Percy Fawcett: The Explorer Who Walked Into the Amazon and Never Returned

In 1925, legendary explorer Percy Fawcett set out with his son and his son’s best friend to find a lost city he called “Z.” They walked into one of the most unforgiving regions of the Amazon rainforest and vanished without leaving a single confirmed trace behind.

This episode breaks down the theories that have followed the case for nearly a century. You will hear about the belief that Fawcett reached a hidden community he had written about for years. You will also hear the idea that he crossed into something stranger, such as a portal or a shift in time. We look at the possibility of conflict with an isolated tribe, along with the very real dangers of the Amazon itself, including starvation, sickness, predators, and exposure.

We also explore the quieter theory that Fawcett and his team may not have died at all. Some believe they could have joined a remote community and lived out their lives far from the world they left behind.

In this episode, we walk through one of the most haunting unsolved cases in American history: the 1912 Villisca Axe Murders. We explore the suspects, the theories that divided a town, the strange clues left behind, and the chilling possibility that the killer returned to the Stillinger girls’ room after the murders.

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Season 2 opens the door to a deeper, stranger, more intimate exploration of the stories that cling to the edges of our communities; the hauntings we inherit, the mysteries we can’t shake, and the histories that refuse to stay buried.

This season, we’re venturing into some of the most unsettling and compelling stories ever told, including:

• The Villisca Axe Murders and the eerie echoes inside that still Iowa home
• The strange, magnetic pull of Mount Shasta and the legends that refuse to die
• The doomed Franklin Expedition and the spectral trail it left across the Arctic
• The Mothman sightings that spiraled into prophecy, panic, and folklore
• The Vatican Secret Archives and the shadows cast by centuries of hidden history
• UFO encounters, unexplained disappearances, and the patterns no one wants to acknowledge
• Cryptids, conspiracies, and the stories that thrive in the dark corners of belief

Season 2 is more atmospheric, more personal, and more unsettling; a descent into the shadows with intention, curiosity, and respect.

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