Where is the Bus 142 (Magic Bus) now : Christopher "Alexander Supertramp" Mccandless
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- This video was made to show how an iconic piece can be born from a story.
we went to Alaska to explore the significance of "The magic Bus" and how it tied to the "Into the wild" Book and Movie.
I want to give special thanks to everyone that made this video possible.
Della, thank you for your knowledge and passion regarding this project, this project allowed me to graduate amd it was in great part thanks to you.
Kou, you were the best Documentary Buddy that I could have asked for, here is to our future projects.
this video Documentary was created for Augsburg University.
Minneapolis MN.
feel free to contact me for more information regarding this project.
0:00 Road to Fairbanks
3:02 Bus Walkaround
7:12 Della, Project Manager
12:00 What was left in the Bus?
20:15 Local thoughts
25:03 Was Chris enlightened?
28:14 Final thoughts on trip - Hry
Y'all picked the right person to interview. I learned a lot from her.
My Walmart comment notwithstanding this was an excellent share of the videographer’s experience and I enjoyed it👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I visited Fairbanks in September of 2023 and tracked down the Magic Bus in the same spot you did. I have mixed feelings about what they're doing. By removing the bus and moving it to the Museum of the North, it makes it more accessible to the general public, without risking your life on the Stampede Trail. This was definitely on my bucket list of things to see in Alaska and I'm glad I saw it at the engineering building. I think they should just restore it to the point of making it safe...but, keep the patina of the bus.
I agree with you, I was surprised to see what people from Alaska thought about Chris, was expecting everyone to find him enlightening but I understand that moving it keeps people safe.
@@johanfullard9438Yeah, that caught me by surprise, their attitude about him being reckless and unprepared. Okay, I get it...I guess. But, that's what adventurers do. Not everyone goes by REI and stocks up on the latest camping and survival gear.
Imagine something that was free to see and now trying to make a profit from it. Chris would HATE what you all are doing with the bus. @@johanfullard9438
@@geraldeklund2245 But that isn't the criticism of what Chris McCandless did. It wasn't that Chris McCandless didn't have the latest survival gear, but that Chris was very under prepared.
I think I understand why the people of Alaska did not like what Chris McCandless did. What if I went to where you lived and I spent a few months there and then starved to death because I didn't spend enough time learning where the restaurants and grocery stores are. The wild is not just some place far away, but everywhere that we humans go.
@@johanfullard9438 Dude was a nuisance
Chris marched to the beat of his own drum. His story is heartbreaking, but very inspiring.
It got him arrested multiple times. He didn't always stay the night in the bus. Sometimes it was in a cell.
How is his story inspiring? He was foolish and reaped the rewards for that folishness
They should keep the bus in original condition.. to feel how "chris" lived inside, but they changed it
But she has to strip away the history look as well
Out of respect toward Chris and his legacy if you’re at all concerned, interested in or confused by his possible motives (especially after reading Into the Wild) I strongly recommend reading his sister Corrine McCandles’s autobiography. It adds more dimension to the tale than were Sean Penn to shoot Into the Wild 2. Her frank divulgence of what really went on in that home in Virginia and how they dealt with domestic violence and Walters bigamy (his secret family in San Diego) coupled with painful explanation of the codependency/sociopathy in their parents is nothing short of emotionally wrenching and mind blowing. I sincerely pray God gives Corinne the peace she deserves 🫶🏼
Like the second interviewee in the knit cap, I also have mixed feelings about the whole McCandless story. On one hand, he was unbelievably foolish for going out there woefully unprepared like he did. He was a very troubled guy. On the other hand, Chris pursued his goal... fearlessly, to the extreme. He had adventures most only imagine, I guess.
I just keep going back to the thought that he was so fatally misguided in terms of how he handled so many parts of his trek... most of all, the last part of it. Being prepared, asking questions of those with more knowledge and experience, keeps you safe. It helps you to be wiser, and to gain important skills. Pushing your limits doesn't help if you cannot survive it. Chris should have been able to be here to tell his own story. Fascinating... but needlessly tragic.
