Am i the only one that has watched this multiple times,? The vibes this guy sends out,he is definitely the type of person that has never met a stranger,also seems like one of those people that you just enjoy listening to, very humble and down to earth
What a fascinating podcast!!! I was hanging on to every word John said. I could listen to John’s life story and experiences all day! He’s as strong as an ox, as hard headed as Mule, with just enough absolute mischief to make anyone never want be on his bad side! He’s got a big heart too bc I can see it in his eyes. He’s got depth and is funny!!! He’s a born explorer and leader. He’s probably more serious in day to day life but that’s only because this man probably never stops working! This man tells it like it is and people listen! He’s the perfect type of man to be blessed with this land. He’s not going to put up with any paper clutter power hungry unconstitutional politicians or science gestapo he doesn’t trust . I believe God chose John to own this land and blessed him with the huge responsibility to protect and preserve this HUGE piece of our history!!! I think this might be my new favorite podcast of all time! Thank you so much Joe for your platform! John, I am so grateful I got to hear little of your story! I hope you get a ghost writer to write an autobiography! Looking forward to a chapter 2 on this podcast about the wild pipeline contract agreement as it might shed light onto why the government spends so much damn money in the nearest future possible? I bet that’s a real entertaining and educational boots on ground story!! America needs to hear these uplifting modern day pioneer voices. Personally, I believe we’re starving for it. This was a treat!
John blows my mind. I’m 71 and have had lots of crazy experiences, so when I say John blows my mind that is a compliment. I would love to visit his property.
This dude is awesome. I love his stories. Lifelong Alaskan that has made a living working in the weatherization industry here; I’ve been to some of the most remote locations that people dare to live in this state. I’ve met so many ACTUAL bush Alaskans that have spent their entire lives living a subsistence lifestyle, I can tell you that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Not to diminish anyone’s experience, but what I mean by “real” bush Alaskans is people that do not leave their property. At all. They do not own houses elsewhere. They do not go to town for groceries, ever. They truly live off the land. These people have some of the most amazing stories of Alaska you’ve never heard.
I'm 54 and feel as though I've never had a lucky break like a lot of successful people have had. If and when I ever do, I WILL make sure to make it count.
Your day will come, no doubt, I am 45 and I had always said I wish I would get the blessings and breaks others get, well in 07 I my first daughter was born and in 09 my second daughter born, then on 11/17/2011 my wife passed away, age 28,I sat and I realized I had been blessed, and had things some never have, I also learned what it was like to truly lose something so precious. Count your blessings people don't let things you want, make you overlook what you have already gained. R. I. P. STACY M. Love you always.
Thank you Joe for this experience. and to John for agreeing to come on your cast. I think your podcast is a 101 of education that really could change our education system, and bring it back to what it should be. You know dealing in reality and not knowledge in feelings has just invaded our education system. Interesting experiments and historical findings in our current era create an inspiration in young kids minds and even more so in 50yo like me who loved mutual of Omaha's wild kingdom shows and National Geographic, that has just gone by the way side in my view I've seen it go away in my kids they are only interested in wildlife and nature because I am and I still watch it. I did graduate from West Anchorage High School and John is a true Alaskan he totally embodies the Alaskan. Thank you for your Pod Cast it's just awesome.
just yesterday saw a clip of this man and now here we are seeing this podcast. synchronicity is real..LOVE this crazy journey. just hang on when you feel like throwing in the towel. I swear that with patience and great faith everything will be alright. just believe it. much LOVE .
My cousin who is an Aviation Mechanic took a position in Anchorage, and lived in Alaska. He worked for Jumart on their choppers which are a primary source of transport for some of the Geologists visiting mountaintops related to Minerals, etc. He once relayed to me how he was working in the Northern Hemisphere and was working on the inside of a chopper. He could only do so for 10 to 15 minutes at time, then he would have to return to the shop and warm for an hour. When he reached for a tool the fingers of the elbow length snow glove he had bought in Colorado snapped off. It was in excess of 49 Below Zero. Yes, Alaska is a massive state, but only certain people want to live in the areas considered habitable. Very interesting stuff to see and consider what mass extinction event caused so many deaths of Ice Age animals in quantity!?!?! Thanks Joe! Thanks John!
