OSU is headquarters for the academic world regarding the Moundbuilder culture. The campus consists of all Olde World structures with a fake timeline slapped on. This isn’t the spot for that conversation but I just wanted to highlight the main building.

The history of the mounds and their construction is a string of people all connected to each other and ultimately the World Fair, which is where all the fake cultures of the world are put on display and inserted into the mainstream collective. We’re going to cover a small fraction of the agents involved and examine a small selection of artifacts and media reports.

Lets start with some of the central characters in the plot to create a false ancient culture:

Most of the bio’s are scavenged from the Ministry of Truth with my own commentary being provided in blue.

Edwin Hamilton Davis was born in 1811 in Hillsboro, Ohio, just a few miles from Chillicothe, a central location of importance. At the time, archaeology had not yet developed as an academic discipline. Davis explored the mounds while a student at Kenyon College and wrote a paper on the subject which he read at his commencement. Daniel Webster, an early member of the American Antiquarian Society, heard the paper and encouraged Davis to continue his research.

After graduating from medical college and establishing a practice in Chillicothe, Davis used his free time to continue his explorations. He collected artifacts he discovered in and around the mounds.  He graduated at Cincinnati Medical College in 1838. He practiced in Chillicothe, Ohio until 1850, when he was called to the chair of materia medica and therapeutics in the New York Medical College. Dr. Davis was one of the editors of the American Medical Monthly.

Any kind of content creator or involvement with a normie publication is a red flag. The media was installed as the Hall of Records, it was never free and independent, that means only their own class is associated with them. Why would someone with a formal education in medicine give a graduation speech about an unrecognized branch of science.

Davis also worked with the Sec of the Smithsonian to create a map of Indian tribes he encountered based on skeletal structure. That eugenics, boys and girls.

He aided Charles Whittlesey in explorations of ancient mounds in 1836. Then from 1845 until 1847 Davis surveyed nearly one hundred groups of aboriginal earthworks, and opened two hundred mounds at his own expense. 

During the spring of 1854, Davis delivered a course of lectures on archaeology before the Lowell Institute in Boston. In 1858 he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. His lectures were on tour in Brooklyn, as well.

Among Davis and Squier’s most important achievements was their systematic approach to analyzing and documenting the sites they surveyed, including the Serpent Mound, which they discovered in 1846, and the mapping of the Mound City Group in Chillicothe, Ohio, which has been restored using their data and became part of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. A National park wasn’t ‘restored’ based on their notes, more like the park was designed from a set of blueprints.

Ephraim Squier,

This is the other half. there were a few red flags when the gate dropped it didn’t take long to figure out this guy is a fictional Spook. Its a guilt by association game and a Classist system, they keep each to their own. The first guy slipped past but take one out and the rest fall along with it.

Start with the name. Ephraim Squier- E, Squier- Esquire, Esquire is a title of nobility, under a knight. These people are nothing without their titles. Its a Class war, remember?

Born in 1821 in Bethlehem, New York. By the time he arrived in Chillicothe in 1845 as the editor of the weekly Scioto Gazette newspaper, he had received training in civil engineering, education, and journalism. He was associated in the publication of the New York State Mechanic at 1841–1842. In 1843–1848, he engaged in journalism in Hartford, Connecticut, graduating from Princeton. He wrote a book on the Chinese, organized political parties

As part of the railroad gig he traveled down to South and Central America as both RR officer and got to study the native people, which he published more books and won medals. Became editor of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Journal. This was a precursor to Harpers Weekly, sketch news before the use of photography. Totally propaganda. The timeline here is a glitch in the matrix, I did a report on the Inca ruins of Peru, they aren’t discovered for another 50 yrs. I do comment in the report that the railroad and map surveying expeditions were already established and fully operational when the first ‘White” guy comes through

An officer of the Honduras Interoceanic Railway Company. Thats a big one. The RR is an Olde World artifact. They are the central authority, more like an autonomus entity than a bisness.

He was married to a lady who subsequently became the wife and widow of Frank Leslie.

Squier was intrigued by the numerous prehistoric monuments in the surrounding area. His questioning of local residents about them failed to provide much insight. With his characteristic ambition, Squier decided to “take the compass and chain in one hand and the mattock and spade in the other” and begin his own research.

