Ricky Megee: My 70 days lost in a desert hell
Edmund Burke and Suellen Hinde
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
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Ricky Megee, the desert survivor from Toowong, Queensland, exclusively told the Sunday Herald Sun of an amazing ordeal in which he survived for 70 days in the desert.
Megee, 35, says he lived in for two months in the harsh Outback near the WA-NT border.
Megee said he survived on a diet of lizards, frogs, snakes and cockroaches.
He said the saga began when he was hijacked on an isolated road south of Halls Creek, WA, drugged and left for dead in a shallow grave on January 24.
It ended when he was found by station hands on April 4, about 60kg lighter and extremely malnourished outside a makeshift shelter at a dam on Birrindudu cattle station near the WA-NT border.
Yesterday he hit out at critics who have labelled him a liar.
"People need to understand what I have been through," Megee said. "To have survived out there for so long and then be told I made it all up makes me sick."
NT police have voiced suspicions about aspects of his story, at first hailed as a miracle.
Megee, who wants to visit a hypnotherapist to help fill in "fuzzy" details of his ordeal, said he was driving along Buntine Highway, heading for Port Hedland in WA, when he stopped to help three Aboriginal men standing beside a broken down Holden Kingswood.
He said he was giving one of them a lift to the nearest petrol when he blacked out.
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Edmund Burke and Suellen Hinde
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
_______________________
Ricky Megee, the desert survivor from Toowong, Queensland, exclusively told the Sunday Herald Sun of an amazing ordeal in which he survived for 70 days in the desert.
Megee, 35, says he lived in for two months in the harsh Outback near the WA-NT border.
Megee said he survived on a diet of lizards, frogs, snakes and cockroaches.
He said the saga began when he was hijacked on an isolated road south of Halls Creek, WA, drugged and left for dead in a shallow grave on January 24.
It ended when he was found by station hands on April 4, about 60kg lighter and extremely malnourished outside a makeshift shelter at a dam on Birrindudu cattle station near the WA-NT border.
Yesterday he hit out at critics who have labelled him a liar.
"People need to understand what I have been through," Megee said. "To have survived out there for so long and then be told I made it all up makes me sick."
NT police have voiced suspicions about aspects of his story, at first hailed as a miracle.
Megee, who wants to visit a hypnotherapist to help fill in "fuzzy" details of his ordeal, said he was driving along Buntine Highway, heading for Port Hedland in WA, when he stopped to help three Aboriginal men standing beside a broken down Holden Kingswood.
He said he was giving one of them a lift to the nearest petrol when he blacked out.
Read the story in full >>
