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Chapman was born sometime in the early 1950s, during a time in Colombia known as La Violencia. Chapman states that as a child, she was one of those, taken from her village (whose name she was too young to have learned), and then abandoned into the jungle for a reason she did not understand.
- How Marina Chapman Was Raised by Monkeys
- The Controversy Surrounding ‘The Girl with No Name’
- Is Marina Chapman’s Story True?
The first memory Marina Chapman has is the feeling that men were creeping up behind her. Then, a hand reached around her head and smothered her nose and mouth with a white cloth, and everything went black. The next thing she remembers is waking up in a truck deep in the Colombian rainforest, where a group of men forced her out of the vehicle and ab...
In 2013, Marina Chapman published a memoir about her time in the rainforest, The Girl with No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys, co-written with her daughter Vanessa James. And ever since, experts have had questions about her incredible tale. Primatologists have pointed outthat many of the behaviors that Chapman claims the mon...
Marina Chapman has no recollection of the chronology of events that took place in her childhood. Her first memory is of her kidnapping. Everything before that is a blank. And everything after that gets merged together in the long, uneventful days of living in the rainforest. “I keep working at it, but there is nothing. I’ve tried to imagine it so m...
Jan 1, 2024 · Vanessa’s mum is Marina Chapman – a housewife who was born in Colombia, kidnapped aged four by trafficking gangs and abandoned in the rainforest where she claimed she was raised by monkeys....
- Sanjeeta Bains
Jun 8, 2014 · Abducted from her home just shy of her fifth birthday, a little girl in Colombia — now a woman in her 60s living in England called Marina Chapman — was abandoned deep in the forest.
- Barbara J. King
Apr 29, 2013 · Born in the 1950s, in what she believes was Colombia, Chapman says she recalls being carried on a man’s back and being dumped in the jungle. There she says she nearly starved until she began...
Apr 8, 2013 · Abducted as 4-year old from her village in South America and abandoned in the jungle, little Marina was facing perilous odds. But after being adopted by a group of capuchin monkeys, Marina...
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May 3, 2013 · In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and then abandoned deep in the ...
