Monthly Archives: August 2012

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Scarey Night On The Lone Star Trail Part two

As I said at the end of part one we went back after a few weeks to  make casts of her foot prints. Here In this part of East Texas the forest floor is full of thick leafs and pine needles and a lot of iron ore in places. So the ground is so hard its hard to make a good cast. But it’s not impossible. It had been raining off and on and the ground was still soft,so we found some good tracks to cast.

We poured our plaster and then heard thunder rumble off in the distance. But I brought plastic to put over the casts and we had to use it too. Luckly it was only a misty rain. The whole while we were there the big lady was all around us! We could smell her and sometimes hear her walking in  the forest close by.

Talking quietly to  one another we tried not to think about that night.Lord we were still having nightmares about the whole thing. I don’t mind telling anyone that Travis and I could not do any night work for close to a year, and if anyone thinks that silly all I have to say is you got to go through it to understand the danger and the fear we felt that night. I don’t wish that on any field researchers. It’s bad enought to have them stand without moving and just watch you for an hour are so.

Well we went about putting up trailcams and just staying close to everyone, and yes you can bet we were armed. But it seemed she was happy to just watch us from the trees. I realized that she was also fearful of us that night with a bad foot and us camped  right by her trail.

Our plaster finally harden and we headed out of the forest, casts in hand. I was glad to reach the trucks and just go home. I tell you I had to push myself just to go back out there.

After about three weeks we went to check the trailcams and……….. well they had been torn from the trees and never heard from again. So we put up just one this time and went back home. O and yes we could smell her all around us. This was her spot and hers alone. I don’t blame her a bit because it is a wonderful place to live and there is plenty for to eat year round.

The only pic we got was a strange-looking deer which Ill add to this post. O and the tree we were using was torn out of the ground. SO we just left her alone, though we came through there many times she was always in the area and made herself known but never did she try to attack again. We got to see her only two times in the thirteen years she was there. I don’t know if she passed away or just left the area.

An oil company cut a road in there and drilled a well. That opened it up to a lot of hunters and more backpackers. I like to think she moved closer to the river. But I guess we will never know.

 

The Herimt

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GIant

Giants

The traditions of peoples all over the world are quite unanimous in asserting that an an earlier time a race of giants lived on the earth, that most of the race were destroyed in great catastrophes; that they were of cruel nature and were furiously fighting among themselves; that the last of them were exterminated when after a cataclysm a migration of peoples brought the forebears of the peoples of today to their new homelands.

The Japanese narrate that when their forefathers after a great catastrophe about two and a half or three thousand years ago, came from the continent and invaded the isles, they found there long-legged, furry giants. These giants were called Ainu. The forefathers of the Japanese were defeated in the first encounter, but in the second encounter they were victorious.

Ixtlilxochitl described the wandering of peoples of the western hemisphere in the four ages of the world. The first age came to its end in the Flood. In the second age, called “the sun of the earthquake,” there lived the generation of the giants, which was destroyed in the cataclysm that terminated this age. The third peiord was “the sun of the wind,” called so because at the end of this period terrible hurricanes annihilated everything. The new inhabitants of the new world were Ulme and Xicalauca who came from the east to find a foothold at Potouchan: here they met a number of giants, the last survivors of the second catastrophe. The fourth age was called “the fire sun,” because of the great fire that put an end to this epoch. At that time the Toltecs arrived in the land of Anahuac, put to flight by the catastrophe: they wandered for 104 years before they settled in their new home.

Also F. L. Gomara in his Conquista de Mexico, in the chapter about “cinco soles que son edades,” wrote:

The second sun perished when the sky fell upon the earth; the collapse killed all the people and every living thing; and they say that giants lived in those days, and that to them belong the bones that our Spaniards have found while digging mines and tombs. From their measure and proportion it seems that those men were twenty hands tall—a very great stature, but quite certain.(1)

The Hebrew scriptures as preserved in the Old Testament and in the Talmud and Midrashim, narrate that among the races of the world in a previous age were races of giants, “men of great size and tremendous strength and ferocity,” who were destroying other races, but also were turning upon each other and destroying themselves.

The Book of Genesis (6: 4) narrates that in the antediluvial time “there were giants in the earth in those days.” The Greek Book of Baruch narrates that over four hundred thousand of the race of giants were destroyed by the Flood. After the Flood there were only a few districts where some of them remained alive.

