Thousands of accounts of seven-foot and taller skeletons have reportedly been unearthed from ancient burial sites over a two-hundred-year period in North America. Newspaper accounts, town and county histories, letters, scientific journals, diaries, photos and Smithsonian ethnology reports have carefully documented this. These skeletons have been reported from coast to coast with strange anatomic anomalies such as double rows of teeth, jawbones so large as to be fit over the face of the finder, and elongated skulls, documented in virtually every state. Over the next few posts I am going to share my thoughts and my findings on the Giants of the Midwest. I hope you enjoy our continued Journey into the unknown and mysterious.

During the 1800’s the Midwest of the United States was transforming. Gone were the protected territories and in their place began to spring up states.  Ohio 1803, Indiana 1816, Illinois 1818, Missouri 1821, Michigan 1837, Iowa 1846, Wisconsin 1848, Minnesota 1858, etc. Not only were the borders of a new nation changing the landscapes within the states themselves were changing. Millions of immigrants from Europe, mostly of Germanic or Scandinavian decent flooded the plush green fields with farms and industry. As the new American’s began to build but more importantly dig into their new soil preparing homesteads and farms they began to find stranger and stranger things. Things as in ancient artifacts and skeletons. The Midwest was peppered with large mounds built by ancient Native cultures to bury their dead. The newly arrived Europeans who had no respect for the beliefs of heathens and barbarians tore into these burial mounds with a gusto only American’s propelled by greed could show.  Farmers turned into fortune hunters, as hundreds if not thousands of mounds were either sacked for their goods, destroyed to make way for farms or excavated by archeologists to attempt to preserve some before they were all gone. Thousands of burials were desecrated while the skeletons and millions of artifacts found inside them were sold, destroyed, lost or given to a college or university while tens of thousands of years were being utterly demolished from the history books.  Although this in itself would make for an interesting blog post I am taking it one step further. I am going to look at the skeletons that were found, more over the GIANT skeletons that were found. Hundreds of skeletons measuring anywhere from six and a half feet to ten feet tall were discovered in many of these burial mounds. Most were in decent shape and even showed signs of having red or blonde hair and a disturbing amount of them had double rows of teeth! A great many of these mounds were investigated and documented by well known Universities and archaeologists, some by the Smithsonian itself. Smithsonian scientists identified at least 17 skeletons that stood at over seven feet in their annual reports, including one example that was 8 feet tall, and a skull with a 36-inch circumference reported from Anna, Illinois in the Smithsonian Annual Report of 1873, (an average human skull is about 20 inches in circumference). The Smithsonian Institution is mentioned dozens more times as the recipient of enormous skeletons from across the entire United States. By the 1890’s giant skeletons had been recorded in every state and a scattered few were even displayed in local museums and even store fronts. Findings were still happening well into the 1950’s but the Smithsonian had changed its tune by then and declared all the giant skeletons hoaxes or frauds. The skeletons mentioned no longer seem to exist regardless of their actual size, and the remaining ones that were on display were removed and repatriated by NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). Regardless of what the Institute knew or did about it the fact remains that these giant skeletons were real and they were everywhere. Over the next few posts I am going to dive deeper into this phenomena going into the history of giants on Earth following up with some recorded findings here in the Midwest. Although this is a worldwide phenomenon I am going to focus on America, most importantly the Midwest and the Mound Builder Giants and by the end of this multi part blog I hope to have convinced at least a few of you that not only did a species of double teethed Giants roam around North America they may have been the ones responsible for mining the 500,000 pounds of Copper from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. 

Until the next Chapter have a great day and as always...PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!