Giant footprints were found in stone in Hampshire, Tennessee back in 1915.
Supposed Giant’s Track is Found
HAMPSHIRE, Tenn., August 13, 1915. — The community of Hampshire is very much excited over the discovery at that place of an enormous track that resembles that which might have been made by a giant.
The people of that vicinity who have seen the print of that so-called enormous foot agree that nothing else in the world could have made it with the exception of a giant of the olden days. It is in a rock, and was certainly made centuries ago.
The rock plainly shows that it was at one time covered with a soft mineral, and this is plainly visible in veins and blocks which have hardened and scaled off the larger rocks.
Numbers of people have seen it, and although no geological expert has as yet passed his opinion, there is not one of the viewers who will question for one second that it was made by prehistoric man.
The track is seventeen inches in length, and six and a half inches across the ball of the foot. The heel measures five and one half by five inches.
A drawing of the original track can be seen in the window of the Hampshire Drug Store.
Source: The Columbia herald. (Columbia, Tenn.), 13 Aug. 1915.
