McGinty the Petrified Man

McGinty the Petrified Man was a manufactured petrified corpse that was claimed to have been discovered by J. J. Dore while prospecting at Farmers' Creek, near Jimtown, Mineral County, Colorado, on 9 April 1892. The statue famously came into the possession of Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, who exhibited it for some years in Colorado, before shipping it to Spokane, Washington for a showing, where it was left as abandoned property.

Though some sources describing McGinty claim it was measured at a height of some 7 feet (2.13 m.), the first contemporary reports gave the height as 5 ft. 9 in. (1.75 m.).