When This Missing Hiker Was Found 7 Days Later, She Revealed The Terrifying Ordeal She’d Endured

When This Missing Hiker Was Found 7 Days Later, She Revealed The Terrifying Ordeal She’d Endured

Dangling high above the treeline of the Great Bear Wilderness, Madeline Connelly shook with exhaustion and relief as she was winched into the waiting helicopter. Almost 300,000 acres of mountainous forest stretched out below her. Somehow, with no food or water or phone, alone except for her Jack Russell terrier, she’d survived.Just one week earlier, the 23-year-old had been blissfully unaware of the ordeal awaiting her. Born and raised with three sisters just outside Chicago in the village of River Forest, Illinois, Madeline is a lover of the outdoors.In fact, when the proposed North Dakota Access Pipeline threatened the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in 2016, Madeline braved freezing temperatures to join the protest. At college in Arizona, meanwhile, she’d thrown herself into a three-week backpacking challenge, even exploring solo. Also no stranger to the state parks of Illinois, she’d happily camp out for days at a time.

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50 Comments

  1. Carissa Fisher on January 8, 2023 at 8:46 am

    Illinois has a silent s

  2. dylan draws on January 8, 2023 at 8:47 am

    Idk man keep track of what the mountain look like not the trees

  3. Power Press Clips on January 8, 2023 at 8:47 am

    Say what🤔

    Were made in HIS image. HE made us with the power of free choice
    A good prayer:
    I’m a sinner JESUS please forgive me for all my sins I know you shed your Blood for me on the cross at Calvary. Thank you JESUS for my salvation and for shedding they Blood for me. I love you JESUS.
    Romans 10:5/10 ct…❤️k
    JESUSisLord!Amen…
    Amen..
    If you’d like to call someone who cares
    83
    For
    Truth.
    bc you don’t know when you’ll die?
    .y r u hesitant. .
    .

  4. Brian T Parent on January 8, 2023 at 8:48 am

    Roman Catholicism in the United States and Canada – Encyclopedia Britannica. Why were there so few Catholics when The United States became The United States? Oh….I’m a descendant of one of our Founders in America, Roger Williams. Do you know why?

  5. Geno was here on January 8, 2023 at 8:49 am

    She didn’t have a compass?

  6. Loup DeFer on January 8, 2023 at 8:50 am

    Nobody ever told her : if you are lost follow the river down stream .

  7. Jim Wednt on January 8, 2023 at 8:51 am

    What a genius. She protested against the pipeline that provides the fuel her car needs to run and even dumber, the fuel her rescue helicopters guzzle gallons per minute while looking for her ridiculous, walking contradiction self . "Derp duh I’m going live with all the creature comforts an oil fueled society affords me and virtue signal against oil periodically."

    Everything from housing, food , clothing and transportation in modern society is dependant on oil consumption.
    You’d literally have to be naked in the wilderness somewhere to be a true proponent of "green" energy.
    In fact,
    If you aren’t making your own clothing and shelter and growing and hunting your own food, using only stone and wooden tools you made for yourself, I don’t want to hear a single word from you about renewable energy, pollution, carbon emissions, or
    "green" anything , because you’re just a hypocrite .

  8. Rick Johnson on January 8, 2023 at 8:52 am

    so what was the terrifying ordeal??? clickbait

  9. J Fritch on January 8, 2023 at 8:52 am

    I didn’t think there was any grizzlies in the Appalachian mountains lol

  10. ToyotaGuy1971 on January 8, 2023 at 8:53 am

    No way; she wouldn’t last 2 days.

  11. K. Ferguson on January 8, 2023 at 8:54 am

    When I told her to get lost, I didn’t know she’d take me seriously. 🫣

  12. FullAdrenalineAttractions on January 8, 2023 at 8:55 am

    fuck i hate these kinds of youtubers. fluf, fluf, and fluff

  13. Kitty Watson on January 8, 2023 at 8:55 am

    The ‘S’ in Illinois is NOT PRONOUNCED….PLEASE!

  14. hossmonkey1 on January 8, 2023 at 8:56 am

    Hope she has to pay the rescue cost for being so ignorant! Modern day Hiipies!?

  15. Glen J. Taylor on January 8, 2023 at 8:58 am

    Slap her with the bill for all the search and rescue efforts and lets see if she wants to go wandering off the trail again.
    Should be about $100,000 or so, right?

  16. TF4D 150 on January 8, 2023 at 9:03 am

    So you are telling me that she was able to survived being outside for 7 days while we have homeless people living outside for who knows how long…. This is white people stuff 🤣

  17. Sal Lopez on January 8, 2023 at 9:03 am

    She wanted to walk back after she wasn’t grateful to be alive ridiculous

  18. Jebus Christ on January 8, 2023 at 9:05 am

    I’ll bet her poor dog is vegan

  19. Mike Alstott on January 8, 2023 at 9:06 am

    Out of staters are so stupid.