When after a number of centuries another catastrophe ruined the world and the Israelites left Egypt and sent a few men to explore Palestine, those reported that the people of the land were generally of tall stature, and that besides “there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which came of the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so were we in their sight.”

This description clearly differentiates between the people of a tall stature and the giants, and the supposition that the Israelites found in Palestine a normal race only taller than themselves, and thought them to be giants, is not supported by the text.

A similar distinction is made in Deuteronomy (1: 28): “The people is greater and taller than we . . . and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim [giants] there.” they—a few families—lived in Hebron (Numbers 13: 22).

At the time when the Israelites approached the fields of Bashan in the Transjordan, “only Og king of Bashan” remained of the remnant of the giants (Joshua 13:12 and Deut. 3:11). The other individuals of monstrous size had been annihilated in the meantime. “Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits is the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.” The text implies that at the time the book of Deuteronomy was written the bedstead of Og was still in existence and was a wonder for the onlookers.

The giants were the remnant of a race close to extinction. Og was “of the remnant of the giants that dwelt in Ashtaroth and Edrel” (Joshua 12: 4). They were also called Emim, or the furious ones. “The Emim dwelt therein [in Moab of the Transjordan] in times past, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim, which also were accounted giants, as the Anakim; but Moab calls them Emim” ( ). This branch of the giants was already extinct; but two cosmic ages earlier, in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Abraham the Patriarch, Eimim flourished in the Transjordan (Genesis 14: 5).

References

  1. Historia de la conquista de Mexico, (Mexico City, 1943), Vol. II, p. 261.
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Scary Night On The Lone Star Trail

This happened to Travis and I about fourteen years ago, while we were on an investigation on the Lone Star Trail. We had been getting reports from people we would meet on the trail that you did not want to camp about six miles up from the trail head.

This area is near Cold springs Texas. We had not made it into that area yet. We had been spending time on the other side of the trail head So like all good researcher’s we began to make plans to get in this area and do some tracking.

After a couple weeks planning we set of to walk the six or so miles in and were amazed at the amount of food baring trees, and gape vines in this area. We came across deer, rabbits, and lots of hog sign.

Well we found a wounderfull camp site that had been used before in what I thought were years past. We could not understand why anyone who loved the lonely places like us would not want to camp here.

We set up our camp and Travis layed out a fire to lite later. We walked on down the trail to do some more tracking and  found a cold water creek comeing up from the ground and flowing on into the forest. I told Travis that if I were the big man this is the place I would chose to live.

Walking on we came the to San Jacinto river. There we found more grapes,wild plums and lots of deer and more hog sign. There were fish in the river and freshwater clams. This was a great habitat for the big man to live in.

Making It back to camp we sat down to watch the shadows grow long on the ground and waited for the stars to show themselves in the sky. The sweet small of pine was everywhere. I told Travis lets don’t lite the fire, lets just listen to the night. I am telling you the night brings the best music in the world. The stars are better than any TV.

There came a smell on the wind that we knew well. We had smelled it many times. We had a Sasquatch near by. I could hear some moving around behind the camp. It was coming closer to us! But that was ok, we had this happen before.

There was a row of eight to ten inches round pines right next to my right side. Those pines began to shake as something was coming through them right at me! The screams were making my ears ring. I saw huge hands coming right for my head and so I dropped to one knee and put my shotgun in this enraged Sasquatches middle. I was about to shoot this thing, but it backed off quickly.

Travis went for the fire and I stood at his back shaking the whole time. Lord this thing wants to kill us! Travis got the fire going and this thing I realized was a female.

I put our two small camp lamps at the back of the tents so she couldn’t come in that way again without us seeing her. The whole time we were lilting camp fire and gas lamps she was screaming and throwing sticks and dirt and small pine trees at us and everywhere else.

We had rocks thrown at us before and sticks and dirt, but never had we feared for our lives like this.

Well she screamed in rage at us through the whole night and went round and round our camp just out of the light. She threw stuff at us and when It would suddenly get quiet was the worse of it all because we didn’t know where she was.

We stayed put because I was not going to do six miles in the dark with her on our back trail.

