Robert Evans

Because you're going to ruin whatever you're wearing if you take it into the coal mine.

And because he doesn't want to destroy his best suit, once he gets into his position down there, because he's spending the whole day alone, he just strips naked and he wraps the suit in newspaper and he works in the nude all day.

Then at the end of his shift, he like cleans his face and his hands off and he puts the suit back on.

And so it appears as he walks out that he's leaving the mine wearing a clean suit, looking like he had when he'd gone down the start of the day.

Quote, in the history of coal mining, no one had spent eight hours underground and emerged clean.

Not a smudge on the collar or cuffs.

Witchcraft it may not be, but unnatural it certainly was.

And I was branded from that moment.

Right?

What's so weird, dude?

That's really odd, Jimmy.

Oh, shit.

So Dan Davies, the author of In Plain Sight, asked him about this decades, like 60-something years later.

And when he asks Jimmy about this moment, like why he did this, Saville responded, I wasn't sure what it did, but it did develop my out-of-the-box thinking.

I didn't do it for any reason.

I just realized that going back clean would freak people out.

And it did.

I realized that being a bit odd meant there could be a payday.

That's going to be super important.

Well, some of that I think is just because he wants to really judge up how difficult and even though he seems to have had basically the best job you could have down there.