He developed a relationship with Wyman, curator of the Peabody Museum at Harvard that was a specialist in shell mounds

When the two men encountered one another, they began to collaborate based on Davis’s knowledge of the Scioto Valley sites and growing collection of artifacts, combined with Squier’s knowledge of surveying and writing. The results of this collaboration were published as the first work issued by the newly founded Smithsonian Institution: Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley.

(October 4, 1808 – October 18, 1886) was a soldier, geologist, historian, and an investigator of mounds relics of the United States. He is described by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis as a “zealous investigator” in the field of “American antiquarian research. His association with other non-existant figures means he is a fictional Spook too, they keep to their own kind. Whittlesey graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1831.

His military record says he was stationed at Ft Howard in Wisconsin and fought in the Black Hawk War. I checked up on Ft H. figuring it was an old starfort but, like the forts out west, the title ‘Fort’ is just a designation given to a group of large buildings that shouldn’t really exist bc ppl haven’t moved into the region yet. The history of the fort reads like it was scripted to confuse ppl reading up on it, the fort was built on the remains of a previous fort built by fur trappers and changed names a few time. periods of reconstruction and demolition meant none of the original structure remained standing and the visual evidence is a photograph of a painting from the Civil War era. The name carried a legacy as Ft H. paper manufacturers (paper is an infrastructural mustneed; Military Industrial Complex) which would later merge with the James River Corporation out of Richmond to become the Ft James Co. They are talking about the Jamestown Settlement, john Smith and Pocahontas and all that, see how all the fake history chapters prop each other up? Eventually the Spook Industrial Complex paper producers would end up as Georgia Pacific. There was also a Georgia Pacific Railroad company in 1881, the history of mergers and acquisitions of the RR mirrors that of the grid of early forts (bc they both are Olde World artifacts).

Whittlesey was sent as to the Battle of Shiloh as a commanding officer. The Civil War is just as much a fake history as the Moundbuilders. Accordingly, the Shiloh National Military Park is home to a set of Mississippian Mounds. The virtue-signaling Park Service proclaims it was the military background that saved the mounds from being razed. (Those Indians are so unappreciative)

Shiloh also connects us to John Wesley Powell, that led an expedition that ended with the discovery of the Chaco Canyon Cliff Dwellings, see the full report for details, although these scriptwriters regurgitate the same garbage you will find the template here

In 1837 Whittlesey was appointed assistant geologist of the State of Ohio, under William W. Mather, and given charge of the topographical and mathematical parts of that survey, which disclosed the rich coal and iron deposits of eastern Ohio that are the foundation of its manufacturing industries. At this time, he also carefully examined and measured several of the works of the Mound Builders, 

From 1847 until 1851 he was engaged by the U.S. Government in making a mineralogical and geological survey of the region about Lake Superior and the upper Mississippi River. Subsequently, he was professionally engaged as a mining engineer, and in 1858 became associated in the geological work of the survey of Wisconsin. In February 1861, he was enrolled in a company that tendered its services to escort the President-elect Abraham Lincoln to Washington, D.C.

August 15, 1861, and detailed as chief engineer of the Department of the Ohio, with charge of planning and constructing the defenses of Cincinnati. Again, all these connections are proof he never existed as a flesh and blood person; Cincinnati is an Olde World relic, any structures were already there, he didnt plan or construct shit. The Railroad was already there, Abe Lincoln is fake as fuck and any Indian tribe bearing his name never existed either.

After he retired from the War he went back to Wisconsin and wrote the first book about the copper mining region around the Great Lakes. Its seems his whole fake bio has been about that, aside from plugging other fictional characters the geography and mineral surveying and everything else was relevent to this end-game.

In 1867, he was active in the founding of the Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society, of which he was president until his death in 1886. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1870.

Due to his work describing early North American indigenous people, an archaeological designation, the Whittlesey culture, describing people who lived in Northeast Ohio from A.D. 1000 to 1600, was named in his honor.

• “Adena”
• “Hopewell” 

was known in his time as the ‘Dean of American archaeology’; born in Siena, Italy to missionary parents on March 10, 1866.

Moorehead is credited with excavating more ancient earthworks than all archaeologists before and after him. Due to Moorehead’s primary focus on artifact recovery in his early career, his often careless documentation of excavated sites, and the fact that he lost many of his own important field notes (including those from 1891 at the Hopewell Site), Moorehead is often remembered as a destructive force among modern archaeologists. That said, Moorehead was influential in the preservation of some historical sites such as Fort Ancient.

