After being found, the Andes Goat-Boy was investigated by a team from Kansas University ( The University of Kansas or Kansas State University) and named Daniel. The Syrian Gazelle Boy Date found: 1946 Age when found: around 10 Location: Syrian desert Years in the wild: 9 Animals: gazelles A boy aged around 10 was found in the midst of a herd of gazelles in the Syrian desert, and was only caught with the help of an Iraqi army jeep, because he could run at speeds of up to 50 kip. Although terribly thin, he was said to have been extremely fit and strong, with muscles of steel. He was featured and bound hand and foot.
Airmen says the Syrian Gazelle-Boy was still alive in 1 955, when he (the boy) made an attempt to escape from whichever unpleasant state institution he was incarcerated in. I won’t offend your sensibilities by telling you what they did to him to stop him escaping again. The Life Magazine story of 9 September 1946 agrees pretty much with the other reports. It states that the previous month, a group of hunters found a boy running wild with a herd of gazelles in the Syrian steppes. About 10 – 14 years old at the time of discovery, he was believed to have been abandoned as a baby.
He was taken to an asylum for the insane. Sunday Express, puts the same story but says boys speed of 50 MPH, not 50 kip. Belle, the Nigerian Chimp Boy Date found: 1996 Age when found: 2 Location: Nigeria Years in the wild: 1 Animals: chimps Belle, the Nigerian Chimp Boy was found in 1 996, at the age of about two. Both mentally and physically disabled, he had probably been abandoned by his parents at the age of about six months, a common practice with disabled children among the Fibula, a nomadic people who range great distances over the west African Easel region.
Believed to have been adopted and raised by chimpanzees, Belle was found with a chimpanzee family in the Flagler forest, 150 km south of Kane in northern Nigeria. When the story reached the news agencies some six years later in 2002, Belle had been living at the Dunn Malawi Torero home in Kane. When first discovered, Belle walked like a chimpanzee, using his legs but dragging his arms on the ground. He would leap about at night in the dormitory, disturbing the other children, smashing and throwing things.
Six years later Belle was much calmer, but would still leap around in a Hampshire-like fashion, make chimpanzee-like noises, and clap his cupped hands over his head repeatedly. Belle died in 2005. John Shebang, the Uganda Monkey Boy Date found: 1991 Age when found: 6 Location: Uganda Years in the wild: 3 Animals: monkeys John Shebang was born in the mid sass, but ran away from home (probably aged around three) after seeing his mother murdered by his own father.
It is generally accepted that John Shebang was cared for at least to some extent by green African (verves) monkeys while in the jungle. John was found by a tribeswoman or girl (called Millie) in 1 991, hiding in a ere. She returned with enfold from the village and, as is so often the case, not only did John resist capture but also his adoptive family came to his defense, throwing sticks at the villagers. Initial reports suggest John Shebang’s entire body was covered with hair called hypertrophies.
When he defecated, he excreted worms over half a meter long. Once captured and cleaned up -” he was covered in scars and wounds, with knees scarred from crawling -” he was identified as John Shebang. He was given by Millie to the care Of Paul and Molly Was, who run a charitable foundation for orphans. He couldn’t talk or cry initially, but has subsequently learned to speak. This suggests that he may have learned some speech before his stay in the wild. John now not only talks but also sings, and tours with the Pearl of Africa children’s choir.
John was the subject of the BBC documentary Living Proof, screened on 13 October 1999. Train Calendar, the Romania Dog Boy Date found: 2002 Age when found: 7 Location: Bravos, Room;Nina Animals: dogs Train Calendar is a Romania boy who apparently lived wild, separated from his family, for three years. He is believed to have left the family home because f domestic violence. His mother, Liana Calendar, said that she loved her son but had a violent partner, who was always beating her. When she lost Train, she was distraught, and hoped he had perhaps been adopted by another family.
She said: “Owen I fled, lost contact with Train, although I tried to get him back. He [the boy’s father] didn’t allow me to take my child, even though I tried to. He said the child belonged to him. ” Although aged seven when he was found, Train Calendar was only the size of a three-year-old, could not speak, and was naked and living in a cardboard box covered with a polythene sheet. He suffered from severe rickets, had infected injuries and his circulation was poor, possibly because of frostbite.
Doctors believe it would have been impossible for Train to survive on his own and speculated that he received assistance from the many stray dogs in the Transylvania countryside. He was found near the body of a dog that he had apparently been eating. Train Calendar was found after the car of a shepherd, Manhole’s loan, broke down. Mr.. Loan had to walk from his pastures and came across child who he reported to police, who later captured the boy. Train walked with the bandy tat of a chimpanzee and tried to sleep under his bed rather than on it.
Dry Marcia Floret said: “He was found in an animal position and his movements are annalistic. The facts show that he was not brought up in a social environment. He becomes very agitated when he does not have food. He is looking for something to eat all the time. He sleeps after he eats. ” Rococo F*engine Cambodia Jungle Girl Date found: 2007 Age when found: 29 Location: Cambodia Jungle Years in the wild: 19 Animals: various animals The so-called Cambodia Jungle girl is a Cambodia woman who emerged room the jungle in Irritating province, Cambodia on January 13, 2007.
A family in a nearby village claimed that the woman was their daughter Rococo Penning (born 1979) age 29 or 30 who had disappeared 18 or 19 years previously; the story was covered in most media as one of a feral child who lived in the jungle for most of her life. She came to international attention after emerging filthy, naked and scared from the dense jungle of Irritating province in remote northeastern Cambodia on January 13, 2007. After a villager noticed food missing from a lunch box, he staked out the area, spotted the woman, adhered some friends and caught her.
She was recognized by her father, policeman Koori Lu long, because of a scar on her back. He said Rococo Penning was lost in the Cambodia jungle at the age of eight when herding buffalo with her six-year-old sister (who also disappeared). One week after being discovered, she experienced difficulties adjusting to civilized life. Local police reported that she was only able to say three words: ‘father”, “mother and “stomachache”. A Spanish psychologist who visited the girl reported that she “made some words and smiled in response to a game involving toy animals and a mirror” but did not speak any cognizable language.
When she was thirsty or hungry, she pointed at her mouth. She preferred to crawl rather than walk upright. The family watched Rococo Penning around the clock to make sure she did not run off back to the jungle, as she tried to do several times. Her mother constantly had to pull back on the clothes when she tried to take them off. A visiting Guardian reporter described the family as genuinely caring for her and the woman as listless and sad but restless at night. In May 2010, Rococo Penning has fled back to the jungle. Despite the searching they have not managed to recover ere.
Joana Malay, The Ukrainian Dog Girl Age when found: 8 Location: Blacksnake’s, Ukraine Years in the wild: 5 Not really either a feral child or a confined child, but rather a neglected one, Joana Malay spent much of her childhood between the ages of 3 and 8 living in a kennel in the back garden of the family home in Novena Blacksnakes, Ukraine, although she did spend some time in the house with her alcoholic and neglectful parents. Axon’s alcoholic parents were unable to care for her, and at three years of age she was exiled from her home. They lived in an impoverished area where here were wild dogs roaming the streets.
She took refuge in a shed inhabited by these dogs behind her house. She was cared for by them and learned their behaviors and mannerisms. The bonding with the pack of dogs was so strong that the authorities who came to rescue her were driven away in the first attempt by the dogs. Her actions and sounds mimicked those of her careers. She growled, barked, walked on all fours and crouched like a wild dog sniffed at her food before she ate it, and was found to have acquired extremely acute senses of hearing, smell and sight. She only knew how to say “yes” and “no” when she was rescued.
