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The Helenwood Devil Fan Club: And Then There Was One

3/27/2015

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PictureScreenshot from March 27 showing the edited version of the story. Hallelujah.
I wrote a post last weekend showing that a 1921 story about a "horned giant" from Tennessee was actually describing a crappy clay statue.  I wrote a subsequent post wondering why the two giant enthusiasts who had embraced the Helenwood Devil as authentic did not, after being made aware that it was just a statue, change their stories about it.

I spoke too soon.

I am happy to report that Kristin Harris has now (literally) stricken the references to the Helenwood Devil from his recent story about a horned race of humans,  acknowledging that the "It was a statue, not a giant human skeleton."  He also changed the headline.

Harris wrote me an email and asked me to print his response, so I will:

"Dear respected Andrew White PHD,  

It was brought to my attention that you wrote an article on my piece on Humans with horns. Or skeletons found with horns. http://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog/what-do-giant-enthusiasts-do-when-the-truth-turns-out-to-be-inconvenient-nothing-apparently
 

First, you should know that I received no such email from you at this address written as mentioned in your article. If you could provide me a copy of this message It would be much appreciated. As an investigator, I claim by no means to be perfect. I always encourage everyone to do their own investigation and find facts for themselves. This way imperfections are corrected and together as a society of individuals who strive for truth in history, we together can come to a conclusion.
 

I would first like to point out you did not mention the other 3 articles including, valid evidence, connecting credible institutions and scientists, with publications that skeletons have been found with horns. I really appreciate your contributions to the subject because I believe you bring a level of professionalism that some do not understand. However actions like these make me question your  motives. If you were working together with a coworker to discover the truth, would you do it laced in ridicule? This is not about me, it’s about a search for truth. We must work together in order to come to a logical conclusion.
 

There are many people involved who have many different reasons for searching for truth or believing in giants. They are not all scientific.
But it is important to listen to everyone, question everything and don’t believe it unless you can prove it with your own research. Not everything can be explained by science, at least not yet. I will properly edit the article by striking through the old information and correcting it to properly portray our conversation.  

Thank you for the correction, and again that is why you are an asset to the community.
 

All I ask is you publish my response in full, as transparency is very important in science and we should questions those you work in compartmentalized working environments.
 

Keep in touch.
 

Kristan T. Harris
"

I admit that I was a little surprised by this email - I think Harris is only the second person who is interested in this sort of thing who was said "whoops" in response to something I've pointed out (the other being Terje Dahl regarding the "replica" of the Denisovan tooth he vouched for on Search for the Lost Giants).  I've written about who-in-the-hell-knows-how-many hoaxes, misrepresentations, and misinterpretations having to do with "giants," and there have been precious few moments where someone has said "hey, you know what, that looks like it was bullshit."  So I give Harris credit for that.


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One clarification:  I didn't say that I emailed Harris, but wrote that I had commented on his story:

"I made both of the charter members of the Helenwood Devil Fan Club (Harris and GAWM) aware of my post by commenting on their pages."

The image to the left shows my comment.  I assumed that commenting on the story itself was the best way to make readers aware that part of the story was inaccurate.

I also commented on the story on the Greater Ancestors World Museum (GAWM) website, but that site remains unchanged (and my comment has not been "approved," so . . . go science!).  I know the operator of that site (Chris Lesley) is aware that he is continuing to promote a clay statue as evidence of something having to do with biblical human origins, as he has commented on the original Helenwood Devil post.  But he's apparently in no hurry to distance himself or his
"scientific model of origins" that is "boldly superior to all previous and existing models globally" from a clay statue built in an abandoned coal mine and carted around the country to liberate the gullible and the curious from their quarters.  Other than some blogger who thought the story about the Helenwood Devil described a petrified pterosaur, the GAWM seems to now be the sole supporter of Cruis Sexton's manufactured monster as something relevant to understanding prehistory. 

The Helenwood Devil Fan Club now has a membership of one.

1 Comment
Chris L Lesley link
12/31/2018 06:14:38 pm

Runt hunter Andy, how long are you going to continue with these misguided characterizations. How about you talk about the ratio of 7 footers to today compared to the past. You could mention the failures of Cope's Law, or the Denisovans? . . . Let me guess you can't use the " not outside the range of humans" with the denisovans. "So what maybe a "Bobble-heads" theory? You couldn't use the "not outside the range" with the Lovelock Jaw either, you failed with your comparison with Brock Lesnar, due to the fact that he wears a 5xl shirt. Are you saying that the lovelock jaw a 5xxxxxl size jaw bone? With the Lovelock Jaw you also failed to give a "natural" comparison seeing that Brock Lesnar has abused anabolic steroids and growth hormones to achieve that size. You couldnt have picked a better example, "outside the range of natural modern man".

Seeing that more and more people are bearing witness to the "hard evidences" of a greater height ratio in humans, they will also see that the entire fossil record shows giants consistently for every creature. You might become the biggest marketing tool for us giantologists. The runts you chose to character others by, just might lead them to all of the not-so runty hard evidences. You can't win them all, meaning you might want to take the Brock Lesnar failed example from your site. [Show others by example.]

As long as your alternative is: that we transmutated syntropically from old world monkeys, I still bear the scientific high road.

I have noticed you haven't touched the Berg Aukus Femur, the Castelnau Giant, and many others. Step out the kiddie pool and get your feet a little wet if you dare.

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