Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 3 min readIn a river valley in north-eastern Brazil stands a 46-metre wall of gneiss covered in hundreds of carved symbols — spirals, circles, dots, and figures no one has ever deciphered. Nobody knows who made them, when, or what they mean.
About 4 min readIn August 1966 two Brazilian electronics technicians were found dead on a hillside above Niterói, wearing suits, raincoats and handmade lead masks — with a cryptic note in a pocket and no cause of death ever established.
About 4 min readDeep in the Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous and rubber-tapper traditions describe a huge, foul-smelling, upright creature with backwards feet and enormous claws. One ornithologist spent a decade investigating — and proposed it might be a surviving giant ground sloth.