Extraordinary human remains have been found in the US state of Nevada, with some of the skeletons measuring up to 10 feet tall.
Alongside their jaw-dropping size, the bodies – some of which were said to have been mummified – were found to have had red hair.
This has fuelled the theory, passed down through the ages, that a long-forgotten race of humans once dominated southwestern America.
According to the Paiute, a tribe that settled in the Nevada region thousands of years ago, cannibalistic, red-haired giants called the Si-Te-Cah came to the Americas from a distant island.
Legend has it that the Si-Te-Cah crossed the ocean on rafts made of reeds, and they soon made a name for themselves as being taller, stronger, and crueler than ordinary men.
Then, in 1911, while digging for bat guano (a key ingredient in fertilizer) in a cave near the city of Lovelock, Nevada, some miners unearthed a number of strange objects.
This prompted the launch of two official excavations in 1912 and then in 1924, during which thousands of artefacts were recovered. READ MORE
