The Lost City of the Monkey God A True Story

It might have been, it's used most famously for mapping dense jungle ruins. Like, I was reading about it in this book called The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston, which I actually heard about in researching our episode on the Fen treasure because Douglas Preston was the friend of Forrest Fen who vouched for having seen the treasure in person before.

It might have been, it's used most famously for mapping dense jungle ruins. Like, I was reading about it in this book called The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston, which I actually heard about in researching our episode on the Fen treasure because Douglas Preston was the friend of Forrest Fen who vouched for having seen the treasure in person before.

I was reading about it in this book called The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston, which I actually heard about in researching our episode on the Fen treasure because Douglas Preston was the friend of Forrest Fen who vouched for having seen the treasure in person before.

But he talks a lot about LIDAR being used to map these ruins that have been overgrown by jungle that you normally would never be able to see overhead.

I was just reading a great book that old Martin Heinrich told me to look up, which is Lost City of the Monkey God. And in a relatively small area, the, the empires that rose and fell in a pretty small area in a pretty small amount of time.

I read the book, The Lost City of the Monkey God. There's this explorer who claims to have seen it or found it and he's got the only evidence is like this cryptic walking stick.

Yeah, well there's a lot of people who've gone looking for it. Some went in and some never came back.

The person you're referring to was named Theodore Mord. He was an American adventurer. He actually was a spy in World War II but he went there in 1940 where the friend of his and was funded by the precursor to this Smithsonian, the Museum of the American Indian. And he went looking for it.

And actually Doug is the one who compared the handwriting and stuff and said, you know what? It says very plainly. He didn't even believe there was a lost city. He really went there looking for gold.

big thank you to Steve the book about the expedition it's not his book but it's about the expedition it's called the lost city of the monkey god we'll link to that in the show notes

I read the book, The Law City of the Monkey God. There's this explorer who claims to have seen it or found it and he's got the only evidence is like this cryptic walking stick.

Yeah, well there's a lot of people who've gone looking for it. Some went in and some never came back.

The person you're referring to was named Theodore Mord. He was an American adventurer. He actually was a spy in World War II but he went there in 1940 where the friend of his and was funded by the precursor to this Smithsonian, the Museum of the American Indian.

And he went looking for it. He did not find it but he said he did and it was a big article in New York Times. He was darling at the press and they made up all kinds of pictures. He brought back tons of artifacts which are to this day in the archives of the Smithsonian in sweetland, Maryland. I went to see them hundreds of them. It was a con.

We found out Doug Press and the writer of the book and we got a hold of Theodore Mord's diary, handwritten diary that we got from a relative of his. And I guess nobody ever really read it until we read it. And actually Doug is the one who compared the handwriting and stuff and said, you know what? It says very plainly. He didn't even believe there was a law city. He really went there looking for gold.

I read the book, The Lost City of the Monkey God. There's this explorer who claims to have seen it or found it and he's got the only evidence is like this cryptic walking stick.

Yeah, well there's a lot of people who've gone looking for it. Some went in and some never came back. I mean there's a whole litany of people. In fact, this Smithsonian in the 1930s sent three expeditions, well funded and they did not find it. But everybody comes back with something.

The person you're referring to was named Theodore Mord. He was an American adventurer. He actually was a spy in World War II but he went there in 1940 where the friend of his and was funded by the precursor to this Smithsonian, the Museum of the American Indian.

And he went looking for it. He did not find it but he said he did and it was a big article in New York Times. He was darling at the press and they made up all kinds of pictures. He brought back tons of artifacts which are to this day in the archives of the Smithsonian in sweetland, Maryland.

We found out Doug Press and the writer of the book and we got a hold of Theodore Mord's diary, handwritten diary that we got from a relative of his. And I guess nobody ever really read it until we read it. And actually Doug is the one who compared the handwriting and stuff and said, you know what? It says very plainly. He didn't even believe there was a lost city. He really went there looking for gold.