Case file · High strangeness
'Redfern alive in the Tumuc-Humac'
In 1936 newspapers reported that Paul Redfern was alive in a village in the Tumuc-Humac mountains on the Suriname-Brazil border. A Suriname reporter later admitted in court the story was false and that he had been paid to spread it.
1936 CE · 2.33, -55.00 · status: hoax
The account
A 1935 report had described a crippled white man living with Amerindians at Paloemeu in Suriname; a consular expedition found nothing. In 1938 searcher Frederick Fox died in the forest.