GIANT HUMAN LEG Found 1,500 Feet Underground

Here's an article that appears verbatim from the Shenandoah
(Pa.) Evening Herald daily newspaper in August 1911:

FOSSILS FOUND IN MINE WORKINGS

A remarkable specimen of the "carboniferous era" has just
been unearthed at a depth of fifteeen hundred feet in the underground
workings of the Ellengowan colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company.

The specimen is very beautiful and is highly prized by Inside
Foreman Gwillym Jones who retained it as a curio.

Miners at the face of one of the breasts discovered a large
piece of slate with impressions of leaves and ferns deeply imbedded
therein.

The surface covered by these markings was five feet in length
and of nearly the same width.

After considerable labor, in which care was taken that the
piece might be take out in its entirely, the workmen succeeded in
their task.

Several small pieces only were broken from the formation which
was presented to those who took the slate from its natural bed.

Quite a number of curios have already been taken from these
workings. Several years ago a bunch of grapes, almost perfectly
formed, was taken from this colliery. A trunk of a tree and a portion
of a petrified snake were also found.

One of the most interesting finds was that in which was
perfectly formed the outlines of a human leg and, judging from the
size, the owner of the member must have been a giant in stature.

A number of these finds are on exhibition at the offices of
Division Superintendent McDonald and Inside Foreman Jones.
They are objects of much curiosity.

Ed Conrad
http://www.edconrad.com

Man as Old as Coal

A remarkable specimen of the "carboniferous era" has just
been unearthed at a depth of fifteeen hundred feet in the underground
workings of the Ellengowan colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company.

The specimen is very beautiful and is highly prized by Inside
Foreman Gwillym Jones who retained it as a curio.

Miners at the face of one of the breasts discovered a large
piece of slate with impressions of leaves and ferns deeply imbedded
therein.

Slate? In a colliery? Just goes to show they had no idea what they were
looking at...
BTW what on earth does imbedded mean? Or perhaps you meant "embedded" when
you concocted this tripe?
cheers
Bill