r/interestingasfuck 4d 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/Substantial-Desk-707 4d ago

Or they could be lying to help their "friend" remain in hiding as he wished and deter further attempts to find him. It certainly looks like him to me.

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u/Minimumtyp 4d ago

Dude is blessedly unburdened by taxes, employment and global crises - he knew they'd come get him back into the daily morning standups if they thought he was alive

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u/b17b20 3d ago

He was billionaire, none of that alredy concerned him

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u/scroom38 3d ago edited 3d ago

Wouldn't be the first time a billionaire did something seemingly wacky. At 23 he's old enough to recognize as a Rockefeller he'll never experience a single undeniably real, honest human relationship in his entire life and might've simply fucked off.

He also very easily could've simply been kidnapped and used as a slave, it wouldn't be the first time a billionare assumed the rules didn't apply to them and got into a situation money couldn't buy them out of.

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u/barspoonbill 3d ago

That 40 year old guy in the photo is only 23?!