The Smithsonian Vaults

Where anomalies go, believers say, to become uncatalogued.

The specific claims — a 1909 Grand Canyon cave civilization (single Arizona Gazette article, no corroboration, no named archaeologist findable), destroyed giant skeletons, a suppression policy — have no documentary support; the Smithsonian's actual collections controversies (repatriation battles under NAGPRA, documented) supply the plausibility. The node exists to mark where the giants file's real newspaper genre meets its unreal institutional villain, and because a hoax 'Smithsonian admission' press release (2014 satire site) still circulates as evidence.