Richard J. Dewhurst - The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America: The Missing Skeletons and the Great Smithsonian Cover-Up

THE ANCIENT
GIANTS
WHO RULED
AMERICA

This is the most comprehensive and level approach to the subject of giant humanoids in Earths past to have ever been published. The most appealing aspect is that Dewhurst has collected a vast array of primary sources and presents them here. Reading one newspaper discovery after another of giant skeletons and artifacts is perhaps the most compelling reason to question the standard lines we are given about humanitys origins. When coupled with his persuasive theories explaining why the Smithsonian would actively cover up such discoveries, you have one valuable and entertaining read! Highly recommended.

ROBERT R. HIERONIMUS, PH.D., AUTHOR OF FOUNDING FATHERS, SECRET SOCIETIES AND HOST OF 21ST CENTURY RADIO

Giants in ancient America? You bet! Its all here in Richard Dewhursts fabulous book. Extensively illustrated and chronicled with firsthand accounts from early 19th- and 20th-century news clippings, this book will shatter the mainstream academic teachings that continue to ignore and cover up the role giants played in early American history.

XAVIANT HAZE, AUTHOR OF ALIENS IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND COAUTHOR OF THE SUPPRESSED HISTORY OF AMERICA

At last, a comprehensive sourcebook that demystifies the giants of ancient America. Lavishly illustrated, this goliath and gutsy book delivers an unprecedented wealth of information on the great mound builders. Dewhurst digs deeper than the rest. Dont miss it.

SUSAN B. MARTINEZ, PH.D., AUTHOR OF LOST HISTORY OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE AND THE MYSTERIOUS ORIGINS OF HYBRID MAN

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Giant gratitude to my wife, Maxine, and son, Charles, for their continued love and support, without which this book would have been impossible. Giant bro love to Doug Grant, Ben Edmonds, Tom McGowan, Jay Kriss, Derek Crockett, Bruce Marshall, and Ehud Sperling, president of Inner Traditions, for their friendship and inspiration along lifes often perilous and bizarre journey. Giant respect to all the wonderful people at Inner Traditions who made this book possible: Jon Graham, for his great eye and greater mind; Mindy Branstetter, for her admirable patience and meticulous editing; Jeanie Levitan, for her wise guidance; Nancy Yeilding, for shaping the manuscript into its final form; and Cyndi Marcotte, for keeping it all together. And finally, giant thanks to the Quarry Hill community for providing me with shelter from the storm.

The eyes of that species of extinct Giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1848

PREFACE

ON BEING TALL AND MY FASCINATION WITH GIANTS

I discovered that I was going to be tall one fateful year between the seventh and eighth grades when I grew eight inches. My unnatural growth spurt so alarmed my mother that she set up an appointment with our family physician to see if there was something wrong with me. Needless to say, I found all this extremely upsetting. The thought that there was something wrong with me had never occurred to me before, and the prospect of suddenly looming over my once peer-friendly classmates was also deeply unsettling.

Before my growth spurt, my best friend was Phil Whitcomb, who was shorter than me, but no one ever commented on it. After my growth spurt, we were immediately dubbed Mutt and Jeff. Phil hated being called Mutt in my presence, and it eventually led to a cooling of our lifelong friendship. From this I learned that being tall has its consequences, and being called a freak was one of them.

Another component of being tall was an immediate interest in giant stories. Thus the kernel for this book was born. Over the years, I took an immediate interest in various reports of giants, and when they were referenced in a newspaper account, I always gave them more credence. The only problem was that every time I tried to chase such articles down to their full-length, original newspaper nubs, I mostly came up with a shortened blurb or nothing at all.

In order to finally get to the bottom of the mystery of the giants, I subscribed to several online newspaper archive services that covered over four hundred years of newspaper accounts from the United States. I then tried to search out the cross-referenced articles I had compiled over the years. When I was able to specifically search with date and publication, I got results, but on average I only found about 25 percent of the articles I was searching for. Lacking dates and publications, how was I going to crack this thing?

Then one day, out of sheer frustration, I put on my old Miami Herald editors hat and began thinking about how a typical sensationalistic newspaper headline would read. My reasoning was that if dates couldnt crack it, then word search could. My first headline search was for Giant Skeletons Unearthed. No dates, no publications, just pure sensationalism and the hope that the word search would come up with something. Almost immediately the search engine spit back more than thirty hits, and I was off to the races. More headlines were fed in: Amazing Giants, Giant Skulls Found, Secret Cave Reveals Startling Discovery, Smithsonian Discovers Giant Skeletons, and so on. Within a month I had archived several hundred articles on various giant finds across the entire country. What I found changed my thinking about myth and history forever.

I sincerely hope that reading this book will change your thinking as much as it did mine.

INTRODUCTION

UNCOVERING THE REAL HISTORY OF AMERICA

Writing this book has been the most exciting voyage of discovery I have ever taken. What started as a somewhat idle inquiry into clouded reports of giantsin and of itself not that groundbreakingended with my having to rethink everything I ever learned in school. After all, weve all heard of giants before. What we have not heard is that these people were as real as you and me.

But the most important thing about this book for me was not discovering that giants were real, although in these pages we will most definitely see the historical evidence of that fact. What really surprised me was discovering something very much more shocking: the truth about the early history of America and the people who lived here.

Long before the so-called discovery of America, this land was populated by very ancient peoples, some of whom were of enormous size, as attested to by the numerous reports of giant finds, a sampling of which is presented in the first two chapters. Those reports make it clear that in the nineteenth century such finds were common knowledge around the country. When carbon dating became available in the twentieth century, earlier estimates of the age of the remains were increased by many magnitudes: with ranges from five thousand to fourteen thousand years! I examine the reports of these extraordinary results in chapter 3, in addition to finds linking some of those early, magnificent humans with mastodons (which became extinct some twenty thousand years ago). Not surprisingly, many finds indicate that the giants were royal beings, as the reports of copper crowns and pearl robes in chapter 4 make clear.

While certain monuments and parks in various parts of the country offer silent testimony to the creative efforts of these early peoples, few of us are aware of the true scope of the mounds and cities that once revealed advanced ancient civilizations. In chapter 5 we take a closer look at studies and reports about pyramids and pictorial mounds, while in chapter 6 we learn of discoveries of once-thriving cities most of us have never heard of.