Host Lucien Graves recounts the Cardiff Giant hoax, where atheist George Hull spent two years and thousands of dollars carving a fake petrified giant to mock religious literalists who believed in biblical giants. Buried in 1868 and "discovered" in 1869, the three-thousand-pound gypsum figure fooled thousands and exposed America's willingness to believe comforting lies over inconvenient truths.
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