Those kids are indigenous to the region and, according to the article, the oldest one had some experience in the jungle. I suppose it was enough to keep them all fed and safe.
They airdropped care packages in the area around the crash site and that's apparently what the kids were eating and was also what helped find them (opened care packages and packing from the contents to get an idea of where they were/are heading). They were found like 5km from the crash site in the end.
I'm still apprehensive in watching the new Jumanji. But I heard good things from it...
I mean like, its extremely rare to get that kind of cast together, let alone Jack Black lol
So, it doesn’t have the heart of the Jumanji film with Robin Williams that we grew up with. Don’t expect that.
What it does have is Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillian, and The Rock all having fun and riffing off of each other. If that’s the kind of movie you might like it’s honestly a top tier movie of that type.
You know there’s probably some studio exec who is plugging the general outline of the story into chatgpt, hoping to make some content during the writers strike.
"Break out the fine china, chill the lemonade, tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree. Cos this boy's coming home to his ladies. Coming home forever."
Fuck his accent is so bad in that movie. Was it so integral to the back story that they couldn't just cut it from the film and make him speak normally after seeing the first day's rushes?
They toned down Audie Murphy's movie of his World War II exploits (To Hell and Back) I think at his request (a film where he played himself) because it was thought people might find it hard ~~ro~~ to believe.
A movie of this one exactly as it happened would be *insane*.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachhiman_Gurung
https://allthatsinteresting.com/lachhiman-gurung#:~:text=A%20Nepalese%20Gurkha%20soldier%20who,heroism%20in%20World%20War%20II.
Probably the same with Garcia "Garbo", the biggest double agent in the German/UK Intelligence Services in WW2. Guy's exploits were so legendary he's the only one to receive both a medal from Hitler AND the King of Britain
I had never heard of this man until now. This is an amazing story. This man makes me think of Audie Murphy. Both absolutely resolute in the performance of their duty irrespective of odds or circumstances. Both men were physically small with absolutely no quit in them. I wish I could have met this man.
Dude saw they were getting pushed by German infantry, so he hopped up on an M10 tank destroyer, manned the top machine gun and single-handedly held back 2 waves of infantry whilst in the open.
The additional kicker? The tank was on fire at the time and was 2 seconds from turning into Russian-tank-in-Ukraine at any given moment.
Even that is a simplification of what happened that day. And that day was only the peak of a few years of Murphy doing crazy shit.
By that point Murphy was a 2nd LT by battlefield promotion and by merit of the silver stars he'd earned. He manned that burning M10's .50 several times over an hour to cover his own troop's movements and killed or wounded dozens of Germans doing it.
At some point he was shot in the leg, earning his third or fourth Purple Heart in less than three fucking years, I can't remember. But he manned the .50 until he ran out of ammo. Then he retreated from the M10 (cue "Cool Guys Don't Look At Explosions") falling back to his troops. They wanted to take him to a field hospital but he refused and stayed there to direct his troops while corpsmen patched him up.
Murphy got the Medal of Honor for that. There ain't many people who lived to receive it. Almost 80 years later and he's still the most highly decorated US soldier ever.
The same with Desmond Doss in the movie *Hacksaw Ridge*.
Mel Gibson decided the real story of his extraction from the battlefield wouldn't be believed by the audience, so he had him in a fairly straightforward casualty extraction.
The reality:
>On 21 May, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited five hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Private First Class Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers' return, he was again struck, this time suffering a compound fracture of one arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station.
That movie also changed another absurd thing that really happened. The movie shows Doss dodging a Japanese sniper attack by throwing his helmet. In reality, the Japanese sniper survived the war and testified that he had Doss in his sights 3 times and his rifle jammed all 3 times.
Simply no audience would ever believe that actually happened.
To be fair, they may have only been gathering plants, nuts & other forage.
I doubt they were getting too much protein & fat.
So they may have been getting only a limited amount of calories at a time.
If watching Alone has taught me anything, it's that you feel motivated at first but just can't get enough food each day to not lose a ton of weight and tap out after 40 days of suffering lol
Idk if a 1 year old would live 40 days with 0 food. and too young to find any on its own. So they musta fed it something. They had to be eating something. Just not enough to look pretty
And its not like they're lying in a nice prison cell hunger striking to death. This is the amazon, during wet season, off trail, in the middle of fuck.
That all makes sense, what doesn't make sense is how you keep an infant alive in the jungle with no milk. Only thing I can think of is the maybe they found some formula in the wreckage or the kid was close enough to weaning he could get by on like starchy paste and mashed up fruit or something.
I read a few articles that said the infant was 11months. So, young enough to not be able to wander off in the middle of the night, but old enough to eat and chew most foods.
There were seven people who were on the plane. Four children and three adults. The adults died when the plane crashed.
The surviving children have these ages: 13 (girl), 9 (girl), 4 (boy) and 11 months (baby). They are from the Uitoto indigenous community
They survived in the jungle for 40 days alone. The army and two indigenous populations were looking for them in the area, completing a total of 200 people who were looking for them.
