The Wild Boys From Multiple Angles
Catch up on the Wild Boys documentary, audio series and an interview with host Sam Mullins
This is part of Inside the Tent, a series going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning podcasts and business.
Campside has produced more than forty (40!) limited series, and we are very often asked about Wild Boys. It’s the story of two half-starved brothers who told a welcoming Canadian community about their upbringing in the wilderness.
It was 2003, and the boys had never seen a TV, gone to school, or registered for IDs. So the community took them in and set about introducing them to the modern world. Before long, the international media descended on the town, enthralled by the mysterious “Bush Boys.”
There was just one problem: not a word the boys said was true.
Nearly 20 years later, award-winning journalist Sam Mullins revisited the bizarre true story of the strangers who turned his hometown upside-down. That was the Campside audio series Wild Boys.
The story fascinated listeners... and now, in 2026, it’s fascinating viewers.
Wild Boys: Strangers in Town is a new documentary on Paramount+ from Endless Eye Productions, Candle True Stories and Campside. It’s a chance to see footage of the brothers and the townspeople who cared for them. It’s a very different way of experiencing the bizarre story.
And then there’s the Inside the Tent interview with Wild Boys podcast host Sam Mullins.
Sam recalls growing up just a few hundred yards from where the boys were cared for by the openhearted community. He makes the argument that with the passage of time, a story can properly be processed and revisited.
And Sam explains how he tracked down the brothers, now grown up, in Carson City, Nevada.
There are many ways to explore a story, and we hope you make time to listen, watch and go behind the scenes.
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