PETRIFIED FINGER/TOE?

[keezer29]

I found this in a creek and thought I could make a story up to my kids about some indian who lost his finger fighting a grizzly bear, but now I think it might be real. What do you think?

 

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[Mud Hut]

I think I found the source for these petrified fingers .. well actually they are toes.. today.

 

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[46Wheat]

The conditions to pertify meat before it rots just don't exist on earth. Bone pertifies, wood petrifies, flesh and soft tissue may leave gaps in the soil that eventually mineralize and create a trace fossil but flesh does not petrify.

Maybe it broke off the Cardiff Giant?

History[edit]

Creation and discovery[edit]

The giant was the creation of a New York tobacconist named George Hull. Hull, an atheist, decided to create the giant after an argument at a Methodist revival meeting about Genesis 6:4 stating that there were giants who once lived on Earth.[1]

The idea of a petrified man did not originate with Hull, however. In 1858 the newspaper Alta California had published a bogus letter claiming that a prospector had been petrified when he had drunk a liquid within a geode. Some other newspapers also had published stories of supposedly petrified people.[2]

Hull hired men to carve out a 10-foot-4.5-inch-long (3.2 m) block of gypsum in Fort Dodge, Iowa, telling them it was intended for a monument to Abraham Lincoln in New York. He shipped the block to Chicago, where he hired Edward Burghardt, a German stonecutter, to carve it into the likeness of a man and swore him to secrecy.

Various stains and acids were used to make the giant appear to be old and weathered, and the giant's surface was beaten with steel knitting needles embedded in a board to simulate pores. In November 1868, Hull transported the giant by rail to the farm of William Newell, his cousin. By then, he had spent US$2,600 on the hoax (Nearly $45,000 in 2013 dollars adjusted for inflation.)[3]

Nearly a year later, Newell hired Gideon Emmons and Henry Nichols, ostensibly to dig a well, and on October 16, 1869 they found the giant. One of the men reportedly exclaimed, "I declare, some old Indian has been buried here!"[2]

Exhibition and exposure as fraud[edit]

Newell set up a tent over the giant and charged 25 cents for people who wanted to see it. Two days later he increased the price to 50 cents.[2] People came by the wagon load.

Archaeological scholars pronounced the giant a fake, and some geologists even noticed that there was no good reason to try to dig a well in the exact spot the giant had been found. Yale palaeontologist Othniel C. Marsh called it "a most decided humbug". Some Christian fundamentalists and preachers, however, defended its authenticity.[4]

Eventually, Hull sold his part-interest for $23,000 (equivalent to $429,000 in 2014) to a syndicate of five men headed by David Hannum. They moved it to Syracuse, New York, for exhibition. The giant drew such crowds that showman P. T. Barnum offered $50,000 for the giant. When the syndicate turned him down, he hired a man to model the giant's shape covertly in wax and create a plaster replica. He put his giant on display in New York, claiming that his was the real giant, and the Cardiff Giant was a fake.[2]

As the newspapers reported Barnum's version of the story, David Hannum was quoted as saying, "There's a sucker born every minute" in reference to spectators paying to see Barnum's giant. Over time, the quotation has been misattributed to Barnum himself.

Hannum sued Barnum for calling his giant a fake, but the judge told him to get his giant to swear on his own genuineness in court if he wanted a favorable injunction.[2]

On December 10, Hull confessed to the press. On February 2, 1870 both giants were revealed as fakes in court. The judge ruled that Barnum could not be sued for calling a fake giant a fake.

Current resting place[edit]

The Cardiff Giant appeared in the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, but did not attract much attention.[2]

An Iowa publisher bought it later to adorn his basement rumpus room as a coffee table and conversation piece. In 1947 he sold it to the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, New York, where it is still on display.[5]

The owner of Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, a coin-operated game arcade and museum of oddities in Farmington Hills, Michigan, says that the replica on display there is Barnum's replica.[6][7]

Imitators[edit]


I live not to far from cooperstown and have seen the cardif giant . I think he had all his fingers

 

[RJ55]

Scrape under the nail and see if it smells of toe jam.

 

[BigWaveDave]

My wife does manicures.. she would make that look a lot better. Clip the nail, push back the cuticle, trim off the dead skin around the nailbed, a nice scrub, dip in paraffin wax, massage, spritz with Ocean Breeze spray, lightly buff, and an attractive polish. She suggests a soft red from the OPI line.

 

[MuckyBottles]

I heard that somewhere in Yukon territory you can do a shot with old fingers and toes..

 

[diggyboy]

Cool find! Thats something i hope to never dig up though.

 

[ChainsawOz218]

Hi all !

It is definately a fossil !

It can NOT be a petrified human finger or toe.
It has to be many, many millions of years older in order to petrify !!!

Funny thou that the fossil looks like a human finger or toe !!

Super find !

That's incorrect, new studies have proven it dose not take millions of years for petrification to occur. If in the perfect conditions it'll happen very quickly.

 

[Red-Coat]

That's incorrect, new studies have proven it dose not take millions of years for petrification to occur. If in the perfect conditions it'll happen very quickly.

Quite right, although it hasn't taken 'new studies' to demonstrate this. See this post from a while ago:

Petrified Horse, Stringtown, Oklahoma

www.treasurenet.com

It's not a finger or toe though, whether petrified or not.

 

[ChainsawOz218]

Quite right, although it hasn't taken 'new studies' to demonstrate this. See this post from a while ago:

Petrified Horse, Stringtown, Oklahoma

www.treasurenet.com

It's not a finger or toe though, whether petrified or not.

I found something that i am going to show you all that you will find interesting. I'll work on getting it posted now.

 

[ChainsawOz218]

Quite right, although it hasn't taken 'new studies' to demonstrate this. See this post from a while ago:

Petrified Horse, Stringtown, Oklahoma

www.treasurenet.com

It's not a finger or toe though, whether petrified or not.

That is a excellent read, wow. Thank you

 

[Georgivs]

Looks like a petrified samsquanch toe to me

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

That's incorrect, new studies have proven it dose not take millions of years for petrification to occur. If in the perfect conditions it'll happen very quickly.

Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus von Hohenheim always said the dose is the poision