Stefan Rattin's 'captive Fawcett'

In 1932 a Swiss trapper, Stefan Rattin, claimed he had met an old white man held captive by an Indigenous group in the Xingu, whom he believed was Fawcett.

1932 CE · -11.50, -54.00 · status: claim

The account

Rattin set off back into the forest to rescue him and was never heard from again. Position approximate.

The sceptical view

Rattin's story was never confirmed and Fawcett's family doubted it.

Connections in the atlas

• Percy Fawcett vanishes seeking 'Z'

Sources

1. Penn Museum: The Lost Explorer