The Cannibal Killing of Michael Rockefeller
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I was just about to commit cannibalism but since you said you don’t condone it, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Thank you so much.
😳
I will still.... I don't care how many of you refuse to condone it.
Espera que-
Oh wished I paid more attention when he said he didn't condone it
I feel bad but full now
So you don't want any baby back ribs then?
"where's rockefeller?"
suscipiciously rockefeller shaped tribe: i dont know
LMFAO
I hate you. Enjoy the like
"Rockefeller shaped"
@extremelysmallscrewdriver I was picturing it like when cartoon characters accidentally swallow something and theres a perfect outline of it stuck in their neck
@@CoRLex-jh5vxoh really?
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!" 😂
😂
😂😂😂😂
Best comment I've ever read LMAO
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.
@@TheRestedOneit’s so outrageously far fetched that if you even consider it to possibly be anything other than a mindless joke you’re brain dead
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
The languages in new ginuea are very diverse so i bet they got it all wrong.
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'
I’m glad that you cleared up the fact that you do not condone cannibalism, thank you for your transparency.
That's exactly what a cannibal would say
eat the rich
@@nillehessy The rich made the phone you are on. They provide good and services. Eat the poor. They consume more than they create
😂
@@RemingtonSteel really they made that phone?
they provide the goods and services?
yr outta yr mind there ye little trekpik
-Successfully swims 12 miles through a raging storm to get to safety.
-Fucking dies 5 minutes later.
Literally video game vibes lmao
Imagine actually reaching shore after swimming 12 miles through a fuckin storm, just to see a couple guys with spears pull up.
@@canadianrage5224 Bad Rockefeller ending :_:
“Ripe for the pickings”
Y’all different different
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'm thinking that's really what happened, and the Islanders just ate his washed up remains
Thinking the same thing 😂
sharks don't usually attack people though
@@burstyourbubble3500 the crocs would tho
@@burstyourbubble3500Uh, yeah, they certainly do attack people. Bonehead.
Old Man: Never saw him.
Investigator: Aren't you wearing glasses?
Old Man: Yes.
Investigator: Where did you get them?
Old Man: Internet.
w refrence
"either way he became a part of them" Dad no!
Classic dad jokes
WenDADgoon 🤣🤣
I am glad you are the top comment!
Nah that was funny af
Hmm, getting eaten by cannibals or becoming a cannibal... that's a hard nut to crack.
Man goes to study cannibals
*boat flips*
“Oh no”
Cannibals: Anyways
gets studied by cannibals
@@Mustachioed_Mollusk CLARKSON
@backwoods dwelleryes
Ridiculously wealthy American: I'm sure we'll be fine
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.
What's it like in port Moresby and the other cities? It sounds like a fascinating place to live
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
your ancestors were eating the rich before it was cool!
What do humans taste like?
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.
We didn’t kill him.
Ok, we killed him.
But no, we didn’t.
Ok, we did.
*suspicious Philip J. Fry meme*
Which ever it was the result is the same ..he’s dead
We're not savages.
@@alastor8091 no we aren’t but we love making money from any source
@@donbrashsux i was talking about the guys eating people that Windypuss was afraid to call savages.
Damn they remembered the name of a dude they ate 50 years prior? I cant even remember who I ate for breakfast
😭😂
I see who you did there.
😂
Lol
I see what you did there. Laffin', such savage tactics indeed!
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
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.
Grow up.
"Guys, just tell them that you ate me or something!"
This not a movie this real life😂
Me too
"Either they ate him or he joined their tribe either way he became a part of them". There's always a silver lining
To be fair even if he did join them that doesn't mean he wasn't eaten later.
Owlly Mannstein 👁👄👁
Your pic so dank
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.
I know I shouldn't have lmao 🤣🤣🤣 but this ish right here had me 😭😭😂😂
"You can say what you want about the cannibal tribe, but wasteful they were not".... thank you sir
“They came on the island and said cut it out.” ….thank you as well!
