Part One: Percy Fawcett: Real-Life Indiana Jones, or Deluded Psychic Racist?

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There are a few candidates for the title "the real Indiana Jones" but Percy Fawcett is the man whose reputation most inspired our favorite fictional archaeologist. Unfortunately, he was a racist, a murderer and a weirdo occultist who led his own son to a horrific death for reasons of Magic.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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