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@extremelysmallscrewdriver I was picturing it like when cartoon characters accidentally swallow something and theres a perfect outline of it stuck in their neck
I can see Micheal hiding in a hut and one of the villagers being like "Mike, the spirits are here looking for you!" and he goes "just tell them you ate me!" 😂
I can't. Michael concealing himself in a tribe and requesting they sell the idea that he was cannibalized is just pure selfishness. The positive-spin on the story could bring so much investment into a neglected country that it makes zero sense at all that no one would try and capitalize from the tale.
Honestly big michael theory makes sense considering everytime people showed up to ask the natives about michael they just happened to hear some natives saying "oh don't tell them we ate him" and "well now that you ask yeah we ate him" like surely these dudes could lie better than that
Or they were just trying to scare the travellers who came to the island. Kind of like how serial killers brag about random murders they never committed. In reality Michael probably just drowned somewhere on the way and these tribals heard from white people about him and just thought 'lets brag about killing him to scare these white people'
Man, I still just find it hard to believe this dude did 12 miles (swimming)in a storm with shark and crocodile infested waters. Like wtf. Regardless of what happened to him, if he pulled that off alone, that dude is a f’en legend.
I find the hardest part to believe is that he actually made it through that storm to the island alive. I think he was basically dead when he washed to shore, and as you said- wasteful, they were not.
I wonder if this is the same insane spin he would put on if the cannibal was someone of WHITE EUROPEAN DESCENT like ANY AMERICAN SERIAL KILLER/CANNIBAL. I'M SURE THERE'S NO ANTI-EUROPEAN COLONIAL BIAS in the LITERAL POSITIVE SPIN ON CANNIBALISM HE PUTS. Both Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer committed CANNIBALISM to have the bodies of the ones they destroyed with them and part of them forever for purely selfish reasons. Why aren't THEY getting the good positive publicity for what THEY DID? You're showing your RACISM if you say it's because they're WHITE and therefore should be beheld to a higher standard. Just because cannibalism is not part of European culture doesn't mean it can't be part of a specific person of European descent's culture.
The whole "they walked into the village and overheard two guys talking not to mention Rockefeller" thing just seems so much like a Skyrim questline lol
Yall ever heard of that Scottish man who lived with a tribe sorta like this one?. There's a guy called lindybeige who has a video titled the white headhunter.
As a Papuan, it's weird hearing these things from the perspective of an outsider. I'm well aware that my ancestors could have been cannibals but I've never heard about this Rockefeller case. It's insane but then again I'm from the smaller outer Islands not the main island of Papua New Guinea, so of course such things wouldn't be common knowledge with my background. Papua New Guinea has become very modernised over the past hundred years but you'd only see this modernization in the capital and towns. There are still hundreds of various tribes and provinces speaking over 800 different languages, many of whom remain isolated. It's this strange mix of modernization and tradition. I'm sorry for rambling, this case has just really made me think.
800 different languages??? i would fucking LOVE to learn about all of these different languages and cultures and such, this kind of stuff draws me in so quickly and easily. 800 different languages is astonishing to me, it just sounds so vast and interesting
I mean eating one or two people a year I think is perfectly normal. Inferior or superior I think misses the point, which is there’s plenty they can learn from their perspective and plenty they can learn from our perspective. Probably more cuz we have books, but there’s a lot of information that isn’t in books
I actually love the theory that he decided he wanted to join the tribe and his new friends covering for him so that he doesn't get dragged back to his old life.
Yes! Cannibalism is equal to Artificial Intelligence. How? If A.I. doesn’t mass murder us humans, us humans ought to mass murder & eat other humans. I would love to capture a Rockefeller or a Soros child & eat them for lunch. Kidnap their offspring, have sex with them & take their body parts one quartering at a time. A dash of the finest cognac w/white trash wealth posh hands for the beckoning. Eating wealthy humans would be such a delicacy. They eat the finest of foods & consume the finest of spirits. Equivalent to eating veal before it’s maturity rate into adulthood. Splendid spleens of wealthy famous humans.
