There Were Giants in Those Days: article from West Virginia

I picked this article up in Facebook, where someone had shared it, and told that this is near their house. It looks like the article had been found using search words. Some of the newspaper article databases are actually searchable, using some sort of OCR. Here's the article's text:

There Were Giants in Those Days

Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 26. -- while digging a grave on Trace Fork, Lincoln county, a few days ago, the bones of a human being of gigantic stature and proportions were exhumed. The skeleton is in a good state of preservation and the outlines of the frame sufficiently defined to determine that the stature of the person must have been nine or ten feet. The skull and other bones also indicate prodigious size. No one now living has any knowledge of the grave or its occupant, and all indications point to its belonging to some prehistoric race of giants contemporary with mastadons, fossil remains of which have been found in many parts of the country.

Arizona Rebublican. (Phoenix, Ariz.), 27 Feb. 1892. Chronicling Amierca: Historic Am
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Giants' Skeletons Found in Mexico

Giants' Skeletons Found

Cave in Mexico Gives Up the Bones of an Ancient Race

Special to the New York Times

Boston, May 3. -- Charles C. Clapp, who has recently returned from Mexico, where he has been in charge of Thomas W. Lawson's mining interestes, has called the attention of Prof. Agassiz to a remarkable discovery made by him.

He found in Mexico a cave containing some 200 skeletons of men each above eight feet in height. The cave was evidently the burial place of a race of giants who antedated the Aztecs. Mr. Clapp arranged the bones of one of these skeletons and found the total length to be 8 feet 11 inches. The femur reached up to his thigh, and the molars were big enough to crack a cocoanut. The head measured eighteen inches from front to back.

The Red Queen of Palenque

The red queen of Palenque is an interesting figure from Mexico. She also had an elongated skull, much like the skulls found in Paracas, Peru. She was said to have been 1.54 m tall, so she was not by any means a giant.

She was a highly respected person, buried in an important part of a temple. She was buried with many items of jewelry and a sort of headband of green stones on her head.

Here is a picture of her elongated skull. Source

Here are History Channel's reconstructions based on her skull. If she is related to the Paracas individuals, she may very well have had red hair, as opposed to black hair. The black hair is an assumption, based on the color of the hair of the vast majority of people in that region. Source

Here is the History Channel documentary about the Red Queen of Palenque in YouTube. (This is a multi part series. Open it in YouTube to see all the episodes)

Here is an article by the History Channel about the making of the documentary.