Wheeling Giant

The Wheeling Giant was an alleged giant skeleton that was claimed to have been excavated at Wheeling, Virginia during 1852, described in a newspaper report of the Sunbury Gazette (Sunbury, PA) as measuring 7 feet (2.13 m.) in height and supposed to have been the remains of an ancestral Native American. The majority of the remains reportedly "crumbled to pieces upon being exposed to the air," leaving only part of one of the jaws with teeth remaining. No further information has been found regarding the claim at this time.

Another excavation of a similar kind, the East Wheeling Giant, was reportedly made in what is today a neighbourhood of Wheeling four years later in 1856.