In what seems to be a similar haunting story of the Hollywood flick 'Into the Wild', where the protagonist finds life away from civilization and the lives off the forest in an abandoned vehicle, a real-life story of 56-year Chandrashekar, who is living in his Ambassador car amid dense forests, has come to light from Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada district. Chandrashekar has been living in a thick jungle region between Adtale and Nekkare villages in Arantodu taluk in Sullia taluk, which is about 4 kilometres into the wild.

He has been living along with wild animals, and become a part of it for over one-and-half a decade. He does not want to come back even as wild snakes always make their way into his car. He will promptly catch and leave them back into the jungle. "Human beings are more poisonous and dangerous than wild animals," he says. He has made his Ambassador car his abode, locks himself up in the car during nights and whenever he feels like resting. He has put up a plastic sheet on bamboo poles as the roof. The only connection with the outside world is a radio.