The Spaghetti Bandit

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The Spaghetti Bandit's luck and skill at evading capture finally runs aground. 

The Spaghetti Bandit now faces a manhunt that includes police dogs and helicopters. 

As summer blooms, sightings of the Spaghetti Bandit become more frequent, and more disturbing. 

In the middle of the night in a horrible storm, the distinct sound of a kayak being dragged over rocks and logs is heard. Is the Spaghetti Bandit making his escape?

The RCMP show up and tell the cabin owner that the Spaghetti Bandit is likely long gone. Bob protests, showing them the stolen kayak, but he is ignored. Are they being watched?

In the middle of a horrendous rain storm, a cabin owner discovers a yellow kayak hidden behind some logs on the beach. The kayak is filled with an assortment of soggy survival gear. But whose kayak is it? Where is the owner? 

A construction crew shows up a cabin to do some renovations and are startled to discover an unwanted guest scrambling through the back door and into the woods. 

Police arrive at the burial grounds to arrest the squatter for desecrating the site. 

An archaeologist and a First Nations Guardian come face to face with a mysterious stranger living in an ancient burial cave. 

A family arrives at their cabin to open it up after a long, cold, wet winter. What they discover is unsettling, disturbing, and not what they expected. 

The Spaghetti Bandit is a true crime wilderness podcast series, originally intended for parents to enjoy with your kids. Since its creation in the summer of 2017, the Spaghetti Bandit has appealed to all ages. Told in a suspenseful, spooky style, the Spaghetti Bandit is the story of a mysterious man who eluded capture for over a year, while squatting in cabins and sacred First Nations burial caves. He stole to survive, and slipped past the authorities like a phantom.