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Naked feral woman found in Cambodian jungle 19 years after going missing

dailymail.co.uk — A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police and a man claiming to be her father said Thursday. The woman - believed to be Rochom P'ngieng, who would now be 27 years old - cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her saga have been

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  • skidzilla, on 10/12/2007, -19/+105Me Tarzan. She Jane.
    • jsbarone, on 10/12/2007, -36/+22this story is useless without pics.
    • sdrawkcaB, on 10/12/2007, -17/+25"Hey guys, wanna go capture some naked chick I found in the jungle the other day?" I can just see their response "Well, hells yeah we do!"
    • Mootabolife, on 10/12/2007, -3/+94The naked in the title makes all the difference.
    • TheAkolyte, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15Wow, I always wondered if it was possible for a human to survive as such. I'd wager she's insane from years of isolation (among other things.) But an interesting prospect, none-the-less.
    • Guitarsenal, on 10/12/2007, -4/+203Girls gone WILD!
    • Vigacmoe, on 10/12/2007, -19/+14keyword: NAKED
    • EruLabs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27by far the best _funniest_ part of all this is the first and only comment on that news story
    • draebor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35I think there should be a rule against using the word 'naked' in a heading unless there are pics with the story.
    • Joab, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23The sad thing is she will probably now live the next five years being poked and prodded by scientists looking to get a paper on her and the rest probably in a asilum. More then likely she was better off in the jungle
    • coldstatue, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9how can I be expected to post my inane jokes when the rest of you ***** are so clever?

      btw joab, "poked and prodded" made your comment worth while.
    • PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Ya know, she might be able to re-adapt...
    • samfernandez, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7"Rochom P'ngieng, then 8 years old, disappeared in 1988 when she was herding buffalo in a remote jungle area..."

      Oh, and the dad realized she was his daughter after a scar matched a cut she suffered at eight, playing with her favorite knife??? WTF.

      She was tough at age 8. I bet now she uses pine cones for tampons and gets pissed off if you open the door for her. Plus, with the "always looking left, then right" for predators, I bet sex would be awkward. At least for her.
    • Heembo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5uh, does this part of the article not shock you?

      "Sal Lou, a village policeman who is a member of the Pnong ethnic minority, said he recognised his daughter by a scar on her right arm, a result of a cut from a knife she played with when she was young."

      Not fair, my daddy never gave me cool knives to play with!
    • 0o0Moylan0o0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where are the pics???
    • nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Pics:

      http://wiinis.com/back.jpg
      http://wiinis.com/face.jpg
    • smartass007, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0i'd hit it
    • kuzotz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Becoming feral is both scary, and it happens. There was a whole family that built a dream home in th emiddle of nowhere in Neveda, and that whole freaking family went feral.
    • kuzotz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@samfernandez

      Um little kids here int he US that live in rural areas have a knife they use as a tool, and they play with it meaning they use it to construct stuff or carve stuff. That's what they meant by playing with the knife..
    • waferthinmint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Rochom P'ngieng, then 8 years old, disappeared in 1988 when she was herding buffalo in a remote jungle area..."

      Hands down, this is the best argument I've ever heard for kids' buffalo-herding safety shoes (with flashing LEDs). Let this be a lesson to parents everywhere about buffalo-herding safety for grade-schoolers!
  • LemurHorde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+124This website is dedicated to stories about feral children, some of whom were raised by animals. It also discusses some relevant child psycology. (never said it was a pretty looking webpage)
    http://www.feralchildren.com/en/index.php
    One interesting historical case is the story of Amala and Kamala, two Indian girls who were "kidnapped" and raised by wolves.
    http://www.feralchildren.com/en/showchild.php?ch=kamala
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amala_and_Kamala
    Stealing straight from the wiki:
    "Kamala and Amala both exhibited wolf-like behaviors. Both girls had developed thick calluses on their palms and knees from having walked on all fours. The girls were mostly nocturnal, had an aversion to sunshine, and could see very well in the dark. They also exhibited an acute sense of smell and an enhanced ability to hear. The girls enjoyed the taste of raw meat and would eat out of a bowl on the ground, much like dogs. In addition, the girls exhibited a hypersensitivity to touch, and hated wearing clothes. In fact, they seemed to be insensitive to cold and heat. The young girls appeared to show few human emotions of any kind, apart from fear."
    • sicc, on 10/12/2007, -30/+6Very cool, +1 on that comment.
    • TheAkolyte, on 10/12/2007, -13/+8I suppose those with faith would mock this blasphemy, but this is quite interesting, if not equally controversial. Too bad it would be "Inhuman" to conduct research on a man-made feral-human.
    • coldstatue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36
      "The young girls appeared to show few human emotions of any kind, apart from fear."

      this isn't that special. most of my dates end this way.
    • KamikazeeDriver, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Unfortunately for me, I was drunk out in the woods one day, and thought, "damn, for a wolf, kamala's pretty hot."
      great party and all, but damn, imagine trying to explain child support, "yeah, she acts like she's a wolf, but it was a night i'll never forget"
    • Ratteler, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13"The young girls appeared to show few human emotions of any kind, apart from fear."

