Incredible Facts
"feral children" is the latest project by photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten, in which she offers a glimpse into children growing up under unusual circumstances.
The photographer rose to prominence with her 2005 Teenage Stories series, when she explored a girl's transition into adulthood.
Fullerton-Batten says 'The Girl with No Name' inspired her to look for others cases of feral children. So she collected several stories at once. Some of them got lost, others were kidnapped by wild animals, and many of these children were neglected.
Mowgli children
Lobo - a wolf girl from Mexico, 1845-1852
In 1845, a girl ran on all fours with a pack of wolves chasing a herd of goats. A year later, people saw her again when she ate a goat with the wolves. The girl was caught, but she ran away. In 1852, she was again seen nursing two wolf cubs. However, she ran away again, and since then the girl has not been seen again.
Oksana Malaya, Ukraine, 1991
Oksana was discovered in a kennel with dogs in 1991. She was 8 years old and she lived with dogs for 6 years. Her parents were alcoholics and one day they just left her on the street. In search of warmth, a 3-year-old girl climbed into a kennel, hiding from a mongrel.
When they found her, she looked more like a dog than a child. Oksana ran on all fours, breathed, sticking out her tongue, bared her teeth and barked. Due to the lack of human interaction, she only knew the words "yes" and "no".
With the help of intensive care, the girl was taught basic social conversational skills, but only at the level of 5 years. Oksana Malaya, now 30, lives in a clinic in Odessa and works with the hospital's pets under the guidance of her caregivers.
Shamdeo, India, 1972
Shamdeo, a 4-year-old boy, was discovered in a forest in India in 1972. He played with the cubs, his skin was very dark, he had sharpened teeth, long, hooked nails, matted hair and growths on his palms, elbows and knees. The boy loved to hunt chickens, he could eat the earth, and he wanted blood.
Shamdao was eventually weaned from eating raw meat, he never spoke, although he could communicate in sign language. In 1978 he was admitted to Mother Teresa's Home for the Poor and Dying in the city of Lucknow, where he was named Pascal. He died in February 1985.
Rights - bird boy, Russia, 2008
Rights - A 7-year-old boy was found in a small two-room apartment where he lived with his 31-year-old mother. He was imprisoned in a room filled with bird cages, and the mother herself treated him like a pet. Although she fed the boy and did not beat him, she never spoke to him. Birds were his only source of communication. He could not speak, but only chirped and waved his arms like wings.
Prava was transferred to a psychological assistance center, where doctors are trying to rehabilitate him.
Marina Chapman - "Girl with no name", Columbia, 1959
Marina was kidnapped in 1954 at the age of 5 from a remote South African village and left in the jungle. Girl 5 years old lived with families of small capuchin monkeys until hunters find her. She ate berries, roots, bananas left by monkeys, slept in hollow trees and walked on all fours.
One day she got poisoned and the older monkey took her to the water, where she made her drink until she vomited and recovered.
The girl befriended young monkeys, who taught her how to climb trees and eat safe food.
When she was discovered, she completely lost the ability to speak. The girl was sold to a brothel, from where she escaped and lived on the street. She was then taken as a slave by a mafia family until Marina was rescued by a neighbor who sent her to Bogota to live with his daughter and son-in-law. When Marina reached her teens, she was offered jobs as a housekeeper and babysitter. She moved to the UK in 1977, where she still lives.
The girl is now married and has children. Together with the youngest daughter Vanessa James she wrote a book of her experiences, The Girl with No Name.
wild children
Madina, Mowgli girl, Russia, 2013
Madina from birth lived with dogs until she was 3 years old. She shared food, played and slept with them in the cold winter. When social workers discovered her in 2013, she was walking on all fours, naked and growling like a dog.
Madina's father left the family immediately after the birth of the girl. The mother, who was 23 years old, began to drink, did not care for her daughter and often disappeared. The mother invited alcoholic friends home, where she could eat at the table, while the daughter gnawed the bones with the dogs.
The girl ran to the playground when her mother became aggressive, but other children did not want to play with her, as she hardly spoke and fought. Dogs are her only friends.
