The Stranger in the Woods_ The - Michael Finkel

“I took no medications and never went to a doctor,” says Knight. As he grew older, he says, cuts and
bruises healed more slowly, but he did not once suffer a serious injury.
“Have you ever been sick?” asks Vance.
“No,” says Knight. “You need to have contact with other humans to get sick.”
“When is the last time you had contact with another human?”
He never had physical contact, Knight answers, but sometime in the 1990s, he encountered a hiker while
walking in the woods.
“What did you say?” asks Vance.
“I said, ‘Hi,’ ” Knight replies. Other than that single syllable, he insists, he had not spoken with or touched
another human being, until this evening, for twenty-seven years.