8 shocking stories about people who almost all his life spent alone

In connection with the quarantine and the necessity most of the time to spend at home many people feel lonely. But in fact, the word "loneliness" has nothing to do with the current forced isolation.

We will tell the stories of people who on their own (or not at all) has been alone for almost all my life.

Simeon Stylites, a famous Syrian Christian monk, founder of the new forms of asceticism of the pillar-dwelling. He decided to renounce the outside world, alone on the high column. First Simeon lived on the mountain, but at hermit came to see the crowds of people. Then he established the "pillar" and went to live on the top.

Not to say that this number of people willing to see it was less, but now they Simeon didn't bother. Besides, over the years the man increased the height of the dwelling to be further away from people. So he spent more than 36 years, until he died. After the death of Simeon, who according to his hagiography, he received from God the gift to heal mental and physical illness, to foresee the future, was canonized.

Blanche Monnier was descended from a respectable and wealthy French family. Unlike the Stylites, the girl never planned to spend my life alone — this choice is made for her ill mother. The woman did not like the daughter's boyfriend, "lawyer without a penny". To force 27-year-old Blanche to refuse the wedding, she locked her in a small room in the attic. Here, among the dirt and scraps, defecating under himself, she spent 25 years of his life.

No friends, no lover did not know where Blanche is. Her mother and brother diligently pretended that bemoan the loss while continuing to live a normal life. Only 23 may 1901, 25 years later, the police received an anonymous letter, which reported on the whereabouts of the women. Police rescued Monnier, but soon she was in a psychiatric hospital, where he spent the next 12 years until his death.

Thomas "Tom" Francis Neal is a famous new Zealand writer, author of the novel "the Island for themselves." This book is the autobiography of the man. Periods from 1952 to 1954, from 1960 to 1963 and from 1967 to 1977, the years he spent alone on the Atoll Suvorov. Several times to That came the visitors, but the rest of the time on the island he was only cats, chickens and wild pigs.

The decision to live on the island, Francis has adopted consciously and never about it regretted, though, was both positive and unfavorable details. For example, one man had to survive a strong hurricane, fever and to recover after serious injuries. In 1964 Neil returned to the "mainland", as the island increasingly began to appear, divers, and he "no longer felt the solitude".

But "make friends" with the normal world That was not able to — three years later he returned to the island and held it the remainder of their days. The writer died in 1977 from cancer of the skin (according to other sources, from stomach cancer).

Thomas Silverstein is one of the most famous American criminals who spent the last 42 years of his life in prison. First, he was imprisoned for robbery. Behind bars Silverstein joined the Aryan brotherhood white supremacist. Together, they maimed and killed other inmates. For this man received additional life sentences.

Once Silverstein killed a prison guard, for which he was sent to solitary confinement. In it, he spent 36 years, a record among such conclusions. On behalf of Thomas, filed an appeal contrary to the Constitution the content of it in solitary confinement, but the court found lawful punishment. Silverstein died in 2019 at the age of 67 years, long before its theoretical release date in year 2095.

Alfred Merrill "al" worden is an American astronaut, one of 24 people who flew to the moon. Worden was in the Guinness Book of records as "the loneliest person". From 30 July to 1 August 1971 during the expedition to the moon he ran the main module of the spacecraft Apollo 15, rotating in orbit around the moon, while the other astronauts were based at a distance 3596,4 km.

At that time the warden was not even satellite communications. In fact, he was absolutely one far beyond our planet. Perhaps, that privacy was dreaming at the time, Tom Neely.

Christopher knight, better known as "the Hermit of North Pond", held in solitude for 27 years. The decision to go into the forest the man made under the impression of events that occurred in Chernobyl in 1986, then he was 21 years old. Ever since Christopher knight lived in the woods and survived at the expense of robberies of tourists, vacationers at local resorts. On account of his more than a thousand burglaries committed to feed and create comfortable conditions in his camp.

By the way, about the camp. For myself, Christopher had built a small hut with a gas stove and a radio. In all my 27 years of being in the forest, the knight never lit a fire and only once came in contact with another person — greeted a stranger on the path. In 2013 the man was detained and charged him with multiple burglaries and other offenses committed over the years. The hermit was sentenced to seven months imprisonment and large monetary fines.

Dorothy Paige — a lover of horses and an accomplished horsewoman. In her youth she was quite an attractive appearance, but over the years she began to gain weight, she developed serious complexes. Come down to the fact that Paige weighed almost 130 kg and smoked 100 cigarettes a day. Of course, this has a negative impact on its appearance.

Eventually the woman became so shy that actually isolated myself from society. All communication with the outside world was through her secretaries. Paige lived alone, and the only hobby — betting on horse racing was doing with the phone. If she needed to go somewhere, Dorothy bought a whole compartment to precisely no one to see. This continued until her death.

Mary Molesworth was one of the most enviable brides of Ireland, her talent and beauty was admired by hundreds of men. Unfortunately, among them were Colonel Rochfort, who had become famous with his terrible tyrannical character. Mary's father decided that Rosfort be an excellent choice, and forcibly given the girl in marriage.

Because the graph is almost not paid his wife any attention, she began to communicate with his brother Arthur. One day before Rochfort heard rumors that between them the novel. Jealous without understanding the situation, almost shot brother on the spot, and the "traitor" was locked in the estate of the Earl of Galstaun. Here she spent 32 years and was released only after the death of the Earl in 1774.

Even on her deathbed, Mary continued to insist on his innocence. However, as the brother of the Colonel, who eventually condemned and spoke to life in prison.