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Podcast: Unsolved Canadian Mysteries
Episode: #20 - The Mad Trapper of Sheslay
Description: The story of Michael Eugene Oros, better known as The Mad Trapper of Sheslay, is a chilling tale of isolation, paranoia, and violence in the remote wilderness of northern British Columbia. Oros, an American draft dodger, fled to Alaska in the late 1960s to avoid conscription into the Vietnam War. But the harsh conditions of Fairbanks proved too unforgiving, and he soon moved south, settling in the abandoned mining village of Sheslay, British Columbia.Life in Sheslay only deepened Oros's paranoia. He became increasingly convinced that he was being stalked by shadowy figures he referred to as "...