The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley

by Fritz Zimmerman

  History of Kentucky , V. I, 1922

  “Above the mouth of Big Point Creek there is a river bottom extending up the Louisa River about a

  mile…There mounds were covered with large trees when first seen by white men. The original public

  highway up the Big Sandy River was laid out to cut the north side of the second mound. In matching

  this public road the mound was cut and the skeleton of a man of large size was found. It was enclosed

  in a sort of rude box made by placing flat thin river stones about and over it.”

  Louisiana

  Oakland Tribune, January, 27, 1904

  GIANT SKELETONS IN LOUISIANA UNEARTHED

  Skeletons of a race of giants who averaged twelve feet in height were found by workmen engaged on a drainage project at Crowville, near here. There were several score at least of the skeletons and they lie in various positions. It is believed they were killed in a prehistoric fight and that the bodies lay where they fell until covered with alluvial deposits due to the flooding of the Mississippi river.

  No weapons of any sort were found and it is believed the Titans must have [...]

  The skulls are in a perfect state of preservation and some of the jawbones are large enough to fit around a baby's body.

  Michigan

  Memorials of a Half Century, 1886

  When mounds are opened in most cases, it is impossible to determine from the reports whether the

  skeletons found belong to original or intrusive burials. According to some accounts the skeletons

  indicate a race of very inferior size; according to others, they show a race of giants. The elasticity of

  these ancient relics, to suite the zeal of the narrator, is truly wonderful. On one occasion I accompanied

  an old pioneer and worthy Judge to visit several mounds in Western Michigan. My guide gravely

  informed me that, twenty years before, he had dug from one of these mounds a skeleton which, when

  laid out upon the turf measured eleven feet, eight and three quarter inches, and a skull of which fitted

  entirely over the judicial head!

  Memorials of a Half Century, 1886

  By far the finest group of mounds that has come to my knowledge occurs on the banks of the Grand

  River, three miles south of Grand Rapids. They were still perfect when the writer had the satisfaction of

  seeing them in 1874.

  The largest of these mounds has a diameter of 100 feet, and a height of 15 feet or more above the

  general surface. Close by are two others of nearly equal size, all very regular in shape and conical.

  They are in a line about 100 feet apart, and 500 feet from the river. Around them cluster seventeen

  smaller tumuli, without regular arrangement, and varying in height from eight to two feet. All within

  an acre of two and a half acres.

  This group occupies the first terrace, which is overflowed in high water to the foot of the mounds. It

  lies in the shadow of the ancient, untrimmed forest, consisting principally of sugar maples. Trees were

  growing on the mounds of two to three feet diameter, and there were evidences of still older ones

  which have perished.

  Seven of these tumuli were opened during the year preceding my visit, by Captain Coffinbury and

  others, and among them one of the largest. This was found to be wholly composed of the richest

  portions of the surrounding alluvial soil, differing in this respect from the others, which were composed

  of the gravel of the uplands. No relics were disclosed, except a copper awl. Patches of ochreous earth

  were met with, a bushel in a place, as though dumped from a basket. The absence of skeletons in this tumulus, and the red earth, together with ashes, mingled with commuted bone, would imply that this mound was appropriated to such bodies only as were cremated.

  Of the smaller mounds, six were opened. In all skeletons were found, generally one only in each, and all were so decayed that it was impossible to preserve them. They were of ordinary size, except one, which is pronounced gigantic, the proportions "indicating a stature of seven feet" All were in a sitting posture, and faced to different points.

  The early Iroquoian mound group is still visible near Grand Rapids, Michigan. They are left overgrown and being systematically destroyed by university excavations. From The Nephilim Chronicles, A Travel Guide to the Ancient Ruins in the Ohio Valley, 2010

  Gazetteer of Michigan, 1839

  In Bruce township, in the county of Macomb, on the north fork of the Clinton are several

  (fortifications) The latter consist mostly of an irregular embankment, with a ditch on the outside, and

  including from two to ten acres, with entrances, which were evidently gateways, and a mound on the

  inside opposite each entrance. In the vicinity there are a number of mounds.

