Cardiff Giant

In October 16, 1869 workers digging behind a farmers barn and found a 10 foot tall petrified giant man, it was moved to New York and was used in P.T. Barnum's show, and it was reviled to be a hoax. 
== Creation ==
the Giant was made by George Hull a tobacconist who got into an argument with a Methodist reverend over Nephilim's a race of giant half angel half humans mentioned in Genesis 6:4 and lost, after this argument he wanted to prove how easy people could get fooled by the idea of giants and so got a 10 foot 4.5 inch block of Gypsum from Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1868 and sent it off to a German stonecutter in Chicago, Illinois, Hull buried the statue in a farmers farm and hired men to dig it out and pretend like it was a giant. In total it cost him 53,000$.
== Today ==
It is now on display in the Farmers Museum in New York.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant