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.

I'm sorry I missed it. I'll make sure I catch it next time. Thanks.

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I meant to catch it, but didn't. I'll have to find it on demand.

The press around it indicates its a fictional movie, not a documentary, based very loosely on a real case. A mockumentary.

" There is no Dr. Timothy Darrow, and no scientist was convicted of murdering and eating his colleagues in the jungles of Flores in 1977. There is no modern-day scientist that went on a crusade upon discovery of the bones in 2003, to prove that homo floresiensis still exists in order to get a murder conviction overturned. All of the video evidence of homo floresiensis used in the film is dramatizations of events which never happened, the entire plot and characters in “Cannibal in the Jungle” are 100% fake, and the movie is pure fiction."


http://sportsmasher.com/2015/05/26/a...ments-of-fact/

Cannibal In The Jungle: Animal Planet Brings American Cannibal Timothy Darrow's Alleged True Story Of The Indonesian Hobbit Murders To Television

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Sounds interesting, but if it's anything like some of their other "documentaries" (mermaids, megladon shark) then it's a load of bs.

Sounds kind of like the real life Kuka Kuka in PNG.
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Don't know anything about the documentary, but these little guys will make you nervous.

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yeah the small hobbit like people existed but the story is a complete and utter fabrication.

Kind of a bummer, as they sort of had a great story that went the wrong way. Like their real Mermaid footage,

Whoops!

Still sounds like it'd be fun to watch. Who doesn't like cannibals??

I watched it even though I'm pretty sure it was fiction. ( couldn't find any info on a Timothy Darrow). But it was interesting nonetheless and I actually enjoyed it. Much better than the mermaid show anyways.

Sounds like a bunch of hokum to me.

Then again, I believed Spanky's Uncle George, the Wild Man from Borneo in the Our Gang comedies was real, so what do I know?

Yum yum...eat 'em up, eat 'em up!

I may have been duped but it was still better than Chopped or HGTV. They went to a lot of trouble when a movie set would have worked just as well.

Oh fer . . ..
Fooled me. I was CERTAIN the next line would be
A Cannibal in the Jungle walks into a bar.

Goodness! Did everyone who watched the movie try to google Dr. Darrow?

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I enjoyed the show. I watched it after seeing your post earlier. Before anyone had replied. I came back and saw the posts saying it was fake and was disappointed. I think it was still ok though. I have seen the mermaid one before too, but I knew that was fake.

Pretty sure that is just the night manager at Luby’s on Jensen Drive in Houston, TX and not really a cannibal.

Pretty sure that is just the night manager at Luby’s on Jensen Drive in Houston, TX and not really a cannibal.

I watched it and I thought it was really a good show. I was on the fence about it due to the previous "Mermaid" and "Extra large man eating shark". The shark story got me so I don't believe any of it anymore. It was a really good show though. Better than a lot of **** on tv now of days.

"I Was Bitten: Walker County Incident" was also well done.

Both movies were just movies, as in made up stories.

The hobbits may or may not still exist. There are still sightings. They are the bigfoot of Indonesia.

Did the movie have any quicksand?

Yeah there's some quicksand but it's not very deep cause it's full of little people.

I watched it. Didn't take the time to check out whether it was based on a real incident or not. But the "Investigator" in me was immediately skeptical.

The whole basis of the story, and the good doctors later defense was that the group was attacked by miniature cannibals. He filmed it. The Indonesian Police conducted what appeared to be a rather good crime scene investigation. The movie camera was recovered, and later sent to the Dr.'s sister. Years later the camera was recovered from the sister by the shows producers.

So nobody ever thought to develop the film in the movie camera, and see what it contained? Lame...

Larry

There used to be a distinct anti American bias in Indonesia. There were hard feelings dating back to the CIA attempting to overthrow their government. Inone case a former USAF pilot in CIA employ killed a number of Indonesian troops in raids using an old WW2 bomber. He was later shot down, captured, and put on trial.

Thus while fictional, I found it plausible that an American would get railroaded in 1970s Indonesia.

I watched it and though it was well produced, but decided at the end it was one of those fabricated stories. Yep, it was better than 95 % of the "junk" that's on TV in 2015. The camera being stored for years and not opened until the brothers death sounded to "Hollywood".

I was in Flores in the early '90s and there's nothing to substantiate this story. Flores is quite a small island and there's not much room for an undiscovered tribe. The island is famous for it's giant rats and the Homo Floresiensis theory has been debunked as a case of Down's Syndrome.

Then they had cats, or ate Lassie.

Did you hear the one about the cannibal who passed his friend in the jungle?

Yeah, I heard his friend was a real stinker.

Apart from the excellent River Monsters, this channel has little credibility. And people believe it's "documentaries." That's not right.

It was fake, really!

huh? was somebody insinuating that he wasn't real????

i think i saw that one on Gilligan s island

About the size of Connecticut. From what I understand some of the locals in New Haven might have been cannibals. But I digress...

But the hobbit skeleton aside, there does appear to actually be folklore in Indonesia about the ebo gogo or whatever it is, some sort of hairy monkey or pygmy. There are still reported sightings.

Though it is a shame how it all distracts from perfectly sound and reputable science like bigfoot hunting and phrenology....

There are still Head Hunters in Borneo that make shrunken heads. I still want to go to Irian Jaya but last time I tried to convince Mrs ATF to go there we ended up in Macau gambling and shopping after she saw what it was like on the internet. PNG is really wild a friend went there in the '90s and got off the plane to be greeted be a girl suckling a baby pig on her teat

Hope we find a Bigfoot one day but I think he's got a flying saucer

^ Now there is a trip you would never forget.

I had worried that headshrinking was becoming a lost art. Alongside cursed monkey paws, they are the classic accountrement of travelers.

The folks in PNG are said to mirror Americans in their fondness for firearms, with anyone unable to afford or obtain (an often illicit one) simply building their own. Sounds like an interesting bunch, even if one has to wonder where those tasty ribs came from.

Yes, sorry to say I got sucked in.

I didn't expect much reality, but it wasn't even entertaining.

Actually quicksand was busted on "Mythbusters"