In the days after the show, the Daily Mail, a British tabloid, blared out incorrect headlines about what Reeves had to say, including that 500,000 tusks worth up to $1 billion had been dumped. “It’s gonna be the biggest goddamn bone rush in world history,” Reeves said on the show. Someone with diving equipment and a boat might want to look for it, Reeves suggested, noting that a nice set of tusks can go for well over $100,000. In an amateur hunt for fossils, he has unearthed a massive collection of mammoth tusks and bones, plus remains from other extinct ice age animals like short-faced bears, steppe bison and American lions.ĭuring the conversation, Reeves told Rogan - whose podcast is among the world’s most popular - that a boxcar of bones and tusks, about 50 tons, were dumped into the waterway because the museum had run out of storage space. Reeves also owns historical mining lands in the Interior, including five acres in the Fairbanks area that he calls the Boneyard Alaska. For a few decades around World War II, the mining company unearthed many of the ice age bones and tusks that were sent to the museum. On the show, he read from a draft report associated with Fairbanks Exploration, a former mining firm whose assets he acquired. The tusks were part of a vast collection of ice age fossils gathered from Alaska, said Reeves, who’s also a board member for the Alaska Railroad. But experts, including a researcher connected to a report Reeves cited when he made the claim, cast doubt on whether valuable tusks will actually be found. John Reeves, owner of the Fairbanks Gold Co., told the podcaster and his millions of listeners that the American Museum of Natural History dumped valuable mammoth tusks into New York City’s East River about 80 years ago‚ specifically around the area off 65th Street.Īfter that, people actually went looking for them. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)Ī Fairbanks-area miner appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast last month and sparked international headlines and a treasure hunt in a New York City waterway, raising concerns at the U.S. NYPD and Coast Guard boats patrol the East River outside the United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept.
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