Saturday 13 February 2016

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
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020558/1892-02-27/ed-1/seq-2/

1 comment:

  1. Amazing. I sure do miss the TV special with the Viieiera Brothers! Their series in girsnta was fascainting!

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