      So they became Republicans?
  • thewaz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+62"Sal Lou said his family was now closely watching the woman after she took off her clothes"

    snicker
    • royall64, on 10/12/2007, -24/+5Digg me down, wrong post.
    • whymanwhy, on 10/12/2007, -23/+7While I was on LSD the other day my friends an I were talking about what would happen if you just went into the jungle with like 1000 hits of acid. We came to the conclusion that you would end up just like this woman. Of course it was unbelievably funny to picture that at the current time.
    • Just1nD, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0hahaha, and i dont even know why it was funny
  • royall64, on 10/12/2007, -79/+12Pics or it didn't happen.
    • ldavid, on 10/12/2007, -9/+50Please stop it already with this bloody comment!
    • dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -26/+5***** "pics or it didn't happen" and ***** the ***** who posts "but will it blend lolz!"
    • userChris, on 10/12/2007, -26/+17but will it blend lolz!
    • royall64, on 10/12/2007, -22/+6In Soviet Russia, missing goes woman!
    • xcheats, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1@Idavid. To tell you the truth the girl is prob. bloody, not his comment.
    • hammydude, on 10/12/2007, -6/+73In soviet russia, coment cliches post YOU into a blender if there are no pics.
    • Mootabolife, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1werd
    • clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2No really. No pics, no care.
  • unicornhunter, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4details of her saga have been what?
  • ThunderChunk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0Maybe they were looking to imitate lions, where they'd throw their cubs off a clif...
  • xarc13, on 10/12/2007, -9/+51Pics or she'll blend.
    • unicornhunter, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1what do you mean by blend?
    • dagobah77, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4By "blend" he means shoved into a Blendtec brand blender.
  • ImYourRealDad, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4I'd hit that.
    • cell00, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3Shut the ***** up. This is something tragic. Geez.
    • jamsea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I was expecting this comment to show up and one of the first 5 :P
    • KamikazeeDriver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i would too, imagine how fun and primal it would be.

      "i was out in the woods, don't know how i got there, but met this nature woman who didn't speak any language I heard of, but damn she could howl"
  • Jeifurie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+79Geez people on digg are so lazy. Its fine to just copy and paste from the article into the description, but at least have the decency to end with a full sentence. This is like the 50th time I've seen descriptions just end halfway into the sentence and its
  • pmace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I like how the picture of Helen Mirren comes up with the article. I had no idea she had been lost for so long.
    • clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1She wouldn't be missed if she went away.
    • archer104, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I heard that she went through a lot to prepare for her role as the queen, but...wow.
  • Dolomite, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1pictures or it didnt happen
  • airencracken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Very interesting.
    • dwang1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Rochom P'ngieng, then 8 years old,
      disappeared in 1988 when she was
      herding buffalo in a remote jungle area,"

      Doesn't anyone find this part just a little odd???
    • clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yea, buffalo in the jungle.... wtf.
  • optimuscrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25I like the lone comment on the site, "I keep running into chicks like that."
  • kryx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11More details at:

    http://www.feralchildren.com/en/showchild.php?ch=rochom

    including a picture, for those who really wanted one so badly.
    • mongrel, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Meh. Flat.
    • coldstatue, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I think she's ***** hawt.
    • clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You'd think she'd have had some time to work out or something. At least get a little makeup on.
    • Xarou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Um, I found a discrepancy. In the main article, it said the cut was on her arm. In the one linked above, it said it was on her back.
  • Chrissilvanet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Sal Lou said his family was now closely watching the woman after she took off her clothes"

    Hmmm...disturbing and delightful at the same time.
    • duxxyuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That comment is wrong but funny at the same time. I feel bad after reading it but then I begin to laugh...
  • saladtossser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6FINALLY an adult human with real instincts
    • scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24The first thing she did was draw an iPhone in the dirt, and point at it excitedly
  • kristablaken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I know 'pics or it didn't happen' is generally a pretty retarded comment, but come on, if they can describe her in so much detail, why not just one of them take a photograph? Are they afraid she'll look up, surprised, and leap on the photographer with claws ready, also like 'tiger'.
    • clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Seriously. News sites need to wise up. I want to see some pics here. It helps make it more real. No pics is for fiction books where I make up just how temptingly tight her top is.
  • spz104, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Photographs or the event did not occur
  • Badfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfvSWljqpc
    Mindshock: Feral Children video.
    Very interesting watch that will help explain what this is all about.
    • TheAkolyte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6After seeing the "dog-child" I thought, it was not that she (he?) was "raised by dogs, to act like dogs" but rather, she went insane from living with dogs for 6 years.