True. Another Truth: Indigenous tribes are no more virtuous than the reverse racist narrative peddled by CRT, BLM, and virtue signalling progressives. The concept of the savage indian certainly applues as well. Now THAT is an Inconvenient Truth that should cause you virtur signalling, SJW to run and seek a safe space from reality.
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This channel proves that all you need is decent mic quality, a decent topic to cover, some good work ethic, and most importantly; *an authentic personality*
I could see it. or maybe the theory is true that Rockefeller faked his death, gave up his life of privilege and decided to live among the Tribe and they were just covering for him. Pretty far fetched but who knows, lol.
Heres a tip kids. At 19:38 you can see the indigenous man smiling at Rockafeller. Now, if you ever catch someone, and i mean anyone, smiling at you like that, whatever happens next is not gonna be good. Always run strapped.
@@LaB567Use your brain, buddy. He's not defending the alienated and isolated tribe stuck in time. He's just merely presenting the facts why they did a such actions.
Michael has to be the king of “wrong place, wrong time”. Imagine swimming 12 miles, making it to shore, only to be killed by an indigenous tribe who believes killing and consuming you would be vengeance for what the Dutch did to them 3 years prior. Plus 12 hours after you leave, the capsized boat was found and everyone else was saved. That has to be the worst timing in the history of ever.
That is more or less the process thought of the crew of the ship that inspired Moby Dick "Alright lads there are islands very close to our position but I'm afraid they are packed full of cannibals (they weren't). anyways, were shooting for South America, that's it"
The straight where they capsized is an area known to be full of hungry sharks and crocodiles. To me, staying half in the water and half on the capsized boat would seem more dangerous than attempting the swim; atleast he had a chance to reason with the cannibals.
North Sentinel Island fits that description too. I don’t think the Sentinelese tribe are cannibals, but they won’t hesitate to end outsiders quite quickly, (which is pretty wise, in current year).
@@Jake.The.Snake. yea but considering if they stayed still on the boat they are less likely to attract the sharks and crocs, cause both are interested in splashing and will check it out to see if its an animal. so staying put and trying to move as little as possible wouldve been the safest
Thanks for telling me how you found that specific quote funny. & thanks to the reply showing what facial expressions they made to your reply. Thanks for me to explain to you guys how thankful I am of your reactions. & thanks for the random tribal people who ate Michael to give me a nice video to watch after cleaning the kitchen. Also thanks to the patrons that this guys is thanking. & thanks to him for making this video as well. Thanks.
I didn't even see him until he said something. I was thinking he was not white but a bit darker so I assumed it was some other native. (I sound racist now)
@@loslingos1232 know you don't Sound raciste, but that photo Showe's a White guy, and concidere That , at least in Summer One Gett's pretty tanned going around All day , practicaly clotheles.
This story is CRAZY. Imagine randomly finding a picture of Jeff Bezos in some film from 50 years ago in a tribal ritual after he went missing on an island. Madness.
John McAfee got into some pretty crazy shit over the years. Also in 1964 the Prime minister of Australia disappeared while swimming at the beach and was never seen again.
@@worldofdoom995 there’s a famous saying. “When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebra.” The simplest explanation is almost always the correct one. (Sorry meant this toward Lukasz)
It'd be hilarious if the old guy he talked to that supposedly had Rockefeller's glasses WAS Michael, he just got old and tanned and was being super fucking cheeky about it all
I love the idea of that lol. He loved it there so it’s nice to think maybe he just had them hide him until the searches calmed down and lived out his life there with them
@@dallasdean598 hence why I mentioned him being tanned, they could have assumed he was a native elder with paler skin than the others due to lack of sunlight when he was actually an older white guy who was very tanned.
"Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." ~ David Rockefeller (Memoirs)
Papua New Guinea is my birthplace and my home. My great grand father was a ‘head hunter’ (cannibal), parts of our village still includes relics of bones and skulls from ceremonious kills from other tribesman or travellers. Cannibalism is very well known in our culture, although most inner cities have become modernised and are some of my the most dangerous places to live in the world, more dangerous than the likes of New Mexico and South Africa.
The idea that everyone's covering for him is great. The old guy tells the kids about the white guy they killed, and the kids are like "what about that white dude who lives with us?" and the old guy's like "Oh that's...Dave. He's a completely different person."
