Ricky Megee was driving through the Australian Outback to start a new job when he was drugged and left for dead in one of the world's most inhospitable climates Ricky Megee survived for 71 days in the Outback (Image: allenandunwin.com)

Ricky Megee was journeying through the Australian Outback, en route to a new job and potentially a fresh start, when he decided to offer a lift to a hitchhiker.

However, this act of kindness turned into a nightmare for the 35-year-old as he was drugged and abandoned in one of the globe's most unforgiving environments, a baffling incident that remains one of Australia's most peculiar and debated unsolved mysteries. In 2006, a group of young "jackaroos", or cattle farm workers, stumbled upon a shocking sight in the Outback - a skeletal man, wandering

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