Lovelock Cave: Red-Haired Giants of Ancient Nevada - DOCUMENTARY (Part 1)

[Music] [Music] so I'm standing just at the base of Lovelock cave Nevada 20 or so miles from the town of Lovelock on the edge the Humboldt sink a huge lake that was here many thousands of years ago and this is a legendary place this is we feature this in Giants on record Kawartha with Jim Vieira could because red-haired cannibal Giants are supposed to be found here when they were digging for guano in 1911 onwards they found all these artifacts and duck decoys many amazing tens of thousands of artifacts that were used by what are called the site ECAR which translates over to Lake Eaters which is this kind of read here but my archeologist friend bill Snodgrass who works at Lovelock Museum said it might be thigh eaters and this means cannibalistic kind of stuff going on here so that was the name given to them by the Paiute Tribe who were prominent in this area obviously much later than the Lovelock culture the Lovelock culture potentially goes back 10,000 years but officially from about 2000 BC his priorities were much much later but they're the ones that recorded the history of this amazing place we've got like an information board behind us so you can you can see what's on there on the video and also there's a few other things around here we're going to look at we're going to get some nice aerial photography to get a sense of the landscape that these potential Giants were living in so this is the main sign here and just gives you a basic outline of what was going on basically they think you know I think it's probably 2600 BC up until the mid eighteen hundreds the cave was in use but it was until 1911 Aldo actually was recorded in the late 1800s that they were discoveries here so it's not just in 1911 onwards and these are the hills here and it's just the other side of this rocky peak here and walk around and climb up to the entrance to Lovelock cave but you can see the view it's quite remarkable this would have all been filled with water the some water here full of reeds and water ducks and then the other wild fowl and fish and I was the prominent way these so-called redhead cannibalistic giants called the citee car actually survived just walking out around the edge here they've kind of created this pathway and that's it right at the top there you see just start to see the entrance to the cave [Music] first entrance should come into Wow so you can see okay it goes all the way down there and much further below down there huge and up there as well so this is just the first part of the cave you can see you can smell the guano in here actually Wow he goes far down there all the way through there [Music] [Music] so we just walked up from over in that direction you kind of get into the caves down there but there's an information board here you know it gives you a bit of information about you know the excavation that they say began in 1912 it was properly excavated by Llewellyn loud from 1924 with archaeologist Marc Harrington they excavated 40 storage pits inside the cave and one of them they found all the duck decoys thousands of them also fishing gear bark sandals huge moccasins shell beads even the wooden grasshopper we saw the museum 20,000 artifacts were discovered many of the storage pits are really interesting they were kind of different levels they think this is where they kept all the artifacts the decoys and other such things and the sandals and would cover with grass and then with stone because they're all at different levels completely engulfed by guano which is like bat dung which you can kind of smell here already it means they could date the area here and they got the earliest date they officially got was 2600 BC so let's head down into the main part of the cave here you see they built a modern platform in here so people can actually get inside and have a good look so wow you can actually see the burn marks here of where they probably smoked out the Giants according to peyote tradition wow this is amazing these are what's left of the evidence of when the Paiute and other tribes burnt out the entrance to sort of wash out all the Giants and kill them so we have actual evidence you can see here so the tradition is true Wow so this is Lovelock cave here in Nevada 220 miles away from the town of Lovelock imagine you know 10,000 over 8,000 years ago Giants were potentially living here this is the lower part of the cave down here that's what we looked in on the way up and it probably would have gone deeper but the massive amounts of wind and rain and even water coming up to this entrance from the lake would have filled this up with mud dust and obviously bat guano so there may be more layers they said where all the pits were found deep inside the cave down there was where the mummies were found and this just shows you you know it looks like they may have even carved out slightly it's not just natural so it was in this cave where all the citee car or the cannibalistic Giants hid out when the Paiute and other local tribes had enough of them they decided to exterminate them one by one and eventually you know by shooting them with arrows eventually they all came to hide in here and tradition states that they set fire to the entrance where I'm standing now Lord reads and bushing everything smoked them out and they all died but the thing is all the bodies that were found here we're properly mummified most of them anyway someone it's like you know 120 feet wide 30 feet deep it looks