Lots of the urban legends we cover here on Skeptoid involve particular places, some

real, some fictional, and some that don't exist anymore.

Today we've got one for you that's a real place, and though it's way out in the middle

of nowhere, you can go there for yourself and see everything there is to see.

One thing you're likely to miss though, is that giant red-haired men said to live in

it.

The red-haired giants of Lovelock Cave is up next, Un Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The red-haired giants of Lovelock Cave.

In Western Nevada, on the outskirts of the Humboldt Sink, is a small cave.

It's hot and dry and isolated, but it wasn't always so.

It was once part of enormous Lake Lahontan, a place to see narrow lakes some 13,000 years

ago, and at the time one of North America's largest lakes, but it eventually dried up,

leaving a number of smaller lakes among which was Humboldt Lake.

The cave was on its shore, and in it lived a race of natives who hunted and fished

and enjoyed a life of plenty.

But there's a shocking twist.

Research this people, and you'll find that the archaeological and historical evidence

tells us they were not common Native Americans.

They were the C. Taikah, a race of red-haired giants, 10 feet tall, who terrorized their

neighbors with cannibalism.

The cave is real, and you can drive to it via a long dirt road from nearby Lovelock,

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