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- Legends throughout the world

have spoken of a race of giants that once walked the Earth.

The Holy Bible speaks about the offspring

of the sons of God and the daughters of man.

It is believed by some that these were the Nephilim,

theorized to be gigantic in nature.

Arguments have risen in the theological community

for centuries, as to what the Nephilim were.

Or if they were indeed the giants that seem to be described.

However, what cannot be argued

is that Judeo-Christian doctrines are not the only ones

to speak of a giant human species.

Who were these giants that once roamed the Earth?

Before the Bible was even conceived of

there were oral histories passed down

from generation to generation in Mesopotamia,

Greece, Rome, Egypt, as well as America.

Most of these legends speak of powerful gods and goddesses

that were larger than life.

History has relegated these legends

to the myth status and they are not seen

as actual historical accounts.

However, it is noteworthy that there were many

of these legends all over the world at one point.

How did so many different cultures,

who had nothing to do with each other,

end up with sImilar stories of giants?

And is there evidence of the existence of giants

available today?

The legends of giants in Mediterranean countries

were probably the most widely known and discussed.

Beyond the biblical accounts, such as David and Goliath,

there are the accounts of the Babylonian king Gilgamesh.

In stone tablets that have been recovered,

there are images carved of Gilgamesh taking on a lion.

And looking at the scale of the ancient carvings,

it appears this man had to have been at least

12 to 15 feet tall, taking into consideration

the size of the lion he is portrayed to have slain.

Gilgamesh lived sometime between 2800 and 2500 B.C.

He is the main character in the "Epic of Gilgamesh",

a Mesopotamian poem that is considered

the first great work of literature.

In the epic, Gilgamesh is a demigod

of super human strength, who built the city walls

of Uruk to defend his people and survive the great deluge.

According to the Sumerian king list,

Gilgamesh ruled his city for 126 years.

Fragments of an epic text found in Me-Turan,

the modern Tell Haddad, relate that at end of his life

Gilgamesh was buried under the riverbed.

It is generally accepted that Gilgamesh

was a historical figure, since inscriptions have been found

which confirm the historical existence

of other figures associated with him,

such as the Aga of Kish.

If Gilgamesh was a historical king,

he probably reigned in about the 26th century B.C.

Where did Gilgamesh come from?

In the Qumran Scroll, known as the Book of Giants,

the names of Gilgamesh and Humbaba

appear as two of the antediluvian giants.

Could Gilgamesh have come from Atlantis

or be a direct descendant of antediluvian kings?

If giants existed in the past, where is the evidence?

You may be surprised to find that it's been

and is being discovered all over the world.

Skeletal remains of giants have been discovered

throughout American history and even further back.

According to Native American Paiute oral history,

the Si-Te-Cah are a legendary tribe whose mummified remains

were allegedly discovered under four feet of guano

by guano miners in what is now known

as Lovelock Cave in Lovelock, Nevada.

Several of the fiber sandals found in Lovelock Cave

were remarkably large.

And one reported at over 15 inches in length

was said to be on display at the Nevada Historical Society's

museum in Reno in 1952.

The Paiute tradition asserts that the Si-Te-Cah people

practiced cannibalism, and this may have had

some basis in fact.

During the 1924 excavation of the cave,

a series of three human bones were found near

the surface towards the mouth of the cave.

These had been split to extract the marrow,

as animal bones were split and probably indicate cannibalism

during a famine.

As reported in the "Nevada Review Miner" newspaper

on June 19th, 1931, in February and June of 1931

two very large skeletons were found

in the Humboldt dry lakebed near Lovelock.

One skeleton was 8.5 feet tall and was later described

as being wrapped in a gum-covered fabric

not unlike Egyptian mummies.

The other was almost 10 feet.

It was said that all the tribes of the area

stood together against these giants

and chased them into a cave.

The giants refused to leave the safety of the cave,

so the Paiutes, along with other tribes,

set the cave on fire.

The cave then collapsed during an earthquake

sealing the entrance shut.

When the area was mined for fertilizing materials,

there were several fossils discovered in the early 1920s.

Along with those fossils were the well preserved

human-like skeletons, one male and one female.

The female was over six feet tall

and the male was over eight feet tall.

Along with the discovery of the skeletons,

there were many other artifacts found,

including a circular calendar that had the number

of days and weeks of a year etched into it.

In 1931, two more skeletons were discovered

in Lockport, Nevada that measured

from eight to ten feet tall.

During the past few years, a huge controversy

has emerged accusing the Smithsonian

and a host of skeptics and archeologists

of covering up the discovery of hundreds of giant skeletons

from Native American Indian mounds.

Jim Ferreira is one of the key people who began

uncovering hundreds of newspaper accounts

of giant skeletons.

