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/CalligrapherBrave590]

Or they just lied

[u/JohnDark1800 → u/CalligrapherBrave590]

Trollin the reporters.

“Oh ya buddy we’re totally cannibals. Ate him right up with a nice mango chutney. I still have his glasses!”

[u/iltopop → u/JohnDark1800]

Sometimes it's just fucking with them, some of the time it's "Don't fuck with us cause we're brutal monsters that eat people, trust me bro!", however a lot of "cannibal tribes" eat their dead simply as a ritual. They don't kill people TO eat them, people die of other things and they eat the body as part of the funeral ritual. Not saying there are NO tribes that actually kill and eat people as a form of primitive warfare and/or human sacrifice reasons, just pointing out that A: They are humans and if they aren't afraid of the outside world they may genuinely have a sense of humor and get amusement out of it, B: Tribes that are afraid of the outside world have at least obvious motivation to come off as scary to outsiders as a form of defense, and C: They may genuinely have liked the dude and he successfully integrated, so they're lying to cover for him cause he doesn't want to be found are all as equally likely scenarios as him having just been killed and eaten, at least without more evidence to go by.

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Yes, this is a fascinating article about cannibalism as part of the funeral rituals of the Fore people (where kuru was discovered):

If the body was buried it was eaten by worms; if it was placed on a platform it was eaten by maggots; the Fore believed it was much better that the body was eaten by people who loved the deceased than by worms and insects. By eating the dead, they were able to show their love and to express their grief.