These people decided to live alone: the most famous hermits (9 photos)

Sociality is the basis of human nature. Even a few days in complete isolation is already a difficult test for many. But not for everyone.





There are representatives of the human race who are so unwilling meet with their own kind that are ready to go into the forests or go to island.

David Glashin



A friend that David is comfortable with

In 1987 stockbroker David lost in the stock market 6.5 million pounds. It upset him so much that he decided to leave not only a profession, but civilization in general.

With the money he had left, Glashin rented a small renaissance island off the northeast coast of Australia.





David on his island

At the moment he still lives there, but he is so-so Robinson, of course. There is Internet and satellite communications, and they are valuable he continues to trade in papers, because the island asks for money. On the menu David is usually fish, vegetables and beer, which he brews himself. In company with dog Quasi this guy seems to be doing great.

Christopher Johnson McCandless



Christopher before retiring

Christopher never liked the way the modern society. Taking on the pseudonym Alexander Supertramp, he went in the spring of 1992 on a trip across America towards Alaska. There he wanted live alone in the wilderness. But his adventure is over already after 189 days.



This is how he looked shortly before his death

Christopher did not know how to survive in the wild, he hunted from the hands that's bad, and he also didn't know how to process meat. He even has there was no map, which, of course, made it difficult to move around.

In September of that year, he was found dead. Moreover, he was exhausted and weighed no more than 30 kg.

The last entry in the diary was: "Beautiful blueberries!" The police suggested that the clown was poisoned by poisonous berries. But He most likely died of starvation.

Christopher Knight



Christopher was born in December 1965 in quite a prosperous family and planned to study as a computer specialist. But suddenly he went into the forest, where he lived from 1986 to 2013.

He went out to people very rarely and only for the purpose of robbery: he could come to shops, private houses, campsites to get food, clothes and some household items.

When the police later detained him, he said he had decided to leave. into hermits after the situation at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but did not tie your solution to the disaster directly. Knight said he just wanted be alone.



Arrested hermit

The investigation found that during his seclusion, Christopher Knight committed more than a thousand burglaries.

On October 28, 2013, Knight was sentenced to seven months prisons, which by that time had already served. And another fifteen hundred dollars he had to give back to the victims of his attacks.

The Lykov family



They are probably the most famous of the Russian hermits. They hid from people in Siberian impenetrable forests back in the 1930s, when persecution of faith began - the Lykovs were Old Believers.

Karp and Akulina, with two small children (two-year-old Natalya and nine-year-old Savin) went into the forest. Later, two more were born to them - Dmitry and Agafya.

They ate pasture, sewed clothes from hemp, made shoes from birch bark. The children grew up and began to hunt - then sometimes the family dabbled in meat dishes. But when summer came on in 1961 frosts. All crops were destroyed, and Akulina died of starvation.

The small house of the Lykovs was accidentally discovered by geologists, who flew over the area in a helicopter. They decided to meet a unique family of hermits, which frightened the children a lot, who never seen strangers. But they quickly got used to it, especially since the elder family, Karp, received the guests cordially and listened with genuine interest about various scientific achievements, flights to the moon. He was especially struck cellophane.



Agafya Lykova today

Unfortunately, the meeting with civilization was fatal for families: Savin, Natalya and Dmitry died of diseases against which they were not immune. Karp lived until 1988, and Agafya remained All alone.

Today she is 78 years old. Her age is already respectable, but she refuses to leave the taiga and lives as best he can. The locals also help her. authorities and volunteers.