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The Giants of Yosemite Valley
By Bobbie Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
7-16-99
The year, 1885. In California's great Yosemite Valley under
the misty expanse near Bridal-Veil Falls, a party of silver
and wannabee gold miners discovered what was to become the
mystery of the decade. While having lunch, Mr. G. F.
Martindale who was in charge of a party of miners, noticed a
pile of stones that was placed against the wall of a cliff.
Seasoned miners, they were familiar with the natural
formation of rock, this particular grouping struck Mr.
Martindale as being unusual and seemed not to have been
placed naturally. Realizing that if something in the wild
is not placed naturally, he could only conclude human hands
placed it there.
The miners set about removing the pile of stones. Behind the
pile of stones they found a wall of rock that had been shaped
and joined together with knowledgeable masonry. The joints
between the rocks were all of uniform 1/8 of an inch in
thickness and according to the reports from the men who were
there, it was a beautiful job of stone work.
"As pretty as any wall on any building that I have ever seen"
is the way one miner described it. Thinking that they had
perhaps stumbled upon some lost treasure, the party of miners
proceeded without delay and issuing great haste began tearing
down the wall to get to the incredible riches that surely
must lie within. Disappointment fell a heavy weight upon
their heads as, in the end, they found the vault empty save
a very large mummified corpse that lay on the ledge, which
was carved from the natural stone for the express purpose of
burial.
Lighting their carbide headlamps they set about examining
the vault to see if perhaps they had overlooked something
perhaps a map or some other clue to where the inevitable
treasure might be hidden. Treasure of course being far more
interesting than the fossil bones of a giant mummy.
What they found was another vault that had been carved from
natural rock - 9 feet 3 inches high, 18 feet 6 inches deep
and 8 feet 4 inches wide - containing a tall mummified corpse
that was 6 feet 8 inches tall. The corpse was wrapped in
what appeared to be animal skins and covered with a layer of
fine gray power. The miners removed parts of the animal
skins to view the corpse and found it to be that of a woman
holding a child to her breast.
The mummy was then taken to Los Angeles where it was placed
before men, considered to be of great science in those days,
most of whom agreed that is was a "relic" from a race that
must have inhabited this country long before the American
Indian. Tall people, they claimed, from a race which
preceded the coastal natives?
All agreed that the height of 6 feet 8 inches tall in death
must have represented an actual height in life of about seven
or more feet. If their height relationship between men and
women was approximately what it is today, then they concluded
the males of the species could possibly have been some eight
feet tall. The most popular theory of the day was that the
lady was a relic of some royal family of a lost Stone Age
tribe of giants.
Interestingly enough, Captains Cooke and Magellan both wrote
in their ship's logs of a race of giants that inhabited what
we now know as the Pacific coast of South America. Cook was
even supposed to have captured one of the giants reported to
be nine feet tall. Unfortunately, the giant escaped by
breaking the ropes that bound him to the mast and jumped off
the ship, overboard into the sea. In an additional excerpt,
Capt. Cooke wrote in his log that he was himself was 6 feet
3 inches tall, (which was very tall for those days when the
average was about 5 feet 4 inches tall and under) and he
could easily stand under the arm of the giant. Cooke's
report started a furor that was to last another 100 years
and cause many to seek these giant people.
In the next century, many reports were filed stating that
various of our major explorers had sighted the giants of
what was then called Patagonia - but none had contact or for
that matter even attempted to capture one of the giant men.
Then suddenly, around the year 1650, the reports of sighting
giants stopped abruptly. Perhaps the giants moved inland,
perhaps because they moved far away. They couldn't have
just vanished. They could have simply become unpopular
attractions and thus slipped gradually into oblivion.
The fact remains that once up a time, they were there.
The Yosemite Valley, where the mummy was found has always
been considered to be a place of great mystery by the Indians
who lived there, the Ahwahneechees. The folklore of the
Ahwahneechees relates a story of a giant who came into the
valley long before the white man arrived. The giant's name
was Oo-el-en. They were vicious giants for they liked to eat
the meat of the Indians. Oo-el-en would catch the adults and
carry them away to a hiding place near the foot of Cascade
Falls. Oo-el-en would then cut the people into small pieces,
hanging their meat in the sun to dry into jerky.
