Man Survives Two Months in Car Without Food: Believable or Unlikely?

On average, I think, people can survive about a month without food. If he had a large fat/muscle deposit, the body could burn that for energy as long as it had water...(But he's from Sweden, don't they have low obesity rates?...)

It's both believable to me and unlikely.

This entire story reeks of fraud.

Fishy at best. You don't start out "trapped" in your car. You had to drive to that point. If as the report says he was only half a mile from a main road, why didn't he hike back? If he was going towards this main road and got stuck it would be logical he knew a main road was just ahead or what was he doing on a side road in a bad storm he never traveled before?

Either way, sounds fishy. With all that snow I suppose you could maybe stay hydrated, the snow also would serve as shelter, so maybe, but for two months, doubtful. I'd give the guy maybe a week, two on the outside. Again, the thing that shouts out at me, why no attempt to hike out? I don't care how much snow is on the ground and there couldn't have been that much if he drove to where he ended up that is should have been relatively simple to "save
himself" with that short a hike.

He got buried in snow?

Dig out

He could have got what of the car and walked. It was a half a mile.

did he have a mars bar - now that make it believable - lol

I remember learning in science class that, in dire times, the body can change use of energy to necessary function only.

2 months on only melted snow is a long shot, and I would like to see the missing persons report that backs the time frame of his disappearance, but I don't think it is impossible.

I'm not buying it.

It's possible, obviously, but I wouldn't want to test it out.

Weird Stuff happen when your in survival situations. any one watch 127 hours the movie. Like that

i dnt think its possible

LOL got that right!

Why would he lie about it?

Very doubtful.

Every year this happens. Someone gets caught out in snow and manages to survive. People survived starvation and cold and hard labor and survived concentration camps, so...

It's not the first time it's happened here in the North believe it or not. Back during the War here in Finland many troops got buried under snow and survived for over a month without food, strangely the cold can put you into a sort of hibernation mode.

Total impossibility.

Two months without eating ? What are you people smoking ? 12 hour in 32 degrees or less will kill you. I was in the Navy, we learned about it. Maybe 2 days, but 2 months ? Use your heads.

For two months ?

Ever heard of fasting people do this stuff all the time.

Show some scientific evidence, give a link or creditable article. I've got a doctors appointment in the morning, I'll ask my doctor and his staff, especially the Nutritionist.

You dont need evidence for what people do all the time. Go ask a pastor even a muslim. Its a common thing.

While I agree with you it's highly improbable for the length of time reported, I would not rule it impossible as the extraordinary does happen occasionaly.