Today, Ferreira has pulled together about 1,500 accounts

from newspapers and books published in the 1800s

and early 1900s.

One intriguing set of giant skeleton reports

he found factual,

was the Arkansas Chickasawba Mound reports

of many large skeletons found at the site.

Many skeletons ranging from eight to nine feet in length

had been found there.

As late as 1976, a seven foot tall skeleton

was found at the site.

For the Smithsonian to have found skeletons

that were seven feet tall by chance alone is improbable.

The height of many of the individuals entombed

in ancient American mounds was far taller

than the general populous.

Far beyond what could explained by simple chance.

Why would the Smithsonian cover up such a find?

Skeptics have related that the disorder of gigantism

probably was the cause of many report.

But they actually cite no evidence for this assertion.

It is a weak attempt to explain away and dismiss the issue.

Gigantism is exceedingly rare,

so rare there is no actual evidential statistics for it.

America has less than 100 cases of gigantism recorded

in its history.

In fact, the overwhelming vast majority

of tall people today,

whose reaching or approaching seven feet,

do not have the disorder of gigantism.

The actual percentage of modern humans

who reach seven feet in height is 0.00007%.

In the ancient world of America's mound builders,

the percentage of the population that reached seven feet

in height would have been much lower.

Skeptics claim that freezing and thawing

makes skeletons so big they might look like a giant.

It was found to be completely wrong and baseless.

Modern paleopathology texts and sources

relate that buried bones that freeze can shatter

and most buried bones actually lose mass,

they get smaller.

There are also a host of Native American legends

that were reported to ethnologists detailing

a race of giants who invaded the regions

where mounds were found.

These giants became the leaders and priests of the tribes.

Over time these ruling people, chosen through heredity,

became corrupted and were exterminated.

You may be surprised at the number of giant skeletons

that have been uncovered throughout modern history.

There is a number of discoveries that didn't make it

to mainstream historical knowledge.

Large bones in stone graves in Williamson County

and White County, Tennessee, were discovered in the 1800s.

The average stature of these giants was seven feet tall.

Giant skeletons were found in the mid-1800s

in New York state, near Rutland and Rodman.

In 1833, soldiers digging at Lompock Rancho, California

discovered a male skeleton 12 feet tall.

The skeleton was surrounded by caved shells,

stone axes and other artifacts.

The skeleton had double rows of upper and lower teeth.

Unfortunately this body was secretly buried

because the local Indians became upset about the remains.

A giant skull and vertebrae were found in Wisconsin

and Kansas City as well.

A giant found off the California coast

on Santa Rosa Island in the 1800s,

was distinguished by its double row of teeth,

common among giant skeleton finds.

A nine foot, eight inch skeleton was excavated

from a mound near Brewersville, Indiana in 1879.

Skeletons said to be of enormous dimensions

were found in mounds near Zanesville, Ohio

and Warren, Minnesota in the 1800s.

In Clearwater, Minnesota, the skeletons of seven giants

were found in mounds.

These had receding foreheads and complete double dentition,

two rows of teeth.

At La Crescent, Minnesota mounds were found

to contain giant bones.

Five miles north in Dreshbach, the bones of people

over eight feet tall were found.

In 1888, seven skeletons ranging from seven to eight

feet tall were discovered.

Though they may seem like a lot,

near Toledo, Ohio, 20 skeletons were discovered

with jaws and teeth twice as large as those

of present day people.

The account also noted that odd hieroglyphics

were found with the bodies.

The aforementioned miners in Lovelock Cave, California,

discovered a very tall, red haired mummy in 1911.

A local native has a dress made from the hair

of one of the giants from this area.

In 1931, skeletons from eight and half to ten feet long

were found in the Humbolt lake bed in California.

And in 1932, Ellis Wright found human tracks

in the gypsum rock at White Sands, New Mexico.

His discovery was later backed up by Fred Arthur,

supervisor of the Lincoln National Park

and others who reported that each footprint

was 22 inches long and from eight to 10 inches wide.

They were certain the prints were human in origin

due to the outline of the perfect prints coupled

with a readily apparent instep.

During World War II, author Ivan T. Sanderson

tells of how his crew was bulldozing

through sedimentary rock when it stumbled across

what appeared to be a graveyard.

In it were crania that measured from 22 to 24 inches

from base to crown, nearly three times as large

as an adult human skull.

Had the creatures to whom these skulls belonged

been properly proportioned,

they undoubtedly would have been

at least 12 feet tall or taller.

In 1947, a local newspaper reported

the discovery of nine foot tall skeletons

by amateur archeologists working in Death Valley.

The archeologists involved also claimed

to have found what appeared to be the bones

of tigers and dinosaurs with the human remains.