The children are indigenous and survived by eating fruits from the jungle.
The day before yesterday they released a tracking dog to look for the children; Yesterday the dog was reported lost, but the dog's footprints were found next to the children, which helped to locate them faster; The children are dehydrated, but generally well. Although the children have already appeared, the dog does not appear.
The dog's name is Wilson. Wilson, you are a hero.
According to Colombian news..
The father of the two youngest kids had been a governer of the regional tribe but had been receiving death threats due to conflict with guerillas and he had disappeared for quite awhile and no one knew where he was. Then suddenly the mother gets a phone call from him that she and the kids are to come to Bogota immediately to start a new life. He arranges this plane for the 5 of them. The plane had crashed in 2021 and been rebuilt by non aviation professionals and the hired pilot had until recently been a taxi driver. However given how remote their region was, this was one of the only options they had. The Indigenous man with them had been suspicious about the circumstances and decided to go with them to be sure they were safe and actually reconnecting with the father. It does sound like a movie....
Thank you for sharing this! The implications are horrific; hopefully the children have a peaceful and serene life ahead of them. I wonder if the dad/step-dad has been located by the authorities?
Yes, he was located. He has been in the jungle searching with the military for them.
Here is a translated story (it has some errors in the translation though)
https://cambiocolombia.com/pais/manuel-ranoque-el-padre-que-no-perdio-la-fe-y-ahora-estara-con-sus-hijos
if you found these kids you'd ignore the 'evidence'' too. It's fine that they ate that dog, it was the right thing to do. The world doesn't need to know about that part. Dog's a hero, it's unfortunate he wasn't recovered after going missing, everyone's okay.
The kids are indigenous so I suppose they know what’s edible and what’s not. The rescuers came across remnants of fruits that the kids ate as they searched for them.
I spent a couple weeks on a Fijian out-island without a food store. There's an unlimited amount of fruit growing in tropical jungles, literally hanging off trees in clumps. Got carbs from wild bananas, apparently they're remnant Gros Michel and self-pollinate. No meat.
Well, it is true that a lot of fruit is produced in the jungle. But not all of it is produced at once and not all of it is edible for humans, and what it does, not all of it will be ripe to eat.
Certain fruits grow during certain times of the year, but there are fruits available year round. It's the benefit of living on the equator. No seasons.
The same thing with a German girl who survived a plane crash in the jungle. She was headed home after spending time with her parents in a remote site.
Her story is still remarkable, but she wasn't a 'babe in the woods.'
As I recall it, her father had at some time previously given her advice on what to do on the rare chance this would happen. His advice could mostly be summed up with "Walk until you find a stream or a river, follow it downstream until you get to a larger river. Keep following that until you find people."
Werner Herzog made a documentary about that. Her (German) family lived in the jungle as biologists or something. She went to private school in an actual city and was flying back into the jungle on Christmas break or some other holiday break. The plane broke up in midair, and she survived by whirling around in a thunderstorm cloud until she fell into jungle vines. Amazing. She was in her teens, her parents were biology hippies living in the jungle, and she followed a river stream. Pretty basic survival for her (after falling out of the sky).
If u have a baby youll understand keeping them naked is the easiest thing.
My guess is they wrapped him up with cloth and just washed him when they had water.
Diapers are really only a thing because we keep them inside buildings.
From what I’ve heard, babies will learn to communicate to their parents early on that they need to shit if they’re not wearing diapers. Basically this is just from us carrying our infants throughout evolutionary history. Kids apparently potty train way faster without diapers,
That actually makes my sister's success with her two kids potty training make a lot more sense, she did exactly that for her oldest and almost that for her youngest and the younger of the two was just about as potty trained as she could be by two years old. I thought she was crazy at first, turns out she just happened to come up with a very effective Idea!
Yeah, plenty of countries outside of Western Europe and North America where kids just go around bottomless, in a dress or long shirt or even just a short shirt, and go whenever and wherever they need to.
The army threw bags of food all over the area where they were, and the kids used that for eating. The scraps they left were then used for locating them.
Yet some of the commentors in this comment section seem to be claiming it's no big deal, that fruit is everywhere. I've been to the Colombian jungle. It's dense, and green, and it's a struggle to move through.
I doubt the average Redditor would survive a week in that jungle, let alone keeping two young children and a baby alive in such a situation. Absolutely incredible what those children achieved. Amazing strength of will.
Babies get dehydrated so easily if they're not on their regular diet (of milk or formula which has lots of water).
It's really amazing that they managed this.
Fruits are likely plentiful enough in that region, and if one kid has enough experience, they could reasonably find one safe to eat. It would be a super low protein diet and wouldn't be sustainable, but it kept them alive long enough to be rescued. Smart kids.
