2: Kuhikugu – The Lost City of Z
Deep within the Amazon jungle lies a huge ruin field that should prove to be the demise of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in these parts in the 1920s. It is still not known what exactly happened to Fawcett. However his Lost City of Z, the has been uncovered. In this remote region there once existed a large civilization that farmed the land.
The official story is that this civilization died out when the European diseases swept the land. Which is in and on itself horrible enough. But with ancient, lost civilizations deep within the jungle, it is fairly easy to come up with different, more sinister and maybe Lovecraftian explanations. Also Kuhikugu is quite unlike the Legend of El Dorado, it is not a myth or legend that grew out of the European lust for gold, but simply a largely unexplored and unexplained ruin field deep in the Amazonian rainforest.
