Category: Smithsonian Conspiracies

• The "Cardiff Giant" as a Real Human

  This theory claimed that the Cardiff Giant hoax was only a decoy, and that a genuine giant human body had in fact been discovered and then concealed by scientific authorities, often identified in later retellings as the Smithsonian. It emerged after the giant was exposed as a carved gypsum fraud in 1869–1870. In this revised form, the exposure did not end belief; instead, it was reinterpreted as a cover story hiding a real giant from the public.