Megalithic Marvels - 5 Old New York Times Headlines They'd Rather You Not Read

Episode Date: October 9, 2026

Why did the New York Times once report discoveries of 8+ foot tall skeletons and mysterious oversized skulls? In this episode, we dig into 5 astonishing headlines (+ 2 bonus headlines) from the newspaper's historical archives, exploring strange archaeological claims that have largely faded from public memory. Who were these alleged giants, what became of the reported discoveries, what role did the Smithsonian play in all of this, and why are these extraordinary stories rarely discussed today? Were they sensational newspaper accounts, misunderstood discoveries, or clues to a forgotten chapter of ancient history?JOIN ME ON A TOUR

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Discover coffee plus on nispresso.com. So in this episode, I am going to break down for you. The articles that the New York Times themselves published, that they definitely don't want you to know about, let alone read today. So you do not want to miss this. In fact, you might not believe what some of these articles state. And before we go down this forbidden rabbit hole, just a quick reminder to invite you to consider joining me on one of my upcoming tours.

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Well, political correctness is a mainstream. paradigm. It's hive mind, its group think, and it seeks to control thought and speech that doesn't fit in with its mainstream paradigm. Therefore, when it comes to covering history, the New York Times will never publish something that goes against its mainstream ideology. So, for example, You'll probably never see an article from them that questions if the Great Pyramids may have actually been engineered originally as something other than a tomb. You won't see it. Or you'll never probably see an article written by them about the megaliths of Kusko or Soksewaman that question if a lost civilization before the Inca might have engineered. these superstructures. You won't find it because it doesn't fit the paradigm. One other example

might be that you'll probably never see a glowing write-up praising someone like Graham Hancock. Because Graham Hancock's views do not fit into the mainstream paradigm, the mainstream hive mind groupthink of the New York Times. But somebody they will praise would be Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, for example, right? Because he fits the paradigm Graham does not. But did you know that in the good old days, I'm talking way back in the late 1800s, all the way up through the first part of the 1900s, up to maybe 1950s, 60s, they would actually just publish articles based on discoveries that were happening in real time and some of these old headlines that the New York Times published, I guarantee you they wouldn't want you seeing or reading these today. But thankfully, I have a subscription to the New York

Times. And no, not because I want to read about their political views, but because I want to go into their way back machine, or they call it their time machine to scour their digital archives and find all of these old incredible articles that they wrote or that they published. So here are old headlines. The New York Times doesn't want you to read that they published themselves again back in the 1800s or early 1900s. Okay, so headline number one reads this, quote, unearths skeleton of Indian giant. And this is dated Thursday, June 14th, 1923. And this article reads as follows, quote, Nashville, Tennessee, June 13th, the almost perfectly

formed skeleton of an Indian seven feet tall was unearthed here today by Ms. M. Kuhn while workmen were engaged in building a home on her property, seven miles from the city. Efforts will be made to have representatives of the Smithsonian Institution, make a complete investigation of the site, with a view to substantiating Ms. Kuhn's belief that more than a score of Indian giants were buried there, end quote. So a very short article, but a very interesting one from 1923. It's talking about a skeleton of a giant that was seven feet tall.

Obviously seven feet is not a giant necessarily, but it's interesting that the New York Times, again, without their mainstream hive mind paradigm, their writing like this is an Indian giant buried here in Nashville, Tennessee. They would never write something like this today. Okay, and our second article is titled, quote, Wisconsin Mound Opened, end quote. And the subtitle reads, quote, skeleton found of a man over nine feet. feet high with an enormous skull, end quote. This is dated Monday, December 20th, 1897. So this is an old one. And it reads as follows, quote, Maple Creek, Wisconsin, December 19th. One of three recently discovered mounds

in this town has been opened. 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-bushal measure. Some finely tempered rods of copper and other relics were lying near the bones. The mound from which these relics were taken is 10 feet high and 30 feet long and varies from 6 to 8 feet in width. The two mounds of lesser size will be excavated soon, end quote. So we have another very short yet very interesting article here. This one is from 1897.

