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Lovelock
skull and parts of skulls
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Lovelock
giant skull confirmed by museum!
In 1911 several giant skeletons and ancient artefacts were
supposedly fund in a cave in Lovelock in Nevada, USA. Almost
everything was later lost in a fire but a skull is supposed
to be found in the Humbolt Museum, Winnemucca. I send a request
to the museum
- and they could confirm that they indeed do have a Lovelock-skull
there!
When
mining for guano in a cave in Lovelock, a small town about
80 miles north-east of Reno, the miners reportedly found mummies
preserved in the dry bat-droppings. The mummies were large,
from 6 and a half feet to more that 8 feet (2 to more than
2,5 meters), and they had red hair. They were reportedly lying
in a layer of burnt material about four feet under the surface
and there were also lots of broken arrows around the mummies.
Before archaeologists could survey the findings most of it
was gone or damaged - and a later fire where the artefacts
were stored did no good either.
Legends
The Puite Indians of the area have legends about giants and
how they killed them. The race of giants, the "Si-Te-Cah"
, should have been white, red-haired, very tall cannibals,
and the Indians started war against them when they entered
their land.
A coalition of tribes managed to trap the last remaining giants
in a cave and while shooting arrows at them they started a
large fire at the mouth of the cave. They kept the fire going
and shot everybody who tried to get out - until the giants
were annihilated.
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Stan
Nielsen outside cave
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Dental
model and jaw
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Sandal
found in the cave
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Pestle
found in the cave
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Dental
model
One person that can tell, and show us, how large the skulls
are is Stan Nielsen, he went to find the cave and the skull
in the museum:
"Prior to a subsequent trip to
the area, I borrowed a full-sized plaster dental model of
the lower teeth of a normal modern adult from a friend, who
was also my dentist. I took the plaster model with me when
I next visited the area, in the hopes that
I would be able to compare it with the jaw
from
one of the "giants." As
I had hoped,
the curator at the Winnemucca museum graciously allowed me
to compare the plaster model with the jaw from the skull of
one of the "giants" in the museum's collection.
She placed the jaw down on her desk. I was allowed to place
my plaster adult jaw next to jaw from the skull for purposes
of comparison. The plaster model was much smaller than the
jaw from the skull. In fact, the teeth of the jaw from the
skull were almost twice the size of those
of my plaster model. There were other factors ,
too, that distinguished it from today's humans."
Other
skeletons
Other giant skeletons have reportedly been found in the area,
in 1931 and 1936 - and even a skeleton measuring 8 feet 9
inches was supposedly found in 1965, buried under a rock
ledge
along the Holly Creek in east-central Kentucky.
All that is left today, as far as we know, are the skull and
the scull parts in the tiny Humbolt Museum (and I am afraid
they suddenly will be gone one day). The sensational artefacts
are, believe it or not, kept in the backroom, but reports
are telling that the staff will gladly show them to you if
you inquire about them!
Latest news: I have received information
that it no longer will be possible to have a look at the Lovelock-skulls
at the museum. If you want to see a video of them - click
here.
(It is the Humbolt Museum, not Nevada State Museum as written
at the video-clip on Youtube)
From: Humboldt County Museum
[mailto:museum@winnemucca.net]
Sent: 1. May 2008 03:20
To: terje@sydhav.no
Regarding: Lovelock Skulls
Dear Terry:
We do, in fact, have one of the Lovelock skulls. It
was obtained years ago as part of a local collection.
Sorry about the delay!
Barbara Powell Humboldt Musuem |
I just happened
to be in the neighborhood, in Winnemucca that is, so
I stopped by the museum to see if they really did have
a giant skull there. Turns out they have 4! There are
not on display, however. I first searched the museum
for them & when I only found a few artifacts by
the Lovelock Cave exhibit I asked the elderly lady there
who was watching the museum if there were any large
skulls found with those artifacts. She smiled &
said that she did certainly know about them & led
me to a storage room just next to her office, where
she opened up a cabinet on the wall & showed me
4 large skulls. She told me that people come from all
over the world to that little museum in Winnemucca just
to ask about these giant skulls, and that they aren't
allowed to display them openly because "the state
does not recognize them." I asked her where the
rest of the remains were & she said that the bodies
to those skulls & the bodies with red hair were
taken to Berkeley a long time ago for examination, and
are also not publicly displayed. She didn't know exactly
why the government won't recognize them but I can see
2 possible reasons: #1 A coverup or #2 They are tring
to be careful with any possible Indian human remains
on display because once a tribe claims them they can
be taken away. She then went on to tell me the story
about how the Piutes told the story of when they once
warred with a giant red headed people & trapped
some of them inside that cave. The actual cave in Lovelock,
she said, has also been recently opened to the public
by the BLM. These skulls were pretty awesome to see
in person. If you happen to be passing through Winnemucca
you should definately stop for a few minutes & check
it out!
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