The Cardiff Giant Story: From Giant Discovery to Giant Hoax

 In the 19th century, the belief in giants and the fascination with bones and bodies came together to produce an odd phenomena–that of the petrified giant. The most famous and best documented of these hoaxes occurred in 1869, when two laborers digging a well near Cardiff, New York discovered a giant stone man under the ground.

The find was dubbed the Cardiff Giant, and it would go on to create a craze for petrified giants that would last for the next forty years before finally dying out in the early 20th century.

Uncovered in New York in 1869, the Cardiff Giant was a 10-foot-tall “petrified humanoid” that countless Christians believed was proof of the existence of Biblical giants...<<<Read More>>>....