Paiutes Battle Red Haired Giants at Lovelock Cave

By Daniel Dover

The cave below located south of Lovelock, Nevada was the scene of a battle that ensued between Paiute Indians and red-haired giants believed to be sasquatches whom were killed with arrows and by burning brush the Indians piled into the cave entrance. In the early 20th century archaeologists confirmed the authenticity of this battle by finding many broken arrows that had been fired into the cave accompanied by a charred layer and the mummified remains of two red-haired giants, one of which was over 8 feet tall. The official account of the Paiutes claim these giants had hair covering their whole bodies.

At one time the Lovelock Cave (pictured above) was known as Horseshoe cave because of its U-shaped interior. The cavern—located about 20 miles south of modern day Lovelock, Nevada, is approximately 40-feet deep and 60-feet wide. It’s a very old cave that pre-dates humans on this continent. In prehistoric times it lay underneath a giant inland lake called Lahontan that covered much of western Nevada. Geologists have determined the cavern was formed by the lake’s currents and wave action.

THE LEGEND

The Paiutes, a Native-American tribe indigenous to parts of Nevada, Utah and Arizona, told early white settlers about their ancestors’ battles with a ferocious race of white, red-haired giants. According to the Paiutes, the giants were already living in the area. The Paiutes named the giants “Si-Te-Cah” that literally means “tule-eaters.” The tule is a fibrous water plant the giants wove into rafts to escape the Paiutes continuous attacks. They used the rafts to navigate across what remained of Lake Lahontan.

According to the Paiutes, the red-haired giants stood as tall as 12-feet and were a vicious, unapproachable people that killed and ate captured Paiutes as food.

The Paiutes told the early settlers that after many years of warfare, all the tribes in the area finally joined together to rid themselves of the giants. One day as they chased down the few remaining red-haired enemy, the fleeing giants took refuge in a cave. The tribal warriors demanded their enemy come out and fight, but the giants steadfastly refused to leave their sanctuary.

Frustrated at not defeating their enemy with honor, the tribal chiefs had warriors fill the entrance to the cavern with brush and then set it on fire in a bid to force the giants out of the cave. The few that did emerge were instantly slain with volleys of arrows. The giants that remained inside the cavern were asphyxiated.

Later, an earthquake rocked the region and the cave entrance collapsed leaving only enough room for bats to enter it and make it their home.

THE EXCAVATION

Thousands of years later the cave was rediscovered and found to be loaded with bat guano almost 6-feet deep. Decaying bat guano becomes saltpeter, the chief ingredient of gunpowder, and was very valuable. Therefore, in 1911 a company was created specifically to mine the guano. As the mining operation progressed, skeletons and fossils were found.

The guano was mined for almost 13 years before archaeologists were notified about the findings. Unfortunately, by then many of the artifacts had been accidentally destroyed or simply discarded.

Nevertheless, what the scientific researchers did recover was staggering: over 10,000 artifacts were unearthed including the mummified remains of two red-haired giants—one, a female 6.5-feet tall, the other male, over 8-feet tall. Many of the artifacts (but not the giants) can be viewed at the small natural history museum located in Winnemucca, Nevada.

CONFIRMATION OF THE MYTH

As the excavation of the cave progressed, the archaeologists came to the inescapable conclusion that the Paiutes myth was no myth; it was true. What led them to this realization was the discovery of many broken arrows that had been shot into the cave and a dark layer of burned material under sections of the overlaying guano.

Among the thousands of artifacts recovered from this site of an unknown people is what some scientists are convinced is a calendar: a donut-shaped stone with exactly 365 notches carved along its outside rim and 52 corresponding notches along the inside.

But that was not to be the final chapter of red-haired giants in Nevada.

In February and June of 1931, two very large skeletons were found in the Humboldt dry lake bed near Lovelock, Nevada. One of the skeletons measured 8.5-feet tall and was later described as having been wrapped in a gum-covered fabric similar to Egyptian mummies. The other was nearly 10-feet long. ”

The official Paiute account of the Red Haired Giants claim they were covered with hair “all over their bodies.”
Here are a few links regarding this legend found to be a reality!

The Giants Lost in History

Nevada’s Mysterious Cave of Red-Haired Giants

Lovelock Cave Red Haired Giants

Many of the artifacts found in the cave are likely from people unrelated to the Red-haired Giants.

Note below the photo of a red-haired sasquatch observed in Southern California which in geographical terms is not far from the skeletal remains found in Western Nevada. Compare the profile of this red-haired sasquatch to the profile of a very large skull found in the humboldt dry lake bed near Lovelock, Nevada, the same location where two skeletons ranging from 8.5 – 10 feet tall were found. The very large skull has a protruding jawline, marked brow ridge, sloping forehead, and a vaulted cranium reminiscent of saquatch descriptions including the one pictured below.

Sasquatch’s skin colors reportedly range from black to gray to white. The one featured above has lighter skin, which is likely lighter than the skin of the Indians living in the Southwestern U.S. Is the one above representative of the white red-haired giants the Paiutes battled? What they call white men are not purely white either, but certainly lighter skinned. A fuller treatment comparing these profiles and the findings of the anthropologists who studied this skull is found in this forum under the category “Web Gems.” The title of the thread is “Clear Side Photo of a Sasquatch Head.” Here is a link to that thread. Of special interest are posts # 7 through 14.

Clear side view of a Sasquatch Head

Ray Crowe makes the following statement about skeletal finds:

“Near Lovelock, Nevada, guano hunters found giant bones of a race of people with red hair still attached to their skulls. Local Paiute legends tell of the warlike cannibal Tule eaters that were forced into a cave and a fire set at the mouth of the cave to exterminate them. The author once saw one of these 7’4” skeletons with some remaining wisps of red hair on the skull. The Mark Twain Museum in Virginia City, Nevada, had the seven foot tall skeleton that reportedly had been found in a cave by miners in the hills on the west side of Washoe Lake in the 1950’s. It has since been repatriated by local tribes in 1992.” Ray Crow, Bigfootology

Additional evidence of the battle was discovered by M.K. Davis who noted chemical changes in portions of the charred limestone in the ceiling of the cave, which could only have been achieved by a temperature exceeding 1,500 degrees, which was not possible with a campfire. The change was into a gooey tar like substance that later hardened. He also found what he believes to be a print of a large hand. In his view a sasquatch touched the ceiling and got the tar like substance created by the heat on his or her hand and then touched a rock below transferring the hand print. Closer inspection of the hand print shows dermal ridges left in the now hardened tar like substance. This hand print was more than double the size of a normal man’s hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yG-kLpC2ED4

Giant Handprint in Lovelock Cave

Click on image for M.K. Davis video

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