The History of Colonel Fawcett

Percy Harrison Fawcett DSO (18 August 1867 – disappeared 29 May 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist and explorer of South America. He disappeared in 1925 (along with his eldest son, Jack, and one of Jack's friends, Raleigh Rimmel) during an expedition to find an ancient lost city which he and others believed existed in the Amazon rainforest.

În May 1910 he lectured in London before Royal Geographical Society about his expeditions.

His audience was astonished to learn about Morcegos a bat like race that sleeps by day in a great hole in the ground and emergenfrom their subterranean holes at night. They have a keen eyesight and a tightened sense of smell.

The Morcegos are a legendary tribe that hunt down and kill anybody who acts selfishly in the Amazon. Often used in stories told to frighten the local children into acting selflessly, the Morcegos are known to blind their victims as to make them more vulnerable.

Note of the author;

(In US there is a mothman museum or a.museum of humanoid with wings.

https://www.mothmanmuseum.com/mothman-museum.html

Mothman, in West Virginian folklore, is a humanoid creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area from November 15th, 1966, to December 15th, 1967.

Two gravediggers in Clendenin, West Virginia saw a black figure fly over their heads while digging a grave in a cemetery. They didn't know it then, but they are credited with being the first people to see the famous Mothman. According to legend, Mothman is a black 10-foot creature with wings and red eyes.

Rumor has it that, just before the December 15, 1967, collapse of the US Highway 35 Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, a 7-foot-tall monster with large, piercing red eyes and huge, mothlike wings was seen lurking nearby, warning of the impending catastrophe.

They reported seeing a creature with eyes that 'glowed red' when hit by the headlights of their car. It was a 'large flying man with ten-foot wings' according to their accounts. The couples had been in the area where an old WW2 munitions plant existed called 'the TNT area'.)

Albert McDonald and the Hollow Earth Society believed that Colonel Fawcett reached the Lost City found a tunnel keading to the Inner Earth and vanished into the inner land.

Ray Levin a treasure hunter has spent several months searching for lost cities tunel entrances and buried treasures in South America. He wrote that in South America believe that Colonel Fawcett was not searching for a dead city. He was looking for a subterranean city that is inhabited by the survivors of Atlantis.

There is said to be a tunel entrance somewhere in the Roncador mountains. That the shaft leads down into a subterranean metropolis. Ray Levin was told that once you enter the tunels you are not allowed to leave which is one way to explain Fawcett disappearance.

He found the city that fabled golden  proof of Atlantis but he was not allowed to return and tell the story.

Fawcett's first expedition to South America was launched in 1906, after he RGS sent him to Brazil to map a jungle area at the border with Bolivia.The RGS had been commissioned to map the area as a third party unbiased by local national interests. Fawcett arrived in La Paz in June. While on the expedition in 1907, he claimed to have seen and shot a 62-foot (19 m) long giant anaconda, a claim for which he was ridiculed by scientists. He reported other mysterious animals unknown to zoology, such as a small cat-like dog about the size of a foxhound, which he claimed to have seen twice, and the giant Apazauca spider, which was said to have poisoned a number of locals.^[13][14] The giant peanuts which he found in the Mato Grosso region were almost certainly Arachis nambyquarae which has legumes up to 3.5 inches (nine cm) in length.

Fawcett made seven expeditions between 1906 and 1924. He was mostly amicable with the local indigenous peoples through gifts, patience and courteous behaviour. In 1908 he traced the source of the Rio Verde (Brazil) and in 1910 made a journey to Heath River (on the border between Bolivia and Peru) to find its source, having retired from the British Army on 19 January. In 1911, Fawcett once again returned to the Amazon and charted hundreds of miles of unexplored jungle, accompanied by his trusted, longtime exploring companion, Henry Costin, and biologist and polar explorer James Murray. After a 1913 expedition, Fawcett supposedly claimed to have seen dogs with double noses. These may have been double-nosed Andean tiger hounds.

Based on documentary research, Fawcett had by 1914 formulated ideas about a "lost city" he named "Z" (Zed) somewhere in the Mato Grosso.He theorized that a complex civilization once existed in the region and that isolated ruins might have survived. Fawcett also found a document known as Manuscript 512, written after explorations made in the sertão of the state of Bahia, and housed at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. It is believed to have been authored by Portuguese bandeirante João da Silva Guimarães [pt], who wrote that in 1753 he had discovered the ruins of an ancient city that contained arches, a statue and a temple with hieroglyphics; the city is described in great detail without providing a specific location. This city became a secondary destination for Fawcett, after "Z".

In 1924, with funding from a London-based group of financiers known as The Glove, Fawcett returned to Brazil with his eldest son Jack and Jack's longtime friend, Raleigh Rimmel, for an exploratory expedition to find "Z". Fawcett left instructions stating that if the expedition did not return, no rescue expedition should be sent lest the rescuers suffer his fate.

Fawcett was a man with years of experience traveling and had taken equipment such as canned foods, powdered milk, guns, flares, a sextant and a chronometer. His travel companions were both chosen for their health, ability and loyalty to each other; Fawcett chose only two companions in order to travel lighter and with less notice to indigenous tribes, as some were hostile towards outsiders.

On 20 April 1925, Fawcett's final expedition departed from Cuiabá. In addition to Jack and Rimmel, he was accompanied by two Brazilian laborers, two horses, eight mules and a pair of dogs. The last communication from the expedition was on 29 May when Fawcett wrote, in a letter to his wife delivered by a native runner, that he was ready to go into unexplored territory with only Jack and Rimmel. They were reported to be crossing the Upper Xingu, a southeastern tributary river of the Amazon River. The final letter, written from Dead Horse Camp, gave their location and was generally optimistic.^[27]

In January 1927, the RGS declared and accepted the men as lost, close to two years after the party's last message. Soon after this declaration, there was an outpouring of volunteers to attempt to locate the lost explorers. Many expeditions attempting to find Fawcett failed. At least one lone searcher died in the attempt.

Many people assumed that local indigenous peoples killed Fawcett's party, as several tribes were nearby at the time: the Kalapalos, the last tribe to have seen them; the Arumás; the Suyás; and the Xavantes, whose territory they were entering. According to explorer John Hemming, Fawcett's party of three was too few to survive in the jungle and his expectation that his indigenous hosts would look after them was likely to have antagonized them by failing to bring any gifts to repay their generosity.

Twenty years later, a Kalapalo chief called Comatzi told his people how unwelcome strangers were killed,but others have thought they became lost and died of starvation,and the bones provided by Comatzi turned out not to be those of Fawcett.