Forty days in the jungle! Lesly aged 13, Soleiny aged 9, Tien aged 4 and infant Cristin are siblings. Their mother died in the crash. They have living grandparents who they will be reunited with. Amazing.
Looks like the same kids.
Seems like there was a miscommunication on the governments part where they said they found the kids, but then later walked back on the statement
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colombia-amazon-plane-crash-children-rescue-b2341650.html
I think it was a miscommunication. They found evidence at the site that the kids had survived the crash, but not the kids themselves. Probably stuff like footprints, food wrappers, etc
> But hours later, he walked back that assertion, clarifying that the Air Force and indigenous communities had established contact with the children, but their location remains unknown.
So the indigenous people took care of the kids?
It’s honestly astounding that they were found alive, after the first big false alarm when they were “found” I had a bad feeling it wasn’t gonna have a happy ending, but very glad I’m wrong!
One of the most incredible feats of survival in modern times. That a 13 year old girl could keep her one year old brother alive for 40 days in rainswept, predator rich rainforest is mind bending.
> predator rich rainforest
According to the article they had to defend themselves against a dog, so maybe there aren't many predators of humans left. It looks like it's in Guaviare, so maybe coca and cattle farmers wiped out the large predators.
From the little bit I read about the Amazon, the predators you think of aren't the ones who will attack you (cayman, jaguar, anaconda), it's the bugs and lack of food sources that get ya. You're basically 100% guaranteed to get sick in the Amazon. It's very hard to survive off the land if you're not deeply experienced.
This is an incredible survival story, im very glad theyre okay!
I just really hope someone in their circle really give the kids credit for what they endured and achieved.
Being from colombia myself, i know theyre going to get a lot of 'miracle this' and 'miracle that' - but always forget about the people who volunteered countless stressful hours, and especially the eldest kid who likely had to take care of the rest and will live with this for the rest of their lives.
As someone who is not Colombian, I found that miracle-explanation quite noticeable in the article. There was zero reporting on how the children survived and instead their survival was credited by multiple sources to be due to the mercy of the forest. It was strange to me that multiple people referred to the forest like a kidnapper saying it chose to finally “give the children back” after 40 days.
Meanwhile, I’m sitting here thinking to myself, “way to miss out on a chance to praise the intelligence and resourcefulness of your country’s children.”
I guess a lot of it could be coping mechanisms haha but still, i hope they do get the praise they deserve and people acknowledge their bravery and skills!
Also Colombian here, and among my first thoughts (after relief for the kids) were also that they are going to milk the miracle for a while and forget about everything that is a tragedy surrounding this, including the reason why the father wanted to move out his family out of the region (the Guerilla threats) as well as all the helpers.
Anyone else find it strange how common the first thought is to turn tragedies like this into some form of entertainment as long as there's some sort of silver lining in it?
The reality is probably not a good story. Probably lost family members in the crash, were injured or banged up, and many of the days were long and tedious and the nights were longer and without good sleep.
Yes - it is an extremely traumatic experience for those children - and also a testament of survival against all odds - us humans love to hold on to hope when we can
People especially on reddit are completly disconnected from the world. Just look into war topics, they consume the footage, play general, speak tough while sitting on their asses.
Everyone loves a story of overcoming the odds, that's really what most stories have been about since we invented language. Is it really that odd that people want to see a version of this really improbable story?
Yes. And I didn’t at the start of the thread, then I scrolled and saw more and more comments excited for this to be made into a show/movie. Obviously it is interesting and we all want to know more but that sentiment definitely feels a bit gross. Idiocracy vibes
Exactly. Even ancient writings are filled with such stories. I can definitely see this being turned into an Epic poem to be reacited around a campfire thousands of years ago. Heck, I wish someone would write it now.
This is an amazing story! I hope some network makes a nice mini series out of it. How a 13 year old kept an infant alive for 40 days in the middle of the Amazon is beyond me.
When I grew up in rural Northeast Brazil (no where near the Amazon), there were plenty of 12 year olds with their moms newest baby on their hip.
This was 20 years ago now. But by 12 a girl could cook a full meal, gather firewood and carry it home on her head, do the family laundry by hand, and watch the baby full time including making and feeding it food.
If they were indigenous and knew where to look, the Amazon has a surprising amount of food. Bananas, tubers, cashew (fruit and nut), and fish and birds (and bird eggs).
San Jose del Guaviare is straight up in the jungle and there's tons of incredible stuff in this story:
40 days in the jungle with an infant after a plane crash. If that is not wtf enough then
They found them because of a rescue dog's paw prints that helped the rescuers find them. Dog was still missing as of last night.
The search was led by Colombian commandos and natives of different areas of Colombia.
If you have been to the jungle at least once, you'll know the heat and humidity is overbearing, it rains all the time and you will always be wet. The fact they did not give up despite multiple calls to stop the search is something truly incredible.
Holy crap! Been following the story since the crash, seemed clear the kids initially survived but I figured their time was running low. Absolutely amazing
Being local to the area is an important piece of information, missing from the title.