It's taking place in Wisconsin, and this one involves ancient mounds. And so again, the New York Times would never write an article like this today, talking about giant skeletons and, quote, enormous skulls being pulled out. of mounds. So it mentions three separate mounds in this article and a nine plus foot skeleton was pulled out of one of them in a very good state of preservation and it gets detailed about how the skull was so large it was like a half a bushel measure. And also they find these copper artifacts lying next to the bones. Okay, and here is our third article and the headline reads quote report eight foot skeletons end quote and this is dated Tuesday

June 9th 1936 quote Miami Florida June 8th a tail of human skeletons eight feet long embedded in the sand of an uninhabited little island off southern Florida was brought here today by three fishermen They exhibited a piece of one skull containing six teeth. E.M. Miller, zoologist at the University of Miami, said the mandible was that of a man and was probably several hundred years old. It is entirely probable that this find might be important, he commented. The men said that the skulls were unusually thick, the jaws protruded, and the eye sockets were high. in the head, end quote. So another quick action-packed article, this one from Florida, talking about a couple of eight-foot long skeletons that were found embedded in the sand. And according to this

article, a zoologist examined the mandible and believed it was an important find. And the men who discovered these eight-footers commented that the skeletons or the skulls were unusually fit. with large protruding jaws and eye sockets high in the head. New from Nespresso. Blend wellness into your coffee routine with a coffee plus range infused with functional benefits. Choose the coffee you love with added B vitamins, like coffee plus B12 to help support immune function, and coffee plus B6 to keep your day moving.

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1916. And the article reads as follows, quote, special to the New York Times, Binghampton, July 13th. Professor A. B. Skinner of the American Indian Museum, Professor W.K. Moorhead of Phillips Andover Academy, and Dr. George Donahue, Pennsylvania State historian, who have been conducting researches or searches along the valley of the Susquehanna have uncovered an Indian mound at Tioga Point on the upper portion of Queen Esther's Flats on what is known as the Murray Farm, a short distance from Sayre, Pennsylvania, which promises rich additions to Indian lore. In the mound, uncovered were found the bones of 68 men

which are believed to have been buried 700 years ago. The average height of these men was seven feet, while many were much taller. Further evidence of their gigantic size was found in large seltz or axes hewed from stone and buried in the grave. On some of the skulls, two inches above the perfectly formed forehead were protuberances of bone. Members of the expedition say it is the first discovery of its kind on record and a viable

contribution to the history of the early races. The skull and a few bones found in one grave were sent to the American Indian Museum. Okay, so this article is one of my favorites. 2016, talking about the discovery of a mound in Pennsylvania. And again, the title says it all, Giants, Bones in Mound. And it's kind of chalking this up to being ancient Indian some 700 years ago. But what makes this article interesting is you've got three professional scientists, basically, that were excavating the mound and examining these, uh, artifacts and these skeletons. So this wasn't just a bunch of farmers. These are the professionals

of the day. And they excavate this mound and what do they find? Not one, not two, not three skeletons. No, they find 68 men, it says, which average in height, seven feet tall or seven feet long. But it goes on to say many were much taller. So maybe there was eight or nine footers also discovered or maybe even bigger. But out of the 68, they're averaging them down to seven feet tall on average. But what's really crazy about this article, and again, it's a special to the New York Times published in the New York Times itself, is that they didn't just find skeletons. They found artifacts with the skeletons buried in the mound. They describe what they discovered as seltz and stone axe heads. But if this article couldn't get any better, it says, quote, on some of the

skulls, two inches above the perfectly formed forehead were protuberances of bone. This is basically describing skeletons or hybrids, if you want to call that, or entities with horn. horns above their eyes coming off their foreheads. This is an interesting article because again it involves an ancient mound, seven plus foot tall skeletons, 68 of them all together with stone axes and horns. A very interesting article indeed. And our fifth New York Times article is titled, quote, find eight foot skeleton, end quote. The subtitle reads, quote, explores unearth bones in cave in Monroe County, Kentucky, end quote.

This is dated Monday, October 3rd, 1927. And the article reads as follows, quote, a special to the New York Times, Glasgow, Kentucky, October 2nd. John M. Nelson and Calvin Rogers, Cave Explorers, with Nelson's three sons, today had completed explorations in Hardin Cave in the Monroe County Cavern area, where they found the largest skeleton of a man ever discovered in Kentucky. This personage was more than eight feet tall, according to a measurement of the bones fitted together after being taken from the cave. The skeleton was in a good state of preservation and is believed to have been that of an Indian, although it is possible it may be a member of an unknown tribe to have inhabited that part of Kentucky before the Indians. As shown by skeletons found some years ago, which were more than eight feet in length. The man had been buried on his left side in the position one occupies when the knees are.

are drawn up. The skeleton was about three feet under the cave entrance level, and a great number of trinkets lay about the bones, end quote. But the article makes the admission that it may have been from a tribe that predated the Indians or the Native Americans, and it goes on to say, allude to other discoveries of large skeletons. Very interesting indeed. Again, like all of these skeletons, like all of these skeletons discovered in these articles, where are they today? Are any of these skulls around or have they all been disappeared? And our six headline reads, quote, Chilean fossil man seen, end quote. The subtitle reads, quote, skull believed to be of human giant found near conception, end quote, if that's how I pronounce it right, and this article's dated Sunday, November 16th, 1941.

