FOUND FOOTAGE fuels decades long MYSTERY (*WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT*)

In 1969, an adventure magazine reporter named Milt Macklin flew to New Guinea with his film crew to film a documentary about a missing person who had disappeared in that area. Milt's hope was that he was actually going to find this missing person and capture it on film. taking his documentary to the top, but despite filming all this

footage

and searching everywhere, they never

found

the missing person, so Milt eventually returned home and just put all the

footage

away and didn't even get a good look at it. 40 years later, the footage arrived. They took it out of storage because another team wanted to make a documentary about this missing person and when they saw this footage they

found

something totally incredible about it, so today I'm going to tell you the story of what they found and more importantly what it revealed about this missing person and I will say that right now it is very disturbing, but before we get into that story, if you are a fan of the strange, dark and mysterious presented in story format, then you have come to the right place because that is it. we do it and upload it once a week, so if that's of interest to you, give the Like button the complete set of Where's Waldo books?

But be sure to remove all Waldo books from each page first. Also, please subscribe to our channel and activate all. notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads, well let's get into today's overseas story. On the morning of Saturday, November 18, 1961, a 23-year-old man named Michael Rockefeller reached down and grabbed the cord that was connected to the outboard motor that was on the boat Michael was on and Michael pulled and pulled on it. rope but couldn't get the engine to restart, it just sputtered and wouldn't turn and with no power that meant Michael and his small crew just continued to float further and further out to sea, but that wasn't even the worst thing about this situation, the boat in The one Michael and his crew were on, which was a 40 foot

long

catamaran, was two handcrafted canoes tied together, well, it was starting to sink minutes before Michael and his crew had been traveling happily a

long

the beautiful jungle coast. green of New Guinea when they had to cross this area where the water was particularly turbulent, there was a river in New Guinea that fed the era of a sea which is where Michael and his crew were and where this brown river met the blue water It became very rough with many strong waves and when Michael and his crew attempted to cross that area, the waves came on board, flooded the engine, shut it down and then as more and more waves landed inside the boat, the boat began to sink.

The reason Michael and his crew were here and took these opportunities to begin with is because Michael wanted to go see this tribe called the Asmaths that lived in New Guinea, basically, right? Beyond this area where this river was, they lived right on the coast. Michael was obsessed with the artwork that the Asmat tribe created, in particular, this unique pole, these poles are created by the master carvers within the Asmat tribe, what they do is take a single piece of wood and engrave it up to which looks like they are a group of men standing on each other's shoulders.

Now these best poles are totally beautiful, intricate and wonderful to look at, but the Asmat tribe does not make them for the art that they make. them because they believe that they contain the souls of the warriors of their tribe who have died in combat and until the asmats avenge these fallen warriors, basically until the tribe kills their enemies, these souls remain trapped in these best poles, which It means that the Asmats don't really ever get rid of these poles, they don't sell them, they don't throw them away, they are just part of their culture and society, but months ago, Michael had come and visited the Asmat tribe, he had learned about these poles and he what they meant. and believed that he had successfully negotiated a deal where he would exchange some of his own goods to obtain one of his best attractions, but even though Michael gave them all the things he had offered them, in return they had not sent them the best pole, so now Michael was heading back so he could hopefully claim the best survey and take it with him, but as Michael sat on his sinking catamaran watching the muddy shores of New Guinea move further and further away as he It was moving further and further towards the Arafara Sea.

The last thing on his mind was the bistpole he needed to find out what they were going to do. Michael's team consisted of three other people, there was a French anthropologist named Renee and there were two teenagers who were actually Asmat guides and their names were Simon and Leo and so, after Michael couldn't start the engine, the three They took their turn pulling the cable, but they couldn't get it off either. Finally, Simon and Leo spoke and told Michael and Renee that they should do it now. They believed their only hope was to abandon the catamaran, jump into the ocean, and swim to shore, which by now was half a mile away, but they were moving so rapidly out to sea that if they waited any longer they might be too far away to make it.

Swimming, but Renee wasn't a good swimmer at all and Michael just wasn't ready to totally abandon the ship and leave this here to sing because on board the catamaran were all the things he had brought, like tobacco, fishing line, clothes and candy. and all these different things that he knew this tribe wouldn't have and that he could use as leverage to continue bartering to get his fist and other works of art that they might be offering, and even though Michael understood that obviously this catamaran and everything is going to sinking into the ocean at some point, he just wasn't there mentally to jump in now and just abandon all these things, so the decision was made for the two Asmats to guide the two teenagers Simon and Leo in them.