Moorehead returned to Ohio and found a position developing the state display for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago World’s Fair), which led him to work with Frederic Ward Putnam. This work also went into the World’s Fair display, became a published volume for Moorehead, and caught the attention of the organizers of the Ohio Historical & Archaeological Society (now the Ohio Historical Society) which was just begun in 1885.

Moorehead’s destruction and lack of documentation regarding the Hopewell Type Site (and many of his other sites) has left many archaeological questions unable to be answered. (Thats the reason why he did it, its an “Oospie Daisy” excuse to dismiss the lack of evidence and destroyed sites) Yeah. That’s it, his record keeping is so bad the historical Society decides to offer him a job.

Moorehead accepted the position as what would be the first curator of archaeology museum. He was also made a professor of archaeology at OSU. Sites already to manage: (Fort Ancient, and Serpent Mound), The Ohio State Prez encouraged Moorehead to pay for his travel and speaking and research by selling duplicate artifacts.

Moorehead created an atlas of Ohio mounds and earthworks, and even forays into the American southwest, becoming one of the first surveyors of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. This would have put him in contact with Putnam from the Wheeler Expedition. Thats a direct connection between the two fake archeological sites; the cliff houses and the mounds. This connects him a second time over by Clarence King and his Expedition of the 40th parallel.

His assistant, William Corless Mills, completed what is now known as the Mills Atlas of 1904.

I believe the real reason he returned to the Peabody’s was bc they owned the museum he worked for. Probs he never left, they just inserted it into the wiki page. A collector of baskets huh, that the core of the artifacts recovered from the sites they were just supposedly at. They are made in bulk at the Essex Art Institute, guarantee it

As to the secrets held in this, the largest of the ceremonial mounds in St. Louis, Reverend Stephen Denison, who was present as the mound was destroyed, wrote this:

Also found in the mound were “two copper earrings still in the skull of one of the skeletons. They were about 3 inches tall and 1.5 inches wide, in the form of a “long-nosed god mask,” the nose of the face protruding 6 inches.”

These earrings disappeared from a janitorial closet at Washington University.  Many other artifacts were also lost when they were donated to the Academy of Science of St. Louis in 1869.  That same year the building in which they were stored burned to the ground. 

In the years that followed, the mounds that remained were gradually and purposefully destroyed and their contents looted and sold for the most part. In 1904 alone 16 mounds were destroyed in preparation for the World’s Fair.

Lets backtrack to the good reverend. Denison is another premiere family of Spooks. He traces his lineage back to the Mayflower and the founders of Yale. There were no Pilgrims, stupid. Denison graduated from Andover, which was a school that trained agents in disguise of religion.  Peet was the author of a series of volumes upon the mound builders, Indian relics, cliff dwellers and kindred topics, and of many pamphlets and articles. So it wasnt like he just happened to be standing there and witnessed something. He probs was never there at all bc he helped write the narrative, if anyone knew there was nothing there it wouldv’e been him.

Frederic Ward Putnam, who was appointed curator of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology in 1875, commissioned and funded excavations that would become some of the earliest collections developed two of the nation’s most notable anthropological departments: at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. He also developed four of the nation’s most prestigious museums: the Peabody Museum at Harvard, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History and Berkeley with the collections he gathered for display at the World Fair

Frederic Ward Putnam was born on April 16, 1839, in Salem, Massachusetts, into a New England family whose ancestors could be tracked down to the first settlers of America. Salem is famous for one thing and everyone tied to the town is a spook bc the Salem Witch Trials were part of Colonial America and thus, are historical fiction. Thomas Putnam (b. March 22 [322], d. June 3 [666]) was a main character in the fantasy trial, Its important bc it adds birth-right to todays family line, its a class war and generational weath and land grab are illegitimate so even the villains are inserted by powerlines.

He married Adelaide Martha Edmands, with whom he had three children: Eben Putnam, Alice Edmands Putnam, and Ethel Appleton Fiske Lewis.

Alice Edmands Putnam worked alongside her father and was director of the Peabdy in year 1886, she took as his proxy as Putnam’s health failed

Putnam started Harvard at age 17 but didnt graduate, he took up an offer to curate the Essex Institute, the museum in Salem.

In 1873, Putnam was elected to the post of permanent secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He helped establish the journals American Naturalist, Science, American Anthropologist, and founded organizations, such as Anthropology of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the American Anthropological Association. All these groups are fractal patterns of each other, designed to create confusion and compartmentalize the enemy.

