The Erie area was set abuzz after TV host John Oliver selected The Erie Seawolves baseball team to receive a re-branding campaign of his choice. Oliver and his staff decided to rename the team the "Erie Moon Mammoths" for at least four games this season. The excitement would not be taking place right now if one man did not make an amazing discovery 34 years ago.

It was diver George Moon who discovered a large bone deep under the surface of Lake Pleasant in the summer of 1991. The bone was from an ancient woolly mammoth, the same mammoth that has piqued the interest of TV host John Oliver. I want to find out more about George Moon, the man whose discovery is creating such a hoopla 34 years later.

George has joined me along the shores of Lake Pleasant. I asked him to meet me here as it is the perfect spot for him to remember back to that day 34 years ago when he found that large mammoth bone. He tells me he was teaching a diving class with fellow diver Gary Liebel. George says he decided to take a relaxing dive on his own.

"When we dive for fun usually our hands are down in the mud and silt as deep as we can reach,” George tells me. “We're looking for things fishermen have dropped. An old bottle. You know.  Just for little things.”

What George found under the mud was not little. He immediately knew he discovered something special.

"I found it. I pulled it out of the mud and it was big. I came up to the surface. I held it to Gary. Look I found a dinosaur bone! And he gave me that look like, You're an idiot," George says with a laugh.

George returned the bone to the spot where he found it. That very day he called Dr. Jude Kirkpatrick, of the anthropology department at Gannon University. Dr. Kirkpatrick soon declared that the bone was from a mammoth that roamed the area 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. Dr. Kirkpatrick believed more bones were buried at that spot underneath Lake Pleasant. He asked George to keep the location of the discovery a secret. George, are you good at keeping secrets?

"Sometimes I am,” George says with a laugh. “When I think they matter, I'm real good at keeping secrets."

200 bones from the mammoth were eventually found. During the recovery project, the mammoth was named “The Moon Mammoth.” The bones are now in storage at the Pennsylvania Historical Museum in Harrisburg. To George's surprise, the legend of the Moon Mammoth has now been resurrected by John Oliver. Several weeks ago, out of the blue, George received a call from Oliver's staff who informed him that the Seawolves were chosen for the re-brand. They asked him to take part in the big re-brand celebration at the ballpark. They also asked him to keep everything a secret until the official announcement.

"Another big secret I had to sit on for like a month,” says George with yet another laugh.

George says he got his proverbial 15 minutes of fame back in 1991. He says with the latest headlines about the Moon Mammoth, he’s getting 15 and a half minutes.