Case file · High strangeness
The 1996 Fawcett expedition held in the Xingu
In 1996 the Brazilian banker James Lynch and René Delmotte led an expedition to solve Fawcett's disappearance. In the upper Xingu members of the party were detained by local people and released after giving up their equipment.
1996 CE · -12.60, -53.10 · status: account
The account
The episode is told in David Grann's The Lost City of Z (2009). Position approximate, near Kuikuro territory.