Missouri does not lack legends, but it does lack evidence about some of the stories told about them. There’s a very recent book that is trying to change that in regards to legends of a tribe of giants in southern Missouri. The author has some compelling evidence now to go along with those stories.
Thanks to author Nicholas Daigle who was kind enough to share his book with me entitled “Genesis 6 and the Ozarks: A Compilation Book on a Christian’s Perspective Of Proof That the Biblical Giants Were Right in Our Backyards”. It is a very deep dive into the legend that many have told for years about a tribe of giants in the Ozarks and specifically in Greene County. His own investigations led him to an area where the Sac River Mountain Bike Park exists just north of Springfield, Missouri. He found a rectangular mound, the rock wall, and the rock cairn in that park that seem to prove that a prehistoric people existed in this part of Missouri.
He also found a mound-like structure in the Sac Cemetery in Fulbright Springs Park using a LiDAR scan. He added in his book the following interesting history:…