Best part of the video
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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I love that I have spent the last 10 plus years watching exclusively youtube and still come across random videos from a "new" youtuber and then realize they have MILLIONs of subscribers. theres SO much content on youtube ur always comin across something new. its wild that there are channels with MILLIONS of subs with content that I watch that havent been recommended in 10 plus years.
This is because the algorithm is surprising RUclips creators in order to promote mainstream media channels 🤦🏻♀️
Savages is such an outdated and offensive term.
Anyway after they cracked open his skull and ate his brain....
And its not okay when Dahmer does it lol
@@skinlesswalnut6259dahmer wasn’t on a alienated island and apart of a tribe
@@cravcorpIt’s disgusting and wrong either way.
@skinlesswalnut6259 It's not okay either way lol
“Either way, he became a part of them” has to be the best and most poetic conclusion statement I’ve heard in a while.
Or don't go into the jungle without a gun
your not gunna believe this but he is alive and living with them
@@davidnguyen2476i heard this as well.
Rockefeller was a third rate missionary, but a first rate second course!
2:44 33
Village elder wearing Michael's face as a hat and his fingers on a necklace:
"No sir, I don't believe I've ever seen that young man in my life."
"Now, would you be interested in drinking some water out of a skull that definitely did not belong to the man you're looking for"
🤣😂 omg I just burst out laughing
God damn it this made me laugh so hard damn you.
Lol....I mean...can you believe this shit ???
I tasted him but never saw him bud.
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*
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.
thanks for the tip dad 🙏
@@thecov3ncopia pfp spotted
Espically if your surrounded by gay dudes and they offer you alcohol and smile like that😂
This takes the term “eat the rich” to a whole new level
LMAO
And the blood ritual gives new meaning to "trickle-down"
I'm sure rich people don't taste good
indeed
@@dangerousd1312 It can't be good, it's not tenderized by the hardships of capitalism
Imagine if he actually did just die from drowning and the tribal people acting sus were just fucking around because they were bored.
Trolled. Gigglin about how ignorant the advanced society had become.
How can they tell a tribal person is acting sus. Wouldn't their actions be Different and strange to a non-tribal person ?!?!
@@Starry_Skye22 trolling is universal
Bruh your likes is cursed
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.
"Alright boys lets fight the spirits"
"Damn, spirits got hands"
I always find myself coming back to this one.. one of my favorite Wendigoon uploads!
I cracked up in a room by myself when you said “say what you will about the cannibal tribe but wasteful they were not”
🤣😅💀🤣😅
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.
Omfg 😂
I came here to say the same thing! I'm like dude crazy and funny as hell. That comment of his floored me..🤭🤭😜😂😂
Same😂
*sees shore twelve miles away, straps empty gas cans to himself*
"No disrespect, but I'm just built different."
*plunges in the ocean*
CHAD!
Right XD
Im fukin ded
@@nickgarcia3319 like he is
Ivan give me your phone. You’re grounded
the theory about the old guy having michaels glasses.... you think he swam 12 miles of open sea and kept his glasses on?
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other “Does this taste funny to you?”
😂
Ha, that was pretty good! What do you think? Did they use a Bearnaise, a plain Bechamel or just salt and pepper? What would've you used for seasoning?
@@Bootmahoy88 A1 or HP
Two clowns are eating a cannibal. One clown turns to the other and says "I think we did this joke backwards".
Imagine swimming 12 miles to safety only to find out that the capsized boat in the ocean was actually the better option
Most of the times whenever disaster strikes to stay put is the better option. If you get lost, capsize or are injured.
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
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’s pretty bad. I’ll have to contend that with the soldier who was killed one minute before the end of WW1
@@peenplays4219 dang….
Hahahaha
AND THEY SAID "LUCK" DOESN'T EXIST! ONLY HARD WORK? LOL.
@@notamoonraker that is a myth or lie used so worker work hard lol.
i love your video so educational and you are such a good storyteller!
