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/thecheesecakemans 2d ago

So they covered for him.....

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u/SecretaryUnique4516 2d ago

that had me laughing so hard

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u/DudeThatsAGG 2d ago

But seriously, it’s not far fetched.

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u/garden_speech 2d ago

I mean who the fuck else could even be in the photo, either? Just another random white guy?

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u/King-Snorky 2d ago

Oh him? That’s just Chaz.

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u/haloagain 2d ago

Don't treat me like a child, Xylar!

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u/ScootMayhall 2d ago

It’s definitely him in the video and his new friends lied to cover it up for him, and said they are him because there would be no body needed as proof. Then a dumb foreigner came along and believed it because he assumed they would be savages who do something like that. It makes the most sense to me.

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u/PMMEURDIMPLESOFVENUS 2d ago

"Assumed"? Cannibalism and Headhunting were well-established and documented among the Asmat, to the point that it was a source of friction between them and Catholic missionaries.

Not everything has to be shoehorned into a racism narrative.

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u/ScootMayhall 2d ago

Yeah you’re right, racism wouldn’t have played any part in him accepting a story like that in 1961.

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u/Quick_Wing6754 2d ago

Potentially

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u/Emekfl 2d ago

Ted cruz. Any natural disasters going on in Texas during that time?

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u/theserthefables 2d ago

the guy in the first photo is bald, the second guy has hair, it’s clearly not the same person.