The jungle girls were found in 1920 in a wolves’ den. Kamala, 8 years old, and Amala, 12 were discovered by Reverend, Joseph Singh. He captured the girls after noticing how they ran on all fours and didn’t look human at all. Even after they were captured, they only ate raw food and howled. Sadly, Amala died just a year after she was captured with no progress at all. Her sister died from of kidney failure when she was 17, but she managed to walk upright and say a few words.
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Abused by his family, Ivan the pup boy ran away when he was only 4 years old. He lived on the streets and begged for food. He managed to develop a relationship with a pack of street dogs. Ivan became the pack leader after sharing the food he got from begging. Luckily, he was rescued after spending two years at the streets and he managed to fully recover.
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This is just one of the two cases where humans were able to make it on their own in the wild. Marie spent 10 years in the jungle on her own. She walked for miles, she hunt on her own and fought off wild animals with a club. She couldn’t eat raw food for years, until she was rescued by the Queen of Poland, mother to the French queen in 1737. That’s when her life changed and she started to socialize.
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John Ssebunya, or known as the monkey boy, run away from home when he saw how his father murdered his mother. He was just 3 years old when he started to live with a pack of monkeys. Not surprisingly, he behaved like a monkey and ate roots, nuts, sweet potatoes and cassava before he was rescued. He managed to socialize and thanks to his great singing voice that was later discovered, he ended up singing and touring in the UK with the 20-strong Pearl of Africa children’s choir.
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Victor, the wild boy from France, is the second case of a human being living on its own in the jungle. The first time Victor was captured was at the end of the 18th century in the woods of Saint Sernin sur Rance, but he escaped. He was caught again when he was 12 years old, and this time the news were spread across France about Victor’s life. Plenty of people wanted to examine and socialize Victor, but with no progress. He died at the age of 40 in an institution in Paris.
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