like it's pretty much blocked any further down there I can't really see any evidence of ancient carvings in here although we know they did do this kind of thing in Winnemucca all the artifacts have now been taken out the cave most of them are in the Smithsonian some are on display in the Lovelock Marsden House Museum some are in Humboldt Museum hopefully we're going to see some in Carson City and Reno museums and historical societies as well so we're just standing at the famous entrance to Lovelock cave you can see it behind me so I'm just going to contemplate for a moment let's take a look what this actually looks like from the air because I want to see this in its context imagine this entire area this all this area below us is full of water and reeds and let's get a sense of the landscape here these ancient Giants used to live in so let's take a little walk around the other side of the cave here see if there's anything of interest you see there's little gaps in the rock there's obviously the main entrance there take a little walk down here keep an eye out for snakes of course and tarantulas and it goes all the way around there and down there so this whole area just down here this is where it would have been the water would have come up to here it would have been full of reeds there's even a story you can see all over there as well the reason the water there's a story that the Paiute went before they kind of banished the Giants of the red head cannibals to the cave they burnt all the reeds across the whole lake so they would just end up living in caves because it apparently come from the south these Giants and made up residence here and they were taking all the different you know sources survival sources the foods and other such things as well as eating the local people so they kind of you know slowly tried to wipe them out but it was like a war that went on for a very long time this is just an amazing cave I mean look at this makes you wonder if they've actually like burrowed in here and actually made it bigger you got a really good view facing kind of west and it would have the whole this would have been full of water absolutely amazing [Music] amazingly no one else has arrived here the whole time I've been in flat 2 or 3 hours no one is anywhere near me I'm probably like 20 miles from the nearest human being yeah that's the road hold down there but to come up here and fog around the back and look at that view of Lovelock caves and that's something it's absolutely stunning it's just up here there's something I want to check out there's a signpost up here what sure what is whether it's just describing the view let's go find out right they're calling this a prehistoric shopping mall because you got chub fish goose rice grass cattails desert here pine nuts especially all in this entire area around Lovelock cave it's just amazing to consider that this there was such amazing stories going on here with these cannibalistic red haired potential Giants the Paiute Tribe a great long war that went on between some tribes including the Pirates and the so-called Giants the fact that they were recorded as being able to kill people just by looking at them that is that's like a sorcerer and this is like these are traditions of sorcery and high magic that we find in the ohio valley which we're going to be heading to in the next week or two to look for more giant evidence but the fact that you've got that kind of sorcery that kind of magic going on in this area is really interesting especially if it's less several thousand years bc just imagine you know like six to eleven foot potentially giants living here just existing in this area and you can just imagine there's more caves here they've been I've kind of fallen down they're being covered up I bet you there's more to be discovered there's more skeletons as more skulls even in the lake behind me over there a guarantee with the burials the type of burials that the red-haired safety car were doing more will be discovered and so just amazing to be here to be in this legendary place which is low helped rewrite American history but also is one of the key arguments for giants existing here in North America you know there's some interesting legends here you know I'm just gonna read you something from our book Giants on record but there are legends here not just the Serra winner Michael Hopkins or legends which he talks about in a book life among the Paiutes there's other ones there's a this is an interesting one it features in the book and all over North America we have similar stories of like cannibalistic giants who weren't necessarily Native American but there was once a giant called snare haha who killed people just by looking at them he carried a large basket full of thorns on his back when he caught someone he would throw them in the basket with the thorns some Indians were playing a game in a house and were having fun they stationed a woman outside to watch for the giant she heard him coming he was talking and singing to himself she tried to warn people that he was coming but they did not hear her sneha ha was getting closer and the woman became frightened and jumped into a pit and pulled a basket over herself the giant came up to the house and looked around he made a sucking noise and when he looked at anyone in the house they died instantly the others would see the dead staring and asked what they were looking at but they then they too saw the giant and also died and only the baby that was left sleeping survived