![]() ![]() Bradenburgh’s dime museum in Philadelphia. Trace continues in an 1891 The Philadephia Inquirer column about C.A. This remarkable product of animal kingdom has been examined by the wise men of the Smithsonian Institute and pronounced to be the Simon-pure, 18-carat article. The giant was subdued only when 160 shots from a Gatling gun had been poured into his body. Both of his heads were lassoed at one and the same time by two Western cowboys. He was captured 200 miles from the coast of Patagonia. More importantly, though, it provides us with the historically first version of the story: The earliest record we could dig up mentions the two-headed Patagonian giant only circumstantially in an 1889 Pittsburgh Dispatch column, which used him for a proposal of a ‘psychological puzzle’ about the workings of the giant’s mind. So, let’s see what we can find in the depths of the internet. Some websites also mention that there are other versions of the story, or conflate them together, but we will get to each of them later. It was sold to a showman called “Lord” Thomas Howard in 1959, after which it left Weston. In the early 1900s, the stuffed giant was purchased by a Mr Bartram who toured the country on the Edwardian horror circuit, ending up in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, where the curiosity passed through several hands and was exhibited at various locations. He broke loose and killed four of his captors, before being killed himself by a boarding pike plunged into his heart 1 The story was that he had been captured by Spanish sailors in 1673 and bound to the mainmast. The Two-headed Patagonian Giant”, said to have been over 12ft (3.7m) tall, was a famous fairground attraction allegedly brought to England in the 19th century. The usual narrative, on which the majority of articles on Kap-Dwa are based, comes from a story run by British magazine Fortean Times, specializing in anomalous phenomena and mysteries, from 1998 to 2000. Side-note: Right from the start, we should note that although the Patagonian giants are well established in the historical record, there are no mentions of the two-headed variety, apart from those discussed below. Kap-Dwa is allegedly a mummified body of a 12-foot tall two-headed giant from Patagonia, making him potentially the only material proof of Patagonian giants we have. ![]()
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