Putnam assisted with the Kentucky Geological Survey in 1874

From 1876-79, he served as Chief of Anthropology, studying prehistoric ruins and pueblo villages of the Southwest, as part of the Wheeler Survey. The Wheeler survey was part of the fake Westward Expansion, I have a detailed report in the site archives.

The 1885 Peabody Museum acquisition of Ohio’s Serpent Mound, thanks to Putnam’s appeal to the museum’s trustees and members of the Archaeological Institute of America

For the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Putnam commissioned the self-taught archaeologist Warren K. Moorehead to lead excavations in southern Ohio to take human remains and “relics” for display. Much of what Moorehead unearthed from Ohio’s Ross and Warren counties became founding collections of the Field Museum.

influential in dispatching the productive Jesup North Pacific Expedition to northeastern Asia and northwestern North America.

A few years after Moorehead’s excavations, the American Museum of Natural History co-sponsored rival expeditions to the Southwest; items were looted from New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon and shipped by train to New York.

Putnam is now credited with formalizing what would become the ‘Chicago Method”.

*See Also: Davenport Tablets

Mathias Angel (1819–1899) was among these settlers. In 1852 he began purchasing farmland that also included the archaeological site. The Angel Mounds Historic Site is named after the Angel family and their descendants.

In May 1931, Warren K. Moorehead, a nationally known archaeologist from Ohio State University and the Peabody Foundation; Eli Lilly, who became president of Eli Lilly and Company in 1932 and served as the president of the Indiana Historical Society from 1932 to 1947; and Glenn A. Black and E. Y. Guernsey, Society employees and archaeologists, visited the Angel site as part of a tour to assess Indiana’s archaeological sites. Black, who served as the Society’s director of archaeology and from 1939 to 1964 supervised excavation and field schools.  The mounds were in danger of being destroyed due to construction of a planned levee and real estate development. Eli Lilly in his role as a philanthropist interested in Indiana’s prehistory, provided the funds for the purchase

Initial efforts in 1938–39 focused on surveying and clearing the main archaeological site and an outlying camp. From 1939 to 1942, as a project financed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Works Projects Administration employed more than 250 workers of the Civilian Conservation Corps under the direction of Indiana archaeologist Glenn A. Black to excavate 120,000 square feet (11,000 m²) of the site. These efforts resulted in the recording and processing of 2.3 million archaeological items. Excavation was temporarily halted during World War II, but resumed in 1945 as part of the Indiana University Archaeology Field School during the summer months.

In 1946, the Indiana Historical Society transferred ownership of the property to the State of Indiana, but retained the rights to excavate the site. Black remained on the property as its caretaker. Between 1958 and 1962, two National Science Foundation grants provided financial support to assess geophysical applications at the site, including use of a proton magnetometer to trace segments of the site’s palisade (stockade) walls that were not visible from the surface. This project, which extended the work begun by the University of Oxford’s Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, was one of the “first comprehensive tests in the Americas” to assess the instrument’s potential on a New World site.

Glenn Albert Black 

August 18, (aces and eights) 1900 –September 2, 1964 was an American archaeologist, author, and university lecturer who was among the first professional archaeologists to study prehistoric sites in Indiana. Black was largely self-taught and began serious work on archaeological sites in the 1930s. the first full-time and the only professional archaeologist in the state until the 1960s.

Black’s major public works include Excavation of the Nowlin Mound; and the two-volume study, Angel Site, which was posthumously published. Black received financial support and encouragement for his work from his friend, Eli Lilly. Wabash College awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1951. Black, a founding member of the Society for American Archaeology.

Glenn Albert Black was born on August 18, 1900, to Emma (Kennedy) and John A. Black. Glenn’s father, a wholesale grocery clerk, died in 1912, when Glenn was about twelve years old. By 1926 Black was working as a cost estimating engineer for Fairbanks, Morse and Company, an industrial scales manufacturer. During his free time, he studied archaeology and the prehistory of Indiana as a hobby. Black visited prehistoric sites around Indiana before volunteering in November 1930 to assist the Indiana Historical Society with archaeological surveys. His only formal professional training in archaeology was with Henry C. Shetrone in Columbus, Ohio, at the Ohio State Museum, where he worked from October 1931 to May 1932.