it was almost daylight and the baby was crying and the woman left the pit and went into the house but did not look at the dead she called to the baby and took baby away and set the house on fire another giant came along Cooper where he and picked up the baby he held her head between his second and third fingers and carried him to the woman he asked where she was from Azure said that she was from the house over there the one that had smoke pouring out of it there are many people in it the giant turned towards the house and the woman was frightened and hid when the giant returner could not see her he became angry he found a way she had jumped away from her tracks and found her under a rock crying it was too dark to see and he decided to come back in the morning he thought he would make fire and grind up the baby he found a large rock and grounded up the baby and ate the baby he lay there singing and after a while he went to sleep the woman got up and made another jump towards the east to her aunt's house she was safe our aunt's house and the giant could not see the mark of a stick from where she jumped because she had jumped from a rock the woman became the ancestor of all Paiute Indians so even in the creation stories of the Paiutes who dominated this huge area around here going all the way to California Idaho Nevada and beyond the original story according to what we found here came from this legend and it relates to Giants who kill people just by looking at them and they were cannibals of course there was another legend reported in 1891 and a quote an Indian of giant stature who gave them trouble they say that a giant warrior came from the north he took up his abode near Pyramid Lake and made war and the Paiutes killing many of their men the giant was finally slain by Paiute David who crept up behind him and drove a poison arrow into his back between the shoulder blades so this is kind of very interesting because we're getting traditions we should beyond you know what unknown about you know classically like this era we know Mike Hopkins stories the actual earlier legends recorded long before Lovelock cave was even known about this it would be another 20 or 30 years before this was even discovered the most important most relevant really story that was written down was by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins in 1882 she was the daughter of a great chief but she was also an activist and fought for women's rights and other such things it became kind of legendary partly because of that but she also talked about giants and or more accurately tall red haired cannibals who were around this area where right now at Lovelock cave I'm gonna reach a little parts of it here which irrelevant among the traditions of our people is one of a small tribe of barbarians who used to live along the Humboldt River it was many hundreds of years ago they used to waylay my people and kill and eat them they would dig large holes in our trails at night and if any of our people traveled at night which they did for they were afraid of these barbarous people they would often fall into these holes the tribe would even eat their own dead yes they would even come up and dig up our dead after they were buried and would carry them off and eat them now and then they would come and make war on my people they would fight and as fast as they killed one another on either side the women would carry off those who were killed my people say they were very brave when they were fighting they would jump in the air after the arrows that went over their heads and shoot the same arrows back again my people took some of them into their families but they could not make them like themselves so at last they made war on them this war lasted a long time the number was about 2,600 2,600 the war lasted some three years my people killed them in great numbers and what few were left went into the thick bush my people set the bush on fire this was right above humboldt lake then they went to work and made tule or bulrush boats and went into humboldt lake they could not live there very long without fire they were nearly starving my people were watching them all around a lake and would kill them as faster they could come on land and last one night they all land on the east side of the lake and went into a cave near the mountains it was a most horrible place when my people watched at the mouth of the cave and would kill them as they came out to get water my people would asked him if they would be like us and not eat people like coyotes or beasts they told the same language but they were never give up at last my people were tired and they went to work and gathered wood and began to fill up the mouth of the cave this cave here then the poor fools began to pull the wood inside the cave until it was full at last my people set it on fire at the same time they cried out to them will you give up and be like men and not eat people like beasts say quick we will put out the fire no answer came from them my people said they thought the cave must be very deep or far into the mountain they had never seen the cave nor known it was here until then they called out them as loud as they could will you give up say so or you will all die but no answer came they all left the place in ten days some went back to see if the fire had gone out they went back to my third or fifth great-grandfather and told him they must all be dead there was such a horrible smell the tribe were called people eaters and after my people had