Open your “Forbidden Archaeology” file. Right now. Dust it off. Because what we are about to talk about doesn’t just rewrite the history books—it sets them on fire.
Science is staying quiet. Stubbornly silent. Why? Because the evidence found near Lake Delavan, Wisconsin, in May 1912 is too big to hide but too dangerous to accept. We are talking about a lost race. Not aliens. Not spirits. Flesh and bone giants.
The dig site was overseen by Beloit College. Official credentials. Serious academics. It included more than 200 effigy mounds that were supposed to be your standard, textbook examples of 8th-century Woodland Culture. Nothing to see here, right? Wrong.
When the shovels hit the dirt, the narrative shattered. The skeletons pulled from the earth didn’t fit. They were massive. Elongated skulls. Freakish anatomy. These were not average human beings. They were something else entirely.
The Lake Delavan Discovery: May 1912
Let’s go back to the source. This isn’t an internet rumor started on a dark web forum last week. This was news. Real news.
First reported in the May 4, 1912 issue of the New York Times, the find was startling. The Peterson brothers, digging on Lake Lawn Farm in southwest Wisconsin, uncovered 18 skeletons. But these weren’t just ancient burials. They were monsters.
The details are terrifyingly specific. Their heights ranged between 7.6 feet and a staggering 10 feet tall. To put that in perspective, the average NBA player looks like a child next to these guys. The skulls? The report said they were “presumably those of men,” but admitted they were “much larger than the heads of any race which inhabit America to-day.”
But the height wasn’t the weirdest part.
Anatomy of a Nightmare
Here is where it gets strange. Really strange. These skeletons didn’t just have long bones. They had genetic traits that sound like science fiction.
- Double Rows of Teeth: Imagine opening a skull and seeing not one, but two distinct sets of chompers lining the jaw.
- Polydactyly: Six fingers on each hand. Six toes on each foot.
- Elongated Skulls: The heads stretched backward, suggesting a longer lifespan or a completely different brain structure.
The front teeth weren’t incisors. They were regular molars. Grinders. This suggests a diet and a jaw strength that would crush modern foods into dust instantly. These weren’t random mutations. Finding one giant is a fluke. Finding 18? That’s a tribe. That’s a species.
One must ask: How much could they lift? If you are twice the size of an average human, your muscle mass is exponential. We are talking about beings that could flip cars. Are these the “Giants” the Bible whispers about? Are these the figures painted on canyon walls by civilizations trembling in fear?
The Biblical Connection: The Nephilim
The Bible, in Genesis 6:4, drops a line that has haunted historians for centuries: “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown.”
Scientists hate this. They hate when you use religious or cultural history to fill a hole in the data. They call it “faulty logic.” But is it?
When you have physical bones—calcium and marrow—staring you in the face, the “myth” suddenly looks a lot like a history lesson. Over 200 giant digs have been found in recent years across the Midwest. Yet, you never see this on the 6 o’clock news.
Why? Fear.
It seems that in most people’s opinion, the silence is due to the fear that people would question the standard model of evolution. If anything, this looks like de-evolution. We got smaller. We got weaker. We lost the extra fingers. We lost the second row of teeth.
Global Anomalies: It’s Not Just Wisconsin
If this was just one farm in Wisconsin, maybe we could laugh it off. A hoax. A mistake.
But it’s global.
In 2002, National Geographic reported a dozen “Cyclops” skeletons found in Greece that stood 12 to 15.5 feet tall. That is three humans stacked on top of each other. One eye socket. The myth of the Cyclops wasn’t a bedtime story. It was a warning.
Giants in history are typically described as cannibalistic. They eat us. That’s the deal. Look at a basketball hoop. Add five feet. That is what you are staring up at. Greek Mythology talks about war with the Cyclops, learning they had to bring them down by taking out their legs, rendering them slow and helpless. You don’t fight a tank head-on. You disable the tracks.
And then there are the Red-Haired Giants of Nevada. The Paiute Indians tell legends of the Si-Te-Cah, a race of red-haired, cannibalistic giants that they fought a war of extermination against. Archaeologists found red-haired mummies in Lovelock Cave. Found with them? Egyptian-style writing. In Nevada.
Let that sink in.
Mystery of the Wisconsin Giants: Hoax or History?
Skeptics love to scream “Hoax!” Was this some sort of prank played by local farm boys? Did a demented taxidermist sew bones together for fun and the attention of the press? The answer is a hard no.
The biology is too consistent. The find at Lake Delavan in May 1912 was only one of dozens and dozens of similar finds reported in local newspapers from 1851 forward to the present day. It wasn’t even the first set of giant skeletons found in Wisconsin.
The 1891 Discovery
On August 10, 1891, the New York Times—again, the paper of record—reported that scientists from the Smithsonian Institution had discovered several large “pyramidal monuments” on Lake Mills, near Madison, Wisconsin.
“Madison was in ancient days the centre of a teeming population numbering not less than 200,000,” the Times said.
Two hundred thousand people. In ancient Wisconsin. That is a metropolis. The excavators found an elaborate system of defensive works which they named Fort Aztalan. This wasn’t a campground. It was a fortified city.
