C Gravelle wrote:
Alabama > Etowa County SIGHTING DATE: 1886-04
NEAREST TOWN: Gadsden
OBSERVED: This is a very interesting old newspaper article from May 1, 1886 about some unusually large bones found near the Coosa River after a flood which occurred in the area, near Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama: >From "The Jacksonville Republican" newspaper, published in Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama
Newspaper Issue of Saturday, May 1, 1886 ALABAMA STATE News, ETOWAH County News
The flood recently unearthed a great many relics of former civilization at several points along the river banks, but especially on the Green Foster place above and Col. Sam Henry's place in the Whorton bend. Mr. James Henry who examined some of these curiosities on his father's place, told us that some of the bones of the human skeletons found were of very unusual proportions, indicating a larger stature than is now attained by the genus homo. The Gadsden News --- Mr. James F. Henry who discovered the bones of the big skeleton on his father's farm on the bank of the Coosa River near Gadsden, says that he could easily place his head in its skull and the bone was half an inch thick. The thigh bone was about twenty-two inches in length and three times as large as the bone in an ordinary man. The bone from the shoulder to elbow measured about twenty inches; and when all the bones were placed in their proper places they showed that the owner, when alive, must have been at least twelve feet from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet. Two or three of these enormous skeletons were found. ------ ENVIRONMENT: Near Coosa River 

 

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