

7 foot tall skeletons discovered in Pennsylvania
#1
Posted 29 July 2009 - 08:33 AM

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#3
Posted 29 July 2009 - 12:05 PM

The bones disappeared after being sent to the museum.
I love stories like this, but given the date of the find, and the disappearance of all the evidence, I gotta call hoax on this one.
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#4
Posted 29 July 2009 - 12:27 PM
Seriously, I did not make it up. I can give source if anybody want to know.At Sayre brial mounds containing the skeletons of several humanoid creatures seven feet tall, with horns on their heads, were discovered there in the 1880s. Estimates place their burial at around 1200 A.D. The bones were found by a Pennsylvania state historian, a Presbyterian dignitary, and two professors who were investigating the burial mounds. Some skeletons were sent to the American Investigating Museum, a forensic institution in Philadelphia.
Nice to be back. Wonder who I made "ill" with me back in 2009...at 67 am lucky to recall what I had for dinner 2 days ago. Guess some folks will have to explain it to me as I have no clue.
#5
Posted 29 July 2009 - 04:43 PM
Seriously, I did not make it up. I can give source if anybody want to know.At Sayre brial mounds containing the skeletons of several humanoid creatures seven feet tall, with horns on their heads, were discovered there in the 1880s. Estimates place their burial at around 1200 A.D. The bones were found by a Pennsylvania state historian, a Presbyterian dignitary, and two professors who were investigating the burial mounds. Some skeletons were sent to the American Investigating Museum, a forensic institution in Philadelphia.
I absolutely did not mean that you were the hoaxer here! Sorry if I was not clear enough on that! I am glad you posted this.
What I meant was that newspapers of the day sometimes made up facts or even whole stories just to fill space, or for fun.
Another problem is that no articles are known to exist that date back to 1880. I believe the earliest known appearance of this story in print is 1916 or something like that. There is ample oppurtunity for inaccuracies and falsehoods to creep in to the story, assuming it ever happened at all. Tall tales usually improve with age.
Yet another possible giveaway is the disappearance of the bones. It is highly indicative of a hoax. People are sometimes innitially taken in, and then discover that they were fooled and decide to destroy the evidence rather than be embarrassed by their mistake. Also the hoaxer may decide that he/she may be in trouble if discovered and so they destroy the evidence to protect themselves from punishment.
The biggest nail in the coffin of this story is that there is not now, nor at any time in the past an "American Investigating Museum" in Philly. It's a made-up name. Why should we believe a story about giants, when such a mundane detail as the name of a museum is demonstrably fictitious?
Regards, Canis
"It is proper for you to doubt ... do not go upon report ... do not go upon tradition ... do not go upon hear-say." ~ Buddha
#6
Posted 29 July 2009 - 05:07 PM
#7
Posted 30 July 2009 - 06:27 PM
Gotta trust me. I didn't make it up.Sounds way out there but I would look forward to seeing the results of the DNA testing!

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#8
Posted 30 July 2009 - 10:17 PM
Gotta trust me. I didn't make it up.Sounds way out there but I would look forward to seeing the results of the DNA testing!
hmmm upon detailed googling I find that this is just a rumor floating around. No fact in this news.
Edited by MoonChild, 30 July 2009 - 10:33 PM.
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#9
Posted 01 August 2009 - 02:01 PM
I just report them but I got my doubts too.Gotta trust me. I didn't make it up.Sounds way out there but I would look forward to seeing the results of the DNA testing!
hmmm upon detailed googling I find that this is just a rumor floating around. No fact in this news.

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#10
Posted 01 August 2009 - 03:25 PM
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#11
Posted 01 August 2009 - 04:10 PM
"It is proper for you to doubt ... do not go upon report ... do not go upon tradition ... do not go upon hear-say." ~ Buddha
#12
Posted 01 August 2009 - 06:36 PM
Unfortunately, everything I've found online about the Sayre burial mounds is just a rehash of the original Web posting.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. Genesis 6:4
I've been unable to find anything about the so-called "American Investigating Museum" unrelated to this topic, but one of the investigators mentioned, W. K. Moorehead (1866-1939), was a prominent archeologist of the early 20th century and was in fact a faculty member at Phillips Academy. However, I've not been able to find what year the skeletons were discovered at the Sayre burial mounds, only that they were discovered "in the 1880s".
If they were discovered in the 1880s, Moorehead would have been between 13 and 23 years of age during this time period. Since he didn't graduate from Dension University in Granville, OH, until 1886, he probably would have been too young to be a faculty member at Phillips Academy during this time, though he could have been doing postgraduate studies. The question still remains as to why the school would have sent a student on an investigation of such importance. Most of his published works I found from his tenure at Phillips Academy were from the 1920's and 1930's. I suspect that someone conveniently used his name to add credibility to the story without checking the facts - IMHO, of course!
Phillips Academy still exists in Andover, MA as a coed boarding high school and uses the the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology where Moorehead was curator as an educational resource for teaching archaeology.
So far, I've been unable to find any legitimate biography connecting Warren King Moorehead to the discovery of giant horned skeletons in Sayre, PA.
For those that are interested, here's a link to other reported cases of giants in the U.S:
Giants
Edited by earth_spirit, 05 August 2009 - 01:09 PM.
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#13
Posted 02 August 2009 - 04:21 PM

Nice to be back. Wonder who I made "ill" with me back in 2009...at 67 am lucky to recall what I had for dinner 2 days ago. Guess some folks will have to explain it to me as I have no clue.
#14
Posted 02 August 2009 - 04:43 PM
BTW - Alanson "A.B." Skinner, the other archeologist listed as being part of the Sayre burial mound investigation team, was born in 1884, so at the latest he would have been five years old if the bones were uncovered in the 1880s. So why the disparity? It may be because the event in question didn't happen in the 1880s, but the year 1916 when both Moorehead and Skinner were established archeologists
According to Skinner, the stories of the horned skull giant started after an excavation near Athens, PA uncovered an Indian burial ground containing the skeletons of 57 individuals. Of the 57 skeletons, one of them was covered in a pile of deer antlers. This, he believed, was the basis of the rumor that that the team had uncovered a skull with horns on it.
Read Skinner's explanation here:
Skinner's Explanation of the Horned Skull
Scroll down to the lower right hand of the page to read Skinner's response.
Edited by earth_spirit, 02 August 2009 - 05:00 PM.
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Posted 02 August 2009 - 09:45 PM

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