Catalina Island 9’2″ skeletons

Catalina Island 9’2″ skeletons

very fruitful field for prehistoric archaeology, but of late more intensive research is being rewarded by unexpected discoveries.

A report just published in the San Diego Union gives some details of an announcement by professor Ralph Glidden, curator of the Catalina Museum. He claims overwhelming proof that a fair skinned, fair haired, highly intelligent race of great stature lived on Catalina Island, off the southwestern coast of California, perhaps three thousand years ago, and that his excavation of a huge cache of skeletons, domestic utensils, urns, wampum, etc., is quite out of the ordinary class of Indian discoveries.

A skeleton of a young girl, evidently  of high rank, within a large funeral urn, was surrounded by those of sixty four children, and in various parts of the island more than three thousand other skeletons were found, practically all the males averaging around seven feet in height, one being seven feet eight inches from the top of his head to the ankle, and another being nine feet 2 inches tall.

Giants Catalina Theosophical Path Magazine, January to June 1930 pg 73

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