I swear we didn’t think morning was ever going to come,and we were so cold and shaking with no control. I realized that we were in some  kind of shock.O and we had no dam cell service out there.

We broke camp at daylight and made the six miles back in short time. Travis and I found her tracks and discovered that she had a bad foot with toes turned under. A few weeks later we came back with a full crew and made casts of her prints. She was none to happy to see us again too.

I have been going through some of my old reports.All the way back to the 1970s and 80s and 90s some have been lost in moving. But I plan to write them on this Blog and I hope that my readers will like to hear them.

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Strange Night At Stubblefield Lake

        Well I’ll tell you I’m no ghost hunter, but because of some of the places we do our field work, we do run into some very strange stuff. Deep in this remote part of the National Forest there has been a few body’s dumped and it’s sad to say more than one hunter has been killed by other hunters who mistake them as deer.

We also do field work in an area where in the 1800s up to the 1900s lumber was cut and a large sawmill town burned to the ground. Lumberjacks were killed while working at their trade. Some lost limbs and other just flat never came out of the forest it has been said.

Also the spanish come through this area and there were Indian tribes living here too. The Mexican army would come this way and there were fights with the Texans and Indians. Just in this one area there are four graveyards and at lest three family graveyards from old homesteads. So it no wonder why some people call this a haunted forest. O and lets not forget my reasons for being out here in the frist place.” Sasquatch’.

Well that’s enough history let’s get back to the strangest night I’ve had in a while. I always bring with me a K-2 meter  and I set it on the  roof of the truck and just forget about it until it starts lighting up. I bring it because of the rich history and we do have these strange nights sometimes. We were picking up some really great woodknocks and what I call monkey grunts. we also were recording heavey walking and breathing.  This going to be a good night I told Travis. He was listening to some very heavy breathing over near the truck. I was on the forest road recording. And a rock, “yes thats right” a rock hit hard near my feet! It was thrown so hard it broke apart! Well I’ve  been hit with sticks, dirt and rocks but this I think was mint to do more than hurt.

I picked up my night vision camcorder and was about that time I got real cold and then I got real cold again and again. I was cold put I was sweating! Than all my batters went dead. I called Travis over with his camara and it went dead. He ran to the truck for more and started takeing photos as he walked back. 

I finally got more batters in and turned the recorder back on and my camcorder and than it just stopped working. Well I stood there realizing I have no more batters to use and I didn’t like this at all. I can take the bigguy throwing things and yelling at me, hell once I had one come into my camp mad as hell! But I will tell you right now I will never make fun of ghost hunters again. They just won my respect this night! I’m a Sasquatch tracker and want nothing to do with ghosts.lol

Well Travis and I were as drained as our batters. It was time to cut this night short and go home. No camping tonight by golly home all the way. But we get so whats ghost hunters call EVPs and they are some wick evil sounding stuff.

I’m going to let the team members who wont there hear them and get filepe to help me get them out on the net.

This Is Not Over The Hermit

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Lone Star Trail Report 2

Went back out to the small lake today, and we had a few strange things happen to us. We have had a tree fall as soon as we get out there and start cooling off by the lake, we hear coming from across the lake what sounds like hands slapping a chest and then a tree falls and everything gets very quiet for a while. This has happened three times now. I don’t know what it is or I can’t say for sure but I have my own ideal. We were ready this time and we started around the lake to see what it might be and had a very large limb hit the trees by where we were walking, followed by complete quiet.  W e backed off a ways and turn to go back when a large tree crashed down on the trail behind us.

We went back to our side of the lake and sat down to think this out. There was no movement to be seen on the other side so we just waited and watched hoping to see what ever, but still there was nothing. I layed back putting my head on my pack and watched the few clouds drift by. This lake seems to always have a nice wind coming off it and we cooled down nicely. There is a lot of game in here. Lots of hogs and deer. Some wild plum and grapes as well as cattrails. The forest is made up of pines and oak trees that give way to cypress and willow in the low swampy areas.

It is not visited by people much though a few hardy souls make it out here from time to time. Its a great camping spot to and we have stayed out here a few times and it was always queit.But there is one thing that puzzles me is that there is now and then the slight smell of skunk that comes with the wind. O I know there are skunks out here, it just seems funny to smell skunk so often.

