<P> Christopher Thomas Knight (born 7 December 1965), also known as the North Pond Hermit, is a former hermit who lived almost without human contact for 27 years in the woods in the North Pond area of Maine . </P> <P> Knight lived within about a mile of summer cabins throughout his entire hermitage in a crude camp he built in a well - drained woodland obscured within a cluster of glacial erratic boulders . Because he entered the woods with almost no possessions, his camp was composed entirely of items stolen from nearby cabins and camps . He survived by committing approximately 1,000 burglaries against houses in the area, at a rate of approximately 40 per year . </P>

Man spent 27 years living in the woods of maine
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