His people jumped and swam to shore and tried to get help while Michael and Renee stayed behind and waited for that help to arrive, so a few moments later the two teenagers jumped into the water and began their long swim to shore and as they did so Michael watched. and suddenly he realized how far he was from his own home; It had been months since Michael had last showered, so he smelled terrible, he was completely sunburned and covered in dirt, and his hands were rough and calloused from all the rowing. was doing it, but this wasn't really Michael's real life because Michael wasn't from New Guinea or anywhere close to here, he was actually from the United States where his family was one of the most well-known influential and wealthy families. of the history of humanity.

The Rockefeller family is among the 10 most powerful people of all time. Michael's grandfather was oil magnate John D Rockefeller, who at the time was literally the richest man in the world and Michael's father, Nelson Rockefeller, was at the time the governor of New York. and the future Vice President of the United States, but despite having these incredible resources at his disposal, Michael was not forced to be some kind of Rockefeller, but instead found his calling in the wilds of New Guinea. He had come here for the first time seven months earlier with a teenager. team of filmmakers from Harvard University who were looking to document a very remote tribe and Michael just fell in love with the adventure of this trip even though on this trip, while filming a battle between this remote tribe and another tribe, Michael was shot accidental in the shoulder with an arrow, so despite having been effectively wounded in combat, Michael loved being in New Guinea; in fact, Michael never told his family that he was shot in the shoulder with this Arrow because he was worried if he told his family about the all-powerful Rockefeller family.

They would respond by seeking retaliation against one of these tribes who had inadvertently harmed Michael Rockefeller, so Michael was very respectful and protective of the people he came into contact with in New Guinea and in many ways saw them as more similar. to its people. than his family and so, after the Harvard University filmmakers finished their documentary and returned to the United States, Mike Michael stayed in New Guinea and, in the meantime, his father Nelson Rockefeller had opened a museum in New York called The Museum of Primitive Art. and what he showed were works of art from places like New Guinea.

It was the early 1960s and many Westerners viewed the natives of New Guinea, such as the people of the Asmat tribe, as very primitive and backward and, as a result, there were a lot of people. They were attracted to this new Museum in New York just for the spectacle of seeing what these primitive and backward people were creating, but Michael felt that he had a deeper understanding of the native people of New Guinea and felt that it was his responsibility to go Discover and Find the amazing works of art throughout New Guinea, including the best Poles from the Asman tribe, and send that work of art to your father to place in this museum, so that it would be more than just a show.

Michael wanted people from the West. appreciate and respect the native people of New Guinea the same way he did and believed that through ART he could do so, so Michael had teamed up with Renee, the French anthropologist, to travel around New Guinea and find this work of art to send to his father. A few hours after Simon and Leo jumped off the sinking catamaran and began swimming to shore, Michael and Renee had no idea if they had made it to shore, they hadn't seen anyone appear to rescue them, and so They knew they had no idea how close they were to being rescued or not and when they looked down they saw their catamaran sinking deeper and deeper into the water, so at some point Michael and Renee just grabbed buckets and They began to fill the water.

The catamaran, which was totally useless, the water was coming in too fast, but they had nothing else to do, so they were bailing out the water and then a rogue wave comes and flips the whole catamaran over and sends Michael and Renee into the sea. and luckily Michael and Renee were able to swim to the surface, they swam to the now capsized catamaran, but there was a pocket of air trapped underneath, they ate it and it stayed afloat, so Michael and Renee held on to the catamaran and Michael. In fact, he grabbed a gas canister that had come loose from the boat and tied it to his belt as a flotation device, so he and Renee just held on to this capsized catamaran.

Michael was also held up by this gas canister and they just continued to wait. He hoped that Simon and Leo had made it to Shore and that help would arrive soon, but in the back of Michael's mind he knew that if help didn't arrive soon, Michael would have to do something drastic like try swimming himself, which was now a possibility. very far. More than half a mile away the next morning when the sun came up, Michael and Renee were still in the water clinging to that catamaran waiting for help to arrive, but no help had arrived.