Your thoughts are beautiful and I totally agree with you, I can see both sides of the coin, from a devastated family and inspired people, to locals that just think it was irresponsible, that is exactly why I wanted to find out myself what were the local thoughts.
Thank you so much for taking the time of watching the entire story!
I have been fascinated by this story since I first heard of it, although I'm not even sure why. LIke others, I have mixed feelings about it.
Do not remove the memory of Chris. That is why there is interest in the bus.
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Chris would call these kind of people as " Plastic people "
And most people would call Chris a Selfish Idiot
I call them pod people but plastic makes sense as well
Why? They're actually intelligent people. It's not Chris' fault for the deaths that followed, but he was selfish and foolish. No parent should bury their child. If he wanted to leave civilisation behind, then at least do the research, learn, train and prepare himself. His death was his own doing, which led to other foolish people dying for nothing. What did it prove? Just young lives wasted over mindless fantasy. Call me "plastic" or anything you like. I continue to live well and enjoy the wild and adventure without being stupid
Oh well, he was a fool, so whether he calls people plastic or not isn’t relevant
Not anymore he wouldn't.
I'm not trying to blame anybody for the situation of what happened.But there should have been a map in that bus I know why would people put things in weird places, but they do.And I never understood why there wasn't a map to that area in that bus.There's cabins all over alaska for people that get lost in the wilderness to go to... And who knows?Maybe there was?I don't know...
Who should have put the map there? And what would stop someone from taking it? Chris HAD a map that he deliberately left in the vehicle when that guy dropped him off. That was foolish. This was never meant to be a tourist stop (more like a tourist TRAP for Chris & the others who died or had to be rescued!).
She doesn't get it....she's the worst case scenario when it comes to understanding what this bus means to a whole culture of people
She gets it, she knows the bus is not about one foolish person
so sad. That bus should still be out there
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No. It should not! People were dying taking a pilgrimage to the bus, and others needed to be rescued. Search & rescue takes MONEY, you know. Are you offering to pay for every search & rescue of people getting into life-threatening situations hiking in & out to the bus? Put it in a museum with all the stories about the history of the bus, including all the people who trekked there, or attempted to trek there. Plus, the bus will continue to deteriorate out in the elements until it falls completely apart. If it's in a museum, curators can take steps to preserve it, including preserving the names written on the walls and the notebook(s?) in which hikers left messages about their experience visiting the bus. The bus was never a part of nature, it caused people to die in the reckless pursuit of visiting it, it cost taxpayers money for the search & rescue efforts, money which could better be used to hire rangers, conduct wilderness survival & other educational programs, protect plants & animals, etc. The bus is in the best place it can be. They didn't just scrap it, like it meant nothing. But it has a history before and after Chris McCandless. For instance, how did the bus GET to where it was so deep into the wilderness? Why didn't any hunters come along to stay there that whole time Chris was there? The bus is now more accessible to EVERYONE and it's protected from the elements (unless some "Stop Oil" nut decides to spray paint it or through soup on it the way they vandalized Stonehenge, some airplanes at a London airport, and the Van Gogh painting). If they have no respect for public treasures like Stonehenge (a World Heritage Site) or Van Gogh paintings, or private property, then they aren't going to give a damn about the "Magic Bus".
a spirit portal in the bus
Someone should do a revive and drive on that old bus👍🏻
so they decided to ruin the bus in the name of conservation?
What a bunch of idiots they really are..
When you do those changes, you ruin the history of it..
Downright foolish..
That's our world today😢
@@jasonwillings3231 So you'd rather it just rust away into nothing and just leave civilization's garbage in the wilderness?
Buses don't last forever & it will just become more of humanity's garbage cluttering up what was once pristine wilderness. Or did you mean PRESERVATION of the BUS? It will last longer if it's protected from the elements & if knowledgeable curators do things to preserve it. And people can see it without dying or having to be found & rescued.
