However, further investigation did not find any evidence to support such claims. In Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s book, Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, she does not mention giants but refers to what is called barbarians.

Research conducted at the University of Nevada suggests that one of the “giants” found was actually only 1.83 m. tall, not the claimed 2.44 m.

A short time after the second excavation in 1931, an article published in the local newspaper, Nevada Review-Miner, claimed that two giant skeletons were discovered in the dry lakebed near Lovelock, with heights of 2.60 m. and 3 m., and they had been buried in a similar manner to the way it was done in ancient Egypt. Despite all this sounding absurd, the legend of these strange people spread throughout the Americas.For example, in the 16th century, a Spanish conquistador named Pedro Cieza de León documented an ancient Peruvian story about the origin of the giants. In his writings, de León wrote that the figures came by sea on rafts made of reeds, like large boats, and that some of the men were so tall that an average man would only go as high as their knees. Furthermore, further north in the Andean mountains, between Peru and Bolivia, elongated skulls were found. It is said that the remains are about 3,000 years old and much larger than those of regular humans. Some of them also had red hair.

The skeptics also argue that the chemical staining done on the soil after burial is a plausible reason for the red hair found on the remains instead of black hair, like most Native Americans in the region. They question how a supposedly strong race could have vanished from the world.

The Si-Te-Cah: The giants of Paiute myth

The Paiute tribes of the region apparently have the answer to this question. According to their mythology, the “Si-Te-Cah,” as they call them, waged a war against them and other neighboring tribes, causing terror and destruction. After years of fighting, the tribes united against this formidable enemy.