Could this be … the Final Fantasy of Fawcett? In this last episode of Fawcettmania, Cian sits by a stream and flicks the pages of ‘Brazil That Never Was’ by A.J. Lees, as well as articles by arch Fawcett-dismisser John Hemming. In an episode as thrilling as a mid-Victorian face-off between rival explorers at a packed RGS debate, we conclude:

-confirmation (probably) of the date when Conan Doyle attended Colonel Percy’s lecture!

-tangents about John Hanning Speke and a descendent at a London punk gig

-Fawcett writes for Occult Review and uses his Ouija board in the trenches of WW1

-John Hemming says Fawcett discovered nothing; Brian Fawcett says Jack Fawcett is a waster who ‘reads Fu Manchu novels!’

-Fawcett describing a real tribe as Bigfoot-like savages is pretty horrific

-Cork mystic Geraldine Cummins makes an unlikely return to the show

-Fawcett is (maybe) seduced by a fairy woman in Carrigaline; Brian is (definitely) seduced by a fairy woman and sees miniature UFOs

Links:

Buy Me A Coffee, you swine!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

Brazil That Never Was, A.J. Lees, 2020.

https://www.nottinghilleditions.com/product/brazil-that-never-was/

Lost City Of Fantasy, John Hemming, The Spectator, 2017

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lost-city-of-fantasy

Mutant Museum reading ‘The Monster Of Partridge Creek!’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWI3yYe7s6s

Dr Edward Guimont visits the Betty & Barney Hill Collection

https://twitter.com/edward_guimont/status/1544711639999676418