Joe Rogan Experience #1918 - John from The Boneyard Alaska

John Reeves is an Alaskan gold miner who first came to public prominence on the 2012 National Geographic docu-series "Goldfathers." More recently, his ongoing search for gold uncovered the remains of thousands of Ice Age animals lying beneath the permafrost on his property. The discovery is featured in the 2019 documentary "Boneyard Alaska" and popular Instagram account @theboneyardalaska. www.fairbanksgoldco.com

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Jun 27, 20243h 4mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: June 27, 2024
Duration: 3h 4m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

John Reeves is an Alaskan gold miner who first came to public prominence on the 2012 National Geographic docu-series "Goldfathers." More recently, his ongoing search for gold uncovered the remains of thousands of Ice Age animals lying beneath the permafrost on his property. The discovery is featured in the 2019 documentary "Boneyard Alaska" and popular Instagram account @theboneyardalaska. www.fairbanksgoldco.com

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #1918 - John from The Boneyard Alaska explores alaskan Miner Unearths Unprecedented Ice Age Graveyard, Guards Its Secrets Former collegiate swimmer and gold miner John Reeves recounts his wild path from Florida to Alaska, where he eventually became the largest private landowner in the state and stumbled onto an extraordinary Ice Age bone bed he calls The Boneyard. On just five acres of permafrost, his family has uncovered hundreds of thousands of Pleistocene fossils—mammoths, steppe bison, dire wolves, short‑faced bears, American lions, rare horses, and more—many species experts claimed never lived in that region. Reeves explains how hydraulic mining techniques expose the bones, why scientists are stunned by the density and diversity, and why he has largely refused academic access, instead stockpiling the collection himself. He also reveals that tens of thousands of similar Alaska bones sent to New York’s American Museum of Natural History were later dumped into the East River, and publicly pinpoints the alleged location, openly inviting a modern-day “bone rush.”

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