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| Fawcett in 1911. Image credit Wikipedia. |
I suppose I am Sherlock Holmes, if anybody is.Lieutennant Colonel Percival Harrison Fawcett (18 August 1867 – circa 1925?) was an English military officer and explorer, who explored the Amazon Rainforest in his later years. He expressed belief in the lost city of "Z", the Mitla, double-nosed dogs and giant spiders, and claimed to have shot a giant anaconda himself.
In 1925, Fawcett, his son, and his sons friend, travelled into the Amazon in search of the lost city of Z. The men, all three of which were in fairly bad shape, never returned from the Amazon, and are presumed to have sucummbed to illness, or been killed by the animals, terrain or hostile tribes.
One theory suggests that Fawcett fell victim to amnesia and lived out the rest of his life as chief of a tribe of cannibals.
An estimated 100 would-be-rescuers have died in more than 13 expeditions sent to uncover Fawcett's fate. Numerous sets of bones have been discovered, all of which have been found to be unconnected with Fawcett's expedition.
In June 1933, a theodolite compass belonging to Fawcett was found near the Baciary Indians of Mato Grosso by Colonel Aniceto Botelho. The compass had been left there by Fawcett as he went into the jungle for the last time.
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