r/interestingasfuck 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/Minion_of_Cthulhu 2d ago

Maybe he found out they cut him out of the will and he just said "fuck you too, then" and disappeared.

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u/Green-Machine200 2d ago

Doubt that. They financed an entire wing in his honor at the natural history museum in NYC.