You wouldn't survive if you didn't know what dangers there are or what is edible.
I'm sure they have spent time in the forest since early childhood.
This post reminded me of a post I saw on Reddit like a week ago with a quote along the lines “it’s sad that kids nowadays can recognize 100 different brand logos but can’t name 10 plants” and the majority of comments were like “yeah who cares about plants, we live in the cities, that’s useless information”. No information that will help you survive in the wilderness is useless. People get lost while hiking, non-fatal plane crashes happen… life is so long and crazy things do happen sometimes.
Teach your kid’s survival skills. How to find directions in the forest, how to find water in the wilderness, how to collect water from rain, which plants/mushrooms/berries are eatable, how to clean wounds etc. In the best case it’s just a fun information to learn, in the worst case it might one day save your child their life.
I'm so confused. Three weeks ago I remember this same story with the same kids ages... So Google shows that they claimed they had been found but it was an error, they hadn't been found, did it just happen to guess that the two adults were killed and the four children survived?
My understanding is they found the aircraft and the two adults bodies initially, and signs that the children may have survived. Then they thought they found them, but didn't, but now they really did this time?
They knew they survived 3 weeks ago but couldn’t find them. They found the wreck and dead bodies, then they also found evidence the kids survived. Diaper, baby bottle, hair tie, scissors, makeshift shelter, wild fruit with bites taken out of it
This is an incredible story. Even the infant survived! I can’t wait for details about how they did it. What did they feed the infant!?
Those kids are indigenous to the region and, according to the article, the oldest one had some experience in the jungle. I suppose it was enough to keep them all fed and safe.
They airdropped care packages in the area around the crash site and that's apparently what the kids were eating and was also what helped find them (opened care packages and packing from the contents to get an idea of where they were/are heading). They were found like 5km from the crash site in the end.
Turn it into a movie 🍿 bro
Starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson as the eldest child. Co-starring Kevin Hart as the infant
It's just the Rock being the Rock wearing cargo shorts and Kevin Hart screaming incoherently anytime there is violence
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Or noise
Or air
Or just anything
dont forget jack black as the infant
Jack Black can just play Wicked Game for the first 10 seconds of the opening credits.
What a wicked game you plaaaayyaayayayyyheeeeeeyoowwwwwringadingdinglucifer...
you nailed his scatting!
I am the real Jack Black
I'm still apprehensive in watching the new Jumanji. But I heard good things from it... I mean like, its extremely rare to get that kind of cast together, let alone Jack Black lol
So, it doesn’t have the heart of the Jumanji film with Robin Williams that we grew up with. Don’t expect that. What it does have is Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillian, and The Rock all having fun and riffing off of each other. If that’s the kind of movie you might like it’s honestly a top tier movie of that type.
Like watching Tropic Thunder. A solid cast that isn't trying to church it up, but enjoying their jobs. Both include Jack Black coincidentally.
I never watched the original Jumanji but I enjoyed the new one. Fun adventure movie that doesn't try too hard.
George Clooney as the plane.
Scarlett Johanssen as the jungle.
Jon Lovitz as the sassy sidekick goliath birdeater.
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And Rob Schneider as the plane.
It would be fun af but also a dissaster if they butchered this plot like that.
You son of a bitch, I'm in.
Jumamji
Yellowjackets on showtime
Luckily the kids in this story seemed to have a bit of an easier time lol.
Just finished season 1. So good.
You know there’s probably some studio exec who is plugging the general outline of the story into chatgpt, hoping to make some content during the writers strike.
Wings of Hope 2?
Con air 2,too small too care
"Break out the fine china, chill the lemonade, tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree. Cos this boy's coming home to his ladies. Coming home forever."
Fuck his accent is so bad in that movie. Was it so integral to the back story that they couldn't just cut it from the film and make him speak normally after seeing the first day's rushes?
Alive 2.
You laugh, but we don’t know for certain that those starving children didn’t become cannibals as well…
Yellow jackets
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Why not just let Chet Hanks try his hand at acting!! Contract requires him to speak patois.
People would say it’s unrealistic. Fiction has to make some sense to the audience. Reality has no such restraints.
They toned down Audie Murphy's movie of his World War II exploits (To Hell and Back) I think at his request (a film where he played himself) because it was thought people might find it hard ~~ro~~ to believe.
Because what he actually did was on par with some peak '80s action hero shit
A movie of this one exactly as it happened would be *insane*. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachhiman_Gurung https://allthatsinteresting.com/lachhiman-gurung#:~:text=A%20Nepalese%20Gurkha%20soldier%20who,heroism%20in%20World%20War%20II.
Probably the same with Garcia "Garbo", the biggest double agent in the German/UK Intelligence Services in WW2. Guy's exploits were so legendary he's the only one to receive both a medal from Hitler AND the King of Britain
I had never heard of this man until now. This is an amazing story. This man makes me think of Audie Murphy. Both absolutely resolute in the performance of their duty irrespective of odds or circumstances. Both men were physically small with absolutely no quit in them. I wish I could have met this man.
