[genefromjersey]

I dunno 'bout that one !

I suspect it may be a tall tale (Yeah,I know:That wuz a pun,whut ah done )about a skeleton in armor-supposedly unearthed in Fall River,Mass. during early colonial times.
There was a newspaper article-which may have been a hoax-about a skeleton wearing copper link armor,including a helmet,such as the early Greeks might have worn.There were also some arrowheads,made of bronze or copper,which had openings cast into the bases,so that the point could be tied to a wooden shaft.

The skeleton,of course, was re-buried in an unknown location...which made it impossible to verify whether the article was true,or a very early internet spoof.

[Indrid Cold]

Frank Edwards (you remember Frank--he was a bigshot in the media years ago) put out a couple of books: Strange World and, I think, Stranger Than Science. The copyright on my copy of Strange World is 1964, so it wouldn't be an internet hoax. Anyway, he talks about them a bit in there, as well as fossilized giant remains found in Utah.

Links:
http://www.burlingtonnews.net/ohiogiants.html
http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tworx215.htm
http://www.trussel.com/prehist/mound.htm