Well we went back to the other side and found and took photos of the big limb that my have been thrown and we also took photos of the dead pine that

fell along the trail behind us. I am posting them here so you can see them and draw your own thoughts on what happen here.

We are going to camp out in this area starting monday, wish us luck.

The Hermit.

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Lone Star Trial Report

 

 

 

 

 

Well I spent some two days out in a side of the trail that seems older than  the rest. There is a small pond here and though most of the bass are under a pound. It’s still a very nice place to fish and camp.

I have been doing some field work out here and wish I could get the team in here for some night work and sounds.

This area is remote like I like to work in and it was once part of a ranch. You can find old wood fencing and corrals throughout the pine-covered woods. The trees have never been cut here and the pines are old and tall.It is a beautiful place.

Well I been walking it seems forever and the sun is hot. The forest is full of sound and a lot of pig sign everywhere. I am so close to the pigs now I can hear them digging up the ground and smell the fresh earth near me. They are throwing up logs with their tucks to get to the worms and grubs underneath. I do belive it is time to go back to camp. O lord!, Abby one of my dogs just ran past me with a large black snake and sakeing it for all she’s worth. Thats just great, dam dog is headed straight for the hogs. O you guessed it hogs are squiling and the dog is barking and I’m looking for a tree.Where is Felipe and his cannon when I need him. Well hogs pasted by about 40 meters I am guessing, no dog though. Almost back to camp think God. I will look for the dog later,Well there she is laying in the bed of the truck and Travis is fishing.

I’m going home, hot tired and pissed. lol

Until Next Time The Hermit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Some Things You might Need To Know If Your New. from texasbigfoot.com

So you want to search for Bigfoot but need to know what to bring? Let me help you out with some items and tricks you may need to know.
Gear
What you need to go Bigfooting is your normal camping gear including flashlights, bath items etc.
WATER! You can’t get enough water that’s for sure.
Bigfoot Gear
This is the guts of what you’ll need. Camera, camcorder, recorder for recording sounds. Quickset plaster, mixing container, spoons, water to mix plaster. Measuring tape (I use the ribbon type for sewing). Hair spray (for setting ground before casting print). Magnifying glass (for looking at hair samples). Plastic bags (for collecting hair samples or any other kind of samples). Tweezers (for collecting hair samples). Binoculors
How To Plaster Cast A Print
The first step is to document your find by taking picture of the print using a measuring tape for
size comparison. Then check for hair samples in the print area. (Break out the magnifying glass.)
Then do the following…
Break out the plaster and pour it into your container about 1/4 of the box. Mix in water and the plaster together as much as possible Stir the mix till it’s like a thick soup. Spray the print with hair spray to set the soil so you don’t bring up alot of soil into the print. Try and use sticks as support for the cast like a concreter would use re-bar in concrete. Pour the mix in the center and spread out with a spoon. Fill in the edges with the spoon carefully and try and not overspill the plaster. Wait approx.15-30 minutes dependent on soil conditions, dampness, and ambnient temperature. Once the print is hard, carefully pull up from around the print to loosen the soil around it. Now you have properly casted Sasquatches footprint! If you need to make a cast in snow, there is a product called Snow Print Wax that can be sprayed
into the track to make a shell before the plaster is poured in. However, the ‘shell’ of this cast is
very soft, as it is wax, rather than plaster. The wax shell can melt if left in the sun. It is also easy to
scratch this soft material. It will pick up very fine detail, but this is not always necessary for most
animal tracks. If you do not need the fine details, then don’t worry about the wax melting off or
being scratched. Snow Print Wax will work just fine and will allow you to make a cast that couldn’t
be made with just plaster alone due to the heat given off by the reaction.
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Giants In the Americans

