History of Kanawha County, W.V. 1876

Strange Picture Rocks Described in West Virginia Depict Ghostly Figures

The location of this stone is in the heart of the Adena mound builders.  The Native Americans were terrified of this region because they thought it was infested by evil spirits. Is this a depiction of what they encountered?  More on ghosts at Grave Cerek, West Virginia  www.nephilimgiants.net : Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville Prison: Portals to the Underworld

History of Kanawha County, W.V. 1876

   SCULPTURED STONES. About two and a half miles below the mouth of Paint creek, and twenty miles above Charleston, at the edge of the river, was a large flat stone, perhaps twenty feet square, called by the old settlers the "picture rock." It was embedded in the river, near the shore, and was not visible except during low water. It was literally covered with pictures of different animals, including turkeys, bears, deer, elk, fish, etc. ; and across the center of it was a large buffalo track cut deep in the stone. On the perpendicular face of the stone was the image of a man from the waist upwards; a little above, and to one side of the man, was a large bear — natural size — with his mouth wide open, in close proximity to the man's head. Two miles above this large sculptured stone was a smaller one, in which were engraved seven or eight tracks of a baby's foot, which were intended to represent the child as walking across the stone. A short distance above the village of Clifton, in the bed of the river, was still another stone, on which was neatly carved a large fish. Some person undertook to carry this stone away for the purpose of making a hearth, and broke it in twain; one piece, however, still remains in the river. These stones resembled the one that laid in the bottom of the river near the mouth of Campbell's creek, which will be described in another chapter. They were undoubtedly engraved by the same race of men, that unquestionably understood the art of sculpturing to a very considerable extent. The ruthless hand of the destroyer has relentlessly fallen upon all of these historic stones, and they have been quarried and removed for building purposes. It seems strange that men of intelligence would destroy such interesting relics of an ancient habitancy and civilization of the land in which they live. 

   STONES. About two and a half miles below the mouth of Paint creek, and twenty miles above Charleston, at the edge of the river, was a large flat stone, perhaps twenty feet square, called by the old settlers the "picture rock." It was embedded in the river, near the shore, and was not visible except during low water. It was literally covered with pictures of different animals, including turkeys, bears, deer, elk, fish, etc. ; and across the center of it was a large buffalo track cut deep in the stone. On the perpendicular face of the stone was the image of a man from the waist upwards; a little above, and to one side of the man, was a large bear — natural size — with his mouth wide open, in close proximity to the man's head. Two miles above this large sculptured stone was a smaller one.

 

 Mysterious Ancient Spirit Stones in Wabash County, Indiana   

   A series of prehistoric Sacred stones bowls cut into rock and boulders have been discovered in the upper Wabash drainage that includes the Missisinewa River.  The sacred nature of the stones is revealed by the existence of a spring next to one of the bowls. Springs are evident at many mounds and earthwork sites and are evidence of Earth Mother worship.   These bowls are likely Iroquois dating to 800 A.D. A "V" shaped stone fish (eel) weir is located near these sites that were constructed by the Onieda and Onondaga Iroquois in New York to catch eels and fish www.nephilimgiants.net : Oneida - Onondaga Iroquois Eel Weir on the Eel River in Wabash County, Indiana 800 A.D

  Wabash River stone with a bowl carved in the top.  This photo was taken December 23, as the sun rose over the riverbank it was in alignment with the boulder.  

This is the stone bowl on the Mississinewa River that is adjacent to a spring

Another stone bowl is part of series of boulders that are next to an oblong subterranean stone enclosure also located on the Mississsinewa River. The boulder with the bowl is the white colored stone. This is the only stone enclosure in northern Indiana or Ohio. The purpose of the stonework surrounding a four-foot hole is a mystery.

85 burial mound and earthwork sites in Indiana

222 burial mound and earthwork sites in IN, OH, WV, Ky and MI

Smithsonian Scientist Claims Dakota Sioux Hopewell Skulls Identical to Those of the Caucasian Guanches of the Canary Islands

Guanches of the Canary Islands were a Caucasian People, who according to the Smithsonian spread to North and South America. Here is a painting done be Catlin in the 1830s of a Dakota Sioux Mandan Indian with blonde hair and blue eyes www.nephilimgiants.net : Blonde Hair, Blue-Eyed Mandan Indians Claim they are Descended from White Men

Smithsonian Report," 1859, p. 266

Professor Retzius, in his Smithsonian Report, considers that the primitive dolichocephalæ of America are nearly related to the Guanches of the Canary Islands, and to the population on the Atlantic seaboard of Africa, which Latham comprises under the name of an Egyptian-Atlantidæ. The same form of the skull is found in the Canary Islands off the African coast and the Carib Islands off the American coast, while the color of the skin in both is that of a reddish-brown.