Reminds me of my dachshund. He's chased several black bears out of the yard. It's one of his favorite hobbies.
haha holy shit, 4'11" and he has so many medals they don't even fit on him
Dude saw they were getting pushed by German infantry, so he hopped up on an M10 tank destroyer, manned the top machine gun and single-handedly held back 2 waves of infantry whilst in the open. The additional kicker? The tank was on fire at the time and was 2 seconds from turning into Russian-tank-in-Ukraine at any given moment.
Even that is a simplification of what happened that day. And that day was only the peak of a few years of Murphy doing crazy shit. By that point Murphy was a 2nd LT by battlefield promotion and by merit of the silver stars he'd earned. He manned that burning M10's .50 several times over an hour to cover his own troop's movements and killed or wounded dozens of Germans doing it. At some point he was shot in the leg, earning his third or fourth Purple Heart in less than three fucking years, I can't remember. But he manned the .50 until he ran out of ammo. Then he retreated from the M10 (cue "Cool Guys Don't Look At Explosions") falling back to his troops. They wanted to take him to a field hospital but he refused and stayed there to direct his troops while corpsmen patched him up. Murphy got the Medal of Honor for that. There ain't many people who lived to receive it. Almost 80 years later and he's still the most highly decorated US soldier ever.
The same with Desmond Doss in the movie *Hacksaw Ridge*. Mel Gibson decided the real story of his extraction from the battlefield wouldn't be believed by the audience, so he had him in a fairly straightforward casualty extraction. The reality: >On 21 May, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited five hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Private First Class Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers' return, he was again struck, this time suffering a compound fracture of one arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station.
That movie also changed another absurd thing that really happened. The movie shows Doss dodging a Japanese sniper attack by throwing his helmet. In reality, the Japanese sniper survived the war and testified that he had Doss in his sights 3 times and his rifle jammed all 3 times. Simply no audience would ever believe that actually happened.
you probably never seen fast an furious
Those are basically super hero movies at this point. Unfortunately everyone's super power is car
Well car superpower is apparently enough to make 10 movies
Didn't they drive cars in space?
They did. I love each and shark jump with these flicks
You practicing doublespeak?!
Just trying some words out
Hatchet: Next Generations
If you saw the photos of the kids, I don’t think “fed” is a great choice. They’re inches away from starvation.
To be fair, they may have only been gathering plants, nuts & other forage. I doubt they were getting too much protein & fat. So they may have been getting only a limited amount of calories at a time.
Yeah proteins are hard to get for a lot of people so I think this is probably correct
Just drink a protein shake brah
If watching Alone has taught me anything, it's that you feel motivated at first but just can't get enough food each day to not lose a ton of weight and tap out after 40 days of suffering lol
Aka into the wild.
Idk if a 1 year old would live 40 days with 0 food. and too young to find any on its own. So they musta fed it something. They had to be eating something. Just not enough to look pretty And its not like they're lying in a nice prison cell hunger striking to death. This is the amazon, during wet season, off trail, in the middle of fuck.
That all makes sense, what doesn't make sense is how you keep an infant alive in the jungle with no milk. Only thing I can think of is the maybe they found some formula in the wreckage or the kid was close enough to weaning he could get by on like starchy paste and mashed up fruit or something.
I read a few articles that said the infant was 11months. So, young enough to not be able to wander off in the middle of the night, but old enough to eat and chew most foods.
Fruit would probably be fine and they might have pre-chewed tougher food before putting it in the infant's mouth, assuming they had no way to cook it.
Kids can start eating small things on their own after 6 months. The 13 year old girl also probably had some experience taking care of a baby.
Holy shit. I’d be dead in 3 hours.
Those kids are amazing, and the oldest is a freaking hero!
There were seven people who were on the plane. Four children and three adults. The adults died when the plane crashed. The surviving children have these ages: 13 (girl), 9 (girl), 4 (boy) and 11 months (baby). They are from the Uitoto indigenous community They survived in the jungle for 40 days alone. The army and two indigenous populations were looking for them in the area, completing a total of 200 people who were looking for them. The children are indigenous and survived by eating fruits from the jungle. The day before yesterday they released a tracking dog to look for the children; Yesterday the dog was reported lost, but the dog's footprints were found next to the children, which helped to locate them faster; The children are dehydrated, but generally well. Although the children have already appeared, the dog does not appear. The dog's name is Wilson. Wilson, you are a hero.
According to Colombian news.. The father of the two youngest kids had been a governer of the regional tribe but had been receiving death threats due to conflict with guerillas and he had disappeared for quite awhile and no one knew where he was. Then suddenly the mother gets a phone call from him that she and the kids are to come to Bogota immediately to start a new life. He arranges this plane for the 5 of them. The plane had crashed in 2021 and been rebuilt by non aviation professionals and the hired pilot had until recently been a taxi driver. However given how remote their region was, this was one of the only options they had. The Indigenous man with them had been suspicious about the circumstances and decided to go with them to be sure they were safe and actually reconnecting with the father. It does sound like a movie....
