The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley

by Fritz Zimmerman

  Daily Gazette from Ft. Wayne Indiana, May 1, 1885

  The Mound Builders, Many Evidences of a First Race In and About Randolph. “Between Lake Erie and Dayton, Chatauqua County, are the remains of a circular sepulcher mound. The mound has an elevation of 80 feet, and is 120 feet in circumference. According to antiquaries, this mound must have been the mausoleum of some great warrior. In the towns of Lear and Conewago excavations were made some years ago in several of these mounds. In one of them eight skeletons were found. They were in a sitting posture and arranged in a circle. Large blocks of mica were found in some of the mounds among the skeletons. This material is so frequently found in these burial mounds that it is believed to have been regarded as a sacred relic by the extinct race whose work still remains in the most gigantic earthworks all over the continent.

  Near the station of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad is a peculiar earth formation, which was designed by those who fashioned it thousands of years ago to represent a serpent, according to the conclusion of those who have read the customs of the mound-builders by the monuments they left. This particular formation is 425 feet long, and enthusiastic antiquaries who visit it are unanimous in the resemblance it presents to a snake basking in the sunshine.” [Not a giant but the serpent mound and spoked burial may represent one of the earlier Alligewi or Iroquois burials]

  Smithsonian Institute Bureau of Ethnology 1898-1899 (New York)

  An exceptional example of the burial mound was described by Mr. T. A. Cheney. It was in Conewango township, Cattaraugus County, and on the brow of a hill. The account is not perfectly clear, but is here given in Mr. Cheney’s own words:

  The form of the tumulus is of intermediate character between the ellipse and the parallelogram; the interior mound, at its base, has a major axis of 65 feet, while the minor axis is 61 feet, with an altitude above the first platform or embankment of 10 feet, or an entire elevation of some 13 feet. This embankment, with an entrance or gateway upon the east side 30 feet in width, has an entire circumference of 170 feet... In making an excavation, eight skeletons, buried in a sitting posture and at regular intervals of space, so as to form a circle within the mound, were disinterred. Some slight appearance yet existed to show that framework had enclosed the dead at time of interment. These osteological remains were of very large size, but were so much decomposed that they mostly crumbled to dust. The relics of art here disclosed were also of a peculiar and interesting character--amulets, chisels, etc., of elaborate workmanship, resembling the Mexican and Peruvian antiquities.

  Ohio

  Ohio's largest mound is located in Miamisburg, Ohio. From, The Nephilim Chronicles, A Travel Guide to the Ancient Ruins in the Ohio Valley, 2010.

  Firelands Pioneers, 1858,

  Vermillion Township, Erie County, Ohio There are quite a number of mounds in the township, where the bones, and sometimes the whole skeleton of the human race have been found. The bones and skeletons found are very large, and some of the inhabitants think they much of belonged to a race of beings much larger in size than the Indians found here by the settlers.

  Athens Messenger , (Athens Ohio) April 21, 1870

  In the company with some friends to the mound, where we commenced to exhume the skeletons of a

  race that will remain one of the hidden mysteries forever.

  The mound had two circular arches of stone in it. one was about two and a half feet beneath the

  surface of the mound, and the other about six feet. Immediately under the first arch of stone was found

  two very large skeletons, in a remarkable state of preservation, and under the second arched wall, other

  parts of skeletons were found amidst ashes, coals and mussel shells. It seemed apparent that those who

  had been interred under the deeper arch, had remained there many years, before those under the upper

  arch were buried. Some of these skeletons were buried with their heads towards the center of the

  mound, and some with their feet toward the center. Near the thigh bone of one was found a round

  piece of stone, about six inches long and an inch in diameter, with a half-inch hole through it. It has the

  appearance of slate-stone, and finely worked off. Parts of seven skeletons have been taken from this

  mound, and “the end is not yet.” But enough about the mounds.