All I could think of to make any sense was that these animals were all running away from something and then I thought instantly of a tsunami and great flood! Those were my first thoughts! That blue feature was AMAZING! I Instantly thought about dragons and said it at the same time as Joe said it! What if it was a fairy or angel too? Here comes my child like imagination and I love it!
All I have to say as a present Alaskan resident (born/raised), this place is da BOMB!!! I lived in Hawaii for 31 years & now back home for 5 years & I don’t want to leave again. It’s like no other…The Last Frontier!!! Everybody who comes here wants to come back to live here. There’s money to be made, it’s not as crowded as the lower 48 & you see wild life & the northern lights all the time unexpectedly. People are nice & there is no traffic. Anchorage is the largest city & that what I’m referring to here. Lots to do if your like Joe in this interview…. ❤️💙💛
If all these animals were killed in a much larger area, is there a possibility after that impact(s) of the Younger Dryas. It could have broke the ice and released huge amounts of water and ice that would have flooded the area and pushed all the remains of the animals down the mountains and eventually they all get caught a choke point that just so happens to be John's 5 acres? Just theorising here but I'd like to see what other people think. (Edited) I've now seen the second podcast which John confirms that the size of the area is actually 2 acres. Even stranger.
Coolest interview EVER...HANDS DOWN!!! I watched the entire thing to the end, first time ever. I'm hooked on the Alaska Boneyard now. OH, what I would give to dig up ancient bones up there...just wow..👏👏👏👏👏
I'm thinking a catastrophic impact event causes a massive die off followed by a massive flood which picked up the dead animals and they were funneled into this particular valley which for some geographic reason became a collection area
Hey Joe, I know it has been two months since you did this and I have not watched you that much, but I really enjoyed this. I was concerned for a minute about you blowing smoke in his face, but he didn't seem to mind, so I won't either, lol. Love, light, and happiness. 😊
Apparently early man, after crossing the Bering Strait land bridge, survived mostly on Snufluffaguss's. They were easily killed because they were very curious about Homo Erectus, and would approach wanting to tell stories and sing songs
As a hunter and fisherman, It seems to me like all those giant animals were running from a cataclysm in the same direction, AWAY!, and all got bottle necked, or funneled into an aera, and all died together.
All these remains are from over 30k years. That means, to me as a biologist, these were migration routes taken along the riverways that accumulated dead animals over time
All those mammals going extinct from over hunting is amongst one of the most hilarious theories I've ever heard of. Imagine a guy trying to hunt a giant short faced bear with a spear. The fucking bear would kill everything on site, literally. You wouldn't even attempt it actually, you'd have to be an idiot to try and hunt one off those.
geologist here, this is clearly a death assemblage put there by water, back flowing up into every creek valley around. I think its an easy story. let me know if you want help.
I went to Fairbanks and drove up the Dalton to go caribou hunting with my father-in-law last August. Went to Prudhoe Bay. Didn't get one but Fairbanks is amazing. Traded some natives at Santa's Smokehouse our gas tanks for some bear sticks. The Pump house was amazing for food. I'll be back...maybe permanently. Alaska
I went to Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado. There's a side of the mountain there that's enclosed in a museum (Quarry Exhibit Hall) and in the mountain are a bunch of full dinosaur skeletons smashed into the rock. I asked the museum worker how they all ended up there. She said it happened when the earth shifted. So whatever hit the earth and caused them to be extinct threw them all against the side of the mountain. Maybe that was the last place they could find food. This guy is lucky. Every place he end up turns out to be a gold mine.
