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PREPARED   EXPEDITION:

Matto Grosso – Brasil

4.9.2009 – 2.10.2009

The main objectives of an expedition :

1) To search for The Lost City of Colonel Fawcett.

The English Colonel Fawcett set out in 1925 on the expedition into the unexplored interior of Matto Grosso with hope to find a large ruined city of the remote past.. But he disappeared and has never returned. His „lost city“ was reportedly built by forgotten civilization of old.

Indians, whose territory lay between Xingu and Araguaia river, spoke of strange temples and ruined houses with could lights – stone balls and crystals on the pillars which absorb daylight and then emit that light at night.

We would like to take a sample of that luminous material still unknown to science. And to take a pictures of that city and strange ancient inscriptions (member of our expedition is an archeologist). Our biggest problem is figuring out how to locate the ruins in the vast, impenetrable jungle. The only viable solution is a birds-eye exploration. A pilot could explore in an hour what would take a month on foot. But we could not afford a helicopter. For us it will be too expensive. So we opted for a motor paraglider – in practice, a motor propelled parachute. One of us is a pilot with this parachute. On the Google Earth satelite map we have found some anomalous places which need closer examination from parachute and then by foot.

2) To search for caves and entrences to the underground realm in Roncador Mountain.

Initially we wanted to search only for Fawcwtt´s lost city, but after studying all materials and reading 'The Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett' website, we found out that the Fawcett´s main aim was to get in the underground realm, somewhere in Roncador Mountais, rather. So we changed a little our plan and now we want to search for caves and entrences to the underground too.

This caves are allegedly guarding by Morcegos Indians (Bat Indians)

Morcegos are native warriors and fight using “metaphysical techniques” too. They are dangerous because you never know when and how many morcegos are looking for you in that jungle. They are invisible and follow you during all the time and you do not can see them!

Morcegos is not a clan Xavante. They are another type of Indians, short structure of body, darks, but strong and fast.

3) The legend of the Enchanted Lake

Near the Xavante village, in the Kuluene reservation, lies a very mysterious lake. The Xavante people believe that bad spirits dwell in this lake. The lake is called ‘a lagoa encantada’ (the enchanted lake). They named it that, because there is no life in that water. One of the cacique has seen a UFO hovering over the lake on some occasions. Very little is known about this lake.

4) Cryptozoological mysteries (unknown animals and beasts)

We would like to collect stories and informations about animals as a mapinguary, giant anaconda, minhacao etc.

And carnivorous devil trees too. Harold Wilkins in his book Secret Cities if South America writes: In Matto Grosso there is a devil tree, as big as a willow. It hides its branches deep in the earth, but if you go near it, the branches creep up from the soil, the tendrils curl over and catch you in their grip. If you are alone, you will never free yourself, till it has sucked the life out of your body. It will capture even a wild deer in this way.

Another such a Killer tree is a „ya-te-veo“ tree, with a short thick trunk and immense spine-like thorns along the edges. The shoots hang to the ground until an unwary person walks between them. Then they rise up, coil around the victim and slowly crush the body against the thorns until it is drained of blod, which is absorbed through the surface of the trunk.