Between 1986 and 2013, Christopher Thomas Knight lived alone in the woods of Maine, stealing from seasonal cabins and summer camps in order to survive.

In the 1980s, Christopher Thomas Knight decided to leave the world behind and spend his life in the woods of Maine, unbothered by the demands of bills, a career, or his fellow humans. He was just 20 years old at the time — and he wouldn’t emerge from the forest until he was nearly 50.

Knight survived by stealing from summer camps and seasonal cabins, and while he recognized that his thefts were wrong, he reconciled his moral qualms by entering only uninhabited buildings and taking just what he needed to live: food, clothing, propane tanks, and books to keep his mind occupied.

These mysterious robberies earned Knight a reputation, and loc

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