lots of treasure hunters have been diving in New York ’s East River , on the hunt for a hoard of mammoth off-white they believe to be in there – partially thanks to Joe Rogan ’s podcast .
In December , Alaskan atomic number 79 miner John Reevesappeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast . During the appearance , Reevestold Roganthat he was about to " start a os rush " . Reevesclaimed that in the forties , mammoth bones were frequently uncovered while labor for atomic number 79 , during which " 500,000 or so off-white " were transported from Fairbanks , Alaska , to New York City .
The bone , according to Reeves , were fate for the American Museum of Natural History . However , harmonize to a draft report card read by Reeves , the bones were incorrectly deemed to be of unsuitable quality and were dumped into the river .
" I ’m not going to separate people you ’re appropriate to do this but if I was listening to your podcast and I happened to have a sauceboat and I happened to have a little Aqua-Lung equipment [ … ] I ’m gon na tell them decently now where the [ ivory were knock down according to the report],“Reeves told Rogan , bestow thatthe " dump land site was off the East River Drive at about 65th Street " .
“ We do not have any track record of the disposal of these fossil in the East River , " a spokespersontold AP . " Nor have we been able to find any disc of this write up in the museum ’s archive or other scientific sources . "
However , this has not stopped several squad from attempting ( and failing ) to find mammoth osseous tissue at the bottom of the river . AP contacted one author list on the report , archaeologist Robert Sattler , who told them that the bones fib come from anthropologist Richard Osborne . Sattler enjoin that Osborne , who was write about the os for a Holy Scripture , likely heard the story secondhand while spending meter with his forefather , who worked dig in Alaska .
While remains did make their way to the museum for show , AP points out that major construction engage position at the time the os were supposedly dumped , while a highway that open in 1942 would make dump the bone somewhat difficult – at least without majorly disrupting traffic . No substantial grounds suggests there are mammoths living in the NY river , nor paying the extortionate split that belike involves .
