This site was inspired by The Joe Rogan Experience Episode #1918 with John Reeves from The Boneyard Alaska.
In the episode, John Reeves states that mammoth bones and tusks were sent to New York from Alaska to be given to the American Museum of Natural History. Reeves referenced a draft report composed by three people, one of whom was a museum employee. This report included mention of fossils and bones that were seen as not suitable for display, and it suggested that these should be disposed of in The East River.
“I’m going to start a bone rush,” Reeves told Joe on the podcast and gave out the location: FDR Drive, at around 65th Street which could yield nearly 50 tons of bones and tusks.
“We’ll see if anybody out there’s got a sense of adventure.” He also says: “Let me tell you something about mammoth bones, mammoth tusks – they’re extremely valuable.”
John Reeves, an Alaskan gold miner, and star of the 2012 National Geographic docu-series "Goldfathers" made a remarkable discovery beneath the permafrost on his property - thousands of Ice Age animal remains, including Woolly Mammoths, Sabre Tooth Cats, Short-Faced Bears, Dire Wolves, Helmeted Muskoxen, and other extinct North American Pleistocene Megafauna.
This story was featured in the 2019 documentary "Boneyard Alaska" and its popular Instagram account, @theboneyardalaska. Visit www.fairbanksgoldco.com to learn more about John's work and discoveries.
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