Ep 211: The Lead Masks of Vintem Hill

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David Flora

Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Mysterious deaths that led to few leads beyond some lead. Questions, enigmas, and mystery are in high order when investigating the lead masks of Vintem Hill. When two men were found dead with weird masks on a Brazilian hill in 1966, everything from murder to UFOs was put forth to explain the lead masks of Vintem Hill. Flora takes you through the case from the discovery of the bodies to the reports connected to them over the years. What could have happened to Miguel Viana and Manuel da Cruz in the suburb of Niteroi, Brazil? Why did they have little lead masks with them? The mystery only deepened when reports came out of UFO activity around the time and place the men were supposedly at before their deaths. Get out your sleuthing stuff and brush up on your Portuguese, this is one hot cold case! Music Ghostpocalypse 6 - Crossing the Threshold, Ghostpocalypse 8: Epilog, I Can Feel It Coming, Leblon, Modern Jazz Samba, Night on the Docks, Satiate, Suvaco do Cristo, Myst on the Moor - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Sources

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0:27.0	Two bodies lay in the warm Brazilian sun, two bodies clad in two nice suits, with two brand new
0:38.1	raincoats worn over them.
0:40.9	And just to the side of the bodies, two small lead masks lay in the grass on Ventaim Hill.
0:49.7	This is how Manuel de Cruz and Miguel Viana were found in August of 1966 and it was how police
0:56.8	from the nearby town of Niederoy began an investigation one that ended up
1:01.5	creating more puzzles than it solved.
1:05.0	A case of mysterious deaths turned into a case of mysterious deaths with ties to local spiritualists,
1:12.0	followed by ties to a flurry of reported UFO sightings around the same time.
1:17.0	Adding to the mystery, because at this point it needed more weirdness, was a note in the pocket of one of the men.
1:26.0	Along with some numbers, part of it read, Be at the determined place, ingest capsules, after effect protect metals, wait for mask signal.
1:39.0	The story is weighed on amateur sloths and euophologists alike for decades. Two bodies, two masks, and countless unanswered questions.
1:50.0	We're taking a look at the lead masks of Vintame Hill on this episode of Blurry Photos. Hey everyone I'm your host, David Flora. Welcome to Blurry Photos.
2:17.0	Got a good one here for you, one that I almost skipped over till it started getting weirder and weirder.
2:24.0	The research turns up just about the same story over and over,
2:27.4	with a few small variations here and there.
2:30.1	And I wanted to see if I could find a point of origin for them all.
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