Cardiff Giant - Popular Culture

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• In 1870, Mark Twain wrote "A Ghost Story" in which the ghost of the Cardiff Giant appears in the hotel room in Manhattan to demand that he be reburied. The giant is so confused that he haunts Barnum's plaster copy of himself.
• In 1871, L. Frank Baum published a poem titled "The True Origin of the Cardiff Giant" in his private newspaper, The Rose Lawn Home Journal, vol. 1, #3.
• George Auger, a Ringling Brothers circus giant, used the stage name "Cardiff Giant". He was to act in Harold Lloyd's 1923 comedy film Why Worry?, but died shortly after filming started, sparking a nationwide search for a replacement.
• H.P. Lovecraft's short story "Out of the Aeons" mentions the Cardiff Giant, contrasting it with the real mummies on display in the fictional Cabot Museum of Archaeology, Boston, Massachusetts.
• In 2011, artist Ty Marshal created a full-sized Cardiff Giant replica made of hypertufa for a celebration in Syracuse, New York on the 142nd anniversary of the discovery of the giant (October 16, 2011).
• Philadelphia-based indie-rock band mewithoutYou's 2012 album, Ten Stories features a track titled Cardiff Giant. In the song, the "Cardiff Giant with the alabaster eyes" is used in a comparison.
• In 2001 Cardiff Giant production company part of production team for Jon Favreau movie "Made" (2001) - additionally, contained in plot line as a fictitious company with limousine and hospitality accounts utilized by main characters.