Alone the forest

When he was 20 Christopher Knight walked out of his job and into a forest and stayed there for three decades living on stolen food and surviving minus 20 degree winters in a make-shift tent. Imagine you walked away from your job and family and spent a quarter of century living as a hermit in the woods. In Christopher Knight, an apparently shy and intelligent year-old, left his home and after driving until his car ran out of petrol disappeared into a forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a makeshift tent through minus 20 degrees freezing winters the only survival knowledge he had was from reading books.

Yes, you read that right — his own parents left him in the woods to teach him a lesson. On the way home, his parents reportedly stopped the car, told the boy to get out, and drove yards away. When they returned, he was gone; though it remains unclear just how long the parents waited before returning to the site. According to the AFP, the parents originally told police Yamato became lost while the family was hiking to gather wild vegetables, but later admitted to the unconventional and cruel?

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