Hi, and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh.

There's Chuck.

Jerry's here, two sitting in for Dave, and the three of us are on the run to the Canadian Arctic,

recreating the story of the Mad Trapper, and it's not going very well for us.

That's right.

The Mad Trapper of Rat River, aka perhaps, I don't even know about perhaps, almost certainly Canada's most infamous, unknown person on the lamb and the largest manhunt in Canada's history conducted to try and get this guy.

Yeah. This is, I saw it referred to as like an iconic Canadian story.

This guy just tore us up in 1931, made international headlines and died. It's still to this day,

no one knows who he is. And not one of those things we're like,

we're pretty sure it's this guy. We just can't prove it. They have no idea who this guy is.

They're starting to kind of chew around the edges of it, but the fact that he is still unidentified just

makes it that much more interesting. But even if you were identified, Chuck,

his story is still just totally fascinating on its own. Yeah, it's not like Somerton Man,

because that was the most interesting thing about that, was the mystery of who he was. It wouldn't

care. It wouldn't matter if this guy was indeed Albert Johnson, who was

his alias. It's a remarkable story that started in July 1931 when this guy, Albert Johnson,

came and moved there. They think he may have come from Sweden, according to certain people who talk to him here and there.

But he was a man of very few words, as we'll see, when he arrived in the vast remote area of the Northwest Territories near Fort McPherson and built a little eight-by-10-foot cabin near the Rat River.

Yeah, and we're talking like the northernmost parts of Canada, like basically along the Arctic Ocean.

In the 30s.

Yeah, he was essentially living where the guys from the terror and the Arabis that we talked about were trying to get to when they were like on their march down toward Canada.

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