Short Stuff: The Mad Trapper of Rat River

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2025-01-08

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Join us today to learn the story of The Mad Trapper of Rat River, Canada's largest and most intense manhunt. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Hi and welcome to the Short Stuff.

  • I'm Josh.

  • There's Chuck.

  • Jerry's here, too, sitting in for Dave.

  • And the three of us are on the run through the Canadian Arctic recreating the story of the Mad Trapper.

  • And it's not going very well for us.

  • That's right, the Mad Trapper of Rat River, AKA perhaps, I don't even know about perhaps, almost certainly Canada's most infamous unknown person on the lam.

  • And the largest manhunt in Canada's history conducted to try and get this guy.

  • Yeah, this is.

  • I saw it referred to as like an iconic Canadian story.

  • This guy just tore us up in 1931, made international headlines and died.

  • It's still, to this day, no one knows who he is.

  • And not one of those things where, like, we're pretty sure it's this guy.

  • We just can't prove it.

  • They have no idea who this guy is.

  • They're starting to kind of chew around the edges of it.

  • But the fact that he is still unidentified just makes it that much more interesting.

  • But even if you were identified, Chuck, his story is still just totally fascinating on its own.

  • Yeah, it's not like Somerton man, because that was the most interesting thing about that, was the mystery of who he was.

  • It wouldn't care.