The theory of Z

February 25, 2009 3:51 PM

Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the Amazon in 1925 whilst searching for the City of Z. Some believe that he is alive and well and living in a subterranean world with Extra-/Intra-Terrestrials.
posted by tellurian (28 comments total)

It happens in a collision of local energy of the Portal with an aura of Sensitivity, the physical body undergoes a vibrational impact. Specific glands enter in an accelerated action, segregating thus organ-chemical elements that run through specific channels, reaching the brain, refining themselves through the nose and reaching the brain and the pineal, which ends up in wakening the emotion, thus reaching the Portal of the Soul.

Makes sense to me.
posted by ornate insect at 4:08 PM on February 25, 2009 [2 favorites]

In what I find the strangest combination of brilliantly scientific and absolutely batshitinsane, tullurian has completely flipped my mind.
posted by subaruwrx at 4:13 PM on February 25, 2009

Sometimes it's just nice to have a mystery solved-- to discover an answer that, immediately, you feel in your gut to be true.

It is one of life's small but precious rewards.
posted by darth_tedious at 4:20 PM on February 25, 2009 [1 favorite]

Do all detect them?

All human beings of physics-economy constitution with the major adherence of atoms (the sensitive ones)

So I'm not of physics-economy constitution with the major adherence of atoms (the sensitive ones)? How do I break this to my mother?
posted by ob at 4:28 PM on February 25, 2009

see also:

Prehispanic Raised Field Agriculture

Some NatGeo

Terra Preta

Bonus Insanity
posted by Panjandrum at 4:28 PM on February 25, 2009 [1 favorite]

Is this a promo for the new "Land of the Lost" movie?
posted by GuyZero at 4:33 PM on February 25, 2009

Some insane whackos believe that he is alive and well and living in a subterranean world...

FTFY
posted by DU at 4:47 PM on February 25, 2009

The "Stonehenge of the Amazon" mention got my attention. It's not exactly the 'astronomical observatory tower made of huge granite rocks' the author describes, but still really cool. These folks took some nice snapshots back in 2006, when the discovery broke.
posted by steef at 4:56 PM on February 25, 2009

comic sans websites are teh trustworthy. (Nice post!)
posted by dabitch at 5:16 PM on February 25, 2009

Brad Pitt has bought the film rights to The Lost City of Z.
posted by futility closet at 5:37 PM on February 25, 2009

These folks took some nice snapshots back in 2006

The Staub family sounds like people I would want to meet. They were not missionaries. I love the line from Luke.
posted by parmanparman at 6:23 PM on February 25, 2009

Some believe that he is alive and well and living in a subterranean world with Extra-/Intra-Terrestrials.

<Marge Simpson> Ooooh! Metafilter became Fox News so gradually I never even noticed!</Marge Simpson>
posted by Hovercraft Eel at 6:40 PM on February 25, 2009

I don't think I've ever run into the word "intraterrestrial" before.

This sounds like "Phantom Empire". (Which I saw on TV when I was a kid, and it was awesome!)
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 8:03 PM on February 25, 2009

I want to go to there!
posted by longsleeves at 8:08 PM on February 25, 2009

That Amazonian Stonehenge look pretty cool and weird in a completely differentt way to Stonehenge.
posted by Artw at 9:04 PM on February 25, 2009

The David Grann article from the Boston Globe is fascinating -- it seems Fawcett really knew what he was talking about, and nobody believed him. The next few years should be very interesting as archaeologists discover more about the Amazonian civilization. I hope they also find what happened to Fawcett.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 9:40 PM on February 25, 2009

I agree Kraft, the article written by the non bci people was very interesting.
posted by jellywerker at 11:40 PM on February 25, 2009

I read a book called, I think, Expedition Fawcett when I was ten, and I read it more than once. In the same year I read Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World.

By Crikey, those two were a dose of the scares.
posted by Wolof at 11:40 PM on February 25, 2009

futility closet: Brad Pitt has bought the film rights to The Lost City of Z.

I can only hope it is as historically accurate as Troy.

Oh, look! He'll be doing a rendition of the Odyssey as well! What a trifecta of KILL ME NOW!.
posted by Panjandrum at 12:26 AM on February 26, 2009 [1 favorite]

History will look back on us and our film adaptations and be very, very glad we are in the ground.
posted by jellywerker at 12:34 AM on February 26, 2009

What about the Deros?
posted by kcds at 5:11 AM on February 26, 2009

Some believe that he is alive and well and living in a subterranean world with Extra-/Intra-Terrestrials.

Some are wrong.
posted by IvoShandor at 5:20 AM on February 26, 2009

Harrison Ford also got seriously lost in a similar plot only last year.
posted by Skeptic at 6:40 AM on February 26, 2009

Which makes me think: wasn't the Crystal Skull's "Professor Oxley" more than a little inspired by Fawcett?
posted by Skeptic at 6:43 AM on February 26, 2009

If you're down with Z, well then you're down with me.
posted by unknowncommand at 7:00 AM on February 26, 2009

They better watch out for the lava men on their way to meet Lord Kinbote.
posted by cereselle at 7:57 AM on February 26, 2009

Oddly enough, I've just recently started rewatching The Mysterious Cities of Gold. And I found out a few days after I started that they're starting the series up again, as well as producing a movie!
posted by FatherDagon at 8:37 AM on February 26, 2009

I just finished reading the book. It's great.

SPOILER ALERT!

Percy H. Fawcett is probably dead.
posted by lukemeister at 9:39 PM on March 22, 2009