Taking a break from the political stuff and doing a fun side hobby of researching obscure historical topics and cryptids. Saw something about a supposed race of red haired giants in the south western US, specifically Nevada, they were called the Si-Te-Cah.

They apparently stood quite tall ranging from 6-8ft and were cannibals. The Paiutes, a native tribe who waged war with them, described the Si-Te-Cah as cannibalistic barbarians. They would attack tribes and eat the people.

Getting sick of this the Paiute tribes fought the Si-Te-Cah slowly wearing down their numbers. They then chased them to a cave where the cannibal giants hid in and refused to come out. So the Natives took brush and wood and stuffed it in the entrance of the cave and made a fire

The giants were then to have said to die from smoke inhalation. Whether they lived in that cave for a while or the Paiute created mummies and stored things in the cave is unsure. The giants could have also lived in the cave previously and it was their last safe haven.

Later in 1911 the cave now called Lovelock Cave in Nevada was made into a mine where the workers supposedly found artifacts and giant mummies with red hair. The issue was this wasn’t disclosed to anyone else until 1912 a year later.

It is believed the miners either took the mummies and artifacts and kept them or destroyed them. But roughly 10,000 artifacts were recovered ranging from duck decoys to baskets and sandals. The sandals themselves would have been size 12 in our time.

What they also found were human bones cracked down the middle suggesting that who ever lived there practiced cannibalism and were trying to eat the bone marrow. As for the mummies they had all disappeared making some think it was a hoax.

There is still some proof of giants and the natives in the Nevada area all have stories about large humans who they used to go to war with.