What Happened To The Bones Of The Giants?
By James Donahue
When Michael A. Cremon published his controversial books “Forbidden Archaeology” and Forbidden Archaeology’s Impact” in 1993 and 1998, he undoubtedly came under attack from organized fundamental religious groups.
That’s because Cremon accused museums and departments of archaeology at major universities of hiding fossilized artifacts that challenged the Biblical record of human and world history.
A recent report circling the web is now saying that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling has proved Cremos right in his accusations. The story says the ruling forced the Smithsonian Institution to release “classified papers” dating back at least a century that proves the institution was involved in a major historical cover-up of evidence that disputed the Biblical account.
The documents showed that the fossilized remains of tens of thousands of giant humanoids that had been uncovered all over America were ordered destroyed by “high level administrators” to protect the mainstream chronology of human evolution.
Further research, however, has suggested that the Supreme Court ruling story is nothing more than a hoax perpetuated by a growing number of enterprising websites copying the well known spoofs in The Onion. The problem with these kinds of stories is that once they are published, numerous other sites pick up on the story and report it as factual news. Consequently, historical truth is becoming more and more clouded within the mythology of tabloid journalism.
In his books, Cremos claimed that die-hard Christians closed their minds to any evidence that challenged the Biblical account of the origin of both humans and animals. Many so-called “scholars” of that period were so closed-minded about protecting the accepted social belief systems they had no problem destroying archaeological material that challenged the Old Testament story.
This wasn't the first time The Smithsonian was accused of tampering with historical evidence. Old newspaper stories in the 1930's told of an archaeological discovery in a mysterious cave in the Grand Canyon that contained ancient artifacts and even mummies that appeared to have been linked to ancient Egypt. The institute denied either investigating or hiding such material.
The museum also denies a cover-up of bones of giant humanoids. The problem with this story is that news clippings have been found all over the United States and in various countries of the world, all reporting the discovery of recovered bones of giants, some of them measuring from eight to 12 feet in height. There have been numerous photos that appear to support the stories.
Because of advancements in computer technology, it is possible for such images to be cleverly "Photoshopped" to look like the real thing. So photographs of normal sized people digging up bones of super-sized human skeletons can also be included in elaborate hoaxes. But why so many similar hoaxes? Do we have that many people willing to go to elaborate trouble to generate such stories or are some of these stories true? It reminds us of the elaborate crop circle stories that many believe are the work of human pranksters. No one can be really sure.
Since the Internet became readily available to people all around the world, there are more and more stories telling of the discoveries of giant humanoid figures in excavations everywhere. Some even tell of two-footed upright monsters that walked in the mud with the dinosaurs.
Doug Elwell in his website Mysterious World, wrote in 2003 about a “pre-Adamic race” found in the fossil record. Elwell suggested that the bones of both Neanderthal and erectus humanoids may have been what he called “proto humans” that appeared suddenly in the fossil record “almost as if they had been manufactured.”
Elwell presented an interesting theory that the giants were the result of DNA experimentation by an alien race. He suggested that God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the garden to “supplant and eventually destroy” the abhorrent types of experimental humanoids that were “running rampant all over His creation.”
He suggested that the “sin” was not the literal eating of fruit from a tree, but the failure by Adam and Eve to remain in the garden and remain faithful to each other. His story suggests that either Adam or Eve, or possibly their children, mixed their perfect DNA with the imperfect DNA of the giants, thus spoiling God’s plan for getting rid of the beasts. (At least his theory answered and age old question of just who the children of Adam and Eve took as mates.)
According to Elwell, this was the reason for the world-wide flood, so all of the imperfect DNA could be erased and humans would have a chance to start the process all over again.
While interesting and obviously a creative interpretation of the Genesis story, there is little in the fossil record to support Elwell’s theory. That the bones of giants were found in mounds and relatively shallow burial sites all over the world belie the possibility that the giants perished in a flood. Someone buried their bones after they died.
In our own research over the years we came upon numerous news clippings, tucked away in dusty microfilm, telling of the discovery of bones of giant humanoids throughout the United States. Some of the best of them are as follows:
"In 1829, when the hotel was built in Chesterville, (Ohio) a mound nearby was made to furnish the material for the brick. In digging it away, a large human skeleton was found, but no measurements were made. It is related that the jaw-bone was found to fit easily over that of a citizen of the village, who was remarkable for his large jaw. The local physicians examined the cranium and found it proportionately large, with more teeth than the white race of today: The skeleton was taken to Mansfield, and has been lost sight of entirely." (History of Morrow County and Ohio, 1880)
"In digging the cellar of the house, nine human skeletons were found, and, like such specimens from other ancient mounds of the country, they showed that the Mound Builders were men of large stature. The skeletons were not found lying in such a manner as would indicate any arrangement of the bodies on the part of the entombers. In describing the tomb, Mr. Albert Harris said:
"'It looked as if the bodies had been dumped into a ditch. Some of them were buried deeper than others, the lower one being about seven feet below the surface when the skeletons were found.'
