12-FOOT PETRIFIED MAN DISCOVERD DEEP INSIDE COAL MINE

Ed Conrad

2009-06-13 19:10:45 UTC

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Back once again, by unpopular demand, is a repeat of a most
fascinating news item that's reprinted verbatim from the Hazleton
(Pa.) Sentinel, a daily newspaper, in August 1881, along with its
original headline:
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AN ALLEGED FOSSIL MAN
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About three miles from Ashley,
a Mr. McCauley has the contract
from the Wilkes-Barre Coal & Iron
Co. for sinking a coal shaft.
It is twenty feet square and is
intended to have two tracks for
carriages to run in hoisting up the
coal, and is said to be the largest
opening of the kind in the coal regions.
It is located near the base of the
mountain and has reached a depth
of 475 feet.
Saturday last, when the gang, or what
is known as the second shift of men,
were about retiring, after firing off a
course of holes, Tom Cassidy, the
foreman, descended the shaft to
ascertain the result of the explosion,
and was astonished to find an immense
cavity in one of the sides of the shaft.
The explosion appeared to have a terrible
ffect and caused more damage than
benefit on one side, but his astonishment
was still greater increased on clearing
way some of the refuse of the rock blown
by the shots to discover a solid mass
of rock in which appears a clearly-defined
human shape of giant proportions.
All the limbs, muscles and linaments
are apparent. The rock is about 16 feet
in length, 18 in breadth, and about 8 in
hickness. The dimensions of the human
frame are giantly, measuring 12 feet in length
and 4 feet across the chest.
Across the breast is the impression
of a huge shield, about four feet in
Circumference, while the right hand
clutches the broken and butt end of
large cutlass or sword.
The rock was taken out whole and
is now in possession of Mr. McCauley
in Ashley.
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Hmm! I wonder if there's a connection to the fossils
-- some human -- that I've discovered between anthracite veins. I'd
say the answer is rather obvious.
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