Be sure to catch this month's issue of Fossil Monthly to learn more about Dr. Smythe-Snipes and his findings.
London—A British archeologist has actually said in a paper that will be published next month that he’s found evidence of where the fabled giant from the children’s story “Jack and the Beanstalk” landed when the eponymous Jack chopped down the beanstalk as the giant climbed down after the hero, who had absconded with a magic harp and a goose that laid golden eggs that belonged to the giant.
Dr. Richard Smythe-Snipes will have his paper published next month in “Fossil Monthly,” which is, according to its website, “a renowned, award-whining (sic) online archeology magazine.” In it, Smythe-Snipes wrote how he located the large crater, now filled with water, left when the giant fell to his death, and how years of painstaking research helped prove the existence of the giant in the fairy tale.
“It’s quite extraordinary,” Smythe-Snipes said. “I’ve been searching for nearly 30 years for the spot where the giant fell, traipsing all over the English countryside, talking to townsfolk who may have heard the tale, always believing I’d find the spot where he fell.”
Smythe-Snipes said he first heard the tale of “Jack and the Beanstalk” as a child, and never for a second doubted the story was “100% true. Every word.” Smythe-Snipes finally got his PhD. in archeology from Moore Tech in 2008, but had been scouring the whole of England for decades before that.
He said he finally found the spot he’s certain the giant fell, a body of water west of Great Livermere, some 75 kilometers northeast of Cambridge in Eastern England. He said his dogged research found the likely spot, and a month of scuba diving in the lake produced fossil evidence of a large creature at the bottom of the lake.
Smythe-Snipes said he’s recovered several bones that could only have belonged to a giant, and expects the results of age testing sometime in April.
“Various accounts I’ve read put the timeline of the Jack story about 350 to 475 years ago,” Smythe-Snipes said. “That’s the timeframe I expect the bones will prove they’re from.”
Smythe-Snipes said now that he’s proven the story is true, he expects a call any time from his two ex-wives, who owe him “the world’s all-time apology. Then I can get going on whatever happened to that giant harp and if any of the golden eggs are still around. This is why I became an archeologist in the first place!”