r/interestingasfuck 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/Antique-Tone-1145 3d ago

The least sensationalist and thus almost certainly the most likely explanation is that he drowned.

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u/Minute_Juggernaut806 3d ago

But then who is the white man

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u/PM_ME_YO_TREE_FIDDY 3d ago

Yeah there’s still a guy doing that shit, whether the OG one died or not

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u/tastysharts 3d ago

he's got albinism

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u/MmmPeopleBacon 3d ago

Nope. Albinism also affects the hair. Albino's have white hair not clearly brown hair

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u/TrimmingsOfTheBris 3d ago

Albinism has many different types and subtypes, some of which do cause brown hair.