A 25-year old Chilean man, Maykool Coroseo Acuña, has recently re-emerged after being lost in the Madidi National Park in Bolivia for 9 days, claiming that the forest monkeys saved his life.
Maykool, who was touring the world renowned Amazon park, has suddenly disappeared one night without any signs of struggles leaving the police and loved ones clueless about where he might have gone.
Fortunately, during the ninth day of his disappearance, he was eventually found less than a mile away from Max Adventures’ campground.
Maykool’s sister Rocío had been searching with officials and a few guides when she heard a yell and broke out running. They found Maykool standing in the trees, holding a large walking stick, National Geographic reported.
When asked what happened to him, Maykool recalled that he was able to survive by following a group of monkeys, who dropped him fruit and lead him to shelter and water every day.
Maykool eventually revealed that the night he disappeared, strange, terrible thoughts had begun to creep into his mind. He said he had an irresistible urge to get out of the rainforest.
“I started running,” he recalled. “I was wearing sandals and I said no, they would slow me down. I threw away the sandals, then the cell phone and my flashlight. And after running so much, I stopped under a tree and I started thinking. What had I done, what was I doing? And when I wanted to get back it wasn’t possible.”