  Several small mounds have been found on a bluff of the Clinton River, eight miles from Lake St. Clair.

  In sinking the cellar of a building for a missionary, sixteen baskets full of human bones were found, of

  a remarkable size.

  History of Bay County , 1883

  There are also four fortifications on the Rifle River, in Township Twenty-two north. They comprise

  from three to six acres each, containing several mounds of large size. They are also situated on the

  bluffs. The walls can yet be traced, and are from three to four feet high and from eight to ten feet wide,

  with large trees growing on them. A friend of mine opened one of these mounds and took from it a

  skeleton of a larger size than an ordinary person. He says he also saw several large mounds on the Au

  Sable River

  The American Antiquarian, 1905

  Burial mounds in Michigan Near this place the skeleton of a man was found which was encased in a certain kind of clay, unlike any clay ever found in this country, which clay had been burned after it was adjusted to the to the subject, some of the charcoal still remaining. The person was supposed to have been more than six feet in height, having very large bones, a very broad under- jaw, the front of the head receded so much as to leave no forehead. A burned clay vase or urn, of about three feet in height was found standing upright, into, into which the whole skeleton of a man had been compressed, the top of the urn being covered with burned clay. Resting against the outside of the urn, was a similar skeleton, supposed to be that of a female. Pipes were found with the skeletons which had been molded from some plastic material and glazed and burned, on which were skillfully portrayed the likeness of different human faces, and other fancied or real objects. Although each pipe has several faces exactly alike, yet they are entirely unlike those on the other pipes. The whole group of faces represents the broad, round, oval, oblong and conical shaped faces, not caricatures, but careful, skillful, and truthful representations of nature. Stone tubes, and stones which had been wrought into many curious and beautiful forms, many being perforated, all requiring great skill and patience, were found in the mounds with the above described skeletons. How long those bones had reposed in their air tight burned clay enclosures, in the bowels of these mounds, or to what particular race of human beings they belonged, are questions which are too profound and grave to induce an opinion from me. But my long acquaintance with the language, manners, and customs of the Indian tribes of Michigan, enables me to say that they never disposed of their dead as indicated above. Nor did they make such highly ornamented pottery as there found. Nor did they posses the skill to make such marvelous things, especially the ornamented pipes. Moreover, if it were possible, it is probable that they would have represented the human faces and other objects as seen by them rather than with the features which these relics contain. And furthermore, I believe, Indians were never arrayed in such a snug, neat fitting single garment, reaching from the neck to the feet, and showing such a natural and graceful formed
bust, as was displayed by the female figure on one of these pipes. It is very obvious to me that the wild, savage Indians, never invented nor manufactured these implements, but adopted and used them whenever they found them.

  Salt Lake Tribune , September 14, 1894

  ELEVEN FEET TALL

  Skeletons of Prehistoric Giants Unearthed in Michigan Mounds

  A Carson City (Mich.) correspondent of the Detroit News writes that the remains of a forgotten race were recently dug up from the mounds on the south side of Crystal lake, Montcalm county. One contained five skeletons and the other three. In the first mound was an earthen tablet, five inches long, four wide and a half an inch thick. It was divided into four quarters. On one of them were inscribed curious characters. The skeletons were arranged in the same relative positions, so far as the mound was concerned.

  In the other mound there was a casket of earthenware, ten and a half inches long and three and a half inches wide. The cover bore various inscriptions. The characters found upon the tablet were also prominent upon the casket. Upon opening the casket a copper coin about the size of a two-cent piece was revealed, together with several stone types, with the inscription or marks upon the tablet and casket had evidently been made.

  There were also two pipes, one of stone and the other of pottery, and apparently of the same material as the casket. Other pieces of pottery were found, but so badly broken as to furnish no clew as to what they might have been used for.

