One thing they could count on was that their alleged captor would never let them out.
At the age of six, my mother was both her captor and her protector.
In the video, Bergdahl's captor makes reference to his being moved from Paktika to Khandahar.
During his questioning, the captive attempts to seduce his captor, who may or may not be interested.
An experimental plant in Denmark that uses monoethanolamine as the captor has been running for two years.
She grew up and had her captor's children there, and raised them there.
Most, like Bakhita, are renamed, obliged to become Muslims, and then forced to marry their captor or herd his animals.
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Ms Knight had told police her captor had threatened to kill her if the baby died, says the New York Times report.
Lemlem Ghebru's two daughters, aged 14 and 15, were freed when their captor's base in east Sudan was stormed by security forces.
Whatever the reason for his surrender, he took revenge on his captor.
The case of the three Cleveland women who have escaped their captor after so long is inspiring and offers hope for other cases.
Meanwhile, the FBI is continuing the process of sealing off and boarding up the areas near the home of the alleged captor that they have checked for evidence.
How will he deal with what he experienced the six days he languished in that hole and what he saw during the explosive rescue Monday that killed his captor?
Rather than celebrating their birthdays, in a bizarre ritual, the captor would apparently give his victims cake to mark their "abduction day", one victim's cousin was quoted as telling US media.
On a later day, after bringing us a particularly greasy lunch (fried eggplant rolled up in a tiny bit of flatbread), the captor we called Uncle needed to clean his greasy fingers.
For her part, Ms Knight was reportedly impregnated by her captor five times - only for him to starve her and repeatedly punch her in the abdomen until she miscarried, added the newspaper.
"There can be such a wide range of abuse that a victim who is no longer viciously abused may feel gratitude" towards their captor, says Peter Suedfeld, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of British Columbia.
The one is captor, the other captive.
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Ms Berry, whose disappearance in 2003 the day before her 17th birthday was widely publicised in the local media, escaped from Mr Castro's house by kicking the door and screaming for help while her alleged captor was out.
The sad sap was trapped for two hours before being freed from his unsanitary captor, and thankfully received medical attention at the end of the ordeal, which at the very least must have involved an emergency sponge bath for his arm.
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He rigged the bunker with explosives, tried to reinforce it against any raid, and when SWAT agents stormed the shelter Monday to rescue the boy, Jimmy Lee Dykes engaged in a firefight that left the captor dead, the FBI and officials said.
That's evident in the movie's best scene, when Elena and O come face to face as captor and captive, and O, revealing a sweetly banal attitude toward life, rambles on about her days at a community college and her charmed existence with Chon and Ben.
Katie Beers, who was kidnapped as a 9-year-old in 1992 and kept in an underground bunker in suburban New York for 17 days before her captor surrendered to police and showed them where she was hidden, said she was "ecstatic" that Ethan was rescued safely.
After the first three years of the Revolutionary War, every patriot recognized two men as the greatest warriors and leaders of the time: George Washington commander of the Continental Army, and Benedict Arnold, captor of Fort Ticonderoga, invader of Canada, and victor of the battle of Saratoga.
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Though they were all thrilled to know that Dugard was found alive in the home of her alleged captor, after being held in a series of sheds in his backyard, her discovery has also brought back a flood of feelings that gripped the town in the days, months and years after she went missing.
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