Michael was a very good swimmer, but by now he knew they were at least five or maybe even 10 miles from shore, so it would be a gigantic swim in some pretty rough waters, but you know, Michael, it's a Rockefeller, he was very confident and started telling Renee, "Hey, I'm going to do it." "This swim I know I can do. I can swim the whole distance even if it's 10 miles. I can do it. You know you're going to have to hold on. It's going to take a while, but I'll help you," Renee pleaded. Michael wasn't supposed to go, but Michael said he had to do something, otherwise we'd die out here, so all Renee could do was watch as Michael took off some of his clothes and placed another gas canister on his belt to give it some energy.

A little more floating and then Michael shook Renee's hand and then around 8am. m. on Sunday, November 19, 1961, Michael started swimming about 12 hours later, so that night, while Renee was still clinging to this catamaran, he hoped that help would arrive soon, suddenly. Without

warning

, the sky suddenly burst with this incredibly bright flame and what it was was a plane flying overhead that had seen Renee and the capsized catamaran, they had shot a flare into the air to say: hey, we see you, let's go. send help. and then just a couple of hours later a ship showed up and picked up Renee and when Renee got on board she was very relieved and asked the captain, you know?

Hey, did Michael Rockefeller tell you he was here? Is that why you knew he was? here and the captain said no, two teenagers, two guides, Simon and Leo, told us you were here, no one has heard from Michael, now you have to remember that Michael Rockefeller was a Rockefeller and as soon as Renee found out, oh my god, no. He didn't know where Michael was and told the captain that Michael had started this incredibly long swim to shore to get help. It was as if a bomb had suddenly gone off in the Rockefeller family and all their money, resources and influence were compromised. to launch the largest human search ever to find Michael, they sent boats, helicoptersand aircraft, they contacted the US Navy and got them fully involved.

I mean, they looked everywhere for weeks, but they couldn't find Michael. This search for Michael would continue for years, it would not be as intense as the first few weeks, but there was always someone or some entity searching for Michael in the area where he had started swimming, but in 1964, three years after Michael started swimming until the shore The Rockefeller family finally accepted that Michael had to be dead and that he had to have drowned on that five or ten mile swim to the foreign shore over the past 60 years. I have been a die-hard male whale enthusiast every morning.

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decades

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Register at stamps.com. Mr. Ballin for a special offer that includes a four-week trial plus free shipping and a free long-lasting digital scale. commitments or term contracts, just go to stamps.com Mr. Ballin and when the family finally accepted that that's what happened, it became the story in America about what happened to Michael Rockefeller; in fact, his sister even wrote a best-selling book about grief. his loss, but a very different story began to spread in New Guinea about what happened to Michael. Rumors about his fate were whispered along trade routes and among visiting missionaries and gossiped in tabloids and Adventure magazines in 1969, five years after Michael was declared dead by his family, a magazine reporter. adventurer named Milt Macklin, heard from this mysterious Australian person who was a source for this magazine that they had recently stumbled upon Michael Rockefeller in the jungles of New Guinea, not far from where he supposedly disappeared, and Milt would actually follow up with them.

In this tip as unbelievable as it was, he would go to New Guinea with a film crew and he would go to this area and he would look very aware of Michael, he would talk to the locals, I mean, he really toured the area, but there was There is no sign that Michael and Milt were very disappointed by this, he returned home and actually wrote a best-selling book about his quest to find Michael Rockefeller, but more importantly, even though he had filmed all this footage both at a distance and up close. of all these tribes in the area where Michael was supposedly, he and his team never really reviewed the footage, they basically filmed all this footage while they were there looking for Michael, they couldn't find him and they said map and left the footage aside, but 40 years later.

Another documentary film crew decided that they were going to go to New Guinea and look for Michael because there were still all these rumors floating around that Michael was alive and living in the jungles of New Guinea and before they actually went to New Guinea to look for it. Michael, they discovered this unseen footage of Milt Macklin, they watched it all and discovered something incredible among the hours and hours of footage. There is this brief shot taken from a distance where the film crew was filming on land towards the water and you. See this canoe come into frame and it is full of warriors from the Asmat tribe.