The legend says that the Ahwahneechees finally killed
the giants and burned their bodies. This rules out the
possibility that the giant mummy of the Yosemite Valley
might have been Oo-el-en. However, if there was a giant,
where did he come from and was there more than one of her
kind. We may never know - sadly, all the Ahwahneechees
are dead, the last having died in 1947.
The one thing the Ahwahneechees did leave was a written
record of their long and complex burial rites. These Indians
usually burned their dead - as they believed that by doing so
they released the spirit of the deceased more quickly, so as
to escape the evil spirits that lie in wait to grab it. The
important part of the ritual in relationship to the mummy of
the Yosemite Valley was that they always wrapped their dead
in skins of animals before they were burned. If you recall,
the mummy of the Yosemite Valley was wrapped in the skins of
animals and covered with a fine gray powder. Ashes, perhaps?
The learned scientist of that time, July of 1895, all agreed
that the mummy predated the Christian era. It is therefore
doubtful that the mummy was in any way connected with the
Indians, as they were believed to have settled in the
Yosemite Valley about 800 to 1000 years ago.
It is important to note at this point that the Ahwahneechees
were also very small people, most being less than 5 feet 3
inches tall. However, there have been traces of a much
earlier people that have inhabited the Southwest.
This fact was pointed out dramatically in 1866 by a miner
name Mattison. No real discoveries have been made since that
time by anyone other than qualified archaeologist because it
was about that time the advent of mechanized mining began.
Mattison, from Angels Camp, California, found a skull almost
130 feet underground in the underground shaft of his mine in
Calavaras County, California.
The discovery shook the foundations of the Genesis itself.
What intrigued Mr. Mattison was why an Indian would dig a
grave that deep in the ground when most were buried at about
6 feet. He knew the skull belonged to a very old Indian
because it was fossilized and encrusted with the same kind of
gravel distinctive to the earth in the mine shift. He took
it to one of the bars in Angels Camp on his next trip to
town. There, he came across a doctor who told Mattison that
if it was an Indian, it was a deformed one. The doctor
pointed out the heavy to thick brow ridge which ran across
the eyes and nose - he pointed several other differences in
the cranium between this and other Indian skulls of more
contemporary period which were occasionally dug up around
those mining camps. The unknown doctor prevailed upon
Mattison to report the find to Mr. J. D. Whitney, a
geologist, and when shown the gravel-encrusted skull, he
checked it with the gravel in its burial place and found the
two to match. The skull had been found under four strata of
lava and three strata of gold-bearing gravel. Thus Whitney
reported it probably had been buried near the end of the
Pliocene Era - a million years earlier.
Was it a human skull or was it the skull of some man-like
creature that walked the California soil a million years ago?
Indian lore teaches us that there were creatures that ruled
here long before the Indians came. According to some,
they are still here, unseen by all but a few who have been
lucky enough to spot a Bigfoot or a Sasquatch, or in other
countries, a Yeti, a Nguoi Rung, a Chinese Yeh-ren or
the Kapre and so forth.
Was the Ahwahneechee Giant of Yosemite Valley related to a
Sasquatch? If you recall, the mummy found in Yosemite was
6 foot 8 inches tall, which represented a height in life of
close to seven feet. Was the mummy a Sasquatch, or are the
Sasquatches the evolved ancestors or mutated ancestors of
the mummy of the Yosemite Valley. Perhaps a hybrid? Was
the skull found in Calavaras County the forerunner of both
of these species, one which vanished completely and the other
forced to go back into the ancient ways of the forest
hiding forever from Man? The facts are there and they are
undeniable. The conclusions are and must always be yours.
I am still in the process of researching Calavaras County
files and newspaper archives for a better description of the
skull. If anyone has any information related to these events
or newspaper clippings or other archival resources for the
Ahwahneechees or historic Angel's Camp, California [other
than the internet] I would appreciate hearing from you.
Bobbie Short
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