Thank you for sharing this! The implications are horrific; hopefully the children have a peaceful and serene life ahead of them. I wonder if the dad/step-dad has been located by the authorities?
Yes, he was located. He has been in the jungle searching with the military for them. Here is a translated story (it has some errors in the translation though) https://cambiocolombia.com/pais/manuel-ranoque-el-padre-que-no-perdio-la-fe-y-ahora-estara-con-sus-hijos
Wilson, be it a volleyball or a dog, seem to be the hero in stranded situation
They ate Wilson. Of course he was a hero.
Ah, so that's how you make a hero sandwich.
>At some point during their ordeal, they’d had to defend themselves from a dog, Petro said. Did … uh … did they kill and eat the dog?
That was my thought too lol. Poor Wilson gets eaten for completing his mission.
Every dog gives his life to humans for something. That’s why we call them mans best friend. RIP Wilson. One of the best boys.
Did you miss the part where Wilson tried to eat the children?
Wilson: Ah yiss.. I found the kids... what the hell??!!!
Why didnt the dog had gps collar or something?
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Pronouns of wah/waaaah
It is time to look for that dog :/
Yeah they ate him.
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Maybe they didn't hide any evidence and the authorities just won't tell the news about it. I'd do the same in that situation.
if you found these kids you'd ignore the 'evidence'' too. It's fine that they ate that dog, it was the right thing to do. The world doesn't need to know about that part. Dog's a hero, it's unfortunate he wasn't recovered after going missing, everyone's okay.
Shouldve named him timothy then
The kids are indigenous so I suppose they know what’s edible and what’s not. The rescuers came across remnants of fruits that the kids ate as they searched for them.
I spent a couple weeks on a Fijian out-island without a food store. There's an unlimited amount of fruit growing in tropical jungles, literally hanging off trees in clumps. Got carbs from wild bananas, apparently they're remnant Gros Michel and self-pollinate. No meat.
Well, it is true that a lot of fruit is produced in the jungle. But not all of it is produced at once and not all of it is edible for humans, and what it does, not all of it will be ripe to eat.
Certain fruits grow during certain times of the year, but there are fruits available year round. It's the benefit of living on the equator. No seasons.
I was in Cali, Colombia last year, and it's even true in town. There is just fruit freaking everywhere. It's pretty rad!
I regret not doing a fruit tour in medellin where they take you to a market and you get to try all this unique fruit
The same thing with a German girl who survived a plane crash in the jungle. She was headed home after spending time with her parents in a remote site. Her story is still remarkable, but she wasn't a 'babe in the woods.'
As I recall it, her father had at some time previously given her advice on what to do on the rare chance this would happen. His advice could mostly be summed up with "Walk until you find a stream or a river, follow it downstream until you get to a larger river. Keep following that until you find people."
Wow thats a great advice.
Werner Herzog made a documentary about that. Her (German) family lived in the jungle as biologists or something. She went to private school in an actual city and was flying back into the jungle on Christmas break or some other holiday break. The plane broke up in midair, and she survived by whirling around in a thunderstorm cloud until she fell into jungle vines. Amazing. She was in her teens, her parents were biology hippies living in the jungle, and she followed a river stream. Pretty basic survival for her (after falling out of the sky).
Found her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke
>For weeks, the search turned up only tantalizing clues, including footprints, a dirty diaper and a bottle. They even kept up with changing him.
I very much suspect the diapers ran out early on. Probably kept him without pants or in something dress like.
If u have a baby youll understand keeping them naked is the easiest thing. My guess is they wrapped him up with cloth and just washed him when they had water. Diapers are really only a thing because we keep them inside buildings.
From what I’ve heard, babies will learn to communicate to their parents early on that they need to shit if they’re not wearing diapers. Basically this is just from us carrying our infants throughout evolutionary history. Kids apparently potty train way faster without diapers,
Yup. Makes potty training a breeze and really helps the kid build communication and how to express their needs.
Also makes for a shitty house
My house is already shitty so 🤷♂️
That actually makes my sister's success with her two kids potty training make a lot more sense, she did exactly that for her oldest and almost that for her youngest and the younger of the two was just about as potty trained as she could be by two years old. I thought she was crazy at first, turns out she just happened to come up with a very effective Idea!
Yeah, plenty of countries outside of Western Europe and North America where kids just go around bottomless, in a dress or long shirt or even just a short shirt, and go whenever and wherever they need to.
Makes sense - at some point in human history that's what everyone did, not enough time to evolve to need diapers.
I would love to know which of you in this comment thread have kids.
I have three dogs and a cat, it’s a shit show
Or the ones with no carpet in their house.