And the Catalina Islands off California

are the home of dwarf mammoth bones

that were once roasted in ancient pit fires.

These were roasted and eaten by human-like creatures

who were giants with double rows of teeth.

One fact that continues to surface

in the discovery of giants is the reports of skulls

having more than one row of teeth.

According to a study on molecular genetics

of supernumerary tooth formation,

the cause of extra rows of teeth is genetic.

Despite advances in the knowledge

of tooth morphogenesis and differentiation

relatively little is known about the molecular mechanisms

underlying supernumerary tooth formation.

A small number of supernumerary teeth

may be a common developmental dental anomaly.

While multiple supernumerary teeth usually have

a genetic component and they are sometimes thought

to represent a partial third dentition in humans.

Mice, which are commonly used for studying

tooth development, only exhibit one dentition,

with very few mouse models exhibiting

supernumerary teeth similar to those in humans.

Activation of APC or forced activation of WNT canenin signal

results in multiple supernumerary tooth formation

in both humans and in mice,

but the key genes in these pathways are not very clear.

Analysis of other model systems

with continuous tooth replacement

or secondary tooth formation,

such as fish, snake, lizard, and ferret,

is providing insights into the

molecular and cellular mechanisms

underlying successional tooth development,

and should assist in the studies

on supernumerary tooth formation in humans.

But scientists say this information,

together with the advances in stem cell biology

and tissue engineering, will pave ways

for the tooth regeneration and tooth bioengineering.

Though having two rows of teeth is not uncommon,

the specific genetics of giants would probably be

a specific trait to this line of human development.

Along with the reports of double rows of teeth,

extra digits in the hands and feet are sometimes reported.

Along the Illinois River in a cave,

a priest claimed he found prints in rock.

The larger representation of the human foot was 14 inches

and had six toes instead of five.

Morse's "Universal Geography," according to the priest,

gives this account of a number of tracks

or foot impressions found in rocks

in the mountains of Tennessee.

Along these were a number of tracks

representing human feet and they uniformly

had six toes on each foot.

Scientists are stubbornly silent about lost races of giants,

such as those found in burial mounds

near Lake Delavan, Wisconsin in May of 1912.

The dig site at Lake Delavan was overseen

by Beloit College and it included more than

200 effigy mounds that proved to be classic examples

of 8th century Woodland culture.

But the enormous size of the skeletons

and elongated skulls found in May of 1912

did not fit very neatly into anyone's concept

of a textbook standard.

They were enormous.

They were not average human beings.

First reported on the 4th of May 1912 issue

of the "New York Times,"

the 18 skeletons found by the Peterson brothers

on Lake Lawn Farm in southwest Wisconsin

exhibited several strange and freakish features.

Their heights ranged from 7.6 feet and 10 feet

and their skulls, presumably those of men,

were much larger than the heads of any race

which inhabit America today.

They tend to have a double row of teeth,

six fingers, six toes and like humans

came in different races.

The teeth in the front of the jaw were regular molars.

Heads usually found were elongated and believed

due to a longer than normal life span.

The Lake Delavan find of May 1912

was only one of dozens of several finds

that were reported in local newspapers

from 1851 forward to the present day.

It was not even the first set of giant skeletons found

in Wisconsin.

On the 10th of August of 1891,

the "New York Times" reported that scientists

from the Smithsonian Institute had discovered

several large pyramidal monuments on Lake Mills,

near Madison, Wisconsin.

Madison was, in ancient days,

the center of a teeming population of over 200,000.

The excavators found an elaborate system

of a defensive works, which they named Fort Aztalan.

The "New York Times" says,

the celebrated mounds of Ohio and Indiana

can bear no comparison, either in size, design

or the skill displayed in their construction

with these gigantic and mysterious monuments of earth,

erected we know not by whom,

and for what purpose we can only conjecture.

On the 20th of December 1897,

the Times followed up with a report

on three large burial mounds

that had been discovered in Maple Creek, Wisconsin.

One had recently been opened.

In it was found the skeleton of a man of gigantic size.

The bones measured from head to foot over nine feet

and were in a fair state of preservation.

The skull was as large as a half bushel measure.

Some finely tempered rods of copper

and other relics were lying near the bones.

Giant skulls and skeletons of a race of giants

have been found on a very regular basis

throughout the midwestern states for more than 100 years.

Giants have been found in Minnesota, Iowa,

Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and New York.

And their burial sites are similar to the well-known mounds

of the Mound Builder people.

The spectrum of Mound Builder history

spans a period of more than 5,000 years.

A period greater than the history of ancient Egypt

and all of its dynasties.

Most scientists believe that we have an adequate

historical understanding of the peoples

who lived in North America during this period.

