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Real-life Tarzan lived in jungle without knowing women existed for 41 years
The Mirror ^ | June 25, 2021 | Nina Lloyd

Posted on 06/26/2021 2:30:44 AM PDT by Trump20162020

A man who lived "completely isolated" in the forests of Vietnam with his dad for 41 years had no idea women existed, according to reports.

Ho Van Lang's extraordinary story began when he fled civilisation at the end of the Vietnam War in 1972 when a US bomb killed his mum and two siblings.

Lang, now 46, his brother Tri and his dad resettled deep in the jungle in the Tay Tra district of Quang Ngai province.

The trio lived entirely off the wilderness, eating honey, fruit and forest creatures, building shelters and fending for themselves.

Alvaro Cerezo, a photographer who tracked the family down back in 2015, said: "They always escaped when they saw people from a distance."

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: tarzan; vietnam
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To: caww

I remember reading some story about the Russian Family and how they knew about certain technology because they saw planes fly over during the day and lights at night. Somehow they lived near the path for space debris to fall when the Russians launched things into space the parts that fell back to earth many of them would fall near where they lived....


21 posted on 06/26/2021 3:35:34 AM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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To: srmanuel

Well I have to say I was raised in rural America in a very small town. There were many things I wasn’t aware of until I moved to a larger community and was stunned seeing all I did. We thought it was a big deal to go out of town to a Pizza place!

That life was a very sheltered life but you don’t realize it growing up. I’ve lived in several cities now and I’ll still say it’s better country living any day than city without question.


22 posted on 06/26/2021 3:40:54 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: caww

He looked happy with puppy.


23 posted on 06/26/2021 3:49:58 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: Salamander

I’m not sure happy registers as we might see it as. He was smiling most of the time. His caretaker said in another video he cannot tell the difference between good and bad. He’s surely stunted mentally and likely emotinally as well.


24 posted on 06/26/2021 3:59:55 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Trump20162020

I bet the local animals lived a nervous existence.


25 posted on 06/26/2021 4:05:28 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: caww

Sometimes you have to wonder if bringing “primitives” into the modern world is a good idea or not.

I watched some show about tribes in the Amazon who have had “no outside contact, ever” so they haul off and fly planes over their villages, terrifying them and forcing them to scatter to some other briefly “unknown location”.

I can only imagine how I would feel if some bunch of people grabbed me and dragged me to a city because they thought it would be a better place and life for me.

“Not knowing the difference between good and bad”...maybe he should avoid apples and snakes.

I reckon now that they have taken him to “their world”, they’ll teach him as much as he’s able to learn about such things.


26 posted on 06/26/2021 4:14:51 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: Trump20162020

“Real-life Tarzan lived in jungle without knowing women existed for 41 years”

They stopped existing in the US once the ‘feminist’ movement started.


27 posted on 06/26/2021 4:17:29 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: caww

“But apparently his dad still has ‘profound phobia of returning [to normal life] as he did not believe that the Vietnam War was over’ and hopes to return to the jungle one day.”

They should let him go.


28 posted on 06/26/2021 4:18:01 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: Trump20162020

I bet it was quiet


29 posted on 06/26/2021 4:21:44 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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30 posted on 06/26/2021 4:23:39 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: fso301

But it’s America’s fault !


31 posted on 06/26/2021 4:57:18 AM PDT by NativeSon ( )
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To: Trump20162020

So everything he did wasn’t wrong?


32 posted on 06/26/2021 6:18:15 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: Trump20162020

my goodness, think of all the coconuts he defiled.


33 posted on 06/26/2021 6:24:00 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is???? )
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To: Trump20162020

If he makes a mistake and there are no women around, is he still wrong?


34 posted on 06/26/2021 6:31:29 AM PDT by DFG
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To: Trump20162020

So, he had no memory of his mother and his brother and father never mentioned her. Unlikely.

And he saw there male and female jungle animals but never made the connection. Again, unlikely.


35 posted on 06/26/2021 6:34:31 AM PDT by bgill
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To: fso301
The math doesn't appear to work.

Math is racis'. The answer is whatever feels good.

36 posted on 06/26/2021 7:34:20 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Humor is a dish best served dry.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Hmm good Vietnamese name/s


37 posted on 06/26/2021 8:03:49 AM PDT by pangaea6
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To: Trump20162020

From the story, “If I asked Lang to beat someone, he would do it severely.” Hmmm...


38 posted on 06/26/2021 8:14:00 AM PDT by Bloodandgravy (Power likes to walk on crooked legs)
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To: Salamander

Amazing, the intuitive knowledge that Asians have of driving.


39 posted on 06/27/2021 10:19:13 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog
Not touching that with a


40 posted on 06/27/2021 10:26:54 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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