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Twisted 2s #60 Harrison Fawcett & The Tombs Of Malaga

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🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Please support Scary Mysteries! Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/scarymysteries... - There's a lot of cool access, giveaways and even a custom episode!Buy awesome original shirts made by Scary Mysteries https://newdawnfilm.com/scary-mysteri...Subscribe for Weekly Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiE8..._________________________________________________________Scary Mysteries Twisted Two's:Percy Harrison Fawcett and the Tombs of MalagaTales of hauntings, murder and scary mysteries. Every week Twisted Two's dives into a pair of uniquely terrifying true stories that are worthy of a more in depth look.For this week we focus on the grand English adventurer, Harrison Fawcett, and the mysterious Tombs of Malaga. Get ready for scary mysteries Twisted Two's. #1 Percy Harrison Fawcett Hailed as the inspiration for Indiana Jones and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World,” Colonel Harrison Fawcett is your quintessential English adventurer.Fawcett once served in the British army as an artillery man in Sri Lanka. He did a tour of duty during World War I and worked as a secret spy in Morocco. But of course, it was his grand explorations in the Amazon that made him a famous name. He proclaimed the Amazon as “the last great blank space in the world” so in 1906, he began his adventures in this uncharted portion of Brazil and Bolivia. #2 The Tombs of MalagaLocated 50 km from Malaga in Antequera, Spain are some of the most important megalithic monuments found in Europe. Every year, thousands of tourists visit these tombs, trying to figure out what secrets they held. Called a dolmen, these were officially found and recorded between 1903 to 1905 but it’s estimated the tombs date as far back as 5,000 years old.Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Scary mysteries, mysteries, twisted twos, Harrison Fawcett, and the the Tomb of Malaga.

0:12.8

Tales of Hauntings, Murder, and Scary Mysteries.

0:16.0

Every week, Twisted Toes dives into a pair of uniquely terrifying true stories that are worthy

0:20.5

of a more in-depth look.

0:22.0

For this week, we focus on the Grand English adventurer Harrison Fawcett

0:27.0

and the mysterious tombs of Malaga.

0:29.0

Get ready for scary mysteries, twisted twos. Number one, Harrison Fawcett.

0:37.0

Hailed as the inspiration for Indiana Jones and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, Colonel

0:46.6

Harrison Fawcett is your quintessential English adventurer.

0:51.1

He once served in the British Army as an artillery man in Sri Lanka.

0:55.0

He did a tour of duty during World War I and worked as a secret spy in Morocco.

1:00.0

But of course it was his grand explorations into the Amazon that made him a famous name.

1:06.0

He proclaimed the Amazon as the last great blank space in the world.

1:11.0

So in 1906 he began his adventures in this uncharted portion of Brazil and Bolivia.

1:17.0

Fawcett frequently traveled into the jungles and the more he did, the more he started developing

1:22.4

a theory that it advanced an ancient city

1:25.1

was hiding inside this uncharted region. For a long time rumors of an ancient city with

1:30.7

streets paved with silver and roofs made of gold circulated among the local

1:35.2

inhabitants near the jungle.

1:37.6

Fawcett then came across a Portuguese fortune hunters account in 1753 where he said he found a metropolis inside the jungle of great

1:46.5

size and grandeur near the Mato Grasso region.

1:51.0

It said the city he saw was silver laden with multi-storied buildings and soaring stone

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