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology, 12th Annual Report,
Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-91).
A large mound near Gasterville, Pennsylvania, contained a vault in which was found a
skeleton measuring 7 feet 2 inches. Inscriptions were carved on the vault. (American
Antiquarian, v7, 1885, 52f).
In 1885, miners discovered the mummified remains of woman measuring 6 feet 8 inches tall
holding an infant. The mummies were found in a cave behind a wall of rock in the Yosemite
Valley.
In Minnesota, 1888, were discovered remains of seven skeletons 7 to 8 feet tall. (St. Paul
Pioneer Press, June 29, 1888).
A mound near Toledo, Ohio, held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with jaws and teeth
“twice as large as those of present day people,” and besides each was a large bowl with
“curiously wrought hieroglyphic figures.” (Chicago Record, Oct. 24, 1895; cited by Ron G.
Dobbins, NEARA Journal, v13, fall 1978).
The skeleton of a huge man was uncovered at the Beckley farm, Lake Koronis, Minnesota;
while at Moose Island and Pine City, bones of other giants came to light. (St. Paul Globe,
Aug. 12, 1896).
In 1911, several red-haired mummies ranging from 6 and a half feet to 8 feet tall were
discovered in a cave in Lovelock, Nevada. In February and June of 1931, large skeletons
were found in the Humboldt lake bed near Lovelock, Nevada. The first of these two
skeletons found
measured 8 1/2 feet tall and appeared to have been wrapped in a gum-covered fabric
similiar to the Egyptian manner. The second skeleton was almost 10 feet long. (Review –
Miner, June 19, 1931).
A 7 foot 7 inch skeleton was reported to have been found on the Friedman ranch, near
Lovelock, Nevada, in 1939.(Review – Miner, Sept. 29, 1939) In 1965, a skeleton measuring 8
feet 9 inches was found buried under a rock ledge along the Holly Creek in east-central
Kentucky.
AUSTRALIAN GIANTS:
There was a race or group of people found in Australia called “meganthropus” by
anthropologists. These people were of very large size–estimated between 7 to 12 feet tall,
depending on what source you read. These people were found with mega tool artifacts, so
their humaness is difficult to question. Four jaw fragments and thousands of teeth have
been found in China of “gigantopithecus blacki”–named after the discover. Based on the
size of the teeth and deep jaws, its size has been estimated at around 10 feet and as tall as 12
feet, 1200 pounds.
PROOF OF AUSTRALIAN GIANTS:
In old river gravels near Bathurst, NSW, huge stone artifacts — clubs,
pounders, adzes, chisels, knives and hand axes — all of tremendous weight, lie scattered over
a wide area. These weigh anything from 8, 10, 15, to 21 and 25 pounds, implements which
only men of tremendous proportions could possibly have made and used. Estimates for the
actual size of these men range from 10 to 12 feet tall and over, weighing from 500 to 600 lbs.
A fossicker searching the Winburndale River north of Bathurst discovered a large
quartzitised fossil human molar tooth, far too big for any normal modern man. A similar
find was made near Dubbo, N.S.W.
Prospectors working