5. Kamala and Amala, India, 1920
One of the most well-documented cases of children raised by wild animals is that of Kamala and Amala, better known as the “wolf children.” Discovered in 1920 in the jungles of Godamuri, India, the girls, aged 3 and about 8, had been living with a she-wolf and her pack.
Some suspect that the girls weren’t actually feral, however, but were mentally disabled. It is suspected that the owner of the orphanage told the public that they were feral to procure money.
