Case file · Folklore / legend
Jimmie Angel and the river of gold
The American pilot Jimmie Angel claimed an old prospector had once flown him to a tepui with a river full of gold. Searching for it, he saw the world's highest waterfall in 1933 and crash-landed on Auyán-tepui on 9 October 1937.
1937 CE · 5.85, -62.53 · status: claim
The account
He, his wife and two companions walked down in eleven days. The falls are named Angel Falls after him; the Pemón call them Kerepakupai Merú.
The sceptical view
The gold river was never found.