Black also operated a field training for student archaeologists at Angel Mounds. Black and Ida May Hazzard married. Black launched his career as a professional archeologist after volunteering in 1927 at Albee Mound in Sullivan County, Indiana. (Albee Mound was the first professional archaeological excavation in Indiana.) Black also worked on the Whitewater Valley archaeological survey in Indiana in the late 1920s. Both projects were led by Christopher B. Coleman, director of the Indiana Historical Commission (which later became the Indiana Historical Bureau), and J. Arthur MacLean, director of the John Herron Art Institute, and sponsored by the Indiana Historical Society. Through these projects, Black met and befriended Eli Lilly, who became president of Eli Lilly and Company in 1932. Lilly shared Black’s interest in Indiana prehistory and financially supported and encouraged Black’s archaeological career. Lilly paid for Black’s studies in Ohio and initially funded Black’s archaeological work in Indiana with his own funds, including Black’s salary during his early years at the Indiana Historical Society.

Lilly was an industrialist, probs friend with his father, the simple dry goods retailer, think Macy’s

In May 1931, the Indiana Historical Society hired Black to serve as a local guide and driver to Warren K. Moorehead, a nationally known archaeologist from Ohio State University and the Peabody Foundation who helped create archaeological programs for the study of the eastern part of the United States; Eli Lilly, who served as the president of the Indiana Historical Society from 1932 to 1947; and E. Y. Guernsey, who did archaeological work for Indiana Historical Society.  Black, Lilly, and Paul Weer (one of Lilly’s friends), developed a multidisciplinary research program for Indiana in the 1930s. In order to conduct research, Black became proficient in several areas: surveying, cartography, drafting, photography, and geophysics. He also used new technologies and worked with scientists from other fields.

THE HORNED SKULL OF SAYRE, PENNSYLVANIA
CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL, SEPTEMBER. 20, 1916
Sayre is a borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, fifty-nine miles northwest of Scranton. The exact year is not clear, but during the 1880s a large burial mound was discovered in Sayre. It was reported that a group of Americans uncovered several strange human skulls and bones. The skeletons belonged to anatomically normal men with the exception of bony projections located about two inches above the eyebrows. It appeared that the skulls had horns. The bones were characterized as giant, as they were representative of people over seven feet tall. Scientists estimated that the bodies had been buried around 1200 CE. The archeological discovery was made by a reputable group of antiquarians, including Dr. G. P. Donehoo, the Pennsylvania state dignitary of the Presbyterian Church; A. B. Skinner, of the American Investigating Museum; and W. K. Morehead, of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. the Sayre “Horned Giant” bones were sent to the American Investigating Museum in Philadelphia. The artifacts were later reported missin
This was not the first time that gigantic horned skulls were unearthed in North America. During the nineteenth century, similar skulls were discovered near Wellsville, New York, and in a mining village close to El Paso, Texas. At one time in history, human horns were used as signs of kingship. Alexander the Great was depicted with horns on some of his coins. In Moses’s time, horns were a symbol of authority and power. Apparent pictures of the skulls do exist, but many people claim the discovery to be a hoax. Conversely, many websites suggest that the objects are of extraterrestrial origin.

Human skulls with horns were discovered in a burial mound at Sayre, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in the 1880’s. Horny projections extended two inches above the eye-brows, and the skeletons were seven feet tall, but other than that were anatomically normal.  It was estimated that the bodies had been buried around A.D. 1200. The find was made by a reputable group of antiquarians, including the Pennsylvania state historian and dignitary of the Presbyterian Church (Dr. G.P. Donehoo) and two professors, A.B. Skinner, of the American Investigating Museum, and W.K.Morehead, of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. The bones were sent to the American Investigating Museum in Philadelphia, where they were later claimed to have been stolen and have never been seen again
Pursuit, 6:69-70, July 1973  Mysteries of the Unexplained, p. 39 1992

The largest dig ever conducted in this country occurred here at Ocmulgee and the surrounding area. Between 1933 and 1936, over 800 men in Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civil Works Administration (CWA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (ERA & FERA), and later the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) excavated under the direction of Dr. Arthur R. Kelly from the Smithsonian Institute. Kelly was the only archaeologist at the Ocmulgee camp and conducted evening training courses for the men. Hundreds of thousands of artifacts were discovered including pottery, pottery shards, metals, arrowheads, spear points, stone tools, pipes, bells, jewelry, seeds, bones, etc. The Camp developed rapidly with over 200 unemployed youth ages 17 –23 years old living in four army-style barracks.  The CCC was administered through the War Department, and the enrollees wore army-style uniforms and maintained their Camp in military fashion with somewhat less emphasis on discipline than the regular army.

