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Ralph Glidden was an amateur archaeologist who uncovered ancient burial sites on Catalina Island from 1919 to 1928: it is said that he excavated more than 800 grave-sites from about 100 individual locations around the island. In addition to finding thousands of artefacts he also dug up almost 4000 human skeletons. He claimed that there once had lived an ancient race of tall and fair haired Indians on Catalina Island and the adjacent islands. Most of all the male adults were around 7 feet in hight, and largest skeleton he found was 9 feet 2 inches