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Woman kidnapped and abandoned aged four was raised by monkeys and didn't speak

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Published 14:28 3 Jan 2024 GMT

Woman kidnapped and abandoned aged four was raised by monkeys and didn't speak

Marina Chapman, who now resides in the UK, claims she was abandoned aged four and subsequently raised by monkeys.

Callum Jones

Callum Jones

The story of how Marina Chapman was kidnapped and abandoned at aged four is a truly remarkable one.

The woman from Colombia was abducted from her home village in a rural area of the country.

Sadly, Marina doesn't remember much about her parents or her life before that - all she remembers is being captured by two men and driven away from her home.

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Here's what she had to say here:

And before she knew it, Marina was dumped in the jungle and left completely to her own devices.

The 73-year-old claims she was raised by monkeys, who later became her closest companions.

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In her 2013 book,The Girl With No Name, Marina alleges to have been snatched in 1954 when child-trafficking gangs were very common in Colombia.

"I saw a hand cover my mouth - a black hand in a white hanky," she said.

"Then I realised there were two people taking me away."

Marina was abandoned in the jungle.
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"When I saw them going, I just didn't want them to leave," she added in an interview with LADbible last year.

"I was worried about it. I saw their legs, one was a black one and one was a white man moving away in shorts.

"And I just wanted to beg them to come back for me, not to leave me there."

But no one came back for her and Marina was left to fend for herself - that was until she heard a monkey in the trees above.

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"The one that came first, he's staring at me," she recalled.

"And he keeps testing with the finger, a really quite strong little monkey, he kept poking me. And I just didn't want to move. I just didn't want to do anything.

"Until some more came, and I felt a bit better. It was just a nice feeling about seeing something in that moment, I just forgot to cry, and I still was frightened about it."

She claims she was raised by monkeys in the Colombian jungle.
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Marina says that as the weeks passed, she began to grow closer to the monkeys, who eventually accepted her as part of their group.

And during her time with them, she says she learnt to recognise certain noises, as well as finding food to eat, saying: "I had to learn to recognise the sounds.

"The screechy one, you have to really be careful, you have to hide away.

"Many sounds mean something. The 'danger' one is the louder one, and then the whistle one is the 'food' one.

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"And each sound means different things, but it took me a while to get used to it, I just learned from watching what they were doing every time I heard the sound."

Marina says she was found by hunters five years after her abduction. She also claims that the hunters took her to a brothel in Cucuta.

Marina later found employment as a maid until she moved to the UK.

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Topics: World News, Animals, Weird

Callum Jones
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