There are many similarities between the fictional stories of Robinson Crusoe and the Tom

Hank's film Castaway. Man becomes stranded on a deserted island following a wreck. Man first

struggles to survive before becoming one with his surroundings and thrives.

Man is rescued and finds himself missing his old life on the island.

But there is one major similarity that is often overlooked, and that is that both of these

critically acclaimed fictional survival stories are based on the real-life marooning

of Alexander Selkirk. Welcome to Marooned, harrowing tales of the catastrophically lost. I'm Jack Luna.

This is Aaron Hable. It's only taken us how many episodes now, Jack, to get to a real marooning,

the classic marooning, as it were?

Yeah, it's hard to believe.

But we're here.

And this is probably the number one.

I'd be surprised if there's anything that's more maroon-esque than this story.

Yeah.

No, that really caught my eye.

Alexander Selkirk was born in the year 1676 in Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

He was the seventh son of a shoemaker and Tanner.

Now, his father wanted him to join the family business and become a cobbler.

But being a seventh son, Alexander and his mother knew he was destined for so much more.

And this comes from

seventh son lore, which if you aren't familiar with it, it means individuals born as the

seventh male child and an unbroken line of male births to a father who is also the seventh

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