  Some of the bones of the skeletons were well preserved, showing that the dead men must have been persons of huge proportions. The lower jaw is immense. An ordinary jawbone fits inside with ease. By measurement, the distance from the top of the skull to the upper end of the thigh bone of the largest skeleton was five feet five inches . A doctor, who was present stated that the man must have been at least eleven feet high.

  One of these mounds was partly covered by a pine stump, three feet six inches in diameter, and the ground showed no signs of ever having been disturbed. The digging had to be done amongst the roots which had a large spread.

  Much speculation is rife as to who these giants of a prehistoric race may have been.

  Minnesota

  New York Times, May 25, 1882

  The Bones Of A Giant Found St. Paul, Minn., May 24. -A skull of heroic size and singular formation has been discovered among the relics of the mound builders in the Red River Valley. The mound was 60 feet in diameter and 12 feet high. Near the center were found the bones of about a dozen men and women, mixed with the bones of various animals. The skull in question was the only perfect one, and near it was found some abnormally large body bones. The man who bore it was evidently a giant. A thorough investigation of the mound and its contents will be made by the Historical society.

  St. Paul Press, July 29, 1897

  Prehistoric Giants Bones of a Brobdingnagian People Found

  In Northern Minnesota

  Some Recent Remarkable Discoveries in Itasca County

  Fine Pottery and Copper Implements- Ponderous Weapons-Queer Hieroglyphics Special Correspondence of the Globe Democrat

  Ely, Minn., August 1. - While Minnesota as a State is getting fairly well along in years, as Western States goes still there are many large tracts over which white men have not traveled to any extent, and about which little is known, except as fragmentary information has been brought in by hunters and guides who have had occasion to pass over the territory. This is particularly true of the extreme northern portion of the State, which until gold was found there was as little known as were the vast wilderness to the west when the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock.

  The steady rush of settlers to this section and of the gold seekers to the region further north has resulted in opening up many thousands of acres of entirely new country and placing before the world a farming territory as rich as any in the United States and a mineral deposit so wonderful and varied in its character that no one may say the end has yet been reached. With the partial settlement of this new country have come many strange finds, showing that at one time in the dark and half-forgotten past the northern section of this State was inhabited by men and animals of which the present generation knows nothing except what scientist and searchers after the curious may say.

  The country around Ely is particularly rich in relics of the past, judging from the many finds made by various people since farms have been opened up here. Scarcely a day passes but some new discovery is made, and the relics are particularly interesting to those who have delved into the records of the musty past to any extent. There is evidence to show that at one time this country was peopled by men of tremendous size and by animals in comparison with which the elephants of the circus today would seem like pigmies. There is also evidence to show that the people who then ruled the country were not mere hewers of wood and drawers of water, but possessed skill in various directions. Cemetery Of The Giants

  Thomas McKinster, who has recently taken up a farm near the mouth of the Little Fork River, in Itasca County, has discovered relics which in point of historic value and interest are far ahead of all previous finds. At one corner of his farm stood a knoll, possibly 150 yards across, covered with heavy growth of pine. On top of this knoll was a huge bird, or rather the outlines of one made of stone not found in any other locality of the State so far as known. In digging into the knoll it was found that the place was once a cemetery, or burying ground of a prehistoric race.

  Human bones of great size were found, and all the positions indicated that the original owners thereof had been buried in sitting posture, instead of being stretched out at full length, as is the custom in these days. It was an easy matter to distinguish the bones of the male from those of the female, for they were larger more massive and had preserved their shape better. In some cases the bones fell to pieces at the slightest touch and resolved themselves into a powder, while in others they were soft and spongy, the earth seemingly having entered the cavities formerly occupied by the marrow, and furnished a support for the shells.

