Not Sasquatch related but a very interesting article:
City Found 360 Feet Below Missouri City, Giant Human Skeleton Found
May 1, 2015 – Coal miners in the city of Moberly, Missouri mining a shaft 360 feet deep, broke into a cavern revealing “a wonderful buried city,” multiple sources reported in 1885.
Incredible rude style masonry and artifacts have been identified. Including stone benches, bronze and flint knives, stone and granite hammers, metal statues, metallic saws and a stone fountain that flowed with “perfectly pure water”, which was found to be impregnated with lime.
“Lying beside the fountain were portions of a human being and from measurement of the bones it concluded that when alive the figure was three times the size of an ordinary man and possessed of wonderful muscular power and quickness. “, according to the St Paul Daily Globe.
The Semi-Weekly South Kentuckian published the measurements of the giants leg, “The bones of the leg were measured , the femur measuring 4 and 1/2 feet, the tibia four feet and three inches. The head bones had separated in two pieces, the sagittal and cornal suturis having been destroyed”
The city was arched in by a hard and thick stratum of lava. The civilization used a regularly laid out road system enclosed by walls to travel around. A hall was discovered wherein were stone benches, tools of all descriptions for mechanical service.
The searching party spent twelve hours in the depths and only gave up explorations because of the oil in their lamps being low. No end to the wonderful discovery was reached.
The statues were not accurately made as those made by the mechanics in the year 1885, however they demonstrated much skill and an evidence of an advanced civilization.
The facts above are vouched for by Mr. David Coates, the recorder of the city of Moberly, and Mr. George Kealing, City Marshall, who were of the exploring party.
I could find no record of the 2nd exploration. Perhaps in the historic papers on film, in the town of Moberly, information may still exist.
In order to find 8 newspaper stories I needed to search “stratum of lava” 1884-1886.
In an odd coincidence the terms “cave + Missouri”, “Missouri + cave + coal mine”, “Missouri cave fountain”, “Missouri gaint” and countless other rational terms would not locate these articles on the library of congress website. It seems you need to be clever in your search terms in order to locate historical articles that are relevant.
Tristene M
Wow! Such an exquisite find.
Brian M
Logansport, Indiana, Daily Pharos (April 11, 1885):
“Chicago, April 11 – The press dispatch from St. Louis Wednesday last, purported to give an account of the discovery of a subterranean city in Moberly, Mo., created great excitement in historical circles of this city, and many inquiries were made as to its authenticity. A dispatch was sent to Mr. Kelly, editor of The Monitor at Moberly, as to the whether the alleged discovery was true or false. In reply Mr. Kelly wires the United Press as follows: “The story is an April hoax. Not a word of truth in it.””
Debbie C
Oh I wish this was on video! I would love to see what they discovered:)
Kent C
The press report Brian dug up is pretty damning; …..But even without that, I would still be REALLY skeptical.
This was back in 1885!! ……If such a discovery was actually made, it would be common knowledge today! There would be artifacts in every major museum, and in dozens of personal collections.
Back then, there would be NO possible way to suppress or cover up that discovery! …..Our Federal Government was still 100 years away from being big enough to control EVERYBODY”S lives!
Jonathan E
Thank you Brian.
Christopher c
Either it was a hoax like”War of the worlds” or it was real and once again covered up by the government because for some reason they felt we couldn’t handle it or it may hinder our beliefs,religion etc.
Tyler D
Well, it makes you curious regardless. But it makes you think if someone we’re hoaxing this why would they make it up in Moberly Missouri of all places, ya know? I guess it’s as good a place as any, just random. It would be rather fascinating if there was some truth to this tho
Kim
If it were only real! What an amazing story! But why would they make this type of story up. Especially about the giant? I want to re find this place, who is game?
Tristene M
I”d go!
Andrew O
Was this reported on 1st April 1885, per chance?