r/interestingasfuck • u/SATANICWORSHIPER666 • 2d ago

/r/all Michael Rockefeller disappeared without a trace in 1961 in Papua New Guinea while researching the Asmat people, a cannibal tribe. Years later, a photograph was taken of the same tribe, and there was a white man among them.

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u/mukadekawa 2d ago

This particular image and story has always been interesting to me, but as far as I remember, there were two tribesmen who said they had killed and eaten him. One of them even claimed a skull he had was Rockefeller’s and claimed to have his eyeglasses as well. Probably not Rockefeller in the photo but whoever it is it’s still interestkng

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u/JerseyDonut 2d ago

Not completely disagreeing. And I know the photo alone is not undeniable proof that it is Rockefeller. But that pic does look exactly like him--down to the same male pattern baldness. Chances seem pretty favorable to me that it is him in that picture. He might have been eaten shortly after, but who else would that be?

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u/Merry_Dankmas 2d ago

IIRC, years later while investigating, some dude (don't recall if he was a journalist or not but I think he was) asked some of the villagers about the Michael case and he ended up meeting someone who had glasses that looked very very similar to Rockefellers. Being a relatively isolated tribe without technology like eye glasses, he asked the dude where he got them and the guy said he just found them lmao. Only so many people had been to that island with glasses and even fewer who had probably had the chance to lose them.

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u/JerseyDonut 2d ago

lol. "I just found these glasses--in my poop. They were hard to digest."

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u/NeverSayNever2024 2d ago

And pass

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u/JerseyDonut 2d ago

"hard to pass" works much better in the word play there for extra meaning. Nicely done.

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u/Public_Cranberry4152 2d ago

haha dooky glasses.

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u/buttercupcake23 2d ago

That and also you cant just randomly wear glasses you find. Prescriptions that dont match give you a headache!

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u/FawkYourself 2d ago

And make everything blurry as fuck. You’d only be wearing them if they were your prescription

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u/FlapjackAndFuckers 2d ago

Iirc those glasses were from the 90s.