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No Bones About It! Part One: GIANTS in the Old World

Historical Blindness

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Antediluvian Giant Bones

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth cent ries, near the castle chaumont in france, a series of huge bones were unearthed. According to their exhibitor, they were the bones of a teutonic barbarian king. These bones are kept to day at the french national museum of natural history. Certain gargantuan bones discovered in the americas even convinced one of the fathers of paleontology that the legends of antediluvian giants must be true. The question remains, where are these skeletons? Do we actually have a bone to pick, so to speak?

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