killed them all the people around us called us a Decorah or citee car it means Conqueror also means enemy there are actual other translations here so you know the passage we just read start with us from cinema Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins but there are other stories that they were thought to be called fleshy as per the archaeologist who's the curator at Lovelock Museum bill Snodgrass said it could also mean thigh eaters or more famously as tula eaters which is the type of read they used to grow all around this area but interestingly Hopkins continued and seemed to have evidence they really did exist I quote my people say that the tribe we exterminated had reddish hair I have some of the hair which has been handed down from father to son I have a dress which has been in our family of great many years trimmed with the reddish hair I'm going to wear it sometime when I lecture it's called a mourning dress and no one has such a dress but my family so there is traditions of these red-haired Giants whether you know it's like the way when people die and this kind of heat this kind of climate turns their hair red after a while this has been the case it could be the case but I'm not so sure because as many traditions of these live red-haired Giants but anyway in 1904 22 years after the publication of her book a very large skeleton was reported and I'm just gonna cover what we've put in the book here and add some things afterwards because it's really interesting the the headline was bones of a giant at dug up the evening news January the 14th 1904 page 8 and it talked about Winnemucca Nevada but this whole area was kind of called Winnemucca even the lake here as well I was read this juice is really interesting workmen engaged in digging gravel here and covered at a depth of about 12 feet a lot of Bones that once belonged to a gigantic human being Joseph Ryugyong who was in charge of the work examined the bones and at once decided they were those of a man or a woman it's pretty likely they were taken to dr. Samuels who examined them thoroughly and pronounced them to be the bones of a man who must have been nearly 11 feet in height the metacarpal bone measures four and a half inches in length and are large in proportion a part of the ulna was found which in complete form would have been between 17 and 18 inches in length the remaining part of the skeleton is being searched for so we have a very early report before Lovelock cave was discovered of an 11 foot tall Giants however in October 1936 the Nevada State Journal amended the size of the 11-foot discovery and I quote many stories credited it would be an 11 feet tall the truth is that the figure still with reddish hair on the skull was 9 and a half feet in length so we're still talking about nine and a half feet tall red hair giant from this area within now so whatever anyone says I mean we get a lot of this when I was in Humboldt Museum and also and even talking with Bill Snodgrass doesn't they haven't felt they said there's no evidence of giants he just quite tall maybe six foot tall people I'm not too sure and even you know the Smithsonian got involved in that particular skeleton was sent to them and never seen again obviously but it was in 1911 that this cave kind of got discovered by guano businessman who were digging here but they started finding artifacts a lot of them and over 20,000 artifacts were eventually found and they called in different archaeologists from the state come and do research here similar artifacts are found in there by hidden cave and these have been dated 9,000 years old spirit cave is famous for the mummy which is now been pretty much been debated by the local tribes as to whether it should be repatriated but that's nine thousand four hundred years old which is contemporary with Kennewick Man of a similar age but you know the oh oh the very oldest evidence we're finding here two thousand seven hundred and forty BC with some carbon dating that was carried out anyway it was James Hart and David Pugh they've got the rights to dig and sell the guano at Lovelock cave in 1911 and about when they would got quite you know just a few feet into the cave a quote they found a striking-looking body of a man six feet six inches tall his body was mummified and his hair distinctly red so we have that again and then we have the story of the fraternal Lodge who I quote the best specimens of the adult mummies was boiled and destroyed by a local fraternal Lodge which wanted the skeleton for initiation purposes and this could be the fellin fraternal society which we think is but a buddy bill from Lovelock Museum thinks it could be the Institute of Oddfellows who we know quite unorthodox and and would possibly do things like this but even in 1978 it was excused that these giants even existed claiming the Nevada State Historical Society who said none of the institution's had any knowledge of the red-haired peoples Romanians even though some were sent to the Smithsonian another account was announced in 1971 five a man well over six and a half feet tall this could have been the one that was in the possession of Clarence Stoker who's also donated many of the artifacts and discovered many there in the Lovelock Museum and other museums it was because there was another account between six or seven foot tall in the 1960 could be the same one there's also a 4-inch doughnut-shaped stone which we saw some of those in the museum with 365 dots on the outside and 52 dots on the inside suggesting