Because argument continues today, over theories of evolution versus the belief in creationism,
one might be forgiven for thinking, this is a completely modern debate.
However, Charles Darwin published the "Origin of Species" in 1859.
This may have set the stage, for the destruction of the remains of giant humans, in the early
1900’s, by the Smithsonian Institution, in order to protect the reputation, of the theory of evolution.
David Brody, author of "The Oath of Nimrod", reminds us, recalls from history of the mid-1800s,
the American public imagination was captured by reports in the media, of the bones of giants
being found.
These oversized humans were believed to have roamed the Americas in the pre-columbian era,
which includes all history, before the arrival on the continent by Christopher Columbus.
That is not to say that Giants did not co-exist, with early Native Americans.
Oral history of the first peoples, speaks of a race of giants with whom on occasion
they would do battle.
Eventually some tribes of Native Americans would merge, to combat the gargantuan foe.
However the enclaves of the giants, tended to cover a lot of land.
One such enclave dominated the Ohio River Valley, and evidence of their occupation proved
plentiful.
Even Abraham Lincoln was caught up in the hype.
In 1848, Lincoln said, " The eyes of extinct Giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America,
have gazed on Niagara Falls, just as our eyes do now."
It was common to see in the newspapers, reports on excavations of giant bones, and oversized
human skeletons, of lengths between seven and twelve feet.
Many of these digs, were the accidental discovery of common farmers, who in the process of turning
the soil of their fields, were confronted with remains of some human Leviathan.
The farmer would then, send for the country doctor and the town marshal.
Like others in his rural community, the farmer was most likely to be a man of religious conviction...
a reader of the Bible... a believer, that there were giants in the Earth.
As the pioneers of the 19th century tamed a continent, the urgency of farming supplanted
all respect for Native American burial mounds.
The sites where giant humanoids were discovered, numbered in the hundreds.
The doctor may have measured the dimensions of the body.
The local newspaper may have sent out a photographer, to capture an image of the interred, as it
rested in the ground.
After the skeleton was exhumed, it may have been exhibited in the town hall.
This was before it became the vogue in archaeology, to apply a preservative for the protection
of excavated bones.
On exposure to air, on account of the acidic=content of the skeleton itself, a mighty specimen
might crumble to dust within a decade.
The Smithsonian Institution was reluctant to put these finds on display.
The institute was indifferent to, and sometimes willfully neglectful of, the idea of an ancient
race, predating the occupation of North America by the first peoples.
The idea was contrary, to the narrative that the Smithsonian sought to preserve, in its
own version of history.
They also preferred to promote the manifest destiny of European settlers, to settle the
entire country, displacing its Native Americans.
At the same time, the Smithsonian was accepting donations of ancient bones from all over the
country, examining and documenting these treasures, Using their experts in a field known as ethnology.
How did so many specimens go missing?
They can no longer be found in the Smithsonian collections.
The records of analysis are gone, as are the log books, in which was recorded the dates,
when these giants were received, and the names and addresses of the donors, who had shipped
the precious cargo, cross country.
A United States Supreme Court ruling in 2014, forced the Smithsonian Institution, to release
classified papers from the early 1900’s, proving it was involved, in a major cover-up
of evidence, in which hundreds of specimens of giant humans, were ordered by high level
administrators to be destroyed, to protect the scientific consensus of the age, which
just happened to favor, the shiny new theory of Charles Darwin, on human evolution.