Doctors came to the conclusion that Madina was mentally and physically healthy, despite all the trials that had befallen her. Veliki the chances that she will have a normal life when she learns to talk like children her age.
Gini, USA, 1970
When Jeanie was a child, her father thought she was "retarded" and tied her to a children's chair-toilet in a small room. There she spent 10 years and even slept on a chair. When the girl turned 13 in 1970, she and her mother contacted the social service.
The girl was not toilet trained and walked in a strange way to the side "like a rabbit". Gini did not speak or make any sounds, constantly spitting and scratching herself. She has been the subject of research for years. Gradually she learned to speak a few words, but could not arrange them grammatically. She also began to read simple texts and developed some form of social behavior.
For a while, she began to live with her mother again, but then for several years she was in foster families, where she experienced abuse. Jeanie returned to the children's hospital, where she regressed and became silent again.
Funding for Jeanie's research and treatment was discontinued in 1974. For a long time, her fate was not known until a private researcher found her in a private specialized institution for mentally retarded adults.
Leopard Boy, India, 1912
The boy was 2 years old when he taken by a female leopard in 1912. Three years later, a hunter killed her and found three cubs, including a 5-year-old boy. He was returned to his family in a small village in India.
When he was first found he was squatting and ran on all fours faster than many adults on two legs. His knees were covered with growths, and his toes were wrapped almost at right angles to the instep, the palms and pads of his big toes and hands were covered with dense and callused skin. He bit and fought with anyone who approached him, ate poultry raw. The boy could not speak, uttering only grunts and growls.
He later learned to talk and walk upright. Unfortunately, he became blind from cataracts. But this was not due to his stay in the jungle, but to the fact that the disease was hereditary.
Sujit Kumar - chicken boy, Fiji, 1978
Sujit was characterized by dysfunctional behavior in childhood. Parents locked the boy in the chicken coop. His mother committed suicide and his father was killed. The grandfather began to raise the boy, but he still kept him in the chicken coop.
At the age of 8, Sujit was found in the middle of the road clucking and flapping his "wings".
He pecked at food and bent over in his chair as if perched on a perch and made clicking sounds with his tongue.
His fingers were twisted inwards. Social workers took him to a nursing home, but because he was violent, he was tied to a bed with sheets for 20 years. Now in his 30s, he is cared for by the woman Elizabeth Clayton, who rescued him from his home.
Kamala and Amala, India, 1920
This is one of the most famous cases of feral children. Kamala, 8 years old and Amala, 12 years old, found in 1920 in the lair of wolves. They were discovered by Reverend Joseph Singh, who was hiding in a tree above the cave where the girls were. When the wolves left the cave, he saw girls who ran on all fours and did not look like people.
When they were caught, they slept curled up, growled, tore their clothes, and ate only raw meat. Their tendons and ligaments in their arms and legs were deformed and shortened. They showed no interest in interacting with people. However, their hearing, sight and smell were exceptional.
Amala died the year after the girls were caught. Kamala eventually learned to walk upright and began to speak a few words, but died in 1929 from kidney failure at the age of 17.
Ivan Mishukov, Russia, 1998
Ivan was abused by his family and ran away from home when he was only 4 years old. He lived on the street, begging, and in time made friends with a pack of wild dogs and shared food with them. The dogs began to trust him and eventually he became something of a leader to them.
Thus, he lived for about 2 years, but, in the end, he was found and placed in an orphanage. Ivan was helped by the fact that he retained his language skills through begging. This and the fact that he was feral for a short time helped him recover faster. Now he living a normal life.
John Ssebunya (monkey boy), Uganda, 1991
John ran away from home in 1988 when he was 3 years old after witnessing his father kill his mother. He fled to the jungle, where lived with monkeys. He was discovered in 1991 and placed in an orphanage. When they washed him, they found that his entire body was covered with hair.
His diet consisted mainly of roots, nuts, sweet potatoes and cassava, and many intestinal worms were found to be up to half a meter in length. He had growths on his knees from walking like a monkey.
John learned to talk, he was found to have a good voice to sing, and he became famous by touring the UK and performing with the African Pearl children's choir.