However, the long record of anomalous finds

like those at Lake Delavan suggest otherwise.

The January 13th, 1870 edition

of the "Wisconsin Decatur Republican" reported

that two giant well preserved skeletons

of an unknown race were discovered near Potosi, Wisconsin

by workers digging the foundation of a saw mill

near the bank of the Mississippi River.

One skeleton measured seven and a half feet,

the other eight feet.

The skulls of each had prominent cheek bones

and double rows of teeth.

A large collection of arrowheads

and strange toys were found buried near the remains.

While a normal size skeleton of a supposed Mound Builder

is on display at the site of several large

pyramidal monuments near Madison, called Aztalan State Park.

The goliath remains of Wisconsin's giants

have vanished along with the hundreds

of other discoveries throughout the Midwest.

Why?

Is there some conspiracy to hide these giant artifacts

from the public?

Giant skeleton finds have not made

the local or national news much since the 1950s,

for the most part.

It seems the opinion is that they fear

that people would question evolution.

During the time of these discoveries,

the Smithsonian was taking possession

of nearly every giant skeleton found

throughout the entire country,

including the largest discovery of skeletons found

in the Great Mound in Ohio.

What the intent of the institution was

for the giant skeletons has never been discovered.

But several investigators today,

believe the Smithsonian was founded at least in part,

to take the skeletons and hide or destroy them,

dumping some by the barge full in the Atlantic Ocean.

Why one might ask?

Some believe it was to hide the true history of the Earth,

as giant skeletons were being discovered

throughout the world in the late 1800s.

And some believe it was

to backup Darwin's theory of evolution.

If such entities lived on Earth, thousands of years ago,

then Darwin's theory would be automatically

called into question.

Never included in history books is the fact

that every Native American tribe in America

tells the same tale of having to fight and kill the giants,

because they were maneaters

and were decimating the native tribes.

Perhaps because the giants were so large,

the tribes mounded dirt to bury them

instead of digging graves,

which would explain the hundreds if not thousands

of mound burial sites throughout America.

Giant skeletal remains have been found

from Brooklyn, New York to the Channel Islands

off the coast of California.

Most of the remains are mass burials

with signs of violent death,

as if a huge battle had been fought then won,

and the massacred buried deep in the mounds

to contain them.

Most if not all of American history textbooks

never mention Cahokia, America's greatest city for its time.

A very large Indian trading city, 3.5 miles in size

on the site of where St. Louis now stands.

It was built about the same time of the Mayan culture

and was surrounded by 120 pyramids and farmland.

At its zenith, the city had 15,000 inhabitants,

which compared to Paris population wise at the time.

The city existed at the same time of the Mound Builders

and it is surmised that they were the ones

who built Cahokia.

But the mystery remains, who were the Mound Builders?

In 1170, a mysterious fire destroyed the city

when it was rebuilt.

Defense walls were built and new buildings,

which were all smaller and fortified.

The city was never populated or as powerful

following that fire.

No one knows how the fire started,

but the homes that burned were built with thatched roofs

and were easily destroyed.

Archaeologists have surmised that rebels

burned the town and instituted a sun imagery

that was used thereafter.

But if you put the pieces of this puzzle together,

you might come up with an entirely different history.

Considering the tales of modern Native Americans,

whose cultures related stories of the giants,

you can imagine that they were the ones

who burned Cahokia to destroy the giants within the city.

When they rebuilt, the victorious Native Americans

put up defenses and built much smaller homes

to live in because they were not giants,

like their predecessors.

The homes they built were more regulated in size

and did not reflect the wealth and stature

that the previous larger homes of the giants displayed.

David Cusick, a Tuscororan Indian, wrote in 1825

about a giant tribe called Ronnongwetowanca

in the Ohio Valley.

In his account, he wrote that other smaller tribes

grew tired of the giants attacking them.

So with a force of 800 warriors they killed

all the Ronnongwetowanca people.

After that, there were no more giants anywhere.

Cusick wrote that this happened 2500 years

before Columbus discovered America, about 1000 B.C.

The thousand giants who were massacred

were laid together in heaps and covered with dirt,

which again could explain the mound building

prevalent in the Ohio Valley.

One amazing fact withheld from history books

is that virtually every explorer who came

to the New World encountered giants.

Amerigo Vespucci, Magellan, Coronado, De Soto

and Sir Francis Drake all claimed giant encounters.

Historically supported by these eyewitness accounts

of some of the world's most esteemed explorers

of the time, these stories were also chronicled

by the Spanish and other lesser known explorers.

Stories of giants that occupied Europe

comes from the Middle Ages and involves

a surprising figure, St. Christopher.