And the article reads as follows, quote, Santiago Chile, November 15th. Discovery of what is believed to be a large fossilized human skull near the South Chilean city of Concepcion, aroused speculation tonight that a race of giants might have inhabited parts of South America, thousands of years ago. The fossil found 60 feet underground during excavation work in a coal mine recently would indicate that it was the remains of the head of a human being at least nine,

possibly 10 feet tall. Examiner's said the fossil remains indicated a spread of almost 9 inches between the ears and a 10-inch spread at the base of the cranium. The presumed skull was dug up at Coronel, a mining town 20 miles southwest of Concepcion. It was deformed, presumably by the weight of earth upon it, and was so heavily encrusted with rock that excavators at first were doubtful, it was a human skull. Other fossilized remains, perhaps the skill, were heavily covered with rock, but the neck bone outlines were observed. So an enigmatic article here from 1941 taking place in a coal mine in Chile where these excavators find this skull they believe belong to a nine or ten foot tall ancient humanoid or

human. And it's interesting here how they mention that the spread between the spread between the, ears on the skull was nine inches. So I just chatted real quick. What is the spread between ears on a normal skull? And it said about five inches or six inches at the biggest. And so if this is accurate that this was nine inches between ears, that is one big skull. The article also makes mention how the skull was deformed. And they presume this is because you know it was just crushed by rock and stuff but i also wonder if they're not maybe describing here that it was elongated like again a skull from paracas peru and maybe that's why it looked

quote deformed but very interesting indeed okay and last but not least our seventh headline here is titled quote find ancient bones near pittsburgh end quote and the subtitle reads quote scientists declare 49 skeletons are those of mound builders living 10,000 years ago, end quote. And just from that title and subtitle, you know this article is going to be good. And this is the longest one. I've saved the best for last. It's dated Wednesday, September 14th, 1932. And it has another subtitle that reads this, quote, all baked before burial. bodies were interred in circle with faces upward and shelved between eight layers of stone, end quote.

And the article reads as follows, quote, special to the New York Times. Pittsburgh, September 13th, the unearthing of 49 bodies, 10,000 years old, today focused the interest of scientists the world over upon a wooded hillside near Pittsburgh. from this region in Washington County, which has been the site of three civilizations, each thousands of years apart, the bodies browned and baked before their burial by mound builders have just been taken. They constitute one of the richest archaeological discoveries ever recorded in Pennsylvania until the crude history of an ancient American civilization. One skeleton is of a giant nearly eight feet tall.

Another is a woman between whose teeth a gag of metal had been placed. Perhaps a symbol that 10,000 years ago she had been an irritating gossip of her tribe. The discovery was made on a headland high above the Managahela, if I'm pronouncing that right, river by G.S. Fisher, state, archaeologist and member of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and his research and his search aids who had been digging in the great circular knoll since Wednesday the scene is on a wooded hill near the Perry farm one mile and a half from elrama a river town situated between Elizabeth and the Manohela city or Mano Gahela city the bodies all brown and encrusted and some crushed by the pressure of sandstone and soil were removed piece by piece and immediately placed in cloths and cardboard cartons for shipment to mr fisher's headquarters in finleyville eight miles away

all bodies it was evident were buried on different levels in the circle horizontally faces upward the bones shelved between 11 separate layers of stone. Were one to picture the place as a huge earthen donut, one would have noticed bodies side by side and head to toe around the periphery of the huge gouged ring. In Finleyville, the bones will be reassembled and delivered to the State Museum at Harrisburg. From the capital, some will be sent to the Smithsonian Instestown.

in Washington for national study. Discovery of these odd folk distinct from Indian inhabitants gives us absolute proof that we had mound builders in Pennsylvania 10,000 years ago, just as in Ohio, West Virginia, Missouri and the southwest, Mr. Fisher said. Back from the promontory, 29 feet from the burial site, measuring 44 feet in diameter and 5 feet in height, the party found another terrace, which they called an artifact, a place of sacrifice to the supreme deity, less pretentious than the main mound. From this circular knob, 34 feet across and two feet high, the investigators exhumed. arrow points, flint knives, bear tusks, and two copper beads, the only metal found in the entire excavation. Trade ice skating at Nathan Phillips Square for ice cubes in your umbrella drink.

