Show LONG PUZZLE TO scientists SCIENTIST strange work left by mound builders Bul BuIl dere never has had anything like satisfactory explanation the serpent effigy mound near chillicothe Chilli ohio the strangest earthwork left by the mound builders is ono binl of the most striking and puzzling creations that is 13 to he be found in the scioto river valley over nil all the mound is inore than 1 00 feet long ion and depicts a serpent of several convolutions jaws extended and an oval within the grasp of the huge jaws the groundwork 13 from two to four feet in height and from three or four to LO 10 feet in thickness within the oval beyond be yond the extended jaws arel eolo fists have found an altar of stones and copper ornaments an old indian fighter who died led in tile the west several years cars ngo ago nearly years old declared lie had heard a story in ills his younger days of a tribe of strange indians in the naoto valley who each year held a fall festival and gave a great powwow on a snares snakes back he said he never could understand the meaning of the story until later in life when he heard of the mound builders ills his recollection of the story had it been given to students of the mounds might have served to give them new theories on which to base their research work he said the strange race were supposed to sacrifice a certain number of children born under the first full moon of spring for this the mound builders might have used the stone altar which has been found |