Mowgli children in world history
Marie Angelique Memmie Leblanc (The Feral Girl of Champagne), France, 1731
Story Marie Angelique Memmie Leblanc(Marie Angelique Memmie Le Blanc), which took place in the 18th century, has been well documented. For 10 years the girl herself walked thousands of kilometers through the forests of France. She ate birds, frogs, fish, leaves, twigs and roots.
Armed with a club, she fought off wild animals, especially wolves.
When she was discovered at the age of 19, she had grown hair, her skin had turned dark, and her hands had claws. When she leaned over to drink water, she constantly looked around due to being in a state of constant alertness. She is could not talk and communicated only through screams and squeals.
She skinned rabbits and birds and ate them raw. For many years, Memmi did not eat cooked food. Her thumb was deformed as she used it to dig up roots and swing from one tree to another like a monkey.
In 1737, the Queen of Poland, the mother of the French Queen, took Memmi hunting with her, where she ran fast enough and killed rabbits.
Memmi's recovery after a decade in the wild was amazing. She had several wealthy patrons, she learned to read, write and speak French fluently. She became a nun for a time in 1747, but her patron died soon after. She fell ill and was left without a livelihood, but soon again found a patron. In 1755, Madame Hecquet published her biography. Memme died prosperous in Paris in 1775 at the age of 63.
Victor - a wild boy from Aveyron, France, 1797
This is a historical and well-documented case of a feral child that has been extensively researched to understand the origin of the language.
Victor seen late 18th century in the forest Saint Cerny-sur-Rance in southern France, he was captured but escaped.
However, on January 8, 1800, he was caught again. Victor was about 12 years old, his body was covered with scars, and he could not speak. When news of his capture spread, many wanted to study him. It is believed that he spent 7 years in the wild.
A biology professor tested Victor's resilience by sending him naked into the snow, and Victor held up well.
Others tried to teach him to talk and behave normally, but to no avail. Perhaps the boy was able to talk in early childhood, but was unable to regain these skills when he returned from the wild. As a result, he was taken to an institute in Paris, and he died at the age of 40.
Mowgli children (video)
OKSANA MALAYA: A DOG GIRL A girl, Oksana Malaya from Ukraine, who was brought up by a dog, was re-educated for a long time in a boarding school for children with developmental defects. But this did not bring happiness to the child, once thrown out of the parental home into the street ... In 1992, an incomprehensible creature was brought to the Odessa boarding school. The medical card said it was a female child, about eight years old. She walked exclusively on all fours, could easily jump on the bed or on the table. She reluctantly let people near her, bared her teeth, growled, strove to bite. She understood speech, but she did not like to talk. Oksana was born in the Kherson region in the village of Novaya Blagoveshchenka. Her parents were drunken alcoholics and no one looked after the child. Until the age of seven, she lived in a kennel with the dog Naida, who loved her and raised her like her own puppy. Then the guardianship authorities became interested in the canine adoptee, and Oksana wandered around various children's boarding schools for several years, where they tried to humanize her. Now she is already an adult, but she still remembers how cruelly her father and mother treated her. And what a devotee Naida was, who honestly shared shelter and food with a human cub. Dying, the mongrel gave the girl part of her canine soul, and often this soul rushes out, not allowing Oksana to become completely human: she will bare her teeth, then she will claw someone, then she will growl from resentment. And most importantly, she divides all people into two types: enemies and friends of dogs. While Oksana was a child, journalists constantly curled around her - they amused themselves with a live toy. When she grew up and was transferred to a boarding school for adult psychochronics in the small village of Baraboy, in the Ukrainian steppe, no one comes to see her. The mentally ill inhabitants of this house of sorrow are sedentary and unfriendly creatures. They hate Oksana. Oksana reciprocates them. Therefore, she often runs away outside the gates of the boarding school and walks and wanders along the dusty steppe road. Oksana is waiting for a miracle. Suddenly, some guests with gifts will come to her. Or parents, who, in her opinion, were supposed to magically improve ... By the way, Oksana brought two dogs to the village of Baraboy, one of which was poisoned by the boarding school's electrician. The girl, without thinking twice, bit the poisoner. When asked why she did this, she replied: “But you shouldn’t have waved your hands at me. Dogs don't like it." All local dogs, even the most vicious ones, take Oksana for their own. They wag their tails in a friendly manner and lick her cheeks and nose. The girl's favorite pastime is jumping with obstacles. More than once, the locals watched her teach the yard terrier Rex to jump over the bench. Of course, by example. Oksana still, out of habit, can throw her leg over her head and scratch like a dog. And sometimes, on a full moon, a girl howls at the moon, scaring the faint-hearted neighbors in the boarding school. Oksana knows for sure only one truth - any dog is better than the best person!