  In one grave, if grave it could be called, were found the bones of what were once probably father and mother and child. The huge bones of the male were about a foot distant from those of the woman and child, which were locked in a close embrace as though the mother had drawn the infant to her bosom just before death came. The larger bones were those of a man who, in life, must have been nearly, if not fully, 9 feet in height, while those of the woman showed that she had been no dwarf, measuring as they did 8 feet 4 inches from the bottom of the bones of the foot to the top of the skull, which was larger, flatter and considerably heavier than the skulls of the people today. The child must have been very young for

  its bones went to pieces as soon as exposed to the air, and covered the bones of the mother with a fine white powder. By measuring the outlines of the bones of the child it was found that the infant had been nearly 5 feet in height, which is really not so bad for a child of tender years. In the skull of the woman was a big dent, between and slightly above the eyes, showing that she had met death in a violent manner. By the side of the man lay a stone weapon, shaped something like an egg with a depression cut around one end in which a thong might have been twisted. It was of the same kind of stone as the bird on top of the knoll or mound, a hard blue colored granite, almost as close grained as steel.

  Evening Tribune (Albert Lea, Minn.) September 10, 1931 6 Human Skeletons, Pottery Found on Farm Near Deer River, Minn.

  Discovery Leads to Belief That Bands of Prehistoric Mound Builders Once Roamed Northern Minnesota.

  Deer River, Minn., Sept 10-Six human skeletons and several pieces of pottery unearthed on a farm 45 miles north of here have led residents to believe that bands of prehistoric mound builders once roamed northern Minnesota.

  The skeletons were discovered on the farm of Sam S. Strangeland on the Big Fork river in Gratan township, Itasca county, when Mr. Strangelove began to do dig a root cellar in a mound situated in fromt of his home.

  Diggin
g operations on the root cellar had not progressed very far when one of the skeletons was discovered. Four more were uncovered on the same level and a sixth was found about three feet deeper.

  All the bodies were buried in a sitting position with the legs doubled under and the head bent downward. Coffins were not used. One skeleton had an exceptionally large jaw bone and the forehead of the skull receded abruptly above the eyes. The other five were of smaller proportions.

  Missouri

  Scientific American, 1883

  “A Tradition of Giants,” Two miles from Mandan, on the bluffs near the junction of the Hart and Missouri rivers is an old cemetery of fully 100 acres in extent filled with bones of a giant race. This vast city of the dead lies just east of Fort Lincoln Road. The ground has the appearance of having been filled trenches piled full of dead bodies, both man and beast, and covered with several feet of earth. In many places mounds from 8 to 10 feet high, and some of them 100 feet or more in length have been filled with bones and broken pottery, vases of various bright-colored flints and agates. The pottery is of a dark material, beautifully decorated, delicate in finish and as light as wood, showing the work of a people skilled in the arts and possessed of a high state of civilization. This has evidently been a grand battlefield, where thousands of men and horses have fallen. Nothing like a systematic or intelligent exploration has been made, as only little holes two or three feet in depth have been dug in some of the mounds, but many of the bones of man and beast and beautiful specimens of broken pottery and other curiosities have been found in those feeble efforts at excavation. We asked an aged Indian what his people knew of these ancient graveyards. He answered: “Me know nothing about them. They were here before the red man.”

  Isis Unveiled, 1877

  As we write, there appears in an American paper, The Kansas City Times, an account of important discoveries of the remains of a prehistoric race of giants, which corroborates the statements of the kabalists and the Bible allegories at the same time. It is worth preserving:”In his researches among the forests of Western Missouri, Judge E. P. West has discovered a number of conical-shaped mounds similar in construction to those in Ohio and Kentucky. These mounds are found upon the high bluffs overlooking the Missouri River, the largest and more prominent being found in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Until about three weeks ago it was not suspected that the mound builders had made this region their home in prehistoric days; but now it is discovered that this strange and extinct race once occupied this land, and have left an extensive graveyard in a number of high mounds upon Clay County bluffs.