Adena Burial Mound Photographed in Grant County, Indiana Near Upland

This dome-shaped mound appears to have been plowed for many years but is still about four feet high. It is located about five miles southeast of the Upland mounds on a creek that feeds into the Mississenewa River. It is situated on a narrow table of land on the sharp bend of a creek just beyond the tree line to the right. Another small creek, now tiled, cut across this point of land, just beyond the mound. Past the mound, the old tributary embankment can be seen to the right. This place was chosen as a burial place because it would have been surrounded by running water. The burial mound that contained a giant skeleton in Grant County was still visible a few years ago but it was being reduced for topsoil on my last visit. Photos of the Adena burial mound here - www.nephilimgiants.net : Local Doctor Measures Giant Skeleton from a Grant County, Burial Mound at Nine Feet

Why aren't these ancient burial mounds protected as historic sites? There are 85 burial mounds and earthworks in Indiana, but only three are recognized as historical sites. What the hell is the Indiana Historical Society doing? What the hell is the Grant County Historical Society doing? It is obvious that the answer is nothing.  Across the road from the burial mound that contained the giant skeleton is another Adena burial mound is another smaller mound that has not been destroyed by locals or university archaeologists www.nephilimgiants.net : Three Ancient Adena Burial Mounds in Marion, Indiana

85 Burial Mounds and Earthworks in Indiana. 82 Sites Photographed for the First Time! The Nephilim Chronicles: A Travel Guide to the Ancient Ruins in the Ohio Valley: Zimmerman, Fritz: 9781451569520: Amazon.com: Books

   

 Local Doctor Measures Giant Skeleton from a Grant County, Burial Mound at Nine Feet

This is the mound described in the preceding history.  This mound had been previously covered with topsoil from excavations done by the gravel company. According to neighbors, this mound was higher before recently being leveled off by the gravel company. There were also additional mounds located on the right tree line that were destroyed at the same time. The mounds on the right of the photo are gravel and dirt. Three more burial mounds in Grant County, Indiana www.nephilimgiants.net : Three Ancient Adena Burial Mounds in Marion, Indiana

Combination Atlas Map of Grant County Indiana, 1877

The largest of mounds found in Grant County is that one found two miles south and one mile west of Upland, in Jefferson Township. About forty years ago the mound was five or six rods in diameter and about fifty feet high. At that time it was covered with all kinds of timber.

After people began settling near the mound they began clearing away the timber. The dirt was carried about a quarter of a mile. There is a basin near, rather deep, and at that time it was covered with trees, the same as the mound. The supposition of the old settlers was that the dirt in the mound was carried from where the basin is now.

People owning the land cleared the mound and for years have plowed it down until at the present time it is merely nothing but a small hill. In plowing and digging the mound many relics of the mound builders have been found, such as darts, hatchets, gun-barrels and bows.

The darts were just ordinary shaped ones like those found in later years. The hatchets were made of stone, mostly of blue granite. They were large and rudely shaped. The guns were old-fashioned flint-lock guns.

The owner of the mound gave many people permission to dig into it. One day two men were given permission to dig. The dug a trench north and south about four feet deep. After-they found a part of a skeleton of a man, the thighbone, ball and socket joint, and many small bones. When the small bones were exposed to the air they immediately crumbled. The ball and socket and thighbones were taken to a physician in Upland and he estimated the bones were of a man at least nine feet tall and weighing not less than three hundred pounds and the man was not fleshy.

A stone smoking pipe was found. The bowl of the pipe was two and half inches in diameter and the stem was six or seven inches long. It was made in the shape of a letter (L) and of blue granite .

 Three Ancient Adena Burial Mounds in Marion, Indiana

Indiana Department of Geology and Natural History, 1883

In Section 33, Monroe Township, and in VanBuren Township, near Black Creek, are a number of small mounds similar to those described. One or two small ones are situated on the bluffs, east of the river, near Marion. The largest in the county, however, were situated near where the courthouse now stands, and in the city cemetery.

Three mounds are located in the IOOF cemetery near the banks of the Mississenewa River. The second mound is visible in the background. 

85 Burial Mounds Photographed For the First Time in Indiana

 

Local Doctor Measures a 9 Foot Giant From A Grant County, Indiana Burial Mound

This burial mound in Upland, Indiana is located across the road from the site where the 9-foot human was removed. Only about thirty miles south of this giant skeleton in Grant County, Indiana was another in Delaware County, Indiana that also was measured at none feet www.nephilimgiants.net : 9 Foot Human Giant Removed from Burial Mound, Near Muncie, Indiana

Indiana Department of Geology and Natural History, 1883

Grant County, Indiana

   The largest of mounds in Grant County is that one found two miles south and one mile west of Upland, in Jefferson Township. About forty years ago the mound was five or six rods in diameter and about fifty feet high. At that time it was covered with all kinds of timber.

