“The bones were carefully preserved and put together, when it was found to be of extraordinary height and proportions,” wrote author Horace Keach in, “Burrillville; As it Was, and as it is” – a book published in 1856.
The body was found “lying upon the side, with arms folded up, head bent forward, and the knees drawn upward.”
After the relic was exhumed, and the pieces put together, everyone gazing upon the figure was amazed at the height.
The unusual find “excited the wonderment of all the surrounding neighborhood,” according to, “History of the State of Rhode Island also printed it in 1878 by Albert J. Wright.
Serendipitously, one of White’s neighbors was a physician.
Dr. Levi Eddy examined the bones, proclaiming about the deceased person, “He was a bouncer! He must have been as much as eight feet high.”
About the relic, “imagination can only conjecture him as some giant of the forest that roamed the rude wilds, long, perhaps, before the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth,” wrote Keach.
At that time it was speculated the remains were that of a Native American, perhaps a ruler.
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