All of us in childhood watched a cartoon about a little boy Mowgli, who was raised by a pack of wolves. And then it seemed to all of us that this was just a fictional story and this does not happen in life.
But, unfortunately, this is not the case. There are several shocking facts that prove that modern Mowgli can exist in real life. The following 12 facts may just shock you! Do not miss!
1. Madina, Russia, 2013
Another shocking fact is the story of a girl that will amaze you even more! It is known that until the age of 3, the real modern Mugli Madina lived only with dogs, ate the food they got, slept and basked on them when she was cold. The girl's mother was drunk for most of the day, and her father left the family before she was born. Eyewitnesses say that while my mother had alcoholic guests, Madina ran with dogs on all fours on the floor and pulled bones. If Madina ran out to the playground, she didn’t play, but simply attacked the children, because she didn’t know how to communicate in any other way. At the same time, doctors give an optimistic forecast for the future of the girl, assuring that she only needs adaptation and training.
2. Oksana Malaya, Ukraine, 1991
Oksana Malaya from Ukraine also got into the list of shocking facts about modern Mowgli. This girl was found in a dog kennel at the age of 8, of which exactly 6 she lived with four-legged. It is known that alcoholic parents threw Oksana out of the house, and the search for warmth and the desire to survive brought her to the doghouse. When the girl was found, she behaved more like a dog than a child - running around on all fours with her tongue hanging out, barking and baring her teeth. Intensive therapy helped Oksana learn minimal social skills, but development stopped at the level of a 5-year-old child. Now Oksana Malaya is already 32 years old, she lives in Odessa on a farm under careful supervision and care.
3. Bird boy from Russia, 2008
The story of the modern Mowgli Van Yudin from Volgograd has recently stirred up all the media. It turned out that a boy under 7 years old was locked by his mother in a room, the only furniture in which were cages with birds! And, despite the fact that Vanya was not subjected to violence, and his mother fed him regularly, he was deprived of the most important thing - communication! The boy filled this gap with the help of his roommates ... And as a result, Vanya did not learn to speak, but only chirped like a bird and flapped his wings. Now the bird boy is in the center of psychological rehabilitation.
4. Ivan Mishukov, Russia, 1998
Even at the age of 4, having endured domestic violence, Vanya ran away from home. In order to survive, the boy was forced to wander and beg. Soon a pack of dogs adopted him as one of their own. Vanya ate, slept and played with them. And even more - the dogs "appointed" the boy as their leader! For almost two years, Vanya lived a homeless life with four-legged animals until he got to a shelter. Today, this modern Mowgli has completely gone through social adaptation and lives a full life.
5. Janie, USA, 1970
Among the shocking facts about modern Mowgli, there is another story about the girl Janie. She was unlucky right after birth. Her father decided that she was lagging behind in development and isolated from society. Janie spent most of her childhood alone, sitting on a potty chair in a small room at home. She even slept in this chair! At the age of 13, the girl ended up with her mother in a social service, where workers suspected oddities in her behavior. And no wonder, because Janie could not utter a single articulate sound, and she was constantly scratching herself and spitting. This case turned out to be tempting for many specialists. Janie immediately became an object for research and experimentation. After some time, she learned a few words, although it was not possible to collect them into sentences. The biggest achievements were the reading of short texts and minimal social skills. After a little adaptation, Janie lived a little more with her mother and in other foster families, where she went through humiliation and even violence! After the financing of doctors stopped, the development of the girl again went into regression and complete silence. For a while, her name was completely forgotten, until a private detective discovered that she was living in an institution for mentally retarded adults.
