Case file · Abduction
Mosien-a: the Hengchun mushroom picker
In July 2008 an 83-year-old woman went to pick mushrooms after a typhoon near Hengchun and was found five days later deep in the Kenting forest reserve.
2008 CE · 21.96, 120.82 · status: account
The account
She said she had been led by someone and had eaten what she was given. The case drew national debate over mosien-a beliefs.
The sceptical view
Survival for days in the wild is possible; the 'guide' may be hallucination from exhaustion.