20 Survival Stories That Put Human Endurance in Another Light

No fully agreed account explains how Ricky Megee ended up stranded in the Australian outback in 2006. At different times, he said his vehicle had broken down, that strangers had attacked him, or that he had been drugged and abandoned. Police found no evidence sufficient to confirm a crime, and the contradictions caused some people to question his story. His physical condition was harder to dismiss. Seventy-one days after he disappeared, workers at a remote cattle station found him severely underweight and living beside a small dam.