I like to believe that the Tribe considered Michael to be SUCH a Bro that they volunteered to lie about his Death on his Behalf, because they liked hanging out with him SO much that they just wanted him to stay with them forever. 😢
I'm pretty sure both theories are true. If he was found by a tribe that was friendly with him from his time on the island and integrated with them for some time (long enough to have appeared on that film), he very well could have gotten involved in a tribal skirmish, been killed, and summarily eaten as was the custom
The part that doesn't make sense to me is why they would use his bones for spear heads if they viewed him as an enemy. I remember learning that they would mainly use cassowary bones, and when they did make bone spears and daggers they would use the bones of their father or a warrior from their tribe. The whole point of using human bones was to gain the power of the person who died.
I think "pretty sure" is a large stretch. These people were weary of white people and had issues communicating with them. I think it'd be strange for them to take one in under any circumstance at the time. Not to mention one blurry picture is the only evidence that points to him joining the tribe. The photo to me looks like an albino tribesman. I'm not going to say it's completely impossible, but the facts support him either dying in the storm, or being eaten by the cannibals. Also if he truly did survive don't you think he'd make some effort to reach out to say he's alright, or at the very least try to get help to the boat he left in the water? He would've had plenty of opportunities to talk to the white people on the island throughout the remainder of his life. In order to believe that he joined the tribe, you'd also have to believe: he survived the storm, was found by tribesmen, the tribesmen took him to their village, he was able to communicate with them atleast semi-fluently without an interpreter, gave no attempt to help the boat he left, was able to gain the tribe's trust, wanted to spend his life with them, avoided white men for the rest of his life, had no interest in letting his family/the world know he was alive, and also convinced anyone who knew about him in the tribe not to tell anyone. With how enamored the tribes are with legends/passing down history; I think it's unlikely that a white man making his way through the ranks wouldn't be passed down in legend, or atleast become a rumor. Especially if if he died a warrior's death like you assumed. Idk man I'm a huge believer in Occom's razor and believing that with practically no evidence requires an insane amount of assumptions. Most of which aren't very likely to have happened at the time.
@@readein he would'nt make that effort you assumed about raching out, if he didn't wanted to come back, you think a family like that would let a son live the life he wants, in a tribe?
I dropped everything when this video came up. I work at the American Museum of Asmat Art and you can probably imagine my surprise when I first heard this story. It's surprising that it's not more well known, considering that this happened to a member of the Rockefeller family. I will say, though, if it turns out that Michael is still alive and joined the Asmat people, I wouldn't blame him. They're a fascinating people and their art is incredible!
@@lucaswallo8127 what is there not to understand about the comment? Saying "what" implies you don't understand, making people think you lack the ability to read, "Whallop."
I love the idea that the whole tribe was in on it and saved him of the coast and then there was just Rockefeller and the tribes people in a circle giggling as they lied about him being eaten as a cover so he didn't have to go back. Absolutely Chad behavior
There was a released photo of a white man in the tribe rowing a boat with the tribe. People say it was an albino tribe member but if you look at the picture the guy has glasses and hair that kind of looked like michaels
It's not impossible for someone to integrate into a culture. In the 1800's a Russian anthropologist Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay visited a part of the island and stayed there for over 3 years where he studied the locals, learned their cultures was strongly against colonialist interests. Even in 2018 when his great great grandson visited the same area the people were still happy to see him.
Russians make friends with bears too, theres loads of videos on it. There is a finnish guy who lives there but I heard he chased the natives away and hasn't tried contacting anyone since he arrived.
I remember the NY News reports about Michael's disappearance back in '61. There was plenty of hoopla over the incident. I've always wondered why Rockerfeller didn't arm himself with automatic weapons and employ several bodyguards to guard him. His early demise seems to be able to have easily been prevented.
In the end both endings are heartwarming. One ending because the literally cooked his heart on a fire, and the second because it's a great story of a man coming from wealth who left his past behind to live the life he wanted.
Tribes like this have verbal histories they pass down for generations, it’s unlikely they wouldn’t remember and pass down a story that’s important to them. Rockefeller made an impression on them so they’d make sure to pass that story down.