I’ve read both John Krakauer’s book as well as Corinne McCandles’s. The story is moving on a human, almost elemental level. But a 4000 mile roundtrip to see a dilapidated bus? Ugh. I’m using a calculator to grocery shop at Walmart 😐
@@behindthespotlight7983 3,054 miles one way lol
The bus should have stayed where it was. This is absurd.😢
That bus should have been moved way before other people lost their lives looking for that junk. It was shelter for a young boy who didn’t know anywhere else to go. Nature killed hi him. His lack of experience in the wild, lack of intelligence, and him giving in to a false sense gave him a tragic ending.
Chris's belongings were not given to his family right after his death. In fact, a trapper a few months later found Chris's blue hiking backpack in the bus, with his wallet and lots of IDs of Chris's. Oddly the Troopers missed that and had trouble identifying Chris's body for some time, until the McCandless family flew down to do a final ID.
I doubt they did an ID. Chris would not have been recognizable by that time. He was emaciated. He wasn't discovered for a while, and you are saying the authorities had his body "for some time". He would have been in some stage of decay. And how in the hell could the Troopers miss his backpack & IDs. When a body is found, it would be considered a crime scene until an investigation into the cause of death was determined. They would have searched the bus carefully to look for any evidence of foul play. What is your source for your assertion?
@DonnaBrooks lots of documentaries. Some with his sister and parents, some with others who have researched the situation in depth. The best documentary out there is called "call of the wild" by Ron Lamothe. Yes, his parents did fly down to Alaska to ID him. Sorry, that's hard for you to believe? How else would the family make an in person ID? Zoom?It's not hard to ID your emaciated son, especially it being their son..... I'm not too sure why the Troopers missed what they did, but they didn't clean out the bus. The only thing they took was the body. I'm also not sure why they didn't go back to the bus to look around, but hey 🤷
There are some of us woman that also search for that "Right of passage."
If they make any changes o the bus it will never be the same again. Even moving it is a shame.
Disgusting, they should of left it alone. But this is the world we live in. This is what Chris was trying to get away from 😢
I think they should have left it be, although Chris would have probably been just as disgusted with the ghoulish humans who trekked out to the bus, just to see where he died.
They did this all for Profit. So stupid.
By stealing from people?
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People died trying to "re-trace" this moron's journey. They removed the bus to prevent further people from dying and spending money rescuing stranded idiots.
There's nothing special about Chris McCandless - He's not the only idyllic person trying to get away from society - he's just the only one that someone wrote a book about and had a wealthy white family that people paid attention to in the media.
This bus shouldn't be something to remember. The movie nor the book explain how many times he was arrested for robbing and stealing from people during his little head trip.
I thought there were cabins that were stocked specifically to help people who were lost in the wilderness? If Chris had access to these places, why didn't he just go to a cabin & eat their food instead of starving at the bus? If he was arrested & sent to jail, he would have been fed. Your accusations make no sense. And if it wasn't in the book, it didn't happen.
Why can't they leave peoples final resting places alone?
It’s not about the bus it’s about the journey if your holding on to the bus then you miss the whole point of living free ❤
Chris was a Hippie in the modern era.
Who was it that bailed him out every time he was arrested?
Preserve the Bus in its natural state! Do not restore it - All the History will be lost!
That bus should be FREE...it's paid its dues, so should the WORLD be free to see it...if the price of admission can be paid...NOT LOCKED IN AN EFFIN' BUILDING...for money.
@@jrose-xp6tf it's free, the bus is undergoing restoring and will be exhibited outside. For free.
Me know chis he was my cousin my name is Sally hodgdon ellsworth maine bare drive the bus is my bus me just no chis long ago when he died
If it your bus. Take the bus back.
@@helium5912 you name
Magic Bus? is more like the Death Bus
Unfortunately there are idiots in this world that can not see the full picture because they live in a false plastic world! Exactly what Chris was trying to get away from, the woman says she hasn't read the graffiti but she has photographed it ! That says it all she cant see the woods because the trees get in the way!
