Today is Sunday, May 29th, 2022.

On this day in 1925, English explorer Percy Fawcett disappeared in the Amazon while searching for the legendary Lost City of Z.

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Welcome to Today in True crime, a Spotify original from PARCAST. Today we're covering Percy Fawcett's disappearance in the Amazon rainforest. Let's go back to May 29th,

1925 in the jungles of Western Brazil.

Armed with machetes, rifles, and a ukulele, three men trudged into the unmapped and wild rainforest.

They were looking for a city they called Z.

To their leader, 57-year-old English explorer Percy Fawcett,

Z was the equivalent of El Dorado. It was a lost and glorious city, buried deep in the Amazon rainforest.

The place was so dangerous that European anthropologists traditionally believed advanced civilization there would be impossible.

Fawcett even believed that Zee's culture could predate his own. By that point, Fawcett was already

an experienced explorer. He'd gone on seven map-making expeditions into the Amazon, surviving

piranhas, starvation, and arrow attacks. He'd also fought

in the trenches of World War I, spent time as a spy in Northern Africa, and won prestigious awards

back in England for geography research. But more than anything, he was obsessed with finding

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