Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00044)

I sent the following to the publisher's of "Forbidden 
Archeology," Govardhan Hill Publishing. 

re "forbidden archeology"

To whom it may concern:

The subject of ancient human giants came up on a 
discussion group, and one of the correspondents wrote that 
his father visited the Havasupai branch of the Grand Canyon 
in Arizona in the 1920's. Apparently petrified imprints of 
giant humans were found there.

Photographs and details were taken and preserved in San 
Francisco and in Washington in the archives of the Dept. of 
Geology. The Professor of Geology and anthropology at the 
University of California San Francisco Dr Hubbard and 
another Dr. Osborn did the discovering, investigating and 
measuring. 

The discovery was interrupted and then terminated by a large
landslide in the canyon that obliterated the area. It was
massive and too large to try to remove. But the reports and
photographs exist in the archives of both institutions.
Apparently the man-figure was about 27 feet long, the
woman-figure about 24, and the child was about 18 feet 
long. The figures were exposed on a ledge near the bottom of 
the canyon and were partly buried inside the material of the 
steep wall of the canyon above. The writer claimed that his 
father had pictures of these and that he saw those when he 
was about 18.

Also, another writer on that discussion list wrote that during
a visit to the Joshua Tree National Monument in California, 
in the flats area maybe less than a 1000 feet off the paved 
road he found large footprints in the exposed sandstone that 
was bare to the air in patches. He measured the length 
between the footprints as double what he could manage with 
the most exagerated step he could take without falling.

Also, the following paragraph is from Vol. 4 (1925) 
"Official Automobile Blue Book's Standard Touring 
Guide of America": "Among the many points of 
interest within a few miles of the city is the Nevada 
state prison. Not only as a model penal institution is 
this place interesting but because it is the site of some 
of the most wonderful discoveries of prehistoric life. 
Within the prison walls are found footprints in the 
solid stone of the giant who, when the present site was 
a lake, made his way along the shore, sinking deep into 
the mud and leaving imprints...."

I was advised by email from a representative of the National 
Geographic that the society generally does not initiate 
investigations, but that their Committee for research and 
exploration considers proposals from scientists who do; and 
that if they feel that the proposal has merit, the Committee 
then offers a grant to help the scientists with their research 
work. Apparently they often publish articles on the research 
work that they support. I was told that they would be happy 
to consider a proposal for an investigation into this, and that 
information on their program of research support is available 
on their website at:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/research/grant/rg1.html.

I personally am in no position to do any investigating, but 
would like to see somebody verify some or all of the various 
leads, and then (possibly?) publish an article about that 
topic in, for example, the National Geographic, if possible. I 
am wondering if somebody reading this might have some 
interest along those lines, even as much as to check out and 
report on:

<<1 at the archives of the Geology Dept. University of 
California in San Francisco and

2 at the archives of the Dept. of Geology in Washington 
D C [also LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ]>> as per my 
informant.

I wonder if anybody who is living or visiting in those areas 
might have some interest in looking up whatever records and 
photos that might still remain in those archives?

Of course one might presume (?) that there may be a number 
of mainstream athropologists and archeologists who might 
not take kindly to having their current belief-structures and 
theories investigated and questioned, so I suspect that any 
investigation along those lines would necessarily have to be 
rather clandestine, tactful and sophisticated for it to get 
anywhere at all, if during those investigations there is a need 
for any helpful cooperation from those who might be 
somewhat constrained by a mainstream, or average, world 
view (among other things, possibly) with respect to 
archeology/anthropology and related sciences.

Thank you for any help in bringing these reports to the light 
of day.

Sincerely,
Mauri