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Were there giants in ancient America?
The suppressed record is extensive and pre-dates modern archaeology: hundreds of documented newspaper accounts, Smithsonian correspondence, and indigenous oral traditions consistently describe the excavation of skeletal remains ranging from 7 to 12 feet. Researchers like Michael Cremo and Richard Dewhurst argue these finds were systematically collected and then disappeared into Smithsonian storage — or destroyed. The evidence points not to myth but to institutional suppression of anomalous physical anthropology.
Evidence
- Richard Dewhurst's 2013 work 'The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America' represents the most exhaustive cataloguing of the primary record.
- Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson, in 'Forbidden Archeology' (1993), frame this within a broader pattern of 'knowledge filtration' — the systematic discarding of anomalous finds that threaten the accepted human timeline.
- Brien Foerster's elongated skull research in Peru and Bolivia, while focused on South America, cross-corroborates the broader pattern of anomalous hominid morphology being dismissed rather than investigated.
- Graham Hancock in 'America Before' (2019) cites the anomalous scale of Mound Builder earthworks and the genetic mystery of pre-Columbian populations as consistent with a lost, sophisticated predecessor culture, though he stops short of endorsing giant stature claims directly.
- Dewhurst documents a direct paper trail of Smithsonian agents collecting these remains in the 1880s–1910s, after which the bones vanished from the public record.