This Man didn't speak to anyone for 27 years until the police arrested him in the woods.

 A man who spent decades living as a hermit in a tent in the woods, and may have been accountable for over 1,000 break-ins for food and other supplies was caught by a determined game warden who was fed up with the thefts.

In a small village in the far northeastern US state of Maine, Christopher Knight, 47, was caught after he allegedly tripped a surveillance sensor while taking food from a camp for people with special needs.

Authorities discovered the campground where they surmise Knight, who was locally known as the North Pond Hermit, may have spent up to 27 years. According to authorities, Knight's living accommodations consisted of a tent covered in tarps strung between trees, a bed, gas cooking stoves, a battery-operated radio that he used to listen to talk radio, and a rock station in addition to the news.

Some locals claim to have known about the hermit for years, frequently in relation to break-ins. Knight stated that the 1990s were the last time he had spoken to someone verbally after being questioned following his arrest, according to state trooper Diane Vance.

He passed somebody on a trail and just exchanged a common greeting of hello, and that was the only conversation or human contact he's had since he went into the woods in 1986. Christopher Knight, 47, was known as the North Pond Hermit after his arrest. He was so well known to some summa cotta-jonas that they left food out for him so he wouldn't break in during the colder months.

But others were hardly aware of the hermit living within their midst without detection since 1986. I was born in 1987. He was there before I was, Rome resident Melissa Whitham said outside her home. Town council member Paul Anderson confirmed rumors circulating in the community of a lone man residing in the woods. I've lived in the town for 32 years, and I've never, ever met the guy, said Anderson.

Knight lived off food stolen from dozens of cottages after disappearing from his main home without apparent reason and setting up camp when he was about 19 years old. However, his favorite target was Pine Tree Camp, where Game Warden Sargent Terry Hughes, who had been hunting Knight for years, had set up a surveillance alarm, according to authorities.

Knight was caught on Tuesday as he left the camp's kitchen freezer with a backpack full of food, they said. He used us like his local Walmart, said Harvey Chesley, the camp's facilities manager. The man believed to be the hermit has previously been spotted by staff members of Rome's Bear Spring camps, according to Ron Churchill, the camp's owner. The cabins are situated near a lake.

Churchill stated that his company had experienced propane container thefts, the most recent of which was found on Wednesday. According to Hughes, Knight stayed at his campground and avoided burning campfires so he wouldn't be discovered.

He also exclusively used propane for cooking during Maine's severe winters, which may see highs of minus 12.2 degrees Celsius, 10 degrees Fahrenheit, for weeks at a time. Authorities claimed that in order to stay warm, he would wrap himself in several sleeping bags. Knight was found wearing his 1980s style aviator glasses and was clean shaven. When we went to the site where he has been living, it only took a few minutes looking around and making observations. Such as ropes that were embedded in the trees that had grown around them that he used to hold his tops up and shoes that were under rocks that had been there for years.

There was enough indication to me that he had been there for a lot of years, stated Hughes. Christopher Knight was captured on camera during one of his purportedly staged break-ins. In a surveillance video from one of the break-ins he reportedly orchestrated to support himself, Christopher Knight, the Northpond Hermit, is seen.

Image courtesy of Maine police slash Reuters the trooper stated that it is amazing that the case of the Northpond Hermit has been resolved. Even though at times it seemed like a myth that might remain unanswered, Vance remarked,

I think it's still sinking in. I don't think I will ever be involved in such an incident or case of this magnitude. Knight was being held at the jail on $5,000 bail for burglary and theft. Knight had only been charged with the Pine Tree Camp burglary, in which $238 worth of goods were taken. It was unclear if he was represented by counsel.

About 20 miles, 32 kilometers, away, in Fairfield, Knight had attended a high school. On Wednesday, nobody knew why he chose to vanish into the woods. Calls to family members were unsuccessful.

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