It's cool to hear you say that your subscribers is about 415k, and now it's 2.59 million. Good on you, and well deserved! this was great :)
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
Would hilarious if he was. Bet he was laughing his ass off in his head if it were him.
Haha be nice yeah
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
there was no mention of the old mane being white, so I doubt it
@@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.
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.
I definitely will
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 yeah. Pretty sure he drowned tho. Or got knifed by a diver xD probably not the latter
@@kritizismmusics9737 There was also a 'theory' that a Chinese submarine surfaced near the shore and he boarded it and fled.
@@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)
How on earth have I never been recommended a single video by this phenomenal gentleman? 😮
Amazing content and well told.
Thanks man! my brother was about to cannabilise me but he loves your videos so much he couldn't go through with it
Isn't that life? One minute you're a set for life rich kid, the next minute your skull is traded for an outboard motor.
I laughed too hard at this😂
Capitalism is beautiful sometimes 😂
This happened to my buddy Eric
Just a typical Friday night for me, tell ya what.
Just another statistic
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."
😂 exactly
These are the Dave's I know
ruclips.net/video/8nvzEqsZIGo/видео.html
Omg 😆😂
@@doctordavinci9731 😆 😆! Good one
@@benjamingreen5601 Hey Mr. Green ... Any relation to Red?
Keep your stick on the ice :D
Congrats on 3 mil subs!
Thanks wendigoon for all this relaxing content to watch during my 12 hour shifts.
It’s weird that the grand children of the richest man in the whole history of America was killed by a cannibal. Anything can happen in life
"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)
I mean this could just be talking about world peace
I mean, John F. Kenedy's Sister was lobotonized, soo...
@@luckystar3641 I've never heard of this why?
@@aswiftshift5229 Because the family didn't like talking about it, so it just kinda faded into the background.
He swam 10 miles in a sea storm and made it on shore with his glasses on
Right.lol
It's called dedication
🤔
they didn't necessarily have to be on, he could have stored them in a sealable pocket during the swim
@@TheGameBroswithSirhcandAr0n the ol' prison wallet
This is why I love Wendigoon; I search an obscureish topic that I’ve never heard on RUclips and Wendi always has a video on it lmao
1:21 minutes I've subscribed because love your honesty, & confidence what you do is worth something!
The smile in the thumbnail is the unmistakable look of a satisfied Uber-Eats customer.
bruh
I'm dying...literally he's got me in a cauldron right now...
Lol
Even in terrible and distressful video such as this, you can still find great comedians in comment section
White human spirit...BRING IT
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.
@@grantlong6586 I’d assume since they viewed outsiders as “spirits” they would use his bones to gain the power of the spirits
im p sure it was a different tribe he came across, they all had the same customs but they werent rlly acquainted with the guy
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?
Your commitment to trying to pronounce foreign words is inspiring 😂 great stuff goon!
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.
I was considering cannibalism before your warning. Thank you for clearing up this misconception.
Same
I'm still going to
@@DelphineTheWorstBladeEver same
@@DelphineTheWorstBladeEver yo let me join
Tittle?
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
king shit
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
@@caseystradley4660that’s mentioned at the end of the video fam-
@@hieras obviously I wasn’t that far in the video 🤦♂️
@@caseystradley4660 yeah, I could tell
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.
the way you tell the stories make me smile
I like how you circled the photo of big Mike, just in case we didn't see the white bloke in the middle of the indigenous tribal people.
Now I gotta watch til this point at least
Lmaooo
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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.
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.
🔮
Exactly. Happens all the time.
Didn't a Swedish man somehow seduce his way into becoming the consort to a monarchy there too?
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.
supposedly this also happened to some of the crew of hms terror and erebus
Wow .I heard this mentioned on the Carpetbagger wow....thankyou for sharing new subscriber
Me, flabbergasted, as I thought wendigoon condoned cannibalism
Truly one of the plot twists of all time
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!
what
@@lucaswallo8127 weird way of saying you can't read
I wish I had that job! Are their virtual tours of that museum?
