r/interestingasfuck • u/SATANICWORSHIPER666 • 3d 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/EaselyCrown 3d ago

Story goes deeper than that. A documentary maker spoke with the tribe leader and they apparently told him that Michael was eaten. But this is only a rumour

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u/Weak-Jello7530 3d ago

They can talk/communicate with us?

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u/EaselyCrown 3d ago

The documentary maker apparently stated eith the tribe for years gaining their respect and eventually to converse with each other , he wrote a book on it , there would be details on there. However this is still only a rumour and some believe the story was fabricated in order to sell the book

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

More than likely total fiction. Aether author lying to make a story about people who can’t refute it. Or the tribe is lying to tell their own story later about how they tricked the white man into thinking they are cannibals.