Did Giants Exist? Part 1: Legends and America’s Giant Skeletons

Abraham Lincoln believed giants existed. Many accounts of giants have been given throughout history, and many bones reportedly found in the American Midwest.

Newspaper clippings describe findings of alleged giant bones. Background: Title page of "Jack the Giant Killer." Wikimedia Commons

So much knowledge has been lost throughout the ages—destroyed by war, natural disasters, human ignorance, or simply by the erosion of time. However, with all that has been lost, much remains buried. Perhaps the clues to solving age-old mysteries are right beneath our feet.

In the search for evidence that giants existed, some have looked to the large mounds of the American Midwest, some to the massive and mysterious structures of the Middle East.

Abraham Lincoln stated, inspired by viewing Niagara Falls: “The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now. Contemporary with the whole race of men, and older than the first man, Niagara is strong, and fresh today as 10,000 years ago.”

Monk's Mound at Cahokia, Ill. Ethajek/Wikimedia Commons