#2241 - Rick Strassman

**Rick Strassman** (0:03)
The Joe Rogan Experience.

**Joe Rogan** (0:06)
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

**Jamie** (0:12)
So he's got, hi Rick.

**Joe Rogan** (0:14)
Hi.

**Jamie** (0:14)
Good to see you, brother.

**Joe Rogan** (0:15)
Good seeing you, too.

**Jamie** (0:16)
So he's got this place called The Boneyard, my friend John Reeves in Alaska, and he made this for me, too. This is like a little skull. That's a wooly mammoth tooth, like a molar.
So he has this incredible place, and he was a gold miner, and still is, and they started finding an extraordinary amount of tusks and bones and skulls from animals that aren't even supposed to have been there. It's kind of rewriting history, but it's all in his land. So he has complete control over it. And he has, like, you see, there's John. He's this enormous dude. He's like 6'9, like a big giant man. And he has, this is just some of it. Like, show those warehouses that he has. So he had a research facility built on his property so they could study this stuff. And if you see outside in the lobby, there's actually a bison skull. It's like a 10,000-plus-year-old bison skull. So this area is only a few acres. This is what's really crazy. He has one area that's like, I believe it's like four acres, and another area that's about six acres. And there's also like a very heavy layer of carbon. So it appears there was some sort of a mass fire. And he thinks that this mass extinction event that all the people like Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson talk about with the end of the Younger Dryas, the Younger Dryas impact. He thinks it's connected to this. And he thinks that site might have been hit. And all these animals probably in the great flood, their carcasses were washed into this sort of valley, in this one area where they were kind of trapped up against the side of this mountain. And so he hoses the mountain down with the, it's all permafrost, so it's all been frozen forever. And they have these high pressure hoses, and they hose it until they expose like a tusk. And they have, this is what they do all day.

**Joe Rogan** (2:24)
Yeah, those hoses are what they used to use for mining gold too.

**Jamie** (2:28)
Yes, that's why he has them. Yeah, that's exactly why he has them. He's a gold miner.

**Joe Rogan** (2:32)
Yeah, so this is around the southeast coast?

**Jamie** (2:35)
I don't know exactly what part of Alaska he's in, but it's really, really amazing stuff.

**Joe Rogan** (2:41)
Yeah.

**Jamie** (2:41)
And another thing that he's exposed is that it's the Smithsonian, right, in New York? No. I think it's American history, AMNH. Find out what-

**Joe Rogan** (2:52)
Museum of Natural History.

**Jamie** (2:53)
Museum of Natural History. So they had, from the same property before he owned it, way back in like, I think it was the 30s. They had so many bones from this part of Alaska, where the previous people had found them, that they didn't have any room to store them, so they dumped them in the East River. And so they denied that the previous people, obviously it's people that are long dead, they denied that this happened, and so he sent a bunch of divers out there, and so they're recovering like these mammoth bones and all these like bison bones, step bison bones in the East River, that are all from his property in Alaska.

**Joe Rogan** (3:35)
Yeah, it'd be hard to explain how they got there otherwise.

**Jamie** (3:38)
There's only one, I mean, it's the literal exact spot to look to. Like he knew exactly where to go. It was all, there's records of it, of like where they dumped it, because, and they still to this day have just crates of these bones.

**Joe Rogan** (3:51)
Yeah, is that the reason he chose where he is living in Alaska is because of-

**Jamie** (3:55)
I don't believe so. No, he was there for gold mining. I think it was something that came up along the way. You know, because he's a gold miner, he's got a lot of disposable income. So he's willing to just spend it on his own to do this. Because he doesn't trust the museums anymore because they screwed over the previous owner. And even though it's his property and his land, he's supposed to get that stuff and they don't want to give it to him.
And so he's got his own research facility that he built. He spent millions of dollars building this enormous research facility on his property so that they could study these bones. He's got warehouses full of them.