"Mr. Harris was twenty years of age yet he states that he could put one of the skulls over his head, and let it rest upon his shoulders, while wearing a fur cap at the same time. The large size of all the bones was remarked, and the teeth were described as "double all the way round." (The History of Medina County, 1881)
From Ashtabula, Ohio, came the following written description of an ancient four-acre burial ground unearthed at Conneaut in 1844:
"The mounds that were situated in the eastern part of what is now the village of Conneaut and the extensive burying ground near the Presbyterian Church, appear to have had no connection with the burying places of the Indians. They doubtless refer to a more remote period and are the relics of an extinct race, of whom the Indians had no knowledge.
"These mounds were of comparatively small size, and of the same general character of those that are widely scattered over the country. What is most remarkable concerning them is that among the quantity of human bones they contain, there are found specimens belonging to men of large stature, and who must have been nearly allied to a race of giants.
"Skulls were taken from these mounds, the cavities of which were of sufficient capacity to admit the head of an ordinary man, and jaw-bones that might be fitted on over the face with equal facility. The bones of the arms and lower limbs were of the same proportions, exhibiting ocular proof of the degeneracy of the human race since the period in which these men occupied the soil which we now inhabit." (The Conneuat Giants, Harvey Nettleton)
Similar records can be found in local libraries all over the American Midwest.
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 1821. In White County, Tennessee, an "ancient fortification" contained skeletons of gigantic stature averaging at least seven feet in length.
The Indiana News on Nov. 10, 1975, reported that a nine-foot, eight-inch long skeleton was removed from a mound near Brewersville, Indiana, in 1879.
Skeletons measuring eight and one-half feet and 10-feet in height and wrapped in a "gum-covered fabric" were uncovered in the Humboldt lake bed near Lovelock, Nevada, in 1931, according to the Review-Miner, a local newspaper published on June 19, 1931.
Notice that none of these human bones were carefully measured and examined by trained archaeologists at the time these news stories appeared. The bones may have been turned over to museums where they would be carefully preserved. If the Smithsonian did not receive these bones, where were they stored? Surely they haven't been lying around in people's attics collecting dust all this time?
By James Donahue
When Michael A. Cremon published his controversial books “Forbidden Archaeology” and Forbidden Archaeology’s Impact” in 1993 and 1998, he undoubtedly came under attack from organized fundamental religious groups.
That’s because Cremon accused museums and departments of archaeology at major universities of hiding fossilized artifacts that challenged the Biblical record of human and world history.
A recent report circling the web is now saying that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling has proved Cremos right in his accusations. The story says the ruling forced the Smithsonian Institution to release “classified papers” dating back at least a century that proves the institution was involved in a major historical cover-up of evidence that disputed the Biblical account.
The documents showed that the fossilized remains of tens of thousands of giant humanoids that had been uncovered all over America were ordered destroyed by “high level administrators” to protect the mainstream chronology of human evolution.
Further research, however, has suggested that the Supreme Court ruling story is nothing more than a hoax perpetuated by a growing number of enterprising websites copying the well known spoofs in The Onion. The problem with these kinds of stories is that once they are published, numerous other sites pick up on the story and report it as factual news. Consequently, historical truth is becoming more and more clouded within the mythology of tabloid journalism.
In his books, Cremos claimed that die-hard Christians closed their minds to any evidence that challenged the Biblical account of the origin of both humans and animals. Many so-called “scholars” of that period were so closed-minded about protecting the accepted social belief systems they had no problem destroying archaeological material that challenged the Old Testament story.
This wasn't the first time The Smithsonian was accused of tampering with historical evidence. Old newspaper stories in the 1930's told of an archaeological discovery in a mysterious cave in the Grand Canyon that contained ancient artifacts and even mummies that appeared to have been linked to ancient Egypt. The institute denied either investigating or hiding such material.
The museum also denies a cover-up of bones of giant humanoids. The problem with this story is that news clippings have been found all over the United States and in various countries of the world, all reporting the discovery of recovered bones of giants, some of them measuring from eight to 12 feet in height. There have been numerous photos that appear to support the stories.
Because of advancements in computer technology, it is possible for such images to be cleverly "Photoshopped" to look like the real thing. So photographs of normal sized people digging up bones of super-sized human skeletons can also be included in elaborate hoaxes. But why so many similar hoaxes? Do we have that many people willing to go to elaborate trouble to generate such stories or are some of these stories true? It reminds us of the elaborate crop circle stories that many believe are the work of human pranksters. No one can be really sure.