Argentina: Patagonia was what Magellan called the land close to the southern tip of South America, during his voyage in 1519. He encountered giants there, and it is said the head of one of Magellan’s middle sized men reached but to the waist of the giants. There was another tribe, which was called Tiriminen, who also were of a gigantic stature, being 10 or 12 feet high, and continually at war with the other tribes.
Peru: Peru’s gold museum has golden-clad giant kings, but it is private and not open to the public. The actual mummified head of the crowned king in the photograph is about twice as large as a normal head. A golden tunic hung on the wall is made of spun gold, over eight feet tall and tailored in such a way as to suggest that it was not intended to drag on the floor behind a king, but rather to hang straight down to the floor.
Ecuador: In 1543, Juan de Olmos, lieutenant governor of Port Viejo, Guayaquil, ordered excavations be made in the valley at the place where the natives claimed giants were destroyed by fire from heaven. Olmos’ party “…found such large ribs and other bones that, if the skulls had not appeared at the same time, it would not have been credible they were of human persons…. Teeth then found were sent to different parts of Peru; they were three fingers broad and four in length.” The giants had “…come by sea in rafts of reeds after the manner of large boats, some men who were so tall that from the knee down they were as big as the full length of an ordinary fair-sized man.”
Peru: The god Viracocha is described as being a bearded man with white skin, hair on the face and beautiful emerald eyes, wearing long white robes. He was also tall; A giant? You find him many places: He was called Kukulkan by the Mayas, Quetzalcoatl by the Aztecs, Viracocha by the Incas, Gucumatz in central America, Votan in Palenque and Zamna in Izamal.

Central America

Mexico: The country of Mexico is rich in ancient artefacts – and legends about giants. The largest of the pyramids of the ancient city of Teotihuacan, those of the Sun and Moon, were said by tradition to have been built by the giants that existed in those days. Legend asserts that Teotihuacan was built by giants with the purpose to transform men into gods.
Mexico: According to the local legends, giants lived in the plains of Tlascala by the Olmecs, who came there before the Toltecs. At the time of the Spanish Conquest, Bernal Diaz, one of the chief chroniclers of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, was told of the huge stature of these giants as well as their crimes; and, to show him how big they were, the storytellers brought him a bone of one of them, which he measured himself against, and it was as tall as he, who was a man of reasonable stature. He and his companions were astonished to see those bones, and held it for certain that there had been giants in that land.
Mexico: Quetzalcoatl, the chief god of the ancient Mexicans, was believed to be a red-haired, Caucasian giant who wore a white tunic. He originally came to Central America from the east, across the sea. However, despite all the aid he had given the ancient Mexicans, Quetzalcoatl had been driven away by an evil priest named Tezcatlipoca, and had headed back to his homeland across the sea. He was prophesied to return again at some point in the future. Interestingly, in the same year that it was believed that this light-skinned, bearded giant from the east was prophecied to return, the light-skinned, bearded Hernan Cortez met with the Aztecs for the first time.
Mexico: According to a press clipping, dated Nayarit, May 14, 1926, Capts. D. W. Page and F. W. Devalda discovered the bones of a race of giants who averaged over ten feet in height. Local legends state that they came from Ecuador. Washington Post, June 22, 1925: A mining party found skeletons measuring 10 to 12 feet, near Sisoguiche. The Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1927, says that explorers located large human bones near Tapextla, indicating a race of “gigantic size.”

