Winona Giants

The Winona Giants were alleged giant skeletons, seven or eight in total, claimed to have been excavated by A. L. Jenks from a burial mound at a depth of five or six feet in the region of Winona, Minnesota during 1860, described in a newspaper report of the Winona Republican as being of "very large size" with one femur said to measure 36 inches (91 cm.), suggesting the owner of such a thigh bone would be approximately 8 ft. 9 in. (2.67 m.) in height. Some of the remains showed signs of being violently killed: two arrows were found, one lodged into the backbone (spine) and the other into a breastbone (sternum), while a skull had a copper hatchet stuck in it. No further information has been found regarding the claim at this time.