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191:“Being asked my opinion, my answer was that the whole matter was undoubtedly a hoax; that there was no reason why the farmer should dig a well in the spot where the figure was found; that it was convenient neither to the house nor to the barn; that there was already a good spring and a stream of water running conveniently to both; that, as to the figure itself, it certainly could not have been carved by any prehistoric race, since no part of it showed the characteristics of any such early work; that, rude as it was, it betrayed the qualities of a modern performance of a low order.” 277: 20: 156:
On the first day, visitors were able to view the giant with no fee charged. The next day, a tent was set up on the discovery site and Newell charged each visitor fifty cents for a fifteen-minute session of viewing the giant. The number of visitors went to about three to five hundred per day as the
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were used to make the giant appear to be old and weathered. In order for the giant to look ancient, Hull first wiped the giant using a sponge soaked with sand and water. The giant's surface was beaten with steel knitting needles embedded in a board to simulate pores. The giant was also rubbed with
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On a night in late November 1868, the giant was buried in a hole in Newell's farm. Nearly a year later, Newell hired Gideon Emmons and Henry Nichols, ostensibly to dig a well, and on October 16, 1869, they found the giant. One of the men reportedly exclaimed, "I declare, some old Indian has been
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On December 10, 1869, Hull confessed everything to the press, and on February 2, 1870, both giants were revealed as fakes in court; the judge also ruled that Barnum could not be sued for terming a fake giant a fake. Hull proclaimed that he did not confess because of the pressing criticism, but
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The giant was designed to imitate the form of Hull himself. Hull consulted a geologist and learned that hairs wouldn't be petrified, so he removed the hair and beard from the giant. The length of the giant was 10 feet 4½ inches and it weighed 2990 pounds.
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whom he had sworn to secrecy. Burghardt hired two sculptors named Henry Salle and Fred Mohrmann to create the giant. They had taken cautious steps to cover up their work during the carving, putting up quilts to lessen the sound of carving.
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demand for wagons and carriages dramatically increased. The townspeople also gained huge profit because of the Cardiff Giant. The hotels and restaurants in Cardiff saw more customers in those four days than they had ever seen before.
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examined the statue, pointing out that it was made of soluble gypsum, which, had it been buried in its blanket of wet earth for centuries, would not still have fresh tool marks on it (which it did), and termed it "a most decided
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Some believed this giant was a petrified man, while some believed it was a statue. Those who believed it was a petrified man thought it was one of the giants mentioned in the aforementioned Genesis verse. On the other hand,
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confessed proudly that he intended for the hoax to be exposed to reveal the tendency of the Christian community to believe in things too easily and to counter the fundamentalist belief that giants once roamed the earth.
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named George Hull. He was deeply attracted to science and especially to the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin. Hull, a skeptic, got into an argument with Reverend Turk and his supporters at a
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sulphuric acid to create a deeper, vintage-like color. During November 1868, Hull transported the giant by railroad to the farm of his cousin, William Newell. By then, he had spent
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However, he was taken aback by the channels on the bottom part of the giant, stating that for such grooving to be created on local Onondaga grey limestone would require years.
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hired men to create a fake petrified man and place it where workmen would dig it up. One of the men who had buried the giant later revealed the truth when drunk.
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Hannum sued Barnum for calling his giant a fake, but the judge told him to get his giant to swear on his own genuineness in court if he wanted a favorable
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In 1868, Hull, accompanied by a man named H.B. Martin, hired men to quarry out a 10-foot-4.5-inch-long (3.2 m) block of
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copy. He displayed his giant in New York, claiming that his was the real giant, and the Cardiff Giant was a fake.
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offered $ 50,000 for the giant. When the syndicate refused, he hired a man to model the giant's shape covertly in
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during 1867. The petrified man was displayed across Montana as a novelty and exhibited in New York and Chicago.
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had published a fake letter claiming that a prospector had been petrified when he had drunk a liquid within a
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man", uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell, in
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A character called the Cardiff Giant appeared occasionally in the early years of the newspaper comic
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A copy of the Giant is displayed at The Fort Museum and Frontier Village in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
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As the newspapers reported Barnum's version of the story, David Hannum was quoted as saying, "
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The idea of a petrified man did not originate with Hull, however. During 1858, the newspaper
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in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m), roughly 3,000 pound purported "
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The Cardiff Giant displayed at the Bastable in Syracuse, NY, circa 1869.
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as a coffee table and conversation piece. In 1947 he sold it to the
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A Colossal Hoax: The Giant From Cardiff that Fooled America
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The Cardiff Giant has inspired a number of similar hoaxes.
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Cardiff Giant Hoax Recreated By Syracuse Artist Ty Marshal
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The Cardiff Giant was referenced in the 1935 short story "
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in the 16th or 17th century in order to impress the local
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are still being displayed. P.T. Barnum's is on display at
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The Dinosaur Hunters: Othniel C. Marsh and Edward D. Cope
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in New York. He shipped the block to Edward Burghardt in
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Nicklell, Joe (May–June 2009), "Cardiff's Giant Hoax",
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during the 1940s and 50s billed as "The Cardiff Giant."
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of five men headed by David Hannum. They moved it to
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used an image of The Cardiff Giant for their album “
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The Cardiff Giant being exhumed during October 1869.
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archaeological
hoaxes
petrified
Cardiff, New York
P. T. Barnum
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Farmington Hills, Michigan
tobacconist
Methodist
Genesis 6:4
Alta California
geode
gypsum
Fort Dodge, Iowa
Abraham Lincoln
Chicago
stonecutter
stains
acids
John F. Boynton
statue
Jesuit
Native Americans
Andrew D. White
Cornell University
Yale
paleontologist
Othniel C. Marsh

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