North America

Ioah, USA: A local farmer, had been digging a new well just outside of Kossuth Center and struck a deposit of very hard stone about nine feet below the topsoil. The stone was not at all native to Iowa, but the type of stone used by the Egyptians to build their massive monuments. Seven mummified remains of some giant humanoid race were seated in a ring around a very large and deep fire pit. They were each fully ten feet tall even when measured seated in their cross-legged positions. The foreheads were unusually low and sloping, with exceedingly prominent brows, and they had double rows of teeth in their upper and lower jaws. The hair of each of them was distinctly red in color.
Nevada, USA: In 1911, several mummified remains of mysterious red-haired humans ranging from 2-2.5 meters (6 1/2 to over 8 feet) tall were disinterred in Lovelock cave north-east of Reno, by a guano mining operation. These substantiated the local Piute Indians’ legends of such people, which they called the Si-Te-Cahs. Scientists proved oddly reluctant to investigate these remains and eventually most the bones were simply discarded by the miners. What was left was salvaged by various local people, only for most of it to be destroyed when the shed they were kept in caught fire and burned to the ground. However, one of the Lovelock skulls, almost 1 foot tall, is preserved with some related bones and artifacts at the Humboldt County Musuem in Winnemucca, Nevada.
Utah, USA: In June of 1971 Lin Ottinger, an amateur geologist and archaeologist, found human remains in a Cretaceous age sandstone (supposedly more than 65 million years old) in a Moab, Utah copper mine. He carefully uncovered a portion of what later proved to be two fossilized human skeletons. As the bones were uncovered, it soon became obvious that they were in-situ and had not washed in or fallen down from higher strata. The rock and soil that had been above the remains had been continuous before the dozer work, with no caves or major faults or crevices visible. Thus, before the mine exploration work, the human remains had been completely covered by about fifteen (15) feet of material, including five or six feet of solid rock. The bones were still joined together naturally and stained green with copper carbonate.
Texas, USA: The picture shows one of many human footprints contemporary with dinosaurs taken from the Paluxy River located in Dinosaur Park near Glen Rose. The footprint exceeds 45 cm (18 inches) in length. The cross-sectional cuts determined through compression studies that it was a woman’s footprint. Estimates indicate her stature approximately 305 cm (10 feet) and 454 kg (1,000 lbs). Several strata of human prints with dinosaur prints have been excavated in this park. According to Dr. Carl Baugh, the archeologist who coordinated the excavations, these strata were laid down during the first few days of Noah’s flood when water levels were low enough to allow daily tidal changes to form layers of mud so fleeing creatures could seek higher ground – the upper strata showed no prints.
Arkansas, USA: In 1921, an Arkansan named Rowlands was digging in one gravel pit on Crowley’s Ridge, located two miles north of Finch. At a depth of 10 feet, he found a large rock-sculptured head of a man. It stood about 4 feet high, and had a squared, protruding chin, small, tight-lipped mouth, a short nose, and a furrowed brow and stare accented by two flat “buttons” of inlaid gold for eyes. Rowlands dug up a number of smaller objects: a gold ring, a small coffer made of volcanic pumice (which does not exist in this region), and tiny carvings of men, animals, moons and stars. The head and artifacts soon became a local attraction, and the newspapers dubbed the glowering figure “King Crowley.” Several investigators authenticated the find, though they could not explain its presence in the ten-foot layer of gravel – geologically dated at 175,000 years.
California, USA: In 1833,soldiers digging a pit for a powder magazine at Lompock Rancho, California, hacked their way through a layer of cemented gravel and came up with the skeleton of a giant man about twelve feet tall. The skeleton was surrounded by carved shells, huge stone axes, and blocks of porphyry covered with unintelligible symbols. The giant was also noteworthy in still another respect :He had a double row of teeth, both upper and lower. When the natives began to attach some religious significance to the find, authorities ordered the skeleton and all the artifacts secretly reburied- and, of course, lost to the scientific study they deserved.
Arizona, USA: Near Crittenden, Arizona, in 1891, workmen excavating for a commercial building came upon a huge stone sarcophagus eight feet below the surface. The contractor called in expert help, and the sarcophagus was opened to reveal a granite mummy case which had once held the body of a human being more than twelve feet tall -a human with six toes, according to the carving of the case. But the body had been buried so many thousands of years that it had long since turned to dust.
Ohio, USA: In Seneca township was opened, in 1872, one of the numerous Indian mounds that abound in the neighborhood. This particular one was locally known as the “Bates” mound. Upon being dug into it was found to contain a few broken pieces of earthenware, a lot of flint-heads and one or two stone implements and the remains of three skeletons, whose size would indicate they measured in life at least eight feet in height. The remarkable feature of these remains was they had double teeth in front as well as in back of mouth and in both upper and lower jaws. Upon exposure to the atmosphere the skeletons crumbled back to mother earth.
Missouri, USA: Scientific American (1883): Two miles from Mandan, on the bluffs near the junction of the Hart and Missouri Rivers, is an old cemetery of fully 100 acres in extent filled with bones of a giant race. The ground has the appearance of having been filled with trenches piled full of dead bodies of both man and beast and covered with several feet of earth. In many places mounds from 8 to 10 feet high, and some of them 100 feet or more in length, have been thrown up and are filled with bones, broken pottery, vases of various bright colored flint, and agates. The pottery, is of a dark material, beautifully decorated, delicate in finish, and as light as wood, showing the work of a people skilled in the arts and possessed of a high state of civilization. Five miles above Mandan, on the opposite side of the Missouri, is another vast cemetery as yet unexplored. We asked an aged Indian what his people knew of these ancient graveyards. He answered: “Me know nothing about them. They were here before the red man.”
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