The 'Wolf Girls' 🐺👧 Amala and Kamala That Once Shocked the World

A couple of days ago, I introduced the wolf children Dina and the feral child Victor. Today, I'm bringing back another once very famous case – the Indian 'wolf girls' Amala and Kamala. In 1920, missionary Joseph Singh claimed he rescued two girls from near a wolf den. According to his description, they walked on all fours, preferred raw meat, were active at night, and even howled like wolves 🐺 This story spread worldwide and became a frequently cited case in studies of 'children raised by animals'. However, years later, researchers re-examined the data and found that things were increasingly questionable… Singh's detailed 'diary' wasn't a complete contemporaneous record of the events; some famous photographs were also questioned for being staged, severely challenging the story's credibility. Some researchers even believe the girls might have been abandoned children with developmental disabilities who were later packaged as 'girls raised by wolves'. So, while we can't be certain to this day that the entire thing was fabricated, what we can be sure of is this – It can no longer be considered reliable evidence that 'wolves actually raise human children'. After looking into three stories about wolf children/feral children, I realized: The ones we should be most wary of might not be the wolves, but the stories left behind by humans 🐺