      Actually, after thinking about it, I wonder if those dogs hit that.
    • Rileyper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good video example for this article.
    • imightbewrong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2for those who don't know ,all the Mindshock videos on youtube are amazing!
  • thekarmastrike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Since being found, the woman has had difficulty adjusting to normal life, apparently because of her long stay in the wild.

    Normal life? Running around in the wild is her normal life. Maybe she liked it?

    We're such an arrogant species - assuming that we should assimilate everyone into our society.
    • TheAkolyte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That is the way of humans, it's what makes us, us.
    • overacid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I totally agree.

      I'm sure she would've experienced life the way it's supposed to be experienced. Pure. No *****. Fighting for every moment of survival. Imagine all the techniques she would've had to learn in order to survive for as long as she did. Eventually she would become one with her environment and understand a lot more about it than we do. (Anyone that has taken magic mushrooms or had a decent acid trip will vouch for this.) Yes, we are an arrogant species to assume that we should assimilate everyone into our society.

      It even says in the article that at one point she takes off her clothes and attempts to head back into the jungle. I don't blame her. It's either the green jungle or a concrete one.
    • kelbear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Might makes right. That's how history gets written.
  • Brows, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3they made this movie all ready..Nell
  • NavySEAL6, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0that is insane
  • EquinnoxX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3100% Cambodian breast milk!
  • 2ndRevolution, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Once she realizes the ***** up world she's just been brought into, she'll head straight back into the jungle.
  • superguysteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I heard they gave her Jodie Foster's Oscar.

    "chicka chicka chickabee!"

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110638
  • electronicmaji, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1pics or it didnt happen!
  • firemillen2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can we please have Mr. Peepers (the monkey boy) from Saturday Night Live interview her?



  • spideyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Read this one at Foxnews and they have a picture of the woman too. She is clothed though.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244440,00.html
    • firemillen2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4She must have had a blowdryer in the jungle. That's Jackie-Oish.
    • coldstatue, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1kudos to you my good man, for linking a symbol of fashion and high society with a woman described by most as as "feral".
    • fitchmicah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3leave it to fox to have the highest quality photographs
    • a0me, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What did they take that picture with?
      A guy with Parkinson's disease holding a 10 year old cellphone ?
  • overacid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I've been to Cambodia and you are heavily warned by signs and the locals not to stray from the beaten track or you'll end up like the millions who have lost limbs or life.

    How the HELL did she survive 19 years in the Cambodian jungle without setting off a land mine? There are approx. 9 million live landmines still active in the Cambodian jungle. I'm not sure of the official statistics but i think it's about 10-20 are accidentally detonated per day. (this was from memory of visiting a landmine museum in Siem Reap)
    • Akaricloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7She was half monkey dude, obviously she used vines.
    • mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Perhaps its a different area ?
  • chaneg1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Very interesting! A female tarzan without the cloth.
  • MyDigitalSin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1a fantastic way to solve America's obesity 'disease'
    Send em to the jungle without anything on their back, force em to scavenge, kill each other.... hey and it helps with global warming too!
  • rwheeler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dear diary......JACKPOT!
  • coldstatue, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4I wanna ***** you like an animal.
    • beotch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It would be funny if she learned to read and then visited this site. But then what's so wrong about your comment anyway?
    • rtini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I sure love the "block" feature in digg.
    • duxxyuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I too like the block feature....
  • myFriendDerrik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I'll bet she's an animal in bed.
  • buuch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2she got to live as we were intended to. they should allow her return to the wild.
    • sngx1275, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3We weren't intended to live like that you stupid *****, if we were we wouldn't have formed groups that evolved into societies. Hell even monkeys don't live like that, they live in groups.
    • kuzotz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1YOu do know that there are hermits who travel around, and live a life of loneliness because they aren't big on being social, but yeah most humans are social
    • kuzotz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2though babies are a blank sheet, and learn and adapt to there enviroment... She isn't going to survive long in modern human society, and it would be unfair to not let her go back into the wild.
  • 35263526, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why is there always a need to capture and integrate these feral children? Presumably, if she's been living like that for so long, she was perfectly capable of continuing, and ripping a person out of their life and home by force, and then attempting to coerce them into changing their life in massive ways has got to be pretty traumatizing.

