Luke Caverns
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1,858 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 May
Luke Caverns’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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ah, man, he would be like your best, like your all-time guest, you know, if you could have him on. Sure. He had a great accent, too. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And so you listen to his audio book, and the way he talks about meeting the indigenous people that live deep in the Amazon, you know, it would take him weeks to get to these little villages.
And while he was out there, he would see like the systematic mathematical structure with which they would set up these giant villages and how they would build these huge like thatch wood homes with foundations that are stones. And these people were – he said that they had like beautiful skin. They spoke elegantly. They sang songs.
And he was like – he's like this isn't – he's like these people in the Amazon are not – primitive savages, like my colleagues at the Royal Geographic Society in London believe that they are. These are people who are the descendants of a fallen great civilization. He was like, the way they interact with each other is so sophisticated.
I don't quite know. There's some things that are left out. He has some... Before he started writing this, I think he always had these ideas in the back of his mind. And so you don't really get the origin of why he initially started thinking this. But while he's exploring South America, he's hearing all these stories of semi-contacted people. You have...
natives who still live the native life, but they can speak Spanish. And he could speak a little bit of Spanish and communicate with these people. So he would hear about, oh, yeah, there's this huge city of gold off in the jungle. Months travel that way. And it's the same kind of legend that all these Spaniards had heard.
So it's this idea of, well, there was this civilization that used to be out there. And so Percy thought that maybe it has something to do with Atlantis. And so that was part of his journey looking for it. And then he it's actually his wife, Nina Fawcett, I believe, when she's in a library in England, she finds a Portuguese document. I think it's manuscript 512. Have you ever heard of this?
I could have the name of it wrong, but I think it's manuscript 512. And in that, it's these guys who are kind of like semi-professional Portuguese explorers in the mid 1700s that are going around Brazil. And they find this huge stone city with statues that they thought looked like Greek gods in the middle of the Amazon.
And so, you know, the perception, like my perception looking back through it is like, well, I mean, yeah, these are Portuguese guys who come from Europe. So when they see something that's native. Their only lens to see it through is what they've grown up knowing, which is the Greek and Roman world. So that's how they communicate this idea.
But they found this big stone city in the middle of, I think it's, I'm pretty sure it's Brazil's jungle. And so this was completely forgotten until Percy's wife found this. So When he first went down to the Amazon, he was only there on a mapping expedition on behalf of Great Britain, which he was probably a spy.
I'm guessing that that's what was actually happening there because he was a spy when he was in the military. And I think what he was doing is on an official basis, he's charting the border around Brazil with the Amazon River. But really what he's doing is collecting information so that maybe Great Britain can have a colony there someday. But then the war disrupts all of that.
And he has to go fight in World War One, which is funny because it's the same thing the Nazis were doing in the 1930s. But anyways, so while he's there on his first while he's there on his first expedition, he doesn't initially I think he's interested in these ideas of ancient history. But it's when he's there and he's off in the jungle, he's finding all these artifacts on the ground.
And he was like, he's like. The way that the pottery – there's clay pottery and then there's stone vessels and eating utensils that he was finding, really elegant little statues and things. He found one that was made out of this solid black stone that he could never – and it had this glow to it. And he could never – maybe not a glow but like a –
Like if you shine the light on it, you can tell that it's translucent in a way. I've seen stones like this in the Aztec realm. They have these scepters that have these orb things on the top. And if you shine a light on it, it's like this otherworldly looking thing. I can only imagine if you're on like peyote.
I don't know. And it's missing now. It's lost. It went missing with him or somewhere in his expeditions that doesn't exist anymore. But there's an illustration of it in exploration faucet that you could find.
And so he thought like when he was seeing all this on his first expedition, he's like, wait, these aren't these primitive savages that all my colleagues that I don't even like back home think that these people are. This is it. This is an advanced culture. There's something that's lost here.
And so Percy didn't know if it was a fallen civilization that lived in the Amazon or whether it was still out there somewhere. And he was trying to find either the ruins of it or the living city, right? So he didn't really know if it was fallen or not.
Sure, sure.
Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I don't know.
Yeah, yeah. But I do know that he had the utmost admiration and respect for these people. Like, he was completely infatuated with their way of life and trying to—you know, what his goal was— was to prove that the narrow-minded perspective of the English aristocrats who thought that they were the pinnacle of civilization, he was determined to prove them wrong.
And so he had a great admiration for these people. And he wanted to try to find a big, big civilization, something with enough people that could rival Europe. And where he went missing was in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil. And and the last place that they know that he was at was on May 29th, 1925. And he wrote a letter to his wife from Dead Horse Camp.
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