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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 mated 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, no. There were never giants here." But George was like, "No, no. The Bible says so. There's gotta be a way to prove it!" But George could not prove it, of course, so he decided to fake it. (instrumental music plays) He went to a quarry and dug up a huge block of gypsum, then hired some stonecutters to make the block into the shape of a giant man. They created a rough statue of a man that was 10 feet 4 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. And one of the workers immediately shouted, "This must be an ancient burial site!" And so they dug up the giant and the word 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