In 1845 a boy living at San Felipe Springs (Del Rio) reportedly saw a creature with long hair covering it's features that looked like a naked girl attacking a herd of goats in the company of a pack of lobo wolves the story was ridiculed by many but still managed to spread back amoung the settlements around a year after this incident a mexican woman at San Felipe claimed she had seen two large wolves and a unclothed young girl devouring a freshly killed goat she approached close to the group she said before they saw her and ran off. The woman noticed that the girl initially ran on all fours but then rose up and ran on two feet keeping close to the wolves the woman was in no doubt about what she had seen and the scattering of people in the Devil's River country begin to keep a sharp watch for the girl there were similar reports by others in the region during the following year and Apache stories told of a child's footprints sometimes accompanied by hand prints having been found among wolf tracks in sandy places along the river a hunt was organized to capture the Lobo (or wolf) girl of Devil's River as she has now become known comprising mainly of mexican vaqueros on the third day of the hunt the naked girl was sighted near Espantosa Lake running with a pack of wolves The cowboys managed to separate the girl from her wolf companions and cornered her in a canyon where she fought like a wildcat clawing and biting frantically to keep her freedom they finally managed to lasso her to keep her still while they were tying her up she began to make frightening unearthly sounds somewhere between the scream of a woman and the howl of a wolf as she howled the monster he wolf from whom she'd become separated appeared and rushed at her captors fortunately one of the cowboys reacted quickly and shot it dead with a pistol at which the wolf girl fell into a faint securely bound the men were now able to examine the girl and noted that despite a body covered in hair and her wild mannerisms her appearance was human her hands and arms were well muscled but not out of proportion and she lack the ability to speak only making deep growling noises she moved smoothly on all fours but was rather awkward when made to stand up straight The girl was put on a horse and taken to the nearest ranch an isolated two roomed shack amid the desert wilderness she was put in one of the rooms and unbound the cowboys offering her a covering for her body and food and water but she refused cowering in the darkest corner they then left her alone for the night locking the door and posting a guard outside the only other opening was a small boarded up window But as night fell the cowboys heard terrifying howls coming from the wolf girl's room the strange cries carried throught the still night air unsetling her captors and soon finding answers from among the wolf pack in the wilderness beyond the shack soon there were long deep howls coming from all sides as the pack drew closer to the house and occaisionally strange howling screams from the girl answering them from inside her dark room suddenly the large pack of wolves charged into the corrals attacking the goats cows and horses and bringing the cowboys outside shooting and yelling to drive them away in all the confusion the wolf girl managed to tear the planks from the window and escape into the night the howls soon abated and the wolves crept back into the wilderness the next day not a trace of the girl could be found Though there were a few unverified reports in the following years of a young hair covered girl seen with a wolf pack in the area no one ever came in close contact with her meanwhile gold had been discovered in California and westward travel had increased significantly in 1852 a surveying party of frontiersmen searching for a new route to El Paso were riding down to the Rio Grande at a bend far above the mouth of Devil's River they were almost at water's edge when they saw at close range sittting on a sandbar a young woman suckling two wolf cubs suddenly she saw them quickly grabbed the pups and dashed into the breaks at such a rate that it was impossible for the horsemen to follow The girl would have been 17 years old that year after that she disappeared into the wilderness forever in 1974 a hunter in this area claims to have seen her again in the form of a white apparition which vanished before his eyes

Hi and welcome to UM!!!
Punctuation and spacing is a good thing
it is very hard to read through your post, y'know

Yes welcome to UM, and btw I had no problem reading your post... Maybe it's just me, but I find it rude to post a comment like this and not even mention the topic....it's not that hard to read.

There have been quite a few stories over the years of "feral children", children lost or whatever that have been found and raised by wild animals. Also children kept isolated (such as locked in a room with no or limited human contact for years). Wikipedia has links for quite a few of these for anyone interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child

I've heard plenty of stories of feral children over the years, but I have never heard this one. A feral child in the Americas. Never heard of it. But a good read, nonetheless. Do you have the book/website from which it came?

Oh. and willkommen! ^-^

Welcome to UM! Please consider punctuation. Interesting story, if I read it right to!

Man, stop to take a breath. I'm gonna jump on the "you need punctuation" bandwagon.

I'd like to know where you got this story.

where do you get this story never know there is feral female child before they usually male and a 17 years old woman cukling two cubs sound like horror

weuh... its more hard to write without punctuation you know! so that a gift, use it wisely, and welcome to UM wolves!

Welcome to UM Wolves. What a neat story. I have read several stories of feral children but I've never heard this one before. Do you have a link to the source, or was it in a book?

Wolves are my fav animal to.

bienvenue! This story was in a horror book I have. I heard it was based on a true story. Creepy. I still love it though.

here is the site i got this story from as well as a book it can be read from www.mysteriouspeople.com & straight texas

This sounds so cool!!!
Punctuation??? ...uhh ok.
Well anyways, I love stories like this. They're very interesting.