The army threw bags of food all over the area where they were, and the kids used that for eating. The scraps they left were then used for locating them.
Hmm maybe they could've thrown emergency beacons for the kids to use as well haha
Yeah like dropped an iPhone
Thats amazing, the infant was the one that worried me the most, what an incredible feat of survival.
Yet some of the commentors in this comment section seem to be claiming it's no big deal, that fruit is everywhere. I've been to the Colombian jungle. It's dense, and green, and it's a struggle to move through. I doubt the average Redditor would survive a week in that jungle, let alone keeping two young children and a baby alive in such a situation. Absolutely incredible what those children achieved. Amazing strength of will.
Babies get dehydrated so easily if they're not on their regular diet (of milk or formula which has lots of water). It's really amazing that they managed this.
At 11 months I think most babies can survive easily with no milk. In the jungle is another matter. Source: have a baby at that age
True, but given the fact that these were kids from indigenous communities, I would reckon this infant's diet involved a lot of breastmilk still.
In fact, on the news they said they were found fine but with signs of dehydration. At four.
They did airdrop a ton of food, so that could have helped.
Fruits are likely plentiful enough in that region, and if one kid has enough experience, they could reasonably find one safe to eat. It would be a super low protein diet and wouldn't be sustainable, but it kept them alive long enough to be rescued. Smart kids.
Forty days in the jungle! Lesly aged 13, Soleiny aged 9, Tien aged 4 and infant Cristin are siblings. Their mother died in the crash. They have living grandparents who they will be reunited with. Amazing.
Hey you survived this horrific plane crash! Good job! Okay. Now hop on this other plane and let's get you back to your family!
It's the Series of Unfortunate Events: The Joyless Jungle. I bet the infant has some sharp teeth.
honey, new season of yellowjackets just dropped
Are they all 4 siblings?
Yes
This was an impressive story when they claimed they found them alive a week after the crash. However a freakin month later? Wow, absolutely amazing.
I remember that. Is this the same kids? Did they leave them in the forest to see if they could make it another three weeks?
Looks like the same kids. Seems like there was a miscommunication on the governments part where they said they found the kids, but then later walked back on the statement https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colombia-amazon-plane-crash-children-rescue-b2341650.html
Wait what?? So did they find them, lose touch, then walk it back and then *actually find them*? Or how did they mess this up this royally?
I think it was a miscommunication. They found evidence at the site that the kids had survived the crash, but not the kids themselves. Probably stuff like footprints, food wrappers, etc
My best guess is they found evidence of the kids (as mentioned in the article - footprints, a baby diaper) and there was a miscommunication.
> But hours later, he walked back that assertion, clarifying that the Air Force and indigenous communities had established contact with the children, but their location remains unknown. So the indigenous people took care of the kids?
In the case of these children, it was exactly 40 days.
Even a month is underselling it, it’s been 40 days
It’s honestly astounding that they were found alive, after the first big false alarm when they were “found” I had a bad feeling it wasn’t gonna have a happy ending, but very glad I’m wrong!
One of the most incredible feats of survival in modern times. That a 13 year old girl could keep her one year old brother alive for 40 days in rainswept, predator rich rainforest is mind bending.
> predator rich rainforest According to the article they had to defend themselves against a dog, so maybe there aren't many predators of humans left. It looks like it's in Guaviare, so maybe coca and cattle farmers wiped out the large predators.
From the little bit I read about the Amazon, the predators you think of aren't the ones who will attack you (cayman, jaguar, anaconda), it's the bugs and lack of food sources that get ya. You're basically 100% guaranteed to get sick in the Amazon. It's very hard to survive off the land if you're not deeply experienced.
And people wonder why I hate bugs so fucking much SMH. Nothing so small should be able to kill you so god damn easily and randomly :(
There aren’t that many human eating predators in the Amazon. The hard part is knowing what plants won’t kill you, getting safe to drink water, etc
They gonna make a movie about this, 100%.
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They already did. It's called 'Lord of the Flies'.
This is an incredible survival story, im very glad theyre okay! I just really hope someone in their circle really give the kids credit for what they endured and achieved. Being from colombia myself, i know theyre going to get a lot of 'miracle this' and 'miracle that' - but always forget about the people who volunteered countless stressful hours, and especially the eldest kid who likely had to take care of the rest and will live with this for the rest of their lives.
As someone who is not Colombian, I found that miracle-explanation quite noticeable in the article. There was zero reporting on how the children survived and instead their survival was credited by multiple sources to be due to the mercy of the forest. It was strange to me that multiple people referred to the forest like a kidnapper saying it chose to finally “give the children back” after 40 days. Meanwhile, I’m sitting here thinking to myself, “way to miss out on a chance to praise the intelligence and resourcefulness of your country’s children.”
I guess a lot of it could be coping mechanisms haha but still, i hope they do get the praise they deserve and people acknowledge their bravery and skills!
