North Bend Giant

The North Bend Giant was an alleged giant skeleton that was claimed to have been excavated from twenty-five feet down a well being dug by Wat Eckman and Mike Shots for James Malson at North Bend, Ohio during 1857, described in a newspaper report of the National Emporium as measuring 23 ft. 10 in. (7.26 m.) in height and speculated to have been possessed of such strength in life that it could "have thrown a cannon ball weighing 18 pounds" from Cincinnati to Indianapolis, some 88 miles (142 km.) distance. No further information has been found regarding the claim at this time.