  Large mound north of Athens Ohio, in Athen County, Ohio that was part of a henge complex. The Nephilim Chronicles, A Travel Guide to the Ancient Ruins in the Ohio Valley, 2010. Ohio Democrat, (New Philadelphia, Ohio) February 24, 1871

  A giant skeleton 8 feet six inches in length, was recently found on the farm of John Buck, in Athens

  County, Lodi Township, in an old mound.

  History of Lorain County, Ohio, 1879

  Their mounds are a proof of their existence, for their character and the place and mode of their

  erection attest the handiwork of intelligent beings, while the bones, weapons of warfare, stone

  implements and arrow heads which have been discovered and are still found buried in these

  earthworks, furnish a still stronger proof of the existence of a pre-historic people. The skeleton remains

  of human beings of almost gigantic proportions were exhumed from their ancient cemeteries by the first settlers. The Indians, disclaiming them as kindred, could give no information in regard to them.”

  Athens Messenger, (Athens, Ohio) July 4, 1878

  A Homer Township Mound Opened We obtained from Mr. Lewis [...]of Homer Township; a gentleman whose statements may be implicity relied on, the following information concerning the recent opening of a mound in Homer Township.

  The mound in question is on the Jonathon Pedicord farm now owned by Mr. Jas. Carpenter. It is, or was about 30 feet in diameter, and almost 6 feet in height. Induced to do so throughout mere curiosity, Mr. Carpenter hitched his team to a road scraper a few days since, and began the work of moving the earth of which the mound is comprised, and which was so soft and loose that nothing more than a scraper was needed for the work. After about two feet of the top had been taken off, a basin-shaped vault, four feet in depth was discovered. The side of the vault was hard and smooth dressed, and in the bottom was found considerable quantity of ashes, showing that fire had been used in its construction. But the most startling discovery was that of no less than nine skeletons packed in around the rim of this basin. They were placed with their faces downward, and in tiers of three in one place, three in another, and two in another, while the “boss” lay off by himself. Then there was this peculiarity. On top of each skeleton and extending from the head down over the body to the extremities, was a large flat dressed stone, which on being removed showed the skeleton entire. The bones were in a good state of preservation when first exposed to the air, but on an attempt to remove them they parted at the articulations otherwise they are about like those seen in the office of the physicians. One thighbone measured eighteen and a half inches in length. Carpenter has the whole lot piled up like stove wood. Curiosity seekers are beginning to carry away portions of the skeletons. The skull of the “boss,” who lay alone is very large. The lower jawbone will go over that part of a living man’s corpus, without touching. The teeth found in the skull were sound as a dollar. The neighborhood boys have about all tried their hands in extracting them until not more than two or three are left. But the most singular thing of all is that a perfect horn, pointing forward and downward, grows out of this skull just back of the ear on the left side. Mr. Parsons says, “If you don’t believe me, come and see.” The horn is about an inch and a half long. Through lack of care, the right side of this skull was mashed to pieces in the place where the horn ought to have been found.

  Mr. Parsons told us a good many other interesting things about this wonderful mound, and its dead, and then gave it as his opinion that the skeletons belonged to a race of people of greater antiquity than the ancestors of the red devils who are making such a row up in the N
orthwest just now.

  Humph! We call this the New World. Wouldn’t it be better to call it the old one? It is on this continent alone, that such cemeteries as has just been described are found.

  There are other mounds in Homer like unto this one just opened, and it is not unlikely that they will be examined in the future, and with more care. By the way, no kind of implements was found save those, which were made out of stone. Of these there were a variety. “Who are these mound-builders?” That’s the question.

