You ever feel like dropping everything and vanishing into the wilderness?

Selling off all your possessions, saying bye-bye to society, and spending the rest of your life in solitude,

just you and the forest.

Well, that's exactly what a guy named John Tornow did a little over a hundred years ago.

And for a while, at least, he was just another eccentric oddball living off the land.

But sadly, the outside world just

wouldn't let him be. Doss in a string of tragic deaths, wild rumors, and a family scandal so horrific

that it defies belief, and Tornow soon found himself transformed from a mere loner into the

wild man of the Winoucci. A creature so feared that parents would whisper his name to their children just to keep

them in line.

But who was the real John Tornow?

How to Quiet Farm Kid turn into the most wanted man in all of the Pacific Northwest?

How true are the stories about him escaping from the loony bin?

Was Tornow really a cold-blooded monster or simply misunderstood?

Stick around and find out because this one's going to get a little weird.

My name's Josh and this is the Wild West extravaganza. Michael John Tornell was born in Iowa on September 4, 1880.

His parents, Frederick and Louisa, immigrated from Germany in the late 1860s.

And once they arrived on American soil, they almost immediately began pushing west.

First to Nebraska, then Iowa, where John was born, Oregon, and finally,

Washington's Olympic Peninsula, not too far from the town of Aberdeen. All total, John would have

four siblings, three boys and one girl. And out of all of them, he was the closest with his older

sister, Minnie. Not only was she 14 years as elder, so almost like a

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