Archduke Terry Posted:

Do you have any pictures? Ancient sloths are quite the giant mammal.

we didn’t take pictures but the NSS wrote an article on it and it was in their magazine one month in 1988, and there was pictures of the excavation in the article

we only saw the top portion and knew it was big but after seeing the whole thing from end to end I was blown away

years later i was caving in Tazwell and found some fossilized bones in a dried creekbed and had them sent to UT and it turned out to be a giant ground squirrel. i have luck when it comes to finding extinct giant ground mammals

thats all the extinct animals i have discovered, but I have found the remains of a bear, snakes, birds and two humans. the humans were about 800 year old, cherokee and the remains were turned over to the tribal council after i reported them to the state. they were murdered though, from blows to the head. they were tossed into the entrance (a vertical pit) then washed about 150 feet back into the cave, and half buried in mud.

my buddy once found human skeletal remains and excavated them himself, put them in plastic bags and removed them (a big no-no). he had them piled in the back of his car and got pulled over for speeding, was arrested on the stop and treated non too nicely, interrogated by the TBI (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation) and released after the confirmed the story. those remains were also turned over to the tribal council eventually, and he was subject to fines, but they didn’t fine him. i still laugh everytime he tells the story about the look on the cop’s face when he realized there was a human skeleton in the back seat of his car lol