Although the red-haired cannibals of Nevada and the giants of Patagonia are recent cases, oversized beings seem to have been a part of our world for ages, even in the Americas. For instance, near Brayton, Tennessee there are footprints preserved in rocks of a ponderous primordial humanoid . The impression of the ball of the heel is over a foot across, and the huge feet that made these fossilized tracks had six toes apiece. It would seem Mesozoic Earth harbored a race of beings 20 feet (six meters) tall. In 1833, soldiers digging a hole for a powder magazine near Lompock Rancho, California encountered a slab of cemented gravel. Beneath it lay the skeleton of a human being 12 feet (3.65 meters) tall. Enormous stone axes, carved shells, and porphyry blocks embellished with unintelligible symbols surrounded the bones. Surprisingly, the skull contained two rows of upper and lower teeth… (READ MORE)

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