My God she has no Idea of the energy this bus has in its meaning to people that can relate to Alexander Supertramp and his goals in life and the life that we want to avoid, (the materialistic 9-5 life of lets be comfortable waiting to die) instead of living life one day at a time.
The Bus is a strong statement of what can happen to you if you DON'T know what you are doing, we all know Chris wasn't prepared for the true wild, but the bus tells us of Chris's dream of a peaceful free life.
In the end he didn't die because of the bus and the wild he died because he was a result of modern serciety, plenty of people servive and thrive in Alaska sadly Chris was a modern city boy in the end, and thats what killed him!
I can't see the woods because the BUS got in the way. This manmade monstrosity was hauled into what used to be pristine wilderness and left like garbage to rust away. How many trees were cut down to make the road through which the bus was pulled to get it where it was? It's original location was the end of an ASSEMBLY LINE! IDK how you figure that is part of Chris' "full picture". He NEVER went into the WILD. He went into the BUS, which is not just part of civilization but of industrialized civilization. Assembly line factories making buses.... Yeah, there's the wild for you! That's was Chris' goal: To go into the wild & find a relic of civilization & live in it. That makes no sense. Furthermore, if he had never found that bus, Chris may be alive today.
I’m not understanding why… people die everyday, doing everyday things. No offense, it’s just… seems sad to take something away from the public that means something to them. Where ever it ends up, do I have to pay now to see it? In its unoriginal location? With the stuff taken out and cleaned up? I can’t understand this.
It's original location was at the end of a factory assembly line. It is NOT a part of the wilderness. It's a part of civilization that men dragged into the wilderness and left behind to rust & crumble into nothingness, except for the glass & other litter that will remain. And what happens to the names & messages written on the walls & in the notebook(s) then? It's better to remove the bus from the elements, put it in a museum where it and its contents can be preserved, surrounded by photos & exhibits that tell the history of the bus, before, during, & after Chris was there. People died getting to and from the bus because, like Chris, they lacked knowledge or skills or both. But others were saved in costly search & rescue missions that took resources away from conservation, education, & other expenditures to protect the area & its flora & fauna. Why should Alaska taxpayers continue to pay for these things? So you can have what you want? They are just beginning the preservation process. For one thing, they need to make sure the bus is structurally sound. They can do things to preserve the contents of the bus. More people will be able to see it!
pourquoi ne pas le laisser sur place !
il ne représente plus rien dernier vos vitre blindé tout se qui chris avait fuis....
He didn't flee civilization. The bus is not natural. It IS civilization. It's manmade litter that was dragged into the wilderness, where is never belonged, & you guys seem to want to leave it there until it rusts into nothing, leaving just bits and pieces of junk & trash scattered around what used to be a pristine wilderness until mankind invaded with our metal, glass, & rubber debris. The bus is unnatural. It never belonged in the WILD.
They should’ve left the bus there. People will still make the journey just there won’t be a bus anymore. Everything the government touches everything!!Goes to hell!! They need to go and put a plaque there.
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Why don't YOU do that. Who is "THEY"? Who needs to go & put a plaque there? The government? You're like these people who want to defund the police but they complain when they don't get police protection! The bus would have eventually rusted away to a pile of manmade garbage littering that natural area. More people can see the bus if it's preserved in a museum and it will last a lot longer!
Where is the bus now
Museum of the north, fairbanks alaska.
Going through its 4th sandblasting of history
Sounds like she is restoring a bus and not the legacy of Chris. 😢
What happened to its content?
Some went to Chris's family and some to the museum! Bed and Fire place can be seen in the video.
I really don't know that she's the right person for this job. She doesn't connect to Chris's story. She has no idea why he started his journey. Ugh. I would rather see the bus left untouched and in a museum or something where it could be preserved and not restored or whatever they are doing to it. I might have missed what they are doing to it but I don't like that it's stripped down like a start of a restoration.
