real life jungle book

Thanks to Rudyard Kipling and Disney, the "Jungle Book" is a well known story among many different cultures. Other stories like Jumanji also purport the idea of children being able to live alone in a jungle, but we all know that it's just a story, right? After all, what are the chances of any child surviving alone in a jungle setting? Isn't the human mind too separated from the "instincts" of caveman-like survivalism?

Well, that's what I thought, until I ran across a new article from the BBC about a jungle girl in Cambodia. This young woman went missing when she was eight, and recently resurfaced in the jungles of Cambodia nineteen years later. She was found naked and walking in a hunched ape-like position. Her family claims to recognize her by a scar on her arm.

There are those who are skeptical about this tall tale, but the father has stated that he will have a DNA test performed to prove that it is the same girl that has been missing for 19 years.

Very strange, indeed.