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Learn more at Bloomberg.com. Wow, wow, wow. This article is the antithesis of political correctness. The fact that the New York Times published this article is mind-blowing. I actually can't believe they still have it in their time machine for nerds like me to find and share it with you because this goes against everything they believe today, at least when it comes to history. This article has it all. It's from 1932. It's taking place in Pennsylvania, and it involves professionals of the day, scientists, excavating ancient mounds, where they're finding skeletons of giant proportions, or so they say, that they are declaring predate the Native Americans, that they are declaring were of the mound builders living 10,000.

thousand years ago. And that's one of the big takeaways of this article is it's throwing a monkey ranch into the mainstream ancient history timeline that publications like the New York Times would subscribe to today, especially when it comes to North American history or history in the United States, right, where they would say that, you know, before the colonist showed up in the new world, it was just the Native Americans. And, you know, there really wasn't a whole lot to see before that. Today the New York Times and the Smithsonian for that they would say that oh mention of these mounds from the old days that was just the Native Americans but this article by the New York Times is saying no this predated the Native Americans this was a mysterious lost

civilization known as the mound builders and at the time here in 1932 this article is saying that this discovery constituted one of the richest archaeological discoveries ever recorded in Pennsylvania. And my guess is almost no Pennsylvanians know about this discovery today. One of the biggest takeaways in the article is not just that they discovered 49 skeletons out of this mound or that they date them at 10,000 years ago, but that one of them measured eight plus feet tall. And it mentions how the bodies were in a circle, all facing upward on their backs. And they were between 11 different layers of stone.

So it's like they were packed in. And this article is so detailed in naming who these archaeologists and scientists were. It's naming specific towns, specific rivers. It's naming specific farms. it mentions how all of the bodies were, quote, brown and encrusted, and some were crushed by the pressure of sandstone and soil. And it describes how the bodies were all in this circle, but the circle went like 11 layers deep.

Now, several times the article mentions this G.S. Fisher, who was the state archaeologist and member of the Pennsylvania historical commission. And guess what they quote him saying. This, quote, discovery of these odd folk, distinct from Indian inhabitants, gives us absolute proof that we had mound builders in Pennsylvania

10,000 years ago, just as in Ohio, West Virginia, Missouri, and the southwest, Mr. Fisher said. If this isn't forbidden archaeology in today's sense, I don't know what is. The New York Times would never publish something like this today. If they did, whoever wrote this would be fired and blacklisted. Because again, it doesn't fit the mainstream archaeological narrative today

that before the Native Americans, a mysterious lost civilization known the mound builders existed. And if this article couldn't get any better, it says this, quote, some will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington for National Study. And this is where the Smithsonian gets such a bad rap by people in the alternative camps who ask, where are all the bones? because when you go through and you read these old articles, again, from the New York Times, they're often making mention that these bones that were discovered in caves, in mounds, in lake beds, in riverbeds, they were often sent to the academic institutions of a day, primarily the Smithsonian, who was the like the archaeological arm of the government in a sense.

And so if the Smithsonian was receiving countless artifacts, specimens, skeletons, skulls, we know they weren't just magically sending them back to where they came from once they examined them. No, they kept them. So where are all these bones, skulls, specimens, artifacts today? I would actually love to know which you think. What has the Smithsonian done with all of these out-of-place artifacts? and skeletons and skulls that were seven, eight plus feet long. Do you think they destroyed them, number one?

Do you think they still have most of these hidden underground or in some deep underground bases? Or do you think all of this was just made up by these writers of the 1800s and early 1900s? I would love to know what you think. Leave me a comment if you're watching. on Spotify or YouTube. Now today the Smithsonian asserts that there were never really any giant skeletons in the ancient world, but again in their actual published mound excavation reports, as well as the detailed discoveries that we just read in the infamous New York Times, all of these articles mentioned 7, 8, 9, I've even seen 10, 11, a foot tall skeletons. And when we read these

reports from the old days. It's like everybody just knew before there was group fink, hive mind, and political correctness that wanted to control historical narrative. People just wrote freely and talked freely and it's like everybody knew that there was a lost civilization that once existed in North America that predated the Native Americans and they referred to them as the mound builders. And everyone recognized that these mound builders engineered the mounds that used to dot the entire North American landscape. Sadly, most of them have been flattened today by the Smithsonian and others. Thank God there's still several mounds that can still be seen today in Ohio, in Mississippi. There's a couple in Tennessee. The biggest mound is probably Cahokia

in Illinois. And I've made mention many times previously on this podcast that even Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president. When recounting the beauty of Niagara Falls, he wrote in his journal this, quote, Venice now Niagara was roaring here. The eyes of that species of extinct giants whose bones fill the mounds of America have gazed on Niagara as ours do now, end quote. While I hope you enjoyed this episode, so please don't forget to subscribe to my show from wherever you will watch or listen,

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