Yes I hate how everyone in the story, even Wendigoon himself, assume that the fact they don't write anything down means that they can not remember things accurately. Your ability to remember things accurately actually decreases when you learn to read. I have a friend who didn't know how to read for a large portion of his life and he has the whole Quran memorized, even though he doesn't speak Arabic much and isn't educated. I was also reading an interesting book recently about how Indian singers memorize long epics (like hundreds of thousands of lines) when they don't know how to read. I sure couldn't do something like that lol.
Lynn R no but when things are told verbally they get changed slightly with each telling and they get dramatized. When things are written down from the original yelling they stay that way. It is a very well known and well observed occurrence. Sure, this event will remain in the local populations memory for a long time through story telling, but many details will be changed over time and the original story will not be the same as the a possible version in the future. Things like rituals and hymns and holy books as you described are different in this case. Those can be remembered straight from memory word for word because they are always told to the younger generations the same exact way since they are religiously important and are carefully kept concise, unlike everyday stories.
@@yosephbuitrago897 as much as it gets dramatized the fact that Michael Rockefeller died by their tribe's hands is a constant, how he died and when might be lost, but it's good to trust their oral tradition, take Iliad and Odyssey by Homer, both were orally told before being written
@@yosephbuitrago897 a counterpoint is that there’s not much to change about this particular narrative. In verbal tradition of Native Americans many stories are shared and e.g. origin stories could be near identical between two neighboring tribes, but each tribe would have centered themselves in the story even if the same story otherwise appears widely. Not too sure on the details but I believe the competing Incan ruling families also agreed on the exact same ancestry story except they each believed themselves to be the true descendants. Whereas in this story, you have a pretty insulated island, beliefs of white spirits, and the jist of it is that a white man appeared and was killed. I don’t see much potential to transform the story, especially with the group nature of indigenous islander that viewed white people as such a strong contrast. So I agree that oral stories tend to change but in this instance I don’t really see how.
@@iago110 I don't know how you could trust the Iliad and the Odyssey honestly, there's outright magic and mythical creatures. It might be inspired by real life events, but it's definitely not a trustworthy source of history.
I like the "Big Michael" theory the most. Just imagine the search teams and the private investigator going to the island in hopes of finding Michael's remains, only to turn out that all those times Michael and the natives were acting like a group of party bros hiding their homie behind the curtains while his angry spouse barges in screaming and trying to drag him back to her annoying family's Thanksgiving dinner.
“I do not condone or recommend any of the activities, including cannibalism, mentioned in the video.” Well I hope not, Wendigoon, whose name is a play on the Native American folk monster, the wendigo, whose origin story has the central theme of cannibalism.
@@yurmum2438 don’t worry man, i only learned about what wendigos were from my great interest in comics and fantasy tales so most schools wouldn’t touch on this
That profile pic looks familiar, did you by any chance have it from the city pop compilation called homework cafe by Van Paugam? The the SoundCloud cover for it looks identical. If not where is is from? I have always been wondering where it actually originated from.
I love the "he was actually alive, the tribe just took him in and decided to cover for him" theory. Not that plausible admittedly, but pretty sweet if there's a slight chance it's true.
I mean the US had a huge issue of soldiers leaving the military to join native tribes so it’s not unheard of, I definitely hope it’s that one but if he was eaten that’s ok too
@@pebbles987 i think i know which video you're referring to. Its just a video of the tribe with an unidentified white tribesman. Could it be him? Yea, but it's not definite proof.
He was enamored with tribal culture when he was a kid. He decided to pursue his passion to a point of becoming a god to them. Maybe they were going to make a meal of him but he convinced them otherwise. Maybe he pretended to be a god. Now he is one. His shlong is the only one allowed showing so he can be serviced at will
So Michael Rockefeller had several endings apparently Bad Ending: Getting eaten by cannibals Neutral Ending: Drowning in an attempt to reach an island Good Ending: Joining the natives
Well there's a popular theory that he is still alive and that his family just sensationalized that he probably dead and shit and some people took a photo with a ginger white man in a canoe with a bunch of cannibals.