While modern stories of St. Christopher

simply make him out as an ordinary man,

or perhaps a somewhat homely man,

those who actually saw him had a different story.

According to his peers, he was a giant

belonging to a tribe of dog-headed, cannibalistic giants.

Jacobus de Voragine in "The Golden Legend"

wrote of St. Christopher, he was of gigantic stature,

had a terrifying mien, and was 12 coudees tall.

A coudee is an ancient measurement equal to

or larger than the English linear measurement of a foot.

According to his ancient account,

St. Christopher stood from 12 to 18 feet tall.

A fact that had been hidden in or even erased

from church history.

In humans, gigantism is usually caused by a tumor

on the pituitary gland of the brain.

It causes growth of the hands, face and feet.

In some cases, the condition can be passed on genetically

through a mutated gene.

Many of those who have been identified with gigantism

have suffered from multiple health issues,

involving their circulatory or skeletal system.

Hypersecretion of growth hormones causes gigantism

in children and adults.

Reports of gigantism exist throughout history

with some nations and tribes taller than others.

The giants of Crete are listed

in various historical sources, beginning with Titan,

a greek mythological giant, and including Gigantus,

after whom giants and gigantism are named.

Rhodes is another island where giants

were said to have lived.

With the Colossus of Rhodes, a giant statue

of a giant patron god Helios.

Goliath, a giant mentioned in the Bible,

was a Philistine warrior who was slain by David

in a battle between the Israelites and Philistines.

A member of Goliath's family is also recorded

as having six fingers on each hand

and six toes on each feet.

The Nephilim, who are generally accepted to be giant,

were the offspring of the sons of God

and the daughters of men before the deluge

according to "Genesis."

The name is also used in reference to giants

who inhabited Canaan at the time of the Israelite conquest

of Canaan according to "Numbers."

A similar biblical Hebrew word with different vowel sounds

is used in "Ezekiel" to refer to dead Philistine warriors.

Cotton Mather believed that fossilized leg bones

and teeth discovered near Albany, New York in 1705

were the remains of Nephilim who perished

in a great flood.

However, paleontologists claim these are mastodon remains.

Is it possible that ancient monuments

found throughout the world were actually built by giants?

Legend tells that Stonehenge may have such origins.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, the rocks of Stonehenge

were healing rocks, called the "Giant's Dance",

which giants had brought from Africa to Ireland

for their healing properties.

The 5th century king Aurelius Ambrosius

wished to erect a memorial to 3,000 nobles slain

in battle against the Saxons and buried at Salisbury,

and at Merlin's advice chose Stonehenge.

The king sent Merlin, Uther Pendragon

and 15,000 knights to remove it from Ireland,

which it had been constructed on Mount Killaraus

by the giants.

They slew 7,000 Irish, but as the knights tried

to move the rocks with ropes and force, they failed.

Then Merlin, using gear and skill,

easily dismantled the stones and sent them over to Britain,

where Stonehenge was dedicated.

It is said that these kings were buried inside

the "Giants' Rings of Stonehenge."

America also has a Stonehenge dating back over 2,000 years.

America's Stonehenge, sometimes referred to as Mystery Hill,

is an archaeological site consisting

of a number of large rocks and stone structures

scattered around roughly 30 acres

within the town of Salem, New Hampshire

in the northeast United States.

Carbon dating of charcoal pits at the site

provided dates from 2,000 B.C. to 173 B.C.,

when the area was populated by ancestors

of current Native Americans.

In archaeological chronology,

this places indigenous use of the site either into

the Late Archaic or the Early Woodland time periods.

It would have been in use during the time of the giants.

Bones and monuments are not the only evidence

suggesting the existence of giants,

huge footprints have also been discovered,

In 1897, the "Los Angeles Herald" revealed

that laborers had discovered a fossil shoe print

in solid rock.

The imprint was that of a shoe with high narrow heel

and a broad flat sole.

It was so clear in the fine grain shale

in which it was found, that it looked as though

the owner had unwittingly put his foot right

in the soft mud a day or two before.

Sandal or moccasin prints have also been seen

in gypsum of the White Sands in New Mexico.

Ellis Wright, in 1932, found tracks of human form

as large as 22 inches long.

The White Sands were laid down as an ancient inlet sea

gradually dried up around the time of the demise

of the dinosaurs.

The "American Anthropologist" published an article

in February 1896, of a large stone

bearing the perfect imprint of a human foot,

14.5 inches long.

It was shown to member's

of the Ohio State Academy of Science in 1896.

The stone slab had been dug from the ground

in a hill four miles north of Parkersburg, West Virginia,

some 20 years earlier.

