![]() He then studied with the Hamilton Wright Agency to become a journalist. Morde got a job as a radio announcer for WNBH in New Bedford before taking special classes at Brown University from 1935 to 1936. ![]() After graduating from New Bedford High School, he toured Europe. Morde was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts on March 17, 1911. Douglas Preston's 2017 book The Lost City of the Monkey God shows that, based on Morde's own expedition journals, Morde never found any ruins and completely fabricated his story of having done so.ĭescended from whalers, Theodore A. Stewart wrote a book about Morde and his hunt for a legendary "lost city" that some have equated with la Ciudad Blanca. Morde spent the later years of his life as a diplomat, then a producer of news films. He promised to return soon for a proper excavation, but never did, nor did he reveal the precise location of his find. After five months, he claimed to have found the city and brought thousands of artifacts back to the United States to prove it. In 1940, he was hired to lead an expedition to search for the "Lost City of the Monkey God" in Honduras. Morde began his career as a radio announcer before getting into journalism. ![]() Morde (– June 26, 1954), an adventurer, explorer, diplomat, spy, journalist, and television news producer best known for his unverified claim of discovering the "Lost City of the Monkey God". ![]() Explorer, diplomat, and television news producerĬlaiming to have discovered the Lost City of the Monkey God ![]()
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