After people began settling near the mound they began clearing away the timber. The dirt was carried about a quarter of a mile. There is a basin near, rather deep, and at that time it was covered with trees, the same as the mound. The supposition of the old settlers was that the dirt in the mound was carried from where the basin is now.

   The owner of the mound gave people permission to dig into it, one day two men were given permission to dig. They dug a trench north and south about four feet deep. After digging they found part of a skeleton of a man, the thigh-bone, ball and socket joint, and many small bones. When the small bones were exposed to the air they immediately crumbled. The ball and socket and thigh-bones were taken to a physician in Upland and he estimated the bones were of a man at least nine feet tall and not weighing less than three hundred pounds and the man was not fleshy.

 

Indiana's Ancient Giant Race

The Burlingame Enterprise (Burlingame, Kansas) August 20, 1903

    The Indianapolis News says; “The way they are digging up seven and eight-foot skeletons 

in various parts of the state leads us to doubt whether we are really the greatest people that 

ever lived in Indiana at all.” That's about the only skeletons that can be found in Indiana. 

The medical colleges got the rest. More on Indiana's giants

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Allen County, Indiana

History of Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1868

     "In removing this- great sand, heap, as in digging at other points within the present limits 

of Fort Wayne, the Indians having deposited their dead here and there, many bones and 

skulls were exhumed and removed. On one occasion, some workmen thus engaged, among 

many others, dug up a most remarkable skull —with high-forehead and general formation 

extremely large — indicating a giant form to the possessor."

Giant Human Skeleton Discovered in Bartholomew County

Chicago Daily Tribune, July 20, 1892, 

Two More Skeletons Unearthed Relics the West Fork Historical Society Will Exhibit at the Fair

   
    Columbus, Ind., July 19. - [Special] – The West Fork Historical Society has unearthed two 

female skeletons from the mound of which the large male skeleton was taken about a year 

ago. It is said one of these skeletons possesses a remarkably fine specimen of Caucasian skull 
and the other one of Mongolian and Caucasian characteristics.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Boone County, Indiana

Marshall County Independent (Plymouth, Indiana) September 1, 1900

    Three skeletons were found in a small mound on a farm near Whitestown. They are much 

larger than skeletons of the present day.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Cass County, Indiana

The Daily Democrat (Huntington, Indiana) December 2, 1895

PREHISTORIC GIANT

A Monster Skeleton Unearthed in Noble Township

   The gruesome relic of a prehistoric giant chief measured nearly eight feet in length. In life 

the individual to whom these bones belonged must have been a veritable giant.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Decatur County, Indiana

The Indiana Gazetteer, 1849

Decatur County, Indiana

   From the size of such bones of the skeleton as remain, it must have once been of gigantic size. 

Giant Human Skeleton Discovered in DeKalb County, Indiana

Smithsonian Annual Report, 1874

Dekalb County, Indiana

       We were informed by Mr. Gonzer that it was opened about twenty years ago when the 

skeleton was found the thigh bone of which was as long as his leg, and the skull as large as a 

half bushel measure.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Delaware County, Indiana

Indiana Geological Survey 1881

Delaware County, Indiana

   
     The Indians used many of the hills as burial places; bones have been discovered which from 

their size would indicate that they belonged to a race of giants.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Fayette County, Indiana

Sunday Vindicator, Sunday, September 12, 1897

NINE FEET TALL

Was This Man Whose Skeletons Was Found In Indiana

    
     The remains indicate that the being of which this was once part, was a veritable giant, 

probably nine feet in height.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Fulton County, Indiana

Logansport Pharos-Trubune August 16, 1898

     A skeleton of a gigantic Indian was plowed up after the removal of two immense stones 

from a field near Kewanna.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered In Grant County, Indiana

Indiana Department of Geology and Natural History, 1883

Grant County, Indiana  

   The ball and socket and thigh-bones were taken to a physician in Upland and he estimated 

the bones were of a man at least nine feet tall and not weighing less than three hundred 

pounds and the man was not fleshy.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Henry County, Indiana

Indiana Geological Survey, 1862

Henry County, Indiana

      About seven or eight miles west of New Castle, a number of Indian skeletons were 

disinterred in the constructing a turnpike, and about the same distance south of town some 

remarkable humans bones and skeletons of giant size were dug out, with other relics, during 

the making of the road.

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