30 Celebrities Who Disappeared Mysteriously—Their Fates Still Unknown Today
The 23-year-old son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, Michael was born into a life of riches.
However, in 1961, he set out for the remote Asmat region of Dutch New Guinea to collect tribal art and study the culture.
On November 17, while traveling with Dutch anthropologist René Wassing in a small canoe, rough seas overturned their craft miles from shore.
After two days adrift, Rockefeller told Wassing, “I think I can make it,” strapped gasoline cans to himself for buoyancy, and valiantly swam toward land.
He was never seen again.
Officially, the prevailing theory is that Rockefeller drowned before reaching shore. But local accounts by missionaries, journalists, and later author Carl Hoffman claim he made it to land, only to lose his life in revenge for a prior Dutch-led attack on the villagers.
Among the most chilling of theories is one that claims his body was ritually consumed, a remnant of the Asmat’s headhunting traditions.
Bierce was a celebrated writer and editor who mysteriously vanished after traveling to Mexico in October 1913.
The 71-year-old departed from Washington presumably in an effort to immerse himself in the revolutionary conflict of the Latin American country. Reports state that he successfully passed through Louisiana and Texas, crossing through El Paso into Mexico.
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