Lost Fawcett: how the esoteric traveler turned into a legend (9 photos)

This man became famous during his lifetime. But the true confession came to the colonel after his disappearance.





Percy Fawcett (1867-1925), British explorer traveler and topographer who disappeared under strange circumstances - while searching for a lost city in the Brazilian jungle.



Percy Fawcett

Adventurous and wanderlust boy inherited from his father, who was a member of the Royal Geographical society. Percy chose a career in the military, served in intelligence and unlearned topographer. Fawcett was friends with such famous writers as G. Ryder Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Versions of the disappearance - plausible and not very



Percy Fawcett

The man was fond of archeology since his youth. And I was sure the existence of the mysterious ancient cities of the Atlanteans in the jungle of Brazil. Therefore, during the normal work of preparing maps, he simultaneously was also looking for evidence.



Jack and Raleigh

The colonel managed to take part in seven expeditions. In 1925 year, he, along with his eldest son Jack and his friend Raleigh Rymel went to the next and the last. Based on ancient manuscripts and legends, Fawcett came to the conclusion that the existence somewhere in the area plateau of Mato Grosso ancient city that was once inhabited representatives of an advanced civilization, it's true. He gave the city a code the name is "Z".



Xingu River

Oddly enough, Fawcett left a note urging asked not to send a search expedition in case he was with the guys will disappear. After crossing by a small group a tributary of the Amazon - the river The Xingu never heard from them again.



Kayapo Indians

The most common explanation for the disappearance is attack by aggressive cannibals. In the spring of 1932, new circumstances. A missionary with a history showed up at the embassy in Rio told to him by an Indian friend. The woman said that the men captured by the Aruvudu Indians. The narrator herself was from a neighboring the Kuykurus tribe. Three white men once came to their village, one much older. He was married to the daughter of an Aravudu chief. They traveled from one village to another until one day they were attacked by the Indians and did not fall at the hands of the attackers.

A year later, a compass belonging to Fawcett. What is strange, he was whole, working, looked like he was behind him carefully looked after and put among the trees specially.



Supposed remains of the Colonel

Although the colonel insisted that he not be looked for in case there will be no news for more than a year, some enthusiasts after the discovery tried to organize several rescue expeditions. Which gave completely different information.

According to one version, the colonel died, according to another, he was alive. Representatives of the third said that they found Fawcett in captivity in one of the tribes. The wife and second son refused to recognize the colonel on the received description. Even the grave of the unfortunate was found, but the bones brought were the remains of Fossett, Jack and Raleigh, which was shown much later DNA analysis.



Guilt for death is mercy killing as men were sick and doomed to a painful death, took upon themselves dozens of different tribes. But none could give any intelligible evidence. What spawned another version, already beyond: Fawcett founded a colony among the Indians and made his son the new white god. For the sake of what actually went to this risky expedition.



Shot from the movie "The Lost City of Z"

Another group of researchers, the smallest one, believes in that the colonel found the lost cities of Atlantis, where he remained. A since he was firmly convinced of the success of his project, he did not specifically gave the exact direction of his journey and insisted that he was not looked for.