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Ho Van Lang fled civilisation at the end of the Vietnam War in 1972 when a US bomb killed his mother and two siblings.

He had no idea that women exist and could not differentiate between good and badĪ man who lived in complete isolation in the forests of Vietnam with his father and brother for 41 years had no idea that women exist.

“His major obsession is to return to the jungle one day,” said Mr Cerezo. Believing the Vietnam War is still going, he sits alone in a squatting position in a corner of his room. Lang’s father, though, is sadly not doing so well. “The first year was the most difficult for Lang because of health problems from a virus and bacteria new to his system.” He lived almost like a slave of his dad during his life in the jungle”. Mr Cerezo says Lang is living a productive life and enjoys it “mainly for the freedom he now enjoys. “In the jungle animals always ran away from me,” he said. He thinks the modern world is “noisy”, but he was particularly impressed by his first ride in a car (he was driven to a hospital when he was first discovered) and he loves seeing “animals being friendly with people”. Lang might not be Alexander Skarsgård, who stars in the latest Tarzan, but he’s sure got the skills.īut despite fears Lang could “kill anyone” at request, Mr Cerezo said Lang is “happily adapting to his new life”.

“Lang was probably the most adorable human I have ever met in my life, he just doesn’t know what is good or bad.” Yet despite his intellectual inability, Mr cerezo says Lang is one of the most peaceful people he’s met. “If I asked Lang to stab someone with a knife, he would do it without thinking and that person could die.” Most people know what is good or bad in life, but my brother doesn’t. He doesn’t know the difference between good and bad.

“If I asked Lang to beat someone, he would do it severely. So his brain is just like a baby,” his brother said. “Lang has spent his whole life in the jungle. “I can confirm that Lang has never had the minimum sexual desire and his reproductive instinct has never shown its head in any of its many facets.”Ĭredited as a “baby in a man’s body”, Lang’s brother, Tri, said “Lang doesn’t understand many basic social concepts”.

“More surprising still is that today, despite being able to distinguish between men and women, he still doesn’t know the essential difference between them,” said Mr Cerezo. Up until he was found Lang never knew the existence of the female sex, as his father never told him. Lang’s isolation from the world has proven critical in his lack of social adaptation he cannot understand Vietnamese, has no concept of time other than from the sun, and struggles to understand the concept of electricity. Lang fashions his jungle attire out of these leaves. They built wood houses and sourced water from rivers, using a variety of jungle delicacies for dinner, including fruit, honey and a host of meats in the form of monkey, snake, lizard and frog.Īlong with his brother, Lang spent his life eating and living off the jungle for four decades until 2013, when locals found the family, alerted authorities and forced them to re-enter civilisation.Īccording to Alvaro Cerezo, who tracked Lang and his family down in November 2015, Lang’s father suffers from a “profound phobia of returning as he did not believe that the Vietnam War was over”. Lang’s father, an army veteran, decided to flee with his two sons after a US bomb killed his wife and two of their children. Lang spent much of his life in the deepest jungles of Vietnam, in the Tay Tra district of Quang Ngai province, after his father, Ho Van Thanh, 85, fled civilisation during the Vietnam War in 1972. DRESSED in tree bark and leaves while munching on a rat caught by a complicated jungle trap, this guy looks a little different than Alexander Skarsgård, the Swedish actor who is stealing hearts in the new Tarzan movie.īut this “real life Tarzan” is credited with skills that are “superhuman”.īuilding tree houses, fashioning tools out of discarded war bombs and catching a bat quicker than you can Google, Ho Van Lang, 44, spent 40 years living like a “slave” in isolation in the jungle.Īnd now, Lang has been forced to re-enter civilisation despite his love affair with the wilderness.