A TRUE ARCHIVE MYSTERY
THE CARDIFF COLOSSUS
A ten-foot body rises from the earth. Scientists disagree. Crowds pay to stare. In 1869, can you tell discovery from spectacle?
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YOUR ASSIGNMENT
A body, a crowd, and fifty cents at the door.
Workers digging a well on William Newell’s farm uncover a stone figure more than ten feet long. Some call it a petrified man; others an ancient statue. Before facts settle, thousands arrive and ownership changes hands. Your editor wants an answer: relic, ancient statue, or deliberate fraud?
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