Case file · High strangeness
Yossi Ghinsberg lost on the Tuichi
Israeli traveller Yossi Ghinsberg was separated from his companion on a raft trip down Bolivia's Tuichi river in 1981 and spent about three weeks alone in what is now Madidi National Park, before a search led by Abelardo 'Tico' Tudela found him.
1981 CE · -14.45, -68.35 · status: account
The account
In his memoir Ghinsberg described a phantom woman who kept him company and slept beside him each night. Two of his fellow travellers were never found. His story was filmed as Jungle (2017). Position approximate, on the lower Tuichi.
The sceptical view
A textbook case of the 'third man factor': starvation, isolation and exhaustion commonly produce a sensed companion.