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It is written: “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was as strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit above And his roots b…

Giants? Let’s Ask The Smithsonian It is written: “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was as strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit above And his roots beneath.” (Amos 2:9) Some time ago, I was blessed to take a visit with some friends to a local Eastern Kentucky town. We were going to help our friend get her driver’s license. Unfortunately, the computer system was down, so we all decided to go to the local town museum. Keep in mind, this is a very small town in Eastern Kentucky, but it is a very OLD town. While we were browsing the different displays, I was amazed to find entire sections of the museum devoted to the study of “Indian” mounds. Being a native of West Virginia, I was familiar with the existence of the mounds, where several skeletons have been found all over the country. Today, we are often told that these mounds were simply the burial tombs of ancient Native Americans. Of course, the fact of the matter is, we actually have a great deal of evidence that the skeletons found in these mounds were the remains of giants. This evidence is found (among other places) in newspaper headlines from all over our country, spanning the course of some two hundred years. As we were talking about these things, the nice lady who ran the exhibit came over and started talking with us. When we brought up the nephilim (the word used in the Old Testament to describe these giants in such passages as Genesis 6:1-4), she told us a story of something which happened when she was a little girl (again, being a resident in the same area as this aforementioned but unnamed Eastern Kentucky town). Her father, a local farmer and coal miner, had returned home one day from the fields, quite perplexed about something. She had gone with him the next day, and found what had stumped him: the remains of a giant “human-like” skeleton, buried in the field near a local “mound” (which happened to be in the same vicinity where he was farming). They returned home with the skeleton, and it was later removed. While she didn’t say who had removed the skeleton, and we didn’t ask, my mind went immediately to the Smithsonian Institute. Did you know, incidentally, that the Smithsonian has acknowledged that they have excavated the skeletons of giants from these mounds across America? “The following is a brief list of documented findings, all recorded in the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year […] series (each book title ending with the year the discovery was made): · One skull measuring “36 inches in circumference.”[ 152] Anna, Illinois, 1873. (The average circumference measurement for the human skull is between twenty-one and twenty-three inches, depending on varying factors such as sex, ethnicity, etc.) · One full skeleton with double rows of teeth, buried alongside a gigantic axe, referred to in the report as a “gigantic savage.”[ 153] The skeleton—with a colossal skull—fell apart after exhumation, so an exact height/ head circumference was not reported, but the record states that “its height must have been quite [meaning “at least”] seven feet.” Amelia Island, Florida, 1875. · Giant axes and “skinning stones.”[ 154] One weighed over fifteen pounds, had an ornately carved handle, and was of such mass that it was documented: “Only a giant could have wielded this.” Kishwaukee Mounds, Illinois, 1877. · One jawbone that easily slipped around the entire face of a large man on the research team; one thigh bone measuring “four inches longer than that of a man six feet two inches high”; one “huge skeleton, much taller than the current race of men.”[ 155] Kishwaukee Mounds, Illinois, 1877. According to the Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1883–1884, shortly following the discoveries in this bullet list, the Smithsonian team found ten more skeletons in mounds and burial sites in Wisconsin, Illinois, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. Not every one of them was measured for height, but each was documented as much larger than the skeletons of our current race; those that were measured ranged between seven to seven and a half feet long.[ 156] Similarly, in the Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1894, two enormous skulls, several baffling femur bones, and seventeen full skeletons also measuring between seven to seven and a half feet long (one in East Dubuque, Illinois, measured almost eight feet) were unearthed in Illinois, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.[ 157] The West Virginia dig report contains an additional claim of “many large skeletons,” generically.[ 158] From these reports listed, more than forty thousand artifacts were found, including weapons, tools, jewelry, and various ute...