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Strange Matters Podcast

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Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Lt. Colonel Percival Harrison Fawcett was a man among men. A leader in the British military and an expedition who had been out on countless excursions into uncharted and enemy territory was obsessed with the idea of a lost yet wondrous city in the deep jungle of the Amazon. In the early 20th century, he set out on his third and last expedition in search of this great alleged myth. This adventure would present numerous obstacles including but not limited to vicious jaguars, reptiles and angry natives.
2 long years passed without any word from the rugged Fawcett, his son Jack and Jack’s friend Raleigh Rimell. Various different explanations have been suggested many of which have significant degrees of plausibility. Could these brave men have gone native and simply joined the Indians in the Amazonian jungle? Perhaps a strange obsession with the cult known as Theosophy had something to do with their disappearance. Listen in to this episode and find out!
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0:00.0	And the Oh, Welcome back to another episode of the Strange Matters podcast where we discuss anything just outside the norm
0:34.8	ranging from bizarre and unexplained to the supernatural and paranormal and everything in
0:39.8	between. I'm your host for this episode and my name is Eric.
0:44.0	So tonight we're going to be discussing a topic known as The Lost City of Z and the Disappearance of Percy Fawcett.
0:54.0	And this is another Patreon suggested episode.
0:57.0	So big thanks to Tim for supporting our podcast
1:01.0	and also for the awesome suggestion.
1:05.0	Now at face value, this was not the typical topic that would jump out to me
1:10.0	is what I personally consider strange. The disappearance of Percy Fawcett has numerous
1:15.8	potential explanations, but it was only when I got deep into the literature that I discovered
1:22.4	how truly odd this individual actually was.
1:28.4	Percy Fawcett was a British-born explorer and he was actually a colonel in the British military.
1:35.1	Born in 1867 he was a rugged individual by anyone's definition and was obsessed with this concept of an ancient lost city known as Z.
1:49.9	He believed that this lost city existed somewhere in the Amazonian jungle in the Mato Grasso region of Brazil and he planned a track into the wilderness in 1925.
2:02.0	Colonel Fawcett expected that he would make history for discovering the city, a city that many
2:08.8	archaeologists believed was fictional.
2:11.3	However, on May 29th, he and his two companions would disappear without a trace.
2:17.0	Interestingly, many explorers would set off in search of evidence surrounding this strange disappearance.
2:23.0	However, many of them would disappear never to be found again.
2:27.0	Colonel Fawcett was as many people would expect a stereotypical in the British military. He had done a tour of duty in World War I and also served as a top
2:47.4	secret spy in Morocco. This man had spent several years alone in the woods without contact with any sort of modern civilization.
2:57.0	Legends of his adventures into the wilderness had previously captivated people all over the world, as he would frequently venture out with a little more than a machete, a compass, and an iron will.
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