The last known photograph of Michael C. Rockefeller always does it for me. He’s just calmly tinkering with his camera. The grin of the man next to him is haunting… Rockefeller is in Papua New Guinea, in a particularly remote part. And the tribe he stays with are notorious cannibals. The smile of that man, is the smile of man who has tasted the flesh of human beings before.
Michael Rockefeller disappeared shortly after the photo was taken. He was only 27, and he was never seen again. Some say his small boat sank on a nearby island. An excellent swimmer, he likely didn’t drown and would have made it to dry land. After this? No trace of Rockefeller was ever found. No footprints, no pieces of clothing, no body, no hair. Nothing.
I’m pretty sure he was killed and eaten shortly after this picture was taken. I wonder if the grinning man is already thinking of what Rockefeller would taste like. He’s eaten enemy soldiers before. But never before did the tribe have a Rockefeller heir on the menu. Continue reading

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