Grave of Solid Muldoon

According to the legend, the body of Solid Muldoon was found on a hill in 1877 that is now aptly named Muldoon Hill. The seven-foot tall “petrified human body” with a tail, was discovered by William Conant while he surveyed the area for fossils. Conant claimed that he spotted a large “foot-shaped” stone, which he realized was actually attached to a very strange, very large human body. Using a pick-axe he unearthed the large man from the overgrown roots and dirt and took it to Pueblo.  The body was described as “…a cross between an ancient Egyptian and an American Indian". Aside from his height, the figure has several other unusual characteristics; each arm is nearly fifty inches long, and his feet are long, flat and slim. The end of the backbone protrudes outwards some two or three inches in the manner of a tail, which was seen as "strongly suggestive of the truth of the Darwinian theory" The body of Solid Muldoon was put on display, much like his predecessor the Cardiff Giant, but upon closer examination people began to second guess the legitimacy of the body.  What they discovered was that the giant body was not a body at all. Astonishingly visitors weren’t quick to call the “body” a hoax, but rather they began calling it an “ancient work of art, sculpted by an unknown primitive race.”  Solid Muldoon hit the road, and after drawing loads of people to Colorado he headed for the Big Apple. According to the legend, the body drew such huge crowds that P.T. Barnum himself offered to pay $20,000 for the show stopper.  Years later Solid Muldoon was exposed as a fake, but that wasn’t before the strange piece of bizarro history left its mark on Pueblo, Colorado. Eventually interest in the strange piece of art dwindled and Solid Muldoon was buried beneath a grave marker on State Highway 78, where you can still find him today. -Roadtrippers The Solid Muldoon was a supposedly prehistoric "petrified human body" unearthed in 1877, at a spot now known as Muldoon Hill, near Beulah, Colorado. The figure enjoyed a brief tour of the United States before it was revealed to be a hoax. It was said to have been named after wrestler William Muldoon, whose nickname was "The Solid Man". This nickname was itself a reference to a comic song called "Muldoon, the Solid Man", written by Edward Harrigan.