Everybody loves a good lone wolf story so we’ve rounded up 10 of our favorites because who says interesting things from the internet only have a week long shelf life?Have you guys heard the story of the Hermit of Maine? Guy hid in the woods for twenty-seven years!Once upon a time seven siblings were locked in a Manhattan apartment for their entire lives. They watched a lot of movies. And then someone made a movie about them.A Russian family sort of missed that whole WWII thing…by spending 40 years in complete isolation in Siberia.Documentary maker Louis Theroux once spend a Weird Weekend with Survivalists and learned what happen when environmentalists get paranoid.Cracked gathered six isolated groups who had no idea that civilization existed. Makes us feel a bit bad for yelling “Get with the times!” at our father for signing his texts…“Marie Wilcox has no one to talk to.” AKA what it’s like to be the last person who speaks your language.In 2012 70 members of an Islamist cult were freed from an underground bunker in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan. Some had never seen day light.Speaking of religious bunkers…this one time Fabio saved a male model from a doomsday cult.If you’ve never heard the story of De Long and the USS Jeannete, then you need to read In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides immediately. Polar explorers trapped above the arctic circle in 1880. It’s grim. And cold.And finally, you don’t have to be a thousand miles away to stand alone: you can be the mad genius behind a company selling neon unicorns. Behold the epic and mysterious Lisa Frank.
