The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m), roughly 3,000 pound [1] purported " petrified man", uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell, in Cardiff, New York.

2014年10月16日 · The Cardiff Giant Fools the Nation, 145 Years Ago In 1869, trickster George Hull masterminded one of the 19th century’s most sensational hoaxes: the discovery of a 10-foot-tall giant. By: Evan...

2022年2月11日 · Perhaps the most famous hoax in American history, the Cardiff Giant is a 10-foot-tall stone man that was unearthed by workers in Cardiff, New York on October 16, 1869. In 1869, thousands of Americans believed that the Cardiff Giant was a …

2016年8月17日 · The Cardiff Giant, sometimes referred to as “America’s Biggest Hoax,” is a 10-foot-long stone figure that was touted as a petrified giant. It was created during the 1860s by George Hull, a...

2017年10月16日 · The Cardiff Giant remains one of nineteenth-century America’s most famous hoaxes, writes scholar Michael Pettit. The story, which began on this day in 1869, was classic fake news–it looked ...

Cardiff Giant, famous hoax perpetrated by George Hall (or Hull) of Binghamton, New York, U.S. A block of gypsum was quarried near Fort Dodge, Iowa, and shipped to Chicago, Illinois. There it was carved (1868) in the shape of a human figure and …

The Cardiff Giant, a gigantic ten-foot tall stone man, emerged out of the ground and into American life on October 16, 1869, when he was discovered by some workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. “Stub” Newell in Cardiff, New York.

2009年6月21日 · The Cardiff Giant, a gigantic ten-foot tall stone man, emerged out of the ground and into American life on October 16, 1869, when he was discovered by some workers...

2017年2月8日 · On 16 October 1869, workers who were hired to dig a well on the property of William C. “Stub” Newell in Cardiff, New York, unearthed what became known as the Cardiff Giant. The bewildered well diggers were hired by Newell, who knew the figure had been deliberately planted almost a year earlier by his cousin, George Hull.

What started as an argument between George Hull of New York and a Methodist Preacher in 1868 became one of the most famous hoaxes of all time in America, known as the “Cardiff Giant.” Hull, an atheist, argued over scripture from the Bible, particularly Genesis 6:4, which states, “There were giants in the earth in those days.”