@@oofbonk9741 has nothing to do with ability, ''oofbonk''
@@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."
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.
DUDE 😭
Come on ;-;
hilarious
@Leon S. Kennedy "vegetarian cannibal"
either that is a vegetable who eats another vegetable or that just makes absolutely so sense
Both not funny and hilarious
Why did I laugh uncontrollably at many points throught this entire video 😅 I guess Wendigoon's storytelling is just too good
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.
The Big Michael sitcom
That is insanely specific….
He def got eaten tho
@@NEKSTA down the hatch
I don’t think that’s the only google result you’d get for big mike 😂
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.
Yes.
I love how his response to the trolls in his ant hills video calling him a psyco was "What about it?"
well the title alone already sounds absolutely horrifying.
the thumbnail is nightmare fuel as well
" the white spirit?"
*Looks at nearby hut with elderly white man*
" Yeah we ate him don't worry about it"
"Don't worry he wasn't tastey"
"Now go home"
"We are getting really hungry"
it's funny to think my grandpa could've been one of the dutch soldiers. he didn't speak about this war a lot but he never went to sleep without his bushwhacker under his bed.
bro got spawncamped by 3 nakeds with spears
Is this a rust reference
@@Ratblarg I think it's an Ark reference.
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.
"Today we will be looking at the disappearance of this individual,
So.... GIANTS"
imagine... giant cannibals
@@dangerousd1312 attack on titan
@@locally_sourced_beans bruh 😳
@@locally_sourced_beans yooo
Also yadiyadiyata
That big Michael theory can become a movie.
I just got an ad for a funeral home… I did not know that made those.
“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.
Truth 😜
I am very uneducated, i thought wendigo was just this music producer that wendigoon liked, american school system failed to tell me what wendigo was
@@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
@@yurmum2438 I think it’d be a little weird if schools taught us about wendigos tho
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.
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.
i feel like you just hear about the stories where the people who leave died. In the donner party, the ones who left were the ones who lived
@@hwitt2237 but you said "the ones" which means more than one person. That was my point, being in a group regardless of staying or leaving.
@@hwitt2237 yea but they also ate each other to keep alive
You watch mrballen huh
@@brickhomiequan him and a few other disaster story channels. But he is my favorite. 😉
Video title would make a kickass band name
Can't believe I'm only the 2nd person to like this. Sounds like a bomb metal band!
or an album
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
There is literal video footage of him alive and well with them
@@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.
@@06raimondi white, glasses, blond hair and especially in that tribe lol thats def him
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
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.
to be fair if anyone in any time were to say “the white man will be the end of us” they would probably be right eventually
Sounds familiar?
Yeah, he literally says that in the video.
Glad they were wiped out too.
@@therealistintheboot8822 how's the weather in Dresden, Quisling? Cloudy with a chance of incendiary bombs.
Imagine having vast wealth and choosing cannibals instead of high society only to be eaten by the very ppl you chose.
This video has been recommended to me a lot. Can't wait to see if it's good.
I saw LazyMasquerade cover this one a few years ago but you’ve brought a lot of additional new details! I appreciate you covering this mystery - it’s very intriguing.
Omg hai OT! Love you and your content, thanks for keeping it pride month all year long 💖
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kings supporting kings 😌🤌
It's great to see your interested in this type of stuff! Also I love your content
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I feel kind of bad for him honestly, everyone on here is just commentating on his social status and how that apparently justifies his death. The description of him paints him as a relatively kind person who was accepting of the natives and respected their wishes by not actually taking any of their art.
Yeah, it seems that he was actually quite respectful and nice. And it didn't seem like the natives had an issue with white people coming onto their island at first either. I get people hating rich people, but from what we've seen of this guy, he never used his money to exploit people or anything.
Not to mention that he was literally willing to be the one to swim 12 miles to save others.
He was more interested in sex with them, he was discusting. I read a book on him decades ago
@@beverlybalius9303 What was it called?