This is a war party and presumably they are fighting their way into battle with some other tribe, but among these big, strong men there is one man who totally stands out because no. He looks like the other Asmat Warriors, he is a naked bearded white man who, although the quality of the film was bad, totally looked like Michael Rockefeller, so as soon as this footage became known, rumors began to spread around everyone. world about how this heir to a billionaire's fortune had decided to move away from his family and simply live among the Asmat tribe as one of them now again, we have no idea if it was really Michael Rockefeller, he could have easily been, you know, a missionary or or some other white person who was in New Guinea, but the story was incredible and spread everywhere in 2012, so four years after these unseen images of Macklin on milk and over 50 years came to light since Michael Rockefeller disappeared, a journalist for National Geo

graphic

. named Carl Hoffman, who had grown up totally fascinated by the mysteries surrounding Michael Rockefeller, decided that he would go to New Guinea and finally get to the bottom of what happened to Michael Rockefeller and after Carl and his interpreter went to New Guinea and They lived with the Asmat tribe for months and gained his trust and respect, they began to tell him a new story that he had never heard before about what happened to Michael, the real story, and gave him a dire

warning

that if he ever told him.

He told someone what really happened to Michael that the whole village would probably be killed and maybe even he would be killed too, but Carl didn't listen after hearing what really happened to Michael he left New Guinea and wrote a book about it. called Savage Harvest and from his book here. is what happened to Michael Rockefeller on the morning of November 19, 1961, approximately 24 hours after Michael jumped into the water and began swimming five to ten miles to shore to get help, three elders from the Asmat tribe They named Finn a gem and Pep sat among 50 other tribesmen in eight long canoes and they weren't going anywhere, they were just resting at the mouth of this river, the same river that flowed into the Arafura Sea, which is exactly where Michael and his crew had encountered all those Roughs.

The waters and capsizing caused their whole situation, so all these tribes are sitting there in their canoes, some of them smoking loosely wrapped cigars, others chewing flour made from a palm plant called sago and all of them are naked except for a couple of bands around their knees and elbows and some of them had very intricate piercings in their noses in their ears but they were all sitting there it was a long day and they were enjoying some peace and quiet but suddenly a gym One of the elders noticed that something was making its way into the river from the sea, it was a white thing that was slithering towards them and immediately a gymnasium called the others to look, there is something there, it is a white crocodile, it is a snake, it is something and Everyone They look and they are watching and slowly this white thing is getting closer and closer to them and so not wanting to be caught off guard the whole group got ready and started paddling to see what this thing was because if it was . a threat that they could face if it weren't so, you know, so be it and so, when these eight canoes converged on this white thing, some of them had their spears ready to attack, but when they finally saw what this creature was, they realized account.

It wasn't a snake or a crocodile or something, it was a white man and he was floating on his back and he had these strange flotation devices but he wasn't a threat, so right away you know all the May tribes and they put down their spears. They laugh, you know, thinking they were in danger for a second and this white man who was Michael Rockefeller turned around and looked up and couldn't believe what he was seeing, you know, he just swam like 10 miles to get there. here and he's seeing the tribe he had come to see in the first place, they came here to rescue him and practically crying with relief he turned around and grabbed one of his canoes and as soon as he did, one of the elders perked up.

He looked at Michael holding on to his boat and then Pep looked at the other two old Finns and a gym and they just looked at each other, then back at Michael, then back at each other and then they nodded and then Pep helped. to Michael. In the boat, Michael immediately laid down in the middle of the boat, you know he was very exhausted from that swim, but he was very relieved and just stood there while the tribe got back into position, they turned their canoes around and started paddling back. . upriver inland and as they were paddling they started this very strange thing, the eight canoes, the 50+ members of the tribe, all in unison started this chant and Michael, you know, he had studied the Asmat tribe and felt like he knew a lot about their culture. . but he had never heard this particular chant before and so he was enchanted and tried to ask them do you know what this means?

