Real-life cannibal stories that will absolutely horrify you

Alferd Packer

The search for riches has traditionally led many astray, but according to some accounts, it made Alferd Packer of Colorado resort to cannibalism. Here's what we know: In February 1874, Alferd (also confusingly called Alfred) left a camp in Colorado with a group of five prospectors bent on finding gold in the Breckenridge mountains. In April, Packer alone staggered into another camp and claimed a storm had hit. All the others had wandered off in search of food, never to be seen again, he said. The story seemed fishy. Finally, Packer admitted that after one of the men had died, they had eaten him. Three other men died from exposure, and Packer claimed to have killed one in self-defense .. Packer was jailed on a murder charge.