     The ancient Egyptians depicted themselves as red men of much the same complexion as exists to-day among some tribes of American Indians.

        "The ancient Peruvians," says Short, "appear from numerous examples of hair found in their tombs to have been an auburn-haired race."

                                                                       Peruvian Mummy

       A remarkable fact about the American Indians, and one which is a standing puzzle to ethnologists, is the wide range of color and complexion to be found among them. From the white tint of the, Dakota, Mandan, and Zuni tribes, many of whom have auburn hair and blue eyes,.to the almost negro blackness of the Karos of Kansas and the now extinct tribes of California, the Indian races run through every shade of red-brown, copper, olive, cinnamon, and bronze. (See Short's North Americans of Antiquity, Winchell's Pre-Adamites, and Catlin's Indians of North America; see also Atlantis, by Ignatius Donnelly who has collected a great mass of evidence under this and other heads.) We shall see by and by how the diversity of complexion on the American continent is accounted for by the original race-tints on the parent continent of Atlantis.

Native American Indian Legends of a Prehistoric Race of Giants

Native American Indian Legends of Prehistoric Race of Giants

There are many legends of an ancient giant race from many tribes across North America. The complete list is in "The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley."  Along with the giants were the Dakota Sioux who intermarried with the giants and help build the great geometric earthworks in Ohio. According to the Maimi Indians www.nephilimgiants.net : According to the Miami Indians the Hopewell Mound Builders Were Sioux.

American Antiquarian 1911

Prehistoric Races of America and Other Lands by L.S. Curry

    Dr. Curry was a missionary in the early days in the wilds of Michigan, is one of these missionaries who went among the Indians at Sault Ste. Marie, among the Chippewas at L'Anse and other places in the Northern Peninsula. He devoted years of time and study to the Indian, and finally learned to comprehend the Red Man, his ways, his, "inner life", and the meaning of his traditions, oral history, and religion, as no man ever before him had succeeded in doing. He, early in his career, came to the conclusion that the religion and so-called traditions meant something other than the wierd, and fancy flight of imagination, but how to obtain the key to the problem involved was itself a problem which for many years defied his most earnest efforts, but at length he was adopted into one of the tribes to which he was a missionary, and because of this, and in accordance with their unwritten law, he must, of necessity be taught the lore of the tribe together with its meaning as it was interpreted by them. Thus, at last, was opened to Dr. Curry the door he had so long striven to unlock, and as he spoke fluently several of the Indian dialects he encountered no difficulty in understanding their, "inner meaning".

   After years spent in attempting to reconcile the apparent contradictions in cosmogony,chronology, ethnology, ect., Dr. Curry, while stationed at Newberry Michigan, opened for himself a way for the solution of many of the problems that up to that time had defied every scientist, and at the same time smoothed out all the apparent inconsistencies; but we shall, at this point allow Dr. Curry to speak for himself:

    "An elder brother was the first to give me any light upon the subject. Upon what authority, he spoke, I know not, but this I do know, he must have had some good foundation for his statements. He said in substance as follows: A very long time ago a large race of people lived there as farmers and lumbermen, and a small race who had whiskers came down the Ottawa river from the northwest and made war on the large race and killed the most of them, but when the small men came in contact with the Indians they found the latter more than a match, for, the Indians turned on them and nearly annihilated them, and the remnants of both the giants and the small men left the country.

Mississippi as a Province, Territory, and State

by J.F.H. Claiborne 1880

   The Choctaws preserve a dim tradition that, after crossing the Mississippi, they met a race of men whom they called the Na-hon-lo, tall in stature and of fair complexion, who had emigrated from the sunrise. They had once been a mighty people but were then few in number, and soon disappeared after the incoming of the Choctaws. This race of men were, according to tradition, tillers of the soil and peaceable. There had likewise been a race of cannibals, who feasted on the bodies of their enemies. They too were giants and utilized the mammoth as their burden bearers. They kept them closely herded, and as they devoured everything and broke down the forest, this was the origin of prairies.