Short Stuff: The Mad Trapper of Rat River

In this episode, the guys dive into one of Canada's wildest unsolved mysteries: the Mad Trapper of Rat River, an enigmatic man named Albert Johnson who arrived in the remote Canadian Arctic in 1931 and sparked the largest manhunt in Canadian history. When local trappers complained he was interfering with their trap lines, a routine police visit spiraled into a seven-week chase across frozen wilderness, complete with gunfights, dynamite, and the first-ever use of an aircraft in a manhunt. What makes this story truly captivating is that despite all the drama and international headlines, nobody has ever definitively figured out who this silent, tough-as-nails fugitive actually was—though modern DNA testing has provided some intriguing clues about his possible origins.