Cardiff Giant
![The Cardiff Giant being exhumed in October 1869](/Images/godic/202501/03/Cardiff_giant_exhumed_18694958.jpg")
![The Cardiff Giant on display at the Bastable in Syracuse, NY circa 1869.](/Images/godic/202501/03/Cardiff_Giant4958.png")
The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in United States history. It was a 10-foot (3.0 m) tall purported "petrified man" uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell in Cardiff, New York. Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P.T. Barnum are still on display.