So what happened to the favorite son of the Bluegrass State? This is the untold truth of the Turtleman. After a seven-month investigation into Call of the Wildman , Mother Jones revealed not only the shady staging of the "rescues" on the show, but also some serious allegations of abuse and neglect of some of the animals featured. They described the production as "a culture that tolerated legally and ethically dubious activities.
Citing multiple examples of alleged animal mismanagement, Mother Jones suggests the production team was complicit in illegally drugging animals "in violation of federal rules," as well as failing to properly document "wildlife activities" for Kentucky officials. One such incident was the sedation of a zebra that Turtleman "caught" which show producers admitted they procured from a local drive-thru animal safari.
There was also the episode in which Turtleman cleared bats from a beauty shop that resulted in the death of one bat, and possibly violated local laws that prevent "bringing a bat to a new location for entertainment purposes alone," which show producers admitted they did to stage the scene.
Then there was the supposed rescue of three baby raccoons, which Turtleman stumbled upon after capturing the "mother" in a Kentucky family's laundry room. Turns out the momma raccoon was a male, and the babies had been trapped days earlier in preparation for the episode, according to raccoon expert Karen Bailey, who runs the Kentucky Wildlife Center.
After Turtleman "rescued" the raccoon cubs, Bailey was only able to save two of them at her center after show producers brought them to her in what she described as an "emaciated" and "almost dead" state.
I think this is a bad TV show, a badly scripted reality show. Animal Planet should know better," Bailey told LexGo. Although there was never an official cancellation announcement from Animal Planet, the Turtleman never returned after that dismal fourth season. In an interview with Channel Guide Magazine , Turtleman insisted he's the real deal.
Go ahead and try it! We're doing it live action. We're there, doing our thing. I'm catching animals, that's the way it is," he said. But the production company who brought the Turtleman into America's living rooms, according to Mother Jones , produces " guided reality " shows in which they find bold personalities, and then "heavily produce their stories. Animal Planet is actually remarkably open about this fact, as proven in statements made by Patricia Kollappallil, senior vice president of communications, who addressed an episode in which "a poisonous non-native snake was released into a city swimming pool without proper authorization," according to LexGo.
Sharp did bring in snakes. There are times for a story line we need a particular animal, and we'll work with a licenser to find the particular animal," Kollappallil said. Mother Jones also claims that "Sharp producers even go so far as to make fake animal droppings using Nutella, Snickers bars, and rice," as well as spoke with show producers who under the protection of anonymity said, "It was part of my job to call around people to trap animals at the direction of Sharp It's percent fake.
The past tense being the important emphasis there. In , the year before the show stopped shooting new episodes, Turtleman was hit with a violation of his NWCO license after an episode in which he wrangled a deer out of a store in exchange for "an authentic suit of armor. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife also confirmed to Mother Jones that Turtleman was no longer licensed in the state as a nuisance officer.
The official spokesperson for the department stopped short of saying specifically why that action was taken, although he did say of the show, "They shouldn't be doing anything in Kentucky.
Though it was never clearly spelled out that Turtleman became too much of a liability, the abrupt end of the show that same year pretty much speaks for itself. It's been years since the Turtleman shot new episodes of his show, but he's still a beloved figure nationwide. According to his Facebook page, the Turtleman made his first visit to Hillbilly Days in Pikeville, Kentucky where he shot a video showing himself learning how to make lemonade with one of the vendors.
It's not exactly the "live action" of him catching a beaver that's chewing away the supports of a collapsing mine , but he does do his signature yell while he's mixing the drink, so the flare is still there. He was also on hand at the Harrison County Recreation Complex in Clarksburg, West Virginia where fans lined up by the hundreds to meet the wildman.
He's the same thing off camera as he is on camera, and it's exciting. I don't care about celebrities, but this dude I care about," one eager fan told The Exponent Telegram while waiting to meet him. Maybe there's still a path back to TV stardom for the Turtleman—you know, just in case the lemonade stand doesn't work out. In fact, Earl Brown Jr. In an interview with Channel Guide Magazine , Brown talked about the origins of his nickname.
I was amazed, and I said, 'Daddy, let me try,'" he said. With his claim that he's now been catching turtles this way for " nearly 40 years ," that would put his date of birth somewhere around , which is not exactly a historical time period associated with people scavenging for food in this way. But it does explain a claim Brown casually tosses out in another interview with Syracuse. I got the famous part, but I haven't got the rich part figured out yet.
I'm the poorest famous guy around. If you could tell my fans to send my stamped, self-addressed envelopes I'd appreciate it. I try to answer each and every one. Aside from his giant knife, raccoon-tail cap, and wildman yelp, the Turtleman is also known for his dental deficiencies. Most people start correcting their oral hygiene the second they make any TV money , but not Turtleman. And sure, the natural inclination here is to think "His family was diving into ponds for dinner, there's no way they ever went to the dentist," but it seems nature didn't even have a chance to rot out those chompers, because a series of gruesome accidents did it first.
Speaking with Syracuse. The first one, a guy swung a chainsaw around and hit me in the face while we clearing some brush. That took stitches to sew me back up. I lost a few teeth there," he recalled. Okay, yep. He was found at his home in Washington County. Ernie Brown Jr.
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