Perhaps the Cowdens' estimate of 100,000 years ago may have been excessive, even though the brothers based their conclusion on the amount of silica in the soil and the sands and by the state of petrification of the skeletal remains, along with the crystallization and opalization of the bone marrow.

The giant female was seven-feet-six inches tall. Assuming the same kind of height ratio which exists in contemporary times, the males of the vanished valley paradise would likely have been eight feet tall.

Order Worlds Before Our Own

The Cowdens discovered a number of anomalous physical appendages and attributes not found in contemporary humans. To cite two of the most dramatic examples, the Cowdens noted that the woman had canine teeth twice the size and length of contemporary humans. She also had a number of extra "buttons" at the base of her spine, "and every indication betrayed the evidence that the woman and her people were endowed with tail-like appendages."

A newspaper account dated April 4, 1874, tells of a veritable catacomb of giant skeletal remains that was unearthed when workmen were opening a way for the railroad between Wildon and Garrysburg, North Carolina: "The skulls were nearly an inch in thickness; the teeth were filed sharp...the enamel perfectly preserved; the bones were of wonderful strength, the femur being as long as the leg of an ordinary man, the stature of the body being probably as great as eight or nine feet....The bodies were found closely packed together, laid tier on tier....The mystery is, who these were, to what race they belonged, to what era, and how they came to be buried there.…"

The North American continent has supported lost civilizations of tiny folk, as well as rugged giants.

Harper's Magazine, July 1869, tells of several burying grounds in Tennessee for tiny men and women, the tallest of whom was nineteen inches tall. These wee folk from an unknown culture were all buried in stone coffins, their heads to the east, their hands folded across their chests. In the bend of the left arm of each skeleton lay a pint vessel made of ground stone or shell of a grayish color. The skeletons were all strong and well set, and their basic structures were well formed.

As more and more these anomalous discoveries in the geological strata of North America are unearthed, it begins to seem as though the continent served as some vast living laboratory of genetic experimentation. Perhaps we might consider the possibility that the progenitors of our species may have been guided around some evolutionary dead ends and that even the monster-humans of mythology might have been abortive experiments by prehistoric genetic engineers from some forgotten world before our own.

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