    I realize it would suck for the parent, but I honestly think that for the feral individual it would be better to simply let them continue what they're doing.
    • kelbear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let's let poor people stay poor too. ***** socialism right? They shouldn't get any of my charity.
  • Boofster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So is she hot or what?
  • paider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Please release her back to what she knows, maybe even place a tracking chip in her such that she can be studied. She has lived in the wilderness this long and what sense would it make to take her away from what she knows. She is just going to spend much of the rest of her days in an asylum/rehab clinic. Living like she has will be much more humane than attempting to "civilize" her. I hope someone realizes this for her sake.
  • fitchmicah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1NO PICTURES = NO DIGG
  • shawgo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I say, either it didn't happen, or she went insane and that was the why she disappeared.
  • Lillebakken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0X-Files 1x04

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751229/
  • RogueElement, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If it's from the dailymail.co.uk, you don't even need to read the article to know it's a fake story. Burying this as inaccurate.
  • Merlinhoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I knew Loren bigfoot Coleman would be on this. He does have a picture of her.
    http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/nguoirung-18/
  • RobertPatrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No adamantium claws=no digg.
  • Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That story shows once more how ***** is to believe that we are God's creations. Social norms make us what we are, it's not the power of our mind that makes as so far more superior than the other animals, it's our technical civilization. Our first step towards "humanity" was not the bipedalism (this is the cause), it is our first bone weapon which made us stronger than those who were physically stronger than us.

    If only people -at last- will admit that we are part of the nature and a result of it, then we may stop screwing with Earth, as soon as we have the arrogant belief that a higher being made us special then we have serious problems on accepting reality.
  • hazmat007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What an amazing story. Just goes to show that you should never underestimate the desire to survive. I can't imagine what she had to do to get by. Hopefully one day the whole story will come out.
  • a0me, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I keep running into chicks like that.

    - Andrew Milner, Yokohama, Japan"

    This comment made my day.
  • ray901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FTA
    "Mao San, police chief of Oyadao district, described the woman as 'half-human and half-animal.'"
    There appears to be some confusion as to what a human really is....
  • ethanpeirce, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I wonder if she lets animals ***** her?
    • jiggleflop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@eathanpierce

      You God damn sick *****...

      I just got back from Cambodia.

      Those people have been through hell.

      The average Cambodian makes less than $250.00 USD a year, I wish that story was about you instad of that poor girl.
    • ethanpeirce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@jiggleflop

      What were you doing in cambodia? Looking for an 11 year old concubine??? What does how much money they make have to do with anything anyways? You ***** retard! Eat my ***** cracklins.
    • jiggleflop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@eathanpierce

      No you sick *****, I wasnt looking for a 11 year old, I was visiting the ruins of Angkor, walking the killing fields and visiting the poor illiterate people dying of aids.

      Some poor farm girl gets lost in the jungle for twenty years, in a country whos people were robbed of their culture for decades, over two million teachers, political rivals and educated slaughtered because of Poll Pot's "year zero", and you think its fun to be a piece of ***** with beastality comments.



    • ethanpeirce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@jiggleflop

      we all have problems. Who gives a ***** about "over two million teachers, political rivals and educated slaughtered because of Poll Pot's "year zero",". I am pretty sure that her getting lost isn't the result of their countries turmoil. Trust me..ranting on like you are does not make you sound intelligent. Mabye you should go get lost in the jungle. I doubt anyone would miss you putting your 2 cents in.
    • ProfessorRiffs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ jiggleflop:

      Shut up. Nobody cares about how good of a person you are.
    • jiggleflop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@eathanpeirce

      Hey, I read your posts, your still a sick *****.
    • ethanpeirce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ jiggleflop

      What a loser. You went through all of my comments. Ha. I am sure if someone looked at all of yours, they would see the posts with mispellings as the ones you have posted here. You sound like a phony. Learn to spell you douchebag. You can't even spell my screen name correcly and it is right in front of you.
  • MuscleAnimal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Angelina should adopt her, then push her into a modeling career as the face behind the revival of the scent "Jungle Gardenia"
    • ethanpeirce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome. I was just thinking...Hmmm..how can this be marketed. lol
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