Chuck Bryant

And as for this story, you know, it's pretty key that in the 1950s and then 60s, gas and oil reservoirs were found there and companies started licking their chops.

And they will come into play later, oil companies and gas companies being as being actually in, you know, finally kind of key to helping out science, you know, and scientists in their explorations.

Yeah, even though it's fairly shallow, it's still deep for back then.

That's right.

The first thing that happened, late 19th century, they started, you know, better fishing technology came along and you could fish a little bit deeper.

So they started fishing a little bit deeper, which is great because you can get, you know, a lot more fish down there.

But it was kind of a pain because they started dragging up what they called moor log, which is, you know, peat.

This kind of nasty clumped together peat.

And in that peat, sometimes they would find animal bones,

not fish bones, but like mammal bones.

And I guess it was the 19th century, so it just sort of hassled their fishing progress.

So they would just usually toss them overboard.

Occasionally, if they had some like really well-preserved, you know, skull or deer femur or something like that, they might keep it.

But that's when the first sort of whisperings of like something used to be down there started happening.

This is pretty cool.

Yeah.

He's a pretty great writer, too.

Man, we should do one on H.G.

Wells.

He deserves his own show, I think.