In 1938, Dr. Wilbur Burroughs,

head of the geology department at Berea College, Kentucky,

announced that he had discovered 10 humanoid footprints

in carboniferous sandstone on a farm

belonging to Mr. O. Finnell in the hills in the

southern part of Rockcastle County.

The prints were nine and a half inches long

and six inches wide.

The length between footprints was 18 inches.

No marks of four feet or a tail were found.

Infrared photography revealed that there were no signs

of carving or artificial markings in or around the prints.

A microscopic count of sand grains

indicated that the material within the prints

had been impacted and created as the result

of force pressing down on the firmament

while it was soft.

These facts show that the prints were made

by the natural result of pressure from the human foot,

and in no way could have been duplicated by carving.

The rock in which the prints were discovered

was estimated to be 250 million years old.

In recent years, the prints have been destroyed by vandals.

Giant tracks, seemingly made by a human being,

were found by a government tracker in the Alkali Flats area

of the great White Sands, New Mexico in 1931.

A year later, a party of four, including O. Fred Arthur,

supervisor of Lincoln National Forest,

set out to investigate the tracks

with the government trapper Ellis Wright as their guide.

They found 13 imprints crossing a relic desert basin

in the eastern most foothills of the San Andreas Mountains.

Despite the great size of the tracks,

the investigators were convinced they were human,

for the prints were perfect and even the insteps

were plainly marked.

Oval shaped, the prints are 16 to 22 inches long

and eight to 12 inches wide,

with a distance between strides of about five feet

and a separation in width of two feet.

In 1882, huge footprints, strongly resembling

those of a human wearing shoes, were found

in a layer of sandstone in the yard of the state prison

near Carson City, Nevada during digging operations.

The prints were between 18 and 20 inches long,

and approximately eight inches wide.

The stride was about three feet and the distance between

the left and right tracks, the straddle,

was about 19 inches.

Since the size of the prints and the age of the rock

at the layer they were discovered,

two to three million years old, argued against

a human or even a humanoid origin.

The prints were ascribed to a more acceptable origin,

the tracks of a giant ground sloth.

It's thought that these animals could stand upright,

but only by using their tails for additional support.

However, no tail track was found at this site.

It was also suggested that perhaps the animal

was walkIng on four feet and that its rear legs

were landing exactly in the tracks left by its front feet.

Thereby creating the impression of a biped.

But this fails to account for the fact

that the tracks show no toe marks and appear to be sandals.

What may well be the oldest fossil footprint

ever discovered, was found in 1968

by William J. Meister, an amateur fossil collector.

If the print is what is appears to be,

the impression of a sandaled shoe crushing a trilobite,

it would have had to have been made

300 to 600 million years ago,

and would be sufficient to either overturn

all conventionally accepted ideas

of human and geological evolution,

or to prove that a shoe wearing biped

from another world had once visited this planet.

Meister made his potentially disturbing find

during a rock and fossil hunting trip to Antelope Spring,

43 miles west of Delta, Utah.

His party had already discovered several fossil trilobites

when Meister split open a rock with his hammer

and made the outrageous find.

The rock fell open like a book revealing on one side

the footprint of a human with trilobites

right in the footprint itself.

The other half of the slab of the rock

showed an almost perfect mold of the footprint in fossils.

Amazingly, the human was wearing a sandal.

Trilobites are small marine invertebrates,

the relatives of today's shrimp and crabs,

that flourished for over 320 million years

before becoming extinct 280 million years ago.

If giant footprints are not enough to convince

even the most hardened skeptic,

then giant tools and artifacts might not budge

their restricted perceptions either.

However, consider these, in June 1936

Max Hahn and his wife Emma were on a walk

when they noticed a rock with wood protruding from its core.

They took the rock home and later cracked it open

with a hammer and chisel.

What they found within seemed to be an ancient hammer.

A team of archaeologists checked it

and determined the rock encasing the hammer

was dated back more than 400 million years.

The hammer itself turned out to be be more

than 500 million years old,

according to the same measurement.

Apparently it's so old that a section of the handle

had begun the transformation to coal.

The hammer's head, made of more than 96% iron,

is far more pure than anything nature

could have achieved without an assistance from technology.

There had been a number of intriguing finds in Indiana

over the years, including the discovery

of eight skeletons, one clad in copper armor

buried in a perfect circle.

In 1888, the Logan Grey's, a military group

led by A.M. Jones were conducting military exercises

on a small island on Eagle Lake near Warsaw, Indiana.

Under a flat stone, they discovered a hole

that led to an entrance to a secret cave

that was 25 feet long, 15 feet wide and eight feet deep.

Inside was the skeleton of a six foot, nine inch giant

buried next to a stream that led to what

was called a sacred pool.

In 1889, near Kewanna, standing stones

were found on a mound and underneath

another giant was unearthed.

