The Skeleton Tribe of Mindima village in Chimbu province, Papua New Guinea, developed a 200-year-old survival tactic by wearing skeleton costumes after a monster attack that killed their hunters; by becoming the very thing the monster had already conquered, they were able to survive and preserve their cultural identity.
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In the deep mountains of Papua New Guinea, there lives a tribe that refused to stay dead.
They are the skeleton tribe from Chimbu province.
But this isn't just a costume. It's a 200-year-old survival tactic born from a living nightmare.
Two centuries ago, hunters from the village of Mindima began vanishing into the peaks.
They didn't come back.
A rescue party of warriors eventually tracked them to a massive cave. Inside, a horror movie.
Piles of human bones were scattered everywhere, and in the shadows lurked a colossal monster.
The warriors realized they couldn't win with brute force alone.
They needed to become the very thing the monster had already conquered, the dead.
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