  History of Lorraine County, Ohio, 1879 The skeleton remains of human being of such dimensions as to show that their one-time possessors were being of almost gigantic proportions, were exhumed form their ancient cemeteries by the first settlers…”

  History of Delaware County, Ohio , 1880

  The mounds are mostly sepulchral. One of the most remarkable ever opened in the county, was one

  on the farm of Solomon Hill, a short distance west of the Girls Industrial Home. We take the following

  notice of this mound from the Delaware Herald of September 25, 1879. “Saturday we were shown

  some interesting relics consisting of a queen conch-shell, some isinglass [mica] and several peculiarly

  shaped pieces of slate, which were found in a mound on the farm of Solomon Hill, Concord Township,

  Delaware Co., Ohio. The mound is situated on the banks of a rocky stream. The nearest place where

  the queen conch-shell is found is the coast of Florida; the isinglass in New York State, and the slate in

  Vermont and Pennsylvania. Two human skeletons were also found in the mound, one about seven feet

  long, the other a child. The shell was found at the left cheek of the large skeleton. A piece of slate

  about one by six inches was under the chin.

  History of Ashland County, Ohio, 1880 Two mounds were found in the north part of Perry Township, about one mile from the fort. They were about thirty feet apart, and occupied level ground near a brook. The larger one was about five feet high, and twenty-five feet in diameter at the base. The smaller one was probably twelve feet in diameter at the base and three and a half feet high. William Hamilton extirpated the larger one in digging a cellar; and about four feet below the natural surface found a triangular wooden post, and three human skeletons, one of unusual size, embedded in the sand.

  History of Delaware County, Ohio, 1880

  On a farm belonging to A. E. Croodrich, in Liberty Township, there is a circular mound, perhaps

  forty or fifty feet in diameter, which, until it had been largely obliterated by the cultivation of the land

  on which it lies, was one of the most perfect works of its kind to be seen anywhere. There was another

  mound on Mr. Croodrich’s barn lot a number of years ago, which has been entirely removed. During

  the process of grading there was found, some distance below the surface, three skeletons in a good state

  of preservation. One of them was apparently that of a man considerably above medium stature, while

  the other two were smaller.

  American Antiquarian , Vol., 3, 1880

  “A skeleton which is reported to have been of enormous dimensions” was found in a clay coffin, with

  a sandstone slab containing hieroglyphs during mound explorations by Dr. Everhart near Zanesville,

  Ohio.

  A mound near Toledo, Ohio held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with jaws and teeth “twice as

  large as those of present day people” and beside each was a large bowl with “curiously wrought

  hieroglyphic figures.”

  Muskingum County, Ohio, Brush Creek Township, March 3, 1880,

  “To Dr. F. T. Everhart, A.M., Historian:

  “Dear sir: On December 1, 1879, we assembled with a large number of people for the purpose of

  excavating into and examining the contents of an ancient mound, located on the farm of Mr. J. M. Baughman, in Brush creek township, Muskingum county, Ohio. “The mound is situated on the summit of a hill, rising 152 feet above the bed of the stream called Brush creek. It is about 64 feet in with by about 90 feet in length, having an altitude of 11 feet 3 inches; is nearly flat on top. On the mound were found the stumps of sixteen trees, ranging in size from 8 inches to 2 1/2 feet in diameter.

