Gigantic Nephilim Skeletons in Megalithic Chamber within Iowa Burial Mound
Courier, September 22, 1897
Courier, September 22, 1897
OPENED A MOUND
Skeleton of a Gigantic Prehistoric Man Exhumed by Relic Hunters
A party of a relic hunters made an excavation yesterday into one of the mounds which are quite numerous along the Cedar in the vicinity of Waterloo. The mound was 40 feet in diameter and about five feet high in the center. At a depth of 41/2 feet, in the center of the mound fragments of a gigantic human skeleton were found. They consisted of portions of a femur and humerus bones and a section of the base of the skull. It is evident that from the diameter of the bones that they belonged to a man of more than ordinary size, and all that was left of the skeleton can be packed in a cigar box it is probable that the body was laid away many centuries ago. No stone implements or copper ornaments were discovered but several pieces of charcoal were found near the bones and fragments of pottery and arrow heads were found near by.
