Tasaday Tribe & Piltdown Man: Biggest Hoaxes Exposed!

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]On July 16th, 1971, a news report on NBC Nightly News announced that the Tasaday, a new peaceful cave-dwelling tribe, [music] had been discovered in a remote Philippines jungle, one which was still technologically and socially in the Stone Age. For years, the world looked for this unevolved community with wonder and awe, trying to explain how such a civilization could have possibly gone unheard of. That is, until Philippine politician Manuel Elizalde, the self-imposed protector of the Tasaday's privacy and way of life, was ousted from office and a couple of reporters managed to sneak into the jungles he declared off-limits.

[00:00:39]>> [music] >> It was there that they actually did find a Tasaday tribe, only instead of caves, they found them living in houses with modern amenities. Turns out Elizalde made the whole thing up. In 1912, an amateur archaeologist brought a fever to the [music] scientific community when he revealed his recent discovery, one that provided the missing link between man and ape in the evolutionary process, yet it was completely fake. That archaeologist was Charles Dawson, and his discovery [music] was a fossil of a human skull, but with a very large jawbone and teeth.