Major construction projects included building their own camp, restoring the 1,000-year-old Mississippian Era Earth Lodge, beginning work on a 40,000 square foot museum and administration facility, constructing and paving two miles of roads including culverts and curbing, building parking lots, and preparing trails including a bridge. Additional laborious details at the detached Lamar Site (two miles south of the main site and including two large mounds) involved levee construction along with clean-up after the excavations. The clean-up, or rehabilitation effort, included the work of refilling excavation ditches. Concrete was hauled in wheelbarrows, logs were moved by human power, and even stone-quarried without modern equipment. At the Earth Lodge, enrollees puddled clay in large pits, mixed in straw, and then applied the mixture to the inner concrete wall to simulate the Mississippian architecture. The public was admitted to this historic structure on November 1, 1937 after the CCC completed the steel walkway and installed electric lights. A wooden fence was installed around much of the park. At the entrance, a building resembling the design of old Fort Hawkins (1806) was added for the CCC visitor guides. Work continued on the large protective shelter over the Funeral Mound.

The extensive excavations on the North Plateau began with work on the Cornfield Mound in December 1933. A lattice of trenches was used to get a overall picture of the area. Where features, such as the palisade ditches or the Terrace House (above) were found, more trenches and larger areas were opened up. A series of parallel trenches was dug in the southwest area where a village was found.

The Earthlodge was discovered in February 1934 and soon planning began to reconstruct it. The reconstruction was opened to the public in November 1937.

Field Museum Archaeological Expedition

Chicago is a Spook central command, the Field museum (no pun intended) was beget of the World Fair in 1893. The World Fair connection is significant bc this is where all the fake relics are put on display and inserted into the common collective history… Its where His-story becomes a fact.

The Field Museum traveled to locations all over the world collecting items for exhibits. The first Prez was an E.E. Ayer, a hidden hand bloodline peppered all around this website. The EE is a 33 number drop, the ‘A’ makes it a trip three drop.

One of the things I noticed was all the cemeteries on the mounds. There is a symbolic meaning here. Here’s around 20 without even trying. One is Wright-Patterson, of the military base. Wrights are a NWO big-wig family, like the Wright brothers airplane. Another is a National Cemetery, another biggie. Most, if not all feature an obelisk on the grounds which is the real symbolism.

These are the Persian Mounds from the Middle East. There is no visible difference and from

July 2, 1879, widening the road at Taughannock Falls, a few miles of Trumansburg, the work of excavating the road had progressed as far as John Thompson, who owned a hotel nearby. one of the workers felt his pick strike something hard in the dirt. Believing he had come across a large rock, his jaw dropped in amazement. For there in the ground, partly exposed to his startled gaze, was what appeared to be a petrified man, a 7 foot giant man of stone. His hands were crossed over his right thigh, while the left leg lay over the right, which was bent up toward the body. Around his neck grew the roots of a nearby tree.

The news spread like wildfire and it was not long before hundreds of spectators were flocking to the scene. Exploitation of the petrified giant naturally fell to John Thompson, upon whose land it had been found. Thompson had photographs taken and the photographers enjoyed a period of prosperity as people bought the pictures as fast as they could be made.

Cornell University and other scientists visited the spot, and, at Thompson’s invitation, chipped off small fragments for study. After analyzing these bits of the body, the scientists proclaimed that, without a doubt, here was an authentic petrifaction of a human being of an extinct, prehistoric race.

For months, Trumansburg and vicinity became the mecca of thousands of tourists and the fame of the Taug­hannock giant spread far and wide.

A Trumansburg man, Frank Creque, imbibed a bit too freely in a village tavern one night and his drink-loosened tongue revealed that the stone man was nothing but a hoax, conceived purely as a publicity stunt, and that he, Creque, had been one of the instigators.

The idea of this brother to the famed Cardiff giant of ten years before was conceived in the mind of John Thompson for the purpose of attracting attention to his hotel. Thompson approached Ira Dean, a Trumansburg mechanic, with the scheme and Dean agreed to help.

Dean, Thompson and Creque took the 800-pound object to the scene, the trio tunnelled in from the side and then pushed the stone man through this to its resting place. A tree root, was wrapped around the neck so it would look as if it had grown there, when the giant was discovered the next day was the sod over the body which “had not been disturbed for a thousand years.”