While in Whitlock, Indiana another giant

was found in association with a group buried

in a seating position.

One of the largest finds on record was reported

in "A History of Jennings County Indiana"

published in 1885.

It was reported that in 1881, a nine foot tall skeleton

was unearthed in a local mound,

along with the body of a blonde haired child.

And finally, in 1912 an enormous jaw was dug up,

that had double rows of teeth,

a unique characteristic of some giants discovered

in other parts of the country as well.

What is believed to be the largest Indian stone ax

in existence, is among the collections

of the Missouri Historical Society.

The ax is made of granite, it measures 28 inches in length,

14 inches in width and 11 inches in thickness

and weighs more than 300 pounds.

When found, the pointed end was embedded

in a small mound of boulders and pebbles

with the body and head of the ax exposed.

The hole apparently forming a shrine or altar.

The ax resembles a tomahawk pipe,

its upper end or head is slightly hallowed out

and in this depression was ceremoniously placed

a small quantity of tobacco.

A well beaten moccasin trail led up the incline

of the eminence in which the shrine stood,

indicating that the place had long been used

for religious purposes.

According to Chippewa tradition,

the ax has been held in veneration by these Indians

from time immemorial.

The Guadeloupe Woman is a well authenticated discovery,

which has been in the British Museum

for over half a century.

In 1812, on the coast of the French Caribbean

island of Guadeloupe, a fully human skeleton was found,

complete in every aspect except for the feet and head.

It belonged to a woman about five foot two inches tall.

What makes this of great significance

is the fact that this skeleton was found inside

extremely hard, very old limestone,

which was part of a formation more than a mile in length.

Modern geological dating places this formation

at 28 million years old,

which is 25 million years before modern man

is supposed to have first appeared on Earth.

Since such a date for a regular person does not fit

evolutionary theory, you will not find Guadeloupe Woman

mentioned in any hominid textbooks.

To do so would be to disprove evolutionary dating

of rock formations.

When the two ton limestone block,

containing Guadeloupe Woman,

was first put on exhibit in the British Museum in 1812,

it was displayed as proof of the Genesis flood.

But that was 20 years before Lyell

and nearly 50 years before Darwin.

In 1881, the exhibit was quietly taken down

to the basement and remains there to this day.

Many giant skeletons have been found

in or near Native American mounds and burial places.

Native Americans have many legends regarding giants.

Here are just a few.

The Apache have a legend about Big Owl,

a malicious and dangerous giant,

often used as a bogeyman in children's stories.

In some Apache tribes, Big Owl also plays

a more important mythological role

as an early adversary of the War Twins.

Like other legendary Apache beings,

Big Owl is sometimes described as

having a human form, in this case a man-eating ogre

and other times an animal form,

such as a large horned owl,

large enough to carry off a child.

Giwakwa are the evil man-eating ice giants

of southern Wabanaki legends.

According to most legends,

Giwakwa was once a human being,

who either became possessed by an evil spirit

or committed a terrible crime,

especially cannibalism or withholding food

from a starving person, causing his heart to turn to ice.

In some Abenaki legends, the stone giants

were not transformed humans

but primordial man-eating monsters

defeated by the culture hero Gluskabe.

Kolowa is a kind of hairy man-eating ogre

from Creek mythology, some recent Creek storytellers

have translated it to gorilla.

The Lofa is a malevolent, ogre-like monster

of Chickasaw folklore.

His name literally means flayer or skinner,

a reference to his gruesome habit of flaying the skin

from his victims.

In some legends, he attempts to abduct Chickasaw women.

He is sometimes described as a giant

and other times as a large, hairy, smelly man,

leading some people to associate him

with the Bigfoot legend.

Moshup is giant, who is the culture hero

of Mohegan and Wampanoag tribes.

Sometimes referred to as a transformer by folklorists.

Moshup is strongly associated with whales.

In most most tribal traditions,

he would catch whales to fed the people.

And in some stories, Moshup and his children

eventually transform into whales themselves.

Moshup has a wife named Squannit,

who is a powerful medicine woman of the Little People.

The Shampe is a malevolent, ogre-like monster

of Chickasaw folklore.

In some legends, he attempts to abduct Choctaw women.

In others, he is a man-eater.

He is sometimes described as a giant

and other times as a large hairy man,

leading some people to associate him

with the Bigfoot legends as well.

His most salient feature is his smell,

Shampe smell is so overpowering

that a person cannot be bear to be around him,

making him difficult to fight.

Stoneclad is a monster from Cherokee folklore.

Details about Stoneclad vary from telling to telling.

In some versions there is only one,

while in other versions there is a whole race of Stoneclads.

He is a stone-skinned giant like the Stonecoats

of the northern Iroquois tribe.