She clearly said said she wasn’t restoring it, and putting it behind the museum.I don’t agree with it either but it’s in a much safer place
They should’ve left it right where it was, in the wild.
@@kyle896 so more people can die trying to find it🤔
@@Obizzil. so let’s just tear down any landmark in the world if it’s deemed dangerous to get to…gotcha
@@kyle896 i never said that, i was just saying it was in a safer place.
I’m English yet barely understand what she’s saying. It’s like she’s speaking through her nose and giving various tones to a language which isn’t tonal. Thanks for the film tho.
And she kept hitting the microphone.
ROBARON LA CASA DE SUPERTRAMP DE LA TIERRA SALVAJE Y SU LMA VOLVIO ALA CIVILIZACION AHORA ENTIENDEN POR QUE LA ODIABA ?????
a simple vin and or parts numbers checks could trace if it was or was not built for the Military, pretty sure you could trace the military records and the public works records. Thats like first step in historical things is research... seem like this is more of a curator working on a pop art project.
That's what I was thinking. That should have been the first thing they did, was trace the vin.
She said herself she couldn't connect with Chris' story, so I'm guessing she's just in it for the popular engineering project/degree.
There were no VINs in 1946. They didn't begin until 1954. There were only serial numbers and they weren't well documented.
Its not meant to be here its meant to be in into the wild ....this is what chris was escaping from so 😢 sad they take the bus for profit and attention...
The exhibition is open to the public at no cost.
This where he hid. He never did anything he said he was going to do.
I thought Chris was escaping civilization? That bus was never meant to be IN the wild. It IS the produce of industrialization, capitalism, & civilization. It was made in a factory by humans & BELONGS on city streets. There is NOTHING natural about this assembly-line monstrosity that was dragged into the wilderness & left to rust & rot like every other piece of garbage & litter humans have strewn around the planet.
Sad that Chris, ruined the history of this cool bus. I would display the bus without mention of that guy at all.
You are a horrible person to say this!
pseudo-intellectual- uhm, uhm, uhm, uhm
Nasal uhm sounds make her sound so smart.
These people including his sister are exactly why he left society. All they want is to make money off of His story. He would be rolling in his grave to know that his family member and strangers are making money from his life and eventual death. The very things he was against, they have embraced. And, all in the name of “helping someone else”
I think they have missed the whole point of what he stood for.
Yep💯 Exactly.!!!
I think YOU missed the whole point of what he stood for! How is an old bus, which is manmade by a capitalist, industrialized society & made for city streets part of "the wild"? It's not NATURAL for that bus to be cluttering up the wilderness with a collection of now rusting metal, rubber, & glass. How is a bus NOT a part of civilization?!
Totally ruined a grave site rather then making a nice hiking adventure with purpose
It’s not a grave site, it’s where a foolish person died of which there are many
A nice hiking adventure? Yeah, where SEVERAL people have DIED. Have YOU done it? If not, why not? It's just a "nice hiking adventure",- nothing difficult! No, a nice hiking adventure with purpose can be on one of the thousands of miles of trails in our national parks, state parks, Metro Parks, & other public lands. There is so much beauty to see,- snow-capped mountains, canyons, desert rock formations, giant Sequoia trees, spectacular waterfalls, & fascinating wildlife. But you want to see an old bus. In the wilderness. That makes no sense.
They ruined it.....gone now forever
Isn't not holding onto things a part of Chris' philosophy? News flash: Chris was way more important than that manmade collection of rusting metal, breaking glass, & rubber, and HE is gone forever. The bus ruined the wilderness. It should have never been there. And if left there, the bus and all its contents would eventually REALLY be "gone forever", having rusted & rotted down to nothing but bits of glass & chemicals from the rubber, both of which are litter & pollutants of the natural world, which is where I THOUGHT Chris wanted to go when he said he wanted to go, "Into the Wild". And then there's the contents, including the notebook(s) visitors have signed (including a woman who drowned just hours later as they were leaving & crossed the river). Those message people wrote will have been destroyed by rain & snow & bits of paper litter would be scattered in what was once "the wild", but now is a junkyard. In your words, they, and all the word written on the walls of the bus, would be, "gone now forever." Now that the bus is out of the elements, it and its contents can be preserved, making them last indefinitely. So you have a very strange idea of what constitutes "gone forever". The purpose of preserving artifacts or historical items is to make them LAST LONGER, and more people will see the bus now that it's accessible without risking one's life (plus investing the time & money into getting to it when it was in such a remote location).
