A story has been circulating on the Internet for a long time: supposedly the United States published classified documents from the early 20th century about the destruction of tens of thousands of giant skeletons in order to protect the dominant chronology of human evolution. We checked whether such a crime against science was committed.

According to numerous social media posts, the US Supreme Court has ordered the Smithsonian Institution to release secret documents about the destruction of a large number of finds in the early 1900s. The publications also provide various photographs of giant human remains and comments from the American Institute of Alternative Archaeology, from which the accusations were made.

The earliest entries appeared on VKontakte in December 2014, for example in the public “I am"(33,000 subscribers). In subsequent years, the popularity of the story did not subside, and it was repeatedly published on VK every year in the following communities: “Heritage of ancient civilizations. Science, artifacts"(795,000, 2015), "Past Past • Ancient Civilizations"(125,000, 2016), "International public movement "CWT""(4000, 2017), "History Facts • Prehistoric Civilizations"(570,000, 2018), "Secret unidentified ۞ Hidden facts"(212,000, 2019), "We found a glitch in the matrix"(15,000, 2020), "Slavic Herald" (131,000, 2021) and "Tartaria"(11,000, 2022). Similar publications can be found on other platforms, including “Peekaboo" And LiveJournal.

The original source of this news is an English-language website World News Daily Report (WNDR), where the story first appeared on December 3, 2014. Below is our full translation of the text.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Smithsonian Institution must release classified documents from the early 1900s that prove the organization took part in a major historical cover-up. It is alleged that this resulted in the destruction of evidence indicating that tens of thousands of giant human remains were discovered across America. According to the court's decision, this evidence was ordered destroyed by high-ranking officials to "protect the basic chronology of human evolution at the time."

Allegations of the destruction of thousands of giant human remains in the 1900s, initially made by the American Institute of Alternative Archeology (AIAA), have been taken seriously by the Smithsonian Institution, as it responds by suing for defamation and attempting to damage the reputation of the 168-year-old institution.

According to AIAA representative James Churchward, new circumstances emerged during the trial: several Smithsonian informants admitted to the existence of documents allegedly proving the destruction of tens of thousands of human skeletons, reaching a height of 6 to 12 feet (1.83–3.66 m. - Ed.), which for a number of reasons cannot be recognized by traditional archeology.

“Western archaeological institutions have carefully suppressed data since the early 1900s to make us believe that the Americas were first colonized by Asian peoples migrating through the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of burial mounds across the Americas that indigenous people claim existed long before them, showing traces of an advanced civilization and sophisticated use of metal alloys. Also, giant remains of human skeletons are often found there, which are still not reported in the media and news,” Churchward said.

The turning point of the case was the 1.3 m long femur demonstrated in court - it served as proof of the existence of such giant bones. The evidence comes as a blow to Smithsonian lawyers because the bone was stolen from there by one of its high-ranking caretakers in the mid-1930s. He kept the bone his entire life and on his deathbed confessed in writing about the Smithsonian's covert operations. “It’s terrible that this is being done to the American people,” he wrote in the letter. “We are hiding the truth about the forefathers of mankind and our ancestors - the giants who roamed the earth, as told in the Bible and the ancient texts of the world.”

As a result, the Supreme Court ordered the Smithsonian Institution to release classified information about everything related to the “destruction of evidence relating to the culture of the Mound Builders” and “to human skeletons of above average height.” This decision made the AIAA extremely happy.

“The publication of these documents will allow archaeologists and historians to re-evaluate current theories of human evolution and help us better understand the culture of mound builders in America and around the world,” explained AIAA Director Hans Guttenberg. “Finally, after more than a century of lies, the truth about our giant ancestors will be revealed to the world,” admitted Guttenberg, visibly pleased with the court’s decision.

The release of the documents is planned for 2020 and will be coordinated by an independent scientific organization to ensure political neutrality.

The material also contains a couple of photographs. One shows a man holding a huge bone. The caption reads: "Giant human femur discovered in Ohio in 2011 by the American Association for Alternative Archeology and similar to the one presented in court." Another depicts several skulls with a coin (apparently for a visual demonstration of scale).

You will not be able to find any information about the American Institute (and Association) of Alternative Archeology on the Internet, since the story is completely fictitious. WNDR is a well-known satirical website featuring fictional stories. This can be understood both from the site’s slogan “Where facts don’t matter” (“Here facts don’t matter”), and from disclaimer, which says: “Any resemblance between the characters appearing in our texts and any people, living, dead or undead, is a common miracle.” We wrote repeatedly about this resource.

By the way, the original WNDR text, released in 2014, has been edited. According to the saved copy in the web archive, initially there was written, that the publication of documents is planned for 2015, and not for 2020. Also, in the original version, the AIAA representative's name was James Churchward, not Churchward. James Churchward - English occult writer, died in 1936.

Now about the photographs. According to fact-checking site Snopes, the photo of a man with a bone could not have been taken in 2011, since it has been circulating on the Internet since at least 2008. According to the original captions, it was made in the 1990s in Turkey, not the USA. There was a photo with skulls published in 2008 on the website of the Coast to Coast radio show. Then the guest of the program became Steve Quayle is a proponent of the conspiracy theory that the existence of giants is being hidden by the government. According to signatures, Quayle received the photo from one of his sources.

But often other images are attached to posts on social networks. For example, on one one of them shows a couple of men excavating a huge skeleton (photo on the cover of our text). In fact, this is work created in 2008 in Photoshop for the competition “Archaeological Anomalies - 12”. On another photo a group of people already finds a couple of giant skulls. But this too Job for the same competition of altered photographs.