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The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave

The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave

In the middle of the pandemic, a Spanish woman decided to retreat to a cave, all alone, and break the world record by staying there for five hundred days. When she reappeared after 508 days, she was upbeat and in good shape, «her grin was even wider than when she’d gone in.» That, however, was only half the story.


From Weekly Filet #476, in February 2024.

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