so sad and disappointed of what they did to the bus, i think is criminal to delete real untouched history done by a man just because some privileged lazy people want to have an easy access to it instead of earning it.
If you pay attention, Della explains that the reason they had to move it was because inexperienced people were looking for the bus and getting hurt or dying getting there. Not privileged people.
So you will never go see it in the museum, since you didn't "earn it". I didn't know you had to pay with your life to see an old decrepit bus. I could go to a junkyard & see that. The goal toward which Chris was going was NOT the bus! It was the WILD. And the bus NEVER should have been dragged into the wilderness, only to become more garbage left behind by humans!
MOVING IT IS DISGRACEFUL AND CRIMINAL. Nothing more needs to be said
I’m repulsed and appalled
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Crying shame ,that bus should have stayed where its been all these years.... All I hear is bullshit coming out of her mouth...
It should have stayed in a junkyard. It NEVER belonged in the wilderness! It's a symbol of industrialized civilization that was hauled into "the wild" & left there to rust like a tin can. It's an unnatural, manmade, factory-produced relic that came off an assembly line & humans used it for a while then dragged it into the wilderness because we spread our garbage & litter all over the planet,- from Mt. Everest to the oceans. That's what we do. There's nothing natural about that bus. It's the product of capitalism, not nature.
The state removed the bus and want donations
Another erasing history story.
They are preserving history.
Disgraceful.
Della. You HAVE NO IDEA what you are talking about. I bet you havent even read the book huh?
She has, matter of fact she even knows Carine.
Home is where u make it. That's what cris did and now it's idk
Do you remove Mount Everest? Because people die climbing it. This is absolutely stupid
Totally different. People going to the bus getting themselves into trouble costing a lot to rescue. When you go up Everest it’s controlled and you go through a long time acclimatising and preparing, and you know what can happen and know that there is no rescue.
Sacrilege. They destroyed a place of pilgrimage.
They dishonored chris by taking the bus away. Real fans and hikers would of hiked to that bus now no one wants to hike to that spot anymore. All because two people died which people die at Yosemite national park every year should we take the park away no because they make money off it.
Chris dishonoured himself. He was foolish and had no clue what he was doing
* Would HAVE, not "would of hiked..."
Several people died! Not just 2. At least 2 men & 2 women died getting to or returning from the Magic Bus. That's an expensive admission price! One woman drowned crossing the river as she was leaving. She & her husband were honeymooning & have spent 2 nights on the bus. He went from being a newlywed to being a widower in a few days.
@DonnaBrooks thanks for correcting my spelling. I don't always type right. We'll people die at Yosemite national park every year should we close that down too?
This is such BS. Should have left it alone. And does this person even KNOW Chris????
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She clearly states she didn’t.
No, and NEITHER DO YOU!
Sorry but their idea of conservation is opposite of reality as it appears,my theory that they removed almost all of the contents that were originally there?They might have instead put a mannequin look alike in the bus or just outside.We are suppose to be evolving and this may include becoming smarter rather than the opposite.It is not entirely our fault so please do not become angry with me or any one else because preserving the historically cannot be done by gutting it and/or removing markings,pictures and/or writings????
That's not an eco-friendly car, do your research on how the batteries are made, lots of pollution in a battery powered car, EVs are just a temporary fix fad.
WTF 😂 are you talking about
@@kennethcapen3184 just like most you obviously wouldn't understand🤣
@@kennethcapen3184 yo momma!
Disgraceful.