Case file · High strangeness
The 'Fawcett bones' of 1951
In 1951 the sertanista Orlando Villas-Bôas received bones from the Kalapalo that were said to be Fawcett's. Analysis in London showed they were not.
1951 CE · -12.18, -53.37 · status: explained
The account
The bones were returned to Villas-Bôas in 1964. In 1998 a Kalapalo elder told explorer Benedict Allen they were not Fawcett's. Position approximate, Kalapalo area of the upper Xingu.