Girl Raised By Monkeys Returns To Civilization, Can’t Adapt

Darkness

“I saw a hand cover my mouth, a black hand in a white hanky. Then I realized there were two people taking me away.” That’s the first thing Marina Chapman can remember. After that, just darkness.

When she came back to her senses, she was in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest, where she stayed for years.

She lived among monkeys; they raised her and treated her as one of their own until she came back to human civilization, where she soon discovered that she would never be able to be like the other people.

The Story Of Marina Chapman

The protagonist of this story is named Marina Chapman. That’s the name she uses today, but she doesn’t know which name her parents gave her at birth. She doesn’t even know who here parents were or what her earliest childhood was like.

As far as Marina remembers, the first time she interacted with other people was when she was 10 years old. Before that happened, she had been a member of a community of monkeys in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest. But that’s not all there is to it.

A Crazy Life

Before she finally left the jungle and ventured into human society, her life had been everything but predictable. It was a chain of adventures, changes and, thrilling and dangerous events. However, the hardest challenge would come after she began living among humans again.

Recently, Marina has written a book titled The Girl With No Name, where she exposes her life story, along with all the struggles she had to face. This is Chapman’s story:

Marina’s Earliest Memory

As of today, Marina Chapman doesn’t know where she spent her first years, who her parents were, or what her life was like before she was 4 years old. Her first memory is the experience of being kidnapped.

She recalls having being taken by some strangers in her sleep, coming back to her senses inside a truck in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest. Then, the men that kidnapped her took her out of the truck. Right then and there, she feared the worst.

Stranded

However, all the men did was leaving her stranded in the middle of the rainforest. Marina thought and even hoped that they would return for her; but she never saw them again.

For the next days, she spent all her time wandering around the rainforest; there was nothing else she could do. She searched for signs of human presence, but she didn’t find anything. She was all by herself. She yelled and cried, hoping for a response that never came.

She ate berries and slept in caves and holes in the ground. And one day, she encountered something that changed her life forever.