1:53:00 Want to destroy the African elephant ivory trade? Offer the the ancient ivory to the Chinese wholesale. That’s who’s buying all the elephant ivory on the black market
The rarest thing In nature is the color blue theres 1 butterfly 🦋 and a fish that tricks your eye to thinking it's blue now you have a blue feather in a mamoth the ods are impossible
@@Kyle-si8yw Then you should know that it is legal to sell these items. Of course being from Anchorage is not really living in AK so maybe you don't know about the laws of the state.
@wolfmantroy6601 I'm actually from Palmer Wassila Houston kenai. And I know that I always had to find some native to sell the shit for me at the shop on 5th Street downtown Anchorage. That is after the guy who used to buy from just anybody got arrested and lost his business. I'm sure glad to be back in Montana now where you would have to try really hard to find a meth head here or fentanyl zombie, unlike Anchotage, Mat-su. Shit that garbage runs rampant in the most secluded villages these days. My ex girl was telling me how her dad is a VPSO (village patrol safety officer) in the village, and he smokes meth in his cop car.
I can't believe you didn't get this joe, modern elephants have graveyards where they go to die. Probably this was the case it might have been up river from where this guy is. And I believe all the bones were carried from up stream and deposited at his location.
As a Native American who hunted his families meat for 40 years i can think of dozens of ways that this collection of bones could have accumulated. I'm sure the paleontologists have offered rreasons for this to have happened. The standard thinking is that Native Americans have been in North America 22 K years . What is never added is how long did it take for native Americans to reach all parts of North America. On foot no horses how long did it take for all parts of North and South America to be occupied. Another 5K 10 K 20K years. Pyramids in South America are superior in construction to Anything in Egypt or Europe.
So on the note if they found any “dudes” or early humans. He said look at the logo of his company. I looked closer at the skull and it seems to be an actual picture of a skull, it’s just been heavily modified. So he literally told Joe that one of the skulls he found is literally his logo.
My theory of why there's such a density of paleontological matter in that location is that it was a bottleneck of sorts, probably for many tens of thousands of years. A small strip of land that wasn't frozen, or at least grazeable, or passable, while the surrounding land was not. The grazers were forced into this small area for that period of thousands of years while they migrated east to west, or north to south. I'm not saying the area was so small as just the size of their parcel, as we haven't yet investigated the surrounding area. It could be 50 or 100 mile wide area that was more passable for some reason for a long period of time. This on top of the condition that it wasn't near any fault that caused the earth to turn over too much, and it just sort of froze in place.
@@wolfmantroy6601 yes I realize his land is far from the slope, but the slope is a small place. A lot of us know each other from working together or being sitting on the airplanes!\ I have traveled to and from the slope through Fairbanks, Barrow, and Anchorage every three weeks for 30 years. Just seemed like would have heard something about him in that time.
Whats funny is that when John said "we're gonna start a bone drive", i inew he wasnt joking. People in AK dont talk sh!t like folks in the lower 48 like "i might do this or that one day". When someone in AK says theyre going to do something, they DO it, period.
sometimes, rivers have deep potholes, and over time, animals will drown in the river and get swept into the pothole, and then buried by gravel and such. the river keeps moving and someday it moves away from the buried pothole full of bones and gravel and gold. and then 1000's of years later this dude shows up and digs it up.
The east river has probably been dredged a dozen times since the bones were dumped.I don’t know that but I would check it out before spending a lot of money on equipment to find them….
Joe is kinda being a yuppie and ungrateful for the gifts of the mammoth ivory…. Wow…. It’s better to repurpose them then to do nothing with them….. he should check himself, and be humble and grateful what an amazing gift from this man. God bless in Jesus Name
Also the chixalube crater on the yucatan peninsula was made by a 10km asteroid 60 million years ago that killed the dinosaurs. The younger dryas was 12k years ago.
We love John from the Alaska Boneyard no matter how many times I see this obviously these animals died 12k years ago …hello obviously there was a cataclysm at that point in history