In all cases, he has rocklike plates of armor

that protect him from fire, cold and weapons.

He's defeated only through sapping his magical power

by destroying his talismans.

Of course many Native legends could simply be stories

made up to keep children in line.

But most historians will tell you

that legends are usually rooted in some truth.

Native Americans who encountered giants

would create stories to pass the incidents down

in oral tradition.

With the discovery of so many giant skeletons

unearthed in the United States,

it would have been impossible for Native Americans

to have never encountered them.

There is strong evidence that Native American folklore

about giants is true.

Seven foot tall skeletons have been found

in burial mounds of southeast towns

that were home to the ancestors of the Creek Indians.

As European settlers pushed across North America,

newspapers printed stories about the discovery

of giant skeletons.

Some were described as being normal human beings,

but very tall.

Others had skulls with more primitive features.

The most credible stories of giant skeletons

were concentrated in the Appalachians,

Cumberland Plateau and Ohio Basin.

They were typically found in graves lined

with stone slabs or field stones, known as the

stone box grave culture.

In 1821, seven foot tall skeletons

in stone-lined sarcophagus were found

in a White County, Tennessee burial area.

Legends from Midwest tribes tell of lightly pigmented,

yellow or red haired giants living around the

Great Lakes or southern Canada.

Occasionally these giants travelled south

into their territories.

While some encounters were benign,

others resulted in warfare.

The Cherokees claimed to have killed

the last tall white Indians, while still living in Kentucky

and West Virginia.

Western pioneers sometimes found what they assumed

were giant fossilized human skeletons

along exposed banks and in caves.

They described these skeletons as much thicker

than modern humans.

Some claim the skulls had double rows of teeth.

Several western tribes tell of past confrontations

with lightly pigmented giants

with either blonde or red hair.

The Paiutes claim that the giants were cannibals,

who hunted Paiutes for food.

They repeatedly attacked the giants

until their numbers dwindled.

The surviving giants were cornered in a cave,

then either shot with arrows or asphyxiated.

by setting a fire at the entrance.

In 1754, George Washington was colonel

of the Virginia Colonial militia.

When hostilities broke out with France,

he supervised construction of Fort Loudon

in Winchester, Virginia.

Laborers digging the fort's foundation

uncovered a cemetery of seven foot skeletons

and what appeared to be Native American artifacts.

The skeletons were viewed and reported by Washington.

It is not known what happened to them.

This discovery gives credibility to reports

of seven foot tall skeletons discovered in West Virginia,

Kentucky, southern Ohio and southern Indiana.

Thousands of years ago, giants roamed the west.

Their crude camps and ferocious ways

terrorized the early native settlers

that had wandered across the land bridge

into the North American continent

and traveled south and westward

into what later became the west and great southwest

of the United States.

Tribes still speak of these ancient days

when their ancestors fought desperate battles

against the marauding, loping giants,

some towering 12 feet tall or taller,

that roamed the land viciously attacking settlements,

brutally carrying off screaming women

and wailing children for food.

Of all of the Indian mounds that exist today,

most have barely been investigated.

The few gigantic skeletons found in some,

have been dismissed or suppressed as aberrations.

Ten and 12 foot humans do not fit dogmatic theories.

Usually when giant skeletons are found

they're laughed off as hoaxes.

Unfortunately, orthodox science has too much to lose

by investigating the mounds thoroughly.

Archaeologists cannot deny that the Mound Builders are real.

What they deny are the things

sometimes discovered inside the mounds.

Over the past century and a half,

it's been revealed again and again

that some of the mounds, and the small pyramids,

are the burial grounds of huge men

often eight feet or taller,

that had a very sophisticated culture.

Some of the giants have been found wearing

intricate leather armor and have been buried with swords.

One such giant was found near Spiro Mound

in Oklahoma during the 1930s.

Who were these mysterious people

that roamed America long before the wooly mammoths

became extinct?

Were they are ancestors or another race of giant humans

from a civilization that predates our own?

From the time settlers first set foot on American soil,

we have been finding evidence of giants.

Most of this evidence has been destroyed

or sequestered away, in order to either hide the truth

or make it difficult to quantify artifacts

and harder to study.

There does appear to be a conspiracy

to shelter evidence of giants,

and it has been going on since science has been aware

of the bones and materials associated with these anomalies.

Our whole history would change if all the evidence

of giants could be revealed.

Perhaps our civilization is not yet ready

to accept the existence of those lofty beings

that roamed the Earth centuries ago.

Or perhaps others have made that decision for us.

And we are left with only scant remnants

of a civilization larger than life.

Eventually more evidence and artifacts will be discovered.

Perhaps then we'll have a more complete picture

of our gigantic history.

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