The Cardiff Giants is an interesting story.

In the Bible, Genesis 6.4, it says, there were giants on the earth in those days, and they made it with people and created mighty men of renown. This guy named George Hall was like, wow, there were giants on earth. But the Reverend argued with him and said, no, no, there were never giants here. But George was like, no, no, the Bible says so. There's got to be a way to prove it. But George could not prove it, of course. So he decided to fake it. He went to a quarry and dug up a huge block of gypsum, then hired some stone cutters to make the block into the shape of a giant man. They created a rough statue of a man that was 10 feet, four inches tall.

Then George stained it with acid to make it look old and put it on a train and took it to his cousin's farm in Cardiff, New York.

And late at night, he buried it on his cousin's farm.

A year later, his cousin went to dig a well

and hired a crew to come out and dig the hole.

And they ran into this giant in their dig.

One of the workers immediately shouted, this must be an ancient burial site.

And so they dug up the giant, and the words spread that they found a buried giant.

People from all over flocked to the farm to take a look.

It was quite surprising to see a petrified giant of a man.

A lot of people believed it was a petrified human.

The Bible says so, see?

But some thought it was just a statue.

But pretty quickly, George's cousin realized how valuable this thing was.

So he put a tent over it and started charging people 50 cents to come in and see it. 500 people came a day to

see this amazing giants. The whole town started to profit from it. Restaurants were filling up. Hotels

were booked. And that's when P.T. Barnum came. And he was like,

sir, I will give you $50,000 for that giant. What do you say? The farmer was like, no way.

So P.T. Barnum hired someone to make a wax copy of it. And Barnum displayed this unauthorized copy

at his circus and claimed it was the actual giant and charged people to come see his fake replica.

A year later, George Hall came out and said this whole thing was a hoax that he's the one who buried it there.

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