
When a cigar-maker's grudge against religion spawned America's most audacious fraud, thousands paid to see a ten-foot petrified man—and even P.T. Barnum got fooled. Host Lucien Graves unearths the full story of the 1869 Cardiff Giant, from secret quarries to courtroom battles over competing fakes.<br /><br /> For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai