If you live there, you just sort of accepted the fact that at some point things were going

to disappear.

But of course, that was the price you had to pay if you wanted to live in one of the

most beautiful parts of Maine.

It was a vast expanse of old growth forest, just 20 miles north of Augusta, Maine's

capital city.

Those miles and miles of deep green tree tops are only broken by the occasional lake.

Great pond, east pond, the narrows, and for as long as anyone could remember, if you

had a cabin in that area, you'd be wise to lock it up because things pad away of going

missing.

Then, on April 4th of 2013, a police officer responded to a silent alarm in a cabin at Pine

Tree Summer Camp.

Minutes later, he arrived and caught the thief.

His name was Christopher Thomas Knight.

He'd lived there in the forest for nearly 30 years, subsisting entirely off nature and

stolen supplies, and he'd been perfectly happy doing so.

While his arrest, though, he was just one of hundreds of people who step into America's

forests each year and just vanish.

After he went missing, everyone just assumed Knight was dead.

Because when you slip away like that, into the dark embrace of the wild and wooded back

country, your chances are pretty slim.

We humans have tamed much of the world with our roads and maps.

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