OLDNAVYMCPO
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
I'm real curious as to how many of you watched this program on the Animal Planet last night.Oh my gosh, what an unreal program that was actually too real.
It was a factual documentary about three ornithologist who were searching for a particular owl that was believed to be nearly extinct in the jungles of Indonesia in the 1970's. They ran into a tribe of human like primates here-to-fore unknown to scientist. They were a stone age people(?), who produced a very distinct designed stone knife that had been produced in the same pattern for thousands of years. They had no spoken language but communicated by howling. They were a vicious society that reputedly stole native children and ate them. Foreign explorers had also disappeared and went unaccounted for in the area.
Anyway, one of the scientist was murdered, one disappeared, never to be found. The third escaped back to civilization in poor shape mentally as well as physically. He told the authorities a wild tale of being hunted by these cannibals, and his friend being murdered and eaten. The survivor was an American in Indonesia with an unreal tale. He was arrested, tried and convicted of murder and cannibalism. He was imprisoned where some years later he died.
The producer of the current documentary, interviewed the locals and heard all the wild tales about the cannibal tribe of little hairy people. He explored the area and found a cave that was reputed to be a home of the cannibals. In the cave he found the mandible of another explorer that had gone missing.
The producer was able to track down the convicted man's sister and discovered that she had her brother's belongings, unopened, that had been mailed to her when her brother was imprisoned. Inside he found the missing movie camera with three rolls of film showing the cannibals as they attacked them and even pictures of one cannibal eating on the murdered partner. The film and sound recordings totally vindicated the one who had been falsely accused. Too late, he had already died in prison.
This was probably the best documentary that I have ever seen.
It was a factual documentary about three ornithologist who were searching for a particular owl that was believed to be nearly extinct in the jungles of Indonesia in the 1970's. They ran into a tribe of human like primates here-to-fore unknown to scientist. They were a stone age people(?), who produced a very distinct designed stone knife that had been produced in the same pattern for thousands of years. They had no spoken language but communicated by howling. They were a vicious society that reputedly stole native children and ate them. Foreign explorers had also disappeared and went unaccounted for in the area.
Anyway, one of the scientist was murdered, one disappeared, never to be found. The third escaped back to civilization in poor shape mentally as well as physically. He told the authorities a wild tale of being hunted by these cannibals, and his friend being murdered and eaten. The survivor was an American in Indonesia with an unreal tale. He was arrested, tried and convicted of murder and cannibalism. He was imprisoned where some years later he died.
The producer of the current documentary, interviewed the locals and heard all the wild tales about the cannibal tribe of little hairy people. He explored the area and found a cave that was reputed to be a home of the cannibals. In the cave he found the mandible of another explorer that had gone missing.
The producer was able to track down the convicted man's sister and discovered that she had her brother's belongings, unopened, that had been mailed to her when her brother was imprisoned. Inside he found the missing movie camera with three rolls of film showing the cannibals as they attacked them and even pictures of one cannibal eating on the murdered partner. The film and sound recordings totally vindicated the one who had been falsely accused. Too late, he had already died in prison.
This was probably the best documentary that I have ever seen.
