At the center of one of the large Ohio burial mounds, excavators in 1891 found the skeleton of a massive man wrapped in copper armor. On the head was a copper cap, and copper moldings encased the jaws. The arms were clad in copper, and so were the chest and stomach. On either side of the head were wooden antlers encased in copper, and the mouth cavity was filled with immense but decayed pearls. Around the neck was a necklace of bear’s teeth inlaid with pearls. Beside the skeleton of the giant lay that of a woman.

The remains were found at a depth of 14 feet in a mound 500 feet long, 200 feet wide, and 28 feet high. (Nature, 45:157, December 17, 1891)

- Reader’s Digest, Mysteries of the Unexplained