Recounts how the giant figure found in Iowa thought to be a petrified man or an ancient sculpture took on a life of its own. With links.

Article by Scott L. Tribble considers the reasons that the Cardiff Giant hoax was so successful in late 19th-century America.

Tells the story of the so-called petrified giant, a ten-foot-tall stone statue that was exhumed from a New York farm in 1869.

Details how the large statue of a man was secretly buried in Cardiff, New York, and later claimed to be a petrified ancient giant.