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1925 [SUN]  The last dispatch from a doomed Mato Grasso expedition received (Mato Grasso, Brazil)

1982 [MON]  Alleged Chessie sighting (Chesapeake Bay, Maryland USA)




MAY-31-1925   [SUN]


LOCATION:
the Mato Grosso area in Brazil


WHAT HAPPENED:
      An expedition, which had begun on April 20th, 1925 into the almost uncharted region of Mato Grosso in Brazil, had started off uneventful enough.
      Today a dispatch was received from Lt. Col. Percy Fawcett who had led the expedition. It read, in part:

We have cut our way through miles of cerraba, a forest of low dry scrub; we have crossed innumerable small streams by swimming and fording; we have climbed rocky hills of forbidding aspect; we have been eaten by bugs... We shall not get into interesting country for another two weeks.

      Members of this expedition were never seen or heard from again. Since the Lieutenant hadn't expected to be back for atleast two years, no one initiated a search until May of 1928.

      See, also, April 20th.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Pages 126-127 from Mysteries of the Unexplained



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MAY-31-1982   [MON]


LOCATION:
Chesapeake Bay, Maryland USA


WHAT HAPPENED:
      Chessie (a little like Nessie of Loch Ness fame), a Chesapeake Bay sea serpent, was allegedly sighted today at Love Point on the northern tip of Kent Island at the mouth of the Chester River.

      This event is alleged because science doesn't yet acknowledge that Chessie exist because there is no hard evidence to support it... at least not yet anyway.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Pages 280-289 from Strange and Unexplained Physical Phenomena



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TDIH: MAY 31st

1819
Poet Walt Whitman, author of Leaves of Grass, is born

1859
Big Ben rings out over London for the first time

1889
Over 2,000 die in the Johnstown Flood

1902
The Boer War ends in South Africa

1916
Battle of Jutland, greatest naval battle of WWI, begins

1920
The Sacco-Vanzetti case draws national attention

1921
Tulsa Race Massacre begins

1925
The last dispatch from a doomed Mato Grasso expedition received (Mato Grasso, Brazil)

1929
Ford Motor Company signs agreement with Soviet Union

1930
Actor and director Clint Eastwood is born

1962
Architect of the Holocaust hanged in Israel

1964
Convicted murderer Charles Schmid brags about his crimes

1977
The BBC bans the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen

1982
Alleged Chessie sighting (Chesapeake Bay, Maryland USA)

1996
Benjamin Netanyahu elected prime minister of Israel

2005
Identity of Deep Throat, source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal, is revealed


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