What do you think about this?
Picture this. It is 1911 and miners in the desert outside Lovelock, Nevada are hauling guano out of a cave that the Paiute would not enter.
They are not looking for skeletons. They are looking for bat droppings, which were valuable as fertilizer at the time. But fifteen feet down, under tons of compacted guano, the bones started turning up.
Some of them were not human. At least, not human like we are. Skulls a third larger than our own. Femurs that put the living owner well past six feet, in some accounts closer to seven. And the hair. Strands of distinctly reddish hair, dried out and woven into ancient sandals so massive they could have only fit feet the length of your forearm.
The Paiute already knew. Their oral tradition, passed down for hundreds of years, told of a race of cannibalistic red-haired giants called the Si-Te-Cah. The ancestors of the Paiute had pushed them into a cave and burned them alive. That cave was at Lovelock.
The artifacts went to the University of California, the Nevada State Historical Society, and the Smithsonian.
Today most of those remains are unaccounted for. The skulls that did make it to museum displays are quietly listed as “unusually large.”
Makes you wonder how many other inconvenient bones are sitting in basement drawers, just waiting for someone to ask the right question.
What if the legends were right all along?
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What do you think about this? The Abenaki spoke of something in Lake Champlain long before Europeans arrived, and Port Henry still keeps a sign counting sightings. In 1977 Sandra Mansi photographed a long neck and a dark hump, and no hoax was ever found in it. Log, or a real animal?
What do you think about this? In 1579 Francis Drake beached the Golden Hind somewhere on the northern California coast and claimed the land for England. Nobody can say which beach. A brass plate found in 1936 was celebrated for decades, then proved a hoax. Point Reyes, or somewhere else?
What do you think about this? Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, one is engraved on copper instead of parchment, and it is a treasure map. It lists 64 hiding places holding tons of gold and silver. Not one has ever been found. Real temple gold, or an ancient legend set in metal?
What do you think about this? On August 15, 1977, an Ohio telescope caught a 72 second burst from Sagittarius, 30 times stronger than background, right on the hydrogen frequency. The astronomer circled it and wrote Wow. It never came back. Fluke, or one word of a conversation?
What do you think about this? The Shroud of Turin carries a full length image of a man that behaves like a photographic negative, which nobody noticed until it was first photographed in 1898. Carbon dating said medieval. Nobody can explain how the image formed. Artwork, or something else?
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