Treasure hunters are scouring the city’s murky waterway for prehistoric mammoth bones — lured by a suggestion from a guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast that a trove of valuable artifact…
Gold miner John Reeves referenced fossils and bones dumped in the East River in the 1940s.APCommercial diver Don Gann, 35, had scoured the waters between Manhattan and Brooklyn for almost two weeks with his brother and two workers.
Sattler told the Associated Press the story about the dumped bones came from Osborne’s father — who worked for a digging company that unearthed mammoth remains in Alaska. “We do not have any record of the disposal of these fossils in the East River, nor have we been able to find any record of this report in the museum’s archives or other scientific sources,” the museum said in a statement following the podcast.
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