Washington Post article from 02019 about marginally literate fugitive child abuser Jeremiah Button’s hidden cabin “bunker”. He went to the landfill daily for #hoarding, but had bought canned food in bulk while out on bail. He had lots of books on mechanical engineering. #homeless #DIY
on 02025-06-14#video on marginally literate fugitive child abuser Jeremiah Button’s hidden cabin “bunker”, showing the bike generator. The hunter who found him, who looks a bit autistic, followed his tracks in the snow because he thought it was suspicious that someone was trying to cover his tracks. #homeless #DIY
on 02025-06-14#video on #homeless people living under a bridge in Concord, CA (Contra Costa County), getting a 72-hour notice to leave because one of them built a loft under the bridge.
on 02025-06-14#video on Milwaukee #homeless person “Bunkerman” Geoffrey Graff, “this eccentric character who lived in a hole by the river,” who built a subterranean bunker with a bit of an armory, and lived in it in the forest for more than ten years; initially he was charged with some kind of crimes (maybe because he fired his gun into the river), but the charges were all dropped. #DIY
on 02025-06-14#video on fugitive child abuser Jeremiah Button’s hidden cabin “bunker” in the woods in Marathon County 30 miles from Wausau, where he survived for 3 years, dug into the hillside and concealed by underbrush, using stuff from the landfill. Electricity, a water filtration system. Quite crowded; lots of stuff hung from the ceiling. Muffin fans circulate the air. Three car batteries stored electrical energy from a bike generator and solar panels on the grassy roof (also from the landfill‽). Some storage is in jars with their lids screwed to the ceiling with two screws each. Plastic storage drawer units provided abundant storage. “He vanished two weeks before the jury trial” while out on bail. A hunter found it, but apparently not due to the panels — he just pushed the door open. Unlike the North Pond Hermit, he’d been spotted previously by the same hunter. #homeless #DIY
on 02025-06-14#Vice #video on #homeless people living in the desert near Lancaster, California. #toread
on 02025-06-13#video documentary on “The Hobbits of Texas”, a parallel society of #homeless people living in the woods in Austin, which the cinematographer "Glink" met when they were having a hobo jam session in a tent.
on 02025-06-13#video about Christopher Thomas Knight’s 27 years as “The North Pond Hermit” #bushcraft #toread #homeless
on 02025-06-13