Secrets of the Dead: Lost in the Amazon

In 1925, famed explorer Col. Percey Fawcett ventured into the Amazon for the last time. Along with his son Jack and his son’s best friend, Raleigh Fawcett had set out in search of a mysterious lost city he called Z. The exploration was a media spectacle. Fawcett’s dispatches from the jungle appeared in newspapers and on radio broadcasts around the world—until suddenly—the Fawcett party vanished without a trace. Despite numerous rescue attempts, search parties, rumors, and theories, just what happened to Col. Fawcett remains one of the greatest unsolved exploration mysteries ever.

Now, 86 years later, explorer Niall McCann travels to the Amazon armed with new clues to unravel the truth of what really  happened to Fawcett and to share surprising finds that are causing experts to re-think the image of a pristine uninhabited Amazon rainforest—a place that before Columbus, may have had large populations living in sophisticated towns and cities.