He Wasn’t Lying
“What the archaeologists said at the time was that because there had never been a find down here before, they didn’t believe it,” he recounted during an interview. How could he prove that he was telling the truth?
How To Convince Them
Mike needed to convince them that he was telling the truth, so he dropped that he had reason to believe that there were human remains there. As soon as he said this, they changed their attitude in no time.