The Cardiff Giant: The Greatest Hoax of Its Age

In eighteen sixty-nine, workers dug a ten-foot petrified giant out of a New York farm, and thousands paid to marvel at it. It was a fake, buried by a man who wanted to prove how eagerly people would believe. This is the true history of America's greatest hoax.

On Six Feet of History, host August Mercer tells the real story of the Cardiff Giant: the block of carved gypsum, the showman who built a fake of the fake, and what the whole affair reveals about the human hunger to be amazed and the will to believe over the facts.

If you love true history, hoaxes, strange true stories, and the untold dark corners of the past, this is your history podcast. New stories every day. Follow Six Feet of History and subscribe wherever you listen. A Dark Whisper Studios production.

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