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Creature record / 1914

Percy Fawcett and the Maricoxi hairy men

1914 · Upper Mequéns, Colorado and Branco rivers, Guaporé basin, Rondônia, Brazil
19Thinly documented Cryptid Creature 27 sources 10 videos

1914. The Guaporé basin, near the Bolivian border, in what is now Rondônia, Brazil. Percy Harrison Fawcett had been warned. His hosts, the friendly Maxubi, spoke of hostile neighbours called the Maricoxi. Then two figures appeared on the trail, about a hundred yards away. They were moving at a trot and talking rapidly. They saw the explorers and stopped dead. Arrows went to bows. Fawcett described them as "large, hairy men with exceptionally long arms, and with foreheads sloping back from pronounced eye ridges." A gun was fired. Decades later, his story made Maricoxi a byword for South American ape-men. A historian sees something else in it. Real people, and an explorer's prejudice.

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Context

Near the Mequéns, on Brazil's bank of the Guaporé River, Fawcett stayed with a people he called the Maxubi. They were friendly and hospitable. They also gave him a warning. Their neighbours were hostile. They were called the Maricoxi.

Sources (27, most influential first)

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  2. Lost city of fantasy · The Spectator Australia· 2017-04-01 · Press, book, documentary · news
  3. 7 More Mysterious Ape-men · Mental Floss · Press, book, documentary · news
  4. The Maricoxi · bhaidin.com· 2018-05-30 · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog
  5. Percy Fawcett · HistoricMysteries · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog