While browsing through an archival newspaper, I happened upon an article (posted below) about a 12 ft. tall mummified giant discovered in a Jackson, Michigan rear yard during an excavation in 1919. I haven't been able to find any follow-up information about this discovery.

Is anyone else familiar with it? Did it turn out to be a hoax? If not, was this yet another giant's body that has mysteriously 'vanished' from public view and access?

Great find!

I wonder if it was found near some Hopewell Indian mounds?

Sounds like another one of those red-haired giants from some of those 1800s "yellow journalism" articles.

Looks fake considering the inconsistencies in type / font...

Anyone know why Michigan newspapers aren't in the Library of Congress?
I thought I would just check the Jackson Citizen Patriot for that day...but I didn't see Michigan listed?

Come to think of it, the Adena Indians were the first mound builders in the Ohio Valley and the later Hopewell were associated with the Michigan mounds hundreds of years before the Europeans came

Many giants were found in mounds around the U.S. and tribes in Michigan that were still around during contact with Europeans had a myth about a war with evil giants that inhabited the prairie lands, who were driven out when their tribes came into the area.

Originally posted by GoneGrey
While browsing through an archival newspaper, I happened upon an article (posted below) about a 12 ft. tall mummified giant discovered in a Jackson, Michigan rear yard during an excavation in 1919. I haven't been able to find any follow-up information about this discovery.

Is anyone else familiar with it? Did it turn out to be a hoax? If not, was this yet another giant's body that has mysteriously 'vanished' from public view and access?

Take a closer look at the top of the article and the capital "g" in giant .
At the the top of the article you will notice some lines.

And the G is different then the rest of the paper.
It was add to that paper ,like Photoshopped in.

Not to mention it's in the want ads.

Also if you pay attention the ad is smack dab in the middle of the classifieds. Top of the page they are asking for ads. Odd place for find.

Damn. I wanted to believe. Oh well, back to the next one...

Do a Google Search with
"Border Cities Star", "1921", "Oren Nierman", "Michigan", " Giant" and you get zilch.

As kdog pointed out, it could be a photoshop hoax.