A Cannibal in the Jungle

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.
 
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!


huh? was somebody insinuating that he wasn't real???? :eek:
 
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.

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....
 
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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 :eek:

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.:eek:
 
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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 :eek:

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

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.
 
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Yes, sorry to say I got sucked in.

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

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