It sounds like something out a reality show, and it kind of is.

Because as it turns out, 25-year-old Lisa Theris, the Alabama woman whose incredible story of survival went viral this week, spent a month wandering naked and afraid through the woods of Bullock County in almost exactly the same location two people survived three weeks on rattlesnake and a possum in a 2016 episode of, yes, Naked and Afraid.

The Discovery Channel series pairs strangers together in wilderness environments across the world (sans sustenance and even clothes) and chronicles their fight to stay alive.

Theris, who lives in neighboring Barbour County, had last been seen in mid-July near Midway, Ala. She was found August 12, naked, dirty, weak, and covered in bug bites on the side of Highway 82 near Union Springs. Theris says she stayed alive by eating berries and mushrooms, and by drinking water from creeks and puddles.



That's the part of the story Jim Morton finds most believable--the water.

"Water wouldn't have been a problem for her," he says. "I know the creek on our place, the water there is really good. But food would have been a big issue for her."



Morton, who graduated from Auburn University in 1990 with a degree in media studies, has produced eight episodes of Naked and Afraid, including the Bullock County episode which was actually shot in July of 2015--around the same time of year Theris went missing--on 1,200 acres of land owned by his father.



"I've been going out there since I was a kid," Morton says. "Midway is actually where my dad is from. It's less than 10 miles away from where we were (during the filming of Naked and Afraid). It's all right there in the same kind of area."

Also in the same area according to Morton? Plenty of signs that point toward civilization.

Theris being without glasses or contacts contributed to the disorientation that prolonged her ordeal; according to WSFA, she's legally blind.

"But even out there in the middle of stuff, you can hear power saws, you can hear all kinds of things," Morton says. "You run into fences out there in the middle of the woods, and I mean, Alabama Power is all over the place. So you're always running into power lines and stuff like that.



"To me, unless you're hiding, or you're just sitting in one place, I don't know how you don't run into something to get out of there. It's not like you're in Belize or Guyana" (where Morton has filmed other Naked and Afraid episodes) where there's nobody there."

Theris, however, claims it was like that.

"I kept thinking that I would find somebody, a person or a house, even if it was empty," she told WSFA. "But there was nothing."



In Morton's experience, that hasn't been the case.

"It's not an impossibility, it just seems a little weird," he says. "That length of time? If you're consciously trying to get out of there? It seems to me maybe if you were hiding from something or wanting not to be seen, it's easier to believe."

He points to the behavior of 26-year-old Chalese Meyer and 32-year-old Steven Lee Hall Jr, the two people cast on the Bullock County episode of Naked and Afraid, as an example.

"They don't want to wander off, but if they wanted to... they wouldn't have to go far to find something that would lead them out," he says. "I just can't believe she didn't run into a shed or somebody plowing game plots, because there are hunting cabins all up in the woods back up in there, and trails and fire lanes. We've got fire lanes and roads all through our place where we shot Naked and Afraid. Most people do. You've got a lot of areas without them, but you don't have to go far to find one."

Morton says you also wouldn't have to go far to find a meal that could kill you.

"I don't know her--she may be a survival expert," Morton says. "But for a regular person to go out there and know what kind of roots and what kind of mushrooms to eat? That's difficult."



Again, he points to his reality show experience.



"Even when we did Naked and Afraid, we'd bring in an expert like a botanist or a local expert that will tell you 'you can't eat this, you can't eat that,'" Morton says. "So even the people who are really well trained in it, you have to give them a little brush up on (local plants). It's not advisable just to start going out there and picking mushrooms and eating them and wind up dead."

Theris' case remains mostly a mystery. The Bullock County Sheriff's Office initially believed she had fled the company of two men arrested for burglarizing a Midway hunting camp around the time of her disappearance.

There's "a whole lot more to the story," BCSO Deputy Chad Faulkner told Inside Edition. "It's going to be sad and heartwarming at the same time."

"I'm glad she's alive, I'm glad she's safe," Morton says. "It's just that the story is a little hard to believe. I've seen people do miraculous things. I've read stories about this happening in other countries. But again, you're talking vast areas where there's no people. This is in Bullock County. It's the country, but it's not the jungles of Guyana, not the savannas of Guyana where there's nobody down there and you've got acres and acres and acres of untouched land. There's stuff you run into."

Theris maintains she doesn't remember how she wound up in the woods, naked and afraid.