You need have no fear of any failure. These were some of the last words. The British explorer

Percy Fawcett wrote to his wife before he disappeared forever in the Amazon rainforest.

Turns out she had plenty to worry about. In 1925, Fawcett, his son Jack and Jack's best friend

Raleigh Rimmel set out into the Amazon in search of a possible lost ancient city that Fawcett called Z.

Z had haunted the renowned explorer for years, finding it had truly become his obsession, and nothing would stop him from searching for it.

When two years passed with no word from the explorers, the Royal Geographical Society, the institution that had backed Fawcett off and on for more

than two decades, officially declared him missing. It was hard to believe that Fawcett, who had gained

worldwide fame for a number of other expeditions and wartime heroics, a man practically believed

to be immune to death, had gone without a trace. After he disappeared, finding Fawcett and the lost city of Z

became an obsession for a number of other explorers who ventured out into their own demise,

just as Fawcett had. A century later, Percy Fossett's fate still remains a mystery. Some said

he started his own civilization in the jungle, others that he found a portal to another world,

or that he was held hostage by indigenous people for many years, or died of natural causes,

or was quickly murdered. Accounts from indigenous residents of the region, which were largely

discounted until recent years, have possibly shed some light on he and his group's grim fate.

Today we will discuss the remarkable life and the mysterious disappearance of Percy

Harrison Fawcett, a real-life Indiana Jones, the legendary explorer whose obsession

with a fabled and fantastical hidden Amazonian city became his downfall on this historical, adventurous,

maybe don't fuck with the jungle because the jungle will definitely fuck with you.

Edition of TimeSuck.

This is Michael McDonald, and you're listening to TimeSuck.

You're listening to TimeSuck.

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