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  1. legendsofamerica.com

    The most recent discovery of these giants was made in 1959 when Dr. Donald Dragoo, the curator for the Section of Man at the Carnegie Museum, excavated the Cresap Mound in Marshall County. There, he unearthed a 7 feet 2-inch skeleton. Tales of colossal giants permeate American History, not only in West Virginia but across the continent. These ...
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  3. ancient-origins.net

    All over what is now the U.S. are traditions of these ancient giants. Over 1000 accounts of seven-foot and taller skeletons have reportedly been unearthed from ancient burial sites over a two-hundred-year period in North America. ... Cresap Mound, West Virginia, 1959 - 7ft 2in skeleton. In 1959, ...
  4. wvexplorer.com

    Jun 27, 2024"The so-called giants in West Virginia are a prevailing myth that the Adena people were a race of giant prehistoric humans based on accounts of large skeletons found during West Virginian mound excavations," Jones says. She clarified that the giants being described in the myth aren't supernatural in size.
  5. onlyinyourstate.com

    Giants may have roamed through the mountains of West Virginia in ancient times, but while rumors abound, very little evidence remains. ... Few People Know Mysterious Giants May Have Inhabited West Virginia Long Ago. West Virginia's ancient burial mounds may contain the remains of abnormally large humans, sparking both intrigue and controversy. ...
  6. grahamhancock.com

    Graham Hancock Official Website

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    In many respects the West Virginia Mounds are key to understanding the true story of the Giants who once ruled America. Not only are the West Virginia mound sites in Charleston, Wheeling and Moundsville, some of the most significant in size and number in United States, but in 1883, the Smithsonian dispatched a team of archaeologists to the ...
  7. americasspine.com

    Jan 6, 2024Tales of colossal giants permeate American History, not only in West Virginia but across the continent. These many finds in America and the rest of the world support the idea that giants once walked on earth centuries ago and are more than just mythological beings. ©Kathy Weiser-Alexander/Legends of America, updated October 2021. —-
  8. wvexplorer.com

    Nov 14, 2024The Kanawha Valley in West Virginia had one of the highest concentrations of burial mounds in North America, according to an archaeologist whose new book on the subject is set to be published July 1. ... Spencer said she'd confronted legends that a race of giants above seven feet tall built the mounds. In 2014, an Internet story that claimed ...
  9. ancient-origins.net

    According to the Gazette, the mounds contained "what Prof. Ernest Sutton, head of the history department of Salem College, believes is valuable evidence of a race of giants who inhabited this section of West Virginia more than 1000 years ago." Again four burials were mentioned from the two mounds, measurements "indicating they were from ...
  10. wvencyclopedia.org

    e-WV | The West Virginia Encyclopedia

    https://www.wvencyclopedia.org › articles › 1424

    e-WV, the West Virginia Encyclopedia online, is the premier reference work on the Mountain State's people, places, history, science, and culture. Check back often as it is updated regularly. ... Another belief was that the mound builders were giants; inaccurate field measurements of some Adena skeletons revealed unusually tall and powerful ...
  11. traditionallegends.com

    Feb 8, 2023Legends of giants in West Virginia is not new. It has been theorized that a giant rests below the mound at Indian Mound Cemetery and according to some, this is not the only one. It has also been theorized that the mound of Grave Creek Mounds in Moundsville, WV house the remains of giants.As legend goes, in 1889 the South Branch of the Potomac flooded. As the waters receded, numerous skeletons ...
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