Even after the hoax was revealed, scientists refused to believe that Dean had actually made it. In order to convince them, the Trumansburg man was forced to create another in miniature so that the scientists could see for themselves that the giant had actually been man-made. (As if the raw eggs and bone meal cement would work)

As the giant was dropped and broken, the remnants were taken and buried in an orchard near Trumans­burg, where they remain to this day, the exact spot long since forgotten.

This story was originally published in 1953, chances are it never happened. The descendent was Holman, variation of Hofman, a Spook family.

OAKLAND TRIBUNE, JANUARY 3, 1926

In the United States perhaps the greatest interest was aroused by the discovery near Bainbridge, Ohio, of the remains of four bodies of the ancient mound builders, a race believed by some scientists to have preceded the Indians. .

. . In the graves were found fresh-water pearls in such numbers as to convince state archaeologists directing the excavations that the bodies had been wrapped in a covering of precious gems.

When the skeletons were lifted it was found that they had been resting on pearls. Fragments of tortoise shells etched with figures of birds and necklaces made of grizzly-bear claws were found.

INDIANS HAVE NO ORAL TRADITIONS REGARDING THE MOUNDS

Mounds such as the ones uncovered in Ohio are not rarities to the scientist. They were known to the earliest settlers, but no Indian tradition has ever accounted for them.

By their skeletal remains in the earlier studies, the pre-Adena people were known to have had slender or thin bodies, and been “long-headed,” with “narrow” skulls (dolichocranic), i.e., having a breadth of skull small in proportion to length from front to back. T The pre-eminent theory of Adena origin at the time was that their ancestry had come from Mexico or even further south. However, the Adena body bone structure type was unusually difficult to trace with surety south of the Rio Grande, where another distinguishing Adena-resonant trait was found practiced from earlier times. That practice was “cradleboard” head deformation.

THE ANCIENT GIANTS BUILT A STONE WALL EIGHT MILES LONG

Another prehistoric ruin that has been attributed to the mound builders is a stone wall on the hill top above Mount Carbon, about four miles east of Montgomery, overlooking the Kanawha River. It was constructed around the brow of the mountain about three hundred feet from the summit. It is broken in places, but it is at least eight miles long. At intervals

As digs progressed in other parts of the state, archaeologists in Wheeling, WV found another grouping of giants ranging in height from 67″ to 7’6″ and also displaying unusual skull formations with low foreheads that sloped back gradually.

HUNDREDS OF MISSING SKELETONS

A true accounting of the number of skeletons found at Cahokia is also shrouded in the same mystery as the destroyed mounds at the site. Officially, there is almost no discussion of the hundreds of skeletons exhumed from this site.

The details and physical descriptions of the finds made during the 1922 dig led by archaeologist Warren K.

Morehead of Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts, are not very detailed and are downright evasive when it comes to the skeletons unearthed during his dig. One might even go so far as to say that Morehead was there to bury evidence, not uncover it.

RAILROAD WORKERS UNEARTH GIANT

AN INDIAN MOUND OPENED

EAU CLAIRE DAILY FREE PRESS, OCTOBER 7, 1873

A few days ago the men engaged in building the road bed of the Green Bay and Winona railroad, struck an Indian mound near Arcadia. It had been in view for some days, and no little speculation was indulged in as to what the excavation would develop from this cemetery of the red man.

The discovery exceeded all anticipations. The skeleton of an Indian was found of such dimensions as to indicate that the frame must have been that of a giant. The jaw bone easily enclosed the face of the largest laborer to be found on the work. The thigh bones were more like those of a horse than a man, hair heavy and remarkably well-preserved.

Pieces of blanket in which the body had been wrapped were taken out in a tolerable state of preservation. A number of Mexican coins were also found.

The unusual size of the skeleton has excited considerable interest, and the curiosities will be carefully preserved for exhibition.

HUNDREDS OF MOUNDS, EMBALMED NINE-FOOT GIANT, AND DAMS

SYRACUSE DAILY STANDARD, JULY 23, 1897

While men were excavating with a steam shovel near Mora Minnesota, they found an old copper spear with a point Two investigators excavating a mound found a skeleton apparently embalmed in a kind of cement, which seemed to be prepared for embalming the dead. The skeleton appeared to be in a perfect state of preservation and showed by measurement a height of nine feet.

In addition, evidence of sewage systems and canals has been detected at various sites across the country. In some cases the towns were also manufacturing centers and show signs of high trade and commerce of great sophistication.