But they just completely ignored Michael and continued paddling and changing, so Michael just lay there listening and being carried. towards safety when suddenly the singing stopped and the canoes turned and headed into this little inlet that led to a clearing right on the shore and Michael noticed that they were slowing down and he barely got up. and he looked over the edge of the canoe to see if they were in his village, but when he looked up he saw that there was no village in sight, it was just a clearing on the shore, and immediately Michael said, "Well, I hope Let's go." I'm going to the Village soon because I have to find someone who can contact the authorities who can then go rescue Renee and hopefully find Simon and Leo too, so Michael started trying to ask the men in his canoe if they could help him. but of course there was a huge language barrier and neither side really understood the other and then at some point one of the men from the Asmat tribe started laughing at Michael and when he did, most of the rest of them The tribe looked and saw what was happening and they started laughing at Michael too so Michael had no idea what was going on and then before he could do anything else the whole tribe stopped laughing and it was like If in an instant they returned to that rhythmic chant as they slowly began to get out of their canoes and headed towards the shore, so Michael began to sense that something was wrong and instead of getting out of the canoe with the rest of the tribe , he instinctively leaned back in the canoe, almost as if he was trying to get away from them and when he did that, the tribe members who had first laughed at Michael stood right above Michael while he was doing this chant and smiled at him and then lifted him up.

Secondly, he did not do it, that other members of the tribe raised the horns they were carrying and began to explode them, so Michael screams in pain but does not have the strength to defend himself and , therefore, rolled over the other. side of this canoe trying to protect himself and when he did, the guy just raised his spear again with a big smile on his face and stuck it into Michael's other side after the man pulled out the spear. Michael, who is in horrible pain, maybe managed to use his adrenaline to get up and jump over the side of the canoe, so we fell in the mud and he tried to get up to get away from them, but there was nowhere he could go and as he was groping in the mud, two of the tribesmen walked behind him, grabbed him under the arms and began to carry him across the clearing into the jungle and as they walked, that rhythmic chanting continued and periodically Michael heard someone honking his horn, so Michael was dragged along the coast into the jungle and then finally to another clearing in Jung's Angle, not close to his village, and Michael was placed in the middle of this clearing and placed on his knees, so Michael is protecting his sides with his arms, he is incredibly weak.

On their knees, the tribe formed a circle around him and continued with this chant and then at some point, one of the tribe members approached Michael, grabbed his head and pushed it forward, exposing his back. from his neck and then another member of the tribe. He entered again and again during the entire time these songs are heard. They blow horns and this other tribe member comes over and picks up an ax and hits it on the back of Michael's head. It would turn out that theAsmat tribe knew who Michael was. He remembered him from visiting him several months earlier, when he tried to negotiate the best poles from him and they felt totally offended because this rich white man had shown up and thought he could buy one of the sacred artifacts from him as if it were a trinket to give as a gift. put on display in a museum and that's why they had held a deep hatred towards him, that's why they didn't do it and sent him their best Polish, they weren't going to give it to him, but when Michael had magically floated in their river and suddenly the tribe Asmat has him sitting in his canoe.

The three Finn village elders, a gym and encouragement, all simply looked at each other and nodded in agreement that they were going to ritually kill Michael to avenge the deaths of many. of his fallen Warriors that apparently those bispoles contained The Souls because many of his Warriors had been killed by white men in the past and so Michael was going to be his way of avenging their souls and that chant that Michael heard everyone say that was the chant they made when they performed this execution ritual, except they didn't just kill Michael after one of those tribe members stuck the ax in the back of Michael's head, another tribe came up and grabbed Michael's hair, he threw his head back and used a knife to cut his throat to actually remove his head and then after his head was removed again all the chanting continued in this circle the whole time the tribesmen came over and They began to cut Michael's body completely into pieces, separating his organs and flesh. and his bones in different piles and then very quickly they lit a fire, cooked and ate Michael and of all the parts of his body they ate, his brain was apparently the most important, so only Finn had a gym and cheer up, the three Elders were allowed to eat the brain and then finally, after they finished eating and took all the remaining meat that had not been consumed and put it in their bags to eat later, Finn, one of the elders took Michael's skull and would bring it back to the village and cover it with banana leaves and he would paint them and treat them like a trophy a few days later when that huge search party passed through the area looking for Michael, the tribe Asmat knew that they would never be able to whisper a word about what happened to Michael because if he found out, I know that it is very likely that the Westerners will want to retaliate against them and that is why for

decades

the children and decades their secrets remained safe until Carl National Geo

graphic

's Hoffman heard the story and then wrote the book Savage Harvest about it, but despite publishing this book and many people who read it they always had doubts about the credibility of the story because, to begin with, remember there's all this intrigue and

mystery

surrounding Michael's story and now we have this account coming from the Asman tribe, so no one really knew how legitimate it was and So to this day, the Rockefeller family and authorities in general still say that Michael Rockefeller drowned while swimming to shore trying to get help and that's it.

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