Meet the woman 'living with the monkeys' in the forest from the age of 5

Marina Chapman, the best-selling memoir, is titled "The Nameless Girl", now living in a frenzy with her descendants, but only when she jumps to the tree branch with a swift body despite her age. 64, it was known that the woman had a "violent" childhood when "living with monkeys".

Marina's life story was a very unbelievable but true topic. When she was only 4 years old, at the beginning of the 1950s, Colombia was in the midst of the fierce civil war La Violencia, hundreds of kidnapped children, military men who wanted to earn some ransom from her but failed, She left her in the old Comlombia forest.

Marina was fortunate to be found and cured by Capuchin monkeys, teaching how to eat fruit, leading to safe drinking water on the Magdalena River, climbing trees and avoiding evil animals. Five years later, two hunters "rescued" Marina from the monkeys. then . sell me to a brothel owner!

Marina Chapman climbed on the tree quickly despite being 64 years old.

In the brothel, she is called Marina Cruz , not yet known to live with people and just sleep under the bed. Although she was not selling sex because she was too small, she was always beaten by her mother because she did not know how to help with chores. After that, Marina fled the brothel, wandered off the street. The techniques learned from monkeys help me . "steal" food and climb on trees to avoid being caught by the police.

Later, Marina was accepted by a Colombian criminal family as a resident. This family treated her quite cruelly. A neighbor recalled, the man once saw him tied up on a tree in the back of the house and hit him. The neighbor rescues and helps her to the capital, Bogota, where Marina works as a nanny for another family. Then they went to England to do business for 6 months and brought Marina. In Bradford, 27-year-old Marina fell in love with John Chapman, a microbiologist, and they became husband and wife and had two daughters. She also stayed in England since then.

In fact, what happened during the time in the forest, Marina did not want to repeat, but the eldest daughter Vanessa James kept urging and felt attracted to write the thrilling story she had experienced. The whole family with the help of the press has reconnected the details to form a complete work.

To this day, it is still impossible to imagine how a 5-year-old child can survive in a harsh wilderness that even adults cannot survive. After hours of crying and groping through the bushes, she lost to the territory of the Capuchin monkeys, Marina recalled. She used to be poisoned by poisoning when she ate the leaf of wild tamarind, then was led by a herd to find a puddle of water to drink to vomit all the leaves that had been eaten, so that she escaped death.

Capuchin monkeys.

Although only 5 years old, Marina looks bigger than Capuchin monkeys, though the monkeys don't seem to be chasing the child. Marina began observing the behavior of monkeys to learn survival skills such as climbing trees, picking up edible things, cleaning the body. And the strange thing is that the child can catch it quickly.

For example, Marina found that if she took the trouble to wait and waited for the monkey to pick up the armpits of ripe bananas, she could quickly pick up some of the fruits they dropped. Gradually, the first 10-year-old girl could live in a natural way.

Capuchin monkeys accepted Marina to live with her flock, they were careful but not "loving" her the way people often think, Marina explained."One day a young monkey jumped on his head and put his hand on her face, if a person's life had never been hugged, this was the smoothest touch," she recalls.

When interviewing characters to write stories, the media tried to paint more details, which Marina said: some are a bit too much."In fact, the monkeys did not give her food, but she had to learn how to get it or salvage it from the flock, but they accepted her to follow her flock as a member, only this was enough to make her happy. thank them for life ".

Marina Chapman with her family.

Marina recounts, one of the quietest memories she remembers is when the monkeys sit on trees to clean their bodies and catch each other's head; Capuchins also gently glide her hair in a mature and meticulous way; It is a way to relax and massage your head without being equal.

But even when she was accustomed to the jungle environment, Marina always wanted to find and interact with her fellow human beings. Groups of hunters with guns occasionally pass by. Once, she boldly approached people in a four-legged walking posture. Naked and moving with "four legs", Marina cried for help, a group of hunters "rescued" and took her back to the brothel to make a mistake. From here, the journey to re-integrate the world of the arduous person of the five-year-old child living in the jungle.

Today, Marina lives in England as a happy wife, grandmother, the process of returning to the life of a civilized person has left her many memories.