Since the Internet became readily available to people all around the world, there are more and more stories telling of the discoveries of giant humanoid figures in excavations everywhere. Some even tell of two-footed upright monsters that walked in the mud with the dinosaurs.
Doug Elwell in his website Mysterious World, wrote in 2003 about a “pre-Adamic race” found in the fossil record. Elwell suggested that the bones of both Neanderthal and erectus humanoids may have been what he called “proto humans” that appeared suddenly in the fossil record “almost as if they had been manufactured.”
Elwell presented an interesting theory that the giants were the result of DNA experimentation by an alien race. He suggested that God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the garden to “supplant and eventually destroy” the abhorrent types of experimental humanoids that were “running rampant all over His creation.”
He suggested that the “sin” was not the literal eating of fruit from a tree, but the failure by Adam and Eve to remain in the garden and remain faithful to each other. His story suggests that either Adam or Eve, or possibly their children, mixed their perfect DNA with the imperfect DNA of the giants, thus spoiling God’s plan for getting rid of the beasts. (At least his theory answered and age old question of just who the children of Adam and Eve took as mates.)
According to Elwell, this was the reason for the world-wide flood, so all of the imperfect DNA could be erased and humans would have a chance to start the process all over again.
While interesting and obviously a creative interpretation of the Genesis story, there is little in the fossil record to support Elwell’s theory. That the bones of giants were found in mounds and relatively shallow burial sites all over the world belie the possibility that the giants perished in a flood. Someone buried their bones after they died.
In our own research over the years we came upon numerous news clippings, tucked away in dusty microfilm, telling of the discovery of bones of giant humanoids throughout the United States. Some of the best of them are as follows:
"In 1829, when the hotel was built in Chesterville, (Ohio) a mound nearby was made to furnish the material for the brick. In digging it away, a large human skeleton was found, but no measurements were made. It is related that the jaw-bone was found to fit easily over that of a citizen of the village, who was remarkable for his large jaw. The local physicians examined the cranium and found it proportionately large, with more teeth than the white race of today: The skeleton was taken to Mansfield, and has been lost sight of entirely." (History of Morrow County and Ohio, 1880)
"In digging the cellar of the house, nine human skeletons were found, and, like such specimens from other ancient mounds of the country, they showed that the Mound Builders were men of large stature. The skeletons were not found lying in such a manner as would indicate any arrangement of the bodies on the part of the entombers. In describing the tomb, Mr. Albert Harris said:
"'It looked as if the bodies had been dumped into a ditch. Some of them were buried deeper than others, the lower one being about seven feet below the surface when the skeletons were found.'
"Mr. Harris was twenty years of age yet he states that he could put one of the skulls over his head, and let it rest upon his shoulders, while wearing a fur cap at the same time. The large size of all the bones was remarked, and the teeth were described as "double all the way round." (The History of Medina County, 1881)
From Ashtabula, Ohio, came the following written description of an ancient four-acre burial ground unearthed at Conneaut in 1844:
"The mounds that were situated in the eastern part of what is now the village of Conneaut and the extensive burying ground near the Presbyterian Church, appear to have had no connection with the burying places of the Indians. They doubtless refer to a more remote period and are the relics of an extinct race, of whom the Indians had no knowledge.
"These mounds were of comparatively small size, and of the same general character of those that are widely scattered over the country. What is most remarkable concerning them is that among the quantity of human bones they contain, there are found specimens belonging to men of large stature, and who must have been nearly allied to a race of giants.
"Skulls were taken from these mounds, the cavities of which were of sufficient capacity to admit the head of an ordinary man, and jaw-bones that might be fitted on over the face with equal facility. The bones of the arms and lower limbs were of the same proportions, exhibiting ocular proof of the degeneracy of the human race since the period in which these men occupied the soil which we now inhabit." (The Conneuat Giants, Harvey Nettleton)
Similar records can be found in local libraries all over the American Midwest.
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 1821. In White County, Tennessee, an "ancient fortification" contained skeletons of gigantic stature averaging at least seven feet in length.
The Indiana News on Nov. 10, 1975, reported that a nine-foot, eight-inch long skeleton was removed from a mound near Brewersville, Indiana, in 1879.
Skeletons measuring eight and one-half feet and 10-feet in height and wrapped in a "gum-covered fabric" were uncovered in the Humboldt lake bed near Lovelock, Nevada, in 1931, according to the Review-Miner, a local newspaper published on June 19, 1931.
Notice that none of these human bones were carefully measured and examined by trained archaeologists at the time these news stories appeared. The bones may have been turned over to museums where they would be carefully preserved. If the Smithsonian did not receive these bones, where were they stored? Surely they haven't been lying around in people's attics collecting dust all this time?