“The celebrated mounds of Ohio and Indiana can bear no comparison, either in size, design or the skill displayed in their construction with these gigantic and mysterious monuments of earth—erected we know not by whom, and for what purpose we can only conjecture,” said the Times.
They knew they were looking at something advanced. They just couldn’t admit who built it.
The Maple Creek Find
Fast forward a few years. On December 20, 1897, the Times followed up with a report on three large burial mounds that had been discovered in Maple Creek, Wisconsin. One had recently been cracked open.
“In it was found the skeleton of a man of gigantic size. The bones measured from head to foot over nine feet and were in a fair state of preservation. The skull was as large as a half bushel measure. Some finely tempered rods of copper and other relics were lying near the bones.”
Note the detail: “Finely tempered rods of copper.”
This implies metallurgy. Technology. Skill. This wasn’t a primitive brute. This was a giant with tech. Giant skulls and skeletons of a race of “Goliaths” have been found on a very regular basis throughout the Midwestern states for more than 100 years. Giants have been found in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and New York.
Their burial sites are always similar. The well-known mounds of the Mound Builder people.
Who Were the Mound Builders?
The spectrum of Mound Builder history spans a period of more than 5,000 years (from 3400 BCE to the 16th CE). That is a period greater than the history of Ancient Egypt and all of its dynasties combined.
Think about the Pyramids. We obsess over them. We study every inch. Yet, right here in the American Midwest, we have a culture that lasted longer and built earthworks that rival the engineering of the ancient world. And we treat it like a footnote.
There is a “prevailing scholarly consensus” that we have an adequate historical understanding of the peoples who lived in North America during this period. They tell us they were simple hunter-gatherers. Maybe some light farming.
However, the long record of anomalous finds like those at Lake Delavan suggests otherwise. Simple farmers don’t grow to be 10 feet tall. They don’t develop double rows of teeth. And they certainly don’t build pyramids in Wisconsin.
The Smithsonian Cover-Up: The Powell Doctrine
This brings us to the most disturbing part of the story. Has there been a giant cover-up? Why aren’t there public displays of gigantic Native American skeletons at natural history museums? Why can’t you take your kids to see the “Wisconsin Colossus”?
The skeletons of some Mound Builders are certainly on display. There is a wonderful exhibit, for example, at the Aztalan State Park where one may see the skeleton of a “Princess of Aztalan” in the museum.
But notice something? The skeletons placed on display are normal-sized.
According to multiple sources and researchers, the skeletons of giants have been systematically covered up. Made to disappear.
Specifically, the Smithsonian Institution has been accused of making a deliberate effort to hide the “telling of the bones” and to keep the giant skeletons locked away. This isn’t just paranoia. There is a policy trail.
John Wesley Powell’s Mandate
In the late 1800s, John Wesley Powell ran the Smithsonian’s Bureau of Ethnology. The narrative of the day was Manifest Destiny. The idea was that Native Americans were savages who had just arrived and hadn’t really “used” the land. If evidence popped up showing an ancient, advanced, giant civilization existed here thousands of years prior, it ruined the political narrative.
So, the order went out: Ignore the anomalies. Bury the giants.
In the words of Vine Deloria, a Native American author and professor of law:
“Modern day archaeology and anthropology have nearly sealed the door on our imaginations, broadly interpreting the North American past as devoid of anything unusual in the way of great cultures characterized by a people of unusual demeanor. The great interloper of ancient burial grounds, the nineteenth century Smithsonian Institution, created a one-way portal, through which uncounted bones have been spirited. This door and the contents of its vault are virtually sealed off to anyone, but government officials. Among these bones may lay answers not even sought by these officials concerning the deep past.”
Modern Theories: DNA and The Denisovans
So, where do we stand today? The internet has blown this wide open. You can’t hide 10-foot skeletons forever.
Some modern theorists point to the Denisovans. This is a recently discovered species of hominid, cousins to the Neanderthals, identified by a finger bone found in Siberia. Their DNA is found in modern populations in the Pacific and Americas. We know they had massive molars. We know they were large.
Could the Wisconsin Giants be a late-surviving pocket of Denisovans? Or perhaps a hybrid? The double rows of teeth suggest a genetic lineage that diverged from ours a long, long time ago.
The Square-Cube Law
Skeptics try to use physics to debunk giants. They cite the Square-Cube Law. This law states that as an object grows in size, its volume (and weight) grows much faster than its surface area (bone strength). They argue a 10-foot man couldn’t walk. His bones would snap.
But that assumes their bones were like ours. What if they weren’t? What if their bone density was triple ours? What if the atmosphere at the time was different, supporting larger life forms, just like it did for the dinosaurs?
The “double teeth” might be the clue. Extra calcium processing. Stronger structure. Nature finds a way.
The Final Question
Why does this matter? Who cares if big guys lived in Wisconsin 1,000 years ago?
Because it means we don’t know who we are.
If there was a race of intelligent, copper-working giants in America, interacting with early Native Americans, building pyramids, and trading across the continent, then the history of the Western Hemisphere is a lie.
It means civilization didn’t start with Columbus. It didn’t start with the Vikings. It was here. Tall, powerful, and terrifying.
The bones were found. The newspapers reported them. The scientists took them away. Now, it’s up to us to remember.
Originally posted 2014-01-27 23:24:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
