22. Shoichi Yokoi Hid in the Jungle for 28 Years
Shoichi Yokoi spent 28 years in the jungles of Guam, hiding and avoiding capture – the third-longest Japanese holdout. A Japanese army sergeant, Yokoi had been posted to Guam in 1943. A year later, the island was captured by American forces, and he fled into the jungle with nine other Japanese soldiers, who refused to surrender at war’s end. The group gradually dwindled over the years, until Yokoi’s last two companions drowned in a flood in 1964, and he was left as the last holdout on Guam.