What if Erich von Daniken, Graham Hancock and others of that stripe were onto something when they wrote that Earth has been visited by extra-terrestrial beings in the distant past? That these beings have left traces of themselves in our folklore in other places?
That’s the dilemma faced by Elwar Forell in this short story originally published in 1956 in “Astounding Science Fiction.” It’s one of many of the old stories from the old science fiction pulps that have become available a small fee or often for free.