8 Foot Giant King Removed from Illinois Burial Mound: Pottery of a King within the Mound

Many giant human skeletons have been found in Illinois. Proof that these were the Dakota Sioux until the Mississippian culture is the giant found at Cahokia www.nephilimgiants.net : Giant Skeletal Remains Discovered in Stone Tomb Near the Cahokia Mounds




 L. A. Times, November 18, 1906. 

ANCIENT GIANTS UNEARTHED

Skeletons Eight Feet Long Have Been Found


     "On what is known as one of the Illinois River hills, about midway between Cooperstown and the river and eight miles from Mt. Sterling, in Brown County, Ill., has just been made one of the richest and possibly the most wonderful of prehistoric finds. A curious resident of the locality recently assailed with pick and spade an ancient mound in almost the center of the little farm of Mrs. M. Crabtree, a widow and already the results of the exhumation would make the eyes of the archaeologist's dance with delight. With the first day's work the mound began to give up traces of the handiwork of past ages and the bones of those who had wrought it and others immediately joined in the search, still going on. Thus far, several skeletons, by actual measurement eight feet long and several pieces of remarkable pottery, beads and curious implements have been taken out. The bones crumbled badly almost as soon as they are taken into the open air. They are so numerous that it is believed a prehistoric burying ground has been found greater in extent and more perfectly preserved than any yet discovered. Under the bones of each of the ancient dead were found pieces of pottery, beneath the fragments of the skulls of some of their great vases. The largest of which would easily hold two gallons. Underneath one skeleton was a curious bowl, in the center of whose basin was the well-fashioned figure of a king seated upon a log and it is thought that these bones may be those of a great leader of the race that once ruled this portion of the continent.

 

Cahokia's Giant King's Stone Tomb Uncovered in East St.Louis.  

The Magazine of American History 1907

Sixteen Giants Are Dug Up  By Workman

Ancient Tomb, With Seven Foot Skeletons

Unearthed In East St. Louis (Cahokia)

    East St. Louis, Ill.,  Nov. 4   Human bones believed to have been those of 16 mound builders were found in East St Louis today by workmen who were digging an excavation.

   One skeleton was walled up in a stone tomb eight feet high.  It was that of a man apparently seven feet tall. When the stones were removed the skeleton fell to pieces.

   Buried under seven feet of earth near the base of this stone tomb were the skeletons of 15 men, all above normal height.  They were sealed in a circle about the tomb where their chief had been walled up