6. Sujit Kumar or chicken boy, Fiji, 1978
This kid was locked in a chicken coop as a punishment by his parents for bad behavior. This is a truly shocking fact. Well, after the mother shortened her life, and her father was killed, her own grandfather took up the upbringing. However, his methods also cannot be called innovative, because instead of taking care of his grandson, he preferred to close him with chickens and roosters. Sujit was rescued from the chicken coop at the age of 8. It is known that the boy could only cackle and clap. He pecked food, and slept like a bird - sitting and tucking his leg. Nursing home workers took him for some time for rehabilitation, but there the boy behaved very aggressively, for which he was tied to the bed with a sheet for more than 20 years! Now an adult man is cared for by Elizabeth Clayton, who discovered him as a child in a chicken coop.
7. Kamala and Amala, India, 1920
Another shocking fact - 8-year-old Amala and one and a half year old Kamala were discovered in the wolf den by pastor Joseph Singh in 1920. He was able to take the girls only when the wolves left the dwelling. But his act did not turn out to be a success. The captured girls were not ready for life with people, the joints of their arms and legs were deformed from life on all fours, and they preferred to eat only fresh food! But surprisingly, their hearing, sight and smell were absolute! It is known that Amala died a year after they were found, and Kamala even learned to walk upright and speak a few words, but at the age of 17 she died of kidney failure. Here is such a sad story about two modern Mowglis.
8. John Ssebunya or monkey boy, Uganda, 1991
Seeing how his own father kills his mother, three-year-old John Ssebunya ran away from home. He found his shelter in the jungle along with the monkeys. It was from these animals that he learned the techniques of survival. The basis of his diet was roots, sweet potatoes, nuts and cassava. After people found the boy, he was treated for worms and calluses on his knees for a long time. But, in addition to the fact that John quickly learned to speak, they discovered another talent in him - a wonderful voice! Now the monkey boy is a real celebrity, and he can often be seen on tour even in the UK as part of the Pearls of Africa children's choir!
9. Marina Chapman, Columbia, 1959
At the age of 5, Marina was kidnapped from her native village in South America and abandoned by the kidnappers in the jungle. All this time, the Mowgli girl lived among the capuchin monkeys until she was found by the hunters. She ate everything that animals got - roots, berries, bananas. She slept in the hollows of trees, walked on all fours and did not know how to speak at all. But after the rescue, the girl's life did not get better - she was sold to a brothel, and then turned out to be a servant in a mafia family, from where her neighbor saved her. Despite the fact that he had five children of his own, the kind man took the girl in, and upon reaching the age of majority in 1977 helped Marina get a job as a housekeeper in the UK. It was there that the girl decided to arrange her life, got married and even gave birth to children. Well, with her youngest daughter Vanessa, Marina also wrote an autobiographical book "The Girl with No Name"! Here is such an incredible and shocking fact!
10. Wild woman from Champagne, France, 1731
Marie Angelique Mammy Le Blanc, despite her age, is known and documented! It is known that for more than 10 years, Marie wandered through the forests of France alone. Armed with a club, the girl herself defended herself from wild animals, ate fish, birds and frogs. When Marie was caught at the age of 19, her skin was already completely dark, her hair was one tangled tow, and her fingers were twisted. The girl was always ready for an attack, looked around her and even drank water on all fours from the river. She did not know human speech and communicated with the help of howls and growls. It is known that she could not get used to ready-made food either, preferring to get and eat raw animals on her own! In 1737, rather for fun hunting, the girl was taken in by the Queen of Poland. Since that time, rehabilitation among people has borne the first fruits - the girl learned to speak, read, and even attracted her first admirers. The Savage from Champagne lived to the age of 63, and died in 1775 in Paris.