Thanks for the background about Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller (who was Ford's appointed Vice President). Michael was one of Nelson Rockefeller's seven children. Also, I did a guided tour of NYC's Metropolitan Art Museum in 2014 and saw many examples of primitive art that was donated by the family.
Every story I hear when one guy decides to leave the group by himself to look for help, ends in tragedy for the guy. There was the father of the family whose car was caught in snow, the people whose boat was sunk by a hippo in Africa, and a dude in a flooded cave who left his wife to go find help. One thing I learned from these stories, always stay with the group if you don't know what you're doing. There's at least strength in numbers that way.
A bit interesting how their whole spirit punishment thing was a self-fulfilling prophecy, even if they weren't actual spirits. They believed it, they did it and then the "white spirits" came in massive metal vehicles with mysterious weapons and possibly disease.
I actually lived in Papua New Guinea, and got to go interior with missionaries into the tribes. Of course I was going to tribes that had dropped ways of cannibalism, but I actually got to talk with an old man through a translator about how he had eaten people from neighboring tribes. To have gotten the chance to actually sit on the ground with that man and take in the culture with my own experience was life changing.
@@nobodyburgen4594 Gladly, my parents after retiring had decided to go into missionary work, and had one day my freshmen year of high school asked how I felt about living overseas. My first response was “can we live in a rainforest?” And that was my only criteria. (We actually we’re on a fence between being sent to Indonesia or Italy, and I still wanted the former.) My parents worked under MAF in Sentani, Indonesia on the island of Java for a year, and we later moved even further interior into Papua. At my high school there they had this incredible trip planned for the whole school at the end of the year where we would all pack up bags, leave our phones, and move into interior villages for two weeks every year. In the villages we would either help the people with basic tasks, learn about their stories, or even get the chance to help build housing or dig water passageways to keep the runways safe for the airplanes. These areas were quite literally only accessible by plane, or by 3 week treks on feet through the mountains which is what all the tribes people do out there. One of these trips my senior year, we went to I believe the village of Pogapa, where I got to take part in a ceremony called a Bakar Bantu. They kill a pig and then bury a large hole in the ground. They layer it with leaves, vegetables, the pig in it’s entirety, and flat stones that they have set over fires. These rocks which they pick up with their bare hands are well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, but these people have such incredible and callous hands that it doesn’t even bother them. They bury it with dirt and then hours later, we dig up and feast. I got the chance to eat a pig testicle with my homie lmao. But the whole time in this, I’m just sitting around all these people, who are speaking a language I’m loosely interpreting and have only learned three dozen words of, but despite that they still treated me as if I was family. It’s incredible how welcoming and caring these people are, as well as how willing they were to just share everything they had. My time in those tribes only amounts to about a month and a half of my life, but they were the most influential and life changing points I think I’ll ever experience.
@@kingofpilgrims368 Thank you so much! I find other cultures absolutely fascinating, so this was a really interesting story. Also that pig thing sounds delicious.
Lol he literally could've been kidnapped and/or murdered for his money all over the world but no he just got killed and eaten by a random tribe cause he was white. It's sad but ironic.
Another person said it could be both, he could've joined them, died somehow, most likely in a battle against another tribe, then eaten as was the custom when someone was killed. That is what I want to believe. Looks like him in that film. That would be so badass joining a group of cannibals and being taken in as one of them
I heard that they found him in the water while he was swimming. They were offended that he was trying to take their art which was the reason for his return trip. They paddled the canoes out to a ceremonial place with him and then executed him.
I read that Olympic long distance swimmers do a marathon swim of 6 miles . So I agree with you ... it would be so hard for him and how would he know he was going in the right direction?
@@Jesse-yo7uw It's a joke. He says at the start of the video that he doesn't want the video demonetised and doesn't condone cannibalism. How did you manage to get upset over this comment lmao.
As someone who grew up in tribal Papua New Guinea (my parents were missionaries there). Most tribes were like this and even some still are. Canabalism is illegal there but a large majority of tribes in PNG are undiscovered or uncontacted either because they are to hard to get to or to hostile to outside groups.
