Jack in the Beanstalk, Reimagined

The headline said the petrified tree was 62 feet, the longest ever found in the UK. Authorities in Penwith, Cornwall, were quick to rename the park as they shoveled around the fossil.

It wasn’t until a forensic photographer began documenting the site using a drone that they learned it might be more than a tree.

“Look at this?” she said, pointing to what were supposed to be petrified tree roots. “That is the upper end of a humerus bone, and down there, that looks to be a righthand.”

Work halted as everyone crowded into the ditch to look at the thing in question. A quick calculation showed the bone belonged to a 181-foot giant.

One of the laborers hired to help with the digging whispered to a co-worker, “Don’t suppose that fairy-tail we learned about Jack in the Beanstalk was true, now do you?”