@@gethaunted don’t believe the idiotic troll
@@moarhappy7675 i dont think its about believing them, more about trying to get them to back up their claim
This takes "Eating the rich" to a new level
Michael Rockefeller drowned. Plain and simple. A 14 mile swim to shore is not easy
either way he swam TWELVE miles without losing his glasses. He is built different
no hes not
@@markfuckerturd5165 ?
@@markfuckerturd5165 ?
@@markfuckerturd5165 ?
Probably put them in his pocket
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.
Please elaborate. This sounds fascinating.
@@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.
@@kingofpilgrims368
Eating "balls" with your homie? That sounds pretty gay.
@@nobodyburgen4594
"Delicious "?? You're just disgusting.
What a upbeat choise of music my man.
Did this video remain monetized? I hope it did! It's too bad your Ant Hill Kids video was demonitized -- you were very respectful in how you handled the subject.
I enjoyed this video as well. Them flicking the blood reminded me of the Old Testament -- wonder if sacrificial blood has some sort of cleaning properties in their culture, too?
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.
Hey bro, Its me, Padgett!
once a savage always a savage
Really? That sounds wild...
And people say "no culture is inferior".
@@beastminer147 I mean doesn’t it depend on who they eat? How many people are killed throughout all cultures and not even eaten?
Sounds like the feller got rocked.
i almost choked on my goldfish when i read this
jesus christ 😭
Oh get out!
Dude 😭💀
@@medvehs4926 why was your goldfish in your mouth? Break the fishbowl?
Don’t ever comment on videos but I love your work dude really interesting topics😁
Iris chang: the rape of nanking. Would love to see you do a video on this book and the history. Hope you do ❤
Him drowning trying to swim 12 miles seems more likely.
Cooling death in the ocean happens in 1 hour... Olympic swimmers would only get. 2.5 miles .... Not 12 miles!!!
It's not so much how how far it was, it was crocodile infested waters, not good for swimming.
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?
I agree
@@sarahconner9433 he made a flotation device remember
If a cannibal came after me I would just eat him because I'm built different.
Throw some salt in the eyes. It’ll hurt him while also seasoning him.
@@chase2742 or rocks
@@chase2742 some 🌶️ for that added flavor
@Constantinos CHRISTODOULAKIS nah the rocks tenderize them
@Constantinos CHRISTODOULAKIS ikr so many parts to work with
Actually MrBallen tells the story of how they found him and why they killed him specifically
I have been a fan since this video came out and I would love a remake but this is still a fave
There was a documentary I watched (I wish I could remember the name and hopefully someone knows what I’m talking about) about an American pilot in ww2 who was shot down in the pacific. He ran into a group of headhunters and they brought him back to his village. He didn’t know they were cannibals at first but he watched them slaughter a pig and collect the blood in a bamboo tube. Well I guess later that night they wanted him to lay down on a mat and came in with the same bamboo tube. He was armed with a .45 and after several hours of a literal stare down, they made a move and he shot several of them then ran off into the jungle. He ended up running into a Aussie special forces group who brought him to a larger base with a airfield. He left the airfield in a plane piloted by an Aussie but that one even crashed. Fortunately he survived.
pls what is it
the green inferno?
@@juicebox8946 injury slight please advise, I THINK this is it? I googled some key words in OP’s post.
Bro these people need to learn how to fly a goddamn plane
Rescue Dawn?
Man that Astroworld album in the background is adding to the creep factor of this content
Facts
Astroworld is great
I just commented on his most recent video asking him to cover the festival, all the occult imagery TS has been using in album artwork, promotional material and Lyrics would make for an easy hour-1.5 hour video. Here’s hoping he does, as he’s clearly a Travis fan as a good majority of his videos feature the Astroworld album and Wendigoon doesnt shy away from religious content.
f travis scotr
@Jadiel Banrey Its Travis, Its to be expected
Still doesn’t explain the white bearded guy in the war party they saw decades later