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Real Survival Stories

Total Isolation: The Cabin in the Woods…

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports, History

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

An idealistic teenager gets the chance to fulfil his long-held dream of living off-grid for an entire year. But when David Scott and his friend arrive deep in the wilderness of Manitoba, a nightmare scenario unfolds. Unable to locate their cabin - the only shelter for 120 miles - they are totally exposed. With civilisation unreachable, their only hope is to venture deeper into the woods and find the elusive cabin before it’s too late…   A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins.   Written by Heléna Lewis | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Matt Peaty | Assembly edit by Rob Plummer | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley. For more on this story check out David's book, Paradise Creek: A True Story of Adventure and Survival. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at support@noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:34.1

It's nighttime in late January 1991.

0:42.0

A thick carpet of snow covers the ground in the wild,

0:48.0

untamed north of Manitoba, Canada, smothering the greenery beneath it and muffling all sound.

0:56.0

The vast, empty landscape is pristine, without a single sign of human habitation. The only source of light comes from a full moon, suspended like a crystal ball in the black expanse of a sky pinpricked by thousands of glittering stars.

1:07.0

The moon's pale, ghostly glow glints off a frozen river, which snakes across the land like a silver ribbon.

1:15.8

It is bordered by dense, dark spruce trees, dusted with white flakes, impassive sentinels, casting their long, eerie shadows.

1:25.8

It is agonizingly cold and utterly still. Nothing stirs.

1:33.8

But on the snow-covered ground, nestled among the stunted trees, is a small makeshift shelter

1:39.6

constructed from branches. Within this shelter are two shivering men,

1:46.0

19-year-old David Scott's and 20-year-old Scott Power.

1:51.0

They huddled together inside one sleeping bag,

1:54.0

trying desperately to conserve what little body heat they have

1:57.0

as the cold penetrates into every pore of their bodies,

2:00.0

slowly leaching the

2:02.7

life from them. Occasionally, one will shake the other, checking their companion is still alive.

2:09.6

They've had nothing to eat or drink for hours, and they're physically exhausted from trudging

2:14.9

across this beautiful, brutal landscape.

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