It's a story that involves the RCMP, a potential murder investigation, an American late-night TV show and a missing wallet filled with cash.

Not what you'd expect to hear from an elderly couple from Newfoundland.

And it's not the details we initially heard some six years ago, when Ches Sweetapple first spoke with CBC Newfoundland and Labrador, after he'd returned home from a harrowing excursion in the woods.

Those details add a whole new level of intrigue to a rescue story that had already captivated everyone who heard it.

Ches Sweetapple and his wife, Florence, love telling stories. (Jen White/CBC)

At the time, the then-74-year-old stopped into his cabin in central Newfoundland, and dropped by a nearby bog to pick some bakeapples.



But it started getting dark, and Sweetapple lost his way... only to be found unconscious in the area about a week later.

When Sweetapple eventually arrived home safe and sound, he shared the emotional details about his survival story: how, as a diabetic, he had subsisted on berries and bog water, before becoming delusional.

As part of the series This Is My Story, Sweetapple and his wife Florence are opening up about that moment, reflecting on the incident, and revealing what has happened in the time since.