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117: Forbidden Archaeology: Lost Giants of America | The Smithsonian's Biggest Secret

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

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The Smithsonian Institution and the Skeletons

Over the past 200 years, more than 1,000 accounts of seven foot and taller skeletons have been found across North America. In dozens of cases, the bones were turned over to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. So, where are they? The Smithsonian was never really suspected of wrongdoing, but then something strange happened in 1950.

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