If only the
world’s buried cities would rise up someday…but they won’t. They are
almost impossible to find but stories about rediscovered cities once
inhabited by a race of giants will always fascinate us.
Amazing discoveries require great efforts
or an even greater amount of luck. If we’re to trust early 20th century
journalism, we learn that serendipity led to the doorstep of the most
famous underground city of giants.
According to an article published in The
Arizona Gazette on April 5, 1909, the Grand Canyon was once home to
civilization that most likely consisted of individuals of cyclopean
proportions. If such a civilization ever lived, surely it would have
left behind some structure as a testament of its existence.
The article mentions the discovery of an
enormous underground citadel by an explorer named G.E. Kinkaid, who
stumbled upon it while rafting on the Colorado River. It is worth
mentioning that Kinkaid was an established archaeologist and had
financial backing from the Smithsonian Institute.
"The entrance to the city was at the end of a tunnel that stretched for almost a mile underground.
First, I would impress that the cavern is nearly inaccessible,” Kinkaid wrote. “The entrance is 1,486 feet down the sheer canyon wall. It is located on government land and no visitor will be allowed there under penalty of trespass.”
