A 44-year-old Vietnamese man, has spent 40 years of his life in the forest and

Apparently, Ho Van Lang was only 4 years old or less when his 85-year-old Ho Van Thanh, 85 fled into the jungle with him, after US bomb killed his mother and two other siblings.

Thesun.co.uk reported that Quang Ngai province where Ho Van Thanh had been living with his family was a “Viet Cong stronghold and was the scene of fierce jungle battles as the US military attempted to flush out the communist insurgents.”

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Reports say they had been living in the Tay Tra forest of the Quang Ngai province since then, until in 2013 when some residents discovered them.

They are gradually getting used to civilian life and are reportedly living in a house near the forest.

Ho Van Lang recently opened up about his life in the forest to Docastaway, an organisation which offers holidays to remote, uninhabited parts of the world.

The organisation’s managing director, Alvaro Cerezo had reportedly met with Ho Van Lang to simply ask him about how survival in the forest was like, but ended up spending five days with him in the jungle.

After the five days of life in the jungle, Alvaro Cerezo said “This ‘Mowgli’ was completely ignorant of how the outside, civilised world was with the exception of the stories his father told him about the aeroplanes that crossed the sky.”