they had an understanding whoever was here and however old this particular stone was of very detailed and your calendar other skulls were discovered that were actually on display pop possibly the ones from Planet Stoker there were four skulls on display are still and they've been repatriated I think they're now in the museum in Reno awaiting repatriation we're going to investigate see if we can get access to them but we know they're not particularly giant but they're robust almost cro-magnon type skulls which shouldn't really be here in this area officially and there's a lot of debate about you know who really these people were but this jaws are very large and even Mikey us who's you know well-known giant ologist who did some research here in this particular site helped us with the book claims it's between 12 and 20 percent larger than a standard human jaw at that time and this idea of cannibalism has been a big issue but in 1924 there's some excavations were done and they found that human they found bones a human marrow had been extracted from it which probably suggests cannibalism during a famine so there are some other interesting stories about Lovelock cave another skull for instance was unearthed in 1967 a few miles south of here this had very robust so cro-magnon type features and anthropologist Eric K Reed of Utah University said the skull is large now is his quote you may close comparisons to previously discovered skulls from the southwest and determined that it was probably much older than 8,000 years old notably strong brow Ridge strong nuchal crest retreating forehead massive optical occipital Taurus and crest it was classed among the early people central California material which have these robust features and strangely you get a lot of these in the and earth all types skulls but not many in modern types girls and the skull is very similar to what we found at spirit cave as well what some in Lovelock cave is quite famous here are the sandals these are huge sandals made from different plant fibers one was over 15 inches long and apparently it's in the museum in Reno which were going to check out one of the stories I read about about the so called citee car that Giants who lived here was that they would actually before they started living in caves and they were forced into the caves by the Paiutes and other tribes they used to actually send that dead out onto boats on reed boats into the middle of the lake but rocks on it set it on fire and it would sink to the bottom of the lake and so often you know in recent years in the last century or so they found piles of bones and rocks and artifacts she's in the middle of nowhere in the middle of where the lake once stood so that's quite an interesting thing because that goes against the idea that they would just eat everybody you know there could be more to this than meets the eye and even Clarence Stoker who was one of the people who were kind of reporting on this in the 50s and 60s and making discoveries he thinks they came from Egypt and this is a really interesting twist whether he was just a bit out there you know given different ideas or whether he genuinely thought that because of you know certain traits they had that is really intriguing in itself but how on earth would they get here potentially ten to fifteen thousand years ago before Egyptian civilization ever really existed but I like the idea this is growing on me that of American Genesis where these people here could be related to the Denisovans that could be denisa mint DNA of tests were allowed it could be that they were the first earliest inhabitants of North America going back hundreds of thousands of years millions even and these were the the people of tradition who existed with the megafauna and there's different stories the vine Deloria Junior Ross how much and have shared with me which we feature in the book which talked about this they were herding mammoths like we heard cattles they were 14 feet tall and so on and so forth but anyway you know we have to kind of really rethink what's going on here we've got dating that you know with skulls that could go back to 9,000 years but of course we had the Winnemucca petroglyphs next to Pyramid Lake which is slightly further west from here which you know it's part of the same whole Humboldt Lake region and you know the same people who were living it which date to fourteen thousand eight hundred years old potentially and these petroglyphs then suggest that there was a time when before the Younger Dryas happened you know so we're looking at you know an extreme antiquity older than gobekli tepe in southeast Turkey here in North America create an amazing petroglyphs surviving you know and like being quite sophisticated with their technologies that duck decoys their sandals a different fishing gear and so on so we have to really question who these people really were and I think more evidence is coming out but we have the Smithsonian disappearing all the skulls and the bones and the skeletons and we have the the local tribes which I fully respect their decisions to repatriate the bones and the burial goods but it's not enabling the truth about the prehistory of North America to come forth but hopefully it will soon and its discoveries like this cave and everything that was found in it we just slowly rewrite in the history of North America and of the Giants [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 36min 1sec (2161 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 26 2018