Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja

Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja (Añora, province of Córdoba, June 7, 1946), is known for being one of the few documented cases of "wild children" in Spain. In 1953, when Marcos Rodríguez was seven years old, and after a life of mistreatment, he was sold or given to a local landowner, who gave him to a goatherd to serve as a relief. It was after the death of the latter, who had lived with him in a cave, that the child was abandoned in the middle of nature. Later, he was found in 1965 by the Civil Guard, after eleven years living in complete isolation from human beings and with the only company of the wolves with whom he had bonded.