  20. Valentine Girly on January 8, 2023 at 9:09 am

    Can you know general directions by tracking the directions by the sun?

  21. owen kli on January 8, 2023 at 9:09 am

    Foolish emotional child.

  22. Yeremy Chauvin on January 8, 2023 at 9:12 am

    Maybe some people like to be lost .

  23. JHAYKHAY25 on January 8, 2023 at 9:13 am

    Why would most people go and do something if they knew it was going to lead to a life threatening ordeal? Of course she was "blissfully unaware".

  24. scuffedboyslive on January 8, 2023 at 9:14 am

    Women have literally no sense of direction this is proof

  25. Alfred Tshimpaka on January 8, 2023 at 9:19 am

    Time waster, she should be charged for this ( rescuers )

  26. Dutchboy on January 8, 2023 at 9:19 am

    Lost proof yourself, if you can’t stay put then WALK DOWN HILL. Sooner or later you will find a stream, follow it DOWN HILL. People build along water. You will find a man-made structure of some sort; a fence, road, railroad tracks, power lines, a cabin, etc. Follow them to civilization.

  27. ss ri on January 8, 2023 at 9:21 am

    joe biden supporter i bet lol

  28. Pat* Darko on January 8, 2023 at 9:22 am

    i never ever trust channels with this voice there’s hundreds if not thousands of them .

  29. Aidan-San on January 8, 2023 at 9:22 am

    If you ever go missing in the bush just go fishing without a fishing license and a Conservation Officer will materialize behind you

  30. Fkthe Demlibscum on January 8, 2023 at 9:23 am

    If there were "angels" helping her, then she must be a republican because they are the good people of the country… I can’t imagine "angels and/or "God" helping a Dem/Lib as they support the killing of children (abortion)… yes, Dems & Libs are very bad people.

  31. Buckmaster on January 8, 2023 at 9:24 am

    I smell BS, she seemed to enjoy being incompetent causing the search and rescue teams possible injury or worse. Her nonchalant attitude ,she should be charged and given the bill for the search. I can almost put my bottom dollar that she will write a book and try to make money off it.

  32. Angela Garutti on January 8, 2023 at 9:26 am

    Wow brave cuz id NEVER go walking were grizzlies are

  33. Hammad Khan on January 8, 2023 at 9:28 am

    Lost in woods, found 7 days later. There is nothing terrifying in the story. Period.

  34. random269 on January 8, 2023 at 9:31 am

    Ladies remember the republican’s vote this November.

  35. King Doc on January 8, 2023 at 9:32 am

    Beautiful story if true. No words or thoughts of despair. Positive Connection with life 🤣 Refreshing to hear from a woman. New normal I hope 🙏🏾

  36. BhARTi Taylor on January 8, 2023 at 9:34 am

    stupid girl poor dog

  37. King James on January 8, 2023 at 9:35 am

    Once again, women suck at directions..

  38. RC Jr. on January 8, 2023 at 9:36 am

    Did she eat the dog? Doggie burgers

  39. jay johnson on January 8, 2023 at 9:36 am

    I am sorry but 32 degrees is nothing…….even for a little 23 yr old liberal nutcase that knows nothing about the wilderness! This was a nothing burger. My 14 yr old daughter could have easily survived this very mild crisis! This should have never even been a video as this was nothing!😎

  40. Shane Martin on January 8, 2023 at 9:36 am

    YAWN

  41. Sean Kennedy on January 8, 2023 at 9:37 am

    Calls herself experienced yet doesn’t know better than to stay put. SMH. Glad she’s safe. Hope she learned a valuable lesson.

  42. Jacquelyn Diamond on January 8, 2023 at 9:38 am

    Great Respect for Madeline!! What a wonderful spirit!💫💕✨

  43. Astro Jenkins on January 8, 2023 at 9:38 am

    At least she had her Jack. Those little fuckers are fearless, can confirm. They’d take on a bear just to buy you some time.

  44. Gianni Giumpup on January 8, 2023 at 9:41 am

    Say what you want, but a dumb thing to do.

  45. melly mel on January 8, 2023 at 9:41 am

    I can’t stand when the narrator sounds jolly about a tragic event smh 🤦‍♀️

  46. Kelly Evans on January 8, 2023 at 9:41 am

    Illinois aint nothing like alaska…..

  47. Steve Hood on January 8, 2023 at 9:43 am

    Did the narrator really pronounce Illinois with the “s”? No need to keep watching this one.

  48. patricia paige on January 8, 2023 at 9:45 am

    We need a movie?

  49. The Moto King on January 8, 2023 at 9:45 am

    What a great story and glad she made it.

  50. kaylene cartier on January 8, 2023 at 9:45 am

    if i ever go hiking, i’m going to bring a can of spray paint and just point arrows in the direction i’m going

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