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UK housewife 'raised by monkeys in jungle'

By T.K. Randall
October 22, 2012 · Comment icon 27 comments

Image Credit: Perojevic
Marina Chapman spent five years of her childhood being raised in the jungle by a colony of monkeys.
Marina had been abandoned in the jungles of Colombia by kidnappers and ended up learning how to catch rabbits and birds with her bare hands in order to survive. Eventually she was discovered by hunters who sold her to a brothel from which she later escaped. She spent several years on the streets before being finally taken in to work as a maid for a family in her mid-teens.

Marina's remarkable story is being published for the first time in the form of a new book and later a television documentary aimed at highlighting the plight of those caught up in the horror of human trafficking in South America.
The story of a Yorkshire housewife who spent five years in her childhood living with a colony of capuchin monkeys in Colombia is to be told for the first time in a book and planned television documentary.


Source: Telegraph | Comments (27)




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Comment icon #18 Posted by CRIPTIC CHAMELEON 12 years ago
Those 4 Yorkshiremen will haunt me for the rest of my life................. Its still one of my favorite Monty Python skits.
Comment icon #19 Posted by Abramelin 12 years ago
The story of a Yorkshire housewife who spent five years in her childhood living with a colony of capuchin monkeys in Colombia is to be told for the first time in a book and planned television documentary. Marina Chapman learnt to catch birds and rabbits with her bare hands after being abandoned in the jungle by kidnappers, it was reported. http://www.telegraph...-in-jungle.html Come on people, this is just a hoax based on wordplay: It's not capuchin monkeys, but Capuchin monks: http://en.wikipedia...._Minor_Capuchin +++ EDIT: In 1916 the Arhuacos asked the government of Colombia for teachers t... [More]
Comment icon #20 Posted by sergeantflynn 12 years ago
First it was monkeys . Now it`s Monks . I thought it was coffee . Correct me if I`m wrong .
Comment icon #21 Posted by Abramelin 12 years ago
You correct me if *I* am wrong.
Comment icon #22 Posted by CRIPTIC CHAMELEON 12 years ago
Come on people, this is just a hoax based on wordplay: It's not capuchin monkeys, but Capuchin monks: Hmm interesting but maybe some of the monks might of been a bit cro-magnonish and this inspired the head lines.
Comment icon #23 Posted by JGirl 12 years ago
So she had a tough life . There were 26 of us kids living in a paper-bag at the bottom of a cess-pit . When we got in from school our father beat us with a broken bottle until we fell asleep happy & contented . I`m going to write a book about it when I retire . The money will come in handy . luxury...
Comment icon #24 Posted by Alex Smith 12 years ago
I was raised by brass monkeys
Comment icon #25 Posted by nohands 12 years ago
WHAT A NICE STORY TO TELL.... WHAT A BEAUTIFUL LIFE IT HAS BEEN
Comment icon #26 Posted by BiffSplitkins 12 years ago
I was raised by brass monkeys Then you must be one funky monkey!
Comment icon #27 Posted by Eldorado 12 years ago
So sad. She was sacked as a prostitute for throwing feces at the clients, apparently.


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