[First_Salute]

In Ohio, within some of the Indian mounds, are the remnants of a race of people who were giants, avg. height of 7 ft or more, and they had twin rows of teeth.

For a time, beginning two centuries ago, some "grave robbers," so to speak, would dig into the mounds, and skulls and such were collected.

These artifacts were too fragile to survive exposure and all decomposed in short order. There are none remaining, except in some of the mounds that long ago were ordered OFF LIMITS.

So the story goes.

[EternalVigilance]

Oh, come on.

Throughout American history, the 'Indian Mounds' were the source of all kinds of weird ideas and theories, even from otherwise sensible folk. Sounds like you're propagating a couple of whoppers there.

Ol' Joe Smith had a few tall tales of his own along these lines. Those stories look particularly whacked in retrospect.

[blam]

"In Ohio, within some of the Indian mounds, are the remnants of a race of people who were giants, avg. height of 7 ft or more, and they had twin rows of teeth."

I've read about these. Once I discovered some photographs of some skulls of these people on the internet...It was in an Ohio museum somewhere, but I've been unable to relocated them. The tooth thing is called hypodentology, or something close to that.

Oh yeah, I think they were called Adena Skulls.

[SunkenCiv]

old topic, related to message #4:

Sinkhole Skeleton (European "Native Americans"?)
Source: ABCNews (from AP)
Published: 11/27/00 Author: AP
Posted on 11/27/2000 11:25:23 PST by machman
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a22b52343c3.htm