Giants Were Real in Human History – From Nevada to Peru

Red Horn, a mythical figure of the ancient Ioway tribe, supposedly took a red-haired giant woman as a wife. (Wikipedia image)

Thousands of years ago, the Paiutes recounted, when their tribe settled into the area, they warred fiercely against a tribe of light-skinned, red-haired giants )some of whom were twelve feet tall and who were reputed to eat any Paiutes they caught) that had already been living in the area, whom the Pauites called them the Sitecah. The years of conflict ended when the last of the Sitecah were trapped in a cave, and when the Pauites burned bushes at the cave entrance those few who attempted to escape were killed with arrows while the rest were suffocated by the smoke.

In time, the cave entrance collapsed because of an earthquake, and only bats and other small creatures could enter or leave it freely.

A Quaint Tale Come True

The cave that was the Sitecah’s last stand was originally called Horse Shoe Cave, but was then renamed Lovelock Cave, and in 1911 bat guano harvesters broke into the cave to harvest the large amounts of bat guano that were deposited for ages inside of it. (Decaying bat guano becomes saltpeter, which is a key ingredient in gunpowder, hence the economic interest in bat scad.) To their surprise, after digging four feet into the guano, the harvesters found artifacts and shrunken, mummified bodies of giants; but since the harvesters were after the bat guano, the bodies and artifacts were just tossed out.

Indeed, it wasn’t until 1924, thirteen years after bat guano harvesting started in Lovelock Cave, that archaeologists learned about the find and went in to investigate. Although most of the artifacts had been discarded, they were still able to recover some 10,000 items and at least two bodies – one six and a half foot (2 meter) tall female, the other an eight foot (2.4 meter) tall male.

At present, a collection of the artifacts is on display in a museum located in Winnemucca, Nevada.

Location of Lovelock cave in Nevada, where the last of the red-haired giants died. (from a Wikipedia image)

More Giants

The Lovelock cave isn’t the only place where the remains of giants were discovered. In 1931, two giant sized bodies – one eight and a half feet (2.6 meters) tall, the other ten feet (3 meters) tall – were discovered in the Humboldt dry lake bed near Lovelock, Nevada, which is twenty miles from Lovelock Cave.

There were also stories of giants in other lands. Hawaii, for instance, has its own legends of red-haired giants, and Peru is rather open about the giants that lived in its lands in the past. The Gold Museum of Lima, Peru, displays the clothing and head of an Inca king who would have been ten feet tall when alive – his head and gold gloves are twice the size of a normal human’s, and his golden robe, when worn, is eight feet (2.4 meters) long and didn’t touch the floor when he stood up.

Granted, modern day scientific thought regards giants as genetic anomalies, and thus rare, but given such evidence it seems plausible that giants were more common in the past than they are now.

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