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TW: Domestic violenceChris McCandless spent his brief life in pursuit of a Walden-esque ideal, to leave behind a tumultuous upbringing and find true sanctuary within the natural world. In the years since his ill-fated journey into the Alaskan wilderness, the legacy that has sprung up around Chris is one that he never could have anticipated. This week, we chronicle the life, disappearance, and untimely death of a fascinating young man who trekked into the wild, and never returned.Sources

In the first installment of our Ghost Ship series, we dive into the mystery of the most notorious derelict from Down Under: the

Dr. Charles Budd Robinson was an enthusiastic botanist with a love of all things green, often undertaking scientific expeditions into remote areas of Southeast Asia in search of new discoveries. It was during his final expedition in December 1913 that he would meet a tragic end, allegedly due to one of the most unfortunate translation errors in the history of linguistics.Sources: Charles Budd Robinson Sources

TW: Child and infant death, death of a pregnant womanIn the first of many bear-centric episodes, we're heading to Japan to explore a string of violent attacks that plagued the rural settlement of Sankebetsu during the winter of 1915. For five days, an Ussuri brown bear terrorized villagers in an incident that still stands as the worst bear attack in Japanese history. Was Kesagake a monster or just misunderstood?Sources: Kesagake Sources

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” - Herman Melville,