11. Leopard Boy, India, 1912
Even at the age of 2 years, this baby was dragged into the thicket of the forest by a female leopard. After 3 years, the hunter, having killed the predator, found her cubs and a five-year-old boy in the lair! Then the baby was returned to his family. It is known that for a long time the boy ran on all fours, biting and growling. And out of habit, he bent his fingers at a right angle, for convenient climbing on trees. And despite the fact that the adaptation returned him to his "human" appearance, the leopard boy did not live long, dying from an eye disease (this was not connected with his childhood adventures!)
12. Wolf girl, Mexico, 1845/1852
And this girl is a real modern Mowgli, brought up by wolves, and did not allow herself to be tamed! It is known that several times she was seen standing on all fours, in a pack of wolves attacking goats and sucking milk from a she-wolf.
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Interesting Facts Five Children Raised by Animals Number Five The Wolf Man Marco Rodriguez Pantoggia was only six or seven when he was sold to a hermit goat breeder After his death, Marco was left alone. He began to hunt rabbits and partridges, making traps He developed a certain connection with animals and lived with wolves in the sea area for twelve years Marco claims that he survived because the wolves adopted and fed him In 1965, at the age of nineteen, he was found by a watchman and forcibly taken away him to the village Where he eventually got used to civilization and now lives an ordinary life He can still repeat the sounds of deer, fox, dwarf eagle and other animals Feature documentaries were created based on this amazing story of survival. Now he gives lectures at school to children, telling them about wolves Blind dating is a thing of the past Join All the links in the description Number four Dog girl Oksana Malaya, an eight-year-old Ukrainian dog girl, was found living in a dog house in 1991, where she lived for six years. Oksana's parents were alcoholics and when she was still crawling, they left her on the street. Ona crawled to the booth in search of warmth and curled up next to the dogs. Probably this saved her life. Soon she began to run on all fours, breathing with her tongue out And barking due to lack of communication with people. She only knew the words "yes" and "no". The connection with the pack of dogs was so strong that when the authorities came to her they were chased away by the dogs. Oksana now lives in a clinic in Odessa taking care of pets Number three Bird boy In 2008, a social worker rescued seven-year-old Vanya Yudin Who chirped like a bird because his mother raised him in a virtual cage the child was found in a two-room apartment filled with cages with dozens of birds bird food and droppings... The so-called bird boy did not understand human speech and chirped and waved his arms instead of words Social worker Galina, who participated in the rescue of the boy, Said that Vanya was treated like a pet by his thirty-one-year-old mother who never spoke to him . And when they spoke to him, he chirped back like a bird. His mother had domestic birds and one wild bird. She did not beat him, and did not deprive him of food. She just didn't talk to him. The birds were the boy's only conversations. They taught him bird language The mother signed the papers on the abandonment of the child after he was found He was temporarily sent to a boarding school, but later moved to a psychological rehabilitation center Number two Monkey boy After seeing how his father killed his mother, four-year-old Jones Sesbanya fled in horror in the jungle where he lived with monkeys, until he was discovered by a woman from his own tribe named Milli in 1991, and as is often the case, a feral child resisted fellow villagers who wanted to take him to the village, and his monkey family helped him in this. initial reports indicate that the entire body of the Exodus was covered with hair (hypertrichosis). He had worms more than half a meter long. Caught and washed, he was covered with scars, wounds. His knees were scarred from crawling. He was given the name Jones Sesbanya and taught to speak. He sings well. John is currently touring with the African Pearl Children's Choir. The BBC made a documentary based on John's story, released on October 13, 1999, which confirms the story. And before we go to number one: Want to see more of our videos? Click on the subscribe button Number one Monkey Woman Marina Chapman was born sometime in 1950 This Colombian woman was kidnapped and spent her childhood in the jungle alone. Apart from the colony of copuchin monkeys. Chapman claims she was kidnapped at the age of four and then released for unknown reasons. For the next few years, she lived with the Capuchins, until the hunters rescued her. She did not speak human speech. She was first sold to a bard. She lived on the street, was a slave in a mafia house. She ended up moving to England, where she got married and had children. Her daughter convinced her to write a story, and in 2013 she published her autobiography "The Girl with No Name" And so guys! I wrote subtitles for you: KsuLumen Subscribe to this nice channel (not mine, I don't shoot: D) Like)
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