  We began the investigations by digging a trench four feet wide from the east side. When the depth of eight feet had been reached, we found a human skeleton, deeply charred, in close proximity to a stake six feet in length and found inches in thickness, also deeply charred, and standing in an upright position. We found the cranium, vertebrae, pelvis, ad metacarpal bones near, while the femurs and tibula extended horizontally from the stake. At this juncture work was abandoned, on account of the lateness of the hour, until Monday, December 8th, when it was resumed by opening the mound from the northwest. When at the depth of seven and a half feet in the north trench, came upon two enormous skeletons, male and female, lying one above the other, faces together, and heads toward the west. The male, by actual measurement, proved to be nine feet six inches; the female eight feet nine inches in length. At about the same depth in the west trench we found two more skeletons, lying two feet apart, faces upward, and heads to the east. These, it is believed, were full as large as those already measured, but the condition in which they were found rendered exact measurement impossible. On December 22d we began digging at the southeast portion of the mound, and had not proceeded more than three feet when we discovered an altar, built of sand rock. The altar was six feet in width and twelve feet in length, and was filled with clay, and of about the same shape that the mound originally was. On the top, which was composed of two flat flag-rocks, forming an area of about two feet in width and six in length, was found wood-ashes and charcoal to the amount of five or six bushels. Immediately behind, or west of the altar, were found three skeletons, deeply charred, and covered with ashes, lying faces upward, heads toward the south, measuring, respectively: eight feet ten, nine feet two, and nine feet four inches in length. In another grave a female skeleton eight feet long, and a male skeleton nine feet four inches long-the female the lowermost, and the face downward, and the male on top, face upward, behind the site of the altar. After proceeding about four feet, we found, within three feet of the top of the mound, and five feet above the natural surface, a coffin or burial case, made of a peculiar kind of yellow clay, the like of which we have not found in the township; consequently, we believe it was brought from a distance. Within the casket were confined the remains of a female eight feet in length, an infant three and a half feet in length, the skull of which was scarcely thicker than the blade of an ordinary case-knife. The skull of the female would average in thickness about one-eighth of an inch, measured eighteen and three-fourth inches from the supra-orbital ridge to the external occipital protuberance; was remarkably smooth; perfectly formed. Within the enclosure was a figure or image of an infant but sixteen inches in length, made of the yellow clay of which the casket was formed; also, a roll of peculiar black substance encased in the yellow clay, twelve inches in length by four inches in diameter, which crumbled to dust when exposed to the air.

  We also found what appears to have been the handle and part of the side of a huge vase; it was nicely glazed, almost black in color, and burned very hard. From within a few inches of the coffin was taken a sand-rock, having a surface of twelve y fourteen inches (which had also passed through the fire), upon which were engraved the following described hieroglyphics:” [Here a space was left in the notebook for the representation of the inscription found upon the stone; but, for the sake of a true representation, we determined to have photographs made, and make one a part of this report.]

  Proceeding north about four feet from where we found the coffin, and within six inches of the top of the mound, we discovered a huge skeleton lying on its face, with the head toward the west. Mr. J. M. Baughman came upon this one accidentally, and, as it fell to pieces, he thinks no one could tell how long it
was, but those who saw it unanimously declared it to be the largest of any yet discovered.

  We have found eleven human skeletons in all, seven of which have been subjected to fire; and, what is remarkable; we have not found a tooth in all the excavations. The above report contains nothing but facts briefly told, and knowing that the public has been humbugged and imposed upon by archaeologists, we wish to fortify our own statements by giving the following testimonial:

  We, the undersigned citizens of Brush Creek township, having been present and taken part in the above excavations, do certify that the statements herewith set forth are true and correct, and in no particular has the writer deviated from the facts in the case.

  [Signed.] Thomas D. Showers,

  John Worst all,

  Marshall Cooper,

  J. M. Baughman,

  S. S. Baughman,

  St. Joseph Herald (St. Joseph, Michigan,) September 9, 1880

  Ancient American Giants The Rev. Stephen Bowers notes, in the Kansas City “Review of Science,” the opening of an interesting mound in Brush Creek Township, Ohio. The mound was opened by the Historical Society of the township, under the immediate supervision of Dr. J. F. Everhart, of Zanesville. It measured sixty-four by thirty-five feet at the summit, gradually sloping in every direction, and was eight feet in height. There was found in it a sort of clay coffin including the skeleton of a woman measuring eight feet in length. Within this coffin was found also the skeleton of a child about three and a half feet in length, and an image that crumbled when exposed to the atmosphere. In another grave was found the skeleton of a man and woman, the former measuring nine and the latter eight feet in length. In a third grave occurred two skeletons, male and female, measuring respectively nine feet four inches and eight feet. Seven other skeletons were found in the mound, the smallest of which measured eight feet, while others reached the enormous length of ten feet. They were buried singly or each in separate graves. Resting against one of the coffins was an engraved stone tablet (now in Cincinnati), from the characters on which Dr. Everhart and Mr. Bowers are led to conclude that this giant race were sun-worshipers.