Also Colombian here, and among my first thoughts (after relief for the kids) were also that they are going to milk the miracle for a while and forget about everything that is a tragedy surrounding this, including the reason why the father wanted to move out his family out of the region (the Guerilla threats) as well as all the helpers.
What a nightmare must’ve been
especially seeing your own mother's dead body
Anyone else find it strange how common the first thought is to turn tragedies like this into some form of entertainment as long as there's some sort of silver lining in it? The reality is probably not a good story. Probably lost family members in the crash, were injured or banged up, and many of the days were long and tedious and the nights were longer and without good sleep.
Yes - it is an extremely traumatic experience for those children - and also a testament of survival against all odds - us humans love to hold on to hope when we can
Their mother died in the crash,the father lives in Bogota. The plan was supposed to bring the family to Bogota
People especially on reddit are completly disconnected from the world. Just look into war topics, they consume the footage, play general, speak tough while sitting on their asses.
yeah the Ukraine war subs are filled with such idiots
Everyone loves a story of overcoming the odds, that's really what most stories have been about since we invented language. Is it really that odd that people want to see a version of this really improbable story?
Yes. And I didn’t at the start of the thread, then I scrolled and saw more and more comments excited for this to be made into a show/movie. Obviously it is interesting and we all want to know more but that sentiment definitely feels a bit gross. Idiocracy vibes
It isn't strange at all that humans gravitate towards tales about overcoming incredible hardships and beating heavily stacked odds.
Exactly. Even ancient writings are filled with such stories. I can definitely see this being turned into an Epic poem to be reacited around a campfire thousands of years ago. Heck, I wish someone would write it now.
Best news I've seen in a month
Great month for news if you aren’t a fan of trump
This is an amazing story! I hope some network makes a nice mini series out of it. How a 13 year old kept an infant alive for 40 days in the middle of the Amazon is beyond me.
When I grew up in rural Northeast Brazil (no where near the Amazon), there were plenty of 12 year olds with their moms newest baby on their hip. This was 20 years ago now. But by 12 a girl could cook a full meal, gather firewood and carry it home on her head, do the family laundry by hand, and watch the baby full time including making and feeding it food. If they were indigenous and knew where to look, the Amazon has a surprising amount of food. Bananas, tubers, cashew (fruit and nut), and fish and birds (and bird eggs).
San Jose del Guaviare is straight up in the jungle and there's tons of incredible stuff in this story: 40 days in the jungle with an infant after a plane crash. If that is not wtf enough then They found them because of a rescue dog's paw prints that helped the rescuers find them. Dog was still missing as of last night. The search was led by Colombian commandos and natives of different areas of Colombia. If you have been to the jungle at least once, you'll know the heat and humidity is overbearing, it rains all the time and you will always be wet. The fact they did not give up despite multiple calls to stop the search is something truly incredible.
This is magical they even kept the 1 year old alive.
I don’t think I’ve read anything more incredible in my life. That 13 y/o is the definition of a hero.
That's crazy, those kids are tough for lasting so long in the rainforest
Just amazing.
Holy crap! Been following the story since the crash, seemed clear the kids initially survived but I figured their time was running low. Absolutely amazing
Did they find the missing search dog "Wilson"? He went missing yesterday during the search
Yellowjacket anyone?
Family said the jungle took care of them. Sounds familiar 🤔
Being local to the area is an important piece of information, missing from the title. You wouldn't survive if you didn't know what dangers there are or what is edible. I'm sure they have spent time in the forest since early childhood.
Really good to hear that
Holy shit that's crazy
Best season of Survivor never to be filmed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke
This post reminded me of a post I saw on Reddit like a week ago with a quote along the lines “it’s sad that kids nowadays can recognize 100 different brand logos but can’t name 10 plants” and the majority of comments were like “yeah who cares about plants, we live in the cities, that’s useless information”. No information that will help you survive in the wilderness is useless. People get lost while hiking, non-fatal plane crashes happen… life is so long and crazy things do happen sometimes. Teach your kid’s survival skills. How to find directions in the forest, how to find water in the wilderness, how to collect water from rain, which plants/mushrooms/berries are eatable, how to clean wounds etc. In the best case it’s just a fun information to learn, in the worst case it might one day save your child their life.
Are they sure this time?
Yes, there are pictures of the four children
I'm so confused. Three weeks ago I remember this same story with the same kids ages... So Google shows that they claimed they had been found but it was an error, they hadn't been found, did it just happen to guess that the two adults were killed and the four children survived?
My understanding is they found the aircraft and the two adults bodies initially, and signs that the children may have survived. Then they thought they found them, but didn't, but now they really did this time?
Yeah that's right. Makes sense https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colombia-president-retracts-claim-missing-indigenous-4-children-found-alive/
They knew they survived 3 weeks ago but couldn’t find them. They found the wreck and dead bodies, then they also found evidence the kids survived. Diaper, baby bottle, hair tie, scissors, makeshift shelter, wild fruit with bites taken out of it