The Clearing
A man hiking in Colorado stumbles upon a gruesome campsite where five men were murdered and cannibalized, unraveling a dark true-crime tale of survival, betrayal, and a prospector named Alferd Packer who confessed to eating his companions after being left for dead. The story blends fronti
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