Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
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Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
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Re: Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
#2This immediately reminds me of a book I read a year ago about a man who walked off into the woods of Maine in 1986 and lived as a hermit for 27 years [1]
[1] “Stranger in the Woods” by Michael Finkel: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30687200
Re: Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
#3A doctor did this in Hawaii for a while https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/The-tale-of-the-doctor...
Re: Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
#4There was a family in Siberia who went off-grid and lived in the Siberian forest for 42 years. They were discovered by the Soviet authorities in 1978.
Re: Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
#5I believe he's not Petrov but Petro after all (out of options listed in the article)
You are unlikely to have no first name and two last names, and Zailenko looks like a last name, so the other one is likely a first name, which would be Petro.
Of course there is always a chance that he is Petrov-Zailenko.
Re: Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
#6I’m always blown away by how people like this managed to eat. I suppose you could live off bottle deposits if you only ate corn and beans. Even at five dollars a day he would’ve had to collect 50 bottles in the best case scenario.
Re: Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
#7This immediately reminds me of a book I read a year ago about a man who walked off into the woods of Maine in 1986 and lived as a hermit for 27 years [1] [1] “Stranger in the Woods” by Michael Finkel: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30687200
The craziest thing about this guy is he spent every Maine winter over those 27 years without lighting a single fire to keep him warm because he thought it would expose him. He would just stay awake all night and start walking around when he thought he was getting so cold it might be dangerous. That really to me is hell on earth. At least Petrov lived in California where it was mostly nice year-round.
Re: Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
#8This immediately reminds me of a book I read a year ago about a man who walked off into the woods of Maine in 1986 and lived as a hermit for 27 years [1] [1] “Stranger in the Woods” by Michael Finkel: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30687200
I haven't read Finkel's book on Christopher Knight, but other pieces on Knight were discussed here, with distinct tones to the discussions.
Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13878801 - March 2017 (124 comments)
The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205993 - August 2014 (86 comments)
Re: Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
#9I’m always blown away by how people like this managed to eat. I suppose you could live off bottle deposits if you only ate corn and beans. Even at five dollars a day he would’ve had to collect 50 bottles in the best case scenario.
Hunting and gathering is as old as human beings. It's more difficult in the XXI century but in a large-enough forest (and a natural park that is), you can still do it.
Re: Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)
#10I’m always blown away by how people like this managed to eat. I suppose you could live off bottle deposits if you only ate corn and beans. Even at five dollars a day he would’ve had to collect 50 bottles in the best case scenario.
Hunting and gathering is as old as human beings. It's more difficult in the XXI century but in a large-enough forest (and a natural park that is), you can still do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer
It saddens me to see a comment where finding some way to pay for food, would be the only way to eat.
Outside of local edible vegetation, there is smaller game. And as you say, this is how many used to survive.
But beyond that, you can plant beans and have a crop in weeks. Even with a lack of pesticides and fertilizer, being able to plant a plant here, a plant there, will result in food not being eaten completely by pests.
And the ground is far more fertile, when not monocropping.
And yes, seeds can be reused, it's how farming still works today for many farmers.
To speak to this, where I grew up, many people would go into the woods, and plant a single pot seed here, another there, always close to trees etc, so overflies by police helicopters wouldn't see a crop.
Being rural, some people owned 1000 acres, and plausible denialability exists. Even if some went missing, the scatter method yields results.