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Nightmare of the Amazon

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  • Pat Spain and ornithologist David Oren discuss a cast of an alleged Mapinguari footprint.
  • Pat with a two-toed sloth at Universidade Federal do Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil
  • Pat Spain in body paint after the Satare Mawe initiation ritual
  • Pat next to a statue of the Mapinguari in the city of Parintins, Amazonia, Brazil.
  • Pat on a rainforest canopy tower overlooking the jungle just North of Manaus, Brazil
  • Computer-generated image of the alleged Mapinguari beast with claws like a sloth's.
  • Pat studies the skeleton of a giant ground sloth at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Pat Spain with tribal elders of the Karitiana tribe near Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil.
  • Pat grits his teeth in pain from the bullet ant gloves he wore in an initiation ritual of the Satare Mawe tribe in Brazil.
  • Computer-generated image of the alleged Mapinguari beast in the jungles of Brazil
  • The sun sets over the Amazon River in Brazil
  • Biologist Pat Spain at work in a Genzyme laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Pat Spain participates in an initiation ritual of the Satare Mawe tribe by wearing gloves lined with bullet ants. The pain is enormous.
  • Pat catches up on his reading aboard a boat in the city of Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil.
  • Pat meets with people of the Karitiana tribe to talk about their beliefs of the Mapinguari.
  • Pat Spain on the Amazon River near the city of Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil

  • Nightmare 06

    Pat Spain and ornithologist David Oren discuss a cast of an alleged Mapinguari footprint.

  • Nightmare 13

    Pat with a two-toed sloth at Universidade Federal do Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil

  • Nightmare 02

    Pat Spain in body paint after the Satare Mawe initiation ritual

  • Nightmare 07

    Pat next to a statue of the Mapinguari in the city of Parintins, Amazonia, Brazil.

  • Nightmare 09

    Pat on a rainforest canopy tower overlooking the jungle just North of Manaus, Brazil

  • Nightmare 16

    Computer-generated image of the alleged Mapinguari beast with claws like a sloth's.

  • Nightmare 11

    Pat studies the skeleton of a giant ground sloth at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  • Nightmare 03

    Pat Spain with tribal elders of the Karitiana tribe near Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil.

  • Nightmare 12

    Pat grits his teeth in pain from the bullet ant gloves he wore in an initiation ritual of the Satare Mawe tribe in Brazil.

  • Nightmare 15

    Computer-generated image of the alleged Mapinguari beast in the jungles of Brazil

  • Nightmare 14

    The sun sets over the Amazon River in Brazil

  • Nightmare 10

    Biologist Pat Spain at work in a Genzyme laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts

  • Nightmare 01

    Pat Spain participates in an initiation ritual of the Satare Mawe tribe by wearing gloves lined with bullet ants. The pain is enormous.

  • Nightmare 05

    Pat catches up on his reading aboard a boat in the city of Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil.

  • Nightmare 04

    Pat meets with people of the Karitiana tribe to talk about their beliefs of the Mapinguari.

  • Nightmare 08

    Pat Spain on the Amazon River near the city of Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil

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